Media influence on Herceptin subsidization in Australia: application of the rule of rescue?

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Published in J R Soc Med on June 01, 2008

Authors

Ross Mackenzie1, Simon Chapman, Glenn Salkeld, Simon Holding

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, University of Sydney 2006, Australia.

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