STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 13 — There is no definitive test for asthma, with most diagnoses based on history and breathing tests, both of which researchers say lack definition and depend on patients having attacks before any type of treatment. Researchers at Penn State University found microRNAs, or miRNAs, in ... Read More »
U.S. regulators gave a failing grade to five big banks on Wednesday, including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), on their plans for a bankruptcy that would not rely on taxpayer money, giving them until Oct. 1 to make amends or risk sanctions. The move ... Read More »
Australia’s Macquarie Group Ltd (MQG.AX) shed close to 15 percent of its U.S. investment banking workforce this month to replenish its ranks with star performers in North America, according to people familiar with the matter. The action comes as other international banks reconsider their U.S. investment banking strategy. Earlier this ... Read More »
Oil fell on Thursday as the International Energy Agency trimmed its forecast for demand growth and on signs that a producers’ meeting this weekend will not yield a concrete plan to reduce oversupply. The International Energy Agency slightly trimmed its estimates for 2016 global demand growth from last month to ... Read More »
Bank of America Corp, the No. 2 U.S. bank by assets, reported an 18 percent slide in quarterly profit as concerns about a global economic slowdown and uncertainty about the pace of U.S. interest rate increases dampened bond and stock trading. Net income attributable to common shareholders fell to $2.22 ... Read More »
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR One winning project and two runners up in each of these two categories. Period home: Enter this is you’ve renovated whole or part of a house built up to and including 1929. Modern or new-build home: Enter this if you’ve revamped whole or part of a ... Read More »
NEW YORK, April 12 — A strike deadline of Wednesday was announced by two unions representing about 40,000 Verizon employees seeking improved pensions and an end to outsourcing of jobs. The workers, largely in landline and Internet services on the East Coast, have beenwithout a contract since August 2015. They ... Read More »
TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 — Use of the word “breakthrough” in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expedited approval process could mislead doctors about the new drugs’ actual benefits, researchers warn. The U.S. Congress in 2012 gave FDA the power to designate a drug as a “breakthrough therapy” if preliminary ... Read More »
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 — Using telemedicine — a variety of technologies to work with patients who do not come into the office — has grown in recent years, leading the American College of Physicians to release recommendations on the benefits and risks of the practice. The group said that several ... Read More »
IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 12 — There was a time doctors thought children with autism spectrum disorder had to be treated in person, making it difficult to help frustrated parents deal with communication or behavioral issues, but researchers found in a recent study that telemedicine can help this issue. Researchers ... Read More »
PATUXENT RIVER, Md., April 12 —A new electronic jamming device for U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft has won Department of Defense approval for Engineering & Manufacturing Development. The system — Next Generation Jammer Increment 1 — gained Milestone Decision Authority approval after Raytheon’s development plans were judged as meeting the ... Read More »
A day after a 34-year-old man from Bhatkal town in Karnataka was detained at the Pune airport for alleged links with the Islamic State (IS), a senior government official said on Wednesday it could have been a case of mistaken identity. Ismail Musab Raoof Ahmed, a shoe salesman, was on ... Read More »
