Tag: FDA
Cigarettes, Free Speech, and the Supreme Court
October 25, 2024 | Post
Analyzing the Historic Case that Could Smoke the First Amendment I do not care for cigarettes. I try my best to avoid using any tobacco products. But last month, I filed my first assignment out of law school: an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court supporting the First Amendment rights of America’s biggest tobacco […]
Vaping bans: How the FDA is making it harder to quit smoking
July 27, 2017 | Post
Nullifying the FDA’s vaping ban would save the lives of smokers who would like to quit cigarettes.
How the FDA hides its true costs — dollars lost and progress delayed
June 14, 2017 | Post
Want to sell a new medicine? You need to pay $2 million — at least — to the FDA
How “regulatory dark matter” blocks innovation
May 13, 2017 | Post
The Trump administration’s desire to get rid of unnecessarily burdensome and unwise regulations is laudable, but fulfilling that desire won’t be easy.
How regulations block economic progress
March 27, 2017 | Post
To discover the Next Big Thing, you need to think outside the box.
Profit Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word In Drug Development
October 2, 2016 | Post
The spread of markets into the healthcare sector has allowed us to live longer than ever before.
Why Chairs Are Cheap and EpiPens Are Expensive
September 2, 2016 | Post
Imagine that the government creates the Furniture and Desk Association, an agency which declares that only IKEA is allowed to sell chairs.
Discussion Question: Pharmaceutical Regulations
March 4, 2016 | Post
What is the best way, if at all, for medication to be regulated? How do you balance the right of consumers to purchase what they want with protection of consumers from dangerous or fraudulent medical treatments? Professor Howie Baetjer tackles this question in the following Learn Liberty video, but what do you think?
The FDA and the Right to Try
March 2, 2016 | Post
Reason recently shared their video on dying patient and the right to try, noting that the Goldwater Institute will be releasing a study this week on the failure of the FDA’s Expanded Access program. Though the program is intended to let terminally ill patients try experimental drugs which have not yet cleared the FDA’s approval […]
Discussion Question: Pharmaceutical Regulation
January 8, 2016 | Post
What is the best way, if at all, for medication to be regulated? How do you balance the right of consumers to purchase what they want with protection of consumers from dangerous or fraudulent medical treatments? Be sure to check out this video on the current government monopoly on prescription drug approval.