Objective To investigate if published studies tend to report favourable cost effectiveness
ratios (below 20000, 50 000, and 100000perqualityadjustedlifeyear(QALY)gained)andevaluatestudycharacteristicsassociated …

The US health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of
Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by …

Infectious and parasitic diseases create enormous health burdens, but because most of the
people suffering from these diseases are poor, little is invested in developing treatments. We …

Learning Objectives After completing this course, the reader will be able to: Describe how
academic oncologists view the costs of new treatments in their treatment recommendations …

Aims A significant number of preventable cardiac deaths in infancy and childhood are due to
long QT syndrome (LQTS) and to unrecognized neonatal congenital heart diseases (CHDs) …

Background & Aims: Recent years have seen an increase in industry sponsorship of clinical
trials throughout medicine. We conducted a study to evaluate the association of industry …

Given the rapid growth in health care spending that is often attributed to technological
change, many private and public institutions are grappling with how to best assess and …

How can the international community save more children's lives faster and more effectively
in the 21st century? This working paper analyzes the extent to which" frontloading" and …

Research collaborations between academic researchers, regulatory agencies, and
pharmaceutical manufacturers have made the drug development process more efficient and …

Few issues are as controversial as the impact of intellectual property on health in developing
countries. Activists and poor countries' governments have, for example, long claimed that …