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The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.57% for the week ending Oct. 12 — up from 7.49% last week.

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Merger and acquisition activity has been slow for the first several months of this year compared to 2021 and 2022, but experts expect dealmaking to ramp up through the end of 2023 and into 2024.

While there are many opinions on the state of our health care system, most would agree that fragmentation of the system is a major fault and source of frustration. This affects both those who provide and receive care, but the fragmentation is particularly acute for our nation’s seniors. We ask patients, often at their most vulnerable, to navigate a complex and uncoordinated system, where communication still sometimes takes the form of a fax, a technology that is more than 50 years old. We can,…

In a previous Q&A with Bill Marsh of Farmers National Bank, the market president for Pennsylvania, we discussed why the merger of two longtime community banks made sense. There was the bank Marsh led here in Pennsylvania, and one from Ohio, both coincidentally named Farmers National Bank.

Of course, entrepreneurs know that about as many business mergers fail as they do succeed. So, in this round of our Q&A, we talk with Marsh about the reasons the Farmers banks’ merger has worked.

As we approach…

While there are many opinions on the state of our health care system, most would agree that fragmentation of the system is a major fault and source of frustration. This affects both those who provide and receive care, but the fragmentation is particularly acute for our nation’s seniors. We ask patients, often at their most vulnerable, to navigate a complex and uncoordinated system, where communication still sometimes takes the form of a fax, a technology that is more than 50 years old. We can,…

Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received $495,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation to provide mentored research funding and time protection to early career physician-scientists to help them advance clinically significant research.

Dr. Atalie Thompson, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, was awarded the grant to look at the feasibility of low-cost screening to help detect visual impairment in older…

Does drinking an excessive amount of alcohol increase the amount of fat deposits in the body? The answer is yes, according to new findings from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that heavy alcohol consumption is associated with higher levels of ectopic fat, which refers to fat around organs such as the heart, liver and intestines.

The study appears online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

“Research…