Tag: Health care

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M will spin off its health care division to create a standalone business focused on wound care, oral care, health care IT and biopharma filtration.  The company says the health care division, with approximately $8.6 billion in sales in 2021, will be a diversified technology leader with a deep and diverse portfolio of trusted brands, global capabilities and leadership in attractive end-market segments. It says the move better positions the division to deliver industry-leading...

WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a bipartisan 78-17 vote, has confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to news reports. Burwell has been the director of the Office of Management and Budget since April 2013. Prior to that, she was president of the Walmart Foundation and president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to reports. Though responsible for 11 agencies...