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Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare
Date: July 1991
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: In 1984, the year after cyclosporine made its debut onto the health care market, OTA reported to Congress on the likely benefits of the drug for Medicare kidney transplant recipients. The present report, requested by the Senate Committee on Finance in the wake of the repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, examines Medicare’s current immunosuppressive drug coverage dilemma and the policy tradeoffs it entails for the 1990s.
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Partnerships Under Pressure: Managing Commercial Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Date: November 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report provides an overview of progress made by nine compacts and the remaining unaffiliated States in developing disposal facilities. Disposal costs have more than tripled while LLW volumes have dropped by more than half over the last decade. Since many costs associated with developing and operating a disposal facility are fixed, unit disposal costs will increase substantially as new facilities open. This may lead States to consider the economics of cooperative arrangements, which would permit them to trade waste services and construct fewer full-service disposal facilities.
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Passive smoking in the workplace: selected issues: staff paper
Date: May 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: Three major areas are covered in this Staff Paper: 1) a review of the studies of health effects related to passive smoking; 2) a review of current Federal, State and local, and private sector workplace smoking policies; and 3) a discussion of factors to consider in an analysis of the costs and benefits of implementing a workplace smoking policy.
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Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Date: August 1981
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines the relationships between patent-term extension and pharmaceutical innovation," paying special attention to social implications of patent-term extension (p. iii).
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Patenting life: Commercial applications and economic impact of patented animals
Date: June 1988
Creator: Lesser, William H.
Description: This report provides an overview of U.S. live stock sector. It discusses the potential of commercial applications and expected economic impacts.
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Patenting life: Ethical issues related to the patenting of animals
Date: June 8, 1988
Creator: Brody , Baruch A.
Description: This report discusses the importance of patenting transgenic animal for scientific and technology developments, and for innovation and entrepreneurship. It also discusses metaphysical and teological arguments opposing the patenting of transgenic animals.
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Patenting life:Report on agricultural applications and the economic impact of patents on plant breeding
Date: January 1988
Creator: Patterson, Richard J.
Description: This report provides an introduction on intellectual property statutes in the United States. It discusses the seed and plant industries in the U.S., management of patents and public issues.
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Patterns and Trends in Federal Coal Lease Ownership 1950-80
Date: April 1981
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "identifies the participants in the Federal coal leasing program between 1950 and 1980, traces the ownership on a lease-by-lease basis, and discusses the business activities and organizational structures of the lessees [sic]" (p. iii).
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Paying the Bill: Manufacturing and America's Trade Deficit
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This special report analyzes the causes of the deterioration in America’s trade performance and examines the importance of U.S. manufacturing in helping the nation improve its position in international trade. The report was requested by Senator John Heinz as part of an assessment of technology, innovation and U.S. trade requested by the Senate Committee on Finance; the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; and the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. A final report will be published in 1989.
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Payment for physician services: strategies for Medicare
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: A report on medicare coverage of physician services for elderly and disabled. The report also discusses the payment methods that have also fueled increases in expenditures for physician services, which are now one of the most rapidly growing parts of the Federal budget.
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