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☆ BHP says Anglo American rejected $42.7 billion revised proposal
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Sheets of copper cathode are pictured at BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, in Antofagasta, northern Chile March 31, 2008. BHP Group said on Monday that Anglo American had rejected a revised buyout offer valuing the company at 34 billion pounds ($42.67 billion). Anglo American in April rebuffed BHP's $39 billion all-share takeover proposal, saying it was opportunistic and significantly undervalued its prospects. "BHP is disappointed that the Anglo American Board has chosen not to engage with BHP with respect to the Revised Proposal and the improved terms," it said in a statement. "BHP continues to believe that a combination of the two businesses would deliver significant value for all shareholders," it added.

Persons: BHP's, BHP Organizations: BHP Billiton's Escondida, BHP Group, Anglo American, BHP Locations: Antofagasta, Chile

☆ Counterfeit Botox has been found in several states. Here’s what consumers should know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —The US Food and Drug Administration is warning that dangerous counterfeit versions of Botox have been identified in multiple states, putting the safety of consumers at risk. The incidents of counterfeit Botox being administered to consumers appear to be connected to products that have been purchased from unlicensed sources and then administered by either unlicensed or licensed providers. The counterfeit Botox products may be identified by the lot number C3709C3 found on the outer carton and vial, the FDA said. Counterfeit botox has been found in several states. Most often, when counterfeit Botox is sold, “the injector knows they’re purchasing something counterfeit,” Sung said.

Persons: Washington –, Botox, Lavanya Krishnan, Arya Derm, ” Krishnan, Krishnan, Allergan, ”, “, Jimmy Sung, you’re, can’t, ” Sung, Michael Cameron, Cameron, ” Cameron, Sung, “ I’m, I’ve, Steven Williams, ” Williams, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Cynthia Elliott, ” Elliott Organizations: CNN, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, US Centers for Disease Control, CDC, American Board of Cosmetic, Revance Therapeutics, Merz Aesthetics, Tribeca Aesthetics, Cameron Dermatology, Mount Sinai Health, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, “, CNN Health Locations: – Colorado, Florida , Illinois , Kentucky , Nebraska , New Jersey , New York , Tennessee, San Francisco, United States, New York City, New York, Florida

☆ I've lent people more than $63 million to buy homes and start businesses: 'If you see a problem, fix the problem'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Today, I'm the owner of a barber shop and the founder of the Washington Barber College. Courtesy of Story SyndicateI took $500 from the check and put it down on a rental space for a barber shop. I later purchased another barber shop, and with the profits from that business, bought an additional shop that was going out of business. AdvertisementThe People Trust Community Loan Fund. We would also pick up homeless individuals and bring them to the barber shop to provide haircuts.

Persons: Arlo Washington, —, Oscar, Barber, it's, Syndicate I'm, we've, We've, Mr, We're, Little, I've, It's Organizations: Service, Washington, Washington Barber College, Syndicate, People Trust Loan Fund, People Trust, Federal Credit Union, University of Arkansas, Little, Trust Community Loan Fund, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, The Treasury Department, Trust Loan, People Trust Loan, Depository Institution Locations: Little Rock , Arkansas, Local, Washington, Arkansas, Little, Central Arkansas, Little Rock, Rock, Wrightsville , Arkansas

When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. After it opened in 1879 in an old Army barracks, thousands of Native American children were sent by train and stagecoach to Carlisle. In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet secretary, has pushed the government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools. At least 500 children died at some of the schools, including Carlisle.

Persons: Samuel Gilbert, Edward Hensley, Samuel, Edward, weren't, Jan, ”, Greg Werkheiser, Richard Henry Pratt, Jim Thorpe, —, Deb Haaland, “, Beth Wright Organizations: Nebraska, Army, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, “, Cultural Heritage Partners, Department of Interior, War Department, Medical Field Service School, American, Protection, United States Congress, Interior, Native American, Native American Rights Fund Locations: Pennsylvania, Winnebago, Carlisle, Nebraska, Servicemembers, Lake, Washoe, Umpqua, Ute, Rosebud Sioux, Northern Arapaho, Blackfeet, Oglala Sioux, Oneida, Omaha, Modoc , Iowa

☆ The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Kim Tingley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

But the space-based medical science needed to make that possible has been hindered by small sample sizes that aren’t representative of the general population. As less-rigorous medical screening allows more tourists to reach space, the chances increase significantly that someone will get hurt or have a health emergency there. And if we survived those perils, wouldn’t escalating pressure in our skulls kill us after a week or so? Initially, many space travelers puke, or at least feel motion-sick — space-adaptation syndrome, or S.A.S., is what such nausea, headache and vomiting are called outside our atmosphere. symptoms in the 1970s, when they heard Skylab astronauts talking about it with one another over a hot mic.

