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Summary Report of the OHE/EFPIA Antibacterial Roundtable
1 November 2011
…decline in the development of new antibacterials, largely because of lower returns on investment in R&D. In July 2011, OHE launched its publication, New Drugs to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance, and…
Achieving World Class Outcomes in Cancer Treatment
1 July 2011
…great deal of indirect evidence, however, points to late diagnosis and a low curative intervention rate as the main factors underlying England’s lower survival rates. The first step in improving…
Access Mechanisms for Orphan Drugs: A Comparative Study of Selected European Countries
1 November 2009
…are based primarily on clinical evidence, countries are flexible in their criteria and their approach, accepting lower risk-benefit ratios for OMPs than for other new medicines. When a formal health…
Venereal Diseases
1 October 1974
…effective against syphilis and notifications tended to rise again, eventually reaching a plateau, which in some countries is higher and in others is lower than the rates prevailing in 1950….
Mild Hypertension
1 November 1980
…(Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1961). It shows that both men, and to a lesser extent women (with their lower overall mortality rates), suffer a significantly diminished expectation of life. In…
Health Care as a Handicraft Industry
9 January 1995
…technology of providing health care means it will inevitably have lower productivity growth than the economy overall — is more fundamental than the usual explanations offered of an ageing population,…
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
10 January 1996
…survey among different surgeons in the United States demonstrated that patients who underwent operations in the lower part of the abdomen and/or gynaecological surgery were at high risk of developing…
The Doctor’s (Ethical and Economic) Dilemma
1 August 1996
…is not cost cutting — applying ‘the most efficacious interventions to maximise the quality and quantity of life for individual patients’ may ‘raise rather than lower’ the cost of their…
The Future of Primary Care
1 January 1996
…its population but is also associated with lower costs. It is therefore concluded that strong primary care is an efficient use of health care resources. We need to put the…