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Nearly 80% of seniors take at least one pill a day, according to a recent survey. The number of medications in development for diseases associated with the elderly has grown from 225 a decade ago to 648 today. The increased number of prescriptions and the rising cost per pill mean seniors are on a treadmill of ever increasing expenditures. In the past five years national spending for all prescription drugs increased almost 60%. That pace is expected to continue. As seniors become more dependent on these remedies, they are also subjecting themselves to the increasing cost of the medicines. While...
...statement given to police during an investigation of a suicide on one of his properties two years ago, Frankel provided a glimpse into life on his estate: "The females are mostly my ex-girlfriends that I met through personal advertisements. I date a lot of women, and these girls are special to me." He went on to say he had "sexual contact" with some, but not all, of the women, and that they were not paid a salary but were given money "as they need it." Neighbors recall constant streams of limousines to and from Frankel's house...
...before the crisis there were indications that Asia was facing diminishing returns--that rapid growth was being sustained only by ever more massive infusions of foreign capital. Foreign investors may have stopped fleeing, but they are not going to pour in funds the way they did a few years ago...
...normal year we'd expect 50 people...Typically you'll build it in that 50 to 100 people come off the waiting list," said Fitzsimmons, who held the final meeting of the admissions committee this year two days ago...
Almost a month ago, surveillance cameras were installed in the light courts where construction is currently occurring...