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WEBINAR: The Perils of QALYs and Disability Discrimination

Join our webinar on Feb. 26 from 1:30-2:30 PM EST to learn about value assessments, their potential for discrimination, and related public policy threats to beware of at both the federal and state level.

Join PICP this coming Tuesday (Feb. 26, 1:30-2:30 PM EST) for a webinar on the Quality-Adjusted Life Year, how it can increase disability discrimination in health care and public policy, and how to push back.

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Insufficienza cardiaca acuta scompensata: costo-efficacia di acetazolamide

L’aggiunta di acetazolamide alla terapia diuretica standard nei pazienti ospedalizzati per insufficienza cardiaca acuta scompensata (ADHF) potrebbe rappresentare non solo un vantaggio clinico, ma anche una soluzione economicamente vantaggiosa per il sistema sanitario tedesco. Lo suggerisce un’analisi pubblicata su European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (EHJ-QCCO), che ha…

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The overall cancer death rate in the United States decreased by a third between 1991 and 2019, largely because fewer people smoke and develop lung cancer. As cancer screening, prevention and treatments for all types of cancer have improved, this decrease has continued and even accelerated. The national cancer mortality rate is falling by about 2 percent every year. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/opinion/cancer-treatment-disparities.html

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F.D.A. Approves Narcan for Over-the-Counter Sales

The nasal spray reverses opioid overdoses and public health officials hope that making it more widely available could save lives and reduce

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Most effective altruists care about increasing the number of "WALYs" or well-being adjusted life years, where health is just one component of wellbeing.

Depending on your view of population ethics, you might also distinguish between achieving WALYs by improving lives vs. adding to the number of people alive).

Alternatively you can introduce the idea of QALYs, but then point out what we ultimately care about is WALYs; it's just that right now health is the cause where quantification is easiest.