> A severe bed shortage in the National Health Services is forcing British hospitals to cut corners to accommodate "casualty" patients. Report [1]

> State officials and business leaders in Ohio are hosting a mission of 15 to 20 health and medical IT companies from Israel next week. Release [2]

> New inpatient tower opens at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles. Release [3]

And Finally... The European Parliament is demanding that Libya release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician who have been sentenced to death for infecting 426 children with HIV in the 1990s--charges the defendants deny. Report [4]