Pharma innovation expert Bernard Munos captures the inherent inefficiency of drug development with two fascinating statistics he recently shared with me. First, for large pharmas, the average cost of developing a new drug (simply based on the total R&D costs divided by the total number of new drugs approved for sale) works out to about… Read More
The field of public health has achieved remarkable results over the years. Covid-19 proved to be an especially tough challenge.
In the following review, Wieseltier compares Mamet’s short novel Passover with his film Homicide.
Last week, a man armed with an assault rifle was apprehended on a southern Florida golf course. He was planning to murder Donald Trump on…
The Image: Anyone remember this surprisingly witty vignette with Christopher Walken as Duane Hall – https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wordpress.com/2024/04/…
The Mannings’ setup allows them to call games on their own terms and with all the comforts of home. They wouldn’t do it otherwise.
The phrase “assent without belief” has been used to describe the concept of going along with the outward manifestations of an ideology without true conviction.…
The phrase “assent without belief” has been used to describe the concept of going along with the outward manifestations of an ideology without true conviction.…
Change is coming through AI, with the potential to better decipher human biology and disease.
I’m seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake’s life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him?
A central challenge of R&D, like many disciplines characterized by rare, outsized success, is how to think about risk, as well as the contributions of…
