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Critical comments on health economics and policy

31 de març 2015

Piketty's nuances

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After selling 1.5 million books, now Piketty says : The way in which I perceive the relationship between r>g and inequality is often n...
30 de març 2015

The tragedy of commonsense morality

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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them The suggestion by Joshua Green in his book " Moral Tribes " is t...
26 de març 2015

The identified person bias

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Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective The concept: The identified person bias: A greater inclination to...
25 de març 2015

Don't think of privatization

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Let's do a little thought experiment today. Close your eyes. Imagine a privatized healthcare consortium as vividly as you can. It is ...
11 de març 2015

Genetic testing: a knotty problem

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Food and Drug Administration. Optimizing FDA's regulatory oversight of next generation sequencing diagnostic tests — preliminary discuss...
09 de març 2015

In favour of consumer protection

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Can Consumers Make Affordable Care Affordable? The Value of Choice Architecture Healthcare.gov 3.0 — Behavioral Economics and Insurance Ex...
05 de març 2015

Practice makes perfect

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Comparing hospital performance within and across countries: an illustrative study of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in England and Spa...
03 de març 2015

An illusionary free lunch

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Some months ago I started a series of posts under the title "Fasten seat belts" . The topic is well known, how new skyrocketing dr...
02 de març 2015

Beyond the genome

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FORUM Epigenomics. Roadmap for regulation. Diseases mapped My suggestion for today. Have a look at the papers in Nature on epigenome, and ...
27 de febrer 2015

A closely guarded secret

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Stealth Research. Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature? How can we identify a snake-oil seller?. Not so...
26 de febrer 2015

Opening the door to recreational genetics testing

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On February 19th, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier test for Bloom ...
25 de febrer 2015

Lakoff brilliant analysis

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Handbook of Neurosociology Today I would like to quote a clever analysis of US health reform. Just as an alert for any other country that ...
24 de febrer 2015

Thresholds' controversies

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Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis The...
20 de febrer 2015

Medicine as a data science

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THE PATIENT WILL SEE YOU NOW The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands Maybe the title is the most confounding factor of the new great book...
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