The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee March 9 voted 11:2 in favor the approval of Polivy (polatuzumab vedotin-piiq) in combination with a rituximab product, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone for treatment-naive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
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).
