Kaiser Permanente to Add 500 Jobs in Colorado

The office of Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has announced that health care provider Kaiser Permanente plans to open an information technology (IT) campus in Englewood in January. Along with the opening of the campus will be about 500 jobs by 2015. Here are the details.* Kaiser Permanente's new IT campus will be a 120,000-square-foot, five story building located near major highways, several shops,...

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Cave Artists Had Leg Up On Moderns

Who was the better artist, a caveman or Leonardo da Vinci?It turns out that early depictions of four-legged animals walking are more accurate in some ways than modern ones—even those crafted by the Renaissance master. The study is in the journal PLoS ONE. [Gabor Horvath et al, Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts...

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Residents go home after toxic chemicals cleared in NJ train wreck

PAULSBORO, New Jersey (Reuters) - Residents evacuated after last week's freight train derailment spewed toxic vinyl chloride began returning home on Friday as tests of the air came back clean, a Coast Guard official said.Exactly one week after a bridge collapsed, derailing seven of the 82 Conrail freight-train cars crossing the Mantua Creek, residents who were ordered out of 148 homes nearest the...

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Dow, S&P rise on jobs, but Apple bites Nasdaq again

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow and the S&P 500 advanced modestly on Friday, though another sell-off in Apple depressed technology shares and kept the Nasdaq negative, overshadowing a sharply better-than-expected jobs report.Trading was light, continuing the week's trend of slight moves and anemic volume. The S&P 500 ended up a mere 0.1 percent for the week, following several volatile sessions...

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Supreme Court could limit scope for class arbitration

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court  on Friday agreed to hear an appeal that gives the nine justices a chance to limit the ability of consumers and businesses to litigate disputes as a class.At issue was whether doctors could collectively arbitrate a dispute over payments with Oxford Health Plans LLC even though the governing arbitration agreement did not mention class actions.The court has in recent...

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Should breast cancer patients skip the pre-op MRI?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new review of existing evidence suggests that using magnetic resonance imaging to "stage" a woman's breast cancer before surgery might do more harm than good.MRI produces a much clearer image than X-rays and ultrasound, and is recommended for detecting early tumors in women at increased risk for breast cancer. But routinely using the technology once any woman is diagnosed...

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