Apollo Hospitals Group has the largest chain of hospitals in India. Apollo Health Street AHS Ltd., one of the ventures of Apollo, wanted to setup a Virtual Medical University VMU as a portal to host multiple services for the medical fraternity (practicing doctors, doctors mastering in medicine and students graduating...
Daron Nunn is the founder of Zipway USA, a break-away clothing line for people in the fields of athletics and medicine. Nunn talks about how he came up with the idea for his invention and the ultimate goals of his company.
Tommy McGloin has likely made your life easier. As the head of MapQuest and Moviefone, he helped provide directions and movie information to millions. Now, as the head of Xoova.com, he's looking to make finding a good doctor easier for all of us. In this interview, McGloin talks about striking...
The dominant issues for health and health care modern day times can be effectively engaged only if public health and medicine work together as better partners. Yet historical, professional, organizational, operational, and financial barriers exist to closer relationships. Fostering the necessary collaboration will require changes for both public health and...
In Australia, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme PBS has developed a set of arrangements to control access to high-cost medicines to ensure their use is cost-effective. These medicines include the Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitors TNFIs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of this study was to explore basic views...
Within the past decade, complementary and alternative medicine CAM has penetrated mainstream U.S. health care. Major medical journals are publishing research on the efficacy of specific CAM therapies, physicians are attending oversubscribed continuing medical education courses on CAM, and hospitals are offering CAM services, sometimes through outpatient integrative medicine clinics....
The use of complementary and alternative medicine CAM in the United States has greatly increased during the past decade. Using survey data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey NHIS, this article shows that adults who did not get, or delayed, needed medical care because of cost in the prior...
The availability of safe, effective and reasonably priced medications for all Americans is at the center of an important, ongoing debate regarding the health care system. As the costs of medicines have increased, so has the focus of pricing on this debate. Individuals and even local and State governments have...
This paper studies the relationship between patents and access to essential medicines. It finds that in sixty-five low- and middle-income countries, where four billion people live, patenting is rare for 319 products on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines. Only seventeen essential medicines are patentable, although usually...
Modern medicine continues to make great strides. Advances in technology and therapeutics have improved the quality of diagnosis and treatment in ways that were previously unimaginable - resulting in significantly better outcomes. What are the causes of so many errors? How many of the deaths occur because doctors try to...
This report reviews the pharmaceutical industry during the year 2003. Patient care has changed significantly over the past 25 years. Medicines now exist to treat conditions that had no treatment a quarter century ago. At that time, lengthy hospital stays, surgery, and time away from family and jobs were common...
This article discusses ways to improve the medicine supply chain in developing countries. Medicines play an important role in public health care programs, saving lives and drawing people to health facilities, where they can also receive preventive treatment. It can also help keep health care costs down. It offers...
Decision makers in health care organizations struggle with how to set priorities for new technologies in medicine. Traditional approaches to priority setting for new technologies in medicine are insufficient and there is no widely accepted model that can guide decision makers. This paper discusses about a new technology, which has...
At the very time that there are demanding challenges ahead, the increasing pressures on clinical academics and diminishing levels of support have made clinical academic medicine much less attractive as a career. The Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences convened a working group in 2001 to inquire into the...
DENISE the Wine Shop started its operations in Malaysia in 1998. After starting a chain of over 16 stores, David Lim, its founder, branched out to Singapore in August 2006. Within a short span of six months, he established 10 outlets and by end 2007, he would have increased this...
Thank you for your recent coverage of the FairTax. The FairTax reformation would significantly reduce the hundreds of billions spent annually on tax compliance, would promote productivity no income or payroll taxes, would discourage excessive spending tax on services and new products, would untax the poor (no payroll taxes/refund of...
At least 18 universities are setting their own admissions tests because they believe they can no longer rely on A-level results alone to gauge a candidate's ability, a report reveals today. Universities UK - the body representing vice-chancellors - estimates that one in seven of its 132 members has introduced...
The medicinal properties of the baobab fruit are the stuff of African legend. Claire Soares says it also tastes great and, thanks to an EU ruling, we will all be able to try some soon Food and health It didn't matter what was...
Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" thismorning are: Oncolin Therapeutics (OTCBB: OCOL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG),Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN). There is important news coming from Oncolin Therapeutics (OTCBB: OCOL), andthe company should have investors monitoring the stock closely. Yesterdayafter the markets closed, the company issued a...
Home News IN BRIEF *The number of prescriptions written for the drug Ritalin vary hugely across England, according to figures reported yesterday. The medicine is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Wirral Primary Care Trust had the most prescriptions with 144 per 1,000 children....
