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Placebos, Pharma and Government Drug Approvals

Posted in Health Care, Pharma, Sports on Nov 2nd, 2007

What does it mean for the FDA’s drug-approval process if, as this Economist article implies, the placebo effect is responsible for the apparent effectiveness of some of the drugs it approves?
The story triggering this thought is about sports medicine. It describes a study comparing painkilling effects of morphine with a placebo on athletes. […]

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Big Pharma’s Profitable Buzz

Posted in Law, Pharma on Oct 17th, 2007

Tim Wu argues this week in Slate that baby-boomers’ well-known appetite for getting high has, in fact, led to drug legalization. Or, to be more precise, buzz legalization.
Marijuana, cocaine and the kinds of recreational drugs you’d expect to find in the trunk of Hunter S. Thompson’s huge red Chevy convertible — you can still […]

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