Does Misery Love Company? Evidence from pharmaceutical markets before and after the Orphan Drug Act [PDF]
With substantial fixed costs of drug development, more common conditions can support more products. If additional pharmaceutical products are beneficial, they will attract greater consumption and promote better health, e.g. greater longevity.
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Joel Waldfogel
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Mohammed Essa+5 more
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Assessing the feasibility and likelihood of policy options to lower specialty drug costs. [PDF]
Taylor EA+4 more
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Outpatient chemotherapy drug costs and expensive chemotherapy drug use in 340B and Non-340B hospitals: an observational study. [PDF]
Hu J, Nerenz DR.
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Health Care Savings from Personalizing Medicine Using Genetic Testing: The Case of Warfarin [PDF]
Progress towards realizing a vision of personalized medicine - drugs and drug doses that are safer and more effective because they are chosen based on an individual's genetic makeup - has been slower than once forecast.
Lutter, Randall+2 more
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Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: An Update [PDF]
We update and extend our previous study of the effect of drug age -- years since FDA approval -- on total medical expenditure, in several respects. The estimates indicate that, in the entire population, a reduction in the age of drugs utilized reduces ...
Frank Lichtenberg
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Association between US Pharmacopeia (USP) monograph standards, generic entry and prescription drug costs. [PDF]
Murimi-Worstell IB+3 more
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Patterns of borrowing to finance out-of-pocket prescription drug costs in Canada: a descriptive analysis. [PDF]
Kolhatkar A+6 more
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The misrepresentation of high drug costs: Who is looking out for the patient? [PDF]
Bachynsky JA, Tsuyuki RT.
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