On 2 Dec 2022, our outstanding presenters received big achievements by winning amazing awards at the 10th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference 2022 which virtually held on 30 November – 2 December 2022. The winners are as listed below:Best Oral PresentationsTrack: Economic EvaluationSecond Prize: Chittawan

t is an uncomfortable question that, in today’s world, is often asked by expectant mothers who had more than one male partner at the time they became pregnant. Who is the father?With more than half of births to women under 30 now out of wedlock, it is a question that may arise more often.Now blood t

The more controversial of two papers describing how the lethal H5N1 bird flu could be made easier to spread was published Thursday, six months after a scientific advisory board suggested that the papers’ most potentially dangerous data be censored.The paper, by scientists at Erasmus Medical Center i

By Branwen Jeffreys and Nick Triggle BBC NewsAn NHS hospital trust has been formally warned it could be declared bust – in the first case of its kind.South London Healthcare, which runs three hospitals, had debts of £69m at the start of the financial year.The health secretary has told the trust an a

A substance in human breast milk seems to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V., scientists have reported.Researchers working in Zambia collected breast milk samples from 81 H.I.V.-positive women who transmitted the virus to their infants during breast-feeding, 86 H.I.V.-positive

The settlement is part of a broad crackdown on bribery by multinational companies in foreign countries that has hit several of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies.Pfizer in 2004 became the first pharmaceutical company to volunteer information about past wrongdoing to the Justice Department,

WASHINGTON — It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years.Congress has failed to stop it, and for more than a decade generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.Until th

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

Drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade, according to experts writing in the Lancet.Studies on 26,000 untreated HIV-positive people in developing countries were reviewed by the team.They said resistance could build up if people fail to stick to drug

The debate over the price of the vaccine against HPV has become intenseWhen it comes to making the shot against cervical cancer the national vaccine programme, which means girls between the ages of 12-18 will receive it free, price is the matter.The debate over the price of the vaccine against Human