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The article reviews the exhibition "Convalescence," a complex and compelling exhibit of patient pain, reliance on drugs and inequitable care, on view at Thomas Jefferson University's health sciences campus.

The article talks about the lack of importance given by health care providers to patient safety and quality surveys.

The article offers information on the Women Leaders in Healthcare Conference on July 16, 2024 hosted by the journal in Chicago, Illinois.

The author argues that healthcare is the true center of communities. She considers healthcare facilities as an economic engine and cites challenges facing hospitals such as rising labor costs, staff burnout and turnover, supplies and technology, and different priorities of outside ownership. She discusses changes of ways in how care is administered that include construction of patient towers, building or repurposing of smaller healthcare centers, and lesser inpatient care.

The article discusses the possible impact of the vote of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to finalize a rule nullifying existing noncompetes for all but senior executives and preventing new ones for any employees on some nonprofit health organizations.

The author discusses deals in the U.S. healthcare industry. Topics explored include the conclusion of the acquisition of Geisinger Health by Kaiser Permanente, the establishment of nonprofit organization Risant Health following the said acquisition, and the growth strategies of firms such ambulatory facility expansion and new technology adoption.

The article discusses the benefits of technology to our lives and our need to trust it and the companies that provide it, too.

Alice Grande, owner of Grande media an agency that buys advertising and radio time for vitamin companies speaks on her few tips on balancing life and work. Some of them are spending time with her sons and spending meals with her family.

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik CNNMoney.com already was a prime venue for b-to-b marketing dollars, but new products and site enhancements introduced over the past year have attracted both additional users [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Upheaval in the financial markets, a meltdown in the real estate industry and ever-increasing commodity prices are wreaking havoc on investor confidence but continue to be [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK As more companies bypass larger events in favor of conducting their own more intimate meetings, they are finding themselves grappling with a number of issues. Since [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Prolonged silence could wear on firms' brand credibility The nation's top financial firms, many of them dealt a serious blow by the subprime lending crisis, have [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Five years ago, United Parcel Service of America asked 'What Can Brown Do for You?'' in what became a signature branding message for the package delivery [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Teresa Poggenpohl admits she felt antsy. Accenture's 'high performance'' ad campaign featuring Tiger Woods had been around since 2003, and Poggenpohl, executive director-global image, thought there [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Bank of America grabbed a piece of the spotlight during February's Academy Awards telecast when it introduced its new brand positioning. After four years, the banking [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK More than 75% of companies exhibit at trade shows each year, and Michael Brandt, co-executive director of the Business Marketing Association, understands they face a conundrum. [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Chris Philip Title: Senior VP-media director Company: Doremus Location: New York Key b-to-b clients: Deutsche Bank, ITT Industries, Morgan Stanley, United Technologies Corp. Years in media [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik By some measures, Laurie Tucker, senior VP-global marketing, said, 2005 has been a saner year than 2004, when she rushed to develop a marketing strategy for [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Last Sunday's Super Bowl included b-to-b commercials featuring a wardrobe malfunction, monkeys with whoopee cushions and Burt Reynolds getting kicked in the groin. A week later, [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Title: Media planning supervisor Company: The Martin Agency Location: Richmond, Va. Key b-to-b client: United Parcel Service of America Years in media business: 11 Most unusual [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Title: Senior partner, strategic planning director Company: Mindshare Location: New York Key b-to-b clients: IBM Corp. Years in media business: 25 Most unusual media placement in [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Title: VP-multinational media Company: Universal McCann Location: San Francisco Key b-to-b clients: Microsoft Corp. Years in media business: 11 Most unusual media placement in the past [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Marketers at FedEx had little time this year to heed their own 2003 slogan and relax. With the acquisition of Kinko's completed in February, Laurie Tucker, [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Richard Metzler, exec VP-marketing for DHL Americas, enjoys the freedom that comes with being an underdog, like being able to talk about, even take jabs at, [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Four years ago, a strike by the Screen Actors Guild interfered with James Murphy's handshake agreement with Tiger Woods to use the golfer in ads touting [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik For CDW Chief Marketing Officer Diane Primo, it all boils down to customer segmentation. If CDW gains better insight into its customers, the technology seller can [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik The marketing mission for UPS in 2004 was to aptly market a broader set of capabilities that go along with its new slogan 'Synchronizing the world [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Two years after repositioning the company's image, Xerox Corp. capped its efforts in September by altering its logo and dropping the 10-year-old 'The document company'' tagline. [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Cygnus Business Media's aggressive plan to link trade shows to its publishing properties advanced in another vertical market with its acquisition late last month of nine [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik More than 5,400 people wanted to attend TechTarget's Storage Decisions conference in Chicago this fall, but only 700 made it through the registration process. The other [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik While circulation executives routinely test new ways to reach their audiences more effectively, external forces at work right now are forcing them to rethink even the [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK Paul Mackler considers himself a patient president-CEO, but one with a big appetite. The head of Cygnus Business Media has satisfied it by sticking to the [...]

Byline: Mary Ellen Podmolik Special to TelevisionWeek With the nation's Hispanic population booming, TV stations around the country are grappling for ways to reach Spanish-speaking viewers without alienating the rest [...]

The good news: Many magazine publishers expect automotive advertising to bounce back. The bad news: It may not be this year. After a wretched 2001 for car advertising, publishers are […]

Faced with 2001's reeling stock market and the expectation that the economy won't improve until late this year, financial services companies are headed into the upfront TV buying season with […]

Free tabloid newspapers, aimed at commuters, are becoming a weapon in the battle for the eyes and wallets of time-pressed younger consumers. Metro this week is expected to launch in […]

Universal pictures' Marc Shmuger had a lot of numbers to keep track of last year. There were the five consecutive films that opened at No. 1 and the $55.1 million [...]

Sears, Roebuck and Co., among the most traditional retailers, is intent on transforming its procurement function this year into a dynamic online exchange that will revolutionize retailing. It's a revolution [...]

The article reports on the increase in Covid-19 cases in the U.S. and the approval of a coronavirus vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Topics discussed include weekly increase in Covid-19 hospital admissions in the week ended September 2, 2023 and estimated percentage of adults and children who received the flu vaccine during the 2022-2023 flu season.

The article reports on the Association of American Medical Colleges data, which showed that enrollment in medical schools in the U.S. stood at 96,520 students in 2022-2023, up by nearly 6% from 2018-2019.