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Wegovy and Zepbound prices fall, but access to the obesity drugs still isn't guaranteed
Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging.
The medications still amount to around $500 per month for those without insurance — out of reach for many patients. And even for people with insurance, coverage remains uneven.
"The medica ... (full story)
Pakistan's biggest brewery is evolving from its 165-year-old liquor legacy
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A pungent fug of malt and yeastiness hangs over Murree Brewery, Pakistan 's biggest and oldest producer of alcoholic drinks.
The company is an outlier in a country where alcohol is outlawed for everyone except non-Muslims, who make up some 9 million people out of 241 million. Pakistan, an Islami ... (full story)
Mutual funds explained
Q: Can you explain what mutual funds are? -- T.P., Akron, Ohio
A: Sure. A mutual fund is the pooling of many investors' money, which is then managed by financial professionals.
In passively managed funds such as index funds, the managers simply aim to own the same securities in the index that the fund tracks, in roughly the ... (full story)
Do you want cryptocurrency as a 401(K) investment?
Would you be happy if cryptocurrency became an investment option in your company's 401(k) plan?
One possible roadblock to keep the 401(k) option from becoming reality was removed after the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Compliance Assistance Release No. 2025-01 in late May (tinyurl. ... (full story)
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don't
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DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.
The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola's research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s corporate battle to invent the portable phone. Cooper rejec ... (full story)