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Science Fiction To Reality: How Anti-aging Drugs Will Upend The Future Of Work

Allwork

While the full repercussions of a longer-living workforce are still to be imagined, the idea of prolonging human life using anti-aging drugs has been tossed around for years. In 2006, an NBC article discussed the topic: “For most people, living longer will inevitably mean more time spent working.

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Generative AI Expert Mike Koenigs Is Using Cutting-Edge Tech Tools to Make Everyone’s Life a Little Easier

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Founded by Koenigs’ wife, Vivian, in 2006, Just Like My Child has delivered programs in health care services, education, microenterprise, social justice, leadership and empowerment to more than 200,000 people in rural communities of central Uganda and Senegal.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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While other newspaper columnists from his generation might have been crotchety and bemused about tweets and video streaming, Ebert’s medical realities propelled him to the head of the class, affording him newfangled awards like Webbys’ “ Person of the Year ” and the No. His online journal. His autobiography, Life Itself. Not one sip.

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Throwing open the window to a new world of work

Workplace Insight

While at work in a Viennese Obstetric Clinic in the mid 1840s, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that mothers were far less likely to succumb to a potentially fatal infection called puerperal fever when the medical staff treating them washed their hands. And that should have been that.

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Do You Want to Know the Best Home Business to Start? Read this.

Tips From T. Marie

When I was working my soul-sucking, traditional office job back in 2006, I did numerous internet searches on the best home business to start. Medical transcription topped the list back then, something that was hard to break into and even harder to earn a living at from home.

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Fidelity on Leading Sectors for Innovation

Small Business Labs

  Leading Sectors for Innovation from Fidelity Investments looks at innovations in health care/medical devices, media and entertainment and information technology.    The medical innovation areas covered include genomics, biotech pharmaceuticals and digital health records. 

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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

Office Dynamics

Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.