SANTIAGO,
stocks last year, some of the industry’s biggest players laid off thousands of workers, packed up operations and moved to unspoiled waters farther south along the Chilean coast. But the virus went with them.
Last month, the Chilean government began hashing out tougher measures to improve the sanitary and environmental conditions of the troubled industry. But producers expect still deeper losses this year, as the virus continues Read the rest of this entry »

VILLA GESELL,
— As night gave way to dawn, the dancing only intensified. The D.J. built toward the furious climax, when columns of fire shot into the air and confetti rained down on the screaming crowd.
“Here, Ecstasy is everywhere,” said Mateus Loiecomo, 19, referring to the drug that helped fuel the long night of dancing for a number of the revelers. He waved an arm at dozens of young people exiting with large sunglasses, their Read the rest of this entry »

January 18 – Investers in Apple are becoming increasingly nervous due to the fact that CEO Steve Jobs has announced his intent to take a medical leave of absence.
Rumors have it that Jobs has cancer, but he openly denies these rumors, saying he actually is dealing with a hormone deficiency.
Jobs, who co-founded Apple back in the 70’s is viewed by many as the face behind Apple, and now that he is stepping aside for a time, many wonder what Read the rest of this entry »

A local medical center will close its doors to patients at the end of February.
The Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation will close its health center at 3480 Centennial Blvd. and change its status from a public charity to a non-operating, private charity.
The foundation will no longer offer direct patient care as of Feb. 28.
The Board of Directors made the decision because of changing circumstances in the community and in the foundation, Read the rest of this entry »

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TIBCO’s technology digitized Wall Street in the ’80s with its
event-driven “Information Bus” software, which helped make real-time
business a strategic differentiator in the ’90s. Today, TIBCO’s
infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly
innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented
architecture, streamlining activities through business process
management, and giving people the information and intelligence Read the rest of this entry »

WITH ORAL arguments due to be heard Monday in the Supreme Court case of Wyeth v. Levine, several members of Congress and patient advocates are raising false alarms that a decision favoring Wyeth will amount to blanket immunity for drug makers from liability for injuries caused by their products. But this distorts what the Wyeth case is about and the implications of the court’s decision.
Wyeth does not involve the questions of whether a drug made Read the rest of this entry »

The federal opposition is turning up the heat on the Rudd government to honour its election promise to hold a referendum on public hospitals next year if the states fail to lift their game.
Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton said state Labor governments had run the public hospital system into the ground over the past decade.
He said the Rudd government was hiding behind its catchphrase of “ending the blame game” to avoid criticising the Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA recently permitted Geron Corp., a biotech company in California, to test embryonic stem cells in human patients for the first time.
Apparently deciding to forego the numerous ethical and safety concerns associated with this practice, the FDA gave Geron the green light the same week President Barack Obama was inaugurated. This is undoubtedly a sample of the “change” we have been promised.
Geron should abandon the limelight in Read the rest of this entry »

Managed care plans do little to rein in costs, Dallas doctor’s study says
10:53 AM CST on Saturday, January 31, 2009
jroberson@dallasnews.com
New research by a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician calls into question whether health insurers are adequately performing one of their main functions: containing costs.
Dr. Ethan Halm, chief of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, found that private managed-care plans for Read the rest of this entry »