Thirty-five percent of American adults said they have used the Internet to diagnose a medical condition for themselves or someone else, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Women are more likely than men to turn to the Internet for diagnoses. Other groups more likely to do so are younger people, white adults, people with college degrees and those who live in households with income above $75,000.The...
DealBook: JPMorgan Board Votes to Release 'London Whale' Report
Labels: BusinessThe board of JPMorgan Chase voted Tuesday to release an internal report detailing the bad bet — and related management missteps — that cost the nation’s largest bank more than $6 billion, according to several people familiar with the matter.Since announcing the trading losses in May, JPMorgan Chase has worked to move beyond the fiasco, shuffling senior management, clawing back millions of dollars...
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Ex-President George H.W. Bush Leaves the Hospital
Labels: WorldHOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital Monday after spending nearly two months being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues, a family spokesman said. Bush, 88, the nation's oldest living former president, was admitted to Methodist Hospital Nov. 23 including a week in intensive care last month. "I am deeply grateful...
Coroner releases new report on Natalie Wood death
Labels: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — A newly released report shows coroner's officials amended Natalie Wood's death certificate based on unanswered questions about bruises on her upper body but were lacking several pieces of evidence and could only conclude that she drowned under undetermined circumstances more than 30 years ago.Los Angeles County coroner's officials state in an 10-page addendum to Wood's autopsy report...
The New Old Age Blog: What You Need to Bring Your Loved One Home to Die
Labels: HealthMost of us, when asked about how and where we want to die, answer simply “at home.” Making that happen is not always as simple as it sounds. After a post in November, “Turning a Home into a Hospital,” some readers of this blog left comments asking what equipment they needed on hand and what other steps they needed to take to make that last wish a reality.To even begin to answer that, you have to consider...
F.D.A. Warns St. Jude Medical
Labels: Business St. Jude Medical, a maker of medical devices, said Monday that it had received a warning letter from federal regulators concerning manufacturing issues at its Sylmar, Calif., plant, where it makes cardiac rhythm management products. In a regulatory filing, St. Jude said the Food and Drug Administration had noted in the letter that it would not approve certain new product applications until...
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Sonia Sotomayor Makes Herself at Home in Washington
Labels: WorldTodd Heisler/The New York TimesJustice Sonia Sotomayor visiting the Bronx housing project where she grew up. WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a proud daughter of New York City, and her adjustment to life in the nation’s capital has been rocky. Do not get her started, for instance, about ordering takeout. “I go to New York, I order food, it’s at my door in 10 to 15 minutes. O.K.?” she...
Women pry open door to video game industry’s boys’ club
Labels: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When video game developer Brenda Brathwaite Romero started her career in the 1980s, she could count the number of female developers in the industry on one hand.Today, many “Women in Games” roundtables she attends are filled to capacity with new faces. The 46-year-old, sometimes referred to as the longest-serving woman in the video game arena, jokes that these days one can...
City Room: Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak
Labels: HealthWith the nation in the grip of a severe influenza outbreak that has seen deaths reach epidemic levels, New York State declared a public health emergency on Saturday, making access to vaccines more easily available.There have been nearly 20,000 cases of flu reported across the state so far this season, officials said. Last season, 4,400 positive laboratory tests were reported.“We are experiencing...
Treasury Will Not Mint $1 Trillion Coin to Raise Debt Ceiling
Labels: BusinessWASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Saturday that it will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to head off an imminent battle with Congress over raising the government’s borrowing limit. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in...
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