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Drug costs in context: assessing drug costs in cost-of-illness analyses [PDF]
Cost-of-illness (COI) studies attempt to measure and describe the costs associated or attributed to a specific disease, but there are several considerations for measuring and interpreting drug costs estimates.
T Joseph Mattingly II, Shannon Weathers
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The impact of China's zero markup drug policy on drug costs for managing Parkinson's disease and its complications: an interrupted time series analysis [PDF]
BackgroundIn April 2009, the Chinese government launched Zero Markup Drug Policy (ZMDP) to adjust medical institutions' revenue and expenditure structures.ObjectiveThis study evaluated the impact of implementing ZMDP (as an intervention) on the drug ...
Ruilin Wang +12 more
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The challenges of access to innovative medicines with limited evidence in the European Union
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) fosters access to innovative medicines through accelerated procedures and flexibility in the authorization requirements for diseases with unmet medical needs, such as many rare diseases as well as oncological diseases.
Antonio Vallano +7 more
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This study aimed to compare drug costs and healthcare costs of a 1 year adjuvant course with intravenous biosimilar trastuzumab vs. subcutaneous reference trastuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer from the Belgian hospital perspective. Our simulation is
Steven Simoens +2 more
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Treatment Access, Health Economics, and the Wave of a Magic Wand
New drugs are expensive, in part due to excessive drug development costs. Governments are trying to reduce drug prices. This can delay access to effective agents. A country’s access to new drugs correlates with prices they agree to pay.
David J. Stewart +2 more
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Background: Conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are the first-line treatment to inhibit the progression of psoriatic arthritis.
Ronaldo José Faria +9 more
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Governed through the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) since 1995, the current medical R&D system requires significant trade-offs between innovation and high monopoly prices for patented ...
Shiri Mermelstein, Hilde Stevens
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Comparison of Five Protocols of Estrous Synchronization on Reproductive Performance of Hu Sheep
The purpose of this study is to compare five protocols of estrous synchronization for Hu ewes to obtain the most effective and economical protocol, to apply the advantageous scheme in large-scale sheep farming.
Xiaojie Yu +11 more
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The effects of subcurative praziquantel treatment on life-history traits and trade-offs in drug-resistant Schistosoma mansoni [PDF]
Natural selection acts on all organisms, including parasites, to maximise reproductive fitness. Drug resistance traits are often associated with life-history costs in the absence of treatment.
Viana, Mafalda +4 more
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