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Online Rx startups offer convenience but also raise concerns

How do you get men excited about decades-old pills for hair loss, erectile dysfunction and other potentially embarrassing health conditions? Online startups including Hims and Roman are banking on a mix of convenience, viral marketing and glossy packaging to turn generic prescription drugs and other pharmacy staples into a profitable new business model. But some […]

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Trump, Irish prime minister differ on Brexit, meeting venue

Sports / En Sound Media

For the backdrop to his first official visit to Ireland, President Donald Trump wanted to promote his golf course on the nation’s rocky west coast. The Irish government countered with the grand staging of an ancient castle. In the end, neither side got what they wanted. The compromise location for Trump’s meeting Wednesday with Irish

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Trump Administration Sharply Curtails Fetal Tissue Medical Research

Politics / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses, mainly by ending such research within the National Institutes of Health. The move fulfills a top goal of anti-abortion groups that have lobbied hard for it, but scientists say the

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Putin Aims to Revive the Economy With a Plan. And Pianos.

Finance / En Sound Media

MOSCOW — Even as Russia has muscled back onto the world stage politically, its economy suffers from flat growth and shrinking incomes. President Vladimir V. Putin has a plan to change that — and it involves pianos. Kremlin officials say they will use an important investor conference opening Thursday in St. Petersburg to promote a

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Government to start posting list of troubled nursing homes

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

The government says it’ll start posting a list of some 400 troubled nursing homes , in a turnabout days after senators publicly released the “secret” document , along with a report questioning oversight of poor-quality facilities. Dr. Kate Goodrich, chief medical officer with the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, says the agency soon will

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Wealth manager drops Woodford after suspension

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Woodford Investment Management Ltd St James’s Place, the wealth management group, has dropped high-profile stockpicker Neil Woodford as a manager of its £3.5bn high-income fund. It follows the decision by the Woodford Equity Income Fund to stop investors taking money in or out of the fund. Mr Woodford has said he is “extremely

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Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary

Technology / En Sound Media

In an article published in 1950 in the academic journal “Mind,” he developed a method that came to be known as the “Turing Test,” a sort of thought experiment to determine whether a computer could pass as a human. As part of his experiment, a human interrogator would ask questions and try to figure out

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Gaffalione has become horse racing’s rising star jockey

Sports / En Sound Media

Tyler Gaffalione seems poised to add his name to the list of all-time great jockeys in horse racing that includes Ron Turcotte, Jerry Bailey, Gary Stevens, John Velazquez and Mike Smith. While there may not be a specific moment when people in horse racing realized those jockeys would become all-time greats, Gaffalione has had two

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PMQs: Loughton and Lidington on ‘hate-fuelled’ Trump protesters

Politics / En Sound Media

A Conservative MP asked about “a minority of hate-fuelled demonstrators” who shouted “Nazi scum” in the face of American tourists during President Trump’s visit to the UK. Tim Loughton said such actions ahead of D-Day commemorations “demeaned the memory” of veterans. Standing in for Theresa May at PMQs, David Lidington said the right to demonstrate

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Markets Right Now: Stocks rise again, though energy tanks

Finance / En Sound Media

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 12:00 p.m. Stocks are rising for a second straight day Wednesday, although a sharp drop in energy shares tempered the gains. . Energy shares fell as the price of oil plunged 4.4% following a report showing an unexpected surge in U.S. supplies. Exxon Mobil fell

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