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We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...
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Better management of the perioperative process has come unto the spotlight in recent years as a way to possibly reduce costs while improving the quality of care. However, perioperative care is not a subject traditionally comprehensively covered in any 1 medical specialty. Various elements of...
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driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …-run prices in pharmaceuticals themselves, but with lower long-run prices in the aggregate medical sector which includes … pharmaceuticals as a component part. Further, the TRIPS Agreement and Hatch-Waxman Act to enable generic competition have both been …
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coronavirus, but also safeguarding against the worsening of health due to delayed or foregone medical care. The decline in delayed …
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This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from NewYork State to analyze market participants’ efforts to...
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reimbursement in order to illustrate how regulation affects the way drug prices are set. Then the paper will focus on price hikes …
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While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana...
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