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...often persuaded to prescribe expensive new drugs, even though older drugs or generics would be just as effective. A Harvard model projects that every dollar spent on better information would yield $2 in drug savings. That's a big deal to cash-strapped states that pay a large chunk of Medicaid patients' drug costs. Thus SCORxE - South Carolina Offering Prescribing Excellence - a joint program between the state's Medicaid program and the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, which trains its pharmacist-reps to visit doctors' offices armed with unbiased studies...
...China has rewarded Guo for her loyalty. The comely diver is China's most celebrated female Olympian, and that has translated into more, officially approved lucrative advertising contracts. (The Chinese state sports system makes sure to keep a chunk of her endorsement revenue.) On August 17th, Guo will defend her second Olympic gold, this time in the individual 3m springboard event...
...marketplace may clarify that mystery as Meetic and Match do battle for the English heart. Match.com does a big chunk of its European business in the U.K., where it's in a dead heat with Meetic. Last year, Meetic acquired a large British site called Dating Direct as part of a new frontal assault on its chief competitor. Still, Match CEO Thomas Enraght-Moony claims he's not threatened by his rival in love: "Match is about people looking for an enduring relationship. It's a more poetic, romantic sensibility. Meetic is a lot more casual. It's a different...
...Miami-Dade corrections clerk, turned to interest rates that were at a historic low to ease her household finances. The apparent windfall came at a critical time: her husband was injured and a daughter was diagnosed with diabetes. She refinanced with an adjustable-rate mortgage, taking out a chunk of her home equity. But she says she never realized the ultra-low teaser rate would jump so high so soon, raising her monthly mortgage payment by more than $1,000. "That was never explained to me," she says. "If it was, I never would have signed any documents." A year...
...trip, could experience the thrust and heave of great tectonic plates of nourishment at prebreakfast, breakfast, midmorning bouillon, lunch, tea, a five-course dinner and, of course, midnight buffet. Jay Johnson, 23, a well- and happily fed store owner from Durham, N.C., speared a chunk of king crab and admitted that anyplace else ''it would cost me a fortune to eat like this.'' Passengers on such cruise ships tend to be middle-aged or elderly. They have, perhaps, toured Europe's museums and castles as a pleasurable duty imposed years ago by college art history classes. Alaska, not a required...