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FierceHealthcare -
11 hours 41 minutes ago
For the past several years, policymakers have linked physicians' fear of malpractice suits to the rise in defensive medicine, and assumed these forces were contributing to rising healthcare costs....
- Forbes - The true cost of medical malpractice - it may surprise you
- WSJ Health Blog - How Much Does Defensive Medicine Cost? One Study Says $46 Billion
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Sky News -
16 hours 33 minutes ago
Cockroaches have long been regarded as an unwanted pest but in fact they could hold the secret to treating the most resilient of superbugs, scientists say.
Tests have found tissue from the brains...
- DailyTech - Creepy Crawlers Could Help Fight Superbugs
- BusinessWeek - Cockroach Brains May Be a Source of Antibiotics, Research Says
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Twin Cites Business -
1 day 10 hours 49 minutes ago
Little Canada-based St. Jude will have the exclusive option to pay an additional $375 million to acquire CardioMEMS later on. St. Jude Medical, Inc., said Tuesday that it plans to pay $60 million...
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Health Affairs -
1 day 17 hours 57 minutes ago
Medical malpractice and reform proposals have been a longstanding battleground of U.S. health policy. On the one hand, studies have shown that health care is rife with errors and avoidable injury...
- GoozNews - Drug Marketing - A Form of Malpractice
- New York Times - Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed in Studies
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New York Times -
3 days 22 hours 12 minutes ago
New York City schoolchildren are as heavy, or perhaps even heavier, than the national average, despite the Bloomberg administration’s dogged efforts to improve the health of city residents,...
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New York Times -
4 days 17 hours 56 minutes ago
Two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would remove the drug midodrine from the market because the drug’s maker never confirmed that the medicine — approved in 1996...
- GoozNews - Midodrine and Avastin -- Two Very Different Situations
- New York Times - F.D.A. Backtracks and Returns Dizziness Drug to Market After Complaints
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BusinessWeek -
5 days 14 hours 20 minutes ago
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks jumped, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gaining a fourth day, after private employers added more jobs than forecast in August to ease concern the economy...
- Forbes - Unemployment Rate Rises To 9.6%
- New York Times - European Shares Jump After U.S. Jobs Report
- BusinessWeek - European Stocks Climb, Extending Weekly Gain, on U.S. Jobs Data
- BusinessWeek - Obama welcomes 'positive' jobs report, renews call for small business aid to spur economy
- BusinessWeek - Job creation needs to be sped up, Obama says
- BusinessWeek - European Stocks Climb as U.S. Private Jobs Growth Tops Forecast
- BusinessWeek - Metals Stocks: Gold futures down nearly 1% after U.S. jobs data
- Minnapolis Star Tribune - Before the Bell: Payrolls data, BP, Walgreen in the spotlight
- MarketWatch - NewsWatch: Smaller-than-feared 54,000 Aug. nonfarm jobs lost
- MarketWatch - Stocks Advance, Treasuries, Gold Retreat on Employment Report
- MarketWatch - Pimco’s McCulley Says Odds of More Fed Easing Drop
- MarketWatch - Retail Stocks: Retail stocks cheered by jobs numbers; Ulta jumps
- MarketWatch - Unemployment Rises, Hurray
- MarketWatch - Treasuries Drop, Yield Curve Steepens After Payrolls Report
- MarketWatch - Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks tally robust gains on jobs data
- BusinessWeek - More Jobs Added Than Expected in August
- BusinessWeek - A Jekyll-and-Hyde Jobs Report
- BusinessWeek - Payrolls seen falling, private hiring tepid
- BusinessWeek - Economic Preview: August jobs report takes center stage
- BusinessWeek - Stocks Rise Following Jobs, Housing Reports
- MarketWatch - Recession Talk Quieted by Improving Jobs Report
- MarketWatch - US Jobs Report Expected to Disappoint
- MarketWatch - Consumer Confidence Inches Up
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The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal -
5 days 15 hours 40 minutes ago
North Memorial Health Care has suspended its CEO David Cress indefinitely without pay as the executive deals with the aftermath of a misdemeanor charge related to prostitution.
The...
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MarketWatch -
6 days 14 hours 2 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Many recession-battered employers passed on a bigger share of health-insurance costs to workers or made their benefits less comprehensive this year, even though...
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WSJ Health Blog -
6 days 14 hours 51 minutes ago
The FDA’s probe into what caused the salmonella contamination that prompted a massive egg recall now includes criminal investigators, the WSJ reports today. FDA head Margaret Hamburg says the...
