The Lifetime Cost of Long-Term Steroids
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 ...
The HEOR Measurement Gap Pharma Can No Longer Ignore
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. ...
In Conversation With… Albert Whangbo, PhD
“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 ...
Measuring What Matters: Steroid-toxicity and Patient Outcomes
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 ...
Would Steroids Be Approved for Clinical Use Today?
Despite their seemingly miraculous efficacy, the long-term adverse effects of glucocorticoids pose significant challenges. This reality led Ali A. Habib, MD and Pushpa Narayanaswami, MD to author an ...
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