There was some good news from the health care products group Johnson and Johnson, which reported 14% jump in first-quarter earnings.
To make matters worse, health care products like medicines and medical devices get used when they are proven more effective or safer, not when they are proven cheaper.
While no one tracks reverse mergers, a half-dozen companies from the Middle Kingdom--ranging from health care products to manufacturers of power-steering assemblies (see table, p. 44)--havecompleted them since last year.
Sales fell across many categories food and drinks, health-care products, general merchandise, sporting goods, books and music.
It is enjoying increased traffic in high-value technology items and in health-care products (an area in which all four firms are developing specialist divisions).
Novartis' consumer health unit includes over-the-counter medications such as Benefiber, Excedrin and Theraflu, along with CIBA Vision's contact lenses and eye care products and Animal Health's companion and agricultural animal care products.
Defense contractors can use AeroTech's software, but so can telecommunications, health care and consumer products companies.
Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to the well-known Sloan School of Management, it saw more than 170 contestants from 12 different schools pitch ideas in business areas ranging from health care to environmental products.
Their earlier efforts to control costs by giving consumers more control over their health care spending with products like health savings accounts have only limited appeal, according to the survey, as many Americans don't want to pay the higher out-of-pocket costs associated with spending accounts.
It could also lead to new health-care-related consumer products during a time of growing demand for devices that can monitor the health of seniors.
Companies also understand marketing and distribution, which are as relevant to promoting health care as to selling products.
New original programming also helps with buyers in areas such as consumer products, health care and autos.
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My stock recommendations represent a fairly diversified portfolio, from financial services, information services, consumer products, and health care to defense, real estate, energy and commercial services.
Finally, all these inflation protections are based on government calculations of CPI, which some experts say understate the real cost of living, especially for retirees who spend a larger than average percentage of their income on fast-rising health care expenses and less on technology products that tend to fall in price.
Researchers observed 274 subjects working at companies scattered around the United States in financial services, consumer products, education, health care and energy.
Beneficiaries could use their CARE accounts to purchase whatever health coverage products they want, through a health-insurance clearinghouse called Florida Health Choices.
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"These trends demand that pharmaceutical companies become better health care partners with physicians and managed care organizations by offering a range of new products and technologies in related medical specialties that achieve better outcomes for patients, " he said.
Until recently you could find Halo, Purely for Pets--her line of vittles and pet-care products--only at health food or small pet stores.
This includes managed health care, indemnity, dental and group insurance products.
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The health care industry is one of the last industries to embrace and implement information technology--and other industries are running circles around health care in terms of efficiently delivering high quality products at decreased costs.
Under the Affordable Care Act, gender discrimination pricing in health insurance products is banned.
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And to put some scale on that, if General Motors, for example, had Toyota's wage structure or benefit structure or health care cost, that is roughly equal to five new products a year every year.
Feinberg, whose Oracle Partners specializes in health care, used to invest in young biotech companies with no products.
AdvaMed member companies produce the medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems that are transforming health care through earlier disease detection, less invasive procedures and more effective treatments.
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Throughout these conversations, common themes and issues emerged, specifically around barriers to language access, financial products to re-start small businesses, health care, delays with accessing BP claims, disaster preparedness and recovery, and technical assistance in applying for federal grants.
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This health care concern markets medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products worldwide.
Teams from consumer-products and sales firm Amway Corp. and health-care provider Pennant Health Alliance also work out of the Grand Rapids building, called GRid70.
Thermo has been gaining market share because its broad line of products allows pharmaceutical makers, university research labs, health care providers and other science clients it serves to consolidate their purchases.
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And it's a sector that, at great financial risk, develops and makes products critical to the public health and the reduction of health care costs.
The FDA identified the British wholesaler supplying the U.S. as Quality Specialty Products, which it said may also be known as Montana Health Care Solutions.
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