‘I Am Totally Burned Out’: Patients Watch Health Care Debate With Dread

‘I Am Totally Burned Out’: Patients Watch Health Care Debate With Dread By JAN HOFFMAN July 27, 2017 Meghan Borland’s daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy. By JAN HOFFMAN July 27, 2017 Ever since the November election,...

What young Jeff Bezos wanted to be when he grew up—it had nothing to do with e-commerce

Bezos also remembers going through a phase in first grade when he was 6, where he wanted to be an archaeologist — because he had learned how to spell the word, according to a 2001 Guardian article. Later, Bezos was his high school’s valedictorian, and then...

Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visits

Amazon has started a secret skunkworks lab dedicated to opportunities in health care, including new areas such as electronic medical records and telemedicine. Amazon has dubbed this stealth team 1492, which appears to be a reference to the year Columbus first landed...

Jefferies raises S&P 500 forecast: ‘Bull markets don’t die of old age’

Strong second-quarter earnings, along with falling rates and a weak dollar, will continue to drive stocks higher, according to Jefferies, which raised its year-end price forecast for the S&P 500 on Thursday. “The bottom line is that equity bull markets...

Raytheon jumps to record high on earnings, CEO credits Trump for boost

Shares of Raytheon jumped to an all-time high of $170.74 in midday trading Thursday after the company said it was getting a boost from President Donald Trump. “We have an administration now that is significantly supporting international work for the domestic...