PMAC 2016 Side Event (SE 014): Advanced Workshop in Methods for HTAThe methods of HTA have developed rapidly in the last decade. This is particularly the case in assessing the cost-effectiveness of interventions using modelling methods and in undertaking uncertainty analysis to guide decisions. Deci

SpeakerProfessor Dean Jamison, Professor Emeritus, Global Health Principal Investigator, Disease Control Priorities NetworkDate: 23 August 2016Time: 16.30 – 18.00Venue: Richmond Hotel, NonthaburiNumber of participants: 120 seats availableOrganizer: Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Progr

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,

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

(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

WASHINGTON — Is the world on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic and creating an AIDS-free generation, even though a cure and a vaccine are still distant hopes?Yes, roared enthusiasts among the nearly 24,000 participants at the 19th International AIDS Conference here last week. Their hopes are bas

NHS urged to make reduction of problem a priority as overweight and teenage mothers found to be most likely to sufferOne in 10 women who have a baby by caesarean section go on to develop an infection around their scar, which causes them pain and discomfort and forces some to go back into hospital to

The abundance of various innovations in healthcare (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, interventions, individual and community health promotion and disease prevention as well as a social health policy) have been continuously used in the healthcare system, resulting in a higher demand for resources and budgets in disease prevention and healthcare. Th

A website offering parents advice on vaccines has been ordered to remove information about the MMR jab after claiming it could be linked to autism.Babyjabs.co.uk said the three-in-one jab may be causing “up to 10%” of autism in children in the UK.But the Advertising Standards Authority ruled the cla

(Reuters) – A U.S. health panel may soon make HIV testing as standard a practice as checking cholesterol levels, a move that would fundamentally change how the virus is detected and treated.The U.S. Preventive Services Task force, a government-backed group of clinicians and scientists, is expected t