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While too many of us get overdosed with clownish depictions - from doctors, hospitals, insurers, and corporations, especially Big Pharma firms - of how the civil justice system...

A 70-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist likely will spend the rest of his life in jail. A federal judge sentenced Dr. Javaid Perwaiz to 59 years’ imprisonment for a decade-long spree of...

Association for Talent Development By: Casey Adams, RVP, Global Business Solutions, Americas, Degreed 2020 changed everything. Many of the organizations that survive, emerge, and thrive in the new reality will be different than they were before. Their workforces will have to be too. And that’s forcing millions of people around the world to refresh their current skills and to build new ones. Bu... More » Sponsored by: With the rise of remote work in 2020 and 2021, how organizations prep...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: When accomplished folks who have racked up awards like Oscars, Emmys, and Pulitzers provide their frank appraisal of the roles of Big Pharma, federal regulators, and law enforcement in the opioid abuse and drug overdose epidemic, they don’t mince words. Just consider the title of their new, four-hour, two-part documentary running on HBO: “The Crime of the Century.” That headline just starts to capture the gist of the broadcast i...

Businesses also struggled with decisions on masks and distancing, including whether, again, to put low-paid, “essential workers” in the fraught position of enforcers of public health measures that might be more stringent than customers would experience in a store next door or down the street. President Biden, surprising many with his announcement of the easing of public health guidelines, said Americans deserved credit for their hard work and commitment to battling the pandemic, including f...

An expert panel from the academies, after deep research and in issuing a 448-page report, has expressed disappointment that policy makers seemingly ignored the 1996 recommendations of its independent, nonpartisan sister group, the respected Institute of Medicine. The institute offered a blueprint for moving Americans into an approach, built on primary care, that has shown major benefits elsewhere in the world. Instead, too many patients in this country get pricey, less than optimal care because...

The Lown Institute, a respected and nonpartisan think tank that says it “believes a radically better American health system is possible,” has published a new hospital index that puts...

Residents and their loved ones may have reached a major turning point with nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, agonizing as to whether the institutions really can provide...

Cyberattacks grind Hanford nuclear energy workers’ benefit program to a halt, Seattle Times May 10, 2021   By Patrick Malone Cyber attacks on the U.S. government have abruptly paused processing of benefit applications for workers who were sickened while working on nuclear weapons programs at Hanford and other Department of Energy sites, delaying aid to some dying workers, according to advocates. Without warning, advocates from the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Group received notic...

Advances with vaccines and their regulated status Vaccine makers also have pushed for yet another advance — a full and not just an emergency federal regulatory approval for their product. Such a step may take a few months. It also will, as the New York Times reported, “make it easier for companies, government agencies and schools to require vaccinations. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in December that employers could mandate vaccination, and legal experts have generally...