Tag: healthcare
Samsung CEO:Not eyeing Olympus healthcare business
by on Jan.14, 2012, under Health and Fitness
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co is not interested in acquiring the healthcare business of Japan's troubled Olympus, Samsung's chief executive told Reuters on Thursday. Samsung's major Japanese rivals, Son…
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Samsung CEO:Not eyeing Olympus healthcare business
by on Jan.14, 2012, under Health and Fitness
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co is not interested in acquiring the healthcare business of Japan's troubled Olympus, Samsung's chief executive told Reuters on Thursday. Samsung's major Japanese rivals, Son…
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Analysis: Deficit may be biggest threat to healthcare reforms
by on Dec.18, 2011, under Health and Fitness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mounting U.S. deficit could pose a much greater threat to the survival of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms than either the Supreme Court or 2012 elections. Many health experts say innovations in delivering m…
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Analysis: Court tests liability of healthcare executives
by on Dec.06, 2011, under Health and Fitness
After decades in relative obscurity, a legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing is finding its way back into some high-profile healthcare prosecutions.
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Asia's mobile tech-driven healthcare market seen at $7 billion
by on Nov.17, 2011, under Health and Fitness
Mobile technologies will be increasingly deployed to enable people in Asia to monitor and manage their health, with the market expected to hit $7 billion by 2017, an industry official said.
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Supreme Court asked to broadcast healthcare case
by on Nov.16, 2011, under Health and Fitness
A cable TV network and a senior Republican senator asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow its first live broadcast when it hears arguments in the legal dispute over President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul law.
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Obama healthcare law headed for Supreme Court
by on Sep.27, 2011, under Health and Fitness
The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president's signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.
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African children face life without healthcare: report
by on Sep.19, 2011, under Health and Fitness
Hundreds of millions of African children will never see a health care worker in their lifetime, increasing their chances of dying from preventable diseases, a report released on Monday by the international children's rights group Save the Chil…
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Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on healthcare costs
by on Aug.26, 2011, under Health and Fitness
Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday.
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Healthcare Providers Join Forces to Rally for Quality Health Care For All
by on Aug.20, 2011, under Preventative Medicine
Dozens of resident physicians from CIR/SEIU Healthcare join doctors, nurses and medical students in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia to call for urgent reforms to the nations health care system and argue in favor of quality, affordable health care for all. Healthcare providers are calling for a more perfect health care system that provides a public plan option to compete with private insurance, reduces disparities of care based on race or socio-economic background, protects safety net hospitals, and emphasizes primary care and preventative medicine.
