Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Regulating emerging technologies

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  Here's a recent RAND report, on the current diverse attempts to regulate emerging biotechnologies, focusing on organoids,* embryos, ge...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New rules for evaluating transplant centers

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 Historically, transplant centers ('hospitals') have been primarily evaluated on the one year graft survival on the transplants that...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The market for (ethical) pornography

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  Will regulation, lawsuits and competition for creators increase the supply of ethical porn? Wired has the story: The Sticky Dilemmas of Po...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...