pontificateverb [ I ] uk â /pÉnËtÉªf.Éª.keÉªt/ us â /pÉËnËtÉªf.É.keÉªt/ disapproving. âº to speak or write and give your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct: I think it should be illegal for non-parents to pontificate on/about parenting. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words.
The switch could also save patients $5 billion in insurance copayments, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Ranibizumab, more commonly known by its brand name Lucentis, is delivered as an injection to the eye and runs about $2,023 per dose.Many patients require up to 12 injections per year. That's why some doctors choose to prescribe the much cheaper drug Avastin (bevacizumab) instead, which costs around $55 per dose.n 2010, the combined cost of using Avastin and Lucentis to treat eye disorders was around $2 billion â or about one-sixth of the entire Medicare Part B drug budget.
GSK product growth. GSK India, which followed with its HPV vaccine, Cervarix, in 2009, said the brand grew in volume by 60 per cent in 2010. At their respective launches, Gardasil cost Rs 2,800 a dose and Cervarix Rs 3,300 a dose. Each is to be given as three doses.Gardasil hovers around Rs 2,500. The global market for these blockbusters was put at $10 billion in 2009.ervical cancer, the No. 1 killer cancer in the country, kills 74,000 women a year, or a woman every minute, according to her.