Patients may start to take cheaper over the counter regimens

New malaria combination cheaper and easier to take.

Patients’ willingness to take separate component antiretroviral therapy regimens for HIV in the Netherlands

INTRODUCTION The costs of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) consisting of separate, particularly generic, components are generally much lower than of a single tablet regimen (STR) including the same active ingredients. Our aim was to evaluate whether patients in care in the Netherlands would be willing to take separate component regimens (SCR) instead of an STR and to examine whether wi...

Over-the-counter statins.

In late 2004, the British government decided to allow a lipid-lowering agent to be sold as an over-the-counter medication. In contrast, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently decided not to do so. The United States and other countries will soon face similar decisions for other statins. Although statins have infrequent side effects and have been shown to be effective in moderate-risk pri...

Over-the-Counter Markets

We study how intermediation and asset prices in over-the-counter markets are affected by illiquidity associated with search and bargaining. We compute explicitly the prices at which investors trade with each other, as well as marketmakers’ bid and ask prices, in a dynamic model with strategic agents. Bid–ask spreads are lower if investors can more easily find other investors or have easier acce...

The ability of the emergency medical service personnel to take patients’ medical history

Objective: The key point to detect patients’ need in pre-hospital emergency is to have high ability to take medical history. All research findings show that this ability is low. The objective of this research is to investigate the ability to take medical history of patients among the personnel of pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) in Golestan province, Iran.Methods: This researc...