News For: nyl AARP Magazine 048Biotechnology Drug Costs in U.S. Rise 8.7 Percent, AARP Says Sept. 25 -- Prices of specialty drugs used to treat complex conditions in the elderly, such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, rose three times the rate of inflation last year in the U.S., according to a survey. AARP holds health care seminar Several groups in the medical field met in Syracuse Tuesday for a health care seminar sponsored by AARP. The seminar featured a forum discussion with doctors and nurses on how to ensure affordable health care for all Americans. US/North Carolina: MedCenter Air parent ranks among national Magazine's top information technology innovators Boardman, OH, September 23, 2008���InformationWeek magazine, one of the nation's leading information systems publications, has ranked one of ThinkThroughTools' clients, Carolinas Healthcare Systems CHS���which includes its air medical and ground transport program, MedCenter Air���among the top 200 in its annual listing of the nation's Top 500 Innovators of Information Technology. Community News Briefs The Bridgeton Area Chapter of AARP will meet on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 1 p.m. at West Park United Methodist Church, 625 Shiloh Pike, Bridgeton. There will be a program called Silver Sneakers presented by Horizon Blue Cross of New Jersey. Online Journalism News Health Investor magazine has appointed Vernon Baxter as their new staff writer. Baxter was previously assistant editor at the Medical Times Middle East, part of ITP Business. Gene Bylinsky, early chronicler of Silicon Valley tech revolution, dies at 77 Gene Bylinsky, a writer for Fortune magazine who was one of the earliest chroniclers of the technological and commercial revolution occurring in Silicon Valley, died last Thursday from cancer. He was 77. Four Illinois Companies Top AARP List for Best Employers for Workers 50+ Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Heads List for Illinois -- To be Honored at Awards Dinner in Chicago Better Nutrition Announces Winners of Their Best of Supplements Awards Better Nutrition, , the country's leading independent health food store magazine, today announces the winners of their Best of Supplements Awards. The awards recognize 50 outstanding supplement products in categories ranging from heart health and immunity to pain relief and cancer prevention. Area employers make family-friendly list Several major employers in the Richmond area have made Working Mother magazine's list of the top 100 workplaces for mothers. Bon Secours Richmond Health System, a nonprofit hospital operator, made the magazine's list for the 10th consecutive year. Two other major Richmond-area health-care providers that have previously appeared on the list -- HCA Inc.'s CJW Medical Center and Virginia ... |

