California Health Systems Join Collaborative to Improve Efficiencies, Care Quality
(Premier: Charlotte, NC) -- To help reduce costs without negative effects on quality, hospitals and health systems in California are joining a labor-related management collaborative managed by the Premier health care alliance.
Admitting to Emissions
We humans take a fairly long time to reach adulthood compared to many other species. Biologists say that’s because much of what we need to know to survive isn’t etched in our DNA, but something we must learn.
Progress in First Year of Implementing Food Safety Working Group Recommendations
(HHS: Washington) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently commended federal food safety agencies for their accomplishments supporting the charge of President Obama’s Food Safety Working Group, which advises the president on how t
One-Year Exemption from FDA Inspections Possible
Medical device manufacturers may gain a one-year exemption from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections if their establishment has been audited under one of the regulatory systems implemented by the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) founding members usin
Product News: Confocal NEXIV VMZ-K6555 Provides Longer XY Travel
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology Inc. introduces the Confocal NEXIV-K6555 with advanced confocal metrology capabilities that provide new measurement possibilities for demanding applications.
Product News: Fifth Generation of VAST Contact Scanning Available
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss now offers the fifth generation of contact scanning with the new VAST Performance Kit.
New Program to Expand SAE International’s Library of Technical Publications
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- Traditional and nontraditional developers and publishers of engineering information can now look to SAE International as an active partner to make content available to the mobility engineering community.
The First Million
Until I was 30 years old, I wasn’t much of a fisherman. I’d take a rod and reel along on a camping trip, but I never expected to catch much of anything. In my mind, fishing was a relaxing pastime you enjoyed with friends and beer.