Now that Google has finally launched its long-awaited Google Health service, it's hard not to sense a kind of boredom across the blogosphere. So much has been written about the service in advance -- including a fair amount by yours truly -- that there's probably no way the real thing...
Just about everyone has their own set of beefs with the U.S. healthcare system. Some start with the number of folks who go without healthcare, usually with no choice in the matter -- that's some 47 million people right there. Escalating costs are another huge concern: Not only do Americans...
Tommy McGloin has likely made your life easier. As the head of MapQuest and Moviefone, he helped provide directions and movie information to millions. Now, as the head of Xoova.com, he's looking to make finding a good doctor easier for all of us. In this interview, McGloin talks about striking...
Postgraduate Destinations is an annual report produced by Graduate Careers Australia GCA, concerning the work and study outcomes of recent graduates from postgraduate level courses offered at Australian higher education institutions. The report is based on the results of the Australian Graduate Survey AGS, the nation's largest survey of higher...
Tate misses preview after twisted ankle, but the show will go on Catherine Tate's much-vaunted return to the West End has come within a whisker of disaster. The flame-haired comedienne is signed up to appear over the summer at the Duke of York's theatre,...
Home News IN BRIEF *People lose more weight on low-carbohydrate regimes such as the Atkins diet than on the standard low-fat diet recommended by doctors, a study has found. Over two years, 322 moderately obese people were put on different diets for the study in Israel. Participants...
In acknowledgment of his many notable achievements and contributions in politics, public service, and international business and trade, the UK's University of Warwick today recognized the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew with an Honourary Doctorate of Law at its summer degree congregation. "Pierre has a formidable reputation as someone who understands the...
Pegasus Pharmaceuticals (PINKSHEETS: PGUZ) today announced that it has appointed and signed an agreement withTenax Corporation of California to distribute and sell its new,laboratory-proven, biological anti-mold and mildew product in Mexico. Tenax Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico, willmarket the product under the name "Doctor MongoTM." The Company...
Kansas City-area physician groups trying to sue several health insurance companies for price-fixing will have to arbitrate their claims. In a unanimous decision, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District en banc sided with the health insurance companies Tuesday, ruling that an arbitration agreement between the two...
HOUSTON -- Telemedicus, Inc. (OTC:TMDI), has engaged Ms. Lisa Burke for its newly created position of VP of Sales and Marketing. Telemedicus commercialized the life saving mobile medical communications technology called "Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services (DREAMS[TM]) Technology" developed by Texas A&M University and the University of Texas. ...
Employers Pay Cash Bonuses to Doctors Providing Optimal Diabetes Care MINNEAPOLIS -- Buyers Health Care Action Group BHCAG and Minnesota Bridges to Excellence today announced that 104 high-performing clinics from 22 medical groups in Minnesota, Western Wisconsin and North Dakota - more than double the number of last...
Specialty Retailers and Sales Reps to Have Web-Based Solution PLYMOUTH, Minn. & DENVER -- CenterStone Technologies, Inc., an international developer of secure Web-based B2B e-commerce software for manufacturers selling through specialty retail channels, today announced that Shock Doctor, Inc., a protective athletic gear manufacturer, has selected the company's...
Home News IN BRIEF The Doctor Who star David Tennant gets in character for the lead role in a production of Hamlet at the RSC's Courtyard Theatre, in Stratford-Upon-Avon...
By Morgan Chilson SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Stormont-Vail HealthCare pediatricians will no longer see their young patients at St. Francis Health Center, choosing instead to consolidate their services at Stormont. PediatricCare physicians sent a letter June 1 to patients stating...
YEKATERINBURG, Russia AFP — Russian Orthodox believers on Wednesday flocked to mark the 90th anniversary of the slaying of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, as controversy raged over the supposed remains of two Romanov children. Thousands of people crammed into the Church on the Blood in the...
By Morgan Chilson SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Stormont-Vail HealthCare pediatricians will no longer see their young patients at St. Francis Health Center, choosing instead to consolidate their services at Stormont. PediatricCare physicians sent a letter June 1 to patients stating...
LANNEMEZAN, France AFP — Spanish rider Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team has tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin EPO during the Tour de France, sources told AFP here on Wednesday. Duenas, 27, tested positive during the fourth stage, a 29.5 km time-trial at Cholet. ...
WASHINGTON -- Congress on Tuesday rejected President Bush's veto of legislation protecting doctors from a 10.6 percent cut in their reimbursement rates when treating Medicare patients. The override vote in the House was a lopsided 383-41, easily meeting the two-thirds threshold needed to nullify the president's veto....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP -- A follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compassionate release Tuesday. The California Board of Parole released its unanimous decision on the...
MOSUL, Iraq AFP — A car bomb exploded in a market in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing 12 people and wounding 30, a police officer and a medic told AFP. The explosives-filled car was parked on the side of a road in the...