The Friday Effect on Public Health

Ben and louis looked at the effect of drug safety alerts being issued on fridays. They found that for non lobbying firms, you essentially have thi flat line of almost any day of the week is equally likely to get alert. For lobbying firms, it's essentially a third of them, i think, are on friday. The fda said they aimed to issue drug safety alerts as soon as possible. But declined to respond to the specific findings of louis and ben study.