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'The County Medical Examiner recorded 645 heat-related deaths last summer. Nearly 400 of them occurred in Phoenix, where half of all deaths were among the unhoused.'

by Ariel Wittenberg

scientificamerican.com/article/phoeni…

I think one of the strangest feelings in #academia is not being able to access an article..... that you wrote.

#academictwitter Academic Chatter™

My friend and colleague William Feldman nails it. 🎯

High drug costs have real consequences for patients.

It’s why we keep fighting to make life saving medications affordable.

.William Feldman testifies Senate Judiciary Committee: 'We should strive for a pharmaceutical system that rewards meaningful therapeutic breakthroughs…not small modifications to the plastic components of delivery devices or new tweaks to molecules that perform no better than existing therapies.'

I’ll be testifying next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee on pharmaceutical patents and pricing. 10 AM on Tuesday, May 21. You can tune in here! Thank you to Senator Dick Durbin and the committee for the opportunity to share my thoughts.

judiciary.senate.gov/committee-acti…

New paper out today examining factors associated with trust in the the FDA.

Great to collaborate on this with Leah Rand, Dan Carpenter, Max Russo, Anushka Bhaskar, Zhigang Lu, Eric Campbell, Jonathan J Darrow, Aaron Kesselheim. Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law

ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cp…

New blog post!

This week:

🌎 the environmental impact of prescription meds
🌎 health technology assessment and enviro sustainability
🌎 Lancet Countdown 2024 Europe report

Link: sites.google.com/view/climatean…

Interested in medications and climate change? 🌎

Check out this great seminar by Ivy Lam, Dr. Ilona Hale, and Trudy Huyghebaert organized by CASCADES_en!

youtube.com/watch?v=DezKC3…

Elevate your career in health policy at U Calgary! We're seeking a Professor with a proven track record leading transformative research in Evidence-Informed Health Policy. Apply now for our Tier I CRC bit.ly/3WF9HrG #HealthPolicy O'Brien Institute for Public Health U CalgaryMed CIHR

🚨New Article Alert🚨 'Patent Portfolios Protecting 10 Top-Selling Prescription Drugs,' with work led by former PORTAL fellow Caroline Horrow. In JAMA Internal Medicine. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

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I'm sure this will be an interesting read!

'Patients in the US are prescribed roughly 144 million of what doctors call metered-dose inhalers each year...
The cumulative amount of gas released is the equivalent of driving half a million gas-powered cars for a year.'

via NPR

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npr.org/sections/healt…

Sometimes I even ride my own trail.

#squamish #mountainbike

Nice night out there!

Spring is in the air (literally).

#Squamish

A number of presentations related to #GCEA are happening today so reiterating what I said below. #ISPORAnnual

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'Analysis using these metrics is likely to encourage greater investment for people with disabling conditions by providing a way to be explicit about the value of the health improvements they confer.'

#QALY can improve patient access to effective drugs

healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…