Cholesterol-Slashing Drug Can Protect High-Risk Heart Patients, Study Finds

By GINA KOLATA March 17, 2017 The first rigorous test of an expensive new drug that radically lowers cholesterol levels found that it significantly reduced the chance that a high-risk patient would have a heart attack or stroke. These were men and women who...

London jobs market shrinks as Article 50 approaches

As the U.K. Prime Minister prepares to trigger Article 50 later this month, businesses seem to be reacting by moving jobs away. “Brexit has pushed institutions into two camps,” said Hakan Enver, operations director at Morgan McKinley Financial Services, in...

VA secretary pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to be the ‘designated survivor’

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin told CNBC on Friday that his role as the so-called designated survivor during President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress at the end of last month was “fortunately” a lot of preparation that...