Dementia costs Britain billions per year
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Around 700,000 Britons suffer from dementia and the condition costs the nation's economy 17 billion pounds annually, the Alzheimer's Society has said Tuesday.
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The final cost of modernising NHS IT systems could top Â£18.6bn - three times the declared figure, according to reports.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    ------    Average Cost of U.S. Nursing Home is $70K Annually: Survey      The average cost of a private room in a nursing home in the United States is $70,080 a year, or $192 a day, according to a survey released Monday by the MetLife Mature Market Institute...
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Dental treatment in England is the most expensive in Europe, a survey shows.
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The cost to the NHS of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade, the BBC learns.
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The cost to the NHS of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade.
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The British government has admitted its ambitous database project could cost millions to maintain.
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The National Health Service (NHS) is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded medicines, using up funds that could be spent on other needs, the competition watchdog has said.
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LONDON: Fraud costs Britain a minimum of 13.9 billion a year, and the figure could be as high as 20 billion, according to a report yesterday.Comment
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Fraud is costing the UK at least Â£20bn a year, or Â£330 for each person in the UK, a police study warns.
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NEW YORK  - The cost of treating patients  with moderately severe to severe Alzheimer's disease with the  drug memantine are more than offset by overall savings,  European researchers report in the journal Clinical Drug  Investigation.
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Business & money: British economy faces rising costs of food and increasing energy prices amid slowing growth
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Â· Games take priority over royal hardship claim  Â· Royal family costs us each 62p a year, figures show
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People with Parkinson&#39;s disease (news - web sites) and dementia experience a similar average annual decline in cognitive function as people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease (news
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Elderly people with diabetes have an increased risk of dementia, especially so-called vascular dementia, according to new data from an ongoing Swedish study.
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An herbal medicine used in Asia for 2,000 years can reduce the impact of dementia, a small study suggests.
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Memory clinics and drugs to slow the   progress of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are diverting   resources in Britain's state-funded health services from high   quality integrated care, doctors said on Friday.