21 de juliol 2017

Beyond health gain:the value of knowing in precision medicine

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Value assessment in precision cancer medicine Towse and Garrison provide a clear picture of the economics of using drugs with companion di...
20 de juliol 2017

Precision medicine: a deep breakthrough in life sciences paradigm

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Bioscience - Lost in Translation? How precision medicine closes the innovation gap It is not so easy to translate knowledge into practice,...
19 de juliol 2017

In search of the balance between government and market

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THE LIMITS OF THE MARKET: The Pendulum between Government and Market Thirty years ago I bought a book that was a key reference MARKETS OR ...
10 de juliol 2017

Transforming the practice of care in the most inefficient and wasteful health system

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The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis Eric Topol provides clear insights for a wide range of life sciences issues, and so...
27 de juny 2017

Critical thinking in medicine

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Testing Treatments Els Tractaments, a prova If you are interested in critical thinking about treatment claims, then now it is the time to...
25 de juny 2017

Health as the capacity for action

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The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care. Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions Currently the concept of health...
16 de juny 2017

The value of lab testing in precision medicine

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The Value of Diagnostic Testing in Personalized Medicine Before Jevons , economists were unable to think on marginal terms. If price sho...
15 de juny 2017

Is there any justification for interventions that aren't cost-effective?

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Ethics, priorities and cancer This is one of the most challenging questions nowadays. Anthony Culyer sheds light n this difficult issue in...
09 de juny 2017

The farce of confidential drug prices (2)

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Payers’ experiences with confidential pharmaceutical price discounts: A survey of public and statutory health systems inNorth America, Europ...
08 de juny 2017

Genome editing: understanding CRISPR-CAS9

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Excellent speech by Salvador Macip at Grifols Foundation conference on CRISPR (in catalan):
02 de juny 2017

Compensating behaviour after nudging

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Nudges that fail Cass Sunstein shows in his las published article that nudging may fail, and explains the reasons and what to do. Great, I...
31 de maig 2017

Controversies on QALYs

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The Limitations of QALY: A Literature Review After 50 years, valuing health using QALYs is still a daunting task. Basically the debate ove...
26 de maig 2017

Are You What You Eat?

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Are You What You Eat? Healthy Behaviour and Risk Preferences I am not strictly a fan of economic experiments. They are useful, but usually...
23 de maig 2017

Taxing unhealthy foods

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The effect of prices on nutrition: Comparing the impact of product-and nutrient-specific taxes Nowadays, many people is asking about evide...