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The challenges and economics of drug development in 2022
1 July 2013
…be radically transformed as “precision” medicine plugs into the specific genetic makeup of both patients and diseases, and is paired with increasingly powerful and convenient diagnostics. 2. Innovation will be…
Lives of Our Children: a Study in Childhood Mortality
12 January 1962
…importance of drugs in those diseases where mortality has fallen most dramatically; and finally, it evaluates some of the social and economic gains from this reduction in child death rates….
The Influence of Cost-effectiveness and Other Factors on NICE Decisions
1 November 2013
…incremental cost-effectiveness ration (ICER), with the tipping point most often being between £39,000 and £44,000. No significant change in this was observable over time. Specific diseases were the only other…
A Study of the Relationship Between Health and Subjective Well-being in Parkinson’s Disease Patients
1 July 2013
…in predicting subjective well-being. The authors conclude, however, that further empirical research on measures and in other diseases is necessary. A revised version of this paper has been published in…
Disorders Which Shorten Life
1 July 1966
…into a new phase, symbolised by the menopause in women, in which the degenerative diseases start to become significant in both sexes and in which patterns of mortality and morbidity…
Is There a Productivity Crisis in Pharmaceutical R&D?
6 January 2012
…Factors identified as important include a trend towards targeting more complex and difficult diseases, the need to adapt to dramatic changes in scientific knowledge and in R&D approaches, and substantial…
Without Prescription: a Study of the Role of Self-Medication
1 July 1968
…type of diseases involved, and the ways in which they are treated. It goes on to consider the impact of this approach on the overall standards of health in the…
Age of Maturity
1 July 1969
…phase of life begins. Patterns of morbidity and mortality rapidly alter as degenerative diseases become increasingly more significant. Socially, middle age is associated with a change in the organisation of…
Epilepsy and Society
1 July 1971
…diseases were seen as phenomena more or less dependent on the supernatural, as divine retribution for wickedness or as products of possession by spirits. Epilepsy more than any other condition…