NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Wednesday as a surge in coronavirus cases in the United States weighed in on optimism about a rapid economic recovery, and as the United States weighed tariffs on European products. FILE PHOTO: US dollar bills are seen in this image illustration from …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The death toll in Latin America from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday, according to a Reuters count, with little sign that the outbreak is easing in a region marked by crowded cities and high levels of poverty. FILE PHOTO: The faithful of the Afro-Brazilian …
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President Trump touted a “great victory” after a federal judge rejected the American Hospital Association’s challenge to a rule by the Trump administration that forced them to disclose prices negotiated with insurers. “GREAT VICTORY for patients: Federal court ENCOURAGES transparency in hospital prices,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Patients …
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As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests that antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system that can provide protection against reinfection, may disappear in just two months after infection in certain people who have recovered from the virus. The study was conducted in China and published …
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The sturgeon, a long-lived bottom fish, is often described as “living fossils” because its shape has remained relatively constant, despite hundreds of millions of years of evolution. In a new study in the Linnean Society Zoological Magazine, researchers led by Jack Stack, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in …
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