Cheap life-saving trauma drug should be made freely available, emergency care researchers say
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 17:30
in Mathematics & Economics
How much would you pay for an extra year of healthy life? The cost of filling up your car at the petrol pumps? Researchers have found that a year of life could be saved for around the price of filling up the tank of an average family car in the UK -- which is a fitting comparison bearing in mind that most of the patients who will benefit from this cheap life-saving drug have been hit by cars.