Drug overdose mortality has reached unprecedented levels in the United States, more than tripling over the past two decades. But is this a uniquely American epidemic, or are other high-income...
MONTREAL (Reuters) – Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz reiterated on Thursday that interest rates will need to move up into a neutral range over time, but noted the path back is now “highly...
Mail Online
| 2/21/2019
| Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Rates for two types of HPV viruses linked to cervical cancer have plummeted since the vaccine was rolled out, a new study finds. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Mail Online
| 2/20/2019
| Sean Poulter for the Daily Mail
Unfair business rates must be reformed and thousands of empty shops converted if Britain is to avoid becoming a country of ghost towns, MPs will warn today. The call for radical action and...
The study was published today in the journal Nature Communications. Using advanced new technology, scientists were able to identify loci or locations on a specific chromosome that may put those of...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage applications increased for the first time in five weeks as most home borrowing costs hovered near their lowest levels in 10 months, the Mortgage Bankers Association...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank, looking to rein in a stronger peso, has snapped up close to 1 billion U.S. dollars in the last month, helping trim back sky-high interest rates and...
While topical treatments are first line for pregnant women with fungal infections, oral fluconazole is often used during pregnancy. Researchers looked at data on 441 949 pregnancies from the Quebec...
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed the first method for determining maternal mortality rates in prehistoric populations based on archaeological records.
Mail Online
| 2/15/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Injectable heroin and meth are driving up staggering rates of syphilis, which reached a record high in the US last year, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report...
The findings also show that survival is worse for people requiring admission to hospital around the time of diagnosis, and for those in the most deprived groups. The researchers point out that,...
Mail Online
| 2/14/2019
| Ben Spencer for the Daily Mail
Doctors have accused the Government of neglecting heart failure patients after a study found survival rates have barely improved in nearly 20 years. The terminal condition – which is often mistaken...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he wants to revise the contracts that private energy companies have with state-run power utility CFE so they do...
IMFBlog is a forum for the views of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and officials on pressing economic and policy issues of the day. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do...
Erin Calipari, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, points out that women represent a particularly vulnerable population, with higher rates of...
Tropical Cyclone Funani continued tracking southeast through the Southern Indian Ocean on Feb. 7, 2019. When the GPM satellite passed overhead, it revealed that Funani's strongest rains wrapped...
In the past year, more than 63,000 people took 625,000 rides on JUMP bikes in San Francisco, JUMP announced today. Each JUMP bike in San Francisco saw an average of seven rides per bike day compared...
Mail Online
| 2/8/2019
| Adrian Lowery for Thisismoney.co.uk;Holly Williams, Press Association
The Bank of England is predicting the worst year for the economy since the recession of 2008/09 as it slashed its growth forecast for this year from 1.7 per cent to just 1.2 per cent.
Public health advances over the past decade have pushed down the rates of many cancers, particularly those—like lung cancer—caused by substances we now know are dangerous.
Young adults are delaying marriage longer than ever. Student debt is a key reason... A St. Louis Fed study shows As Fewer Young Adults Wed, Married Couples’ Wealth Surpasses Others’.
Mail Online
| 2/7/2019
| Alexandra Thompson Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
The Greek storyteller Aesop famously said 'no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted'. And now research suggests a bit of self-love is even good for our health.
Similar to forests on land, the most important source of energy for tropical shallow water coral reefs is light. Photosynthetic algae, called zooxanthellae, live within the tissues of reef-building...
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve should leave interest rates where they are until the U.S. economic outlook is clearer, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday, a process that in his view...
Several days ago, the ECB sparked the ire of pretty much anyone with a working frontal lobe when it made the indefensible claim that, drumroll, QE had helped reduce inequality. That’s right, reduce.
Mail Online
| 2/4/2019
| Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com;Dailymail.com Reporter
A new study blames OxyContin for the rise in heroin use and hepatitis C infections. Heroin use has been soaring across the US for decades, but particularly in states where OxyContin misuse was...
With their sensitivity to overheating, pikas are an indicator species for how climate change may affect mountain-dwelling wildlife. Credit: Shana Weber. Although it has been ranked as the cutest...
(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s new wait-and-see approach to monetary policy is suitable for now, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said Monday, but the central bank may need to raise interest...
Mail Online
| 2/4/2019
| Kate Pickles Health Correspondent For The Daily Mail;Sam Blanchard Health Reporter For Mailonline
Millennials are developing more cancers younger because they're fatter than previous generations, scientists say. Obesity-related cancers – including bowel, womb and pancreatic – are significantly...
The obesity epidemic may be contributing to an increase in certain cancers among millennials in the U.S., a new study suggests. The study found that rates of certain cancers linked to obesity —...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian central bank is expected to hold its key interest rate unchanged on Friday as emerging markets stabilize and inflation hovers around central bank forecasts, according...
The schools and studies that are shaping technology’s approach to fake news and censorship are biased in favor of the left. A study released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened with...
BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D., Hawaii) office has had one of the highest turnover rates in Congress since entering the House of Representatives in 2013.
The design involves the integration of the two kinds of electric current that power homes, industries and electric vehicles -- alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC).
Our colleague David North has reported the good news that three countries have been booted from the annual list of countries whose citizens are eligible to participate in the H-2 guestworker visa...
The US military concluded 2018 with the highest number of suicides among active-duty personnel in at least six years. Without the Army reporting the number of soldiers who died by suicide in the...
The Federal Reserve now agrees with President Donald Trump on interest rates. The Fed held its interest rate target steady Wednesday and added new language to its statement signaling that further...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the six weeks since a confident U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates in response to a “strong” U.S. economy, consumer confidence dropped, wholesale prices weakened,...
A new study by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Georgia Tech compared and analyzed county data from 2001 and 2009. They found that a single percentage-point...
Regular use of aspirin or ibuprofen could dramatically boost survival from head and neck cancer, research suggests. The common painkillers were found to increase the chance of survival from 25...
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is committed to keeping interest rates low as it winds down its monetary stimulus to the economy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on...
NewsGuard, the news publication ranking extension run by establishment media figures along with former Clinton, Obama and Bush administration members, has rated a number of websites which wrongly...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Freight rates for dry-bulk and container ships, carriers of most of the world’s raw materials and finished goods, have plunged over the last six months in the latest sign the...
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian companies are borrowing record amounts via convertible bonds as they seek cheaper ways to raise funds amid rising interest rates and volatile equity markets.
BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India will change its stance to ‘neutral’ next month and cut interest rates in June at the latest, according to a Reuters poll of economists pointing to an...
To be an interested observer of things in the summer of 2013 was to be awash in the awareness of so many contradictions packed into one little piece of history. Forward guidance, for one, recognized...
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is set to cut its inflation forecasts and maintain its ultra-loose monetary policy on Wednesday, as pressure on the economy mounts in the face of slowing global...
The paper was published Jan. 21 in the Journal for Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. Heather DiCioccio, DNP, RNC-MNN, nursing professional development specialist for the Mother/Baby Unit...
To combat the growing number of young people who leave the church, leaders must invest in student ministry and make an intentional effort to focus on individuals during traditional college years,...
If you compare historical photos of glaciers with those taken more recently, you can see that where there was formerly ice, there is now very often nothing but rock.
Mail Online
| 1/18/2019
| Sam Blanchard Health Reporter For Mailonline
Men can now use their smartphone camera to compare how fertile they are against others from around the world. The YO Home Sperm Test has been linked to World Health Organization data to test how...