Richard Pizzi

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations increased in November, while demand for healthcare support personnel remained steady.

Healthcare in the United States is becoming increasingly unaffordable, and one of the contributing factors may be the high salaries earned by healthcare employees.

In the midst of recession and widespread uncertainty about the implications of healthcare reform, hospitals across the United States were forced in 2010 to implement innovative purchasing strategies to help cut costs.

The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have been named "Top Hospitals of the Decade" by The Leapfrog Group.

Thomson Reuters has acquired GeneGo, a provider of biology and disease information, analytics and decision support services for pharmaceutical research and development.

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical occupations and support personnel increased significantly in October.

Diabetes care for Native Americans is significantly underfunded, although that population has the highest per capita incidence of diabetes in the United States.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the credit rating on more than $200 million in revenue bonds issued on behalf of the Nebraska Methodist Health System, a three-hospital system based in Omaha, Neb.

The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare rose 7.08 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released this week by Standard & Poor's.

Moody's Investor's Service predicts that the outlook for the global pharmaceutical industry remains negative, primarily due to the sector's increasing exposure to major patent expirations.