Undiagnosed diabetes takes economic toll
May 07, 2009 |
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Approximately 6.3 million adults—or one fourth of the people in the U.S. with diabetes mellitus—are unaware they have the disease, and this undiagnosed population accounts for an estimated $18 billion in health care costs ...
Dengue fever costs billions in health care, lost productivity and absenteeism
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Researchers at Brandeis, in collaboration with several other institutions worldwide, have pinpointed for the first time the multi-country economic costs of dengue fever, the endemic and epidemic mosquito-borne illness that ...
Study finds homicidal poisoning rising, more likely in infants and elderly
May 07, 2009 |
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Homicidal poisonings are rare but on the rise -- and infants are the most common victims -- according to a new University of Georgia study that aims to raise awareness of this often overlooked crime.
New study reveals the financial effects of stroke in China
May 07, 2009 |
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A new study has found that families in China face considerable economic hardship following stroke, and it is not uncommon for health care costs to push families below the poverty line. The large study shows over 70% of stroke ...
Obese young men have less hope of marriage: study
May 07, 2009 |
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Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50 percent less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.
News Corp. posts flat third quarter
May 07, 2009 |
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Media giant News Corp. reported a flat quarterly net profit of 2.7 billion dollars on Wednesday as one-time items helped compensate for a slide in advertising revenue.
Thomson Reuters says profits rise in first quarter
May 07, 2009 |
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Financial information provider Thomson Reuters said Thursday that profits climbed in the first quarter of the year despite challenging market conditions.
CDC: Now fewer US swine flu cases linked to Mexico
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A U.S. health official says now only about 10 percent of the Americans who got swine flu had traveled to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there. Most got the bug at home.
Google tightens bonds with YouTube users
May 07, 2009 |
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Google is routing YouTube users further into the online search giant's Internet world.
Sewage treatment in the East may be enough to reduce Baltic algal blooms
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Upgrading sewage treatment in the southeastern Baltic Sea states to Swedish standards may suffice to reduce algal blooms in the Baltic to levels of the 1950s. This is shown in a study performed by Andreas ...
Flu overhyped? Some say officials 'cried swine'
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating ...
New tag could enable more detailed structural studies of mammalian proteins
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To say our genes are resourceful is a gross understatement. Through ingenious combinations of a paltry 20 amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, genes engineer all of the tissues and organs that ...
Low blood sugar: A killer for kidney disease patients?
May 07, 2009 |
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Low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, poses a serious health threat for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN ...
X-rays help predict permanent bone damage from bisphosphonates
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Breast cancer patients, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies often take drugs containing bisphosphonates. These drugs have been found to place people at risk for ...
Google CEO doesn't see problem with his Apple role
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(AP) -- Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is taking a government inquiry into his role on Apple Inc.'s board in stride, expressing confidence that the probe won't find any evidence that the ties between the two companies ...
