One-third of all US adults ... does not take into account varying degrees of obesity, which are likely to affect lifetime health-care costs, nor indirect costs of obesity such as reduced productivity.

By 2025, they projected these costs would rise to $112 billion, of which 5% will be direct and 95% indirect. One of the most difficult aspects of obesity's economic consequences is the two-way ...

Independence Blue Cross began limiting coverage of GLP-1 drugs on Jan. 1 to some medical conditions, but not obesity or weight loss.

The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants would cost ...

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But that's not so. Indirect costs include lab space, data storage, regulatory compliance and administrative support. The ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Friday that it would be capping a type of funding for medical research at ...

Biomedical advocates fear the policy would cut millions of dollars for research at places like IU and Purdue. A judge blocked ...

all of which have maximum indirect cost rates of between 10% and 15%. “The United States should have the best medical research in the world. It is accordingly vital to ensure that as many funds as ...

The NIH, the nation’s top funder of biomedical research, announced on Friday that it would substantially limit payments for indirect costs ... discovery in the United States down the line.

Childhood obesity is on the ... that overweight adolescents will cost Americans “$13.62 billion in annual direct medical costs and $49.02 billion in annual indirect costs” by the year 2050.