- WSJ Health Blog - More Egg Recall News: Companies Point Fingers on Salmonella Contamination
- Fox - Lawsuit Over Tainted Eggs in Minnesota
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FierceHealthcare -
6 days 18 hours 27 minutes ago
The full board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) failed to stand up to CEO Paul Levy after complaints first surfaced in 2003-04 about his improper relationship with a subordinate,...
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New York Times -
6 days 19 hours 58 minutes ago
ATLANTA — Thirty-eight end-stage renal patients, most of them illegal immigrants, would receive the dialysis they need to stay alive at no cost under a rough agreement brokered Tuesday among local...
- Mother Jones - Who Should Pay for Illegal Immigrants' Health Care?
- FierceHealthcare - Illegal immigrants will get dialysis care under new deal
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Sky News -
6 days 21 hours 38 minutes ago
US health regulators are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands to hospital.
The Food and Drug Administration on...
- Minnapolis Star Tribune - FDA considers restricting ingredient in Robitussin and other cough medicines to curb abuse
- CBS News - Feds Weigh New Rules on Cough Medicine
- BusinessWeek - ‘Robo-Tripping’ Fears Lead U.S. to Weigh Controls on Cough Drug
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Health Affairs -
7 days 5 hours 21 minutes ago
The Medicaid program is facing major new challenges. The new health care law puts both significant new responsibilities and financial burdens on the program. At the same time, Medicaid, as one...
- HealthBeat - A Longer-Term Fix For Medicaid?
- Wonk Room - A New Proposal To Change The Counter-Cyclical Effect In Medicaid Funding
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FierceHealthcare -
7 days 11 hours 48 minutes ago
Cambridge Hospital nurses won a fight against the Cambridge Health Alliance when the Commonwealth Employment Relations Board ruled Friday that a unilateral cut in retiree health benefits was not...
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ZDNet -
7 days 16 hours 51 minutes ago
It's that time of year again when parents and students scour the planet for the top gear and...Microsoft's Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle that's expected...
- ZDNet - How much next-generation health IT will be made in China
- ZDNet - Ebix gets into health care market with A.D.A.M. buy
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Chicago Tribune -
8 days 12 hours 28 minutes ago
Federal investigators report seeing chickens and rodents crawling up massive manure piles and flies and maggots 'too numerous to count' at two Iowa poultry farms that have recalled 550 million...
- WSJ Health Blog - FDA Egg Farm Inspection Reports Include Rodents, Flies, 8-Foot-High Manure Pile
- New York Times - Inspection of Egg Farms Uncovered Several Problems
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New York Times -
9 days 5 hours 33 minutes ago
The 3M Company agreed to buy Cogent, a manufacturer of fingerprint identification systems for governments and companies, for $943 million to expand its security services products.The offer is for...
- BusinessWeek - 3M May See Competition in Bid to Buy Cogent, Analysts Say
- BusinessWeek - 3M May See Competition in Bid to Purchase Cogent
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GoozNews -
9 days 14 hours 16 minutes ago
Annals of rising health care costs, part ad infinitum : The medical literature is lit up today with news from a European cardiovascular disease meeting in Stockholm. In the eye of the storm:...
- BusinessWeek - AstraZeneca’s Brilinta Doesn’t Require Gene Testing, Study Says
- BusinessWeek - AstraZeneca’s Brilinta Doesn’t Require Genetic Testing
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Financial Times -
9 days 15 hours 38 minutes ago
US stocks nudged down in early trading on Monday after data showed personal incomes rose less than expected, raising questions about the sustainability of consumer spending. Less than an hour...
- BusinessWeek - U.S. Economy: Consumer Spending Climbs as Incomes Lag Behind
- BusinessWeek - Yen Climbs on Speculation Bank of Japan Moves Won’t Curb Gain
- BusinessWeek - July consumer spending rises at fastest pace in 4 months, helped by strength in auto sales
- BusinessWeek - Economic Report: Savings rate dips as spending up 0.4% in July
- BusinessWeek - Bond Report: Treasurys up after data, recover from Friday drop
- BusinessWeek - Consumer spending rises 0.4% in July
- BusinessWeek - Economic Outlook: August jobs data crucial to investors, lawmakers
- BusinessWeek - Israeli Bonds Decline as Bernanke Speech Drives Up U.S. Yields
- BusinessWeek - Employment, Manufacturing Probably Slowed: U.S. Economy Preview
- BusinessWeek - Bernanke Says Fed Can Prevent Recession, Avoids Stimulus Pledge
