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Health costs soar as 60 million Americans classed as obese

A new method for manipulating macromolecules has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The technique uses double-stranded DNA to direct the behavior of other molecules. In previous DNA nanotechnology efforts, duplex DNA has been used as a static lattice to construct geometrical objects in three dimensions. Instead of manipulating DNA alone into s...

Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent

Rice scientists replace pricey solvents with cheap processing fluidsIn an important advance toward the large-scale manufacture of fluorescent quantum dots, scientists at Rice University have developed a new method of replacing the pricey solvents used in quantum dot synthesis with cheaper oils that are commonplace at industrial chemical plants. Rice's study, which was conducted under the a...

Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care

In 2005, the overall cost of patients' time spent on cancer care was $2.3 billion in the first year after diagnosis, according to a new study in the January 3 issue of the Several studies have estimated the direct medical costs of ca...

Millions of children denied drug that costs less than $3 a year

Of the 35 million people with epilepsy who live...

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DHC 2007: Controlling health IT costs the key to capturing value

Why that distortion exists could be the subject of an entire conference, and it occupied a fair amount of time during Digital Healthc...

DHC 2007: Without fuller IT adoption, health costs might drain America's wealth

Within healthcare IT, a subje...

Manufacturers concerned with rising material costs

The , a nonprofit consulting organization for small and mid-sized manufacturers, conducted the survey of 173 Wisco...

Consultant says beware hidden costs of bad IT projects

Robert Balon, a principal in in Chicago, delivered that sobering message Wednesday at the Milwaukee Athletic Club d...

Cedara acquisition costs hit Merge Technologies numbers

Although quarterly revenue was at a record high of $18.8 million, the company took a loss of slightly under $12 million, or $0.62...

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Generic drug costs remain shackled

Price controls for generic drugs in primary care are likely to remain unchanged for the next year as the european government considers how best to supply the NHS. In 1999, a severe shortage of non-brand name medicines resulted in a 12.5 per cent increase in the cost of prescription drugs for the NHS, significantly higher than the 8 per cent average increase in previous years. // Pharm...

Obesity increases health costs

Obese patients spend more for health care and medications than smokers, as the extra weight poses them many more chronic health hazards. While tobacco is still the nation's principal cause of preventable deaths, the surgeon general warned// that obesity was running a close second. For a more precise look at the resulting costs, Rand Corp. economist Roland Sturm used data from two nati...

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

Cancer patients in the future could benefit from pharmacogenomics or the field of personalized medicine where therapies could be tailored to suit individual patients. Few drugs which target specific protein receptors in cancer are already in the market and the decoding of the human genome// offers great promise to patients, as the therapy could become more specialized. However, all this comes wi...

Obese Employees Increase Costs For Employers

Research had shown that for obese employees, employers incur an increased cost because of medical expenditures and absenteeism associated with such employees. The findings, which appear in the September/October issue of the American Journal // of Health Promotion, show that for men employed full time in the labor market, the combined annual per capita cost of being obese, including medi...

Hospital Cuts Costs By Moving Cancer Patients To Hotels

UP TO a third of cancer patients at a leading National Health Services (NHS) trust will be moved out of wards and put up in nearby hotels under plans to save tens of millions of pounds on hospital beds in Britain.// According to a report in the Sunday Times, over 100 patients suffering from cancer or blood disorders at University College hospital (UCH) in London have already stayed at NH...

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Point of Care Strep Tests Speed Treatment, Lower Costs

Beta-hemolytic group A streptococcus (S. pyogenes) is the most common bacterial agent associated with upper respiratory tract infections. Although it usually involves mild symptoms (such as headache, fever or abdominal pain) if left untreated streptococcal infection can worsen and become life-threatening. Early diagnosis and treatment of group A streptococcal pharyngitis has been shown to red...

Costs of Eradicating Poliomyelitis Now Are Much Lower Than Trying to Control It Later

LONDON, April 12, 2007--The costs of eradicatingpoliomyelitis from the remaining infected countries, while high inthe short term, are much lower than the long term costs of tryingto control infections without eradication. And a recently developedmonovalent vaccine is almost three times more effective againsttype 1 poliomyelitis than an existing trivalent vaccine. These are...

Lipitor Significantly Lowered Hospitalization Costs for Patients with Heart Disease, Two New Analyses Show

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 27, 2007 - Pfizer announced todaythat Lipitor(R) (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets (80 mg) loweredhospitalization costs by significantly reducing the risk ofcardiovascular events in patients with heart disease, according totwo separate economic analyses. The data were presented at theannual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. "One of these analyse...