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My professional training and most of my experience took place with not-for-profit and small for-profit health care providers. During that time, a certain large for-profit hospital chain was seen as a decimator of small town and city hospitals. They bought hospitals to pull out cash and then close them, leaving their employees without jobs and communities without an acute care ...

The Blog Herald reports that Yahoo! has created a podcast search site.

This bird flu thing is beginning to get to me. Here’s an article from Forbes that says it all in the title: "US Ill Prepared  for Flu Outbreak: Report." The United States is unprepared for a global flu pandemic, according to a draft of a federal report, which predicts a worst-case scenario that could lead to the deaths of 1.9 ...

Here’s an article about how some theorists at U Penn are thinking about how to make common electronic circuit components on a nanoscale that run on light instead of big, fat electrons. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a means of shrinking electronics so they could be run using light instead of electricity. In the search to create ...