How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...lton cautiously adds however, that: Consumers wont buy the drug if its seen as ineffective. But, on the other hand, the drug may have unintended consequences if its seen as too effective (because of the boomerang effect on a healthy lifestyle). So marketing these remedies requires a delicate balancing ac...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...litting, by charging lower co-pays to patients who buy high-dose pills they intend to split. Patients have been splitting pills on their own for years. Some do it without their doctors knowledge, to try to save money. But others do it with help from physicians who write prescriptions for a higher dose ...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
...ed another way, it cost $400 per child per year to buy the drugs and another $60 to pay the professionals who administered them. For just a little extra money, we could be sure that children had 100 percent adherence to their medications, Pugatch said. We know that a high degree of adherence reduces th...Curb the pocket money, curb the problem drinking
...eive more than 10 a week in spending money and who buy alcohol for themselves are more likely to become 'problem drinkers', a survey of over 10,000 teenagers reveals. Mark A Bellis from Liverpool John Moores University and colleagues studied the results of an alcohol questionnaire given anonymously to...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
...lectricity outages. Others trek long distances to buy a few expensive liters of polluting kerosene for lamps, often finding no supplies, much of it sold on the black market as an illegal way to dilute gasoline and diesel fuel. "This project removes one of the main barriers to the shift to solar pow...Livestock interventions can protect lives, livelihoods
...vestock to reduce numbers in exchange for cash to buy food, maintain a core herd, and access private services like veterinary care, livestock feed and transportation. "Within the aid community, there is a reluctance to support drought interventions which provide cash to communities, either directly or...SCHIP has been successful overall, should be expanded says new health care opinion leaders survey
...ent favor allowing families with higher incomes to buy into SCHIP, and 80% believe that states should be allowed to extend coverage to parents of children covered by SCHIP in states where there is no comprehensive coverage for the uninsured While health care opinion leaders favor expansion of the progr...Rush researchers participate in worldwide AIDS initiative led by Imperial College London
...nologies for measuring CD4 counts are expensive to buy and maintain, and require a level of infrastructure and training that is often not available in many developing countries. "In remote villages where there are likely to be no laboratory facilities, health care workers need a simple point-of-care t...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...y can be made, nonpharmaceutical interventions may buy valuable time at the beginning of a pandemic while a targeted vaccine is being produced. The historical analyses are part of an ongoing effort called the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), which is supported by NIHs National Institu...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...y are informed so that they know how to go out and buy food that fits in with the healthy behaviors being taught." Project Healthy Schools keeps parents up-to-date through e-mail communication, the programs website, and WE CAN! (Ways to Enhance Childrens Activity and Nutrition) which is a program of t...Government's reliance on free market economics makes essential drug prices too high for the poor
...ree days wages for a low-paid government worker to buy a months supply of a commonly prescribed stomach ulcer pill. The researchers, from Malaysia and from France, looked at the cost of 48 key drugs across the country; 28 were part of a "core list" identified by the World Health Organization as "essent...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
...osts. In fact, because more people are expected to buy coverage through the individual insurance market under President Bush's proposal, the costs of insurance administration nationally would increase by $5.5 billion. "If we don't move to make changes to our failing health care system, the number of u...Biosand filter reduces diarrheal disease in Dominican Republic villages
...ing the children to the doctor or finding money to buy medications to treat diarrhea," she said. "Many told me that since they've been using the filters, no one in their house had gotten a single case of diarrhea. This is a tremendous step in improving their health and well-being." International Aid, a...UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
...rent fragmented plan-based system, employers would buy into the pool at the average cost for people in a given age or geographic category." He explains that this would be more attractive for firms with sicker employees; firms with healthier employees would want to join the pool because their transacti...US adults now discovering the secrets of probiotics
...ted to travel so they would not have to go out and buy something Women are more likely than men to indicate experiencing stomach/intestinal issues while traveling (64 percent vs. 58 percent) Florastor has been clinically tested and sold internationally for more than 50 years and is the number-one se...On a diet? You'll spend more on impulse purchases
...who had exercised mental self-control to spend and buy more. Those who had just tried to control their thoughts spent an average of $4.05. Those who had been free to write whatever they wanted spent an average of $1.21. Participants who had previously been asked to exercise self-control also bought twic...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...in nearly all cases, the combined drug therapy may buy precious time and preserve physical and mental function longer for patients facing this grim diagnosis, the researchers said. "These results are exciting because of the possible implications for a patient population that currently has the poorest p...Custom-made cancer cell attacks
...ight isotope of rhenium with the accelerator. They buy the most common type from MDS Nordion in Kanata, Ontario, or the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center. At present they are investigating methods to ionize, or break apart, the rhenium. In the next phase of the project, they will use magnets...New Congress should focus on covering the uninsured, reducing health costs, according to new survey
...ategies include: mandating that all individuals buy coverage, combined with subsidies and an insurance... that allowing individuals and small businesses to buy into the Federal Employees Health Benefits program or similar group option would be an effective way......rket, people with information about a future event buy and sell shares based on what they believe the lik...g more cases of influenza in her clinic, she would buy shares representing increased levels of flu in the coming weeks and sell shares representing decreas...