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Microsoft’s rivals won a reprieve on Monday, when the software giant said it would split up its Teams and Office bundles following scrutiny from European regulators. Zoom, whose video chat app took off during the Covid pandemic, has struggled of late to compete with Microsoft’s suite of communications products. Slack, now owned by Salesforce, has …

In a recent article published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists analyzed the effect of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beer ingestion on gut microbiota. Study: Impact of Beer and Nonalcoholic Beer Consumption on the Gut Microbiota: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial. ​​​​​​​Image credit: MsMaria / Shutterstock Background The fermented extract of malted barley grains, beer, …

Editor’s Note This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic evaluation beyond medical technologies to the services and procedures that account for the bulk of health care spending; the goal is to create …

NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (WCCO) – Students from Mounds View High School took to Long Lake Park with the hopes of starting a conversation about mental health Sunday. In a partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, nearly 50 students and adults gathered for a benefit walk at the park. The event featured art, music, …

ETHAN – What started as a shared goal between high school classmates to shine a light on who they saw as the ‘undervalued’ basketball players in South Dakota turned into something much bigger than they intended. Brody Riggs and Wyatt Sinkie, juniors and teammates on the Ethan Rustlers junior varsity team, had seen enough of …

LONDON — The Saint Joseph London Foundation will be hosting an “Evening of Hope” on Saturday, May 15, as part of a statewide fundraising effort to benefit CHI Saint Joseph Health cancer patients and their families. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the event will be held in place of annual in-person galas and fundraising events, …

The coronavirus pandemic completely changed our way of life. Millions of people lost their jobs and had to rely on unemployment benefits for the first time, for example. In the past, those checks were taxed at the federal level, but now that’s changed, to a degree. “If you got $20,000, you can exclude $10,200 of …

The stimulus package raises the size of the credit, makes it fully refundable so more households can qualify and calls for it to be sent out in periodic payments rather than rolled into regular tax-time refunds — a dramatic shift designed to help families pay their bills. Already, some Democrats are pushing to make the …

TACOMA, Washington — Several pharmaceutical companies have joined the Solidarity Call to Action, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) initiative to share research among public and private entities via a COVID-19 technology access pool. This essential movement aims to eliminate economic obstacles to accessing a vaccine. Thus far, 40 WHO Member States have joined the Solidarity …