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Frugal Hospitals Hurt Cardinal Health - Forbes.com

Forbes | 6 hours 5 minutes ago

As hospitals find themselves increasingly having to scrape for pennies, Cardinal Health is finding it harder to sell them its medical products. The company lowered its fiscal-year guidance for 2009 on Thursday, though the news failed to dent its shares as two of the firm's segments are looking healthy.... (more)


Cardinal Health Cuts Its Fiscal-Year Outlook

Wall Street Journal, The | 1 day 8 hours 52 minutes ago

Cardinal Health lowered its fiscal-year earnings outlook, hampered by customers deferring capital spending.Chairman and Chief Executive R. Kerry Clark said "it is difficult to forecast the exact duration and potential long-term changes in hospital spending patterns."... (more)


Cardinal Health cuts 2009 profit forecast - Forbes.com

Forbes | 1 day 11 hours 32 minutes ago

Cardinal Health Inc. cut its fiscal 2009 profit estimates Thursday, saying it expects hospitals to keep delaying equipment purchases.... (more)


Book Review: 'Eclipse' by Richard North Patterson -

Washington Post, The | 3 days 15 minutes ago

ECLIPSE By Richard North Patterson Henry Holt. 369 pp. $26 Richard North Patterson's latest novel is inspired by events in Nigeria 15 years ago, which culminated in the hanging of a human rights activist by a brutal dictator. But the book also conjures up more recent headlines: Darfur, Zimbabwe, ...... (more)


Overstock names Home Depot vet as finance vice president

Internet Retailer | 3 days 1 hour 24 minutes ago

Overstock names Home Depot vet as finance vice president Overstock.com Inc. has appointed Steve Chesnut senior vice president of finance. Chesnut's duties will include supervising financial planning and analysis, accounting, SEC compliance and reporting, investor relations, and treasury functions. He will report to the web-only retailer's president, Jonathan Johnson. Most recently, Chesnut was vice president, strategy/market development/sales, at HD S...... (more)


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Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 3 days 18 hours 3 minutes ago

"I write about the issues I care about, and I know it's a luxury to have an audience for that," said author Richard North Patterson.... (more)


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Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 3 days 18 hours 3 minutes ago

"I write about the issues I care about, and I know it's a luxury to have an audience for that," said author Richard North Patterson.... (more)




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