EU Foundations are more likely to behave in an international way then their American counterparts. The top 40 European Foundations provided 2002 grants of 3.2 billion euros, $3.5 billion, almost all of them gave outside their borders. The top 40 American Foundations gave more 7.4 billion euros, $8.1 billion but only 14% gave outside the USA American Foundations are not ...
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A little encouraging news from a study of health care costs and longevity. Longer life itself does not necessarily mean greater overall health care costs. “The basic lesson of our study is that although healthy people live longer, they don’t cost more in the long run,” said Jim Lubitz, acting chief of the Aging Studies Branch in the statistics center’s ...
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Employees Pay 48% More for Company Health Plans The headline says it all.
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The American Cancer Society University (ACSU) Asia will be held in Okaland, CA Spetember 14-20, 2003. The purpose of this international program is to aid patients and those at risk for cancer worldwide by strengthening the capacity of developing cancer societies (NGOs) and outreach programs of institutions to engage in the global fight against cancer. ACSU Asia brings together 19 ...
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