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My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, May 2 1. DuPont (DD) delivers a first-quarter earnings beat Tuesday, with adjusted earnings-per-share (EPS) of 84 cents, compared with analysts' forecasts of 80 cents per share. But the materials giant cut its full-year revenue forecast, sending shares nearly 5% lower in premarket trading. DuPont also says it's agreed to buy Spectrum Plastics Group from AEA Investors for $1.75 billion, in a deal that should be immediately accretive. 2. Club holding Morgan Stanley (MS) is planning to cut…

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Chuiyangliu hospital, pictured in January 2023 in Beijing, in the last few years finished renovations that allowed for a six-fold increase in daily patents to 5,000 a day, according to official estimates.Yin Hon Chow | CNBCBEIJING — At the top of the shopping list for anyone in their late 20s or older in China is health, sports and wellness. That's according to an Oliver Wyman survey late last year, as China finally started to end its Covid controls.For people planning to spend more on that health category, 47% said in…

Residents drop off Covid-19 PCR tests at a testing site run by the Centers for Disease Control, Federal Emergency Management Agency and eTrueNorth in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2022.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen Christopher Perry got sick in July 2021, he thought he just had a bad cold.But after Perry's adult son found him passed out in his living room, he was taken to the hospital and put on life support due to Covid-19.A diagnosis of respiratory lung failure has led to long-term health consequences.Today,…

Widespread medical debt is a uniquely American problem. Roughly 40% of U.S. adults have at least $250 in medical debt, according to a survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation."The history of medical debt is basically a history of the changing answer to the following question: When the patient can't pay the bill, who foots it?" said Dr. Luke Messac, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who is writing a book about the history of medical debt.As health-care prices rose over the past fifty…

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Delpixart | Istock | Getty ImagesThe end of the year is a time to give thanks and celebrate the holidays with our families. It's also an opportunity to reevaluate the previous 12 months and ask your financial advisor some very productive questions.1. What's your investment decision process?We often judge the merits of a decision by the outcome, when the process could be more important. If you were to outperform the market by throwing darts, that would be driven more by luck than skill and would not be repeatable over an…

Joos Mind | Photodisc | Getty ImagesLong Covid results in $9,500 of total average medical costs for workers and their employers in the six months following a diagnosis, according to a study by Nomi Health.Long Covid is a chronic illness that can carry potentially debilitating symptoms, which may last for months or years. It can impact anyone who has an initial Covid-19 infection, regardless of age or health.Up to 30% of Americans who get Covid have developed long-haul symptoms; that means as many as 23 million Americans…

Natalia Gdovskaia | Moment | Getty ImagesIn an environment of high inflation, health insurance costs are doing the opposite: They've begun to deflate, and are poised to continue dropping each month until fall 2023, economists predict.Health insurance prices fell by 4% in October and 4.3% in November, according to the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation.related investing newsBy comparison, the average price for all U.S. goods and services rose 0.4% and 0.1% in October and November, respectively.The health data…

Teresa HardingSource: Teresa HardingIt took three months for Teresa Harding to open her termination letter."I couldn't look at it," Harding, 47, said. For seven years, she'd worked at a pain management center in Lexington, Kentucky. "I enjoyed my co-workers and our patients."It was a fun, exciting job," she added.But after a serious bout with Covid in July 2021 that landed her in the hospital, Harding never got better. Unable to work, she was laid off in January.More from Your Health, Your MoneyHere's a look at more…