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Despite pandemic and growing health scares, India’s budget share for healthcare continues to decline
As the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present the full budget for the current fisc…
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Cries are getting louder for emergency interest-rate cuts this week, something that's been reserved for pandemics or terrorist attacks
Friday's jobs report triggered a key recession indicator, prompting calls for an emergency interest…
Ayelet Sheffey
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I moved back to the US after 25 years in the UK. People abroad were more polite than Americans, but I never quite fit in there.
She moved back to the US after 25 years in the UK. Now, she cringes when Americans demand a free me…
Dana Mayer
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New-home construction hits a COVID-era low as high prices scare away buyers
The combination of high prices and still-elevated mortgage rates has potential buyers uneasy. Build…
Filip De Mott
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The rise of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who overcame the COVID-19 travel slump and is now leading the company through rental crackdowns
Brian Chesky, Airbnb's 43-year-old cofounder, had an unconventional path to Silicon Valley. Now his…
Jordan Hart,Dan Latu,Avery Ha…
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Women-led self help groups were instrumental in ensuring Indians had food on their plates during the COVID-19 lockdown
To say that conditions were grim in the early phases of the pandemic is an understatement. Studies …
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The Fed has redeemed itself after an 'egregious' post-COVID inflation error, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says
"They moved strongly enough and vigorously enough to keep expectations anchored," the former Treasu…
Filip De Mott
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Brain scans show teen girls aged 4 years faster than boys during COVID lockdowns. We asked the researcher what that means long-term.
A study found that teen girls' brains aged 4.2 years faster than average during the pandemic. They …
Julia Pugachevsky
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These 3 metro regions still haven't recovered from the pandemic recession
"Many of the places that have not regained the jobs lost were hit particularly hard by the pandemic…
Filip De Mott
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Most people don't really care about COVID anymore. That's good — and bad.
Even amid a summer spike in COVID cases, the general public's attitude toward the virus is more rel…
Erin Snodgrass
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Future zoonotic disease pandemics set to turn deadlier, kill 12 times as many people by 2050 due to climate change
The team found that from 1963 to 2019, 3,150 outbreaks had claimed a staggering 17,232 lives in 24 …
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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again.
H5N1 avian flu virus is spreading in cattle herds. Former surgeon general Jerome Adams, who served …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Ahead of World Health Day, experts reiterate importance of govt's One Health approach in preventing future zoonotic outbreaks
The government's focus on the 'One Health' approach, recognising the interconnection between human,…
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AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, cites commercial reasons
AstraZeneca has announced that the vaccine was being removed from markets for commercial reasons.
ANI
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Risk of long COVID 46% higher for patients from socioeconomically deprived areas, study reveals
Workers with lower socioeconomic status have poorer health outcomes and higher premature mortality …
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IEA slashes oil demand outlook amid the end of the post-pandemic rebound and expanding EV adoption
The latest bout of Middle East turmoil has ratcheted up fears that oil could soon hit $100 a barrel.
Yuheng Zhan
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Millennials and Gen Z saw their wealth balloon during the pandemic
It turns out that the pandemic's economic situation was pretty good for younger Americans' net wort…
Juliana Kaplan
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New variant of H5N1 bird flu spreads to marine mammals, heightening concerns for human transmission
Alarmingly, all samples from Argentina, encompassing sea lions, fur seals, and terns, tested positi…
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The pandemic forced many women to leave their jobs. Hybrid work is bringing them back.
Women are rapidly rejoining the labor force, boosting the economy.
Allie Kelly
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The COVID-19 infection you caught at a Taylor Swift concert is not a gift from 'Mother'
In an informal poll on X after the Eras Tour's Madrid leg, over 3,700 people said they'd caught the…