Articles by John E. Calfee
- Junk Science and the Anti-Vaccine Fraud Tuesday, January 11, 2011
- The campaign against the most valuable medical technologies ever invented is based on junk science.
- The Invisible Hand Works for Women Thursday, December 30, 2010
- Crucial improvements for women are a routine byproduct of the search for new profits by international firms.
- Don't Give Trial Lawyers This Booster Shot Friday, October 15, 2010
- Anyone who thinks the vaccine case now before the Supreme Court is merely a matter of giving injured plaintiffs their day in court has misconceived the stakes ...
- How Washington Just Worsened the Gulf Oil Spill Thursday, June 3, 2010
- President Obama made BP’s problem worse, and in so doing has worsened the problems facing not only the administration but also the unfortunate residents of the ...
- Progressives, Jim Crow, and Selective Amnesia Tuesday, May 25, 2010
- The Rand Paul episode reveals a drastic misreading of history and of the government’s role in ending racial discrimination in this nation.
- How Much Transparency Do We Want in Healthcare Pricing? Friday, May 14, 2010
- Instead of trying to figure out how to make prices in healthcare markets transparent, as a Democratic bill aims to do, let the market decide.
- Something Old, Something New: Biotech’s Enormous Potential Friday, April 30, 2010
- Medical breakthroughs from using existing drugs in new ways await discovery—if manufacturers have an incentive to pursue them.
- Reform through Reconciliation — Worse than Imagined Friday, March 19, 2010
- As with the run-up to the Senate healthcare bill, we are again paying the cost of haste. Far too little attention is being given to crucial matters.
- We Already Know Why Healthcare Overhaul Will Fail Wednesday, December 16, 2009
- The healthcare overhaul is shaping up as the highest-risk legislation in modern times.
- What Do Vitamins and Fish Oil Tell Us about Drug Research? Thursday, August 6, 2009
- There is a second world of drug research, a world in which patents do not exist and for-profit research is permanently moribund. Its history should stop ...
- A Public Health Disaster in the Making Wednesday, June 3, 2009
- Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.
- Decoding the Use of Gene Patents Friday, May 15, 2009
- In good news, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resisted researchers' overreaching in their patenting of genes, and researchers’ work is seldom ...
- A Troubling Supreme Judgment Friday, March 6, 2009
- The Supreme Court’s decision in Wyeth v. Levine will be negative for patient welfare.
- Medicine's Miracle Man Friday, January 23, 2009
- Maurice Hilleman's remarkable period of industrial scientific research yielded the most cost-effective medicines ever made.
- Tough Challenges at the FDA Thursday, January 15, 2009
- Obama’s FDA commissioner should avoid actions that make the drug development process more costly and inefficient.
- 'Seeding' Sales and Science Monday, August 25, 2008
- Marketing-driven clinical trials intend to increase sales and profits—but also yield enormous benefits for patients.
- The Indispensable Industry Wednesday, June 11, 2008
- New efforts to undermine the country’s drug development system are cause for worry.
- Lessons of the Heart Tuesday, April 3, 2007
- A surprising new study on heart disease treatments won’t just change medicine—it will help shape basic science.
- The Truth about the Drug Ads Friday, February 2, 2007
- Many people love to hate DTCA, but research suggests the ads do more good than harm.