Tag: Health Care
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Stock market strategist David Rosenberg gives the Fed no credit — and no mercy
[ad_1] It’s said that you don’t know an economy is in a recession until it’s in one. Or as David Rosenberg puts it: “Recessions are like an odorless gas. They sneak up on you.” These days, Rosenberg is looking for fresh air. A former chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch and now president of…
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Already roasting in extreme heat? 2024 could be even hotter, NASA scientists warn
[ad_1] Heat records have been shattered from California to Florida this summer. And, yes, it is summer and summer is hot. If 2023 already feels like one for the record books, 2024 won’t bring any relief, NASA scientists said this week. Unprecedented heat has cooked the U.S. Southwest to dangerous levels, stressed air-conditioning reliability and…
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Lukas Gage’s viral video audition haunts the ‘hot labor summer’ actors’ strike sweeping Hollywood
[ad_1] In November 2020, the actor Lukas Gage was auditioning for a role via video link when he heard the producer make some disparaging remarks about the size of his apartment. “These poor people who live in these tiny apartments,” the producer said. “I’m looking at his background and he’s got his TV and …”…
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Pfizer says tornado significantly damaged warehouse storing drugs and raw materials
[ad_1] Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Inc. PFE, +1.71% said Friday that most of the damage from Wednesday’s tornado that ripped through its Rocky Mount, N.C., manufacturing facility was to a warehouse area storing finished drugs, raw materials, and packaging supplies. The 1.4 million square foot facility, which produces nearly 8% of all sterile injectable medicines used…
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‘This has absolutely changed me.’ Alzheimer’s takes a toll on patients and their loved ones.
[ad_1] More than six million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and that number will more than double to 12.7 million by 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. What’s often overlooked in this tally is the caregivers and family members who take care of these patients and loved ones, and the toll it takes on them. In…
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Fraudster set free by Trump charged with running new $38-million Ponzi scheme
[ad_1] It pays to have friends in high places. A two-time convicted fraudster who had a 24-year sentence for running a $200 million Ponzi scheme commuted by President Donald Trump on his last day in office has been charged with running a new multimillion-dollar fraud. Eliyahu Weinstein, a 48-year-old, former used-car salesman from Lakewood, N.J.,…
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My sister asked me to cosign her $11,000 student loan. Do I say yes?
[ad_1] I’m in my early 40s, out of debt and my credit score is finally excellent. So is it a terrible idea to cosign my little sister’s student loan? Still in her early 30s, she’s following in our late mother’s footsteps to become a nurse. She recently started a well-respected, 14-month accelerated nursing program in…