Medicare compels heart patients to enlist in follow-up research

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Many elderly Americans might find that the government will only pay for expensive drugs and devices if they agree to enroll in long-term follow-up studies to gather data on safety and efficacy. Medicare, the publicly funded $320-billion US health-insurance scheme for the elderly and disabled announced that it would supply a costly pacemaker-like device to those at risk from cardiac arrest who previously did not qualify for the implant only if they join a national registry.

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Autism speaks: the United States pays up

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Autism has emerged from relative obscurity on the fund-raising circuit and almost 1,000 biggest U.S. private foundations have doubled their autism-related donations to $2.7 million between 1998 and 2005. Despite huge funding, autism has remained as a little understood and untreatable disease and the impact of well-managed public-relations exercise on this disease is still unclear.

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