Following months of negotiations, the contracts will expire July 30, 2019, between United Healthcare and several UAB Health System entities, including – among others – UAB Hospital, The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, and all other UAB Medicine primary care, specialty care and urgent care clinics, UA Health Services Foundation, UAB Callahan Eye Hospital, and Medical West and Baptist Health Read More

Dr Harsh Vardhan began his second term as minister in the National Democratic Alliance – II government by cycling from home to the health and family welfare ministry in Nirman Bhavan to highlight the importance of physical activity for health and green transport for the environment. He had not even hopped off his bicycle when his staff informed him about Read More

An exterior view of Kaiser Permanente’s $390 million, 352–bed Downey Medical Center. Kaiser Permanente opened its new state–of–the art 352–bed hospital and will largely replace Kaiser Permanente’s Bellflower Medical Center. The six–story facility LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES More than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers represented by several unions are threatening a strike against the multi-state health plan and medical Read More

May 31 is observed as World No Tobacco Day. The theme for World No Tobacco Day 2019 is “tobacco and lung health”, focusing on the negative impact that tobacco has on people’s lung health and overall well-being. For ages, people have been using tobacco in our country in different forms. Some use it for smoking – cigarette, beedi, chillum, hooka, cigars and Read More

In case you’ve been struggling to budge the scale and you’re looking for a way to help you drop pounds or boost weight loss, you would want to follow these eating tips to get lean and flatten your tummy. How to lose weight without dieting: 3 eating tips from experts to help you get lean and flatten your tummy  | Read More

The seeds of a consumer-driven health care revolution, one that could turn the U.S. health care system on its head, were sown in early March. This potential disruption comes from an unlikely source: two proposed rules from the Department of Health and Human Services that could have consumers and America’s biggest tech firms joining forces. The rules, from the Office Read More

Apples have a lot of health benefits like improving digestion, helping in weight loss, keeping the heart healthy, and may also help in warding off breast cancer. Apples also help improve neurological health. Type 2 diabetes: Here is how the otherwise healthy apples affect your blood sugar levels New Delhi: Since childhood, everyone has dreaded going to the doctor because there Read More

Apple is holding a string of heart health-related events at its retail stores this month in honor of Heart Month. Last night, such an event was held at Apple’s Union Square store in San Francisco, and the company’s health vice president Sumbul Desai was in attendance. Desai talked about the Apple Heart Study and more. As outlined by CNBC, the event started with Read More

Meet Monique Rodriguez, CEO of Mielle Organics, one of the fastest growing natural hair care companies in the United States. In 2014, Rodriguez started Mielle Organics in her garage, fast forward to 2019 and Mielle has come from the garage to the shelf and grown to become a multi-million-dollar company sold in over 100,000 major retailers. However, this family business was Read More

The World Health Organization lists suicide as a critical public health issue and estimates at least 800,000 people kill themselves every year. Global suicide rate is falling  |  Photo Credit: AFP Suicides have fallen globally by more than a third since 1990, according to a far-reaching analysis released Thursday that highlighted profound differences in the number of men and women taking Read More