The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute
Articles by John E. Calfee
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What Do Vitamins and Fish Oil Tell Us about Drug Research?
Thursday, August 6, 2009
- There is a second world of drug research, a world in which patents do not exist and for-profit research is permanently moribund. Its history should stop ...
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A Public Health Disaster in the Making
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
- Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.
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Decoding the Use of Gene Patents
Friday, May 15, 2009
- In good news, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resisted researchers' overreaching in their patenting of genes, and researchers’ work is seldom ...
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A Troubling Supreme Judgment
Friday, March 6, 2009
- The Supreme Court’s decision in Wyeth v. Levine will be negative for patient welfare.
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Medicine's Miracle Man
Friday, January 23, 2009
- Maurice Hilleman's remarkable period of industrial scientific research yielded the most cost-effective medicines ever made.
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Tough Challenges at the FDA
Thursday, January 15, 2009
- Obama’s FDA commissioner should avoid actions that make the drug development process more costly and inefficient.
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'Seeding' Sales and Science
Monday, August 25, 2008
- Marketing-driven clinical trials intend to increase sales and profits—but also yield enormous benefits for patients.
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The Indispensable Industry
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
- New efforts to undermine the country’s drug development system are cause for worry.
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Lessons of the Heart
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
- A surprising new study on heart disease treatments won’t just change medicine—it will help shape basic science.
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The Truth about the Drug Ads
Friday, February 2, 2007
- Many people love to hate DTCA, but research suggests the ads do more good than harm.