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...Depression, there were some 130,000 shops in the country. Now there are only 7,000. Graying, middle-aged repairers are the Young Turks; there's a clear shortage of 20- and 30-something cobblers in today's shops. "We have a chance to reintroduce our industry," says Randy Lipson, who runs four shoe-repair shops in St. Louis, Mo. The shoes are falling off the shelves in Lipson's shops; he now has to stuff the overflow work into bins. A year ago, those same shelves were half empty. "I'm getting more customers under 35 than...
...biotechnology firms in Cambridge a blessing or a curse? At the City Council session last night, concerned members of the public and Cambridge Director of Environmental Health Samuel Lipson discussed lab safety in Cambridge, the home of 155 biotechnology firms. Under particular scrutiny was the proposed increase in the number of “level three” biosafety labs. According to a Cambridge Public Health Department publication, “level three” labs house airborne agents associated with serious or lethal diseases and are subject to higher standards of safety procedure and disposal than lower level labs...
...first there was some disbelief that someone could say private and health care in the same sentence in a socialist country," says Roberta Lipson, CEO of Chindex International Inc., a company based in Bethesda, Md., that operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in China...
...Lipson, who started the publicly traded company 27 years ago to sell equipment like ultrasound machines to China's then generally ill-equipped public hospitals, says she first approached officials about a private-model health-care experiment in the early 1990s. The result was Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, a joint venture between Chindex and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Today Chindex runs two hospitals and five outpatient centers. Additional hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou are set to open in 2010, and two more outpatient clinics will open this year...
...vast majority of those treated at United Family Hospital in Beijing. But today wealthy and upper-middle-class Chinese make up 40% of patients across United Family Hospital locations. In a one-child-per-family country, private maternity care is one of the most sought-after services, says Lipson. "Once they have their baby in our hospital, they're not going anywhere else with that precious child for pediatric health care," she says...