Search results for: Maria Lowe

Pharmaceutical Pricing in Europe: Is Differential Pricing a Win-Win Solution?

1 February 2011

…encourages higher prices in lower-income countries, can delay marketing/patient access in lower-price countries,… This paper examines the potentially positive impact of differential pricing in Europe and the overall negative effects…

Foundation

…meant lower R+D costs but not necessarily lower profits.  And, of course, the nature of the emerging model of academic – industry collaboration meant that scientific breakthroughs in our understanding…

Why Do Immigrants Report Lower Life Satisfaction?

1 July 2017

…with an integer number (or category) between and 10, with being the lowest and 10 the highest level of life satisfaction. It is typically assumed that for a particular latent…

Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?

1 February 2024

…Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England usually discount at a rate of 3.5% (see box 1), but state a lower 1.5% non-reference case rate may be applied…

The Trump Administration’s US Drug Pricing Proposal – What will happen next?

12 June 2025

…pricing and formulary listing. Therefore, without wider health system reform, there is great uncertainty about how domestic pricing reform will be enacted and whether it will actually lower prices and…

The Lower Drug Costs Now Act and Pharmaceutical Innovation

1 September 2021

The US spends significantly more on healthcare per person than other wealthy countries. H.R. 3 is a recent policy proposal aimed at reducing national spending on prescription drugs, one component…

Plan For A New EU Pharmaceutical Legislation: What Will It Mean For Pharmaceutical Innovation?

12 April 2024

…In the 2023 proposals by the European Commission, the system would provide significantly lower baseline rewards. For new medicines, baseline regulatory data protection (RDP) would be reduced to six years. For…

Infectious disease: another reason to try Veganuary for the NHS

30 January 2025

…consider chronic health conditions. So what about long-COVID? We don’t have direct evidence yet, but it’s reasonable to infer that lower COVID infection rates are associated with a lower risk…

Driving Green Change: Lessons from the 2024 Innovation Policy Prize

5 February 2025

…incentivizing development of locally appropriate greenovations in lower-income countries. The proposal hinges on the premise that the massive economic growth – compounded by large population increases – of many lower…