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Tag Archives: Healthcare
CVS Health quit tobacco—and now it’s quitting the Chamber of Commerce
CVS, which stopped selling tobacco products, said the Chamber of Commerce’s position ran counter to its mission
Theranos strikes deal with Capital BlueCross, lands on East Coast
The diagnostics disruptor and an insurer of a 1.3 million are taking affordable lab tests directly to patients.
Healthcare Workers: Why They Come to Work Sick
A survey explores the reasons why healthcare workers do their job when they’re sick and expose patients to their illnesses.
Mayo Makes Case for Medicare Reimbursement for Telemedicine
Superbug threat prompts West to revisit Soviet-era virus therapy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/02/us-health-bacteriophages-insight-idUSKCN0PC1FO20150702
Two plates coated with drug-resistant bacteria with a mutation called NDM 1 and then exposed to various antibiotics are seen at the Health Protection Agency in north London, Britain in this March 9, 2011 file photo.
The U.S. just recorded its first confirmed measles death in 12 years
The ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle of the measles virus.
PwC Infographic: Costs from specialty drugs skyrocket
A new PricewaterhouseCoopers report on medical cost trends highlights how specialty drugs are outpacing traditional drugs in a major way.
Obamacare and the Future of Healthcare
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/obamacare-future-healthcare-kalon-mitchell
As everyone knows by now, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state healthcare insurance exchanges subsidized by the federal government. If this decision had gone the other way, it could have had a significant impact on the percentage of insured patients currently, and in the coming years. With this decision, this key component of Obamacare seems to be a permanent part of the future financial core of healthcare reimbursement.
Why Theranos’ breakthrough herpes test boosted its clout in the science world
Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes: Proud.
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