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Researchers Found Drug Effects of Deadly Prescription Well Before FDA

...arch has resulted in black box warnings on billion dollar drugs like Plavix that may have saved thousands of...wo years. That's a six-year savings. For a billion dollar drug, can you imagine how many people that's affecting" In the study, Bennett compared RADAR's rep...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...rom 28 to 24 percent. Next they tried to place a dollar value on the benefits of the programa longer life with fewer complications. In medical cost-effectiveness analysis, a commonly accepted standard is to say that a new device, medication or program that generates one year of extra life for a healthy pe...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

.... That raw food can be consumed for less than a dollar a serving and is likely better for you than that thing you pick up at the health food store for 30 dollars a pound, he said....

Australian Devises Online Game Based on Virginia Tech Shootout

...e would. It is also a moment for the multi-million dollar video game industry to pause and think....

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

...me, Sillen says, taxpayers will get more for their dollar from a system that experts claim was so broken that it experienced an average of one inmate death per week, due to medical incompetence or neglect. "Good care is less costly than bad care," quotes Sillen, who has predicted it will take as long as 2...

Cataloging the Structural Variations in Human Genetics

...so contribute to more common diseases. The million dollar question is what is the genetic basis of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol levels? says Eichler. We know there is a genetic factor, but what is the role of single base pair changes versus structural changes? The project E...

Pre-kindergarten TB Testing Costs High

...ystem in California could save nearly 1.3 million dollar a year with few adverse public health effects if it discontinued universal tuberculosis skin testing of children entering kindergarten. Over a 20-year period, the study projects that only two additional cases of tuberculosis would result from scree...

Gatifloxacin Very Effective for Typhoid Treatment

...ly no resistance to the drug, and at just over US1 dollar for a seven day treatment course is relatively inexpensive." "This is an important study with major implications for treating disease widespread in the developing world," says Professor Jeremy Farrar from the Oxford University Clinical Research Uni...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...d daily income of 80% of the population is below a dollar per day. This fact can explain why desperate people sell their organs for money and sex trafficking is rampant. According to a UNICEF survey, 90% of Moldovans aged between 18-29 would like to leave the country only 9% said they would like to live i...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

The Nigerian government took a seven billion dollar (5.2 billion euro) negligence suit against the world's biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer to court Tuesday, as the US giant demanded the charges be dismissed. But the government's case suffered an early setback when the court rejected a request...

Laura Bush in Senegal for Anti-HIV/AIDS, Malaria Campaigns

...erment. She is due to visit US-funded 15 billion dollar projects under the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 and is due to expire in September 2008. Bush last month asked Congress to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...l (LY and QALY) at an additional cost of 2,889 Can dollar per patient. The incremental cost-effectiveness ra...d, well below a recognized threshold of 50,000 Can dollar /QALY gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab...

Oral Anti Viral Tamiflu A Cost Effective Treatment

...tion. This equates to a cost saving of 70,000 dollar per 1,000 population which would save 21 billion dollar in the US alone versus no intervention. Adding other strategies such as school closures further redu...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...overnment is also due to sign up to a five million dollar UNITAID programme to finance costly second line an...ntries have signed up as donors to the 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world this y...

Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...Bill Clinton will on Friday launch a multi-million dollar hospital project in impoverished Malawi, where hea...itizens live below the poverty line of less than a dollar a day, faces an acute lack of health workers with around 120 registered nurses migrating to Britain ...

Zambia Opens First Cancer Hospital

...ent Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday opened a 10 million dollar specialist cancer hospital which will enable patients to receive treatment at home for the first time . Mwanawasa said the National Cancer Diseases Hospital (NCDH) was built following a growth in the number of cancer patients in Zambia who have pre...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...t for each commitment made, Merck would donate one dollar to CRPF, up to $100,000, for cervical cancer awareness and screening programs. Partnering with non-profits, especially non-profits that appears to have patients' health and women's issues as their primary concerns, helped Merck reach audiences that...

Indian Dumping Duty on Chinese Paracetamol to Continue

...ina Daily. Chinese paracetamol are priced at 2.5 dollar per kilogram, said an industry insider who declined to be named. Apart from India, South Africa, Indonesia and the European Union have also imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese paracetamol. It was only in Indonesia that Chinese enterprises have fou...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

...ays a year for hot water. "Instead of spending a dollar and getting 50 cents back you'll be spending a dollar and getting a dollar's worth of value." Prof Flannery said that while the government's $1,000 reba...

US Rejects More Food from India Than from Any Other Country

...to the US than any of these countries, in terms of dollar value. China shipped goods worth a total 288 billion dollars to the US in 2006, compared with Mexico's 198 billion dollars, India's 22 billion dollars and the Dominican Republic's 5.3 billion dollars. Toothpaste made in China caused more than 100 d...

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