Jeffrey Peppercorn was appointed the next editor-in-chief of JCO Oncology Practice, an American Society of Clinical Oncology journal. Peppercorn will begin serving as editor designee of JCO OP on March 1, and as editor-in-chief on Sept. 1.
There is general agreement that the United States spends too much on health care, especially on pharmaceuticals. But what we spend on drugs is not simply a function of price. If eggs double in price, people can simply cut the number of eggs they eat in half. Simply stated, cost is the product of (price per unit times the number of units purchased).
