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New Antimicrobial Drugs: EU Policy Options
4 October 2010
…consequence of treating infectious diseases, is a growing global public health threat. AMR reduces the chances of successfully treating patients with infectious diseases, thereby increasing the probability of complications, morbidity…
New Research on VBP: Disease Severity and Unmet Need in the UK
24 April 2012
…Document proposes a process whereby higher prices would be granted to medicines that tackle diseases that produce the greatest burdens of illness – i.e. those diseases that are most severe…
Meeting the Challenges of Drug Development in 2022: Summary of OHE’s 50th Anniversary Conference
11 October 2012
…great unmet medical need today are very difficult to understand and to treat; for example, cancers, autoimmune diseases and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The speakers and panellists generally agreed…
Invest to End TB. Save Lives. World TB Day 2022. Reflections on 60 years of OHE publications on TB
24 March 2022
…on Health. Available from https://www.ohe.org/publications/tuberculosis. Kettler, H. and Towse, A. (2002) Public Private Partnerships for Research and Development: Medicines and Vaccines for Diseases of Poverty. OHE Monograph. Available from https://www.ohe.org/publications/public-private-partnerships-research-and-development-medicines-and-vaccines-diseases…
ISPOR Issue Panel Roundup: Are Our HTA Methods Fit for Purpose for Gene Therapies?
6 June 2022
…indicated for rare diseases and as such, they face the same challenges as other orphan medicines. The aim of the panel was to discuss how HTA should evolve to enable…
Medical Care in Developing Countries
1 November 1972
…Wales were caused by infectious diseases and that only 6 per cent were the result of cancer and diseases of the circulatory system. By 1970 the respective figures were 0.6…
Women’s Health Today
1 November 1987
…illnesses, not just those (such as cervical and breast cancer) which are seen as ‘women’s diseases’. Clearly, it would be a mistake to concentrate solely on diseases specific to women…
Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland
4 March 2014
…observed improvements in quality of care for chronic disease patients in the QOF scheme were modest. Some research also has found associations between improvements in quality of care as the…
Important Variations in Access to Orphan Drugs in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the UK
14 March 2017
…new treatments for rare and chronically disabling or life-threatening diseases. Marketing authorisation granted to OMPs, however, is only the first step; patients have access to medicines once reimbursement or health…