Tag: statistics
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How The Internet Changed Business Forever
Modern businesses have access to more data than ever before, and this shift has made it easier than ever for business owners to know exactly what their target audience is looking for.
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Factors IDed Boosting Post-Surgical Opioid Risk
An analysis of insurance claims identifies risk factors behind a sizeable number of people undergoing surgery becoming persistent users of opioid pain drugs long after their procedures.
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U.S. Public Divided Over GM, Organic Food
The American public is almost evenly divided about the benefits of genetically-modified and organic food, with those divisions not breaking along easily defined or familiar lines.
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Breast Cancer Drug Costs Vary Among Insured Patients
Women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer can face widely different costs for their treatments, regardless of effectiveness, even if they have health insurance.
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Malnutrition Shown Adding Billions to U.S. Health Costs
An analysis of data from health surveys shows malnutrition associated with 8 common chronic diseases adds $15.5 billion directly to U.S. health care costs.
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PhRMA: 258 Vaccines in Clinical Development
An industry group of American pharmaceutical makers says its companies have 258 vaccines, including immunotherapies, in clinical trials or awaiting FDA approval.
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Commercial Data Yield Genetic Links to Depression
An analysis of data from commercial genetic tests identified 15 regions in the genome and 17 specific variations associated with depression among people of European descent.
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Kauffman Index Shows Higher Start-Up Growth in 2016
8 June 2016. An index of high-growth start-up companies shows the rate of entrepreneurial expansion in the U.S. accelerated for the third year in a row, with greatest concentration of growing enterprises found in the Washington, D.C. region. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri yesterday issued its annual Index of Growth Entrepreneurship…
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Genomic Variations Reveal Cholesterol, Heart Disease Risks
4 May 2016. A review of genome and blood test records from a large group of people in Iceland identified genetic sequencing variations associated with risk factors connecting cholesterol levels to heart disease. Results of the analysis, conducted by deCode Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, appear this week in the journal Nature Genetics (paid subscription required).…
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U.S. Energy Use Declines in 2015, Renewables Gain
20 April 2016. Energy use by Americans in their homes and businesses declined in 2015 from the previous year, due to a sharp drop in coal burned for electric power, among other factors. The findings were published in an annual accounting of national energy supply and demand by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, based on data…