Brainstorm Health: Theranos and Hype, Emergency Care Drones, FDA Vs Nicotine
Happy Thursday. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with Elizabeth Holmes, the turtleneck-togged founder of the once-darling of the startup set, Theranos, after...
View ArticleJuul e-cigarettes and teens: ‘Health problem of the decade’?
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. Article source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/health/juul-e-cigarette-partner/index.html
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You Can’t Frack Without Harming Public Health, New Research Shows
You Can’t Frack Without Harming Public Health, New Research Shows by Andy Rowell – March 15, 2018 Study examines over 1,200 peer-reviewed research papers, government reports, news articles This...
View ArticleBack to the Health Policy Drawing Board
This drives premiums up, making insurance still less attractive to the healthiest people. That, in turn, causes many to drop out, producing the fabled “death spiral” in which only the least healthy...
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Amazon is hiring a former FDA official to work on its secretive health tech...
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Tax on millionaires yields big benefits for LA’s mental health services
A statewide tax on the wealthy has significantly boosted mental health programs in California’s largest county, helping to reduce homelessness, incarceration and hospitalization, according to a report...
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Federal Agency Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate...
“This must have seemed like a dream come true for industry. Of course they would pay for it,” he said. “They’re admitting the trial is designed to provide a justification for moderate drinking. That’s...
View ArticleWired Health 2018: Old tech, new ideas
This week, we attended the Wired Health conference in London. As always, the event was jam-packed with innovators jostling for position in the race toward a brighter, healthier future. This year’s...
View ArticleThese Entrepreneurs are Addressing the Growing Need for Mental Health...
You’re reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Before diving down to that, let’s touch upon on what’s driving the growing chorus for such counseling platforms....
View ArticleHow Health and Education Journalists Can Turn Privacy Laws to Their Advantage
This story was co-published with the Association of Health Care Journalists. For decades, the Judge Rotenberg Center, a school for children with developmental and behavior disorders in Canton, Mass.,...
View ArticleDeath penalty for drug traffickers part of Trump opioid plan
President Donald Trump’s plan to combat opioid drug addiction nationwide calls for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including the death penalty where appropriate under current law, a top...
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More evidence essential oils ‘make male breasts develop’
Image copyright Getty Images A suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys and the use of lavender and tea tree oils has been given new weight, after a study found eight chemicals...
View ArticleHow Innovative Health Entrepreneurs Are Using Big Data
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—In some ways Martine Rothblatt, the founder and chairwoman of United Therapeutics, a Maryland-based biotechnology company, and James Park, the CEO and co-founder of consumer...
View ArticleCleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue stepping away from duties due to...
Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue says needs to “step back from coaching for the time being” to deal with a persistent health issue. TNT analyst David Aldridge reports Lue will be on a one-week plan...
View ArticleMonitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support programs...
Augustinavicius et al. Conflict and Health (2018) 12:9 DOI 10.1186/s13031-018-0146-0 Abstract Background Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical...
View ArticleSt. Joseph Health creating single board for Northern California hospitals
St. Joseph Health will soon institute a regional board to oversee key moves like capital planning, joint ventures and hiring and firing of chief executives for four Northern California hospitals that...
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City health commissioner backs sites for addicts to do drugs in battle...
Mayor de Blasio’s health commissioner said she thinks supervised sites for drug addicts to shoot up are an effective way to fight to opioid scourge. “I think the public health literature is clear,”...
View Article7 Things You Can and Can’t Do About Saggy Breasts
As a woman goes through different stages of life, it’s natural for her breasts to change: They grow larger during pregnancy and breastfeeding, for example, and the skin and muscles around them stretch...
View ArticleClash over abortion hobbles a health bill. Again. Here’s how.
The Affordable Care Act very nearly failed to become law due to an intraparty dispute among Democrats over how to handle the abortion issue. Now a similar argument between Democrats and Republicans is...
View ArticleUK Lifts National Health Service Pay Cap, Ending Austerity
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s government lifted the cap on pay for staff in the National Health Service, signaling an end of austerity that has shrunk the real income of nurses over the past eight...
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