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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recently, researchers have found that a common drug many individuals take to treat heartburn is linked to a higher risk of pancreatic cancer. The drug’s name is ranitidine or Zantac. The Food and Drug Administration requested a manufacturer’s market withdrawal of this drug. Researchers from Michigan Medicine say that this recall …

New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones. Economists love health care because it is a classic example of “information asymmetry”: patients do not know what treatment they need, how much it should cost, or which tests will properly diagnose them. Instead, patients have …