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In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

Over the past few years, CGI has come in for some unflattering headlines — it built the Obamacare health - care registration website that had an infamously rocky start — but that doesn't seem to have harmed its growth.

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

Over the past 2 years, I've interviewed almost 200 women about how they manage running their businesses, their families, their health and their sanity.

The health law's open enrollment season launched in November and has already been curtailed by the White House relative to the past few years.

Founded in 1991 by CEO Kate Ross LeBlanc and her husband, Jean - Pierre (who was driven by health issues to develop his own natural remedies), Saje has dramatically expanded its retail presence in the past five years.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Premiums for health insurance rose little more than inflation in the past year, according to a new study from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

«It's no secret the past year has not been good to me, from a health perspective or a financial one.»

Over the past year, I decided to make «workplace health» more personal.

According to a report published last fall by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, awards for damages caused by «mental injury» in the workplace have soared 700 % over the past five years.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

For example, Lee Coulter, VP of business processes at Ascension Healthcare in Indianapolis, reports that Ascension reduced outsourcing over 50 percent in the past few years for its 84 hospitals and 400 health care centers.

Mr. Reid, who has spent nearly 30 years at Mars, said he had explored acquiring or making an investment in a health and wellness food company for the past several years.

Over the past few years, businesses have added 14 million jobs as regional economies have rebounded; their workers have gained access to health insurance, and a new flock of startups has brought economy - altering innovations, some of which have changed the nature of work itself.

As many of you know, I faced a health issue over this past year.

Since its passage in 2010, the health care law has undoubtedly helped consumers, with 11 million additional people getting coverage in the past two years, mostly through an expansion of Medicaid.

Balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, footnotes and tax returns for the past three years are all key indicators of a business's health.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

«The patient is a 38 - year - old woman with good past health.

In the past nine months, LeCaptain's health - care - related company more than doubled in size and is closing in on $ 1 million in revenue this year.

The company that invented «Cold Gear» and made bundled - up athletes a thing of the past gobbled up nearly $ 1 billion worth of health tech startups last year with the intention of integrating them into the company's clothing.

Although Duncan believes he can contain growth of health - care spending at 3 % a year, that's less than half the rate observed over the past 15 years.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

The Health Department has taken just one action against an oil company in the past three years, citing Continental Resources for oil and brine spills that turned two streams into temporary toxic dumps.

One very concrete example of this can be seen in divergent movement in the price of health services — a non-tradable — which has increased by 6 per cent over the past year, and the price of clothing — a tradable — which has fallen by 3 per cent over the same period.

Redstone's declining health over the past two years has set off a power struggle in the Viacom board room and in his $ 20 million mansion.

Wei said that during the past year the company has strived to meet «demand for high - end and healthy products of the middle class,» with its premium soup series containing less additives to cater to health - conscious consumers.

But over the past seven years we've examined teams in corporate, health care, military, and consulting settings to understand team familiarity and quantify its benefits, and we've found that it is a much more profound phenomenon than most managers believe.

Thirty - eight percent of employees called in sick despite having a clean bill of health in the past year, up from 28 percent the previous year, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

A wave of health - care and tech deals has helped propel total corporate takeovers past $ 3.1 trillion so far this year, threatening to break 2007's record.

In the past 13 rising - rate environments over the past 64 years, tech and health care sectors gained an average of 20 % and 13 %, respectively during the 12 - month period following the first rate hike of each cycle.

And I've been doing a LOT of reading about many things related to health and spirituality, etc. the past few years and I've never heard the reasons for taking cold showers like you mention and their benefits.

In the past ~ 2 years, NVP has invested in a number of vertical - specific solutions across a variety of sectors, including The Retail Equation (brick and mortar retail); The Rainmaker Group (multi-family housing); as well as CareCloud and Health Catalyst (healthcare).

But as you've probably noticed over the past few years, people are going on a health kick.

Rock Health's Mom said M&A has been the primary source of exits in the past year and they expect that M&A will remain the most common path to liquidity.

This is especially important as the potential in Canada - Korea relations moves beyond the purely bilateral sphere of the past 50 years to more cooperation on international issues of common concern, such as the health of the global economy, effective global governance in the G20 and elsewhere, and preserving a peaceful and secure Asia Pacific region.

Wymer: The health care sector has not kept up with information technology over the past year, but I think that new types of medicine, often coupled with new diagnostic techniques, have the potential to extend lives.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

Technology stocks have raced past the pack year to date, gaining 40 %, nearly doubling second place health care's 22 % gain.

After the Parkland shooting, House Speaker Paul Ryan focused on past legislation on mental health issues, despite the fact that Republicans actually made it easier for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns last year.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.