Senators Investigate Hospital Purchasing
Private companies negotiate prices of medical goods, and Medicare reimburses hospitals. But lawmakers fear that the process may inflate health costs.
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Private companies negotiate prices of medical goods, and Medicare reimburses hospitals. But lawmakers fear that the process may inflate health costs.
The unexpected surge showed just how far Europe and the global economy had come since a harrowing free fall in late 2008.
Sheryl Weinstein, the chief financial officer of an organization that invested with Bernard L. Madoff, will soon release a memoir disclosing the relationship.
China is finding it harder to separate domestic politics from its aggressive push into the global business arena.
The Army has begun encouraging its personnel to go online and collaboratively rewrite some of the manuals that guide Army life.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2009, covering August 14, 2009.
Fabolous
Daughtry
Maxwell
Various Artists
The Black Eyed Peas
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]