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AARP Health Tools

The Health Tools portion of the AARP website addresses questions about Medicare, drug interactions, and where to find cheaper medicines. There is even a "Doughnut Hole Calculator" for those visitors with Medicare Part D who are worried about a coverage gap. The "Pill Identifier" tool helps visitors avoid medication mix-ups, by allowing for searches by "imprint", "shape", or "color" of the...

https://www.aarp.org/health/health_tools/
Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses

This USDA Economic Research Service Report (AER-741, available in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only), discusses cost-of-illness methods and cost-of-illness estimates for six microbe-borne diseases, including E. Coli, which receives a chapter of its own. The report can be downloaded by chapter or in its entirety. Escherichia coli refers to a diverse family of hundreds of bacteria, many of which are...

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=407...