Letter: Relative cost of drugs.

6.2.2 Relative Cost

Thus, using (8) we receive that the competitive ratio c according to the absolute cost C is c = C(online) C(offline) = C on C off < 2 (9) Therefore, from (4) and (9) we receive that the competitive ratio of the online algorithm is c = min(1 + y 2d ; 2) 7 Discussion In this paper we have analyzed the problem of placing an application in a very large distributed system in a good location with hig...

The medical letter on drugs and therapeutics.

High cost of new drugs.

he investigation by The BMJ and Cambridge and Bath universities into the availability of breakthrough hepatitis C drugs raises important questions for NHS England about access to lifesaving drugs. But why are medicines so expensive in the first place? The pricing strategy of Gilead for sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) and ledipasvir-sofosbuvir (Harvoni) raises questions that go well beyond the UK. The BMJ'...

Relative Cost Random Access Machines

Letter: Use of drugs and their effects on leprosy patients.

Looking back on the Tenth International Leprosy Congress in Bergen in August, I would like to say it was an interesting and useful time. But , I have a comment to make which I think ought to be said ; if there had been time, I would have commented on it during the discussion periods at the congress. It should be remembered that medical and paramedi ca l workers have on the whole upheld a strict...