Increased drug spending is creating funding crisis, report says

Evidence for spending millions on deworming schoolchildren is inadequate, report says.

New analysis of a landmark paper on the health and economic benefits of eliminating worm infections in children has found little evidence that it does any good. Deworming programmes have been heavily promoted by the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and international charities as a key to improving health, school performance, and, by inference, economic development in poor andmiddle in...

Spending and Funding for Highways

The nation’s network of highways plays a vital role in the U.S. economy; private commercial activity and people’s daily lives depend on that transportation infrastructure. In 2007, the public sector spent $146 billion to build, operate, and maintain highways in the United States. About three-quarters of that total was provided by state and local governments. One-quarter was provided by the fede...

Federal Funding Insulated State Budgets From Increased Spending Related To Medicaid Expansion.

As states weigh whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid reform remains a priority for some federal lawmakers, fiscal considerations loom large. As part of the ACA's expansion of eligibility for Medicaid, the federal government paid for 100 percent of the costs for newly eligible Medicaid enrollees for the period 2014-16. In 2017 states will pay some of the co...

Prisons face hep C-treatment funding crisis.

Knowledge, Not Funding is the Most Important Research Resource

In the last issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, Dr. Reza Afshari raised the question of what are the best scientific areas of focus of toxicology for “low income countries and how such research might be achieved (1). South-south collaboration, in which developing countries share resources, was one of the proposed solutions. Rather than limit discussion to “low income” coun...