MRCPsych examination - too expensive?

When are effective medications just too expensive?

Dental care too expensive for many middle-income Canadians.

Too expensive to meter: the influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication.

Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. Such charging also appears to be increasingly desirable, as traffic on roads continues to grow and costs and public opposition limit new construction. Similar incentives towards fine-scale charging also appear to be ...

A healthy diet consistent with Australian health recommendations is too expensive for welfare-dependent families.

OBJECTIVE Examine the cost of healthy food habits for welfare-dependent families in Australia. METHOD A seven-day meal plan was developed, based on Australian public health recommendations, for two typical welfare-dependent families: a couple-family (two adults, two children) and a one-parent family (one adult, two children). The cost of the meal plan was calculated using market brand and gen...

Has radiotherapy become too expensive to be considered a treatment option for early glottic cancer?

BACKGROUND External beam radiotherapy and surgery produce equivalent long-term survival and tumor control in early glottic cancer. The expense and cost of radiotherapy have been challenged. METHODS A retrospective review was performed for 57 patients undergoing radiotherapy for glottic cancer. End points included local tumor control, relapse-free survival, cause-specific survival, medical cha...