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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of all medical spending in the united states or an estimated $147 billion a year, U.S. researchers said Monday.

What if the quality of cancer care could be assessed and improved in 'real clinical time' instead of waiting the typical two years it takes for clinical data to be analyzed and changes implemented? That is an opportunity The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) Network of hospitals is exploring this

London (AP) -- The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a 'two track' system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy and same-sex unions, the Archbishop of Canterbury said Monday in a bid to keep the church unified....

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Hospitals have resorted to using indoor tracking systems to monitor the whereabouts of equipment that all too easily goes astray

The 2008 electrocution of a Green Beret sergeant in Iraq stemmed from the failures of 'multiple systems and organizations,' including faulty wiring by a major contractor and poor oversight by the Army, a new Pentagon report concludes.

Joseph A. Dear thinks he has the cure for what ails Calpers, or the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which lost nearly $60 billion in the financial markets last year. Big as California's budget woes are today, so are the problems lurking in its biggest pension fund....

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Like this - only bigger: Apple is expected to launch a tablet computer that functions like an iPod Touch but with a larger screenApple is about to launch a tablet computer that will be like an enlarged version of the iPhone and iPod Touch - not running the full Mac OS X operating system, but instead limited to running one application at a time - in part as a means of selling more music downloads, according to reports posted in today's Financial Times.The screen is expected to be substantially larger than the existing 3.5 inches (8.9cm) diagonal viewing size of the iPod Touch and iPhone, so as to give users looking at their music library an experience closer to looking at 12' album sleeves from the recording industry's past, when music was recorded onto vinyl.There are no indications about the price or screen size of the machine. Apple is always extremely careful about preventing details of new products leaking out before their launch, and the limited information that has slipped out ab