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It turns out that cell phones don't interfere with medical devices found in hospitals after all, says a study published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Cell phones [...]

Those fancy new cabinets that you went into debt for should last for 50 years, but you can count on replacing other parts of your kitchen much sooner, says the [...]

Middle-aged adults have the right combination of brains and wisdom to make the best financial decisions of their lives, says a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]

A Texas hospital where a patient suffered respiratory arrest following elective surgery and died after being transported to a local hospital voluntarily turned in its Medicare provider agreement effective March [...]

Want to see something really different? Board an icebreaker in Murmansk, Russia, to cruise through the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean and experience a total solar eclipse. The price [...]

A bloated, error-prone claims processing system eats up nearly one out of every three dollars that patients spend on healthcare in this country, says a survey of 200 hospital and [...]

More than 40 percent of S&P 500 companies boosted their stock values by buying back shares in the second quarter, says Standard & Poor's. Share buybacks reached a record $116 [...]

Cell phones aren't just a nuisance at movie theatres and restaurants. A survey by Harris Interactive on behalf of Randstad USA, a staffing and workforce management firm, reveals that 30 [...]

American Science and Engineering specializes in technologies that can uncover dangerous and elusive threats, including explosives, plastic and metal weapons, and radioactive devices, such as dirty bombs and nuclear weapons. [...]

Cars running on ethanol emit less smog-producing pollutants, but they get fewer miles to the gallon than gasoline-fueled vehicles, says Consumer Reports. A 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe fueled with E85 managed [...]

You can earn a decent interest rate by loaning money to total strangers at a quirky, and somewhat risky, online auction site called Prosper (www.prosper.com). Scroll through listings of loan [...]

Federal law says you have to make just one phone call to get a fraud alert placed on your fries with all three national credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. [...]

Four in 10 homeowners don't know if they're covered for earthquake damage, and one-third aren't sure about hurricane destruction, says a survey released by Travelers. Nearly three in 10 don't [...]

Cash-out mortgages in the second quarter soared to the highest level in 16 years, compared to the same quarter in 1990, says Freddie Mac. Nearly 90 percent of Freddie Mac [...]

Credit card debt rose by nearly 10 percent in June, following an 11 percent rise in May, according to Federal Reserve data. That represents a record of nearly $821 billion [...]

Mutual funds that are consistent top performers tend to have more-experienced managers at the helm, says a Standard & Poor's study. Managers of funds that retain a spot among the [...]

Lexus remains the king of vehicle dependability, but Mercury and Buick are right behind in second and third place, says J.D. Power and Associates. They outranked several luxury brands, including [...]

N early 60 percent of college graduates move back home with their parents after finishing school, and roughly a third of those stay for more than a year, says a [...]

The average cost of mortgage closing rose by roughly l0 percent from last year, to $3,024, says Bankrate.com. For the second year in a row, New York State has the [...]

60 cents Pump price for a gallon of gasoline, minus taxes and crude oil costs ('domestic spread'), June/July 2005. 94 cents Domestic spread in June/July 2006. $12 billion Projected increased [...]

More than four out of five people who take their older vehicles to the dealership for repairs say the work was done right the first time, says a I.D. Power [...]

Hanging on to a 4-year-old sedan for another four years rather than trading it in for a newer model can save you $12,477, says Runzheimer International, a management consulting firm. [...]

Ticket prices for flights that originate in the US (domestic or international) jumped by 10 percent in the first quarter compared to a year earlier for the first time since [...]

Stockholders will learn exactly what top executives are making each year under SEC rules that'll take effect for fiscal years ending on or after Dec. 15. Companies will have to [...]

More high-income taxpayers have been audited since 2002, but two-thirds of the exams involve little more than a letter from the IRS, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. [...]

The average family with school-aged children plans to spend $527 on back-to-school expenses this year, up from $444 last year, says the National Retail Federation. Clothing and shoes will eat [...]

Retiring baby boomers aren't likely to cause a meltdown on Wall Street when they start reaching age 62, since most of them have few financial assets to sell off, says [...]

A new federal pension law will make a lot of investors happy. Contribution limits to IRAs, now at $4,000 a year, will rise to $5,000 in 2008 and stay there, [...]

More than three-quarters of companies listed in the S&P 100 Index have special sections of their websites dedicated to their social and environmental policies and performance, says the Social Investment [...]

Stay away from stock pitches that steer you to a "government" agency's web address ending in -gov.us, warns the NASD. Websites for federal agencies in the US use a dot [...]

Despite what you might think, older investment fraud victims are more financially literate than those who shun the tactics of fraudsters, says a study released by the NASD Investor Education [...]

Consumers who buy phone service from cable companies pay an average of $11 less a month than those getting traditional service, says J.D. Power and Associates. (Cable phone customers pay [...]

Residents of North Carolina pay 29.9 cents per gallon in state taxes, but neighboring Georgians pay 7.5 cents, the lowest in the nation, says CCH, a tax information company. Local [...]

For the wrong way to handle a pile of money, check out NBC's TV series Windfall. For the right way, there's something more helpful coming down the pike. The Secret [...]

Porsche tops J.D. Power and Associates' latest new-car quality survey. Porsche models had a low of 91 problems per 100 vehicles, compared to the industry average of 124 problems, followed [...]

Giving up one $3 double-swirl caramel latte every workday and pouring a 25-cent cup from the office pot instead could net you a stash of $9,062 after 10 years, assuming [...]

The IRS has put together a series of fact sheets to help small businesses and self-employed taxpayers better understand what to report and how much to pay. The first fact [...]

Like physicians, executives of large companies are becoming increasingly worried about protecting healthcare information from prying eyes, says a survey conducted for Proofpoint, an e-mail security firm. A full two-thirds [...]

Nearly half of households headed by a Generation Xer born between 1965 and 1972 probably don't have enough money put away to maintain their standard of living in retirement, says [...]

Victims of flood or hurricane damage who are having trouble settling insurance claims can get some advice from other catastrophe victims at www.femainfo.us. Some common problems addressed are getting advance [...]

You can stop paying a long-distance phone tax that dates back to the Spanish-American War, and the IRS says it'll refund--with interest--what you've paid over the past three years. The [...]

While you were suffering at the pump, the gas companies were rejoicing in 2005, thanks to rising prices for crude oil and increased demand. Fifteen companies that made Industry Week's [...]

Rather than pay as much as $3.49 for calling directory assistance for just one phone number, you could get it for nothing by calling 800-FREE411. Though you might have to [...]

Taxpayers who challenged the IRS won at least partial relief in 41 percent of the more than 102,000 appeals filed in fiscal 2004, says a Government Accountability Office report. When [...]

The average interest rate for variable-rate credit cards has gone up more than four percentage points to 16 percent since the Federal Reserve started hiking its rates two years ago, [...]

Only 10 percent of adults know that they shouldn't spend more than 4 percent of their retirement savings a year to avoid running the risk of outliving their nest egg, [...]

Hurricane season is approaching, yet about half of homeowners living in some of the most flood-prone areas don't buy federal flood insurance, says a study from the Rand Corp. Most [...]

Only 16 percent of large-cap funds remained among the top 25 percent of their peers after three consecutive years, says Standard & Poor's. Only 10 percent of mid-cap and small-cap [...]

The infirm or their family members pay for 84 percent of long-term-care services, says the National Care Planning Council, an alliance of elder care advisers and providers. To help you [...]

Americans worked 116 days to pay their federal, state, and local tax bills this year, three days longer than in 2005, says the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax-research group. Even [...]