Articles filed under Washington Post
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New kind of company takes on the global crisis in drug pricesNov 06, 2016 7:16 am - Jerome Zeldis remembers exactly how he felt when he heard about the $84,000 price tag on a powerful new hepatitis C treatment three years ago. "I was somewhere between a...
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Soon: Exchange your extra vacation days for other perksNov 06, 2016 7:14 am - It's November, and you've been so overwhelmed at work you still have five vacation days you haven't used this year. You can: (a) try to squeeze it in amid all your crazy...
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Career Coach: Job interview tips from the presidential debatesNov 06, 2016 7:13 am - As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go toe-to-toe to lead the nation, I can't help but draw analogies to an average American's job search. The recent debates were like t...
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The new corporate perk: 'life planning accounts'Nov 06, 2016 7:12 am - Like many things in America these days, the story of employee benefits has become a story of the haves and have nots. On the one side are workers - particularly young on...
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Survey: Small business owners too busy to save for retirementNov 06, 2016 7:10 am - Small business owners are just as unprepared for retirement as the rest of us, it turns out. Maybe more so. According to a new report from BMO Wealth Management, only a ...
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Even the best retirement planning can be derailed by dementiaNov 06, 2016 7:00 am - Chuck McClatchey had a sound retirement plan. Already retired with pensions from two jobs — one as a U.S. Air Force master sergeant and the other as an electrical operat...
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New data show a deadly measles complication is more common than thoughtNov 05, 2016 7:30 am - A complication of measles that kills children years after they have been infected is more common than previously thought, according to disturbing data released last mont...
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Help is scarce for troubled youthNov 05, 2016 7:30 am - Pediatrician Karen Rhea said she found it “gut-wrenching” to see young people in psychiatric crisis: a teen who overdosed, the one with mental illness who landed in jail...
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STD rates hit record high in U.S. as screening clinics closeNov 05, 2016 7:30 am - Infections from three sexually transmitted diseases have hit another record high, federal health officials reported. More than 1.5 million cases of chlamydia were report...
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Cross-country trips in electric cars are about to get easierNov 05, 2016 7:18 am - President Barack Obama is making it a little easier for electric car owners to make cross-country drives. The White House said Thursday that it's officially designating ...