Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...ile justice system, for example, not only save tax dollars that would have to be spent on that sector but als...ies may be spending roughly the same amount of tax dollars as non-system-of care communities but getting more out of them. Foster is continuing his analysis o...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...ractice could result in the savings of billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year." Several years ago, Szeinbach did a study and found that nearly two out of three patients treated for allergies were not truly allergic. "Millions of people suffer unnecessarily because they really don't have allergies...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...though Congress supplemented scarce aging research dollars by establishing the National Institute on Aging in 1974, that money has predominately gone to disease specific research, such as Alzheimer's disease, or towards the behavioral aspects of aging. "Instead of addressing individual age related diseases,...Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
...view, if you consider the millions and millions of dollars that go to sorting out this lightning-like, catastrophic disease, every year in the United States alone there are potentially 30,000 people who could be affected by this." Background Biology Physicians and researchers have long been puzzled by the ...Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
... GM production lines saved hundreds of millions of dollars in over 30 GM plants and 10 countries. Nanzan Educational Complex (working with its parent Nanzan University in Japan), which developed an educational planning system that operates at every level from the strategic down to the daily operational. Pr...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...ality of life for patients and costing billions of dollars to society. ICH affects 15% of all stroke victims in the U.S., about 70,000 cases a year. In other parts of the world the incidence of bleeding stroke is even higher--in Asia, ICH affects 30% of all stroke victims. With 73 sites in 20 countries, thi...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...r patients, and unnecessarily spending health care dollars on prescriptions, if we don't do this study. It's critical to base our treatment decisions on evidence." Eligibility criteria for the amitriptyline trial mark a major departure from two prior IC studies supported by NIDDK. The current trial is enlist...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
... hormone manufacturers, the stakes are millions of dollars in revenue. HT revenues were reported to be about $2.5 billion a year prior to the WHI study and sales fell to $266 million in the first quarter of 2004. Drug companies work to identify and promote drugs that offer the most promise to patients, but a...New surgical procedure could save millions
... N.C. A new procedure that could save millions of dollars annually in medical costs and result in much bett...potential cost and time savings in the billions of dollars nationally." The new hollow-core optical fiber and CO2 laser combination was developed by OmniGuide ...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...troduced, these drugs were bringing in billions of dollars of annual revenue. These drugs were also heavily promoted to physicians and to the general public. In 2000 alone, Vioxx was the most aggressively promoted drug on the market, including $161 million of direct-to-consumer advertising. The researchers...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
...ubstance abuse treatment need add many millions of dollars to annual health care costs. Our research findings speak to the importance of identifying them as substance abusers -- either for a brief intervention or to refer them to substance abuse treatment as appropriate. The emergency department visit itself...New data sets survival benchmark for Pfizer's ELLENCE
...global community, donating hundreds of millions of dollars of medicine to the developing world and to expand drug access in the United States....Report finds new model of care can improve quality, lower costs and increase physician efficiency
...nt, resulting in a national savings of $67 billion dollars per year, with a significant improvement in the quality of the health care provided. "This analysis shows that the New Model of care is not only what patients want, but it is viable," said John Sheils, vice president of The Lewin Group. "The New Mod...HPV vaccine shown to 'substantially' reduce cervical cancer
...r health system, which annually spends billions of dollars on cervical screening programs." Recruitment for a larger, Phase III trial of the vaccine the last step prior to licensing the drug for general use is now underway at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and other sites, Harper said. "We hope these r...Weizmann Institute receives $8 million grant from Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
...han 130 grants totaling in excess of sixty-million dollars to some of the finest researchers in the most prestigious institutions in the world to further the foundation's mission. We welcome Weizmann and the scientists at the Center into the FAMRI family." To enhance existing research and treatment of th...Genetics testing saves health care dollars
...an save the public health care system thousands of dollars in the long term, according to new research at the University of Alberta. "Government is looking for cost-effectiveness in all forms of medicine, and we want to show that this form of testing is worthwhile," said Dr. Dawna Gilchrist, a specialis...Endocrine Society and Hormone Foundation call for increased research
...nd indicated that both public and private research dollars will be needed to make progress in the future. "Endocrinologists will be conducting the research to help patients understand how they can prevent bone loss as they age. Bone is a major target of sex hormones. The decrease of estrogen after menopaus...M. D. Anderson receives SPORE grant for melanoma research
...ionwide in the number of research grants and grant dollars received from the NCI. Elizabeth Grimm, Ph.D., professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Experimental Therapeutics, is the director of the latest SPORE grant, which will give a boost to the institution's integrated melanoma research activities. ...One in 6 chronically ill adults skip Rx drugs due to cost
... by some insurance plans can add up to hundreds of dollars a month, especially for the large number of older adults with multiple chronic illnesses. When the sample of surveyed adults was weighted to reflect national population characteristics, the researchers found that half of all respondents had monthly ...... vaccine has saved America hundreds of millions of dollars since its introduction in 1995 by preventing the k...hicken pox-related hospital costs in constant 2001 dollars shows costs hovering near $160 million from 1993 to 1997, and then four years of marked decline to a...