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...Menopause has risen up employers’ agenda as acceptance grows that once-private issues, such as mental health, have an impact on working life....
...Rising interest rates have made it hard to finance buyouts, and concerns about the health of the global economy have made some investors fearful that public market valuations could fall....
...Google has also offered guarantees that other devices will have access to the health data, with a user’s consent, on the same terms as Google, and that Fitbit’s customers can continue to use services like...
...top 100 health sites in the UK had cookies or trackers dropped on them before we consented to being tracked....
...It also points to the health of a cash machine that has been funding the company’s next big businesses, fuelling its growth well beyond search....
...Although Lenovo simply purchased IBM’s PC business, Westinghouse has been drawn into what it deems a partnership....
...At the end of September Berkshire owned stakes valued between $195m and $232m in Intel, drug store chain CVS Caremark, broadcaster DirecTV, Visa, and defence group General Dynamics....
...CVS Caremark , was up 3 per cent at $34.44, after the pharmacist announced plans to buy back at least $1bn in shares by the end of the year, as part of a larger $4bn programme....
...In the 1990s, drug companies such as Eli Lilly, which owned PCS Health, and Merck, which owned Medco, were scrutinised over whether their captive PBM businesses would be pressured to use their parent companies...
...It is poised be taken over, along with 520 other Longs stores, by Walgreens’ main rival, CVS Caremark....
...Humana, the health in-surer, increased fourth-quarter profits by 57 per cent to $243.2m, beating Wall Street estimates. But the stock fell 3.5 per cent to $78.98....
...What does the prevalence of this activity tell us about the health of the industry in question?...
...Express Scripts tabled a $26bn offer to buy Caremark in a move by the pharmacy benefits manager that could stymie a $21bn all-stock bid made by CVS , which Caremark has already accepted....
...Patricia Hewitt, health secretary, was jeered and booed by delegates at last week’s Royal College of Nursing conference over government health service reforms....
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