Word: expectancies
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...health-related quality of life from 0 to 1. Say a new drug for a previously untreatable condition comes on the market and the drug is proven to improve a patient's quality of life from .5 to .7 on the scale. A patient on the drug can expect to live an average of 15 years following the treatment. Taking the new drug thus earns patients the equivalent of three quality-adjusted life years (15 years multiplied by the .2 gain in quality of life). If the treatments costs $15,000, then the cost per quality-adjusted life year...
...former GOP county Chairman, I firmly agree that the Republican Party is toast, but what exactly do you expect will happen once the GOP is relegated to history's trash bin? That we'll all live in peace and harmony and sing "Kumbaya" together? Howard Hirsch, DAYTON...
...during her time at Harvard—said she particularly enjoyed. The couple began discussing marriage after about nine months of dating, but Donahue had told Mancuso she wouldn’t marry anyone unless they had been dating for at least a year. She didn’t expect it when Mancuso proposed on Castle Island after eleven months and two weeks of dating. “After we’d already decided we wanted to move in together and spend the rest of our lives together, that was kind of the logical step, so I was really...
...mails. No more e-mails.RR: What if there’s an emergency?JSG: Then you can send one e-mail. Just one. Or use the emergency texting system.RR: What would you most like to change about Harvard?JSG: Shorter e-mails from Drew Faust. How does she expect me to read them? They’re so long. They’re like essays.RR: So e-mail is the thing that really stands out about Harvard? JSG: Yeah, I’d like fewer e-mails and shorter e-mails. And more pierogies.RR: What about an e-mail about pierogies...
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