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A health economic analysis of osteoporotic fractures: who carries the burden?
This is a cost-of-illness study of osteoporotic fractures in Denmark estimating the incremental societal cost associated with osteoporotic fractures, with both direct cost and productivity cost. This...
Flock-based microfluidics are created by depositing hydrophilic microfibers on an adhesive-coated substrate using an electric field. This enables the fabrication of self-powered microfluidics from one...
Fermentation of glycerol and production of valuable chemical and biofuel molecules.
Glycerol has attracted the attention of scientific and industrial communities due to its generation in bulk quantities as a byproduct of biofuel industries. With the rapid growth of these industries i...
Cost-Effectiveness of Generic Antiretroviral Therapy.
Cost-Effectiveness of Generic Antiretroviral Therapy.
Transgenerational effects and the cost of ant tending in aphids.
In mutualistic interactions, partners obtain a net benefit, but there may also be costs associated with the provision of benefits for a partner. The question of whether aphids suffer such costs when a...
Electroejaculation of chimeric rats.
With the advent of genetic engineering of rodents came the need to assess fertility and germline competency, especially in chimeric rodents generated using embryonic stem cells. Traditional methods re...
BACKGROUND: High rates of bacterial coinfection in autopsy data from the 2009 H1N1 influenza ("flu") pandemic suggest synergies between flu and pneumococcal disease (PD) during pandemic conditions, an...
BACKGROUND: Previous analyses of the listings of trastuzumab on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and HPV vaccine on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) suggest a media influence...
Economics of neurology 101: The dismal science meets the dismal prognosis.
In the coming decades, we are faced with a massive demographic shift: the nation as a whole is getting older, by leaps and bounds. The number of persons in the oldest demographic, ages 85 and older, i...
News Articles
Guest blog: IPSC manufacturing in 2013
IPSC manufacturing in 2013; the beginnings of standardized, cost effective and cGMP compliant manufacturing strategies. The afternoon session ‘iPS cells for cell therapy’ began with [...]
The cost of Alton Housing Authority's bed bug treatment via bed bug exterminators could reach $250K, said a report. My Cleaning Products shared tips how to save apartments from such costly bed bug...
Thermoforming vs. Injection Molding Infographic Released
Online Guide from Ray Products Compares Custom Plastic Manufacturing Processes (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Plastics manufacturer Ray Products has released an infographic titled "Thermoforming vs. Injec...
Thrifty Merrimack developing new cancer drugs at lower cost
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipeline of experimental cancer treatments that it aims to deliver at a fraction of the...
NICE Rejects Avastin For Ovarian Cancer On Cost, Okays Lucentis
NICE has knocked back Avastin for ovarian cancer due to high cost, but Roche may have a plausible market strategy in place for the drug in the UK.
Stroke Costs to Double by 2030, Groups Say (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- The rising prevalence of stroke in an aging population is likely to more than double the cost of stroke care over the next two decades, the American Heart Association and American S...
Medicare is a topic of conversation on Capitol Hill as a Senate committee holds a hearing on the Medicare Part D drug program. Meanwhile, on the House side, members of the Ways and Means Health Subcom...
CoreValve Found Cost-Effective for TAVI (CME/CE)
PARIS (MedPage Today) -- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation using Medtronic's CoreValve is cost-effective compared with medical therapy for patients with severe aortic stenosis, researchers found...
SEATTLE, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released the results of its 2013 Milliman Medical Index (MMI), which measures the healt...
China's bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts s...
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Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare technology and services company, helps reduce the cost of doing business in healthcare by enabling better supply chain manageme...
With the advent of new technologies, in the last four years, DNA sequencing has gone through a technological revolution which has completely changed the market. While in 2007 it still cost over 10 m...
Comparion Medical Analytics is one of the nationâs largest privately held healthcare information services companies with offices located in Greenville, SC, Baltimore, MD, and...
Founded in 2010 and based in Atlanta, curavita coordinates clinical care for critically injured workers. Through early intervention, a proprietary national network of catastrophic...
DR Systems, Inc. is the leading independent provider of enterprise imaging and information management systems for hospitals, integrated healthcare networks and diagnostic imaging...
ReNu Medical, founded in 2000, provides immediate solutions to rising healthcare costs. ReNu is a FDA-registered, High Level Disinfection (HLD) reprocessor of non-critical and sem...
QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies specializing in automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial a...
