Fitbit, the digital
health company whose wristbands have become synonymous with the whole activity - tracking movement, is trying to bring its health monitoring game to the next level — by focusing on a sleep disorder that affects millions of Americans.
But to every rule there is an exception, and glad I was to be called out (and called up) by the founder and CEO of one mobile -
health company whose entire premise is based on scientific research with repeatable results — the exact study, in fact, I had used as my example of what works better than a health app.
Not exact matches
At last year's Sohn Conference, the founder and CEO of hedge fund Glenview Capital still believed that regulators would bless the mergers of
health insurance
companies whose stocks he owned, including Anthem, Cigna, Aetna and Humana.
The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the
health care dialysis
company that treats patients with diabetes and
whose stock has been punished by uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
We spoke with Neurotrack CEO Elli Kaplan,
whose company recently launched an online assessment that helps people understand the state of their memory
health, to learn about some of the ways you can potentially decrease your risk for Alzheimer's and cognitive decline more broadly.
These
companies include the likes of Sophos,
whose marketing materials boasted that it protected the U.K.'s National
Health Service, which suffered terrible attacks on Friday:
Starting a
company is tough, but so is taking the reins of a
company whose website carries over 13,500
health and fitness supplements and accessories and ships to customers in more than 155 countries.
In the photo accompanying his biography, Cuban sports a Naked Pizza t - shirt — the all - natural,
health - conscious pizza (in which Cuban has invested) is a New Orleans and Entrepreneur Week success story — thanks to help from Idea Village,
whose consultants suggested the
company re-brand from World's Healthiest Pizza.
Darin Kingston of d.light,
whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes /
health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon,
whose coffee
company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer,
whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Rupp said interested female founders
whose companies make sustainably - sourced consumer products or are in the
health care sector should start by perusing the firm's website to see if the startup might be a fit for their strategy.
Per Google Finance, Tenet Healthcare is «an investor - owned
health care services
company whose subsidiaries and affiliates own and operate acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers and related
health care facilities.
Once again, if your employer's plan doesn't meet your needs, you're always free to contact any insurance
company and pick up your own private
health coverage for you and / or your family, OR, you're free to change your job to find employment with an employer
whose plan better suits your needs.
If your employer's plan doesn't meet your needs, you're always free to contact any insurance
company and pick up your own private
health coverage for you and / or your family, OR, you're free to change your job to find employment with an employer
whose plan better suits your needs.
The beverage industry —
whose leading
companies include The Coca - Cola
Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PepsiCo — has long been committed to the
health and wellness of Americans.
The feds are reportedly looking into $ 25.4 million in state grants given to a Hudson Valley
health - care
company whose executives (plus their spouses and workers) gave $ 400,000 to Cuomo's 2014 campaign.
Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests
whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the
health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV
companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.
Some
companies are bucking this trend very effectively, for example: Intel and General Electric
whose joint venture Care Innovations is aimed at serving the needs of older people with
health challenges, or Nintendo
whose Wii consoles have proved to appeal to this group, even supplying them to BUPA care homes.
Here's Gov. David Paterson in Lake Placid earlier today, fielding questions on today's Post story on the multimillion - dollar no - bid contract awarded to GHI, the
health - care provider whose parent company, Emblem Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Pat
health - care provider
whose parent
company, Emblem
Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Pat
Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson.
«It really exemplifies the fact that 80 percent of the public support medicinal cannabis and even a majority of people support a recreational law,» said Kyle Kingsley, the CEO of Vireo
Health,
whose company is one of five that operate in the state's medical marijuana program, in an interview on Capital Tonight.
This is the same
company whose misuse of pseudonymised patient data, bought from the
Health and Social Care Information Service, sparked the still - unresolved furore over the Government's care.data plans.
Julie Christina Grew has a Master's degree in public
health and is earning an industrial Ph.D. with the University of Copenhagen and the medical device
company Medtronic,
whose world headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A psychiatrist
whose failure to disclose drug
company income contributed to a furor over conflicts of interest in biomedical research has just received his first National Institutes of
Health (NIH) grant in 3 years.
With interviews, she hopes to learn from
companies» safety and
health managers and directors,
whose roles are dedicated to protecting workers» well - being.
The panel sent out more than 30 information requests to universities,
companies, and abortion clinics before issuing three formal subpoenas in February to the abortion provider Southwestern Women's Options (SWO), the tissue procurement
company StemExpress, and UNM,
whose health sciences center includes labs that work with fetal tissue from abortions performed by SWO.
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is a freelance writer and author
whose work has appeared in Glamour, Fit Pregnancy, Natural
Health, Runners World, The New York Times Book Review, and Fast
Company.
