Students Launch App for Mental Health Resources
Stressed about exams? There’s an app for that. Caitlin Ner ’18 and Tajrean Rahman ’20 recently launched “Bliss: Harvard Mental Health,” a mobile app compiling dozens of mental health resources on...
View ArticleYour parents’ lifestyles can determine your health – even as an adult
We don’t choose our parents, their jobs or their health. And we don’t have a say in whether or not they smoke, nor in what they ate when we were children. However, our recent study found that these...
View ArticleOPKO Health: A House Of Cards Tumbling In The Dark
Introduction Opko has dropped approximately 25% since its recent quarterly report issued last Wednesday after it missed estimates on both revenue and earnings. In addition to the continued...
View ArticleSabra Health Care Vs. Omega Healthcare: Side-By-Side
Introduction I hold small positions in Sabra Health Care (SBRA) and Omega Healthcare (OHI). Both are REITs leasing to the healthcare industry with a focus on skilled nursing facilities. In fact, both...
View ArticleGlobal Health Challenges Offer Social Entrepreneurs Opportunity
You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. “We have grown far too tolerant of businesses not acting in alignment with the public good,” said Derek Fetzer, director of Johnson and...
View Article‘We give people their humanity back’: inside Croatia’s pioneering mental...
High walls still surround the oldest asylum in the Balkans, an 18th-century building pocked with the artillery scars of last century’s civil war, but the gates are no longer locked. Handles have been...
View ArticleVideo shows nurses doubled over LAUGHING as 89-year-old World War 2 veteran...
This is the chilling moment a group of nurses laughed as a World War II veteran died in a Georgia care home. The nurses were meant to be fixing an oxygen mask onto 89-year-old James Dempsey after he...
View ArticleCharles Manson dead at 83; here’s why his health crisis was shrouded in secrecy
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View ArticleWill Cutting the Health Mandate Pay for Tax Cuts? Not Necessarily
Even the budget office is revising its estimates and has predicted the new numbers would be smaller. In a survey this fall, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that just 7 percent of people...
View ArticleThis 5.1%-Yielding Health Care REIT Is A Strong Buy
Welltower, Inc. (HCN) is an excellent choice for income investors wanting to bet on consistent dividend growth, long-term. The health care REIT benefits from an aging U.S. population, especially the...
View ArticleSudden Shift at a Public Health Journal Leaves Scientists Feeling Censored
Update, Nov. 20, 2017: This story has been updated to include a link to earlier reporting by Retraction Watch. For much of its 22-year existence, few outside the corner of science devoted to toxic...
View ArticleIndustrials, techs lift Wall Street, health stocks limit gains
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with Verizon boosting the telecoms sector after the stock got an upgrade, while a deal in semiconductors lifted high-performing tech shares. With no...
View ArticleHealth tech startup spins out of Univ. of Washington, aims to make surgery...
Perimatics Co-Founder and CEO Kalyani Velagapudi. (Perimatics Photo) The University of Washington added yet another startup to its growing list of spinouts Monday: Perimatics, a health technology...
View ArticleGood mental health critical to readiness
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Mental health is a critical part of every Airman’s medical readiness. Although many service members worry that seeking mental health care will negatively effect their career, the...
View ArticleSANUWAVE Health’s (SNWV) CEO Kevin Richardson on Q3 2017 Results – Earnings...
SANUWAVE Health, Inc. (OTCQB:SNWV) Q3 2017 Earnings Conference Call November 21, 2017 10:00 AM ET Executives Lisa Sundstrom – Chief Financial Officer Kevin Richardson – Chairman and Chief Executive...
View ArticleCardinal Health: Wait For A Swing
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) is now down more than 23% year to date which may mean we have opportunity brewing in this stock. We already are long other principal pharmaceutical distributors and doubling...
View ArticleThe power of four cups of coffee a day: Beverage can cut the risk of heart...
Drinking coffee is good for most people’s health, a major review of medical evidence has concluded. The drink is more likely to ward off disease than to cause harm, according to the most comprehensive...
View ArticlePossible return of a troubled healthcare model has California officials worried
Just a few decades ago, small businesses in California often banded together to buy health insurance on the premise that a bigger pool of enrollees would get them a better deal. California’s dairy...
View ArticleThe pressure on young women to ‘have it all’ is making their health suffer...
Twice as many females nowadays are at risk of burnout compared to 1990 Women expected to be successful, socially popular and physically attractive Tougher working conditions in professions such as...
View ArticleWhy you NEED some ‘me time’: Study shows solitude is good for mental health...
People who choose to spend time alone tend to be more creative New research shows distinction between avoiding social interaction out of fear and choosing to be alone to do creative activities The...
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