On Science Blogs reviews a couple of Supreme Court decisions related to medicine, and Tabitha M. Powledge likes what she sees.
Pharmaceutical companies can no longer collude with generic drug makers to keep cheaper generics off the market. (One wonders why we needed the Supreme Court to tell us that this was a very bad idea for all except pharma shareholders.)
And private health organizations no longer are required to denounce prostitution in order to get funding for program to prevent or treat HIV/AIDS. Powledge jabs i09 for giving the Supreme Court more credit than it deserves. The court, she writes, managed to decide this without considering the public health issues, which makes for stirring jurisprudence.
-Paul Raeburn
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