Hospital care cost Americans about $1.1 trillion in 2017, accounting for one-third of all USA medical spending. "We will empower patients with the information they need to search for the lowest costs and the highest quality care". Frederick Isasi, executive director of Families USA, a liberal consumer-healthy lobby, said that transparency about health care prices "is incredibly important". [Full Article...]
Insurers say the ruling would enable the federal government to pull a "bait-and-switch" on them by retaining the payments. Because the amounts collected under the risk corridor program for 2014 "came nowhere close to what the government owed to insurers", the government paid out only 12.6% of the total owed for the year, prorating the funds it owed to each insurer, the health plans wrote. [Full Article...]
We don't have a boat to follow him and we can't put police on every tour guide boat", Williams said. It was Friday night that police responded to Graniel's apartment after a report of shots fired and found gunshot damage to his front door. [Full Article...]
Triclosan has been shown to affect bone mineral density in cells and in animals, Li added, but this is the first evidence in humans that it can have the same effect. That's according to a study in Tuesday's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ) banned triclosan from antiseptic and antibacterial hand rubs and hand washes in 2016. [Full Article...]
The Gambling Commission has told the health body that as many as 55,000 children may be in need of a referral to try to stop their addictions and gambling problems, with 450,000 young people thought to be regularly taking part in some sort of online betting or virtual goods trading-cum-gaming systems that could be classified as gambling. [Full Article...]
Gary Lacasse, Canadian AIDS Society Executive Director states "Building on the success of a year ago, this event is truly about normalizing HIV testing, increasing Canadians' capacity to make informed decisions regarding their own sexual health, and decreasing stigma". [Full Article...]
The researchers from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom discovered that drinking a cup of coffee stimulates "brown fat", the body's own fat-fighting defence, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes . He further says that this study is the first study on humans to show them that something like a cup of coffee can have a direct effect on brown fat functions. [Full Article...]
More research is needed to understand whether it is the caffeine stimulating the brown fat or another property in the coffee . Experts found that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate "brown fat", which burns calories to generate body heat. [Full Article...]
Hospital care cost Americans about $1.1 trillion in 2017, accounting for one-third of all USA medical spending. "We will empower patients with the information they need to search for the lowest costs and the highest quality care". Frederick Isasi, executive director of Families USA, a liberal consumer-healthy lobby, said that transparency about health care prices "is incredibly important". [Full Article...]
Insurers say the ruling would enable the federal government to pull a "bait-and-switch" on them by retaining the payments. Because the amounts collected under the risk corridor program for 2014 "came nowhere close to what the government owed to insurers", the government paid out only 12.6% of the total owed for the year, prorating the funds it owed to each insurer, the health plans wrote. [Full Article...]
We don't have a boat to follow him and we can't put police on every tour guide boat", Williams said. It was Friday night that police responded to Graniel's apartment after a report of shots fired and found gunshot damage to his front door. [Full Article...]
Triclosan has been shown to affect bone mineral density in cells and in animals, Li added, but this is the first evidence in humans that it can have the same effect. That's according to a study in Tuesday's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ) banned triclosan from antiseptic and antibacterial hand rubs and hand washes in 2016. [Full Article...]
The Gambling Commission has told the health body that as many as 55,000 children may be in need of a referral to try to stop their addictions and gambling problems, with 450,000 young people thought to be regularly taking part in some sort of online betting or virtual goods trading-cum-gaming systems that could be classified as gambling. [Full Article...]
Gary Lacasse, Canadian AIDS Society Executive Director states "Building on the success of a year ago, this event is truly about normalizing HIV testing, increasing Canadians' capacity to make informed decisions regarding their own sexual health, and decreasing stigma". [Full Article...]
The researchers from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom discovered that drinking a cup of coffee stimulates "brown fat", the body's own fat-fighting defence, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes . He further says that this study is the first study on humans to show them that something like a cup of coffee can have a direct effect on brown fat functions. [Full Article...]