Family Health Insurance Vaccinations are a childhood ritual and provide vital protection against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and polio, which can be extremely dangerous for young children. But a report, issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion, found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to [...]
Women who take the drug Fosamax for osteoporosis may be at an increased risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a US study suggests.
Researchers have linked the drug - widely prescribed in the UK to stop bone-thinning in older women - to a condition known as atrial fibrillation.
This is not necessarily serious, but can in [...]
Workers with job-based coverage for their families saw earnings rise 3% from 2001 to 2005, while their health insurance premium contribution increased 30%, according to the study by researchers at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota.
The average cost nationally of family coverage during the period increased nearly $2,500, to [...]
AskMeNow (OTCBB: AKMN) and The Money Channel Inc. have announced the launch of “MoneyChannel Mobile,†Business Objects a financial information portal powered by AskMeNow. The fully-automated mobile solution will give The Money Channel’s vast national Radio and Television audience of financial industry investors, consumers and insiders easy access to business, stock market and economic news, [...]
Anyone who wants to start or improve a small business venture has come to know SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” as a valuable service. Making it easier to access information, statistics, and mentoring, SCORE, based in Herndon, Virginia, has added a section for minority entrepreneurs on its Website, www.score.org/minority.html.
“It’s been in the works since [...]
Business’ name and Website: Check with your local secretary of state to make sure that the name you want is available. If you do not intend to form an entity immediately, check to see whether you can reserve the name and for how long. Also, research whether or not the name is available as a [...]
Small businesses have an identity problem. Not enough customers know they even exist. The average small business has about a 7% rate of brand awareness. So, basically only seven out of every 100 potential customers who are looking for the services your business supplies know who you are Entertainment. To reach that other 93%, many [...]
A year or two ago, it looked like instant messaging and other forms of online chat had reached their full potential as a business tool. Millions of people were using IM to interact with corporate colleagues. Live chat had also become a fixture on websites, giving customers a way to inquire about products and receive [...]
A newspaper investigation has found that there have been more than 160 gun crimes on Memphis and Shelby County, Tenn., school campuses since 2003. In a majority of those cases, students were found with guns in their pockets, backpacks and lockers and carted off to juvenile hall to face felony charges. But on 15 occasions–on [...]
A student at Wunsche High School in Spring, Texas, has been stabbed by the father of another student in the lobby of the school. The father had come to the school to report that his daughter had been sexually assaulted over the weekend at a party. Another student, who the father believed had been present [...]
