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The Capitals had a way to keep Nate Schmidt; Backstrom health update
Nate Schmidt addresses the media in Las Vegas Sunday. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) LAS VEGAS – Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Nate Schmidt is the one-who-got-away for the Capitals, the player...
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The Rise Of Health Writers Providing False Articles About Aids And Ebola
Many might have heard about the falsification of medical records and false information on certain diseases. Today’s feature article is about a writer whose article about Ebola is totally false and...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Could Help Lower Health Costs
In the continuing push for affordable health care, one of the biggest stumbling blocks is still the confused and error-filled manner in which electronic data is shared among doctors, insurers,...
View ArticleWomen’s Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians...
Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M17-3344. Corresponding Author: Hilary Daniel, BS,...
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To Lower Your Medicare Drug Costs, Ask Your Pharmacist For The Cash Price
Many Medicare patients don’t realize they can sometimes pay less out of pocket for a prescription drug if they pay cash, instead of the insurance copay. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle...
View ArticleStudy: Vitamin Supplements Don’t Provide Health Benefits
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View ArticleHealth Insurer WellCare to Acquire Meridian for $2.5 Billion
Managed-care company WellCare Health Plans Inc. has reached a deal to buy Meridian, which operates a pharmacy-benefit manager and health plans in Illinois and Michigan, for $2.5 billion in cash. The...
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The roll out of 5G wireless service is ‘a massive health experiment’
Wireless carriers are constructing cell towers a stronger, faster 5G network, but some experts warn that the updated service’s health effects are unknown and potentially dangerous. Today, there are...
View ArticleMeridian sold to national health insurer Wellcare for $2.5 billion
It is unclear how the sale might affect Michigan operations or employment. Contacted by Crain’s, Meridian President Jon Cotton said he was “emotional” about the sale, but “it was the right thing to...
View ArticleVirginia Adopts Medicaid Expansion, Promising Health Coverage To Almost 400000
The Affordable Care Act calls for the program’s benefits to be available to anyone earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $16,000 for a single person. Under the law, the...
View ArticleNokia sells digital health venture, executive to leave
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia said on Thursday it had sold its small digital health business, including activity trackers and smartwatches, and the executive who wound down the company’s consumer ventures...
View ArticleScience and Sports, History and Health, Politics and Pop Culture: A Year of...
Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? In Winter, You Might Wish You Had This Rodent Superpower Curious Orangutans, Raised by Humans, Do Better on Cognitive Tests Wolf...
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The Next Great American Public Health Campaign? Readers Make Their Picks
Nutrition Burger, Fries and Soda? I would like to see serious focus on sugar and unhealthy foods. Driving on the highway, I saw a McDonald’s billboard with a burger, a white bread bun, fries and soda....
View ArticleHow to stop stressing over money so it doesn’t hurt your health
Scared of opening your loan statement because of how much interest has accumulated? Can’t stop wondering what not-so-great reports from Wall Street mean for your 401K? Money problems are stressful,...
View ArticleNBA players’ union hires director of mental health
NEW YORK — The National Basketball Players Association has hired its first director of mental health and wellness. Dr. William D. Parham will oversee the union’s new program designed to help members...
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US blocks UN health panel from backing taxes on sugar drinks
Caption Close GENEVA — The Trump administration has torpedoed a plan to recommend higher taxes on sugary drinks, forcing a World Health Organization panel to back off the U.N. agency’s previous call...
View ArticleSpecial Report: In Louisiana jail, deaths mount as mental health pleas unheeded
EAST BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) – The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, a squat brick building with low-slung ceilings and walls sometimes smeared with feces, is the face of a paradigm shift:...
View ArticleFans Question Johnny Depp’s Health After New Photos Surface Online
Fans are concerned for Johnny Depp’s state of well-being after recent photos of the actor appearing “ill” surfaced online over the weekend. Depp posed with fans at a Four Seasons hotel in St....
View ArticleHealth care industry uses microtargeting online technology to reach patients,...
Hospitals, health insurers and other medical providers are moving millions of advertising and marketing dollars into getting more personal with patients. Though they are running behind other...
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Percy Pigs could be BANNED by health secretary Jeremy Hunt
Is this the end of Percy Pigs? Popular MS sweets ‘could be BANNED’ under Government plans to tackle childhood obesity Percy Pigs could be banned as part of a new policy to tackle childhood obesity...
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