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Inside the $9 billion World Cup: How Gianni Infantino built a FIFA-dom with a tight grip on soccer’s biggest global event
For Zurich’s bankers and executives, May 27, 2015, began as a normal Wednesday—until Swiss police stormed the financial hub’s five-star Baur au Lac hotel and arrested seven top officials of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, who were gathered there for their annual congress. The U.S. Department of Justice had unsealed a sprawling indictment alleging payment
Deel Launches DLUSD to Pay Workers in Dollars — No US Bank Needed
Two announcements from traditional financial powerhouses this week signal that stablecoins are becoming the plumbing of everyday finance. Getting Paid in Stablecoins Deel, the global payroll platform serving 40,000 businesses and 1.5 million workers across 150 countries, launched DLUSD on June 3, a custom USD-backed stablecoin...
Coinbase freezes $3M tied to Southeast Asia crypto fraud networks
Coinbase freezes $3M tied to Southeast Asia crypto fraud networks Latest News Published Jun 4, 2026 Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it froze more than $3 million in cryptocurrency tied to a global
Mortality high for patients with concurrent TB, COVID-19
Patients with concurrent tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 have a high risk for death, according to a study published online April 26 in PLOS Global Public Health. Alice V. Easton, Ph.D., from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, and colleagues compared mortality (March 2020 to June 2022) between
Helping patients in need: Physician partner program can save Americans up to 90% on prescription drugs
It’s no secret that drug prices in the U.S. are significantly higher than in other countries. About a quarter of U.S. adults surveyed last year by the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll reported not filling a prescription, taking a partial dose, or skipping doses altogether because of the cost. “We see patients who can’t
Will Telehealth Save Patients Money or Drive Up Costs?
April 5, 2023 -- Barbara Rosebrock was heading to the doctor’s office to learn how to use her 8-year-old daughter’s new insulin pump when health care as she knew it forever changed. It was March 11, 2020. With a mysterious new virus entering the U.S., vulnerable patients like Aubrey -- recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
Patients armed with telehealth tools help Baptist Health deliver better care
After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future. THE PROBLEM One of the challenges was with the lack
Do patients prefer male or female urologists? Depends on how much it hurts, research shows
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Urology involves some of the most intimate medical conditions, yet patients don't necessarily always prefer to be treated by a urologist of their own gender, new research has found. In some situations, male and female patients would prefer a male urologist but in others—if they have a painful condition, for example—both
Patients delaying care over cost reached all-time high in 2022: survey
Skip to main content January 17, 2023 05:28 PM A record number of patients delayed medical care because of high costs last year, according to survey results Gallup published Tuesday. Gallup found that 38% of respondents or a family member delayed treatment over costs in 2022, a 12 percentage point increase compared to 2020 and
We Can Do More to Help Our Patients’ Caregivers
Opinion > Second Opinions — Our healthcare systems would crumble without them by Kirk Taylor, MD January 15, 2023 Unpaid family caregivers -- the friends and relatives who step in to play the pivotal role of caring for their loved ones impacted by illness -- are the invisible backbone of healthcare systems around the world.
'Very real likelihood' that patients have died due to hospital chaos
The hospital crisis is the result of 'years of underinvestment' in the health service - IMO...
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Inside the $9 billion World Cup: How Gianni Infantino built a FIFA-dom with a tight grip on soccer’s biggest global event
For Zurich’s bankers and executives, May 27, 2015, began as a normal Wednesday—until Swiss police stormed the financial hub’s five-star Baur au Lac hotel and arrested seven top officials of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, who were gathered there for their annual congress. The U.S. Department of Justice had unsealed a sprawling indictment alleging payment
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Deel Launches DLUSD to Pay Workers in Dollars — No US Bank Needed
Two announcements from traditional financial powerhouses this week signal that stablecoins are becoming the plumbing of everyday finance. Getting Paid in Stablecoins Deel, the global payroll platform serving 40,000 businesses and 1.5 million workers across 150 countries, launched DLUSD on June 3, a custom USD-backed stablecoin...
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Coinbase freezes $3M tied to Southeast Asia crypto fraud networks
Coinbase freezes $3M tied to Southeast Asia crypto fraud networks Latest News Published Jun 4, 2026 Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it froze more than $3 million in cryptocurrency tied to a global
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Morgan Stanley sees major upside for Apple stock ahead of WWDC
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Why Your Business Could Lose More Than Its Founder If You’re Suddenly Incapacitated
If your business depends entirely on you for access to critical information, one emergency can put everything at risk. Here's how to build a continuity plan before that ever happens...