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...Avastin for the eye costs as little as $13, says Rosenfeld, who is also a lead author on Lucentis trial reports. (Using FDA-approved drugs for "off-label" uses is??common practice, especially in ophthalmology.) Lucentis is almost certain to be pricier when Genentech announces the U.S. sales tag: competing treatments cost up to $3000 per dose...
...Some 43,000 children - mainly those from poor families as well as middle-class households earning $40,000 or more - have already been enrolled in the plan, according to state officials. Within five years, the rolls should top 250,000 while the yearly price tag is expected to swell from roughly $45 million in its first year to $100 million by its fifth year...
...Department official told Time that there's nothing in the agreement with Pakistan to prevent Musharraf using U.S. military aid against Baluch insurgents. "When we transfer the equipment for them, it's for internal security and self-defense," the official says. "There's no 'for al-Qaeda use only' tag on it." Unlike the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating further north along the mountainous Afghan border region, however, the Baluch are not Islamist militants. "They are secular and anti-Taliban," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, "yet American guns are being used against them." (Bugti says...
...grows--10.1 million North Americans will cruise this year, up 47% in five years--other lines are adding niche cruises and longer, luxurious trips, but Royal Caribbean is set on big. In 2009 it plans to launch a ship of biblical proportions, 40% larger than Freedom, with a price tag of $1.1 billion. Its name? Genesis...
...offers nearly 100% protection against the two most common cancer-causing HPV strains, as well as two others that cause genital warts. But at $360 for three shots given over six months, the vaccine, which was developed by Merck, is among the most expensive on the market. The price tag alone probably puts it out of reach for many uninsured women in the U.S. (as well as those whose insurance companies balk at the cost), not to mention millions of poor women in the developing world, where cervical cancer is a leading cause of death. The Gates Foundation announced last...