The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of H.I.V. infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Truvada, a pill made by Gilead Sciences, as a preventive measure for people who are at high risk

(Reuters Health) – A new, small study suggests medicinal marijuana may impair users’ driving skills – but might be missed by typical sobriety tests.At doses used in AIDS, cancer and pain patients, people weaved side to side more and had a slower reaction time in the hours after using the drug, resea

22nd May 2014Dr.Yot gave a Skype  interviewed to Richard Smith,Professor of Health System Economics & Dean of Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for making the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) VideoHere’re some behind th

Echinacea, a favourite herbal remedy for parents to give children with the sniffles, should not be given to the under-12s, said the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency last week.The herb, said to reduce symptoms of colds by boosting scavenger cells called macrophages in the immune sys

This is a scoping review for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework of vaccination programme and indicators used in national vaccination programmes. This review synthesizes approaches and lessons to inform development of future frameworks. This work is part of the overarching post-covid-19 vaccination programme. More on this project: Monito

Doctors often order tests and recommend drugs or procedures when they shouldn’t — sometimes even when they know they shouldn’t. The problem has become so serious that such groups as the American College of Physicians, the ABIM Foundation, the National Physicians Alliance and a coalition of medical s

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In the Inland Empire, an economically depressed region in Southern California, President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there w

Manuel Alexander Haasis1*, Joyce Anne Ceria1, Wantanee Kulpeng2, Yot Teerawattananon2, Marissa Alejandria3 1 National Center for Pharmaceutical Access and Management (NCPAM), Department of Health, Manila, Philippines, 2 Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Department of

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from the pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father.The accomplishment heralds an era in which parents might find it easier to know the complete DNA blueprint of a child months

นักวิจัย: Adun Mohara, M.Sc Adun Mohara has received the Distinctive Research Award on “Assessing the implications of Thailand’s Government Use Licenses, issued in 2006-2008” at the Annual Academics Conference hosted by the Thai Ministry of Public Health. The conference was held at Challenger Hall,