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Mortality data and proxy variables for treatment effectiveness indicate comparable clinical value for both medications. Sunitinib treatment trended towards higher index medication and total healthcare costs despite higher pre-index total costs and worse health status indicators at baseline with pazopanib. Non-adherence with sunitinib was associated with significantly higher total healthcare costs, which may indicate differences in tolerability between the two agents and requires further investigation.

Lethal injection as a method of state-sanctioned capital punishment was initially proposed in the United States in 1977 and used for the first time in 1982. Most lethal injection protocols use a sequential drug combination of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. Lethal injection was originally introduced as a more humane form of execution compared with existing mechanical methods such as electrocution, toxic gassing, hanging, or firing squad. Lethal injection has not, however, been without controversy. Several states are considering whether lethal injection meets constitutional scrutiny forbidding cruel and unusual punishment. Recently in the case of Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, Petitioners, v John D. Rees, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Corrections et al, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the lethal injection protocol as carried out in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Most of the debate has surrounded the dosing and procedures used in lethal injection and whether the drug combinations and measures for administering the drugs truly produce a timely, pain-free, and fail-safe death. Many have also raised issues regarding the "medicalization" of execution and the ethics of health care professionals' participation in any part of the lethal injection process. As a result of all these issues, the future of lethal injection as a means of execution in the United States is under significant scrutiny. Outcomes of ongoing legislative and judicial reviews might result in cessation of lethal injection in totality or in alterations involving specific drug combinations or administration procedures.

A143areas, costs of testing kits from suppliers accounted for the most of the total costs of TCT (44.8% and 44.4%), and HPV DNA (63.6% and 56.7%) based cervical screening. Labor costs were the highest component costs of visual inspection (47.3% in rural areas), colposcopy (55.2% and 58% ), and biopsy (55% and 53.3%).