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...only does the equation make hard-nosed sense in a public-health system, its use can reduce costs in other ways. Eager to gain NICE's approval, drug companies have started giving away portions of expensive treatment for free in Britain in order to ensure their drugs meet the threshold. Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of NICE, believes that if the U.S. adopted a similar system, it would revolutionize the culture of major pharmaceutical companies, many of which spend more on marketing than research and development. A 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine predicted that incorporating information about...
...NICE approves over 90% of new drugs, and those it rejects are rarely life-saving. But it has turned down some expensive treatments that prolong life - most notoriously, the kidney cancer drug Sutent in 2008 - angering patients and oncologists. The organization has since promised to approve more expensive life-saving drugs for illnesses affecting fewer than 7,000 patients a year. Rawlins concedes that NICE is "muddling through" uncharted waters: "The biggest lesson we've learned is to be open and transparent. But you have to be willing to make difficult decisions...
Peter Pitts of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest says higher prices are a risk America will have to take. "Because NICE is concerned about saving money and not what's in the best interest of the patient, its methods are not only imprudent, they are unethical," he says, arguing that pharmaceutical firms use profits to fund research and development. Rawlins has a different take. "All health-care systems have implicitly, if not explicitly, adopted some form of cost control. In the U.S. you do it by not providing health care to some people. That's a rather...
...dramatically.“The turning point came in 1962,” Paisner, the reporter, said, “John F. Kennedy was the president. He came up to a football game [in Cambridge]...He saw the MTA yards and said ‘Aha! That would be nice spot for a library.’”From that point on, according to Paisner, the University abandoned any lingering plans to build Houses on the Bennett Street Yards and redirected its efforts to helping bring Kennedy’s presidential library to the site. But they were...
...stood there and enjoyed the moment for a little while until a woman who wanted to take a picture out the window asked us to move,” he said. “But then we went out for dinner later and that was nice,” Nightingale added, gazing into Rinehart’s eyes. The couple met their freshman year in a Russian class. After getting to know each other while studying for the class in Weld, where they both lived, the two became fast friends and soon started dating. “Daniel?...