The information she's revealed about the American food system has influenced major
companies to change their ways, and she founded the Allergy Kids Foundation,
whose goal is to restore our children's
health and the integrity of our food supply.
About Blog SkinnyMe Tea (SMT) is an Australian based
company whose mission is to help people like you achieve their
health and wellness goals.
The book's title, Special Interest, invokes a term historically applied to wealthy and powerful entities such as oil
companies, tobacco interests, and gun manufacturers,
whose narrow aims are often recognized as colliding with the more general public interest in such matters as clean water, good
health, and public safety.
Driven by his love for the ancient texts and by his own need to find healing following the cruel and protracted deaths of his girlfriend and his father, Doerries began reaching out through his theater
company to people
whose lives had been devastated by forces beyond their control — members of the military and their families,
health professionals, guards and prisoners inside the giant American incarceration system, individuals and towns and cities reeling in the wake of natural disaster.
While age and
health conditions raise the risk for insurers, there are many
companies PolicyZip works with
whose customer service is very friendly to seniors.
The person
whose life is insured must sign the application, giving permission for the insurance
company to collect data, such as motor vehicle records, prescription drug records and information submitted on previous
health and life insurance applications.
I looked at the full list of
companies and found a mix that I would say Yes, Maybe, and No to individually, but No to altogether, especially with 25 % in financials and 22 % in
health care, two industries
whose biggest entities are the height of avarice and
whose top - dogs are paid staggeringly huge salaries and bonuses (hundreds of millions of dollars per year) that I believe come from entrenched practices of outright usury and gross overcharging, among other heinous activities.
Thomas,
whose company manufactures a spectrum of professional - strength pet
health and wellness products, adds that pet owners are often drawn to non-chemical pest control products because of the infestation - driven need for more frequent applications over a wider area.
«The NSAIDs had a huge impact for general practitioners to manage pain, but they also have limitations because of side effects, especially in older dogs,» said Aratana's Heinen,
whose company licensed Galliprant to Elanco Animal
Health.
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company and assumes no responsibility for the quality,
health, or temperament of any pet dog, puppy, cat, or kitten, nor the warranty, guarantee, integrity, honesty or reliability, expressed or implied, by any person or of or by any person or organization
whose name appears on the BreedersClub.net website.
The Pet Fund partners with
companies whose products and services make a contribution to companion animal
health and wellness in a significant way which is accessible to pet owners and veterinarians.
Though EzyDog's canine DFD was not intended as a therapeutic aid, the
company has received feedback from grateful customers
whose dogs»
health issues — such as injuries necessitating physical therapy in the pool, or an infected ear that could not be submerged — require the use of a life vest when swimming.
«Just as it doesn't make sense for organisations
whose purpose is to safeguard
health to profit from the tobacco industry,
health institutions can no longer justify investing in fossil fuel
companies but need to start investing in clean energy solutions.»
Similarly, did morale plunge at BP — and mental
health claims rise — after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or at Exxon Mobil after the
company was regularly cited for funding organizations
whose raison d'être was to discredit state - of - the - art, peer - reviewed climate science?
They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil
companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while
health insurance
companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing
companies that deal in green technology,
whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.
Gaurang Damani, an activist
whose public interest suit in the Bombay High Court led to many changes in
health insurance policies, explains: «Insurance
companies have been incentivising TPAs to reduce the bill amount and, in turn, lower their outgo.»
The common cause of longer processing times is an applicant with a complex
health history,
whose doctor needs to submit medical records to the insurance
company.
Unlike past generations, many insurance
companies are offering coverage to those
whose health conditions are managed and stable.
In step with that, many insurance
companies are offering coverage to those
whose health conditions are managed and stable.
The insured is the individual who goes through underwriting and shares their
health records and fluids to be examined by the insurance
company, and the insured is the person
whose life is depended upon by their loved ones.
Uninsurable Risk: An individual
whose total risk is outside of the underwriting guidelines for an insurance
company based on
health, lifestyle or other factors.
An employer may take out a key person insurance policy on the life or
health of any employee
whose knowledge, work, or overall contribution is considered uniquely valuable to the
company.
Fortunately there are rating agencies
whose job it is to assess the long term financial
health of all insurers, including life insurance
companies.
The
company has relaxed its underwriting norms by simplifying the DGH (Declaration of Good
Health) form and waving medicals for the policyholder's
whose age is up to 55 years.
For someone
whose qualifications and education limit them to entry - level work like flipping burgers, making coffee, or bagging groceries, it's probably a bit disconcerting to realize to how rapidly the tech industry is working to develop their replacement — a replacement that will never take a sick day or vacation, won't have kids or need to attend to them; and one that doesn't require costly
health insurance or any other
company benefit.