Obama White House Can Save $3.7 Trillion and Extend Lifespan 29+ Years, Predicts Revolutionary A4M Healthcare Plan

CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net), the world's largest scientific/medical society dedicated to advancing research and clinical pursuits that enhance the quality, and extend the quantity, of the human lifespan, unveils ...

New CASA* Report Finds Federal, State and Local Governments Spend Almost Half a Trillion Dollars a Year on Substance Abuse and Addiction

Of Every Federal And State Dollar Spent, 96 Cents Goes to Shovel up Wreckage of Illness, Crime, Social Ills; Only 2 Cents Goes to Prevention and Treatment WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Substance abuse and addiction cost federal, state and local governments at least $467.7 bi...

Medicare, Social Security Owe Up to $52 Trillion to Current Retirees and Workers

Debts Up To Three and Half Times Greater Than Entire U.S. Economy DALLAS, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If the federal government stopped the Medicare and Social Security programs tomorrow -- collecting no more payroll taxes and allowing no more accrual of benefits -- it would still o...

Booz & Company Study Finds Top Corporate Spenders on R&D Boosted Investments to Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars in 2007

U.S. companies spend more on R&D overseas than at home, but 40% of all corporate R&D dollars invested in the U.S. is spent by foreign headquartered companies Race to tap technical talent and new global markets exceeds the pursuit of lower labor costs as reason to conduct R&D offshore...

State Medicaid Programs to Spend $1.6 Trillion on Long-Term Care over the Next Twenty Years

With Federal matching funds included, long-term care costs to exceed $3.7 trillion Click here for a link to the full report: http://www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx?docid=24597 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State Medicaid programs will spend $1.6 trillion on long-term ...

As Healthcare Spending is Predicted to Exceed 4 Trillion in Less Than 10 Years, Technology will be Called upon to Stem the Tide

LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VirtualHealth Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VHGI) President, Jim Renfro, today responded to a recent series of articles that predict by 2017, total health care spending will double to more than $4 trillion a year, accounting for one o...

Pew Study Finds States Face $2.73 Trillion Bill for Retiree Benefits

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- States have promised at least $2.73 trillion in pension, health care and other retirement benefits for public employees over the next three decades, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts' Center on the States. Promises...

Health care savings, coverage for all could lower spending $1.5 trillion over 10 years

December 18, 2007, New York, NYGuaranteed health insurance for all combined with several federal policy options to achieve health care system savings could result in $1.5 trillion in reduced spending over 10 years, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report prepared by Fund staff and the Lewin Gr...

Medco CEO Unveils Pragmatic Blueprint for Health Care Reform; Reducing Costs by Upwards of $1 Trillion

Plan Challenges Policy-makers, Physicians, Patients and Payors To Become Engaged and Accountable WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In an address today at the National Press Club, Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS ) Chairman and CEO, David B. Snow Jr. unveiled a pragmatic b...

Stroke Care Cost To Touch $2.2 trillion by 2050

A study published in the online edition of Neurology projects the total cost of ischemic stroke from 2005-2050 will total $2.2 trillion with lost// income from younger stroke victims playing a major role. The study, based on two major stroke studies BASIC and NOMASS, looked only at the costs o...

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Mayo Researchers Help Discover Genetic Cause for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

...nd thus more amenable to treatment." The reliability of the newly discovered association is very strong; statistically, there's about a one in 10 trillion chance that the pathway isn't linked to primary biliary cirrhosis, Dr. Lazaridis noted. "That strong association is remarkable, given that the re...

Optigenex Inc. Signs New License and Distribution Agreement With Itochu Corporation of Japan

...ly 45,690 employees maintains over 130 offices and owns over 651 subsidiaries and affiliates around the world. Itochu's sales last year reached 11.58 trillion yen (U.S. $95 billion.) (Update sales revenue and company figures) About Optigenex Inc.: Optigenex inc. is a formulator, distributor and pro...

42 Top U.S. Scientists and Specialists Explore Cutting-Edge Innovations to Defend America From Dangerous Zoonotic Diseases

...tic diseases attack both humans and animals. The most dangerous of these diseases pose catastrophic risks to U.S. public health and to the nation's $1 trillion agricultural economy. Speakers presented novel discoveries and techniques from a range of disciplines, including epidemiology, pathology, mi...

Grocery Manufacturers Association: Study Signals Progress in Battle Against Obesity

... chief executive officers from the association's member companies. The $2.1 trillion food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry employs 14 million workers, and contributes over $1 trillion in added value to the nation's economy. For more information, visit the GMA...

Adnexus Therapeutics Announces Presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) on Clinical Product Candidate, CT-322

...y for a therapeutic target while simultaneously selecting for ideal pharmaceutical product characteristics. PROfusion enables Adnexus to screen over 1 trillion unique Adnectins for each drug discovery program to "redirect" naturally occurring human fibronectin to act as a protein therapeutic. This greatly acc...

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Strokes

...itation. Stroke Therapy ... Unless Americans do more to lower their risk of stroke and improve stroke care, the nation will pay $2.2 trillion over the next 45 years to care for people who ... Strokes , or brain attacks, are a major cause of death and permanent disability. ... Ischemic...

