Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012 | Source: The New York Times
Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside.
Starting a small business is a risky proposition. If you’re worried about how yours might fare during a downturn, consider a recession-proof industry, which caters to ongoing demands. Its odds of weathering economic storms are better than those that don’t.
Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China's one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.
Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 | Posted By:
| Source: CNBC.com
The world is rapidly aging. A whopping two billion people will be 60 years and older by 2050, more than triple the number in 2000, according the WHO. We've come up with a list of countries with the starkest gap between the number of old and the number of young. Find out which countries have the biggest gap between old and young.
In court papers filed Friday, accused ponzi schemer Allen Stanford's court-appointed attorney said he will call on two neurologists, a neuropsychologist, a forensic psychiatrist, a medical doctor and a staff psychiatrist to testify at a hearing on whether Stanford is competent to stand trial.
Expecting Aetna and UnitedHealth to beat Wall Street estimates as health insurers kick off fourth-quarter earnings, senior analyst Peter Costa of Wells Fargo says these companies will continue their winning streak in 2012, due to rising costs, lower unemployment and even health-care reform... Read More
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