S scientists have released the world’s largest collection of genetic data on childhood cancers in a bid to speed up treatment discoveries.The US Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has mapped the entire genome – all the DNA – of 260 young cancer patients.By finding differences between each youngster’s n

(Reuters) – At an ill-fated press conference in 1984, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler boldly predicted an effective AIDS vaccine would be available within just two years.But a string of failed attempts – punctuated by a 2007 trial in which a Merck vaccine appeared to make p

(Reuters) – Scientists have grown a drug to treat a rare genetic disease inside corn plants, potentially offering a cheaper way to manufacture a treatment that currently costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for each patient.The move marks an advance for the emerging field of molecular farmi

Scaling up health policies and services in low- and middle-income settings. Kara Hanson1*, Susan Cleary2, Helen Schneider3, Sripen Tantivess4, Lucy Gilson1,5 1Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. 2Health Economics Unit, University of Cap

HITAP, under the leadership of the National Health Foundation (NHF), Thailand, is partnering with the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Mathematical/Economic Modelling Department (MAEMOD) at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) as part of the Asia HTA Consortium

Abstract Thailand is encountering challenges to introduce the high-cost sofosbuvir for chronic hepatitis C treatment as part of the Universal Health Care’s benefit package. This study was conducted in respond to policy demand from the Thai government to assess the value for money and budget impac

Digital health and Health Information Systems (HIS) are dramatically altering the landscape for health. Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2002. However, the delivery of health services relies heavily on manpower without digitisation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the lack

กระทรวงสาธารณสุขของประเทศไทยและองค์การอนามัยโลก ได้จัดทำยุทธศาสตร์ความร่วมมือระหว่างรัฐบาลไทยและองค์การอนามัยโลก (WHO Country Co

Even in health care systems in which doctors do not bill for each test they administer, the use of diagnostic imaging like CT and PET scans has soared, as has patients’ radiation exposure, a new study has found.The study, published online on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association