We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …

I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …

increased more in some states than in others?" One of the conclusions I drew from that study was that medical innovation …-Berman express deep skepticism about my study's conclusion that medical innovation has played a very important role in recent U …

Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at … pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by 0.87 years (10.4 months)- about 44% of the total increase in longevity -and … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …

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 …