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Healthcare
& Biotechnology Glossary 
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terms pertaining to the Health Care & Biotechnology
Industries.
Health Care Business Trends
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and statistics in the following areas:
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- Continued Rise in Health Care Costs
- Employers Push Health Care Costs onto Employees
- Medicare and Medicaid Spending Will Continue
to Surge as Baby Boomers Pass 60 Years of Age
- Medicare Changes Include Drug Benefits for
Seniors for the First Time
- Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement
Accounts Gain Traction
- Vast Number of Uninsured and Underinsured
Americans
- Cost of Pharmaceuticals Soars in U.S., Controversy
over Drug Prices Rages On
- Boom in Surgery Centers
- Managed Care Becomes More Patient-Friendly
- Growing Use of Managed Care by Medicare
- Malpractice Suits Are Blamed for Rising
Health Care Costs
- Transplants Are Big Business
- Hospitals are Reengineering
- Health Care Goes Offshore, Private Clinics
Thrive in China and India
- Disease Management Programs Take Root
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- Clinics Open in Retail Store Settings
- Health Care Technology Introduction
- Information Technology and Health Care
- Stem Cells—Controversy in the U.S.
Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the Research Race
- Stem Cell Funding Trickles at the Federal
Level While California Creates Funding of Its Own
- Stem Cells—Therapeutic Cloning Techniques
Advance
- Stem Cells—A New Era of Regenerative
Medicine Looms
- Gene Therapies and Patients’ Genetic
Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine
- New Drug Delivery Systems
- Advances in Cancer Research
- Advances in Diagnostic Imaging and Monitoring
- Advances in Laboratory Testing
- Advances in Surgery
- Other Treatment Technologies
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Biotechnology
& Genetics Business Trends
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trends and statistics in the following areas:
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- A Short History of Biotechnology
- The State of the Biotechnology Industry
Today
- New Money Pours into Biotech Firms
- Major Drug Companies Bet on Partnerships With Smaller Biotech Research Firms
- From India to Singapore to Russia, Nations Compete Fiercely in Biotech Development
- Gene Therapies and Patients' Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine
- New Kinase Inhibitors Are Breakthrough Drugs for Cancer Treatment-Many More Will Follow
- Systems Biology May Lead to Faster, More Cost-Effective Drug Development
- Pharmaceutical Costs Soars in U.S., Controversy over Drug Prices Rages On
- Stem Cells-Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the Research Race
- Stem Cell Funding Trickles at the Federal Level While California Creates Funding of Its Own
- Stem Cells—Therapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance
- Stem Cells—A New Era of Regenerative Medicine Looms
- Nanotechnology and Information Technologies Converge with Biotech
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Scores Breakthroughs but Causes Controversy
- Breakthrough Drug Delivery Systems Evolve
- Biogenerics are in Limbo in the U.S.
- HapMap Project Moves Ahead
- BioShield Promises $5.6 Billion to Counter
Potential Bioterror Attacks in the U.S.
- Ethical Issues Abound
- Technology Discussion—Genomics
- Technology Discussion—Proteomics
- Technology Discussion—Microarrays
- Technology Discussion—DNA Chips
- Technology Discussion—SNPs (“Snips”)
- Technology Discussion—Combinatorial Chemistry
- Technology Discussion—Vaccines
- Technology Discussion—Synthetic Biology
- Technology Discussion—Recombinant DNA
- Technology Discussion—Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
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Healthcare & Biotechnology Industry
Statistics
Health
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Biotechnology
Healthcare
& Biotechnology Industry Contacts and Associations
Health
Care Industry Contacts and Associations 
Biotech
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