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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (517911)10/19/2009 7:39:10 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1579321
 
Graph of the Day for October 19, 2009

Randall Hoven
"The United States currently spends more than any other nation on health care - 16.5 percent of GDP - yet we still experience poorer health than most other developed nations and even some developing countries."

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Cancer Survival Rates: US and Europe

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis.

Hoven's Index for October 19, 2009

Number of Nobel Prizes in Medicine given to US researchers in the last 12 years: 9 (1998-2004, 2006, 2007, 2009).

Percentage of globally used drugs produced between 1993 and 2003 which were introduced by US firms:

68% of "first in class" drug launches,

45% of biotech launches,

69% of orphan drug launches.

(Source: Henry G. Grabowski and Y. Richard Wang, "The Quantity and Quality of Worldwide New Drug Introductions, 1982-2003", Health Affairs.)

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