18-Mar-2013 07:00 cost

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Counting the cost of doping in sport :: Why sports doping does not pay
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Social care cost cap brought forward :: The government will bring forward its overhaul of the pension system and social care funding by a year to 2016, the chancellor announces.
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Growth in health costs slow in 2011, but may pick up :: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending rose at an historically low rate of 3.9% for the third
consecutive year in 2011, but showed underlying signs of acceleration as the economy recovered from recession, the
Obama administration said on Monday. (Source: Modern Medicine)
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Comparison of clinical and cost‐effectiveness of psoralen + ultraviolet A versus psoralen + sunlight in the treatment of chronic plaque psoriasis in a developing economy :: Abstract
Psoralen + ultraviolet A (PUVA) therapy is an established modality for psoriasis. As India is a tropical country that has good availability of natural sunlight psoralen + sunlight (PUVAsol) may be a more convenient option. To compare the efficacy and cost‐effectiveness of PUVA versus PUVAsol in chronic plaque psoriasis. Cases of chronic plaque psoriasis with body surface area ≥10% or Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) ≥10, excluding erythrodermic or pustular psoriasis, were randomized to receive either PUVA or PUVAsol, with endpoint being the achievement of PASI 90 or completion of 12 weeks treatment, whichever is earlier. Cost analysis was also undertaken. Thirty‐six cases (16 in PUVA and 20 in PUVAsol group) completed treatment. In the PUVA group, 15 case...
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Wetherspoon posts 2.7% profit drop :: Pubs chain JD Wetherspoon, hurt by higher taxes and labour costs, reports a 2.7% decrease in profit.
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Rental costs 'down 0.1% in February' :: The cost of renting a home in England and Wales fell by 0.1% in February, but remained higher than a year earlier, a property group says.
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MPs to examine whiplash claim levels :: The Commons Transport Committee is to examine the impact that claims for whiplash injuries are having on the cost of car insurance.
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Defending the Faith :: For researchers of all stripes, the meat-cleaver approach to tackling the United States' unsustainable deficit that has been at the center of political wrangling in Washington, DC, represents an obvious threat. Unprecedented pressure to avert fallout from spending cuts, tax rises, and other measures that will result from awkward compromises forced by the so-called fiscal cliff means that research budgets will be pushed toward the chopping block despite President Obama's stated commitment to "doubling funding for key research agencies to support scientists and entrepreneurs." Critics argue, as presidential candidate Mitt Romney did last fall, that much innovation can be fostered at lower cost by forgoing increases in government support for research and instead removing barriers to investmen...
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What cost learning? :: One of the effects of the grim economic situation affecting much of the world is its potential impact on funding available for education and in particular continuing professional development (CPD). It has only in recent years in the United Kingdom has there been a move in levelling of the 'playing fields' that has seen allied health professionals getting a fairer access to CPD funding compared with the larger groupings of medicine and nursing. Unfortunately it will come as no surprise if all groups experience a fall in available funding to support learning activities as organisations tighten their belts. In 2012 the world's largest radiological conference, the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of America (RSNA) meeting at Chicago in November reported a drop in attendance of 9%...
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