medical

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 9:15AM 11/22/2010
    Sony plans to sell its professional digital photo printer business to Dai Nippon Printing, the companies announced Monday. Sony will retain the right to manufacture professional-grade printers and maintain its medical related professional printing operations.

    By Aaron Crowe

    | 12:00PM 11/10/2010
    At prices as low as $40 a month, some medical groups are offering something that's cheaper than a gym membership, and just as good for your health -- unlimited access to their services without having to go through an insurance company. The plans are called Direct Medical Care -- and go by other...

    By Hugh Collins

    | 7:38AM 10/18/2010
    Medical device company St. Jude Medical (STJ) will buy AGA Medical Holdings Inc (AGAM) for $1.3 billion, or $20.80 per share. AGA Medical makes devices to treat heart problems through transcatheter treatments, St Jude Medical said today in a statement. Sponsored Links The deal "will create a...

    By The Associated Press

    | 2:30PM 10/10/2010
    Inflation has remained flat, and that means Social Security recipients will get no increase in their benefits this year. As medical costs keep growing -- and after a proposed Social Security bonus failed to win approval -- that's unlikely to make retired voters happy.

    By The Associated Press

    | 3:15AM 10/06/2010
    A judge has finalized Allergan's $600 million settlement over the misleading marketing of its wrinkle-smoothing Botox medication. The pharmaceutical firm plead guilty to misbranding the product.

    By Danny King

    | 7:00PM 9/29/2010
    CEO William Weldon will apologize to Congress for a series of product recalls over the past year. The company is also expected to resume shipments of children's cold medication next week.

    By Danny King

    | 12:33AM 9/28/2010
    A proposed Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment returned positive test results in a clinical trial, according to drugmaker Seattle Genetics Inc., which seeks to file the drug for approval with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration next year.

    By Danny King

    | 7:34PM 9/22/2010
    U.S. hospitals are doing a more effective job treating patients for heart attacks, pneumonia and surgical procedures, an independent healthcare accreditation organization said in a report released today.

    By Matthew Scott

    | 8:33PM 9/21/2010
    Obesity is expensive. Each year, obese American men pay an additional $2,646 to carry their extra weight, while obese women pay $4,879. That's the surprising result of a new study on the individual cost of obesity.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 9:00AM 8/12/2010
    About once every two weeks a worker at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston gets flagged by a team of about a dozen monitors for violating the hospital's strict policy on social media. The policy prohibits employees from doing such things as griping about having to go to work on their Facebook...