Drug company fees for FDA reviews havent accelerated approvals, study finds
...ld be rigorously measured. They gathered data from publicly available sources, and analyzed it using several computer models. The product is the first study that incorporates not only drug approval times and FDA staffing levels, but also rejected drugs, and characteristics of both the drugs and the companies...Healthcare watchdog calls for government rethink on public role in NHS decision-making
...-centred approaches to making health services more publicly accountable should also be considered. Initiatives such as the Expert Patient Programme are tentative but have proved promising and popular, say the authors....Climara Pro (TM) helps alleviate menopausal hot flashes and night sweats
...on. Schering AG undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether to reflect new information or future events or circumstances or otherwise....Argonne licenses Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet software to online company
...est. The free online information expands on older, publicly available versions of the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet by providing a full, frequently-asked-questions page that includes detailed information about food choices, caffeine use and the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet's origin and history. For a small fee, the online software...Risks of HRT could have been revealed much earlier
...cal companies to obtain drug licences and were not publicly available. When they published their findings in 1997, they were ridiculed. But extra data from six further studies confirmed their concerns. High Court dispensation was required to access these trials. If trials done by pharmaceutical companies for ...National study: Health care access for poor children improves, but gap in care for uninsured grows
...ing, but the gap in care is widening between these publicly insured children and poor children without insuran...5 percent between 1987 and 1999. The gap between publicly and privately insured children who did notreport a problem getting needed care narrowed from 2000 (a...National Academies Advisory: April 1 Public Briefing on Safety of Dietary Supplements
...ribe a science-based approach by which FDA can use publicly available data to better evaluate the safety of supplement ingredients. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing. DETAILS: 11 a.m. EST, Thursday, April 1, in the auditorium of the National Academies building, 2100 C St., N.W., Was...Unpublished trials data suggest most SSRI antidepressants unsuitable for children
... only done on the understanding that data are made publicly available. Drug sponsors who withhold trial data (or do not make full trial reports available) undermine the guideline programme, which can ultimately lead to recommendations for treatments that are ineffective, cause harm, or both. Others have sugge...Negative side effects downplayed in prostate cancer treatment guides, U-M study finds
...ursue. The researchers sought out publicly available materials produced by patient advocacy groups, government organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, universities and comprehensive cancer centers. Web sites were identified by reviewing national organizations, pharmaceut...Are NICE guidelines too passive?
...dividual doctors. It concludes that investment in publicly funded education programmes are needed: 'What patients and doctors need are public programmes, not industry-sponsored initiatives that parade as education but are in fact thinly disguised marketing tools'....Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...are named after the founders and Chairmen of three publicly listed companies that have been innovators in sleep therapy: Dr. Frank Baldino, CEO of Cephalon, Inc., Mr. Gerald E. McGinnis, Board Chairman, of Respironics, and Dr. Peter C. Farrell, CEO of ResMed. Each chair was funded by unrestricted gifts from t...Patients with severe depression improve using guidelines developed by UT Southwestern researchers
...ating severely mentally ill patients within Texas' publicly funded mental health care system. They are the result of an innovative collaboration between UT Southwestern and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR) initiated in fall 1997 to provide more uniform treatment for Texas'...Minorities worry public health system won't respond fairly in a bioterrorist event
... prohibited undocumented immigrants from receiving publicly funded health care and required physicians to report these patients to immigration authorities. The law was ultimately struck down as unconstitutional. Finally, the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act aims to restrict...Scientists begin validation study of test to detect recurrence of bladder cancer
...g Administration approval for this test to make it publicly available. Additionally, EDRN is working on two other early detection tests involving examination of protein biomarkers in blood serum to detect early tumors of the prostate and liver....Foundation to honor physicians and community health initiatives around the world
...e awards dinner and annual meeting, we are able to publicly acknowledge ACCP members who go beyond their role as physicians to assure that patients in their communities have regular access to quality health care." The Governors Community Service Awards Program encourages volunteer service by ACCP members to i...Hunt for autism genes to be led by Hopkins researchers
...of Chicago. The family samples and information are publicly available from the NIMH-funded Autism Genetics Initiative Data Archive and the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange....News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
...s of median incomes less than $35,000, and 66% had publicly funded health insurance or no health insurance. The study also showed that the in-hospital morality rate for TB patients was 4.9%, which is double the 2.4% in-hospital mortality rate of all other hospital admissions. Having comorbid illnesses, bei...Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
...lete scientific independence. These agreements are publicly available at http://www.iarc.fr/ pageroot/UNITS/RCA4.html...Global strategies for improving child health under scrutiny
...nes. The Mexico Ministerial Summit must boldly and publicly assert that the traditional biomedical model of health research is wholly inadequate to tackle disease alleviation in the less-developed world. A new health-systems research specialty must be founded, one that is supported technically and financially...... NIAID will rapidly make this sequence information publicly available through GenBank, an international, searchable online database funded by NIH, and the NIAID Bioinformatics Resource Center, a Web-accessible collection of genetic sequence information accompanied by data analysis tools. "Influenza viruses ...