Wiser medication use could cut health costs by billions, study stays
If doctors and patients used prescription drugs more wisely, they could save the U.S. health care system at least $213 billion a year. Specifically, researchers conclude, the savings would result from reducing medication overuse, underuse and other...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
News roundup: B.R. firm among 2013 Lantern Award winners … LSU, Southern boards must list scholarship awards … DEQ gets $500K from Temple Inland for 2011 spill
Manufacturing success: Baton Rouge-based Moran Printing Inc. is one of eight Louisiana companies being honored with a 2013 Lantern Award for manufacturing excellence and community service. LED honored all of the award winners at a...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Investors looking to Fed for answers on economy today
Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve's drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. Today, many hope the Fed will settle the confusion. Will the...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Federal fracking study won't be done until 2016
An Environmental Protection Agency official has informed a fracking conference in Ohio that a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won't be completed until 2016. That's the word from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
IBM remains coy about layoffs
IBM has begun laying off thousands of employees at facilities throughout the United States and Canada, according to multiple media reports, though the company has thus far refused to comment on specifics. The move comes shortly after the company...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
B.R. hotel rates boosted 32% by LSU football games
On any given Saturday when the LSU Tigers are not hosting a football game in Baton Rouge, the average rate on a hotel room in the city is about $80. But when the Tigers are in town, that average jumps by 32% to about $105. And while that’s...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Small businesses continue to prefer email, still learning social media
The results of an annual survey by Cox Business show that small business owners and managers across the nation still prefer email for most communication and remain reluctant to engage in social media. "Generation Y often claims that email is dead,...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
New computing degree debuts
In order to meet workforce demands, Southeastern Louisiana University will offer a new undergraduate computing degree in information technology beginning in the fall 2013 semester.
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: LaNEXT
Donaldsonville, Wassup.
Plantations, mud races, shooting ranges, and crawfish boils—Donaldsonville is buck. I had always wanted to visit since I heard the shout-out to Donaldsonville in the song “Walk Like Ronald” by Hot Boy Ronald, the rapper from New...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: The Weekly Dope
Inspecting the foundation
(From The Washington Post) Mortgage rates have spiked over the past few weeks, rising at the fastest pace since 2010, sparking fears that the housing market could weaken and undermine the country’s economic recovery.
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: News
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