Compared to other social networks, Snapchat is, well, different. It doesn’t have the numbers that Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram do. The  2017 State of the Creator Economy Study  found that people who use Snapchat visit it about 55 times a month, compared to 101 times for Facebook. Still,  Snapchat Influencers  are some of the most powerful social media users online. This begs the question: How can your brand leverage them?

Snap has acquired Placed, a startup that tracks whether digital advertising campaigns successfully bring users into stores. The acquisition could help convince brands to return to Snapchat by providing more information about ROI, a metric that the platform has been missing.

SEATTLE – Good news about two diseases that recently have caused concern in the United States and beyond came in a June 5 educational session here at the AIHce EXP conference. Those in attendance heard from three federal employees who updated them about Zika precautions for employers and employees and training modules on pathogens such as Ebola that have been created to help at-risk employee groups.

Manufacturers, airlines, fuel importers and agriculture businesses will be able to buy dollars at a special market intervention, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said on Wednesday. The new intervention will enable them to clear a backlog of foreign exchange obligations, the apex bank said in a notice to lenders.

Songwe International Airport (SIA) in the new Songwe Region has started to test passengers who enter the country through the airport for Ebola under the unit of emergency diseases. The Songwe Regional Health Officer, Mr Peter Alfred, has said that several health officers from the Regional Unit of Emergency Diseases have camped at the airport to test and unveil the passengers with Ebola symptoms.

Coordination meetings for the deployed team take place first thing every morning and at the end of the working day. As dusk falls, all those involved in the response gather for a group debrief on the information that has been gathered by surveillance and treatment teams and results obtained

OTTAWA ,  June 7, 2017  /CNW/ - On behalf of patients living with lung cancer and their loved ones, the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network (CCSN) and Lung Cancer Canada (LCC) are calling on government and industry to help accelerate negotiations for public funding of Health Canada approved medications to ensure access for Canadian patients who urgently need them.

Lung cancer cell Two drugs targeting different gene faults in lung cancer have shown potential to be better than those already available, according to unpublished clinical trials. The drug alectinib (Alecensa), which targets a faulty version of the ALK gene, halted the growth of non-small cell lung cancers for 15 months longer than the standard treatment, a drug called crizotinib (Xalkori).

Summary: Last Friday’s close in the US Dollar Index was the third consecutive weekly close below its 3-year old uptrend line. With the Fed on course to raise rates again later this month, these advantages could grow. While the dollar has not entered bear market territory yet, recent weakness could signal a change in the fundamental picture.