Should NICE evaluate complementary medicine?
...y drugs. Complementary and alternative therapies deserve a full evaluation from NICE and, if the evaluation is favourable, they should be adopted either on their own or integrated with conventional medicine, they conclude. But Professor David Colquhoun argues that NICE cannot afford to re-examine evidenc...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
... performance health care system Americans want and deserve while assuring access to health care for everyone." Researchers found that quality improvement provisions were embedded in many of the proposals. However, the proposals that will organize health care coverage through centralized mechanisms and allow...Leader of the pack: Dog groomer turned UH pharmacy professor honored
...this award, I really believe it's the students who deserve it," Simpson said. "Our students are amazing. Not only are they dedicated to the pharmacy profession and each have enormous leadership potential, but they all have a great sense of humor and let you share in their personal experiences." Simpson...Medical students should be taught about rape
...ld consider teaching in this area. Victims of rape deserve a better response, and teaching future doctors how to respond would be a good start."...HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy
...ded, "People around the world living with HIV/AIDS deserve safe, effective, and affordable treatment, regardless of the source. If President Jammehs remedy is as effective as he claims, it will stand up to examination. In the meantime, we urge patients receiving his unproven herbal remedy to resume taking th...Women with breast cancer do not get potentially life-saving information, survey reveals
...e European Breast Cancer Coalition. "All patients deserve the best available therapy for their individual situation. However, there is clearly a knowledge divide among breast cancer patients, and we must develop new solutions to address the needs of older and less-educated women." ...Reanalysis of controversial meta-analysis says writing off rosiglitazone may be premature
...istical model, but there are other approaches that deserve consideration as well. Only when different methods give us the same answers should we be confident in the results," say Diamond and Kaul. In their study, Nissen and Wolski pulled together data from wide-ranging clinical trials that were not necessa...