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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday.The study offers an illustration of how new technology can drive health costs, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. spending growth on prescription drugs slowed to 2.3 percent in 2010 - the second lowest level in 55 years, according to a report by consulting firm IMS Health.Even with the slowing growth rate, spending on prescription medicines ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed cutting ballooning U.S. budget deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years on Wednesday and called for talks with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to address the worsening fiscal woes.Obama, who has been criticized by both Democrats ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1983, a civil servant named Robert Ball worked a political miracle: he convinced Republican Ronald Reagan to raise taxes and Democrat Tip O'Neill to accept trims to Social Security.That was the last time the United States made substantial ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Affluent women expect to be more active than their male counterparts in retirement, but they are also more worried about outliving their money, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch study.The vast majority of affluent baby boomers, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday his healthcare overhaul is an important part of efforts to cut the budget deficit and insisted he will not "refight" the battle to pass the law.With emboldened Republicans vowing to repeal or replace ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday that it sued Boston Scientific Corp and Guidant, which it acquired in 2006, for selling defective heart devices implanted in Medicare patients.(Reporting by James Vicini and Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)90229836&bid=informcom" ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday said repealing healthcare reforms would damage the economy, as the House of Representatives debated the law's repeal."Repealing the Affordable Care Act would be bad for business and bad for the economy," Geithner ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government fell deeper into the red in fiscal 2010 with net liabilities swelling more than $2 trillion as commitments on government debt and federal benefits rose, a U.S. Treasury report showed on Tuesday.The Financial Report of the ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many people believe devices that allow doctors to monitor patients' vital signs in their homes offer a potential way to save health costs and allow older people to stay out of nursing homes.The trick is proving it, according to ...
