Brendan Shaw "The government would like to achieve further PBS savings by making greater use of generic drugs to allow headroom for the expensive, but cost-effective, innovator drugs that are likely to be subsidised by the PBS in the near future.” - The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Minister for Health and Ageing, 17 May 2006, Sydney Morning Herald “In challenging economic times, both parties have a mutual interest in ensuring that PBS expenditure remains sustainable and the PBS remain

Brendan Shaw “If you are still counting on humans to handle your company’s most complicated and high-stakes decisions, it seems like a...

Brendan Shaw   “The analysis reveals that although population aging poses challenges such as slower growth and increased fiscal...

Brendan Shaw "If after 15 months, you have only a 'suspicion' about what your people are up to and find it 'hard to know' who are your...

Brendan Shaw   "If Nature abhors the void, the mind abhors what is meaningless. Show a person an inkblot, and he will start at once to organise it into a hierarchy of shapes, tentacles, wheels, masks, a dance of figures." Arthur Koestler, T he Ghost in the Machine , 1967 “An increasing number of guidelines recommend the inclusion of productivity loss in the base case or additional analyses of economic evaluation.” Jiang S, Wang Y, Si L, et al. “Incorporating productivity loss

Brendan Shaw Article published in Biopharmadispatch, 28 August 2023, (paywall) which can be found here. #medicines #ageing #economics...