International research reveals proven ways to reduce drug costs
...s are based on this price. In all other countries, governments establish drug reimbursement rates based on potential benefit to patients, disease severity, availability of treatment alternatives, numbers of potential users, cost-effectiveness and drug prices in other countries. Furberg said drug companies have ...PC report on health workforce deserves close attention
...ce, released today, delivers a powerful message to governments meeting at COAG next month, industry and the professions on the need to examine, as itstates, "new models of care". "As our population ages and the number of available doctors decreases, medicines will play an increasingly important role in supportin...Warning to government from biotech on PBS changes
...lity of new medicines. "In New Zealand, successive governments have thoughtlessly meddled with a system to deliver short-term budgetary gains but long-term negatives for patients," MrSchneemann said. "We do not want to go down a path where doctors can only prescribe one potentially inappropriate medicine for a p...International Journal of Epidemiology obesity special
...l continue to spread in the developing world where governments and health services have few effective public heal...5. Dr Prentice said: "Major new initiatives by governments worldwide are needed to combat the external factors that contribute to the obesity pandemic such as ...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
...very little progress has been made," he says. "The governments of developed nations just don't care; they have the resources but not the political will. And the governments of developing nations don't invest in alleviating hunger and poverty because they're only interested...The world health organization launches new stop TB strategy in the Lancet
...g its strategy. Now it is up to developing country governments to fully commit resources to tuberculosis control,... already pledged US $900 million by 2015. European governments and funding agencies should follow suit."...Clinton Foundation, Yale and Ethiopian Ministry of Health forge partnership
...ries in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. Individual governments take the lead and the Foundation provides technical assistance, mobilizes human and financial resources, and facilitates the sharing of best practices across projects. The Foundation also provides access to reduced prices for HIV/AIDS drugs and diagn...Do bicycle helmet laws prevent head injuries and improve health?
...ts that helmet laws are counterproductive and that governments should focus on factors such as speeding, drink-driving, failure to obey road rules, poor road design, and cycling without lights at night. Robinson's arguments against helmet legislation are flawed, argue four professors of epidemiology from Canada ...WHO's 2006 World Health Report 'a disappointment'
...iled data on human-resource gaps and needs to help governments make resource decisions but falls far short of this aim, states the editorial. While it does have updated figures and estimates, it contains very little information about the geographical distribution of workers, types and levels of skills, and the b...Inconsistencies in pandemic flu preparedness between European countries
...ther planning and implementation is needed so that governments can effectively respond in the event of a pandemic...ecommending action by the European Union to ensure governments work together towards a coordinated approach. Dr Richard Coker, the report's lead author said: 'Wid...Survey finds care for Europe's adults with congenital heart disease is inadequate
...ation in which they found themselves. He said that governments should review the international guidelines and see...different solutions. But it was imperative for all governments to invest in educating ACHD professionals and provide sufficient funds for the development of a well...The Lancet Neonatal Series at one year of age has anything changed?
...by the end of 2007 with an overall strategy of how governments plan to reduce deaths in newborn babies. Improved...rt of international partners. Donors and national governments to invest strategically in maternal, neonatal, and child care as a basis for development and for ach...New engineering center to transform sensor technology
... for patients, local agencies monitor air quality, governments guard against attack and scientists understand the evolution of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Core partner institutions with Princeton are the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, Texas A&M Unive...Pandemic challenges for Asia-Pacific region
...fluenza Preparedness Plan5 provides guidelines for governments on preparing for and managing an influenza pandemic, and is the benchmark against which all national preparedness planning should be implemented. The completeness and quality of these national preparedness plans were assessed based on the World Healt...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...takes time and effort for local businesses, banks, governments and aid organizations to develop energy conservation delivery systems which work and which can be supported by the financial community." While energy efficiency projects need to be customized to local circumstances and business practices, the project...Erican osteoporosis researchers encounter harsh realities
... the success of the study will spur Latin American governments to give osteoporosis more attention and funding and encourage international funding agencies to support these type of studies in the Latin-American region. In North America, Diagnosis and Treatment Depend on Economics In the Canadian province of Ma...World's largest osteoporosis congress closes; significant studies released
... problem is due to under-diagnosis, and failure of governments to reimburse people at risk. And when patients are prescribed treatment, they often do not comply with prescribed treatment. The rate of osteoporosis in Latin America is growing and higher than previously estimated. Research confirms the importa...EU's free trade rules exacerbate alcohol-related harm
... 000 deaths every year. However, moves by European governments to weaken alcohol-control measures--as, for example, the UK has done by relaxing licensing laws--ignore this evidence and instead pander to vested interests in free trade and industry, states the Editorial. Under the rules of the common market, EU m...Merck and GSK need to overcome cultural barriers to cervical cancer vaccine roll-out
...elf-interest is a policy position not reserved for governments alone. "...Lancet and Mexican government to hold meeting on health-system reform
...ally-based policy options for middle-to-low income governments to consider as they grapple with multiple health challenges," state Dr Horton and Dr Frenk. "We believe that country experiences of health-system reform have great global relevance as policy-makers struggle to adapt to profound development, demogra...