Midwest Employers Casualty Company
WHO: Midwest Employers Casualty Company (MECC) provides workersâ compensation excess insurance products to individual employers and groups across the country. In addit...
TÃV Rheinlandis the worldwide leader in market access, helping businesses gain international approvals in more than 200 countries. The company delivers premier independent cert...
Literacy Bridge is a nonprofit organization that improves the health and income of impoverished rural families through knowledge. To serve this mission, the organization has devel...
Clinical Trials
Research questions: What effect does provision of food vouchers have on uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision? What is the amount of food voucher that should be given? Hypothesi...
Parkinson's Disease Registry of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center
The purpose of the Parkinson’s disease Registry is to develop a national and international database of persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Registry will be used to facilitate t...
Aripiprazole in Children With Autism: A Pilot Study
This is a 6-week open pilot study of aripiprazole for the treatment of adolescents, aged 12 to 18 years, diagnosed with autism. Children who qualify for the study will be treated with ari...
Rapid Emergency Department Heart Failure Outpatient Trial (REDHOT II)
The purpose of this study is to test whether physicians can make more informed treatment, admission, and discharge decisions related to patient care by having serial Triage® BNP test resu...
SHORTness of Breath In the Emergency Department (SHORTIE)
SHORTIE is a two-phase study to determine the impact of the Triage Profiler S.O.B. (Shortness Of Breath) Panel on patient management, outcome, and cost.
Study of the Use of Coated Venous Catheters in the Critically Ill Child
This study should help determine to determine whether or not the use of an antibiotic coated catheter will significantly reduce the number of central line related bloodstream infections in...
Alleviated Positioning for Small Macular Holes
Rational of the study: There are arguments to think that the closure of macular holes can be obtained without a strict positioning under certain conditions, i.e. hole size ≤ 400 µm, if...
The Use of Prophylactic Antibiotics In the Management of Dog Bites
This double blinded RCT will help to ascertain the usefulness of prophylactic antibiotics in the management of uncomplicated dog bites, utilizing currently best available antibiotics (Augm...
Cost Efficacy of a Clinical Pathway to Patients Undergoing Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
In this randomised study a proactive care and rehabilitation intervention is compared to the current care and rehabilitation in patients undergoing primary hip and knee replacement surgery...
Randomized Clinical Trial of 4RIF Vs. 9INH for the Treatment of Latent TB
Although effective medications to treat and even prevent Tuberculosis (TB) have been available for over 40 years, TB remains the most important infectious cause of mortality among adults i...
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8.1 - Marginal Cost
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Cobblestone Lissencephaly
The smooth pebbled appearance of the CEREBRAL CORTEX with a thickened cortex and reduced and abnormal white matter, which results from migration of heterotopic neurons beyond the marginal zone into the leptomeninges through gaps in the external BASEMENT MEMBRANE. There is also enlarged ventricles, underdeveloped BRAINSTEM and cerebellum, and absence of the CORPUS CALLOSUM. These abnormalities occur as a syndrome without other birth defects (cobblestone complex) or in other syndromes associated with congenital MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, often involving the eye, such as the Walker-Warburg Syndrome, Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy, and muscle-eye-brain disease.
Medicare Part D
A stand-alone drug plan offered by insurers and other private companies to beneficiaries that receive their Medicare Part A and/or B benefits through the Original Medicare Plan. It includes Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans that do not offer prescription drug coverage and Medicare Cost Plans offering Medicare prescription drug coverage. The plan was enacted as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 with coverage beginning January 1, 2006.
Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
An Act prohibiting a health plan from establishing lifetime limits or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary after January 1, 2014. It permits a restricted annual limit for plan years beginning prior to January 1, 2014. It provides that a health plan shall not be prevented from placing annual or lifetime per-beneficiary limits on covered benefits. The Act sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the same choices of insurance that members of Congress will have. It aims to bring greater accountability to health care and to control cost of health insurance premiums.
Professional Review Organizations
Organizations representing designated geographic areas which have contracts under the PRO program to review the medical necessity, appropriateness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care received by Medicare beneficiaries. Peer Review Improvement Act, PL 97-248, 1982.
Reimbursement, Incentive
A scheme which provides reimbursement for the health services rendered, generally by an institution, and which provides added financial rewards if certain conditions are met. Such a scheme is intended to promote and reward increased efficiency and cost containment, with better care, or at least without adverse effect on the quality of the care rendered.
