"Nothing in healthcare saves money. It is not quite true, but it is a good adage to keep in mind." Health economics has spent four decades asking whether the trillions spent on US healthcare are ...
A microsimulation model has quantified what clinicians have long suspected: sustained steroid exposure in autoimmune disease carries a measurable, and avoidable, clinical and economic burden that ...
Pharmaceutical companies need to replace dose reduction measures with direct toxicity measurement in health-economic models Dose reduction overlooks the hidden healthcare costs of steroid-toxicity. ...
“Steroids are cheap and effective in the short term. Convincing payers that steroid-sparing therapies are worth the upfront cost is still a practical challenge.” Albert Whangbo, PhD, leads the global ...
Ten years ago, two clinical researchers walked into a bar and, over a beer, asked themselves whether the direct measurement of steroid-toxicity would ever be possible. Today, Steritas, in licensing ...