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Uninsured Adults Increase Medicare Costs

...ing benefits at age 65 required more intensive and costlier care than those who had been privately insured prior to receiving Medicare. These findings, from researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS), appear in the July 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The implication is that expanding cove...

Boutiques Flourish in Ludhiana

...n and Washington. The smarter the boutique, the costlier the label. One could spend any amount to look fashionable and in sync with fashion. Fashion designers make clothes for models walking down the ramp and not for clients like us. Here, in boutiques we get clothes suitable to our figure. We are able t...

Workers Compelled to Stay in Shape to Avoid Pay Cuts

...kers' compensation claims, more lost work days and costlier medical bills than their trim co-workers. Workers who were moderately obese had health-care costs that were 21 percent, or $670 a year, higher than workers with normal weight, according to a recent study by Thomson Health Care. For those with severe ...

Rajasthan Government Urged to Keep a Close Watch on Doctors

...d proportions, but branded medicines are generally costlier than generic ones. As per the new orders the doctors will now have to prescribe the name of the salts, instead of a brand name. Similar directives in this regard have been issued in the past, but so far it has failed to dissuade doctors from pre...

To Patent or Not-A Question of Life

...ral drugs, being patented too, making it much more costlier and hence out of reach for millions of poor AIDS sufferers in developing countries. At present people across developing countries are protesting this move. India has been an important source of affordable generic medicines for quite a while. This ...

Rajasthan Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Name

...oportions, but the branded medicines are generally costlier due to packaging and marketing expenses. "Generic medicines are sometimes cheaper than branded medicines, but the active ingredient that produces the therapeutic effect of the medicine is the same in both," said a doctor here. The treatment coul...

Celebrating Christmas With Wine – The Elixir of the God

... vintage wines are a connoisseurs’ delight, and is costlier than the rest of the class. Red wine, made out of the juice of red or black grapes, acquires the red color due to the fermentation process that retains the skin of the grapes. White wine is made from grapes of any color, where the grapes are separ...

Enzyme Urokinase Better Option In Empyema For Kids

...or empyema in children since it is 25 percent less costlier than another treatment// video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The researchers say both methods are equally effective. The study results appear in the second issue for July 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, pub...

Hidden Mysteries Of The Universe - US Telescope Scans

...lescope. A typical research-quality telescope is costlier than this new telescope - about 400,000 dollars. So it costs a little lesser than older – says Betts. ...

Medical education to sky rocket: in terms of fees!

...lakh. So day by day medical education is becoming costlier so some steps need to be taken....

Is all this technology stressing you out?

Staying connected may be even costlier than you thought. The 24-hour accessibility that cell phones and pagers provide could be adversely affecting people's lives // . In a study of more than 1,300 people, published in the journal Marriage and Family, those who regularly used cell phones...

Good News For Cataract Patients

...o doctors. Microphakonit will be 20 to 30 percent costlier and it will take only 15 to 20 minutes to perform. "This is a major milestone and a feather in India's cap. Agarwal's technique is a trendsetter and marks a new era in cataract surgery," said prominent doctor Bakshi. There are 10 to 12 million cas...

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