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Mashup Score: 25Reducing alcohol use through alcohol control policies in the general population and population subgroups: a systematic review and meta-analysis - 8 month(s) ago
We estimate the effects of alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing (MUP), and restricted temporal availability on overall alcohol consumption and review their differential impact across sociodemographic groups. Web of Science, Medline, PsycInfo, Embase, and EconLit were searched on 08/12/2022 and 09/26/2022 for studies on newly introduced or changed alcohol policies published between 2000 and 2022 (Prospero registration: CRD42022339791). We combined data using random-effects meta-analyses. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale.
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Mashup Score: 4Wyden decries 'astonishingly low' tax rates for pharma companies as he probes business maneuvers - 1 year(s) ago
“Big Pharma gets us coming and going — they charge Americans sky-high prices and they pay absolute rock-bottom taxes,” Sen. Ron Wyden said.
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At the end of 2022, Congress passed a massive 4,155-page spending package that included SECURE Act 2.0, which provided numerous improvements to retirement savings and distribution rules.Section 126 of that bill included a provision that amended the Internal Revenue Code. The change allows for tax-free and penalty-free rollovers from 529 plans to Roth IRA accounts starting in 2024.
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Mashup Score: 1How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people - 1 year(s) ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak caused by an extremely worrisome bacteria — one that some say heralds an era in which antibiotics no longer work and seemingly routine infections get horribly out of hand.
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Mashup Score: 1Pharmalittle: Sanofi R&D head unexpectedly steps down; U.K. tax rate criticized after AstraZeneca locates plant in Ireland - 1 year(s) ago
Sanofi says its global head of research and development, John Reed, is stepping down after shareholders criticized its development pipeline.
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Mashup Score: 18Health Taxes - 1 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 1Nutrition-related health taxes: setting expectations - 1 year(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the availability of effective vaccines have highlighted the need for robust evaluations of population health interventions, from vaccines to interventions for obesity. The robustness of these evaluations, and the identification of effective interventions, often rely on evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and, more so, on comparative evidence across…
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Mashup Score: 2Nutrition-related health taxes: setting expectations - 1 year(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the availability of effective vaccines have highlighted the need for robust evaluations of population health interventions, from vaccines to interventions for obesity. The robustness of these evaluations, and the identification of effective interventions, often rely on evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and, more so, on comparative evidence across…
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THURSDAY, Nov. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In a finding that challenges the notion that immigrants are freeloaders in the American health care system, a new study shows they are paying a lot more through health care premiums and related taxes than they actually use in care. In fact, the amount that…
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Often, after speaking about taxes at a medical conference, we are approached by a physician attendee who has read that billionaires, like Warren Buffet and Elon Musk, pay less taxes than they do and they wonder how that can be.Typically, the physician then asks how they can do what the super-rich do in this regard. In this article, we examine the “buy, borrow, die” strategy that
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