Persons: Donoviel, TRISH, ” Donoviel, Yuri Gagarin, humanity’s, hadn’t, Gagarin, ”, Jan Stepanek, “, acclimate Organizations: Apollo, Institute, Space Health, Baylor College of Medicine, NASA, Aerospace, American Board of Preventive, Mayo Clinic Locations: Scottsdale, Ariz

(AP) — Victims of government-backed Native American boarding schools are expected to share their experiences Sunday as U.S. officials make a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society. For over 150 years, Indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into the boarding schools. A Native American boarding school school in the town of St. Ignatius on the Flathead Reservation was open until at least 1973. In southeastern Montana the Tongue River Boarding School operated under various names until at least 1970, when the Northern Cheyenne Tribe contracted it as a tribal school, according to government records. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has tallied an additional 113 schools not on the government list that were run by churches and with no evidence of federal support.

Persons: Deb Haaland, Wizipan Garriott, Garriott, They’ve, Fort, Ignatius, — Organizations: —, Montana State University, Interior Department, Boarding School, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, National, American Boarding School, Coalition Locations: BOZEMAN, Mont, Montana, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, Bozeman, U.S, Alaska, Hawaii, Rosebud Sioux, Oklahoma , South Dakota , Michigan, Arizona, Blackfeet, Fort Peck, Fort Belknap, St

☆ Doctors are racing to get certified to treat obesity as Americans clamor for weight-loss drugs
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Almost 1,900 doctors signed up to take this year's exam to get certified in obesity medicine. Almost 1,900 doctors signed up to take the annual exam in October to become certified in obesity medicine, according to data the American Board of Obesity Medicine shared with Insider. The drugs, along with other new obesity treatments, have also piqued doctors' interest, said Dr. Kimberly Gudzune, the medical director of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which administers the test. The American Board of Obesity Medicine, established in 2011, administered the first test to become certified in 2012. Since then, the number of doctors certified in obesity medicine has grown from fewer than 600 in 2013 to more than 6,700, according to the board.

Persons: Kimberly Gudzune, Gudzune Organizations: Morning, American Board of Obesity, American Medical Association, American, of Obesity Medicine, Centers for Disease Control

☆ How to Make Health Care Cheaper and Better - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Louisiana successfully used a sort of subscription model to ensure access to antiviral drugs against hepatitis C for people on Medicaid and in prison, the Rebitzers wrote. Patients’ incentives to restrain health care spending are limited to whatever they spend on deductibles and co-pays. Health care is one of the only parts of the economy where “slightly worse but much cheaper” is not even on the mental map, the Rebitzers wrote. The adversarial approach to health insurance, in which insurers spend huge sums scrutinizing claims, is enormously wasteful, the Rebitzers wrote. Another idea: “Trusted third parties could manage and attest to the validity of payments, as with credit card payments.”The Rebitzers acknowledge that in health care, especially, economic incentives don’t always work.

Persons: laud, don’t, Robert Shiller, ” Organizations: American Board, Internal, ABIM, Yale Locations: Louisiana, Europe, United States

☆ Native American children may have been forced into assimilation at more boarding schools than previously reported, group says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Nicole Chavez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition released a new list of Indigenous boarding schools Wednesday that surpasses the number of previously reported institutions. The list of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States includes many that have closed and some that are still in operation today. It found the federal government ran or supported 408 boarding schools that forced assimilation between 1819 and 1969. The list also includes 125 schools that are currently open and that were or are considered Indigenous boarding schools. The legislation provided religious organizations with the resources to run more than a hundred schools for Native American children.

Persons: Deborah Parker, “ There’s, it’s, ” Parker, “ We’re, “ They’re, Deb Haaland, – Organizations: CNN, National, American Boarding School, Coalition, of Interior, White, Interior Department, Federal Locations: White, United States, American, Alaska

A new accounting shows that at least 523 institutions were part of the sprawling network of boarding schools for Native American children. ‘War Against the Children’ The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives. “The government was not done with war, so the next phase involved war against the children,” said Mr. Sherman, 83, a former aerospace engineer. Now 76, his voice grows shaky when he recounts the punishments children received — and how children were turned into punishers. Library of Congress, Chronicling AmericaA precise accounting of how many children died at Native American boarding schools remains elusive.

