The comments are likely to provoke outrage among opposition MPs and poverty campaigners, especially with the government undertaking widespread benefit cuts at a time when prices are rising faster than the economy.
If it approves a drug based on such trials, the F.D.A. typically requires companies to conduct additional studies to show more widespread benefit.
But the commission says they have offered no proof so far of widespread "benefit tourism", providing only anecdotes and alarmist tabloid headlines.
Development of new light treatments could have widespread benefit for millions of aging Americans with insomnia and depression.
Of course, there are many worthwhile initiatives that continue to produce widespread benefit without being delivered through government health services.
This is supported by previous studies, which have also established that ΔNp63 α mediates resistance to cisplatin in head and neck SCCs and breast cancers, demonstrating the widespread benefit to controlling ΔNp63 α in the treatment of epithelial cancers.
39 40 There is clear evidence that therapeutic hypothermia as a therapy for moderate-to-severe NE reduces adverse outcome (mortality and neurodevelopmental disability) at 18 months of age (typical relative risk 0.75, 95% CI 0.68 to 0.83) 31; this improvement persists into childhood 41 and there is widespread benefit to society, individuals and the economy (UK >£125 million benefit).
It's a widespread anti-benefit mindset that – over five years of austerity – has rooted itself in British culture: through Benefits Street type-television, the rhetoric of politicians, and the pages of national newspapers.
Eco-tourism is often touted as a solution to protect coral reefs from overexploitation, and it can be a lucrative eco-business offering widespread benefits to the community as long as best practices are followed.
Most importantly, it would be useful to discover whether an intervention to improve 'repair mechanisms' could have widespread benefits across multiple cognitive health conditions or is better supplemented by specific mechanism-related therapeutics.
