Pharma Strategy Blog

the time to progression and overall survival of patients with KRAS mutations, treated with EGFR inhibitors, had the exact some outcome as patients without KRAS mutations but also without EGFR mutations. Both groups did fairly poorly, but there was certainly no indication that KRAS mutation conferred a worse outcome that anyone else who did not have an EGFR mutation.

Even though Americans have continued to admire people who seem naturally dignified (e.g., Joe DiMaggio, Tom Hanks, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Jr.), the code of dignity has been obliterated, according to Brooks. He blames capitalism and its culture of self-promotion, the cult of naturalism, which tells us to liberate our feelings, charismatic evangelism which encourages public confession, and radical egalitarianism and its hostility to aristocratic manners… Dr Simone is someone worth reading regularly, we need more people like this.

Loved this new NBER paper, albeit in part because it’s just such a cool idea: Measuring economic growth using satellite data on lights visible at night from space.