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From: http://www.healthnews.com/en/news/CORRECTIONAspirin-may-help-older-colon-cancer-patients-live-longer/00YPOSWeP3cf2v0p6fB0pW/ [Corrects headline to sentence case in story posted Dec 7, 2012 as 20121207elin003.]NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older adults with colon cancer who were prescribed a dail

On 29 January 2013, a side meeting entitled “the establishment and evolution of health technology assessment organisations in low- and middle-income countries”, which was co-organized by HTAsiaLink and NICE international, intended to create an open space for sharing, learning and inspiring participa

( 11- 16 November 2013) Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) researchers and the program leader, Dr. Yot Teerwattananon, made a scoping visit to Vietnam in November 2013. The purpose of the scoping visit was to evaluate the current status of Health Technology Assessment (HTA

This is the third visit of the HITAP team to the Philippines and last activity of the two vaccine evaluations project collaboration between NCPAM and HITAP with the support of Rockefeller Foundation through NICE International. The project started in March 2013 and ended in March 2014. With extensive

PMAC 2016 Side Event (SE 013): Introduction to Health Intervention and Technology Assessment: HITA 101“Health Intervention and Technology Assessment (HITA) is recognized as a tool in support of universal health coverage (UHC) to inform policy decision. It becomes an increasingly important part of pr

PMAC 2016 Side Event (SE 012): Health Intervention and Technology Assessment (HITA): A Path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)Given the global push to implement UHC, the importance of using evidence, namely health intervention and technology assessments (HITA), in governments’ decision making proces

The upcoming Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2016 is set to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from the 26th to the 31st of January 2016. This event is hosted by the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation, the Thai Ministry of Public Health and Mahidol University in collaboration with its global partners.

The 5th annual HTAsiaLink Conference officially concludes after a four-day intensive gathering of HTA practitioners and experts in Singapore. The conference was jointly organized by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, the Health Services Research Department of the Eastern Health Alliance and the Heal

The Centre is planning to create an assessment board to identify the latest and best medical technology for government hospitals on the basis of an independent cost-benefit analysis.In the absence of such guidelines, these decisions are often industry-driven, putting the hapless patient at the recei