Articles by John E. Calfee
What the Texas Jury Did to Patients
After a Texas jury awarded a quarter of a billion dollars to the widow of a man who died after taking the pain reliever Vioxx, jury members told the press they wanted to send the drug industry a message. Exactly...
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To Really Stop Smoking
When the Department of Justice announced in 1999 that it was suing the tobacco industry for billions and billions of dollars, a lot of people cheered. When the DOJ lawyers announced near the end of that trial in June that...
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Is the FDA Broken?
Is the FDA broken? A lot of people think it is. They argue that the FDA has gone soft on drug safety because it tries too hard to please the pharmaceutical industry. Their evidence is the FDA's reluctance to pull...
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An IP Regime Change
A fusillade of criticism has fallen upon the United States for being the lone holdout in a World Trade Organization proposal to encourage poor nations to import generic versions of patented drugs. This dispute originally focused on drugs to fight...
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