Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

Pat Button , a former registered nurse and bed-and-breakfast proprietress, took a non-traditional route to transforming health care as chief nursing officer of Zynx Health . After climbing the corporate ladder at electronic medical-records company

Dont let a natural disaster spell ruin for your business. Learn from the experts how to protect against and recoup financial losses. When Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast in 2005, it left an estimated $75 billion in damages in its wake.

What if you didn't send your money to a faceless investment bank, but instead gave it to a local business? We spoke to author Amy Cortese about local investing, where people keep their capital within 50 miles of where they live. "The crazy thing is it’s easier for most people to invest in a company halfway across the world than in their own backyard," says Amy Cortese, author of the recently published Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont health regulators said on Tuesday they found a fish containing radioactive material in the Connecticut River near Entergy's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant which could be another setback for Entergy to keep it running. The state said it needs to do more testing to determine the source of the Strontium-90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia. [More]

After decades of yo-yo dieting, many women lose the will to work out and watch what they eat. But according to a controversial new movement, it is possible to break this cycle of failed diets and poor health, even if you never end up in a pair of skinny jeans.

That could be the question someone might jokingly ask upon first learning of this unusual, individualistic, and hauntingly flavorful vodka from Vermont, which lends credence to the fact that it is made with the sugars from 100 percent natural maple syrup. That in itself makes Vermont Gold maple vodka ($40/$20) ...

The nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan that were crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami are a lot like reactors in the U.S. They are a common, if not exactly modern, General Electric design that harnesses nuclear fission to boil water and drive steam turbines to generate electricity.