In a letter to the Medical Journal of Australia published today, a Monash University - led team is asking for hepatitis C virus patients to gain
improved access to drugs to prevent liver related deaths.
Once a drug is developed and on the market what the Global Fund does is try to
improve access to that drug for the poorest of poor by using advance purchasing or using commitments to try to ensure the availability of that drug on a large scale.
a commitment of $ 49.3 million over four years, through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), to
improve access to drug and alcohol services, including residential treatment and rehabilitation facilities.; and
Not exact matches
A costly cholesterol
drug is being made more affordable, but is it being done
to boost sales or
improve access?
«The Canadian Pharmacists Association welcomes today's Liberal announcement on health care and, in particular, its commitment
to improving prescription
drug access for Canadians and health care innovation.»
Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as
improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate
drug therapy; increased
access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and
improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.
A pharmaceutical research group is launching a campaign against Cuomo's proposal
to control the price of prescription
drugs, saying it will do nothing
to improve patient
access to prescriptions while threatening research and development.
BY NATHAN RILEY A legislative proposal in Albany
to reduce stigma, curb police harassment of
drug users, and
improve access to clean needles demonstrated broad support at a January 15 press conference in Manhattan.
Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of
drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment;
improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence;
access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.
The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's
to help prevent its onset; increasing
access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have
access to drugs that are both lifesaving and
improve quality of life.
The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would
improve people's health a great deal are:
improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal
drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %), increasing
access to high - quality health care (52 %), and
improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).
«Furthermore there are other options such as specially designed spectacle lenses and contact lenses or
drug interventions but increased investment in research is needed
to improve the efficacy and
access of such interventions.»
«The web - based design actually
improves our capacity
to access otherwise hidden populations
to answer these kinds of questions among people who use illicit
drugs.»
Similarly, the NCI Formulary, a partnership between NCI and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies
to improve access to otherwise proprietary experimental
drugs, has so far enabled about a dozen pharmaceutical and biotech companies
to work through thorny negotiations on intellectual property, licensing, and other issues,
to speed research and clinical testing.
This may be because of more intense therapy for chronic illness,
improved access to medications due
to Medicare Part D, and the growth of the generic
drug market.
Clinicians and investigators in the fields of veterinary and human endocrine oncology, clinical trials, pathology, and
drug development will be joined in this consortium, in order
to improve knowledge, development of, and
access to naturally occurring canine endocrine tumours, as a model for human disease.
Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed
to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions
to improve community based treatment and interventions
to increase
access to safe effective
drugs.
Importantly, scientists will also have
improved access to information about all the chemical compounds known
to be active on a particular
drug target — linking the biology and chemistry together in a new way.
Physicians and scientists work closely together
to continually
improve the ways in which we diagnose and treat head and neck, brain and spine tumors, and offer our patients
access to innovative techniques, new
drugs, and clinical trials of the most - advanced treatment approaches.
Access to after - school programs
improves academic performance, decreases dropout rates, reduces
drug use, and
improves classroom behavior.62
Animal Cancer Foundation has assembled a scientific advisory council composed of leading experts in cancer genetics,
drug development and comparative oncology
to author a request for proposals for genomics laboratories capable of generating, analyzing and hosting the resulting data in the public domain allowing researchers across disciplines
access to refine clinical trials
improving efficiency of
drug development for all.
19 & 20/11 — Lyn will be touring around some of our services and likely
to tweet about alcohol and other
drug issues, Hep C and
improved access to treatment, prisoner health, homelessness, health literacy, oral health, early intervention, early years / child health.
While euthanasia advocates push for greater
access to the controversial
drug Nembutal, ethics experts such as Professor Paul Komesaroff from Monash University argued there was no need for such a move
to improve end - of - life care.
This policy statement from the AAP advocates a public health response
to the opioid epidemic and substance use during pregnancy, and recommends: a focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and
improving access to contraception; universal screening for alcohol and other
drug use in women of childbearing age; knowledge and informed consent of maternal
drug testing and reporting practices;
improved access to prenatal care, including opioid replacement therapy; gender - specific substance use treatment programs; and
improved funding for social services and child welfare systems.
The bill includes measures
to fully fund the nation's family planning program (Title X), expand
access to reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies
to cover birth control if they cover other prescription
drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors
to access emergency contraception (EC) in the emergency room,
improve public awareness about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.