My purpose of coming to Thailand was initially as an economics exchange student at Thammasat University for one semester. During my time here, I was also looking to pursue something professionally, whether it was through a volunteering opportunity or internship. Coming from the University of Washing

(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline is holding talks this weekend with Human Genome Sciences to agree a deal to acquire it for some $2.6 billion, after pursuing the U.S. biotech company for three months, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.The British pharmaceutical giant could sweeten its pr

The Groundworks Project is a dialogue set up between industry representatives and health systems representatives of LMICs spanning a timeframe of 12 months and including three workshops. The first workshop focuses on agenda setting between a core group of representatives. The second workshop takes on a national perspective and discusses the context

Highlights This report provides practical guidance for developing or updating health technology assessment (HTA) guidelines, especially in low- and middle-income countries where HTA is increasingly used as a priority setting tool for healthcare resource allocation and achieving universa

More than 200 researchers investigating colon cancer tumors have found genetic vulnerabilities that could lead to powerful new treatments. The hope is that drugs designed to strike these weak spots will eventually stop a cancer that is now almost inevitably fatal once it has spread.Scientists increa

Gao Qi is a research assistant at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore in collaboration with MIDAS. Research fields include framework construction of health innovation process, early health technology assessment, and traditional health technology assessment. Interested in health policy effects and health innovatio

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, has been working closely with the Health Technology Assessment Committee (HTAC), Ministry of Health, Indonesia, since 2014 under the auspices of the International Decision Support Initiative

All two to 17-year-olds in the UK are to be offered annual flu vaccinations.If 30% take up the offer, there will be 11,000 fewer hospitalisations and 2,000 fewer deaths each year, the chief medical officer for England says.The children will be immunised using a nasal spray rather than an injection,

Finding true north is important for accurate navigation to embarking on the right path. While there may be many paths to making policy decisions, the ultimate goal is to end up with a decision that has been well-informed by evidence. Evidenced-based policy decisions result in more transparent and ef

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