15-Oct-2013 08:51

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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IMF: U.S. debt default worries :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/SDRW9pZQXZI/qmb-imf-olivier-blanchard-intv.cnn.html

'No‐one actually goes to a shop and buys them do they?': attitudes and behaviours regarding illicit tobacco in a multiply disadvantaged community in England :: ConclusionsNational strategies to reduce illicit tobacco may have limited impact in communities during a recession and where illicit trade is part of the local culture and economy. There may be potential to influence illicit tobacco use by building on the ambivalence and unease expressed around selling to children. (Source: Addiction)
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Is Golden Dawn a criminal group? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/D2Tdct-9gsg/index.html

HP, Google roll out $279 Chromebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/PIwE7xwg2mE/index.html

My Business Asia: Touring Taiwan :: The BBC's Cindy Sui talks to Yen Tseng about his student exchange programme bringing Chinese travellers and students to experience his take on Taiwan.
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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)
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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:• 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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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)<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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Burberry boss Ahrendts to join Apple :: Burberry chief executive Angela Ahrendts will leave the luxury goods firm next year to join technology giant Apple.
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US Senate leaders inch to debt deal :: The US Senate is nearing a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, sources say, but Republicans in the lower house have yet to agree.
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Changes ordered in UK audit market :: Major UK-listed companies must allow accountancy firms to bid for their audit work every 10 years, the Competition Commission has ruled.
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Young Bonobos Under Parental Care Manage Emotions Like Humans, Comfort Others In Distress: Study :: <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>Young bonobos and children share remarkable similarities in emotional development suggesting that apes can control their emotions like humans do, according to researchers studying young bonobos in an African sanctuary.</p>
<p>The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, suggests the socio-emotional framework that plays a crucial role in the development of children also works equally well for apes. Researchers believe that they can use this framework to predict ape behavior.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/young-bonobos-under-parental-care-manage-emotions-humans-comfort-others-distress-study-1425582

American Economists Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller And Lars Peter Hansen Share Economics Nobel Prize :: <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>Three American economists won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into asset prices that transformed the way economists and investors evaluate financial markets and showed that it is possible to predict the prices of stocks and bonds over long periods of time.</p>
<p>Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Robert Shiller of Yale University were awarded the top economics prize worth 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million) for their "empirical analysis of asset prices," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/american-economists-eugene-fama-robert-shiller-lars-peter-hansen-share-economics-nobel-prize-1425590

Dry Ice Bomb Goes Off At LAX For Second Night In A Row; FBI Probing First Incident :: <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>A bomb made of a plastic bottle and dry ice exploded at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday night, making it the second such incident in two nights, NBC Los Angeles reported.</p>
<p>No injuries were immediately reported and no flights were delayed Monday even as the FBI investigated a similar bomb that exploded on Sunday night and delayed flights for several hours.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/dry-ice-bomb-goes-lax-second-night-row-fbi-probing-first-incident-1425588

Premise Data wants to revitalize economic data, and Android plays a big role :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/JalVk1ic5no/

Danone in China management shuffle :: Dumex, a baby food brand owned by French firm Danone, says it will appoint new management following allegations of bribery in China.
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Anonymous Targets Maryville, Missouri, After Teen Rape Victim Daisy Coleman Was Forced Out Of Town And Suspects Went Free :: <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 international hactivist collective Anonymous has targeted the rural Missouri town of Maryville in its latest campaign, following the Kansas City Star's shocking report that the rapists of two underage girls walked free after all charges against them were dropped.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/anonymous-targets-maryville-missouri-after-teen-rape-victim-daisy-coleman-was-forced-out-town

UPDATE: 7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Kills At Least 10 In Philippines; No Sign Of Tsunami :: <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><em><strong>Update as of  11:13 PM EDT:</strong></em> The death toll in the earthquake that struck about 56 kilometers (35 miles) under the town of Carmen on Bohol Island, and was felt across the country's central region, has gone up to 10, according to Associated Press. Because offices and schools were closed for a national holiday, it may reduce the number of casualties, AP reported.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/update-72-magnitude-earthquake-kills-least-10-philippines-no-sign-tsunami-1425572