This study examines the impact of pharmaceutical innovation and other factors on the survival of U.S. cancer patients … other types of medical innovation, i.e. other pharmaceutical innovation, and innovation in surgical procedures, diagnostic … of rates of innovation in chemotherapy and other treatment and diagnostic procedures are constructed from the MEDSTAT …

contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health … ; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the … Medicare Benefits Schedule.Estimates based on patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the ….. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG-level data also indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy …