Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that cardiovascular disease will overtake infectious diseases to become the leading cause of death worldwide in 13 years.

Stakeholder Insight: Atherosclerosis - HDL, ApoA-I, Carotid MRI and 64-slice CT Offer Opportunities For Future Treatment uses secondary research and interviews from seven major markets -UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain- to conclude that Coronary Heart Disease, the single largest killer of Americans, will extend its grip on the rest of world by 2020. It also states that emerging technologies could help in identifying vulnerable individuals by non-invasive means.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that growth in the pharmaceutical market in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) will be slow, but steady.

The Market for Pharmaceuticals in Brazil, Russia, India & China describes expansion in these regions as evolution rather than revolution. While the report takes into account that these are rapidly emerging economies, which in 2006 represented a market of over 2.7 billion people and a combined GDP of $5.2 trillion, it also notes that the BRIC countries’ total projected health expenditure in 2006 was estimated at US$266.2 billion. This sum is equivalent to what Germany spent on healthcare on its own and it overshadowed by the sum the U.S. spent on healthcare in the same time frame - $2.1 trillion.

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Report Buyer has added a new report which forecasts that the physician office laboratory global industry will experience a 6% growth to touch the $ 2.4B mark in the next 4 years.

Physician Office Laboratory (POL) Testing Markets Worldwide - Status Quo and Future Trends says that the rapid emergence of healthcare IT which is instrumental in creating rapid test devices and analyzers which work in tandem with healthcare networks, has created a $1.6 billion global industry of POL diagnostics which will gather further market momentum.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that the industry for home care health products will see a continuing rise in the next four years.

U.S. Market for Home Care Products, 5th Edition says factors contributing to the sustained growth in the market are an ageing US population, an increase in health conditions that need home care and a sustained effort to move from expensive institutional care to cheaper home care. A combination of these factors is predicted to drive overall sales over $10 billion by 2011.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report on the development of modern cancer therapies.

Monoclonal Antibodies, Vaccines and Other Immunologic Cancer Treatments forecasts that there is likely to be a dramatic change over the next five years in treatment methods.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that Pfizer’s Chantix™ (varenicline) could revolutionise the current addiction treatment market.

Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments - A World Market Analysis says that Chantix, approved by the FDA in 2006, together with the fact that there are greater reimbursement levels for addiction treatments, can propel global sales of smoking cessation and other addition treatments to over $2.3 billion in 2010.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report on the rapidly expanding range of automated products for pets. Convenience and emotional factors propel owners to buy, says the study.

Pet Travel and Convenience Products finds that the most overriding consideration while purchasing products is consumer convenience. In fact, 85% of mass market shoppers bought products that possessed features that would make looking after their pets easier.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that Asia’s medical device market will continue to expand.

Asian Medical Device Markets projects that in five key Asian countries, imports of medical instrumentation are expected to rise from USD $30.43 billion in 2006 to USD $43.08 billion by 2010.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a new report called 2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Hong Kong and Macau.

Both Hong Kong and Macau, Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China, have developed world-recognised reputations as highly sophisticated and dynamic telecommunications markets. These regions have booming mobile markets and by early 2007 were the leading mobile markets in Asia in terms of subscriber penetration.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a new report on the rapid penetration of broadband in Australia.

2007 Australia - Broadband Market notes that Australia taking to high speed connections despite Telstra and the Government not coming to an agreement over key issues. By mid-2007 there were close to 4.5 million subscribers in the country.

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