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...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...
Taking its lead from Britain's Department of Transport - which has a cost- per-life-saved threshold for new road schemes of about $2.2 million per life, or around $45,000 per life year gained - NICE rarely approves a drug that costs more than $45,000 per Qaly (the fictitious drug would easily pass...
...exemplary about France's system is that it has managed to foster patient choice while continuing to provide a generally high level of care for even the most vulnerable. All French citizens have affordable access to a doctor, thanks in part to one of the highest rates of doctors per capita in the world (3.4 per 1,000, compared to 2.4 in the U.S. and 2.5 in Britain). A sick French citizen who stays inside the public funding system might not get to choose from a list of specialists, but he or she will get a referral and the needed...
...doesn't make sense that our citizens should have to pay for the irresponsible behavior of others in these tough economic times.' JEFFREY MERRELL, prosecutor for Missouri's Taney County, defending a new policy of charging inmates $45 per night for room and board...
...previously a professor of art history at Columbia and the Director of the American Academy in Rome, has introduced several new one-semester fellowships including one for museum curators or others already working professionally and one for graduate students to pursue scholarship outside of their dissertation. Two graduate students per semester, usually from Harvard, but occasionally from other institutions, are selected as Readers at I Tatti on the basis of an application, interview, and recommendation.Yulia Ryzhik, a graduate student in English literature at Harvard, spent the fall semester at I Tatti this year.“I think it?...