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...forecasting technology to better predict electricity demand. Medical, which Immelt transformed from a $4 billion imaging-equipment vendor into a $7 billion, full-fledged systems provider, not only sells MRI machines to hospitals but also monitors the hardware over the Internet and supplies software to manage billing, create digital patient records and reduce errors. "[Immelt's mandate] is to see 20% to 30% of their revenue come out of intellectual content--software and other information that can enhance productivity," says Nicholas Heymann, analyst at Prudential Securities and a former GE auditor...
NURSING NIGHTMARE For-profit nursing homes give worse care than public and not-for-profit ones, the first large-scale comparative study finds. Investor-owned homes provided 27% fewer nursing hours per patient and were almost 50% more likely to be cited for deficiencies in administration and care...
...desire to avoid a complete collapse has prompted South Africa to initiate a second compromise attempt using an entirely new text. But there was little optimism Tuesday that the patient could be saved. And, of course, assuming it could, that would leave participants confronting the even more vexing questions of slavery and colonialism. That issue divides Western nations from much of Africa, with the European and U.S. concern being to avoid acknowledging responsibility for slavery in a way that makes them criminally or civilly liable...
...serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign infection, the agency could halt a stem-cell procedure if it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus...
...physicians use a "functional brain scan" to measure a general loss in function. "This is often useful in persuading the patient that something is wrong," says Dr. Stephen Read, a Los Angeles psychiatrist. But the scan can't make fine distinctions between, say, the ability to pay bills and trade stocks...