Medical economics

Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum

Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: He could boost his rural hospital's revenues by offering hip replacements and shoulder surgeries, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

SKorea cuts key rate as MERS emerges as threat to recovery

South Korea's central bank lowered its key interest rate to a historic low on Thursday, responding to a slump in exports and the prospect that the outbreak of the deadly MERS virus could slow the economy.