Tag: Infectious Diseases
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Even younger people should have a will: How to make one without spending a fortune
[ad_1] Making a will isn’t a task just for the old and wealthy. It’s also for the well-prepared. Recent years serve as a heavy reminder that you might not know when your last days are. Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped in both 2020 and 2021, driven by COVID-19 deaths and an increase in accidental…
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Amazon Prime Day’s most popular items reveal an awful lot about Americans
[ad_1] You are what you buy. If that’s true, Americans have revealed a lot about what’s meaningful to them during Amazon Prime Day’s two-day online shopping festival on July 11 and 12. The top five items: Temptations cat treats, Amazon Fire TV Sticks, Liquid I.V. packets, Apple Watch Series 8 and Melissa & Doug toys,…
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DOE official advises student-loan borrowers to make payments during grace period
[ad_1] When the freeze on federal student-loan payments, interest and collections ends this fall, borrowers will be protected temporarily from some of the harshest consequences of missing student-loan bills. But if borrowers can afford to make their payments, they should. That was one message from James Kvaal, the under secretary at the Department of Education,…
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Amazon stock delivers longest monthly win streak since before COVID
[ad_1] Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rallied Friday to the highest close in more than nine months, and ended June with a fourth-straight monthly gain. The stock’s AMZN, +1.92% rally comes as investors gird for the ecommerce giant’s annual Prime Day sales event in mid-July. J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth reiterated the overweight rating he’s had…
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Bad boys: Four dumb ways people just allegedly got caught insider trading
[ad_1] Insider trading may seem like an easy bet to some, but it’s a dumb way to lose if you get caught. On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced four separate, head-scratching busts of people for allegedly trading on inside information in ways so brazen that it would have been amazing if they hadn’t been…
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Frozen fruit recall: Products sold at Walmart, Target pose listeria risk
[ad_1] Several types of frozen fruit sold at Walmart WMT, -0.19%, Aldi, Target TGT, -0.42%, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are being recalled over a possible bacterial contamination, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. The FDA warned that the food products could contain Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause “serious and sometimes…
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Opinion: Why are unsafe products still being used even after they’ve been recalled?
[ad_1] Even when companies have the best of intentions, anything you buy — from the exercise equipment you use to stay in shape to the vegetables you eat — potentially can pose a health hazard. While companies and the government agencies that regulate them often recall products after learning about the dangers, the process is…
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Debt-ceiling talks involve taking back unspent COVID funds: ‘It’s a nice hunk of change.’
[ad_1] The Big Number: About $30 billion in unused COVID-19 aid could get clawed back as part of a bipartisan deal on spending and the U.S. debt ceiling. There was $90.5 billion in “unobligated” COVID funds as of January, according to the Government Accountability Office. A New York Times report last month put the money remaining…