08-Oct-2013 23:20

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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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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NHS set to miss £20 billion savings target :: 18 Sep 2013





The NHS will struggle to meet its target of delivering £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 according to The King's Fund's latest quarterly monitoring report.Only 1 in 10 (10 per cent) of NHS finance directors surveyed for the report rated the chances of meeting the target as better than 50/50. The majority (56 per cent) identified a high or very high risk that the target will not be met, while a third (34 per cent) rated the likelihood of success as 50/50.The survey – which this quarter includes finance leads from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as well as trust finance directors – highlights the growing pressures on NHS providers. Only a third (33 per cent) of trusts surveyed expect to meet their cost improvement targets for 20...
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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)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Five diseases that are, thankfully, consigned to the past | Richard Sugg :: Richard III's roundworm was just one of the gruesome diseases that killed and maimed the British population through the agesThe news that Richard III suffered from roundworm reminds us how grateful we should be for the advances of modern sanitation and medicine. In both Richard's era and long after, rich and poor were horribly vulnerable to diseases that either killed you efficiently or made you wish you were dead.1. Sweating sicknessIf Richard had not died at Bosworth field in 1485, he might well have been struck down by this malady. First recorded in Shrewsbury in mid-April 1485, this terrifying new disease had reached London by 7 July. The sweating sickness resembled the more recent Ebola virus in its terrifying speed. It was to return to Britain in 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551, and in 15...
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Airports target yawning passengers :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/PkzoP1bKQEk/index.html

Mad, mad world of China e-commerce :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TlgrjV1KRtk/index.html

Advertisers get creative at airports :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/PkzoP1bKQEk/index.html

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:&bull; 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).&bull; 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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What food allergies are costing families -- and the economy :: Two of Emily Cunningham's three children have food allergies. And protecting her kids is taking toll on the family budget. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
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Asbestos Mining in Russia Still Fuels the Economy in Some Cities :: Dangers are ignored when asbestos mining fuels economy in this Russian city. (Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News)
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Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/lqtSN0b-PgA/

Survey: Tell us your thoughts about Twitter's IPO :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Oyxi1XyY5kI/

Apple iPad event tipped for October 22 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/yzN-LD8N_k8/

AT&T's FiLIP smartwatch isn't that smart but it's certainly connected :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/7Pau0_-FQmQ/

Georgia Tech Fraternity Phi Kappa Tau Under Investigation For 'Rapebait' Email On Picking Up Girls :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>College fraternities are notorious for engaging in rowdy behavior that can sometimes cross over into the illegal. Now Georgia Tech's Phi Kappa Tau frat is in hot water after one of its members – identified by <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/10/this-rape-y-e-mail-teaches-frat-bros-to-dance.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York magazine</a> as Matthew Peterson, the frat's social chair -- sent a mass email to his fraternity brothers with instructions on how to pick up girls.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/georgia-tech-fraternity-phi-kappa-tau-under-investigation-rapebait-email-picking-girls-1417730

Study Measures 'Digital Natives' Around The World: Here's Where Millennials Use The Internet The Most :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Show us a millennial who hasn't opened an Internet browser in the last 24 hours, and we'll show you a photo of Miley Cyrus without her tongue sticking out. These days it seems every young person is perpetually plugged into the Web. But globally, that's not really the case: Less than one in three young people around the world between age of 15 and 24 has been active on the Internet for at least five years, according to a <a href="http://www.news.gatech.edu/2013/10/07/where-world-are-young-people-using-internet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new study</a>.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/study-measures-digital-natives-around-world-heres-where-millennials-use-internet-most-1417826

Government Shutdown 2013: Why The US Government Shutdown Is A Gasoline IV For The Economy :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It was just revealed in President Obama's speech Tuesday that the Republican party believes their current strategy gives them the most leverage. Please keep in mind, the 'current strategy' is 'taking the U.S. Government hostage.'</p>
<p>Government officials should not have to leverage. They should not be this calculating. They should compromise. Hundreds of thousands of peoples' lives and livelihoods are at stake at the mercy of these Washington buffoons. These people have no strategy other than to completely oppose the other party regardless of whether or not they're right.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/government-shutdown-2013-why-us-government-shutdown-gasoline-iv-economy-1417842

Nobel Prize In Physics 2013 Goes To Higgs Boson Theorists; When Will Stephen Hawking Get His Turn? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, the two researchers that dreamed up the Higgs boson, marking yet another year without a Nobel Prize for famed physicist Stephen Hawking. What gives?</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/nobel-prize-physics-2013-goes-higgs-boson-theorists-when-will-stephen-hawking-get-his-turn-1417704

Fox Host Anna Kooiman Gaffe: Obama Will Pay For Muslim Museum To Stay Open [VIDEO] :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>"Fox and Friends" co-host Anna Kooiman said on air that President Barack Obama "has offered to pay for the Museum of Muslim Culture out of his own pocket" amidst the government shutdown.  The statement is indeed false, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/07/anna_kooiman_fox_new_co_host_blames_flawed_research_for_obama_muslim_museum.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slate</a> wrote.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/fox-host-anna-kooiman-gaffe-obama-will-pay-muslim-museum-stay-open-video-1417916

Iran's Rouhani Faces Music As Sanctions Bite Harder, Is There A SWIFT Solution In The Works? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After years of bluster from former president Ahmadinejad Iran appears finally to be facing the fact that economic sanctions have crippled its ability to do business within the global financial system.</p>
<p>Refelcting that changed national outlook Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani last month addressed the United Nations in New York in an attempt to soften the Islamic Republic's hostile relationship with America and the west and set the stage for its reentry into a key organization that facilitates financial transactions across borders and allows modern nations to expedite payments.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/irans-rouhani-faces-music-sanctions-bite-harder-there-swift-solution-works-1417768