The Art and Business of Implementation. Getting Drugs to Patients: John Sargent at TEDxFulbright
The Art and Business of Implementation. Getting Drugs to Patients: John Sargent at TEDxFulbright – John Sargent takes a look at some of the challenges that had to be overcome to bring 6.2 Million people in sub saharan Africa on antiretroviral HIV/AIDS treatment. John Sargent is one of the founders of BroadReach Healthcare, a global healthcare solutions company that provides consulting, implementation and program management services improving medical access and practice in the developing world. Of particular note is his work designing and implementing, on a national scale, one of the first public private partnership models for public sector patient, delivering antiretroviral treatment in South Africa. John Sargent was recognized with one of Devex’s 40 under 40 leaders in international development. He received his master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology as a Fulbright Scholar from Oxford University, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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The drug, which belongs to class of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors, has spurred the interest of many in the diabetes treatment field because it has a novel mechanism of action — it does not involve insulin activity in any way. Instead, SGLT2 prevents …
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It's not clear how well the treatment would work if it were applied after a longer delay. Matthew Kelley, who studies the development of the inner ear at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, also …
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No Additional Benefit of CBT in Opioid Addiction
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David Fiellin, MD, and colleagues from the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, found that CBT provided by trained clinicians did not improve abstinence from opioid use or retention rates in treatment programs when added to …
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Jonathan Kay: What's wrong with remote native reserves? Let's ask a veteran …
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From his experiences, he supplies the example of a set of six siblings living in a remote fly-in reserve (such as Attawapiskat), whose father is dying at Kingston General Hospital, where he had been receiving specialized treatment. Their bill for …
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