Complementary medicines regulatory reform

Essential medicines pricing--reform needed.

In The Lancet today, Alexandra Cameron and colleagues report on the price, availability, and relative aff ordability of a series of essential medicines in the six WHO administrative regions, in a secondary analysis of data collected in WHO/Health Action International (HAI) surveys. This new report builds on their previous work outlining drug prices in the WHO/HAI database and their relation to ...

Complementary medicines in mental health.

The use of complementary medicines for mental health problems generates wide public interest. Patients, particularly when suffering from chronic mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, may use complementary medicines for a variety of reasons. Some may feel that a complementary approach is more ‘‘integrative’’ balancing mind and body; others may wish to gain control of their menta...

Complementary medicines and weight management.

The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines

This little work contains the cream of the reports which during the last four years have been made in the journal of the American Medical Association by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the Association. It should be in the hands of every one of our readers, for not only does it afford valuable information regarding the composition of many much vaunted proprietary medicines, thus supplem...

Enabling Regulatory Reform

If regulation is, as Brown et al. (2006) conclude, the least explored of the three main government functions (taxation, expenditure and regulation), the factors which promote regulatory reform have generally received still less attention. Yet the capacity to promote timely and appropriate regulatory management in a situation of ever-increasing economic and technical complexity is of utmost impo...