> After several months of wrangling over a counter-offer from Express Scripts, CVS shareholders have agreed to merge with Caremark Rx. Article [1]
> A new report by the California HealthCare Foundation suggests that racial, cultural and ethnic factors often dictate what kind of end-of-life care California patients receive. Article [2] and report [3] (.pdf)
> Regional lawmakers have come together to fight the closure of New York's 127-bed Cheektowaga Hospital. Report [4]
And Finally... Why is internal medicine on life support? Here's one doctor's guess. Blog [5]
Links:
[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2007/03/12/daily29.html?b=1173672000^1432667
[2] http://www.chcf.org/topics/chronicdisease/index.cfm?itemID=131674
[3] http://www.chcf.org/documents/chronicdisease/CulturalFactorsEOL.pdf
[4] http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/03/12/daily50.html?b=1173672000^1433390
[5] http://doctorrw.blogspot.com/2007/03/loss-of-procedures-is-another-reason.html