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Geriatric ERs: Golden idea for golden years?

Older patients visit the emergency department more than any other age group except infants, and the aging population will increase as baby boomers continue to enter the 65-and-older age bracket. For years hospitals have set up separate ERs for kids, but only in the past...

source: By Dorothy L. Tengler
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A drug currently being used to treat leukemia has been found to help halt the production of toxic proteins in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and various forms of dementia. Researchers from Georgetown University...

source: Fox News

One factor even more important than the size of a television screen is the quality of the signal it displays. Having a life-sized projection of Harry Potter dodging a Bludger in a Quidditch match is of little use if the details are...

source: HealthCanal.com

In the annual survey by Chief Executive about the best and worst states to do business, Texas leads the way, and California ranks the lowest. "A good state is one that understands the private sector pays for the public sector and makes it easy for the private sector to conduct...

source: Chief Executive

Some months ago, Apple and Microsoft each parted ways with a high-profile senior executives: iOS software Chief Scott Forstall and Windows President Steven Sinofsky. The moves were just weeks apart, and the stories were strangely similar: two remarkably effective and talented...

source: Inc.

How do you tell 400,000 people they're terrible at their jobs? Do you hold a meeting? Send a mass email? Tell only a few people and wait for your criticism to circulate, middle school-style? Or do you follow IBM CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty's example and record a video message,...

source: Bloomberg Businessweek

The patient who made Dr. Eleni Linos wonder about the way we treat small, nonthreatening skin cancers in the elderly was 95 years old. "He was truly suffering," recalled Linos, a dermatologist at the University of California, San Francisco....

source: The New York Times

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