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A case study of the expensive diets of Clare stars John Conlon & Podge Collins

It has never been more expensive to fuel up like an inter-county star. Amateur athletes are eating like professional sports stars – and it all adds up when it comes to the weekly shop. Players spend anywhere between €125-150 per week to tick all the boxes marked out by nutritional experts employed by each county.… Read More »

The most expensive medicine ever treats a rare condition. The price: $2.13 million – Los Angeles Times

Evelyn Villarreal was one of the first children treated, at 8 weeks. Her family, from Centreville, Va., had lost their first child to spinal muscular atrophy at 15 months. Two years later when Evelyn was born a test showed she also had the disease, so the family enrolled her in the gene therapy study at… Read More »