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Beaumont confirms plan to transfer home health operations to Ohio-based firm in joint venture deal – Crain's Detroit Business

Southfield-based Beaumont Health has confirmed it has sold a majority share and transfer operations of its seven-county home health and hospice agency to Alternate Solutions Health Network, a Kettering, Ohio-based for-profit home health company. Crain’s reported last month that the eight-hospital nonprofit health system had reached a deal with Alternate Solutions to form a new… Read More »

African swine fever hits huge, foreign-invested Chinese farm

BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported an outbreak of deadly African swine fever on a huge pig farm part-owned by a Danish investment fund, showing the spread of the virus to modern industrial farms expected to have the best levels of disease prevention. A vendor prepares pork for sale at a market in Beijing, China December… Read More »

Artificial Embryos Made from Stem Cells Raise Ethical Issues

Stem cells (so-called “master cells”) are unique and important in the body because they can do almost anything, and scientists have only begun to discover their potential. That’s why researchers’ use of them has created controversy, attracting the attention of scientists, policymakers, and bioethicists across the globe. Stem cells can transform into any of the… Read More »

Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Season of Turmoil

This article was reported and written in collaboration with ProPublica, the nonprofit journalism organization. Hundreds of doctors packed an auditorium at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Oct. 1, deeply angered by revelations that the hospital’s top medical officer and other leaders had cultivated lucrative relationships with for-profit companies. One by one, they stood up… Read More »