... 5-year cost is highest for patients with lung, colorectal, and prostate cancers. The estimated cost for 5 years of care for elderly Medicare patients diagnosed with cancer in 2004 is $21.1 billion...
... Children’s Health Insurance Program, and $12 billion in uncompensated care expenses—which are paid by Federal ... care costs from $9.4 billion to $12 billion.
Workers without coverage from their employers ...
The drug developer Bristol-Myers Squibb said it would sell ConvaTec, its wound therapy and surgical care unit, for $4.1 billion to two private equity firms.
... mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually in lost earnings alone, according to a new study ... SMI costs society $193.2 billion annually in lost earnings. The researchers attributed ...
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp. for about $12.6 billion to build a technology-services company that could challenge IBM.
... Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion windfall and allowing it to focus on cable network, entertainment and publishing operations.
The effects of climate change could cost the Andean countries' economies around US$30 billion, researchers predict.
The steeply accelerating decline of the natural world is already costing hundreds of billions of pounds a year, say leading economists
Astronauts opened up Japan's new billion-dollar space station lab, then got ready for another spacewalk, this time to spruce up the outside of the huge addition.
... under very conservative assumptions, implementing six reviewed interventions would result in cost savings of about $1 billion per year and a savings of about 800 lives, close to 26,000 years of life ...
... ) -- Four venture capital firms are betting Internet startup LinkedIn Corp. is worth $1 billion, highlighting the lofty hopes riding on online services that connect people with their friends, family ...
Apple announced that music fans have downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music ...
... raised by a sale of new spectrum, which will likely result in new cellphone carriers next year, hit $3.96 billion on Friday, greatly exceeding the $1.5 billion many within the industry expected.
Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog ...
(AP) -- Eastman Kodak Co. said Tuesday it is buying back up to $1 billion, or about a quarter, of its outstanding stock, by tapping a $581 million tax refund and a cash surplus the picture-taking ...
