Health economics: a guide for public health teams

Agreement:  I Agree Body:  Dear Editor I am in agreement with Addington and Godlee [1] that transparency should no longer be an optional extra. When it comes to evidence based medicine [EBM], continuing medical education [CME], public education and awareness, there is nothing I am aware of that is analogous to services such as BBC Verify. Legislation is urgently required, as a first step, to make it mandatory for industry and the commercial sector generally to declare all payments in a single, open, searchable register to the following groups: doctors, healthcare workers, scientists, parliamentarians, Royal Colleges, media centres, broadcasters…

Illustration of carotid artery stenting JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A major international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who haven’t experienced recent stroke symptoms, a minimally invasive procedure called carotid artery stenting, combined with intensive medical therapy, significantly lowered stroke risk compared with medical therapy alone. Traditional surgery (carotid endarterectomy) did not show the same benefit. The research is published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The Carotid Revascularization and Medical Management for Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Trial (CREST-2) is the largest study…

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