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Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
08-09-2007 · EurekAlert!Recent progress in the prevention and treatment of end-stage renal disease in the United States give reason for "cautious optimism," but skyrocketing costs are a major concern, according to a special article in the October Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
AIDS continues to be a staggering global public health problem. However, little is known about the long-term costs associated with providing drugs to AIDS patients in developing countries. To study those long-term cost trends, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have performed the first detailed analysis of AIDS drug cost trends in Brazil.
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- Costs of treating arthritis on the rise nationwide, study finds
04-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
The amount Americans spent on arthritis medications more than doubled between 1998 and 2003, due to the fast-rising number of people with the disease, increases in the number of medications they take each month and the inflation-adjusted cost per prescription, according to a new study led by a UCSF researcher.
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- Uninsured adults increase medicare costs
07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
While the overall cost-effectiveness of Medicare benefits have been much-debated, new data now show that people who were uninsured before receiving benefits at age 65 required more intensive and costlier care than those who had been privately insured prior to receiving Medicare.
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- Treatment costs fall and quality improves when patients use self-treatment tools
04-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Encouraging patients to become involved in providing their own care can reduce the cost and improve the quality of long-term medical treatment, say researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in PLoS Medicine this week.
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- MedImmune presents new pharmaco-economic data at AAP regarding infants at high risk for RSV
10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
MedImmune today announced results from a recent economic analysis of Synagis (palivizumab), a monoclonal antibody that is the standard of care for prevention of severe lower respiratory tract infection due to respiratory syncytial virus in high-risk infants. Released at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2007 National Conference and Exhibition, the analysis evaluated the costs of providing Synagis to premature infants, as well as the potential health benefits and cost savings that could occur from lower rates of severe RSV infections.
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- Study calls virtual colonoscopy most cost-effective colon cancer screening test
04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Cold Spring Harbor scientists devise novel, low-cost method of sifting genome's high-value regions
11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed a new means of extracting and interpreting data from the human genome that is more powerful and more economical than methods currently employed. The new technology, called selective resequencing, promises to be a boon to many kinds of research, including efforts to comb vast stretches of the genome for mutant genes implicated in major diseases such as cancer and schizophrenia.
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- Transportation - Trucking data
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- Assessing the cost of juvenile arthritis
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