It 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

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from the pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father.The accomplishment heralds an era in which parents might find it easier to know the complete DNA blueprint of a child months

http://news.yahoo.com/measles-outbreaks-rise-across-europe-182924578.htmlAfter years of decline, measles is on the rise in Europe, according to a new report released Thursday.As of October, European health officials reported more than 26,000 measles cases this year and nine deaths. That’s a threefol

นักวิจัย HITAP เข้าร่วมการประชุมวิชาการ 6th HTAi Annual Meeting ณ ประเทศสิงค์โปร์ ระหว่างวันที่ 21-24 มิถุนายน 2552 เพื่อนำเสนอผลงานวิชาการและแลกเปลี่ยนประสบการณ์ด้านการประเมินเทคโนโลยีและนโยบายด้านสุขภาพกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการประเมินเทคโนโลยีด้านสุขภาพจากหลายประเทศDateSession detailSpeakersTopicsCon

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

เมื่อวันที่ 13-14 สิงหาคม 2552 HITAP จัดประชุมวิชาการ ISPOR THAILAND 2009 “Public – Private Mixed for the Use of Phamacoeconomics & Outcomes Research to Inform Decision Making in Thailand”  ณ  ห้องแกรนด์บอลรูม 2  โรงแรมริชมอนด์  โดยมีหน่วยงานต่างๆ ที่เกี่ยวข้องเข้าร่วมการประชุม ไม่ว่าจะเป็นหน่วย

A federal health official’s ruling has cleared the way for 50 different types of cancer to be added to the list of sicknesses covered by a $4.3 billion fund set up to compensate and treat people exposed to the toxic smoke, dust and fumes in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.The

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15999489Experts, who studied more than 10,000 people across Europe, found those with the gene ABCC9 need around 30 minutes more sleep per night than those without the gene.The gene is carried by one in five Europeans, they say in their study, published in Molecular P

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15999492The WHO report says there were over 26,000 measles cases in 36 European countries from January to October 2011.Western European countries reported 83% of those cases, with 14,000 in France alone.In England and Wales, there were just under 1,000 confirmed meas

“Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are— often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and inte