It's good for headlines whenever it gets discussed, and it's considered a serious malady by the medical profession, but no formal cost studies exist.
If companies, hospitals and researchers don't have to cover the full cost of such studies, there might be more efforts to develop treatments for rare diseases, these officials say.
"The more diligently a student spent his or her time at university, and the more effectively he or she laid the foundations for a successful and well-remunerated career, the more they would ultimately contribute towards the cost of their studies, " it says.
While the ESMAP paper cited above suggests annual cost declines of 7% for gas turbine technologies, case studies from industry suggest a rate of cost decline at least double the ESMAP figure.
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It gets hairier, however, when you include cost measures into the clinical studies.
Control group studies compared the cost per customer for 50% of customers who did not see the video and 50% who did.
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Pisano says the insurance group does not have its own studies on the cost -- or long-term savings -- of paying for autism therapy.
However, decades of clinical studies, studies that have cost literally BILLIONS of dollars have shown that lowering cholesterol to under 200 does, in fact, reduce heart attacks and strokes.
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The business case for diversity is strong, and numerous studies on the cost and effectiveness of diversity or why gender diversity is a corporate performance driver list plenty of proof points.
Such large studies can drive the cost of developing new medicines to hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's time for parents and students to look at the entire enterprise of higher education and ask -- how, when, where, for whom, in what studies and at what cost is a college education appropriate?
In a rare peek at the costs of clinical trials, Peto discloses how much the studies he is involved with cost.
First, economic planners and bankers have to start accounting for the hidden cost of carbon in power plant feasibility studies on their own volition.
Industry-funded studies said the rule would cost millions of jobs.
The report justifies the tax with the same old mantra that obesity is increasing, soda consumption is increasing, government studies speculate that increasing the cost of sugary drinks would lead to a reduction in overweight, etc.
Studies have shown that chronic lateness has cost countries such as Ecuador billions per year.
I'm wondering, as a practitioner of Oriental medicine, knowing that the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization has discovered through their studies that alternative medicine often is more cost-effective and very effective, how will alternative medicine fit in your new health care program?
The government short-listed six firms in Korea, India, Canada, France and Thailand to conduct the studies and provide estimates in environmental and financial cost.
Congress likewise has not allowed Medicare to drive down the cost of durable medical equipment through competitive bidding even though pilot studies have shown this could save 40%.
Studies show that street crime such as shooting deaths cost communities more than lives, Pollack said, citing emergency medical services and criminal investigation as tangible costs along with intangibles such as residents moving away to escape the threat.
Some academic studies show that a lack of trust can double the cost of doing business, if the parties do business at all that is.
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Already, early studies of potential revenues from road pricing confirm what traditional cost-benefit analysis has long shown: that the gains from many road schemes (unlike those from many rail schemes) far outweigh their costs.
Recent studies of the federal death penalty system reveal that the average cost of defending a capital case are at least eight times those for defense of a non-death penalty case.
Many studies point to the ubiquity of high-calorie, low-cost processed foods and drinks as one of the major drivers of this condition.
Now it is common for studies to be conducted in many countries, often taking advantage of the cost savings available when doctors and patients live in emerging markets like India or parts of Russia.
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Various studies have concluded that higher parking fees deter driving more than other types of cost increases, like rising gas prices.
"One study shows the cost of adapting a single watershed in China - that's one of the few case studies that's been done - comes in at a billion dollars a year, " he said.
Cornell University researcher Maria Fitzpatrick, who studies the effects of universal preschool, said it isn't yet possible to do a full cost-benefit analysis, as the oldest state programs open to all children are just 18 years old.
Similarly, people prefer to pay for health club memberships by the month or year, rather than by daily visit, even though studies show that the vast majority of people never use the health club enough to justify the annual cost.
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