Friday, May 20, 2016

Auto Insurance Customers Disappointed in Their Insurers’ Websites: J.D. Power

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While overall customers are more satisfied with their experience shopping online for auto insurance, they are less thrilled with the websites of individual insurance companies, with only slightly more half saying they “definitely will” return to the site for their servicing needs, according to the latest J.D. Power study.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Scientists have determined how we can prevent half of all cancer deaths

Imagine a powerful new treatment that could cut all cancer deaths by more than half.

In the age of $10,000-a-month cancer drugs that often extend life by the thinnest margins — a few precious months before the cancer rages back — the idea of such a potent effect sounds like a fantasy.

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Bladder Cancer

(HealthDay News) -- A new drug to treat bladder cancer was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday.

Tecentriq (atezolizumab) treats the most common type of bladder cancer, called urothelial carcinoma. It's the first in its class of drugs, called PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, approved to treat this type of cancer.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Wall Street turns higher as bank stocks offset retail shares

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 16, 2016.

(Reuters) - Wall Street reversed course to trade slightly higher on Wednesday as the prospect of higher interest rates sent financial stocks up, offsetting a fall in retail shares.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Apple, Microsoft, Google Chinese Security Reviews

It's fair to say that relations between the U.S. and China are strained, especially in regards to technology. Security researchers have often traced cyberattacks big and small back to China, for which the Chinese government often denies,