Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own

Post by arcticbull » Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #212

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Its easy to point at what doesn't work well, there's tons and tons of things that work great that nobody talks about. Municipal broadband: the best broadband in the entire United States is provided by the municipality of Chattanooga. [1] Post: The USPS is the most trusted brand in the United States, above FedEx and UPS. [2] Transit: The New York City Subway is the 3rd largest metro rail system on earth after London a…

> Transit: The New York City Subway is the 3rd largest metro rail system on earth after London and Guangzhou It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded. People in the rest of the country aren’t exactly unaware of New York. But its transit, housing, and public school systems are a poster child for how government-run services are terrible, even wh…

Post by hwillis » Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 1:30 AM UTC

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In 1938, the FDA started reviewing and approving drugs. In 1960, Richardson-Merrell applied for approval for a drug called Thalidomide, a cancer treatment. They had clinical trials that included pregnant women. They were rejected six times . In the UK, The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd, a subsidiary of Distillers Co. Ltd marketed thalidomide as Distaval, a remedy for morning sickness. Their advertisement clai…

I remember reading an archived copy of the FDA press release after they finally approved beta-blockers, a medicine that had been approved and widely distributed in Europe for some ten years. In the press release, the FDA was proud to announce that as a result of their approval, beta blockers would save the lives of an estimated 10,000 Americans every year. That is to say, the inefficiency of the FDA was, in the words…