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Amazon shuts down Halo division and discontinues all devices
Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products and plans to lay off portions of the Halo team. “We have made the difficult decision to wind down the Halo program, which will result in role reductions,”…#amazon #verge #melissacha #halo #cha #waybackmachine #haloview #kristyschmidt #amazonhalo #haloband
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘One nurse per ward’ warning over next week’s strike
A major acute trust has warned ahead of next week’s nursing strike that it will face “very severe staffing shortages” in children’s A&E, with “as few as one nurse per ward”, much less critical care capacity, and fewer operating theatres open than on Christmas Day.
Source: HSJ - April 26, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
CMS: Clarifying Eligibility for a Qualified Health Plan Through an Exchange, Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit, Cost-Sharing Reductions, a Basic Health Program, and for Some Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs
Notice of proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) making several clarifications and updating the definitions used to determine whether a consumer is "lawfully present" in order to be eligible to enroll in a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through an Exchange; a Basic Health Program (BHP), in states that elect to operate a BHP; and for some state Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIPs). Among other things, this rule proposes removing the exclusion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from the definitions of "lawfully present" for purposes of eligibility for t...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 26, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
New Vabysmo data suggest greater retinal drying versus aflibercept in nAMD and DME
Post-hoc analyses from four phase III studies indicate Vabysmo dried retinal fluid faster with fewer injections in neovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME)More Vabysmo patients with nAMD had absence of retinal fluid at 12 weeks in a post-hoc analysis from the phase III TENAYA and LUCERNE studiesDME patients treated with Vabysmo had less blood vessel leakage in the macula at 16 weeks in a post-hoc analysis from the phase III YOSEMITE and RHINE studiesBasel, 25 April 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that post-hoc data indicate treatment with Va...
Source: Roche Investor Update - April 25, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Public Inspection: CMS: Clarifying Eligibility for a Qualified Health Plan through an Exchange, Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit, Cost-Sharing Reductions, a Basic Health Program, and for Some Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs
Pre-publication notice of proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) make several clarifications and update the definitions used to determine whether a consumer is "lawfully present" in order to be eligible to enroll in a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through an Exchange; a Basic Health Program (BHP), in states that elect to operate a BHP; and for some state Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIPs). Comments are due by June 23, 2023.
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 25, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff
On Monday, Matt Hicks, CEO of IBM-owned Red Hat, said the Linux distro maker plans to lay off just under four percent of its roughly 20,000 person workforce, which amounts to less than 800 people. In a published note, Hicks said the staff reductions will occur over the next few months. "Our…#matthicks #ibm #redhat #linux #hicks #pdffirstquarter #bigblue #arvindkrishna #google #register
Source: Reuters: Health - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across…#google #amazon #yahooandzoom #layoffsfyi #techlayoffs #wsj #seattle #apple #netflix #roku
Source: Reuters: Health - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exciting Early Results With Novel Cell Therapy for Focal Epilepsy
(MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Implantation of so-called inhibitory neurons helped two patients with severe, drug-resistant focal epilepsy achieve marked reductions in seizure frequency, researchers reported.
Prior to treatment, these patients...
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 21, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
How the small movie theatre came back from the dead
The past few years have been turbulent for the economy in many ways, but they created existential crisis for movie theatres. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. • There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Thanks for…#vhs
Source: Reuters: Health - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A preliminary study of the thermal strain experienced by dive support boat personnel - Saunders S, Furby W, Chillingsworth K, Walker EF, White G.
This study collected preliminary ...
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Medtronic cutting jobs after CEO promises 'significant cost reductions'
Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) on Tuesday began informing employees of layoffs amid a push by the medical technology giant for "significant expense reductions."
The company, which is legally based in Ireland but has its executive offices in Minnesota, didn't disclose the number of layoffs or detail which business units would be affected. In an email to employees, CEO Geoff Martha said the cuts would "vary by team, region and country."
A spokesperson for Medtronic said the cuts follow a decision "to reduce …
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - April 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news
States face unprecedented water cuts under Biden admin Colorado River crisis plan
U.S. officials released a set of proposals Tuesday for distributing cuts from the Colorado River — including one that would break from precedent by evenly assigning reductions among lower basin states, forcing users in California to shoulder more of the load. The proposals would amend 2007…#coloradoriver #hoover #glencanyon #sarahporter #arizona #nevada #lakemead #lakepowell #brendaburman #tombuschatzke
Source: Reuters: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Get Better Sleep When You Have IBD
A lot of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have trouble sleeping. By some estimates, roughly 75% of people with IBD experience sleep disturbances such as trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, and poor overall sleep quality. