Shareholders at Disney and 21st Century Fox have voted to approve Disney's $71.3 billion bid to purchase Fox's media assets, according to Variety.
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The following hospitals announced or completed plans in the last week to expand, upgrade or renovate their facilities.
Rising costs are leading General Motors and Coca-Cola to raise prices for consumers, according to CNBC.
After staff at Newton (Mass.)-Wellesley Hospital received a bomb threat July 24, officials gave the facility the all-clear, but police still are investigating the incident, The Boston Globe reports.
Eugene, Ore.-based Lane County Health and Human Services on July 24 notified about 700 patients and clients that their medical records, which were moved to a storage facility during renovation efforts last fall, cannot be found, according to Kezi.com.
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina received approval from the state health department to build a $325 million hospital in Berkeley County.
Pittsburgh-based St. Clair Hospital unveiled plans to build a six-story outpatient center after a 130 percent increase in outpatient volumes since 2006, the hospital said July 24.
Cincinnati-based Good Samaritan Western Ridge Ambulatory Campus, part of Cincinnati-based TriHealth, will more than double in size with a $56.6 million expansion.
A Chicago-based real estate investment firm recently bought a Houston medical office building for more than $400 million — the largest price paid in the nation's history for a medical facility and the latest sign these properties are in high…
Papa John's adopted a so-called poison pill defense to protect itself in the event its founder and former chairman, John H. Schnatter, tries to gain control of the pizza chain through open-market accumulation.