Project Consultant Dr. Yot Teerawattananon and Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai      63191002RM018L0quarantine guideline

Researcher: ภญ.ศิตาพร ยังคง The International Regulation of New Medical Technology: Health Technology Adoption in the European Union, North America, East Asia and in the Developing World

HUMAN genome sequencing is already helping researchers find new treatments for illness. Now an unusual case study suggests that the benefits of sequencing may be enhanced in combination with detailed blood tests.The case involves Michael Snyder, a geneticist who was both the lead author and the subj

STOCKHOLM — Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die.Two and a half years ago doctors in Iceland, where Mr. Beyene was studying to be an engineer, discovered a golf-ball-size tumor growing into his windpipe. Despi

A Difficult Balancing Act: Policy Actors’ Perspectives on Using Economic Evaluation to Inform Health-Care Coverage Decisions under the Universal Health Insurance Coverage Scheme in Thailand Yot Teerawattananon1 Steve Russell2 1Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Mini

An aim of this study is to describe quantitatively and qualitatively progression and findings from the HTA topic selection process recently developed by HITAP. The process involves potential users of HTA information; namely (1) third party payers (public health insurers), (2) national health care program managers (Ministry of Public Health’s Depa

This course was organised at the request of Prof. Rakesh Aggarwal, the Director of JIPMER and Prof. Gagandeep Kang, the Executive Director of THSTI and Professor at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. The main objective of the course was to build technical capacity of stakeholders

Background: Excessive intake of sodium is associated with elevated blood pressure, a risk factor that contributes to non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases, and stomach cancer. Interventions and policies to control population-wide salt intake have been shown to reduce sodium consumption and

Abstract Background: Only lamivudine has been included for patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in the National List of Essential Drugs (NLED), a pharmaceutical reimbursement list in Thailand. There have also been no economic evaluation studies of CHB drug treatments conducted in Thailand yet. I

Abstract Objectives In Thailand, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is the dominant form of treatment for breast cancer, even though the treatment often leaves patients with some degree of arm morbidity. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) is widely accepted globally as a preferable alternative pr