Cost basis is the cost at which you entered a position or purchased an asset. It is the total price you paid for, say,
your house, a stock, mutual fund, etc…–and by total we mean including all commissions, accrued interests and other expenses.
Cost basis is used to determine tax liabilities.
For example, if you bought 100 shares of IBM at $111.45, and IBM is
now worth $120 a share, the current value Read the rest of this entry »
Family health insurance premiums soared nearly five times faster than wages for Colorado workers from 2000 to 2007, according to a study released Tuesday.
Annual job-based health insurance premiums – including worker and employer share – jumped nearly 75 percent to $11,878 during that eight-year period, while the median income of Colorado’s workers grew 16 percent to $30,476, Families USA said in report. That’s slightly better than the national Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Dec. 28, 2008)
— Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms – everyone’s 24-hour biological clock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have shown.
The biological clock regulates the expression and/or activity of enzymes and hormones involved in metabolism, and disturbance of the clock can lead to such Read the rest of this entry »
Police seized 72 guns along with drugs and cash at a home in Rensselaer Falls on Monday.
Louis Tomassini Jr., 42, Rensselaer Falls
Nicole Tomassini, 36, Rensselaer Falls
Bradley Howe, 35, Rensselaer Falls
Anthony Bogart, 26, Lisbon
Naomi Walters, 41, New York City
The charges stem from a vehicle stop involving two of the suspects and a search at the Louis Tomassini residence at 53 County Route 16, Rensselaer Falls.
72 firearms, including Read the rest of this entry »
Three Reno women placed in last weekend’s Fitness America contests in Las Vegas.
Brendy Scheerer, 24, took fourth place in the tall open division of Miss Bikini and finished third in Miss Model.
Camie Cragg, 27, took 12th place in tall open division for Miss Bikini and is still waiting to hear how she placed in Miss Model.
Sue Rohm, 47, took fifth place in the Masters Division.
Cragg and Rhom are trainers at Maximum Results, and Sheerer is Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO, Nov. 30 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may approve zero-calorie sweeteners derived from a shrub called stevia, analysts say.
Major U.S. beverage companies — PepsiCo Inc. (
) and Coca-Cola Co. (
) — want to market stevia-sweetened products once the sweetener gets approval, the Chicago Tribune said. Agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. already has a stevia-based sweetener in grocery stores, and Chicago-based Merisant Co., Read the rest of this entry »
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers looking into the long-term health effects of hormone replacement therapy said on Wednesday they had made the strongest case yet that the pills raise the risk of breast cancer.
But other experts and one company that makes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills said they still dispute the conclusion that a recent drop in U.S. breast cancer cases means that HRT was responsible Read the rest of this entry »
Physician groups were honored as “top performers” or “most improved” in the latest care quality report from health-care leadership group Integrated Healthcare Association.
The Sacramento-based independent group said 2007 pay-for-performance program results — used by seven health plans to calculate incentive payments for physician groups — showed gains in clinical quality and use of information technology, plus stable patient experience scores. Read the rest of this entry »
Federal health officials said Monday that studies by
Dyax Corp.
do not give a definitive picture of the effectiveness of its drug to treat a rare swelling condition.
In a review posted online, the Food and Drug Administration also voiced concerns about severe allergic reactions seen in patients injected with the medication.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Dyax
) has asked the FDA to approve its drug ecallantide to treat hereditary angioedema, a genetic Read the rest of this entry »
A few years back, Frederick Memorial Hospital’s Dr. Fabio Olarte was visiting a small clinic for the poor in Honduras.
There, a doctor took the neonatologist to a two-month-old infant with blue lips and face who would have died within a week if Olarte hadn’t been there.
Brayon Andino’s small lungs were not carrying enough blood to his tiring heart. After assessing the baby, Olarte pulled out his cell phone, punched in the number of a colleague Read the rest of this entry »