For the 7th consecutive year, Gallup’s annual poll on the honesty and ethics of people in different professions found nurses to be rated most positively, and by a substantial margin. Telemarketers and car salesmen rank at the bottom of the list.
Nurses have been ranked first each year since being added to the poll in 1999, [...]

Careers in Nursing will have the greatest job growth of all professions in the U.S. in the years spanning 2002 through 2012, according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics. During this ten-year period, health care facilities will need to fill more than 1.1 million RN job openings. And the Human Resources and Services Administration projects [...]

All across the country hospitals, educational institutions, local government, and various civic groups are recognizing that collectively working towards solutions to our nation’s heath-care crisis is a fundamental step in the right direction. A national nursing shortage is plaguing hospitals, nursing home facilities, and other heath centers causing current staff to be overworked and many [...]

by R.N. Esther Csapo Rastegari, B.S.N., Ed.M.
Placenta previa is an abnormal condition of pregnancy in which the placenta is attached to the lower section of the uterus, partially or completely covering the cervix. It occurs in about 0.5% of pregnancies.
Description
The placenta is a hormone-producing fetal organ, rich in blood vessels, that connects the baby to [...]

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP - News) today reported that a planned interim analysis of a Phase II study showed that boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, in combination with peginterferon and ribavirin markedly increased sustained virologic response (SVR) rates with 28 weeks of therapy and nearly doubled SVR with 48 weeks of therapy [...]

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP - News) today reported that a planned interim analysis of a Phase II study showed that boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, in combination with peginterferon and ribavirin markedly increased sustained virologic response (SVR) rates with 28 weeks of therapy and nearly doubled SVR with 48 weeks of therapy [...]

While the market for initial public offerings has shut down in all industries, with no deals in the United States in nearly three months, biotechnology companies desperate for capital will likely be waiting in line far longer than others when it does re-open.
Once an industry coveted by investors, biotech has not seen an IPO since [...]

Pennsylvania policymakers must close a growing hole in the state budget without jeopardizing critical investments in education, transportation, health care, and other core services, said Sharon Ward, director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.
A day after Gov. Ed Rendell announced $311 million in spending cuts in response to a first-quarter state revenue shortfall, Ward [...]

3SBio Inc. (Nasdaq: SSRX - News; “3SBio” or “the Company”), a leading biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products primarily in China, announced today that it expects to recognize a one-time impairment charge of approximately RMB19.0 million (US$2.7 million) in the third quarter 2008 and affirmed its 2008 full year guidance.
Preliminary [...]

There is a reason the new edition of Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination has been called “the best NCLEX review book ever.” Essentially, you’ll find everything you need to review for the NCLEX exam under one cover - complete content review and over 4,200 NCLEX-style questions in the book and on the free [...]