BACKGROUND Transmitted drug resistance (TDR) remains an important concern for the management of HIV infection, especially in countries that have recently scaled-up antiretroviral treatment (ART) access. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We designed a study to assess HIV diversity and transmitted drug resistance (TDR) prevalence and trends in Mexico. 1655 ART-naïve patients from 12 Mexican states...

Linking drugs and their indications can helpt improve the quality of electronic medical records (EMRs) and facilitate clinical decision support. We investigate an automatic approach to extraction of indications for marketed drugs from drug package inserts. Our aim is to build a reference table that associates medications and their indications. This resourcecould facilitate maintenance of medica...

The list of occupational diseases established in the international and national legal system has played important roles in both prevention of and compensation for workers' diseases. This report reviewed the historical development in the ILO list of occupational diseases and suggested implications of the trends. Since the first establishment of the ILO list of occupational diseases in 1925, the ...

Till 1990’s enteric fever was managed by cheap effective first line drugs. With the emergence of multi drug resistant typhoid the treatment has become complex with several antibiotics being used. This has further added to the problem of resistance with some strains showing resistance to both fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins. Indian Academy of Pediatrics has set up a National Task Force under...

To help save lives and improve human health, it is crucial for policy makers to ensure equity in access to drugs, drug efficacy, quality and safety, and rational use of drugs, which are indicators of the National Drug Policy (NDP) in evaluation of pharmaceutical system performance in every country. There are some retrospective evaluation methods that are currently used to appraise the success o...

Drug therapy accounts for a major portion of health expenditure. A useful strategy for achieving cost efficient healthcare is drug utilisation research as it forms the basis for making amendments in drug policies and helps in rational drug use. The present observational study was conducted to generate data on drug utilization in inpatients of our tertiary care hospital to identify potential tar...

BACKGROUND One of the main problems of drug provision of multidisciplinary hospitals is the necessity to improve the efficiency of budget spending. Despite the efforts undertaken in Kazakhstan for improving the mechanism of drug distribution (creation of the Kazakhstan National Formulary, Unified National Health System, the handbook of medicines (drugs) costs in the electronic register of inpat...