Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...y no resistance to the drug, and at just over US$1 dollar for a seven day treatment course is relatively inexpensive." "This is an important study with major implications for treating disease widespread in the developing world," says Professor Jeremy Farrar from the Oxford University Clinical Research Uni...Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...uce the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day, and reduce the proportion of people suffering hunger by half. In order to meet these goals, Webb highlighted recent successes that can guide future efforts. There are three priority issues to be tackled in seeking to address the second obj...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...ds a large part on its multilingual, multi-million dollar marketing campaign. A new study by Wharton professors and doctors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine provides applicable new insight into consumer thinking about health remedies. A fat absorption pill, Alli has labeled itself as an ...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...arch has resulted in black box warnings on billion dollar drugs like Plavix that may have saved thousands of...arch has resulted in black box warnings on billion dollar drugs that may have saved thousands of lives. He has also provided guidance to help physicians more ...Quality improvement effort pays off in diabetes care
...rom 28 to 24 percent. Next they tried to place a dollar value on the benefits of the programa longer life with fewer complications. In medical cost-effectiveness analysis, a commonly accepted standard is to say that a new device, medication or program that generates one year of extra life for a healthy p...Rx for heart failure: patient-centered care from a pharmacist
...ical services from their pharmacists. "For every dollar spent on patients receiving care from specifically trained pharmacists, the health-care system gained $14 in savings by decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizations," said Michael D. Murray, PharmD., M.P.H., Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished ...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...errors at American hospitals in both mortality and dollar terms continues to be significant, and the 'chasm in quality' between the nation's top and bottom hospitals, which HealthGrades has documented in this and other studies, remains." said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' chief medical officer and the...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...ne else. This does not improve health outcomes per dollar spent-in fact, it often does the opposite. Health ... nation will finally get better outcomes for every dollar spent on care. Competition on value, then, must become the nation's health strategy. Improving healt...Launch of Queens Library Healthlink initiative
...s new initiative is a five-year, nearly $2 million dollar federally-funded collaboration among Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society's Queens office, the Queens Library and the Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital. The goal of this project, initiated by Memorial Sloan-Kette...Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care
...eiving care. The net costs were calculated using a dollar value of $15.23 per hour, the median U.S. wage rat...r ovarian cancer. When the researchers applied the dollar costs to time spent on medical care in the first 12 months after diagnosis, they found that net pati...Costs of long-course palliative radiotherapy acceptable in late-stage lung cancer
...calculations, the authors found that, although the dollar costs of the long-course radiotherapy were higher than those of the short course, the benefit in improved survival meant that the long-course treatment yielded benefit at an acceptable cost by current economic standards. "In our group of poor-progn...AASM position statement: Treating insomnia with over-the-counter sleep aids, herbal supplements
...upplements in stores and online is a multi-billion dollar industry.(2) Manufacturers of herbal supplements are responsible for ensuring the safety of their products and the accuracy of the information that appears both on the product label and in promotional materials. In contrast to drug products, how...LSU Health Sciences Center research to improve patient safety
...er in New Orleans, has been awarded a half million dollar grant to evaluate the influence of simulation on enhancing teamwork and a culture of patient safety in the operating room environment. The project was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualit...Daily weighing and quick action keeps pounds off
...one messages and green rewards, from mint gum to a dollar bill. If they'd gained between three and four pounds, they landed in the "yellow zone" and were instructed to tweak their eating habits or exercise routine. If they gained five pounds or more, they were in the "red zone" and encouraged to restart ac...MRI on the cheap and on the go
.... According to Budker, instead of the multimillion dollar costs of a conventional MRI system, this alternative MRI technology would cost only a few thousand dollars to implement. "Our system is fundamentally simple and does not involve any single expensive component," Budker said. "We anticipate that the ...Poor countries with least-developed health systems best able to make rapid use of grants
...nd more developed health systems. In International dollar terms, which take into account relative purchasing power, going from an income per capita of $1,000 (such as in Mozambique) to $2,000 (such as in Yemen) is associated with approximately a three percentage point reduction in grant execution rate. A...NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
...lso cost-effective. It is estimated that for every dollar spent on addiction treatment programs, there is a $4 to $7 reduction in the cost of drug-related crimes. With some outpatient programs, total savings can exceed costs by a ratio of 12 to 1. The failure to treat addicts in the criminal justice syst...Montefiore and Einstein receive $2-million grant from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
New York City, New York A $2-million dollar grant has been awarded to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center to develop a program to train doctors in caring for the elderly. The initiative, known as the GeriEd Program, will contain both educati...Mount Sinai Global Health Center receives $1M grant
...ter (GHC) at Mount Sinai has received a $1 million dollar grant from the Mulago Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to humanitarian aid. Distributed over a three-year period, the grant will support faculty and finance curriculum development, international research and trips to developing countrie......tutions. Strickland proposed a model in which one dollar would be added to the registration fees charged by the schools and colleges of optometry for each credit hour of continuing professional education provided to practitioners. He maintained the momentum for this concept, transformed it into a viable a...