Sentences with phrase «of access to medication»

Patient 22: A female refugee claimant who is a senior with diabetes and chronic kidney disease sees her condition deteriorate because of lack of access to medication, regular blood testing and monitoring, and dietician education.

«However, as compared to these countries, we are far behind in terms of access to medications: more than twice as many Quebecers can not fill their prescriptions for financial reasons.»

Not exact matches

High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.

For example, it may be increasing access to essential medication by having lower prices than competitors and a convenient delivery model, and it may be improving quality of care by building trust with its customers.

This will ensure Canadians have access to a stable supply of cost - effective medications and pharmacist services.»

In a decision that should chill the blood of everyone who believes in religious freedom, the court stated: «That the new rules prohibit all improper reasons for refusal to dispense medication... suggests that the purpose of the new rules was not to eliminate religious objections to delivery of lawful medicines but to eliminate all objections that do not ensure patient health, safety, and access to medication.

«This shows that a growing number of people have access to medication.

Researchers looking into the abuse of prescribed medication in a regional NSW town are told elderly people are being targeted by family members to get access to chronic pain medication.

During this time you have access to some form of pain medication for after pains and your physical recovery.

We will help you to better afford the cost of IVF and gestational surrogacy services with our shared risk plans and access to fertility medication discount programs.

Instead, I (mostly) heard horror stories of traumatic births, shared in painful detail, all meant to try to persuade me into having a home birth instead of a delivering in a hospital with doctors, nurses, and access to pain medication.

Childbirth in a medical birth center means that a woman has access to pain medication during her labor and delivery if she chooses to avail herself of it, labor will be induced if the doctor doesn't feel it is going along as it should, and the mom will be hooked up to an electronic baby monitor for the entire process.

Different things to help the moms because not all of them have access to what we call medication to do that.

Lots of moms also get really itchy — but both nausea and itchiness can be taken care of with medication, which you'll have plenty of access to in the hospital.

Resources include the distribution of free condoms, the #PlaySure media campaign to encourage safe sex practices and access to treatments such as the pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis medications known as PrEP and PEP.

If this plan was taken seriously and followed to conclusion, dozens of hospitals and hundreds of nursing homes would close, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers would lose their jobs, and millions of New Yorkers would lose access to affordable medication.

The additional funds — only a fraction of the city's $ 78 billion budget — would be used to support programs to reduce the spread of HIV infection in local communities and provide people living with HIV with access to care, medications that make viral loads undetectable, and other treatment supports.

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Care deficiencies include a lack of care planning, poor case management, inadequate access to nutritional information or food at appropriate times; insufficient treatment review and blood glucose monitoring; poor understanding of medication and inadequate access to preventative screening services such as foot care and retinal screening..

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The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed to get hospitals to build more detox facilities, to encourage physicians to expand access to medication assisted treatments and to encourage medical students to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.

A practicing community pharmacist, her other research and policy interests include health literacy, parents» use of children's medicines, direct - to - consumer advertising of medications, and improving access to medicines by extending prescribing rights.

If a third party unconnected with the app were to access the stored information and change any patient details, such as take away an allergy to certain medication, it could put the life of this person at risk should the case arise.»

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

«Given the relative ease of identifying hypertension and the availability of low cost medications, enabling better access to diagnostic and treatment services should be prioritized to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease on Hispanic populations.

More people need access to treatment programs that offer a combination of psychotherapy and anti-addiction medications, the panelists said.

«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues

The committee recommended improving access to the medication naloxone, which blocks or reverses the effects of opioids, as well as safe injection equipment to reduce transmission of HIV and hepatitis C. Providers and pharmacists should be permitted to prescribe, dispense, or distribute naloxone to laypersons, third parties, and first responders.

In a video tribute released on Wednesday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton recalled that Lange was one of the first partners of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, with programs to dramatically increase access to HIV medication in South Africa and TanAccess Initiative, with programs to dramatically increase access to HIV medication in South Africa and Tanaccess to HIV medication in South Africa and Tanzania.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

One key to battling the epidemic is increasing access to medication - assisted treatment, the most efficacious of which is methadone, Abraham said.

Access to eye health care is further restricted by lack of equipment and medications and by the mobility of clinicians and patients.

Charged with providing access to treatment programs, SAMHSA is encouraging medication - assisted therapy through the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant as well as regulatory oversight of medications used to treat opioid addiction.

The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat opioid addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and describes a number of misperceptions that have limited access to these potentially life - saving medications.

The article describes how HHS agencies are collaborating with public and private stakeholders to expand access to and improve utilization of medication - assisted therapies, in tandem with other targeted approaches to reducing opioid overdoses.

«Appropriate access to medication - assisted therapies under Medicaid is a key piece of the strategy to address the rising rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids,» said co-author Stephen Cha, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP [Children's Health Insurance Program] Services at CMS.

CMS is working to enhance access to medication - assisted therapies through a more comprehensive benefit design, as well as a more robust application of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

Instead it urges states, regulators and public health agencies to work toward universal access to evidence - based interventions for substance abuse, including treatment programs and full coverage of medications approved to fight addiction.

We are working with our partners to promote legislative reforms to guarantee that all patients have access to affordable, effective pain medication to relieve the tragedy of needless suffering caused by undertreated cancer pain.»

That includes boosting education for doctors and patients, improving research efforts to discover the various roots of chronic pain, and helping government agencies work together better to ensure that people can get access to medications that they need — as well as improve the odds that new ones will be available in the future.

«Improving access to child psychiatrists through consultation services and collaborative care models may help address potential undertreatment while also reducing the risk of prescribing medications before other treatments have been tried.

Chronically ill adults who reported food insecurity in their household (not having consistent access to food due to lack of financial stability) were significantly more likely to report cost - related medication underuse, according to a new study in The American Journal of Medicine,.

«You have to be realistic about the fact that giving people access to medication is important, but it's not going to substantially save money in other parts of the health care system or keep a significant number of people out of the hospital.»

Medication non-adherence is also a persistent problem in low - resource settings, where there may not be reliable access to health care and the full course of a mMedication non-adherence is also a persistent problem in low - resource settings, where there may not be reliable access to health care and the full course of a medicationmedication.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

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.

(PFIZER) There is no magic bullet for fibromyalgia, but sufferers have access now to a drug approved in 2007 by the Food and Drug Administration to treat the pain of this syndrome: Pfizer's Lyrica (pregabalin), a medication previously approved to treat diabetic nerve damage, pain from shingles, and partial seizures.

«Currently, there is no drug available in the U.S. for the treatment of HSDD, and clinicians and patients are very interested in having access to an approved medication,» Dr. Bob Barbieri, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital told TIME.