Hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc. on Thursday issued a 2008 profit guidance mostly above Wall Street estimates.

Hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose 17 percent on higher revenue from both its acute care and behavioral health facilities.

As expected, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt used his closing-day keynote at HIMMS08 today to make a major statement about the plans for Google Health. It's not really a launch—the initiative has been underway internally for a long time, the Cleveland Clinic pilot project was announced last week and other partners are on board, and the consumer version won't be ready for beta for months.

Liberia's health services are chronically understaffed with only 51 native doctors in the war-ravaged west African nation, Health Minister Walter Gwanigale said Thursday.

Google shed more light on the health care service it is developing, showing off a couple of screenshots of what it will look like.