Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy
Interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on pharma, health law, and policy issues from August 2020.
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Read more: #MedBikini and Social Media Peer Review #MedBikini and Social Media Peer Review
Physicians have a right to share their lives on social media. If we hold otherwise, then professionalism becomes a method of controlling behavior.
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Read more: Maintaining Healthy Skepticism About Reported COVID-19 Findings Maintaining Healthy Skepticism About Reported COVID-19 Findings
Government authorities must be extremely cautious about basing public policy decisions on inadequately vetted findings, no matter how much hype they get.
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Read more: Good news for many South African HIV patients—with a big glitch Good news for many South African HIV patients—with a big glitch
By Nir Eyal On Wednesday, South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that, as of January 2015, HIV-positive patients in the country would start receiving free antiretroviral treatment once their CD4 count fell below 500, instead of current threshold of less than 350. Some patient groups would start receiving antiretrovirals immediately upon being diagnosed with…
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Read more: Legal Scales: An Empirical Methods Question Legal Scales: An Empirical Methods Question
By Scott Burris The most important topic we did NOT address in our PHLR methods book was valid methods for rating laws for characteristics like “stringency.” I am not aware of any general work on this. Nonetheless, it is not uncommon for researchers to create scales purporting to measure the distribution of some characteristic(s) over…