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Proposed FDA Guidance on Financial Disclosure and the Physician Payment Sunshine Regulations – Divergent Paths and Duplicated Efforts
Conclusion  The increased regulation and requirements to disclose FCOIs creates a tremendous burden for researchers and institutions that are repetitive, overlapping but not-identical, and time-consuming.  Nevertheless, institutions that receive PHS funding can manage FCOIs in a number of ways: (1) public disclosure of the FCOI (e.g., when presenting or publishing the research); (2) disclosure of the FCOI directly to human participants; (3) appointment of an independent monitor capable of taking measures to protect the design, conduct, and reporting of the research against bias resulting from the FCOI; (4) modification ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Imaginary Squabbles Part 4: Krugman and DeLong on the Top 1 Percent
Alan Reynolds In End This Depression Now! (pages 77-78) Paul Krugman offers the strangest arguments I have seen.   The story opens with familiar fulminations about the “top 1 percent” (those earning more than $366,623 in 2011).  As he put it in a 2011 column, “income inequality in America really is about oligarchs versus everyone else.” “Incomes of the rich,” his book claims, “are at the heart of what has been happening to America’s economy and society.”  Yet it apparently requires great bravery to even dare to mention “the rising incomes” of the top 1 percent or top 0.1 percent: ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Imaginary Squabbles Part 3: Krugman and DeLong’s Changing Theories and Missing Facts
Alan Reynolds Responding to a student question after a recent Kansas State debate with Brad DeLong I posed a conceptual puzzle.  I asked students to ponder why textbooks treat Treasury sales of government bonds as a “stimulus” to demand (nominal GDP) in the same sense as Federal Reserve purchases of such bonds.  “Those are very different polices,” I noted; “Why should they have the same effect?”   The remark was intended to encourage students to probe more deeply into what such metaphors as “stimulating” or “jump starting” really mean, not to accept as dogma that fiscal and monetary poli...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Why I stopped prescribing narcotics, and never looked back
I was never a big prescriber of narcotics.  I grew up “country,” in a tougher world where your parents taught you to accept pain as a part of life.  Pain is how you know you’re still alive. They’d tell me, “if you’re hurtin’ you ain’t dead yet.” You fell down; it was going to hurt.  You learned not to fall.  Twisted your ankle doing something stupid (and it was always while doing something stupid, like jumping off the roof), well we’ll wait a day or two and see how it goes.  Put ice on it, and next time think harder before you jump off the roof.  Just because everyone else was doing it, yada y...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Pain management Source Type: blogs

Changes in How ADHD Meds are Prescribed at University & College
If you were hoping to get some medications prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while in college or at university, you might be in for a rude surprise. Colleges and university are cutting back on their involvement with ADHD, primarily due to abuse of the psychiatric medications — stimulants like Ritalin — prescribed to treat the disorder. Students — whether they are malingering the symptoms or actually have it — are prescribed a drug to treat ADHD (sometimes from different providers in different states), then sell a few (or all the) pills on the side. Profit! Now universit...
Source: World of Psychology - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD College Disorders General Medications Policy and Advocacy Psychiatry Students Treatment Abuse Problem Adhd Meds Adhd Treatment Alan Schwarz Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Source Type: blogs

Imaginary Squabbles Part 2: Krugman and DeLong on Ireland
Alan Reynolds A short 2010 article of mine in Politico, which still annoys Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong, dealt with Ireland’s brief effort to restrain spending, which (while it lasted) was smarter than imposing uncompetitive tax rates as Greece had done.  Krugman ridiculed my Politico article in at least four columns.  He imagines I predicted a “boom” in Ireland, because I wrote in June 2010 that, “the Irish economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.”  That the Irish economy was turning up at the time is undeniable. Although I did not yet have the benefit of real GDP data, Ireland’s GDP w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? Yes & No
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: April 2, 2013 A headline on Monday about the marked rise in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described incorrectly the disorder that saw the increase. It is A.D.H.D. — not hyperactivity, which is present in only a portion of A.D.H.D. cases. The article also misidentified the organization that plans to change the definition of A.D.H.D. to allow more people to receive the diagnosis and treatment. It is the American Psychiatric Association, not the Am...
Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Parenting Policy and Advocacy Treatment Alan Schwarz American Psychiatric Association attention Attention Deficit Attention Deficit Hy Source Type: blogs

