29-Sep-2013 21:50

Susan Levine, executive director of the state's largest hospice provider, said the process has been painful.

"I think people's lives and jobs are a whole lot more important than anything," she said. "All we do is take care of people, so to have to separate people from their jobs in an economy that's already squirrelly is extremely painful for us."

The cuts are a… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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279-year-old newspaper goes digital :: Lloyd's List, the shipping industry newspaper that started out pinned to a London coffee shop wall in 1734, will be online only by the end of the year.
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Samsung to make curved smartphone :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TMZZ6cJSKIY/index.html

Why oil is where Iran feels the pain :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/0foOtR3H78M/index.html

Energy bills: Where does my money go? :: Why is my gas and electricity bill more than £1,000?
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Coca-Cola's clean water initiative :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/8R7HyDIpsWM/intv-harlow-muhtar-kent-clean-water.cnn.html

Why strippers love U.N. meeting :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZBeOKRia7f4/dnt-un-nyc-strip-clubs.wpix.html

BlackBerry battles for survival :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/eh3N_IHqfYM/qmb-blackberrys-battle.cnn.html

Finding paradise in retirement :: The BBC's Ashleigh Nghiem speaks to Ivy Singh about turning her retirement plans into a successful business and setting up a farm in crowded Singapore.
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Regenerative Medicine, Global Aging Were Hot Topics At Life Science Conference in Stockholm :: Aging is a huge economic problem and it is hitting the bottom line in every country. The older the population, the more healthcare it consumes. This puts a big burden on society and on the global economy. What is the medical community doing about it? (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Fed tapering -- like tailoring? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/oGQ78GQ4izQ/fed-tapering-tailoring-quest-explain-pkg.cnn.html

BlackRock CEO: Taper now :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/rZ8Vn5n58ik/fed-reserve-tapering-larry-fink-intv.cnn.html

Capturing China's e-commerce :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/fnxFi5M-5p0/index.html

This is how we pick Fed chief? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/AoBJ_amno3U/index.html

New jet takes on Boeing and Airbus :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/qVyNokXn_xI/index.html

Apple splits its pitch: Can it work? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ucaQIv5px7o/index.html

Buffett's advice to Melinda Gates :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/JnLKLAnrwVE/spc-leading-women-melinda-gates-foundation.cnn.html

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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Buzzfeeds: the effects of colony collapse disorder and other bee news :: Concerned about the worldwide bee crisis? Introducing Buzzfeeds, a weekly analysis with our resident bee expertIn the past six years, more than 10m beehives have been wiped out from a mystery disease called colony collapse disorder. This destruction has serious implications on worldwide ecology and economy.Of the 100 crop species responsible for providing 90% of food worldwide, 71 are dependent on bee pollination, according to UN estimates (pdf). It's difficult to pinpoint the financial implications of this destruction, but the international body says pollination is worth between $37bn and $91bn, annually.Stories about the declining population and its effect on the environment trickle through the news cycle each week. To bring awareness to these stories and contextualize the issues, we wil...
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With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Valve pioneers a boss-free business :: Valve discusses how banning managers, putting desks on wheels and going on group holidays has helped fuel its success.
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