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Australia Spending Billions on Asthma
Youth Health Magzine According to a report by Deloitte, asthma is responsible for more than $3 billion of economic costs of which $1.2 billion can be attributed to annual health system. An additional $246 million is spent on travel costs and government programs, to name a … Asthma costs Australia almost $28b every year, report finds Asthma costs Aust $28ba year: report |
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After Billions Are Made, Risks from Asthma Drug Emerge
CounterPunch World sales of Merck's blockbuster asthma drug, Singulair, were about $5 billion a year until last year when its patent expired in the United States. But the drug also has a darkening cloud over it. The Australian medicine watchdog has received 58 … |
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Environmental toxins cost kids' health, billions in health dollars
eMaxHealth The cost of conditions like childhood cancer, asthma, autism, lead poisoning and ADHD has been estimated to be $76.6 billion in 2008. Scientists are calling for a three part plan of action to protect the health of kids and reduce the financial burden … Estimated costs of environmental disease in children at $76.6 billion per year $76B in Pediatric Healthcare Costs Linked to Environmental Factors Environmental Pollution Poses Costs to Children and Economy |
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Environmental Illness in Kids Costs Billions
MedPage Today Building on a 2002 analysis, investigators estimated how much of a role environmental factors play in causing such conditions as childhood cancers, asthma, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and then attached a dollar figure to the … Costs To Treat Kids With Lead Poisoning Dwarfs That Of Cancer, Autism Environmental Illness in US Kids Cost $76.6 Billion in One Year Estimated costs of environmental disease in children at $76.6 billion per year |
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Environmental Toxins Cost Billions in Childhood Disease
TIME … Philip Landrigan and a team of other researchers at Mount Sinai Medical School estimated the annual cost of four childhood conditions — lead poisoning, cancer, developmental disabilities and asthma — that could be connected to environmental … Estimated costs of environmental disease in children at $76.6 billion per year Environmental Illness in US Kids Cost $76.6 Billion in One Year Environmental Pollution Poses Costs to Children and Economy |
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