Opinion: 5 most widely read First Opinions of 2019
It’s been a banner year for First Opinion. We published nearly 500 essays written by more than 600 authors from industry, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond. They took on the mundane, like the implications of the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (aka H.R. 3), and the fanciful, like why we need a Public Domain Day to highlight when drugs go off patent.
Authors addressed the opioid crisis, patent thickets, the personal toll imposed by drug shortages, drug costs, deaths of despair, the oxymoron of having a waiting room in an emergency department, shoddy production of generic drugs by foreign manufacturers, the burgeoning use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in new drug research and development and health care, and much, much more.
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