What price a cooler future?

What price for a cure?

Although there is a large health, social, and economic burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States, the number of persons infected with HCV in Rhode Island (RI) is unknown. To inform the expansion of HCV-related public health efforts in RI, and because surveillance data are lacking and national surveys, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)...

What Price Screening?—I

What Price Medical Care?

I. E. Bush, C. L. Cope, A. Gowenlock, N. J. Holness, V. H. James, A. E. Kellie, C. J. 0. R. Morris, R. Neher, E. C. Osborn, R. V. Short, E. R. Smith, M. Stack-Dunne, J. F. Tait, S. A. S. Tait, M. Vogt and I. D. P. Wootton. Through the co-ordinated efforts of these scientists, the proceedings present a timely exposition of the current status of steroid chromatography on filter paper. Detailed co...

What price excellence?

A British heart surgeon argues that excellence in medicine must always be pursued even when, as in technically advanced specialties, excellence requires expensive equipment and highly trained multidisciplinary teams. He advocates that decisions on a fair and reasonable distribution of costly health services should be made within the National Health Service, specifically by its Department of He...

What price pain relief?

Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans and results in more than 25 million physician visits a year for lower back pain alone.1 The burden is particularly great in the elderly, in whom associated cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death. Nonselective, nonaspirin, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents (NSAIDs) are effective analgesic, antiinflammatory, and antipyretic agen...