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What is microRNA and why did its discovery merit this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine?

This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine went to Victor Ambros, currently a Professor of Natural Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. The two men won the award for their discovery of microRNA. One of the key questions of science is figuring how how can we have such...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 07:57
How long does it take for new pharmaceuticals to reach low and middle-income countries?

That is the question considered by Wouters and Kuha (2024) in a recent Health Affairs article. The authors use IQVIA data between 1982 and 2024 on the timing of drug launches and estimate median delay times using a Kaplan Meier estimates. They find that: From the first launch globally, the median time to availability was 2.7 years for high-income...

Fri Oct 11, 2024 04:34
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Wed Oct 9, 2024 08:00
Do wait times for breast cancer surgery in the UK vary by socioeconomic status?

One of the key benefits of the UK health system is that everyone has access to care. However, is care provided equally to all people? A paper by Matias et al. (2024) examines whether or not there are any inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status for women diagnosed with breast cancer in England and who require either a mastectomy...

Tue Oct 8, 2024 09:07
The new OMB Social Welfare Function

Recently, the Office of Management and Budget has released new procedures to assess government regulation (Circular A-4) and economic policies (Circular A-94). What is unique about this guidance is that it weights benefits and costs of new regulations and policies based on the income of the individuals impacted. The goal is to help reduce inequality....

Sat Oct 5, 2024 05:30
When should we trust AI more than physicians?

The time may be fast approaching. A paper by Goh et al. 2024 sampled 50 physicians and examined which was better: physicians alone, physicians with access to GPT-4, or GPT-4 alone. The primary outcome was how well each group diagnosed the case (i.e., diagnostic reasoning score). The authors found that: The median diagnostic reasoning score...

Thu Oct 3, 2024 02:13

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