Incomplete list of publicized healthcare layoffs and closings 01-15 May 2013:
Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance laid off 55 people across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Utah (some reports said 56).
Medtronic ended about 230 jobs!
The merger of U.S. Analogic with Canadian Ultrasonix Medical resulted in 140 people losing their jobs in Colorado and Vancouver!
The labs […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
Savient Pharmaceuticals now bankrupt. It’s being sold off to Sloan Holdings.
Alabama: What automotive industry recovery? France based Michelin laying off 100 people at its BF Goodrich tire factory in Tuscaloosa. Company officials said there was too much inventory sitting on shelves, due to the bad economy.
Arizona: In Tucson, […] Continue Reading…
20 January 2014 (22:13 UTC-07 Tango 19 January 2013)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company say they know where the mystery water leak in reactor Unit 3 is coming from; the containment vessel!
Yesterday TEPCo reported the water leak when a robot clearing radioactive rubble from the […] Continue Reading…
20 January 2014 (21:15 UTC-07 Tango 19 January 2013)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Alberta, Canada: Health Services reporting 10 deaths and 22-hundred confirmed influenza cases. Don’t blame it on people not getting the flu shot, the province is now rationing their remaining flu shots for children who need a second […] Continue Reading…
Badghis Province: Three employees of the government Rural Rehabilitation and Development Directorate were kidnapped.
Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a suicide bomber exploded near the police academy. At least 3 people killed, 21 wounded.
Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, reports say a man and woman were shot and killed as they walked past a U.S.-NATO-ISAF base. […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicized healthcare layoffs and closings from 26 February to 20 April 2013:
California: In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center laid off 39 office employees.
Connecticut: The New Milford Hospital closed its Family Birthing Center.
Delaware Hospice laid off 52 employees (after laying off 104 employees starting in January).
Florida: Rotech Healthcare now bankrupt after being […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
Israeli based, U.S. traded, legal drugs pusher Teva laying off 5-thousand people around the world, including the United States. “Teva improves health in the US every day, every minute, every second…….Teva is the world’s largest maker of generic pharmaceutical products. We have a global product portfolio of more […] Continue Reading…
19 January 2014 (18:26 UTC-07 Tango 18 January 2013)/17 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/29 Dey 1392/19 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company reports that a robot, being used to clear rubble from inside the exploded reactor Unit 3 building, discovered a major water leak pouring into a large floor drain.
TEPCo says they can’t see where […] Continue Reading…
18 January 2014 (10:24 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/28 Dey 1392/18 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Ontario, Canada: The Sudbury and District Health Unit warned of increasing cases of Norwalk virus at day care centers.
United Kingdom: Multiple hospitals have wards closed due to vomiting bug. They include Warwick (strange because on the same day there was a […] Continue Reading…
18 January 2014 (23:04 UTC-07 Tango 17 January 2014)/16 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/28 Dey 1392/18 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
A seven years study by Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute warns that there is a risk of problems with Merck’s rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq.
Rotavirus causes norovirus like symptoms. But the Merck vaccine could cause […] Continue Reading…