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...For the past nine years, Jessica Tucker has earned $7.50 an hour working at a bulk laundry company in Greenville, Mississippi, which services several hospitals in the state as well as neighbouring Louisiana...
...But she hopes the sheer fact of people going to prison will deter other drugmakers, which may have previously accepted fines as a cost of doing business....
...As is common in many American companies, Jonathan’s hospital offers new employees just 10 days of paid time off a year and the baseline health insurance required by law....
...As for Singapore, stolen medical information could be used to blackmail prominent politicians or business leaders who have embarrassing conditions, such as sexually transmitted diseases....
...Nowhere is this felt more sharply than in a corner of South Texas known as the Rio Grande Valley....
...(FT, Stat) Medical devices Medtronic followed Abbott and Johnson & Johnson in shrinking operations to focus on niche products. The company is selling its medical supplies business to Cardinal Health....
...Its ease of use would allow people to take tests more regularly, as well as providing a less scary experience for those who fear needles....
...In a recent spate of ransomware attacks on US hospitals, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center admitted that it had paid cyber criminals $17,000 in bitcoins....
...His light-bulb moment came during his internship with Ideo, a consultancy in Palo Alto, California, where he drew up a business model that would tap into ACA funds allocated to the Centers for Disease Control...
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...There is an element of fear involved, as publicly criticising the CPC or the political system in China can get individuals into very serious trouble – and in extreme cases lead to time served in a labour...
...Flight , by Adam Thorpe, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99 Bob is a “freight dog”, a flying trucker pilot running whatever clients want, but he draws the line at switching medical supplies for AK-47s....
...I’d seen it in marriages: Why had she never asked about all those business trips? I’d seen it in hospitals: Why had he skipped his checkup? Why had she started smoking?...
...The culture that underpins Chinese business, that is, means the fear is of getting caught rather than of doing harm....
...But the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy group that has filed a complaint against Google with US regulators, dismisses Mr Schmidt’s call as an attempt to rewrite sound guidelines adopted...
...They have business experience and political skills. They know how to get things done.”...
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