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ible by facilitating coordinated intersectoral action both at national and local level. Funding for HiAP is crucial for its propagation, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and can be considered in the budgetary allocations for SDGs.

Generic drug prices have been capped at specified percentages of the interchangeable branded drug's price by the Canadian provincial public drug plans since 1993. The Pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance, formed as a coalition by the provinces/territories in Canada, implemented an alternative approach, a tiered-pricing framework (TPF) for new generic drugs on April 1, 2014, under which the percentage varies with the number of generic firms in each market. We evaluate the impact of the TPF on generic entry, ie, listing in public drug plans in Canada.

Our study compared the pre-TPF period (01/01/2012-03/31/2014) with the TPF period (04/01/2014- 06/30/2016). Prescription drugs from nine provincial public drug plans were grouped into a "market" if they had the same active ingredient and strength, route of administration, and dosage form. Each "market" was contestable by generics and met the eligibility criteria for TPF. At the "market" level, Cox proportional-hazards models with time-varying covariates were used to measure the impact of the TPF on the first generic listing in any provincial public drug plan in Canada relative to the first launch date worldwide.

A total of 189 markets in Canada were selected for the analyses. Generic drugs in small markets were more likely to be listed in Canada during the TPF period compared to the pre-TPF period (hazard ratio [HR], 95% CI 3.81, 1.51-9.62). There was no significant difference in generic drug listings in large markets between the two policy periods.

TPF speeds up generic entry in small markets and generates the benefits of generic competition while avoiding the pitfalls of the previously employed price-cap regulations.

TPF speeds up generic entry in small markets and generates the benefits of generic competition while avoiding the pitfalls of the previously employed price-cap regulations.Erectile dysfunction (ED) is one of the major but underreported concerns in cancer patients and survivors. It can lead to depression, lack of intimacy between the couple, and impaired quality of life. The causes of erectile dysfunction are psychological distress and endocrinal dysfunction caused by cancer itself or side effect of anticancer treatment like surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. The degree of ED depends on age, pre-cancer or pre-treatment potency level, comorbidities, type of cancer and its treatment. Treatment options available for ED are various pharmacotherapies, mechanical devices, penile implants, or reconstructive surgeries. A complete evaluation of sexual functioning should be done prior to starting anticancer therapy. Management should be individualized and couple counseling should be an integral part of the anticancer treatment.Radiotherapy is used as definitive treatment in approximately two-thirds of all cancers. However, like any treatment, radiation has significant acute and long-term side effects including secondary malignancies. Even when similar radiation parameters are used, 5%-10% of patients will experience adverse radiation side effects. Genomic susceptibility is thought to be responsible for approximately 40% of the clinical variability observed. In the era of precision medicine, the link between genetic susceptibility and radiation-induced side effects is further strengthening. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have begun to identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) attributed to overall and tissue-specific toxicity following radiation for treatment of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other cancers. Here, we review the use of GWAS in identifying polymorphisms that are predictive of acute and long-term radiation-induced side effects with a focus on chest, pelvic, and head-and-neck irradiation. Integration of GWAS studies with "omic" data, patient characteristics, and clinical correlates into predictive models could decrease radiation-induced side effects while increasing therapeutic efficacy.

We retrospectively evaluated the prognostic significance of lymph node ratio (LNR) in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiation therapy (NCRT) followed by surgery.

In total, 270 patients who underwent NCRT followed by surgery between August 2005 and December 2015 were included. They were divided into three groups LNR 0 (n = 196), LNR low (0 < LNR ≤ 0.1; n = 63), and LNR high (>0.1; n = 11). The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS), and the secondary endpoints were freedom from local recurrence (FFLR), distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), and disease-free survival (DFS).

The median number of retrieved lymph nodes per patient was 33. Pathologically, 74 patients had positive lymph nodes. The median follow-up duration was 36.1 months, and the median survival period was 68.4 months. There was a significant correlation between LNR and the number of positive lymph nodes (correlation coefficient = 0.763, p < 0.001). There was a substantial difference in the OS among the LNR groups, with 2-year survival rates of 79.0%, 54.0%, and 9.1% in the LNR 0, LNR low, and LNR high groups, respectively (p < 0.001). A marked decrease in FFLP, DMFS, and DFS was observed with the increasing LNR. In subgroup analysis, the survival results of patients with clinically positive lymph node were similar from those of entire cohort.

LNR is a significant prognostic factor in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent NCRT followed by surgery. Additional treatment and closer follow-up would be necessary for patients with a high LNR.

LNR is a significant prognostic factor in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent NCRT followed by surgery. Additional treatment and closer follow-up would be necessary for patients with a high LNR.

The safety issue regarding the use of etomidate is still a matter of dispute. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/GDC-0449.html We evaluated the effect of etomidate on mortality using a large cohort of critical care patients.

It was a retrospective matched cohort study at the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care version 3 (MIMIC-III) database. Among 12,526 adult patients who were prescribed with etomidate or propofol on the start day of mechanical ventilation, 625 patients given etomidate were statistically matched with 6,250 patients given propofol. The primary outcome measures were the all-cause in-hospital mortality, along with 3 measures including 48-hour survival, cardiovascular morbidity, and infectious morbidity. An analysis to find out dose-mortality relationship of the etomidate was done using logistic regression with stepwise-selection of variables.

All-cause in-hospital mortality was 1.84 times higher in the etomidate cohort (odds ratio, 1.84 [98.75% CI; 1.42, 2.37]). The odds for the first 48-hour survival was 57% lower in the etomidate cohort (0.