Hospitals Face Financial Squeeze

From the Wall Street Journal:
More than half of U.S. hospitals aren’t seeing enough patients to provide sufficient revenue to fund operations and are “teetering on the brink of insolvency” or already are insolvent, according to a study.
Restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal said more than 2,000 of the nearly 3,900 acute-care hospitals the firm studied don’t [...]

Experts Say Different Sports Require Different Helmets

From the Washington Post:
“Don’t forget to wear your helmet,” parents tell their kids now that warmer temperatures are luring them outside to cycle, skateboard, rock climb, kayak and ride horses. And with good reason. “Helmets basically keep your skull from cracking,” says pediatric neuropsychologist Gerard Gioia, director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery and Education Program [...]

CDC: Flu season may be worst in four years

The 2007-08 U.S. flu season may be the most severe since 2003-04, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday. Flu activity peaked in mid-February with widespread activity in 49 states. As of April 5, just six states reported widespread activity: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Early results from a study [...]