Health

National discount department chain Stein Mart has filed for bankruptcy after 112 years in the company, and announced Wednesday that it will close most of its 280 stores. “The combined effects of a challenging retail environment coupled with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have caused significant financial distress to …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stopped a speech in parliament, telling lawmakers he “had to sit for a minute” after suffering a blood clot. The 54-year-old was half an hour into his speech Wednesday when he began to appear tired, pausing twice to take a sip of water from a …

Simulated landscape of mountains and valleys created by cuddling in graphene. The brightly coupled dots are electrons that are slower and have strong interaction. Credit: Yuhang Jiang Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer of graphite used in pencils, stretches as it cools when hooked to a flat surface, resulting in …

Story links NEW YORK – Due to the unusual and lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BIG EAST conference and its member institutions have announced that fall sports competition will not be held in 2020. The conference will consider alternative options for fall sports for fall sports in the …

Following the assassination of George Floyd by police, a flurry of pharma and biotech companies, operators and investors sprang out to make statements, or express support for Black Lives Matter and the protests or condemnation of systemic racism. Now, a Big Pharma company is publicly putting some teeth behind those …