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Vanishing Honey Bees

...h of fruit, vegetables and nuts, especially the $2 billion almond business. They contribute $15 billion to the nation's agricultural output. The U.S. Congress held hearings last month to consider remedi...

New Blood Test to Diagnose Parkinson Disease

...neteen each week. It costs the Government almost 1 billion dollars each year, and it is expected to rise. Source-Google BN/N...

Reindeers Could Hold the Key to Elephantiasis Cure

..., known as Elephantiasis, puts at risk more than a billion people in more than 80 countries. Over 120 million have already been affected by it, over 40 million of them are seriously incapacitated and disfigured by the disease. One-third of the people infected with the disease live in India, one third are i...

Drug Therapy can Reduce Preterm Births and Decrease Lifetime Medical Costs

...term and lifetime medical costs in offspring by $2 billion per year. The results of their study are reported ...f their offspring could be reduced by more than $2 billion annually. The potential societal savings from Medicaid coverage of 17P are substantial." Dr. Armst...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

... epidemiologist who worked on the report: “The $81 billion figure represents three percent of U.S. gross dome... among working adults (ages 18-65) increased by $9 billion from 1997 to 2003, although on a per-person basis during the same time period, the amount of lost wa...

Treatment Cost for Arthritis on the Rise: Study

...tures increased between 1997 and 2003 by about $88 billion a year, to roughly $322 billion. The incremental expenditures increased by $16 billion a year, to about $81 billion. However, the average increment in medical care expenditures for an i...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

...tive (BALCO), into a significant player in the $19 billion nutritional supplement industry. But everything came crashing with the Paris scam. Also to be disgraced as the scandal assumed ever new dimensions was Montgomery, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a former 100-meter world record holder. He retired i...

MEND - Child Obesity Programme Records Success

...diate and long term health. It costs the nation ￡7 billion a year. This popular community-based programme has the potential to underpin effective national strategies for obesity treatment and prevention." The programme envisages assisting 26000 children across 300 areas. /...

Obesity - A Major Crisis

...proportions. Estimates show there are around 1.1 billion overweight people in the world, of whom 312 million are obese, and that in Europe 10-20 percent of men are obese and almost half the population is overweight. The body mass index ratio — or BMI — is used to determine whether someone is overweight or ...

Seniors Encouraged To Make Use Of Medicare’s Freebie

...es. Leavitt noted that Americans spend about $3.8 billion for diabetes-related hospitalizations. Roughly two-thirds of that expense could have been avoided with appropriate primary care, he says, yet only about half of all Medicare beneficiaries reported having their blood sugar tested in the past year. ...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...study conducted, Epoetin therapy accounted for 1.8 billion dollars of medical drug expenditure in 2004. The records of 159,522 adult Medicare-eligible, end-stage renal disease patients from the US Renal Data System, undergoing hemodialysis at various centers during November and December 2004 was analyzed u...

Biocon Net Profit Up by 15 Percent for Fiscal Year

...announced a 15 percent surge in its profit at Rs.2 billion with a total income at Rs.9.9 billion in fiscal 2006-07. // The firm's expenditure on research and development, during 2006-07, also in...

U.N. Officials Call on Countries To Strengthen HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts

...ing that this amount would have to increase to $23 billion by 2010 to fund prevention, care and treatment programs. Individual countries also should take responsibility for HIV/AIDS treatment targets, De Cock said, adding that some African countries are not exhibiting adequate leadership on the issue. ...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...s surged fivefold, it may be noted, to more than 5 billion dollars annually. Promoting new prescriptions o...udies to three months for drugs with more than one billion dollars in annual sales. Other drugs could still receive six months. The measure did not include c...

Global Momentum for Smoke-Free Indoor Environments at Tipping Point

...hs in the 20th century and is projected to cause a billion deaths in the century ahead. The authors also note that the 2003 World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first international public health treaty, helped galvanize global commitment. The treaty, which calls for countr...

Eradicating Polio a Better Option Than Control of the Disease: Study

...e costs of achieving eradication exceeding several billion dollars more," said Thompson. The authors note in the study that debate about eradication versus control should include careful consideration of the trade-offs of the options. "Control means high costs and low cases forever or low costs and high c...

India Earmarks Rs.1.34 Bn to Fight Bird Flu

India Thursday allocated Rs.1.34 billion to prepare, control and contain bird flu for three...mittee said the World Bank would reimburse Rs.1.26 billion of the investment to the government. The deadly H1N5 virus strain of bird flu was detected in part...

Elderly Population on Rise in India, China

... time in history. By then, there should nearly two billion elderly persons, up from about 705 million this year. The world's poorest nations, many of which are located in sub-Saharan Africa, will continue to have a relatively young population for some years, said Chatterji, noting that the HIV/AIDS epidemi...

Three in Five Diabetics Have Complications Related to Disease

...tes-related complications nationwide totaled $22.9 billion in 2006. Manning said people with diabetes complications have health care costs that are three times greater than people without diabetes. He added that those with diabetes complications spend an average of about $1,600 annually on out-of-pocket cost...

India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS

...se the epidemic in five years" at a cost of Rs.115 billion ($2 billion), according to a draft executive summary of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). All districts are scheduled to become powerful implementing authorities. As many as 163 of India's 611-odd districts have been designated 'high p...

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