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A matter of choice: Free to choose medicine in the 21st century

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Bartley J Madden’s work on a structural improvement to the US FDA’s drug approval process has spanned 20 years.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s system for medicine approval is lengthy and expensive, and only 1 in 12 drugs in human clinical trials obtain approval. Bartley J Madden of the Madden Center for Value Creation at Florida Atlantic University proposes an alternative free to choose medicine (FTCM) pathway. He suggests that with the advice of their doctors, patients should […]

The PROgress Study: An electronic solution for improving patient consultation visits in routine HIV care

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Dr Duncan Short and his team study the impact of using an electronic pre-consultation questionnaire called the PROgress Implementation Toolkit as a resource for healthcare practitioners treating people living with HIV.

HIV therapy has been a spectacular success over the past 30 years, transforming a disease that was once considered a life sentence into a manageable, chronic condition. With treatments so effective, clinical focus has now changed to looking at ways of improving patients’ quality of life. Understanding each individual’s unique situation is key yet this presents a challenge for care […]