Declining Profit, Medicare Budget-Tightening Spell Double Trouble for UnitedHealth

UNH has struggled in recent years on account of rising medical costs and lower-than-expected Medicare Advantage ...
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This Is Iowa: Iowa couple marries in hospital ICU so bride's mother could attend

loved ones will never be forgotten. <Piano keys close.> 90 MINUTES BEFORE GUESTS ARRIVE-- <I gotta go over there and tell them to smile.> SOME FATHERS OF THE BRIDE GET JITTERS. < to Go smile!> GREG ...

On Being Ill at 100: Virginia Woolf’s ‘best essay’ still shapes how we read sickness

It is also the year that Virginia Woolf published her essay, On Being Ill, in January’s volume of The New Criterion – the literary review headed up by T.S. Eliot. The essay had been written from her ...

William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...

Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata

In 1961, the author inscribed a book for the sister, a nurse who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic. Her copy of “The Old Man ...