A cost-effectiveness analysis has found that injectable, long-lasting antiretroviral therapy (ART) would need to cost no more than $ 131 a year in order to be cost-effective if used for patients who are not fully virally suppressed in lower-income settings in regions like sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis found that injectable cabotegravir/rilpivirine would only reach the… Read More »
By CECI CONNOLLY and BOBBY CLARK We are all are anxiously awaiting the approval and delivery of a cure to the novel coronavirus – or better yet, a vaccine. Amid the race to develop a safe and effective vaccine, some may be inclined to give drug companies a pass on their well-established bad behavior related… Read More »
But pandemic experts say reopening the country is a “big mistake.” “You’re making a big mistake. It’s going to cost lives,” Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and disaster preparedness specialist at Columbia University Medical Center, told CNN on Friday. Redlener and Joseph Fair, a senior fellow in pandemic policy at Texas A&M University, sent a… Read More »
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Many of you have received the email: Microsoft HealthVault is shutting down. By some accounts, Microsoft has spent over $ 1 Billion on a valiant attempt to create a patient-centered health information system. They were not greedy. They adopted standards that I worked on for about a decade. They generously funded… Read More »
The cremation services are considered to be respectful alternative to traditional burial services. Cremation is the process where the dead bodies of the deceased are burnt and the ashes are kept for the remaining rites and as memorial. The traditional and standard funerals and burials vary from culture to culture and religion to religion. However,… Read More »
4 arrested in connection with armed home invasion in Rochester My granddaughter's father drugged her with Klonopin; knowingly overdosed her and got off with nothing but probation. That court is a joke. It seems like they do all … The cost of food continues way up, and is not the healthy quality it used to… Read More »