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Should emergency medical supplies go to the highest bidders? (That isn't necessarily what economists think...)

Should prices clear markets for emergency medical supplies? Many economists don't think so: Pri…

U.S medical school enrollments by sex: women outnumber men for the first time

There are now more women than men applying to U.S. medical schools, being accepted (to the first ye…

Skin donation, by the square foot, for New Zealand volcano burn victims

CNN has the story, about a little-publicized part of the market for body parts: New Zealand has ord…

Medically assisted suicide.

Several recent stories caught my eye on the controversial subject of medically assisted suicide, ak…

Testing your own DNA is illegal in France

Statnews.com has the story: In France, it’s illegal for consumers to order a DNA spit kit. Activist…

Vic Fuchs on the problems of employment-based health insurance, in JAMA

Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, argues that employment-based insurance has an as…

Shrouded prices for blood tests in the U.S.

One of the features of the American health care system is that prices are heavily shrouded--insuran…

Global kidney health atlas from the International Society of Nephrology

Here's the 2019 Global Health Atlas Kidney transplantation is nowhere readily available to ever…

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, b…

"Abortion as a moral good" Opinion piece in the Lancet

The Lancet recently ran the following opinion piece, by a bioethicist at Northwestern University…

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