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ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters today released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090507/NY12658LOGO ) The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® study evaluates performance in 10 areas: mortality; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303), a leading independent semiconductor foundry, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter 2012 results on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Time. This call is being webcast by Thomson Reuters and can be accessed at UMC's Web site at www.umc.com. The dial-in details for the live conference call: U.S. Toll Free Number +1866.519.4004,...

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced The Hottest Research of 2011, a ranking of the most influential scientific researchers and research papers of the year by Science Watch(®), its open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Tracking researchers whose recent published papers recorded notably higher levels of citations during 2011, along with the most highly cited...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macronix International Co., Ltd. (TSEC: 2337.TT), an independent designer, producer and provider of non-volatile memory and system logic solution, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss the first-quarter financial results on Apr. 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. Hong Kong Time (2:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 7:00 a.m. London Time). Dial-in details for the conference call are as follows:Taiwan: +886 226507825HK: 85224750994Singapore:...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is inspecting 6 Walgreens pharmacies and its Florida distribution center in response to a jump in purchases of oxycodone, a highly addictive pain killer. According to Reuters, the DEA has issued inspection warrants to Walgreen’s distribution center as well as stores in Hudson, Port Richey, Oviedo, Fort Meyers, and two stores in Fort Pierce, Florida. In accordance with the US Controlled Substance Act, warrants may be issued for “valid public...

An American appeals court has ruled to revive a lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google regarding copyrighted material being uploaded to YouTube, various media outlets reported Thursday. According to SlashGear's Rue Liu and Reuters' Jonathan Stempel and Yinka Adegoke, Thursday's decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a June 2010 ruling in favor of YouTube and Google which stated that under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), a website could not be held liable for...

Apple and a pair of publishers, Pearson and Macmillan, are apparently reluctant to agree to the terms American and European antitrust authorities are pursuing as part of an e-book price-fixing investigation, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have reported. According to WSJ writers Thomas Catan and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, the situation was "fluid" as of Thursday morning, and could change as the US Department of Justice inches closer towards filing an antitrust lawsuit in the case. They...

Most US teenagers have used alcohol and drugs by the time they reach adulthood and more than 15 percent of them meet the criteria for substance abuse, according to a new survey published in the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The survey of more than 10,000 US teens found that 4 out of 5 (78.2 percent) teens had tried alcohol before the age of 18. The results of the survey also showed that some 18 percent of adults meet the criteria for “lifetime abuse” of alcohol and...

Roughly one-in-ten children diagnosed with severe forms of autism will shed many symptoms of the developmental disability by the time they reach their eight birthday, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University. Although many children with autism see their social and communication skills improve over time with therapy, the "bloomers" identified in the study typically started out with lots of communication and social problems, but made rapid gains during their...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the difference between an ACO and an HIE? According to a recent HCPlexus/Thomson Reuters National Physician Survey, even doctors have difficulty discriminating between these terms. Yet, acronyms like these, along with buzz words such as individual mandate and Cadillac tax continue to show up in headlines, political debates and boardrooms nationwide. In an effort to demystify the new lexicon of healthcare reform,...