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- Daron Nunn: Changing Uniform Standards
- 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.
- Videos 2008-04-30
- Mapquest's Tommy McGloin: Bringing Health Care Online
- 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...
- Videos 2007-10-28
- NHS Loses Fight Over Publication of Antipsychotic Meds Brochures for Kids
- Britain's National Health Service is losing a fight against the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research -- a web site that publicizes the underbelly of psychiatric medicine -- over brochures for children that tell them how to take antipsychotic medicines such as Johnson & Johnson JNJ's Risperdal risperidone. by Jim...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Improving The Medicine Supply Chain
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- AutoNation Net Loss Tops $1 Billion
- AutoNation took a strong dose of medicine in the third quarter, taking a one-time hit of about $1.4 billion, in part to reflect lower values for its domestic-brand dealerships. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Can Public Health and Medicine Partner in the Public Interest?
- 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...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Recent Developments in Targeting Access to High Cost Medicines in Australia
- 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...
- White papers 2005-11-23
- How Do Patents and Economic Policies Affect Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries?
- 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...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Access to Conventional Medical Care and the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- 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...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Mainstreaming Complementary Therapies: New Directions in Health Care
- 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....
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Buyers Beware: The Dangers of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals Over the Internet
- 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...
- White papers 2004-06-17
- Highlights From the Pharmaceutical Industry Profile
- 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...
- White papers 2003-10-07
- Clinical Academic Medicine in Jeopardy
- 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...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Priority Setting for New Technologies in Medicine: A Transdisciplinary Study
- 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...
- White papers 2002-07-18
- Apollo Hospitals Group
- 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...
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- Landmark Ruling On Drug Cases
- In the wake of a recent lawsuit involving the drug company Wyeth, the Supreme Court has ruled that the FDA is not exclusively responsible for the safety of prescription drugs. Wyatt Andrews reports.
- Videos 2009-04-15
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- Statewide Family Medicine Summit Ponders the Future of Family Medicine in Indiana
- INDIANAPOLIS, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Douglas B. McKeag, M.D., M.S., OneAmerica Professor of Preventive Health Medicine Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, convened a meeting on family medicine in the state of INDIANAPOLIS, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Douglas B. McKeag, M.D., M.S., OneAmerica Professor...
- Research articles 2006-03-16
- Yale School of Medicine Names Jack Elias Chair of Internal Medicine.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 October 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale School of Medicine Names Jack Elias Chair of Internal MedicineC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17102006 New Haven, Conn. -- Jack A. Elias, M.D., the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and chief of the Section of...
- Research articles 2006-10-18
- Consumer Reports Medical Guide Launches Natural Medicine Ratings;Natural Medicine Research Tool Trusted by Doctors, Pharmacists (2/2)
- NEW YORK, April 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following are the Sidebar listings to accompany "Consumer Reports Medical Guide Launches Natural Medicine Ratings; Natural Medicine Research Tool Trusted by Doctors, Pharmacists" (Part 2 of 2): NEW YORK, April 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following are the Sidebar listings to accompany "Consumer Reports...
- Research articles 2006-04-26
- Primm promoted to clinical professor of medicine. (Keeping Up With People).(Kirby Primm, University of Washington School of Medicine)(Brief Article)
- Wenatchee Valley Medical Center cardiologist Dr. Kirby Primm has been appointed to clinical professor of medicine by the University of Washington School of Medicine's dean and board or regents. Wenatchee Valley Medical Center cardiologist Dr. Kirby Primm has been appointed to clinical professor of...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
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