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Rare Disease Day 2022
28 February 2022
…the use of real-world evidence. Less positive examples were also observed, especially around inflexible consideration of uncertainties inherent around ultra-rare conditions. The challenges associated with evaluating orphan medicines are demonstrated…
Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Five Questions We Think Matter a Lot
29 March 2019
…considered, especially in the world of medical devices and equipment oftentimes excluded from price benchmarking and evidence conversations. Not dissimilar to the ECRI model, NHS England set up a database…
Time to Tackle the Challenges around Combination Therapies for Cancer
29 March 2021
A new Editorial reviews three solutions to the price and value challenge to reimbursing combination products. Higher thresholds are not justifiable. Evidence to support use of shorter regimens will take…
Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?
1 February 2024
…O’Neill, J., 1993. Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World. [online] Routledge & CRC Press. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Ecology-Policy-and-Politics-Human-Well-Being-and-the-Natural-World/ONeill/p/book/9780415073004 [Accessed 26 Nov. 2023]. Oxera, 2002. A Social Time Preference…
HTA and Appropriate Drug Pricing Worldwide
9 September 2011
The August 2011 issue of Health Affairs featured four articles on how and why pricing for pharmaceuticals differs from one country to another. The OHE’s Prof Adrian Towse co-authored the…
Depression
1 March 1992
Depression has been defined as the persistent and sustained feeling that the self is worthless, the world meaningless and the future hopeless. There is a world of difference between being…
Accountable Health Care: Is it compatible with social solidarity?
1 February 1998
If a dart were thrown at a map of the world and one identified the national capital nearest the dart, the following would be a safe prediction: somewhere in that…
Pharmaceuticals in seven nations
1 May 1985
…the reader’s attention is drawn to Pharmaceuticals among problems of supplying medicines to the Third World have been extensively discussed elsewhere (see, for example, Medicines, Health and the Poor World…