Fitbit launches new wearable, but your employer has to sign you up
Fitbit quietly introduced a new activity and sleep tracker, but, unlike the company's previous step counters, the wearable is available only from your health plan or employer.
Fitbit quietly introduced a new activity and sleep tracker, but, unlike the company's previous step counters, the wearable is available only from your health plan or employer.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 12, 2019
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If there's an attack on the country, the military mobilizes. When a natural disaster strikes, recovery plans go into effect. Should an infectious disease start to spread, health officials launch a containment strategy.
Security
Nov 9, 2018
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Nearly 40,000 striking Verizon employees will return to work Wednesday after reaching a tentative contract agreement that includes 1,300 new call center jobs and nearly 11 percent in raises over four years but also makes ...
Business
May 30, 2016
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Now we know how some Senate staffers keep busy during Congress' summer recess.
Internet
Sep 3, 2015
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Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, is the latest company to ask its suppliers to curb the use of antibiotics in farm animals. Here's a rundown of what's driving the decision:
Other
May 22, 2015
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Ancient Egyptian workers in a village that's now called Deir el-Medina were beneficiaries of what Stanford Egyptologist Anne Austin calls "the earliest documented governmental health care plan."
Archaeology
Nov 18, 2014
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States with right-to-work laws "free ride" on the higher tax revenues generated by workers in collective bargaining states, says a new study from a University of Illinois labor expert.
Economics & Business
Aug 29, 2014
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Minnesota's top pollution officials are setting ambitious goals - primarily for farmers - to cut back on the millions of tons of pollution that each year flow out of the state and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2013
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The stockperson is an important influence on farm animal welfare. In her PhD thesis, Karianne Muri has investigated some of the many ways in which stockpeople have an impact on the welfare of the animals under their care
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2013
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An influential group of business executives is pushing a plan to increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to partially privatize the health insurance program for older Americans.
Business
Jan 16, 2013
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