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Pay or Decay: The ‘Lifestyle Drugs’ Crisis

Lifestyle conditions are here to stay. Does payment for 'lifestyle' drugs represent an efficient way of using scarce health care resources?

Pay or Decay: The ‘Lifestyle Drugs’ Crisis

Intensive Care: Expensive or Bargain?

The use of intensive care has created concerns because of its increasing consumption of health care resources. However, considering the number of lives that saves is it really expensive or rather a bargain?

Intensive Care: Expensive or Bargain?

Ageing and Health Care Costs: True Lies

Increasing trends in health care expenditures is often attributed to population ageing. In this article an attempt to shed some light to the real connection between ageing and health expenditures is made.

Ageing and Health Care Costs: True Lies
Dermatology World Interview

Dermatology World Interview

07 April 2009

Interview for the American Academy of Dermatology

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Posted in Opinion

Continuing Education

Continuing Education

06 February 2009

Selection of short courses in Health Economics.

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Posted in Education

Encouraging Prevention

Encouraging Prevention

23 December 2008

Early screening = better health outcomes. A paradox or common sense?

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Posted in Opinion

New Domain Name

New Domain Name

18 December 2008

The website's new name is The Medical Economist (http://medicaleconomist.com).

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