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For optimal treatment in cancerology, clinicians need specific, precise, sensitive methods to quantify treatment response, monitor residual disease and detect early recurrence in patients. Residual...

News Summary: Nokia cuts US price of smartphone

CHEAPER: Nokia has halved the price of the Lumia 900 in the United States to $49.99. The price requires a two-year contract with AT&T.STRATEGY: One analyst says the price cut was a way for Nokia to "d...

Slashed profit warning over new Indian price regime

Almost 90 drug products across therapeutic segments could see price cuts of over 30% to as high as 89% under India's new price control order, with industry's current profitability expected to be slice...

Express Scripts finds most used Rx drugs price hikes six times that of overall US inflation

The US Prescription Price Index shows that, since September 2011, price inflation for the most highly utilized brand-name medicines in the USA was more than six times greater than overall economic pri...

Intermune's 'minor improvement' gets $25k-a-year price in France

Intermune is "very, very pleased" with its French price for its orphan drug Esbriet (pirfenidone) for mild to moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. CEPS, France's pricing committee has approved an e...

China reducing prices for fourth group of drugs

China's National Development and Reform Commission said in a notice on Tuesday that it will reduce the retail price of about 400 drugs for respiratory, pain and fever by up to 20%, effective February...

A Second Chance To Short Herbalife

By ValueInvestorsPortal:Since the Herbalife (HLF) cliff orchestrated by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman on December 19, 2012, HLF has rebounded from an intraday low of $24.24 on December 24, 2012 to cl...

Dawn of a new era: Barnes & Noble cuts Nook price by 63% in the U.K.

Cor Blimey — beginning on Wednesday, British consumers are staring at a huge 63% price cut of the cheapest Nook eReader. The Nook Simple Touch price has plunged to £29 from £79. The Glowlight vers...

India To Expand Drug Price Caps To Cover Branded As Well As Generic

An official of India's Pharmaceuticals Department said the agency plans to enact price controls on patented drugs, a vast expansion of its current system of imposing price controls on generic versions...

Price discounts on alcohol in a city in northern England.

Aims To describe the extent and nature of price discounts on alcohol in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Methods An observational survey in stores licensed for off-sales in December 2010 to January 2011....

Do generic firms and the Spanish public purchaser respond to consumer price differences of generics under reference pricing?

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of competition on the consumer price and the average price paid by the National Health System (NHS) under reference pricing in the Spanish generic market. METHODS: Des...

16 for the price of 10: effects of a ban on multi-buy alcohol.

Multi-buy is one method by which retailers discount alcoholic beverage sales. It is common in the UK. A Scottish ban on multi-buys had an immediate impact on sales. Because other methods for lowering...

Group selection and inclusive fitness are not equivalent; the Price equation vs. models and statistics.

It is often suggested that any group selection model can be recast in terms of inclusive fitness. A standard reference to support that claim is "'Quantitative genetics, inclusive fitness, and group se...

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