by Paul Alan Levy The Washington Post reports this morning that Yelp has begun, on an experimental basis, to show a warning sign when a restaurant has been visited by local inspectors and received an especially low food safety score.
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Reuters reports: Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages and bacon can cause colorectal cancer in humans, and red meat is also a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said. The review by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released on Monday, said additionally that there was some link […]
by Paul Alan Levy New Jersey resident Nadiya Oliver was deeply frustrated by her experience with an Illinois company called Fertility Bridges, which sells services connecting couples that are unable to conceive a child on their own with women who are ready to donate their eggs in return for financial assistance with the resulting burdens. […]
Read this op-ed on that topic by Marisa Bellack. Here's a short excerpt that gets at her theme: There was a 19th-century echo in the American Cancer Society’s announcement this past week of revised guidelines for breast cancer screening. Whereas anxiety was once a reason for aggressive medical intervention, it is now invoked to avoid intervention — an […]
The New York Times reports: In a federal lawsuit, a group of women are challenging industry guidelines that say it is “inappropriate” to pay a woman more than $10,000 for her eggs. The women say the $10,000 limit amounts to illegal price-fixing, and point out that there is no price restriction on the sale of human […]
The NYT points out that even a hike of a few percent on the ultra-rich could yield massive returns. For instance: If the tax increase were limited to just the 115,000 households in the top 0.1 percent, with an average income of $9.4 million, a 40 percent tax rate would produce $55 billion in extra […]
Although none of the A-list stars in the conversation are living paycheck to paycheck, Hollywood (led by Jennifer Lawrence, one of the highest paid actresses in the world, according to Forbes) is taking note of the differences between pay for men and women — and that it extends to high-paying as well as low-paying jobs. […]
From the NYT: The recall of exploding Takata airbags, one of the largest and most complex auto recalls in the nation’s history, may grow even larger. On Thursday, officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the top federal auto safety regulator, said it had expanded its investigation of the defect beyond the airbags situated […]
The Federal Communications Commission has fined six companies a combined $30 million for deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards. The FCC found that the companies falsely advertised that their low-cost prepaid calling cards could allow consumers far more calling minutes than were in fact being sold. The FCC press release explains that "[t]he companies targeted advertising […]