Apple’s ambitions in the health sector continue to expand, with its digital health team making its first known acquisition—personal health data startup Gliimpse,Fast Company has learned. Silicon Valley-based Gliimpse has built a personal health data platform that enables any American to collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health ... Read More »
If you search for “Hillary Clinton” and “health” on Google, you’re likely to come up with some pretty terrifying stuff — and much of it is false. Photos of the 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee apparently so weak that she has to be helped up a short flight of stairs by aides. Speculation that the head ... Read More »
A major health-services company is revamping the employee wellness and care-management programs supplied to its clients after a yearslong study of who actually benefits from calls offering health advice. Equity Healthcare, owned by private-equity giant Blackstone Group, helps shape the health benefits of around 280,000 people. It is sharply cutting ... Read More »
The Department of Health has said job offers have been made to more than 500 nurses from overseas to take up employment across Northern Ireland’s five health trusts. An acute shortage of nurses in Northern Ireland had led to four separate international recruitment drives. A total of 488 jobs have ... Read More »
The listed Ardent Leisure Group today unveiled a surprise deal to sell its health clubs division, comprising Goodlife Health Clubs and Hypoxi, to private equity house Quadrant for $260 million. The group, led by businesswoman Deborah Thomas, has also offered up its marinas for sale in a deal worth over ... Read More »
Australia’s largest health insurer, Medibank Private, has given investors a pretty worrying prognosis: industry growth is weakening and it is losing market share. The treatment? It’s time to look after customers. On the face of it, the 12 months to June 2016 looked like a bumper year for earnings as management capitalised on ... Read More »
Despite an overall rise in health insurance coverage among all Americans, Hispanics, low-income earners and younger adults are still likely to be uninsured, a new survey finds. The Commonwealth Fund report found that more than half of uninsured adults live in states that have not expanded Medicaid. Those states include ... Read More »
The number of students registering with mental health issues at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) has increased by 700 per cent in the past four years. The sharp rise is regarded as a positive indicator that efforts to address the stigma surrounding mental health issues among young people are paying ... Read More »
Australia’s largest health insurer, Medibank Private, has given investors a pretty worrying prognosis: industry growth is weakening and it is losing market share. The treatment? It’s time to look after customers. On the face of it, the 12 months to June 2016 looked like a bumper year for earnings as management capitalised on ... Read More »
Hummus is a Middle Eastern food that has become popular in other areas of the world. It is a dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas. Tahini (a ground sesame seed paste), lemon juice, olive oil, salt and garlic are added to the mashed beans for flavor. “Traditional hummus ... Read More »
What is selling in New York right now? Toni Haber: From a price perspective, it’s $3 million and under, a much more brisk market. The product that’s selling more is the building that has really nice finishes. Are those mainly new buildings, or are they older and refurbished? TH: Mostly, ... Read More »
People with HIV are not infectious if they consistently take antiretroviral drugs that suppress the virus, according to a groundbreaking new consensus statement. For years, doctors have insisted that medication merely minimizes the risk of transmission. And many hit out at HIV-positive Charlie Sheen as ‘reckless’ last year when he ... Read More »
