Brainstorm Health: Jamie Dimon on Atul Gawande, Walmart Blockchain Patent,...
Word that surgeon and scribe Atul Gawande had been named the new CEO of the mystery health venture launched by JPMorgan Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway was met with what seemed to be a...
View ArticleTexas officials downplay health threat from little-known mosquito-borne virus...
Texas health officials are downplaying any current health risk from a little-known mosquito-borne virus found for the first time to have infected and caused symptoms in a person. University of Florida...
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4 Cups a Day: 4 Surprising Health Benefits of Drinking That Much Coffee
Coffee doesn’t have the best reputation as a healthy beverage, despite several studies that suggest the contrary. The caffeinated drink is more than just a mood-stabilizer and morning savior. Among...
View ArticleYou Can Cut Employee Health Insurance Costs the Same Way Big Companies Do
The cost of health insurance has risen by 50 percent in the last decade. During that time, independent physicians reduced profitability, both in percentage and actual return. How can that be?...
View ArticleAtul Gawande Says His Goal Is Better Health Care for 1 Million Workers
Atul Gawande, named to head a new health-care venture jointly formed by Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Co., said he’s now in a position to reduce waste and improve medical...
View ArticleIs Screen Time Bad for Children’s Mental Health?
Many parents are concerned about how much time their children spend on cellphones, Xboxes and other digital media. Some experts say they should be: There is a growing body of research showing an...
View ArticleRare diseases, expensive drugs – Health Canada showdown coming
When Canada’s health ministers sit down together on Thursday and Friday in Winnipeg, talks are expected to revolve around Ottawa’s development of a national pharmacare plan. B.C. Health Minister Adrian...
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BBC presenter Justin Webb turns the air blue by branding Health Secretary...
Justin Webb reading out newspaper story on Jeremy Hunt when he blundered Presenter pronounced the Health Secretary’s surname as starting with a ‘C’ By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline...
View ArticleGE to Spin Off Health Care Division as Part of Major Reshaping
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/business/dealbook/ge-health-care.html
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We’re proof that homeopathy works – so why has the NHS scrapped it?
There is no doubt that many people — including the vast majority of scientists — regard homeopathy with extreme scepticism. With its medieval-sounding ingredients, such as poison ivy, cat’s milk,...
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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Olympic champion gymnast Max Whitlock MBE, 25, answers...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Olympic champion gymnast Max Whitlock MBE, 25, answers our health quiz By Sarah Ewing for the Daily Mail Published: 17:47 EDT, 25 June 2018 | Updated: 08:09 EDT, 26 June 2018...
View ArticleDiego Maradona issues health update as he claims he needed paramedic...
Diego Maradona has eased fears over his health after needing to be seen by paramedics during Argentina’s dramatic 2-1 victory over Nigeria on Tuesday night, with the World Cup legend insisting he is...
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With Funding Scarce, HealthNewsReview.org Hurtles Toward Closure
The widely-read media watchdog site, HealthNewsReview.org, announced last week that it will shut down operations at the end of the year unless a major funder steps forward. The closure would end a...
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GE Exits Health, Oil as CEO Shrinks Onetime Titan to Save It
This is John Flannery’s General Electric Co. — and so far, Wall Street likes it. A year after being named chief executive officer, Flannery took the boldest steps yet to revamp the sinking corporate...
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Opinion: Deductive Science Is Needed for Public Health
Science today has rapidly moved into unpredictable and unprecedented achievements, with increasingly faster advances in many different fields. In the last two decades, the advent of high-throughput...
View ArticleHealth IT Experts Seek Nationwide Strategy to Improve Patient Matching
Quality medical care today requires accurate patient matching—the process of linking an individual’s various electronic health records (EHRs), even if they are located at different providers....
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Student mental health support must improve, universities told
Image copyright Getty Images Universities are being told to “dramatically improve” support for students with mental health issues. The government is announcing it will award a certificate of...
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Amazon Makes $1 Billion Splash in Health Care, Buying PillPack …
Amazon.com Inc. is buying its way into the heart of the U.S. health-care system, instantly shaking up a prescription-drug industry already in the midst of a broader transformation. Insurance companies...
View ArticlePredictive modeling of US health care spending in late life
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Justice Department charges 601 people in health care fraud, opioid crackdown
June 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against 601 people including doctors and nurses for taking part in healthcare fraud and opioid-related crimes that...
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