Another Defective IMF study on Inequality and Redistribution
Alan Reynolds “IMF Warns on the Dangers of Inequality,” screams the headline of a story by Ian Talley in the Wall Street Journal. The IMF – which Talley dubs “the world’s top economic institution”– is said to be “warning that rising income inequality is weighing on global economic growth and fueling political instability.”  This has been a familiar chorus from the White House/IMF songbook since late 2011, when President Obama’s Special Assistant David Lipton became Deputy Managing Director of the IMF.  It echoes a December 2012 New York Times piece, “Income Inequality May Take Toll on G...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Why Businesses Migrate from Greece to Bulgaria: Smaller Government Is Cheaper
Alan Reynolds What “prompted many Greek manufacturers to relocate to neighboring Bulgaria” is not just less-capricious regulation, as The Wall Street Journal suggests, but also the much lower cost of government. Bulgaria has a 10% flat tax on corporate and personal income and a 20% VAT. Greece has a 49% personal income tax, 26% corporate tax, 45% payroll tax and 23% VAT.  Unbearable tax rates drive a fourth of the Greek economy underground while businesses in the formal economy migrate or shut down. What about government spending (which Keynesian economists call “fiscal stimulus”)?  Government spending i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 11, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
[Reprinted with permission from Alan Reynolds, “What Do We Know about the Great Crash?” National Review, November 9, 1979]  Many scholars have long agreed that the Smoot-Hawley tariff had disastrous economic effects, but most of them have  felt  that  it could  not have caused the stock market collapse of  October  1929, since the tariff was not signed into law  until the following June. Today we know that market participants do not wait for a major law to pass, but instead try to anticipate whether or not it will pass and what its effects will be.  Consider the following sequence of events:  The Smoot-Hawley...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Doubling of the Oil Price Is Always “Transitory”
Alan ReynoldsThis graph compares the year ‐​to‐​year percentage change in headline inflation (the blue line) with the monthly percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI) excluding energy (the red bars). Because the blue line has exceeded 5% since June and exceeded 6% in October, many are understandably convinced that inflati on was lower in the spring and has accelerated since then. As I  recently demonstrated, however, large year‐​to‐​year percentage changes in the overall CPI have always been dominated byhuge changes (both up and down) in the world price of crude oil.  One way to partly correct ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Producer Price Inflation Averaged One Percent for Eight Months
Alan ReynoldsThe PPI measures prices received by U.S. businesses for final demand.It has one big advantage over the CPI —the PPI doesnot include the extremely misleading old lagged BLS surveys of rent and estimates of “owner‐​equivalent” rent. Such “shelter” accounts for a third of the CPI, which makes it a very serious issue indeed.Althoughmarket rents have been falling since last summer, BLS estimates of rents on old and new leases still keep soaring in CPI monthly reports —at a 9.6 percent annual rate for the past three months!That statistical snafu made inflation in 2021 looklower than it really was,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Warning about Ketamine in the American Journal of Psychiatry
The dissociative anesthetic and ravey club drug ketamine has been hailed as a possible “miracle” cure for depression. In contrast to the delayed action of standard antidepressants such as SSRIs, the uplifting effects of Special K are noticeable within an hour. “Experimental Medication Kicks Depression in Hours Instead of Weeks,” says the National Institute of Mental Health. NIMH has been bullish on ketamine for years now. Prominent researchers Duman and Aghajanian called it the “the most important discovery in half a century” in a recent Science review.But in 2010, I pondered whether this use of ketamine...
Source: The Neurocritic - March 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

If You Can ’ t Cure Me, Get Back to Living
By ALAN PITT Several months ago I had a conversation with Dr. Robert Spetzler, the Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute. During our interview Dr. Spetzler mentioned that the patient needs to become captain of their own ship. I agree. Although most of us (as patients) would like someone to step in and care for us when we’re sick, rising costs and limited providers make it impossible for the healthcare industry to meet America’s expectations for care. Healthcare needs patient partners. But in all fairness, I thought to ask a patient what they need. So, with the start of 2017, I thought to ask turned to someone ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Part I: THE IMITATION GAME meets HOW I CAME TO HATE MATH/Comment j’ai détesté les Maths, Moral Relativism vs Beneficence and Justice: Moral Injury, War and Computer Science
THE IMITATION GAME Alan Turing was a Cambridge trained mathematician, wonderfully portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) in the WWII bio-historical thriller, THE IMITATION GAME. The film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore was screened at the 36th annual Mill Valley Film Festival 2014. It is an adaptation of a book by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma While a fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 1990, it was this writer's profound good luck to meet and spend time with the late Dr. Stephen Toulman, a British born physicist, mathematician, philosopher and communic...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs