The price of brand-name prescription medicines is rising far faster than the inflation rate, while the price of generic drugs has plummeted, creating the largest gap so far between the two, according to a report published Wednesday by the pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts. The report tracked an index of commonly used drugs and found that the price of brand-name medicines increased...
Original Batmobile to go up for auction
Label: Business Holy hot rod, Batman!The iconic Batmobile from the 1960s television show is going up for auction early next year.The midnight-black...
Nov
28
27 indicted in Mexican Mafia drug case in Ventura County
Label: World From a prison cell outside California, an inmate known as "Evil" was making himself known on Ventura County's streets.Martin...
U.S. for-profit colleges spend big on marketing while slashing other costs
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Google‘s biggest advertiser is neither a bank nor a retailer.It’s the for-profit University of Phoenix, which has recently been spending nearly $ 400,000 a day on ads, more than any financial firm or retailer, the traditional big spenders on online advertising, according to search analytics firm SpyFu.That kind of spending may seem surprising coming from a college, but marketing has become...
In elf ears and wizard hats, 'Hobbit' fans rejoice
Label: LifestyleWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Wearing elf ears and wizard hats, sitting atop their dad's shoulders or peering from balconies, tens of thousands of New Zealanders watched their favorite "Hobbit" actors walk the red carpet Wednesday at the film trilogy's hometown premiere.An Air New Zealand plane freshly painted with "Hobbit" characters flew low over Wellington's Embassy Theatre, eliciting roars of...
The New Old Age Blog: Doctor's Orders? Another Test
Label: HealthIt is no longer news that Americans, and older Americans in particular, get more routine screening tests than they need, more than are useful. Prostate tests for men over 75, annual Pap smears for women over 65 and colonoscopies for anyone over 75 — all are overused, large-scale studies have shown.Now it appears that many older patients are also subjected to too-frequent use of the other kind of testing,...
Megabus service is rolling back into L.A.
Label: Business A low-cost city-to-city bus service that pulled out of Los Angeles four years ago because of low ridership is rolling back into...
Nov
27
Program opens door to citizenship for immigrants
Label: World Ricardo Sepida gets emotional when he sees his son-in-law in a Navy uniform. Even aircraft carriers make him misty-eyed. There...
Audra McDonald new 'Live From Lincoln Center' host
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Broadway superstar Audra McDonald is adding a new chapter to her long history with Lincoln Center.The singer-actress is the new host of "Live From Lincoln Center," PBS said Tuesday.McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" and Dec. 31 with the New York Philharmonic's New Year's Eve gala."It's a great...
Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders
Label: HealthFor years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a...
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