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Waking up in the morning and taking your blood pressure medication might be a big — and possibly fatal — mistake. Switching to taking blood pressure pills in the evening can substantially lower your risk of heart-related disease and death, according to a study published recently in the European Heart Journal. The study focusing on…
Read MoreAn excerpt from The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution. Johns Hopkins University was unlike anything ever built. Armed with an enormous endowment from a wealthy industrialist, the hospital (and its associated medical school) would be patterned after the German laboratory-centric model, and the clinically-based British…
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Read MoreThe property insurance market loss from the severe hailstorms that struck the southeastern region of Australia in January has been preliminarily estimated at A$670 million by PERILS AG. The Zurich based, industry backed estimator of catastrophe insurance and reinsurance market losses only includes property insurance related losses, so does not report on motor or other…
Read MoreEveryone has heard stories about horrible bosses who make life at work miserable. But having a boss as a best friend can be just as damaging to your career. You may go into the friendship with your supervisor thinking that it will give you a competitive advantage. With the boss as a pal, you may…
Read MorePGGM, the Dutch pension fund administrator and investment manager that has become the largest single source of assets in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, added a private quota share arrangement with reinsurance giant Swiss Re in 2019, using a special purpose insurer (SPI) named Viaduct Re Ltd. Last month we reported that PGGM had made…
Read MoreAn agreement on the sale of PartnerRe has been reached between EXOR, the Agnelli family owned holding company investor, and French insurance group Covéa. Covea will acquire reinsurance firm PartnerRe for $9 billion, delivering a healthy return on the investment made by Exor, the Italian holding company and investment entity of the Fiat owning Agnelli…
Read MoreWe watched as the new viral outbreak happened in a remote place in China, wondering if this would be a quick flameout or if Mother Nature would again exert her majesty on us mortals. My associate, Madilyn, and I watched with more interest, knowing that her sister was in South Korea teaching English. She was…
Read MoreThe spread of the new coronavirus, which has infected over 80,000 people worldwide and resulted in the death of more than 3,000, has raised alarms around the world. At the same time, the seasonal influenza, known as the flu, causes severe illness in between 3 million and 5 million people, with hundreds of thousands of…
Read MoreAn outbreak of coronavirus disease in a nursing home near Seattle is prompting urgent calls for precautionary tactics at America’s elder care facilities, where residents are at heightened risk of serious complications from the illness because of the dual threat of age and close living conditions. As of Monday afternoon, the emergence of the novel…
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