Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic devices, announced overall sales growth of 2 percent in its most recent fiscal quarter, suggesting continued, but decreased, growth for the orthopedic device industry, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The healthcare sector added 13,500 jobs in Mar. 2009, according to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that the proportion that employers, consumers and the state government were paying on healthcare coverage was the same in 2007 as they were a year before a new statewide…
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The increasing likelihood for mergers among medical insurers concerns healthcare providers who worry that the plans will have too much clout over medical care, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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The American Medical Association announced that it will eliminate 100 positions due to the economy, according to an AMA news release.