With commencement merely weeks away, members of the Class of 2012 are no doubt scurrying to secure employment. They’ll be in good company with the classes of 2010, 2009 and, for that matter, 1999 and 1989 if current job woes scenarios are accurate. The prospects for this year’s new crop of diploma-holders is a timely business, [...]
A video on the Food and Drug Administration website about dirty medical instrument piqued the interest of The Center for Public Integrity’s Joe Eaton. He found dirty medical instruments weren’t rare. He noted numerous examples where contaminated endoscopes led to HIV, hepatitis C, or hepatitis B outbreaks. He leads his iWatch News story looking at a [...]
In a couple of weeks we’ll mark the two-year anniversary of what politicians so lovingly refer to as “Obamacare,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The president signed the bill into law on March 23, 2010, and with the two-year mark coming up you might want to delve around for related stories [...]
Andrew Conte and Luis Fabregas of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wanted to know how much money hospitals were shelling out to build new facilities within a mile of existing ones. They saw the trend locally, but wondered how much hospitals nationwide were spending. Emma is the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board online search tool that provides details about [...]
Today’s Tip: When you see a large verdict, take the time to check it out. That’s what Stephen Nohlgren of the Tampa Bay Times did when he saw a short piece about a $200 million lawsuit verdict against a nursing home. No one at the paper had covered the trial and a press release from [...]
Short as it is, February is jammed with serious, silly and seasonal events that make great pegs for business and economy stories. I’ve posted about some of them, like Black History Month and next weeks’ Westminster Kennel Club dog show. But there’s so much more going on in the next 20 days that crafty business [...]
In case you haven’t heard, food giant General Mills is experiencing a bit of a backlash over its newly launched Multi-Grain Peanut Butter Cheerios. People concerned about the cereal’s impact on those with peanut allergies have protested the new flavor; voices are particularly vehement among mommy bloggers – some of whom even have called for a [...]
Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg of Reuters hit the streets of Miami to see if some Medicare providers were legitimate. In two buildings, they found 26 companies billing Medicare. They checked incorporation records and found “information that one government official said could prompt ‘a serious criminal investigation’ of some of the companies,” the story says.
Associated Press has just served up a timely topic ripe for localizing in a feature on how “Uninsured turn to daily deals sites for health care.”
