UK accepts J&J's money-back guarantee

It's official: the UK's National Health Service will start using Johnson & Johnson's Velcade, under an unprecedented money-back-guarantee program. Patients who respond to the drug will be fully funded. Patients who respond only minimally or not all all will be taken off Velcade, and J&J will refund the cost to NHS. The guarantee was the only way J&J could persuade the National Institute for Clinical Excellence--the drug gatekeepers for NHS--to reimburse for the drug at all.

- check out the CNN Money report
- read an analysis of the deal in The Telegraph

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