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Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. Total Job Openings: The Restaurant, Retail, Telecommunications, Health Care, Defense and ...

OAKLAND — Tiffany Lee, 16, is the worst-case swine flu scenario every doctor fears. On July 7, she started to cough and feel dizzy. "I thought it was allergies," she says from her hospital bed. Two days later, her parents took her to a local hospital, where doctors first said she was fine and sent her home. When she returned July ...

Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools. It's another example of how alternative medicine has become mainstream. And it's often done with Uncle Sam's help. The government has spent more than $22 million to help medical and nursing schools start teaching about alternative medicine - lesson ...

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding.   Trackback:  http://www.recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/whos-hiring-week-of-10-19-09.html

Britain's next generation of midwives is being bullied by senior nurses with a 'gang culture' mentality, a new survey has found. Student midwives say they are belittled and shouted at in front of staff if they ask for help - and that the abuse is ruining their self-esteem and confidence. More than half those questioned in the survey said they had ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Some 16,000 registered nurses at 39 hospitals at three Catholic hospital chains in California and Nevada will join a one-day strike and picket October 30 as RNs step up the protest over poor readiness by many hospitals to confront the H1N1 pandemic, the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) announced. The strike will affect hospitals across ...

Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 10-30-09. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. For full listing and Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-10-30-09.html

BALTIMORE — To Mitchell Goldstein, the flood of sick children seemed endless. Day after day, nearly three times as many kids as usual streamed into the rainbow-colored pediatric emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, sniffling and feverish, worried parents hovering. The press of children with swine flu was so relentless that doctors opened an annex in a hospital dining room to ...

Since it first emerged in April, the global swine flu epidemic has sickened more than 1 million Americans and killed about 500. It's also spread around the world, infecting tens of thousands and killing nearly 2,000. This summer, the virus has been surprisingly tenacious in the U.S., refusing to fade away as flu viruses usually do. And health officials predict ...

President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation's health care system without adding "one dime" to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the deficit by billions of dollars. The president's speech to Congress contained a variety of oversimplifications and omissions in laying out what he wants to do about health ...

TULSA — An hour into knee replacement surgery — with U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For playing in the background — Yogesh Mittal smiles as he raises the left leg of his patient, 76-year-old Frank Morrow. While holding Morrow's thigh, the surgeon lets the bottom half of the leg fall. "Look at that," he says, pointing to the ...

Gross! Most men don't wash after the toilet. People are more likely to wash their hands properly after using the toilet if they are shamed into it or think they are being watched, scientists said on Thursday.   Do you wash you hands only under the pressure of others? Because of fear of judgement? What do you do or say if ...

Xenon gas is hyperpolarized with laser light Among the most effective tools in the arsenal of medicine for detecting and diagnostic disease and injury inside the body without cutting the patient open is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The technology allows medical personnel to get a look inside the body of a patient to form better treatment plans and to diagnose serious ...

BOSTON - A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said. The attack took place in the afternoon at a high-rise affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The female doctor, identified by hospital officials as Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, ...

A Russian woman who has been in a coma for seven months gave birth to a healthy baby girl in Domodedovo, a Moscow-area obstetrician said Friday. Alexander Gridchik said the baby was more healthy than doctors expected when she was delivered by Cesarean section, RIA Novosti reported. [widget:1163] The woman was in a car accident when she was 10 weeks pregnant. ...

This year's ever-increasing surge of swine flu cases is highlighting a rarity in today's economy: an in-demand job. Medical technologists, scientists trained to identify diseases and other conditions under a microscope, face a more than 10 percent vacancy rate nationwide, according to the American Society of Clinical Pathology. That's partly because of the increased need for testing of infectious diseases, such ...

LONDON - About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, researchers found even during the height of global swine flu panic in May, less than half were willing to get vaccinated. Most ...

WASHINGTON - Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits would lead doctors to order up fewer unneeded tests and save taxpayers billions more than previously thought, budget umpires for Congress said Friday in a reversal that puts the issue back in the middle of the health care debate. The latest analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that government health care programs ...

Training in mindfulness meditation and communication can alleviate the psychological stress and burnout experienced by many physicians, U.S. researchers say. [widget:1116] Dr. Michael S. Krasner, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who was the study leader, says the training can also expand a physician's capacity to relate to patients and enhance ...

NONGTAPAN, Thailand - Nearly 16,000 Thais ignored the false rumors that they were being infected by the AIDS virus, and overcame their fears of becoming social outcasts to participate in the first HIV vaccine trials to show positive results. Many of the volunteers - an eclectic mix of housewives, fishermen, factory workers, laborers and prostitutes - had seen firsthand how the ...