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Manit Sittimart
4 September 2024
…postgraduate studies focused on managing chronic diseases and public health, particularly in behavior change, physical activity, and intervention development for disease prevention and health promotion. He also served on the…
Diseases of the Prostate
1 September 1995
…being the site of several common diseases. The three main forms of prostatic disease are benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostate cancer, and prostatitis. As the gland surrounds the bladder neck…
Viral Hepatitis in Britain
1 January 1977
…chronic liver disease, including chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis and primary liver cancer. Hence hepatitis B presents quite different epidemiological problems from hepatitis A, and must also be regarded as a…
Comparing Access to Orphan Medicinal Products (OMPs) in the United Kingdom and other European countries
1 March 2017
The European Commission’s (EC) Orphan Medicinal Products Regulation intended to incentivise the research, development and marketing of new treatments for rare and chronically disabling or life-threatening diseases. Marketing authorisation granted…
Can a continued focus on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment see the NHS to another 75 years?
27 July 2023
…impact of the most significant diseases, from tuberculosis in the 1950s, to heart disease from the 1970s onwards, to cancer in this century. It did this through a consistent three-pronged…
Does Government Funding Increase Public Sector Development of New Medicines?
5 March 2021
…3 (large clinical trials in patients). He also looks at how the effect of public investment varies for rare diseases (so-called ‘orphan’ drugs) compared to non-rare diseases. Pharmaceutical research and…
Priority Review Vouchers to Encourage Innovation for Neglected Diseases
1 January 2011
Priority Review Vouchers (PRVs) are awarded in the US to companies that gain approval there for a new drug for one of sixteen tropical diseases, under a law passed in…
Venereal Diseases
1 October 1974
The ‘venereal’ diseases of syphilis and gonorrhoea, whilst deserving close attention, do not constitute one of the major health problems of Britain today. In 1972, in England, about one man…
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) costs the world $680 billion a year in healthcare – roughly the size of Sweden’s entire economy, new research finds
31 March 2026
…burden for all non-communicable diseases, to account for the fact we know that the share of spending across all non-communicable diseases isn’t exactly the same as their share of total DALYs. By doing…