☆ Covid-19 has changed and so has our immunity. Here’s how to think about risk from the virus now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

So if people are less likely to be hospitalized or die from a Covid-19 infection now, has the danger passed? Through genetic bad luck, some people may just be at higher risk of serious reactions to Covid-19 infections, and they probably wouldn’t know it. Researchers defined it as any new or continuing symptoms more than 90 days after a Covid-19 infection. Based on his experience treating long Covid patients, Griffin said that the percentage reported in the Australian paper seems high. Earlier in the pandemic, pediatric infectious disease specialists were on the lookout for a rare complication of Covid-19 infection in kids called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.MIS-C starts two to six weeks after a Covid-19 infection.

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☆ At 30%, Solar Panel Tax Credits Are at a High Point for Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Ann Carrns | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Some states offer their own tax incentives, and utilities may offer rebates for installing solar. In some cases, rebates may affect the size of the federal credit, so consult a tax professional for help calculating your potential benefit, Ms. Walker said. Some solar contractors also do roofs or work closely with roofing companies, so you may be able to economize by having them done at the same time, she said. Some solar contractors offer the option to lease the system rather than buy it, but in that case you won’t own it — so you don’t qualify for the tax credit, Ms. Walker said. Like any home-improvement project, solar installations may attract disreputable contractors, said Melanie McGovern, a spokeswoman for the International Association of Better Business Bureaus.

Persons: Walker, . Jones, Albertus, Aggarwal, Melanie McGovern, McGovern, “ Organizations: Solar Energy Industries Association, North American Board of Certified Energy, International Association of Better Business

☆ US boardroom diversity gains slow as S&P 500 seeks resumes from finance
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Ross Kerber | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A boardroom is seen at the legal offices of the law firm Polsinelli in New York City, New York, U.S., June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew KellyAug 9 (Reuters) - Boards of S&P 500 companies made recruiting directors with financial expertise their top priority over the past year, slowing boardroom gains for minorities, according to a new report. According to research firm Equilar, just three of 68 financial services CEOs in the S&P 500 are nonwhite. Investors have sought more boardroom diversity as part of a broader U.S. reckoning on race relations. The decline in the share of new minority directors came from a drop in Black or African-American directors.

Persons: Polsinelli, Andrew Kelly, Spencer Stuart, Julie Daum, Spencer Stuart's, Daum, Ross Kerber, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Investors, Thomson Locations: New York City , New York, U.S

☆ Future-Proofing the Board of Directors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +29 min

Governance structures and practices should position the board to provide objective judgment and active oversight supported by board leadership, which is separate from and independent of company management. The board should design governance structures and practices that support it in determining board priorities, agendas, and information needs. The board should create governance structures and practices that ensure that directors are competent, committed, and diverse and that board and committee composition align with the company’s changing needs. Developing and supporting a positive and ethical corporate culture (see Corporate and Board Culture below). Corporate and Board CultureA strong board and corporate culture is imperative for a company’s success.

☆ I'm a plastic surgeon who does Brazilian butt lifts. BBLs are my most popular procedure, but some people shouldn't have it done.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Dr. John Paul Tutela has offered Brazilian butt lift surgery since he started his practice in 2014. I started offering the BBL procedure as soon as I opened my practice and it continues to grow in popularity. Getting a Brazilian butt lift requires pretty aggressive liposuction to help sculpt the body's shape. I'd never tell this category of people to gain weight for the surgery, I'd just recommend they don't do it. What is the recovery time for a Brazilian butt lift?

☆ A flurry of environmental tax breaks just came into effect thanks to last year's climate bill. From solar to electric vehicles, here's how you could save thousands of dollars.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The bill includes tax credits for electric vehicles, solar panels, and home energy updates. At that price, the claimable tax credit would be $6,000. The tax credit for solar is set to last until 2032, at which point it will lower and then expire in 2035 unless Congress renews it. As of January 1, a household can claim a tax credit of up to $150 for an energy audit conducted by a professional inspector. Buying an electric vehicleIncentives to purchase new or used electric vehicles were also boosted in the new climate bill.

A Michigan doctor who was reported missing on Christmas Eve was found dead Tuesday after a diving team searched a frozen pond near his home. Blackman-Leoni Public Safety via FacebookPayan was seen leaving his home on foot after detectives were able to access his password-protected surveillance system, authorities said Tuesday. The Jackson County Dive Team found Payan after cutting holes into the surface of a frozen pond on his property to search the water. Payan was a doctor of osteopathic medicine with a board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, according to his biography with Henry Ford Health. He studied at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his residency in psychiatry at Henry Ford Allegiance Health.

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