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Carnegie Mellon's Jean VanBriesen leads research team on Monongahela River

... water that may result from ongoing development of the southwestern Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale formation, which is reported to contain more than 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas," VanBriesen said. Developers using hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water and sand into ...

DNA computation gets logical at the Weizmann Institute of Science

...ng complicated queries. Shapiro and his team at Weizmann introduced the first autonomous programmable DNA computing device in 2001. So small that a trillion fit in a drop of water, that device was able to perform such simple calculations as checking a list of 0s and 1s to determine if there was an even num...

Fujitsu Expands Support for Ethernet Networks With New Additions to XG Switch Product Line

...dvanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com . About Fujitsu Computer Pr...

New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems

...r Sciences Laboratory on the PNNL campus, Chinook can perform more than 160 trillion calculations per second, ranking it in the top 40 fastest computers in the world (see the Top 50 ). Its predecessor, EMSL's MPP2, could run 11.2 trillion calculations per second. The Office of Biological and Environmental Res...

Fujitsu PalmSecure Certified Under International Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2

...dvanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com . About Fujitsu Computer ...

Capturing the birth of a synapse

...y Washbourne's team captures the essence of synapse development, which occurs over and over among the estimated 100 billion neurons that make some 100 trillion synapses in a single human being. That leaves a lot of room for errors in the DNA-driven instructions for synthesizing molecules responsible for synap...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 20, 2009

...puter hardware. In lab and theoretical studies, the researchers showed that the device had a storage capacity as high as 1 terabyte per square inch (a trillion bits of information) and temperature-stability in excess of one billion years. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Nanoscale Reversible Mass Transpo...

Darwin in a test tube

...cules rather than living species offers a robust way to do this because it allows the forces of evolution to work over the course of mere days, with a trillion molecules in a test tube replicating every few minutes. "We can study things very quickly," says Scripps Research Professor Gerald Joyce, M.D., Ph....

Fujitsu PalmSecure LOGONDIRECTOR Integrates with Passlogix v-GO Access Accelerator Suite

...dvanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.3 trillion yen (US$53 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com About Fujitsu Comp...

Allscripts Integrates Electronic Health Records with Innovative Patient Kiosk

...dvanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.3 trillion yen (US$53 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. For more information, please see: http://us.fujitsu.com/fcpa . About Allscrip...

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Insmed Announces Addition to the Russell 3000(R) Index

...ment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s wh...

OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Added to Russell Indexes

...tment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s whe...

Cell Therapeutics Added to Russell 3000(R), Russell 2000(R) and Russell Global(R) Indexes

...tment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s whe...

Micromet Added to Russell 3000 Index

...tment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to the Russell indexes. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the ...

NeurogesX Added to Russell 3000 Index

...ark their portfolios. Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets are currently benchmarked to them for both passive and active investment strategies. About NeurogesX, Inc. NeurogesX (Nasdaq: N...

China-Biotics, Inc. to Join Russell 3000 Index

...tment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi- manager investment business in the early 1980s, w...

Top CEOs Declare America's Manufacturing Sector Requires Pro-Industry Policies, Capital Management and Innovation to Maintain Economic Leadership

...9.5 percent of global manufacturing output. In 2007, the country produced more volume of products than ever before, and manufacturing represented $1.6 trillion of our economy. However, manufacturing is in recession. Every action the federal government takes to impose new burdens or add new costs makes it mor...

Cell Therapeutics on Preliminary List of Additions to Russell 3000(R) Index and Russell Global(R) Index

...tment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s whe...

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

...potentially hundreds of binary memory states. "The shuttle memory has application for archival data storage with information density as high as one trillion bits per square inch and thermodynamic stability in excess of one billion years," Zettl said. "Furthermore, as the system is naturally hermetically s...

Photos: Breakthrough Technology Enables Edible TruTag(TM) to Prevent Counterfeit Medicine

...highest purity silica, rendering them biologically inert and edible. Each tag contains a custom-manufactured 'spectral signature' chosen from over one trillion possibilities. The unique choice of tag signature and product combination is the TruTag(TM) key to confirming the authenticity of the product, yet eac...

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Neuron

... elegans ) has 302 neurons. Scientists have mapped all of the nematode's neurons. The human brain has about 100 billion ( 10 11 ) neurons and 100 trillion ( 10 14 ) connections ( synapses ) between them. See also F wave Neuroscience Artificial neuron External links Neuro...

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Transgenic plant

...enic plants are made. ... Transgenic plants . Plant cells are totipotent, and this sets them apart from animals! ... to approximately 2.5 trillion transgenic plants during the past dozen years. ... Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered, a breeding ... It ...

Cellular respiration

...The point of cellular respiration is to harvest chemical ... Cellular Respiration : Or, How one good meal provides energy for the work of 75 trillion cells ... II. Cellular respiration can be broken down into 4 stages: ... cellular respiration n. The series of metabolic processes by whi...

Cells

...ls , the basic units of all living things ... In humans, there are about 40 trillion cells all told. ... Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social... Find out all about cells . ... The human body is composed of about 10 trillion cells . ... InvestigationDiscovery.com : Stem Cells ... Explore the s...