In Europe, where the tablet is currently approved for use, the tablet can cost $468 for one year of treatment.

For instance, if you aren't getting enough calcium from dairy (1,000 milligrams for 19- to 50-year-olds), pop a daily Tums with calcium (150 tablets cost $5 to $6).

One hundred tablets cost eleven hundred bucks.

A 500-mg tablet, for example, often costs less than two 250-mg tablets.

Fifty tablets of Zantac, the ulcer medication, costs $73.59 in the United States with a prescription, but only $23.74 in Mexico, no prescription needed.

It is relatively inexpensive, with 100 grams of analytical grade hydrazine sulfate costing about USD20, and 100 tablets or capsules (60 milligrams hydrazine sulfate) costing USD20-60.

For the best overall prices, Gómez.com identified the online retailer FamilyMeds.com, where 60 10-milligram tablets of Fosamax cost $116.87 - a savings for a prescription that, by comparison, Kmart sells for $134.59.

No one at Microsoft is discussing pricing, but one of the tablet makers suggested that the tablets would probably cost slightly more than a good notebook computer.

I write my first longhand drafts on Mead's Cambridge extra-smooth paper; a tablet costs $2.29.

At the subsidized price, the tablet will cost about the price of a pair of shoes or a basic mobile phone.