Sentences with phrase «improving access to drug»

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.

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.

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

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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.