Traditional and complementary medicines (T&CM) have increased in uptake and economic importance globally. T&CM involves the examination, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, disease prevention, and rehabilitation. The World Health Organization's (WHO) Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 outlin

This project aims to strengthened Thai health system post COVID times and has been started since 1 April 2022 until the end of March 2023. There are five sub-projects under the grant consisting of environmental health, local governance, health financing, and digital technology.

PMAC 2016 Side Event (SE 012): Health Intervention and Technology Assessment (HITA): A Path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)Given the global push to implement UHC, the importance of using evidence, namely health intervention and technology assessments (HITA), in governments’ decision making proces

More dentists need to be checking their patients for mouth cancer, say experts.Cancer Research UK says oral cancer rates are going up and some dentists are missing an opportunity to spot those at risk.All dentists should be asking about risk factors like smoking or heavy drinking as well as early te

A new oral medication to treat patients in the early stages of multiple sclerosis has shown considerable promise in two clinical trials, researchers announced on Wednesday.The medication is on track to become just the third oral drug available to M.S. patients, and potentially the safest and most ef

Investors cheered the news, sending shares of the drugmaker soaring 50 percent to $4.59 on the Nasdaq on Friday afternoon.The Phase 2 trial, involving 121 previously treated non-small cell lung cancer patients, found that those given a lower dose of bavituximab plus chemotherapy lived for a median o

ROONGNAPA KHAMPANG1,2, SAWITRI ASSANANGKORNCHAI1 & YOT TEERAWATTANANON2 1Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, HatYai, Songkhla, Thailand, and 2Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Tha

(Reuters Health) – There’s more evidence that the new formulation of OxyContin, the time-release version of oxycodone, is discouraging abuse of the powerful drug.But the reformulation, introduced in August 2010 to make it harder to crush the medicine into powder, limiting the ability to snort, injec

GIULIA GRECOa,*, PAULA LORGELLYb and INTHIRA YAMABHAIc a London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK b Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia c Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Bangko

(Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis told India’s top court it had demonstrated the improved efficacy of its cancer drug Glivec as the final hearing began on Tuesday of a patent case that could change the rules for the country’s healthcare sector.A patent would recognize Novartis’ property rights, i