HEALTHCARE

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty took to his Twitter account, and later in an interview on Fox News, to fix the score on what many considered a missed opportunity to go after fellow presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, during the Republican primary debate earlier this week.

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application

Seeking to contain ballooning costs, Republican governors are pressuring the Obama administration to relax federal requirements dictating how many poor and disabled people states must provide healthcare through Medicaid.

Afghanistan is the most dangerous country in the world for women, according to a survey of gender experts by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by The Thomson-Reuters Foundation

Lawyers for the Obama administration are in Atlanta fielding questions and defending the president's healthcare law to three federal judges who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional, Reuters reported.

News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp said it plans to sell a unit that supplies healthcare data and analysis to companies, government agencies and health professionals.

About 800,000 elderly people in the United Kingdom who need social and health care are not receiving any support from either state or the private sector, according to a report from Age UK, a British registered charity.

The bull market that began in March 2009 may be over, warned a report from Standard & Poor’s.

A new study says the rise of rogue online pharmacies directly corresponds to the rise of prescription drug abuse.

Mitt Romney said he would respect each state's rights if elected President, defending the Massachusetts healthcare law he supported as governor while blasting the Obama Administration's power grab to require all states to adopt the health same policy, vowing to repeal the federal government's 2010 healthcare overhaul.

The United States does not have a capitalist system. We have a corporate fascist economic system where a small cartel of bankers, military weapons suppliers, and mega-corporations set the agenda for the country through their complete capture of politicians and the mainstream corporate media.

Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No. 2 software services exporter, is on the hunt for acquisitions in Europe and Japan and in industries including healthcare and public services, its chief executive said on Sunday.

The top after-market NYSE losers on Thursday are: Kindred Healthcare, World Wrestling Entertainment, Skilled Healthcare, Rehabcare Group, Manitowoc, Ingram Micro, Assured Guaranty, Corning, Cameron International and Gamestop.

The biggest difference between President Barack Obama and Republican plans on spending and over the next decade or so is in healthcare, although smaller, but significant spending differences remain in other categories. The U.S. debt, currently at $14.3 billion will grow by trillions of dollars under budget plans from both sides.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's first speech on immigration.

House Speaker John Boehner on Monday said that the Republican proposal for the 2012 budget leads where the Obama administration failed by taking on challenges facing healthcare, retirement and energy to create jobs.

Challenging the set doctrine that art and fashion are two unrelated creative disciplines, South African entrepreneur Vanessa Gounden launched a new label called Vanessa G on Thursday.

Aaron LeMieux grew up hearing his native Cleveland used as the punchline for jokes such as the mistake on the lake. But the city is attempting to shake its downtrodden image - enhanced by a history of sporting futility - and entrepreneurs like LeMieux are leading the charge.

Shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) touched a new 52-week high of $7.27 on Monday. The company said Friday that its fourth quarter earnings more than tripled as patient visits improved signaling better consumer confidence.

A couple of recent partnerships between Arizona State University (ASU) and institutions dedicated to healthcare research is expected to herald significant advancements in medical education, research and practice.

Bahrainis campaigning for democratic reforms in the Gulf Arab state staged a protest outside the U.S. ally's parliament building on Monday, demanding that all its members resign over protester deaths.