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Coronavirus Tidbits #35 4-18-20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Tidbits will likely be a bit shorter and a little less frequent for the next little bit. I have been immersed in it and I need to spend a little more time on self-care, which for me means seeing the spring flowers emerge and digging in the dirt. Pesach is always a bit rough anyway, so I will turn to…
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Trade War With China Threatens To Make Problems With Generic Medicine Worse
Earlier in September, Reps. Eshoo and Adam Schiff had an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Opinion | China’s grip on pharmaceutical drugs is a national security issue.” I couldn’t have agreed more. I wrote a letter to the editor, “How a trade war could turn deadly,” published September 19. It was based on my detailed article below, which first appeared in Forbes, last spring: Do you know where your medicines are made? Have you been switched between different generic forms of your medicine, only to find that you responded differently? Ma’s pills in a ginger jar. – Judy Stone Two recent books have echoed my longstanding concern about America’s dependence…