Daily Archives: October 26, 2006

How to finance drug development

Posted on October 26, 2006 by william

The news today that AstraZeneca failed to meet phase III trials for its stroke drug NXY-059 has prompted Tim Worstall to ask opponents of drug patents If AstraZeneca is not allowed to make fat profits from those drugs that do … Continue reading →

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Unusual preferences v madness?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by william

Bryan Caplan has written a thought provoking paper building on Thomas Szasz‘s work to argue that most mental illness can be seen as unusual preferences rather than having a medical or pathological basis. We should not, he says, be surprised … Continue reading →

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