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Today in Human Scum

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 22, 2015

The worst person in the entire world may well be the pharmaceutical capitalist Martin Shkreli. Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection. The...

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The Civil War Collection

By Erik Loomis

On January 22, 2015

Here's some interesting newly available books on and about the Civil War from the 19th and early 20th centuries. They include Pain and Anaesthetics: An Essay, from 1862, by Valentine.

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On Free Tampons

By Erik Loomis

On August 13, 2014

Earlier this week, Jessica Valenti suggested in a column that tampons should be free. I had never really thought about this before, being a guy and all, but it is.

Mrs. Lydia Pinkham’s Herbal Supplements

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 5, 2013

What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent medicine before the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration in 1906 For the study,...

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Lessons from 18th Century Medical History

By Erik Loomis

On June 7, 2011

Yglesias has been reading Middlekauf and tries to learn lessons on modern health care from the disastrous medicine of the time: I think discussions of health care economics pay far.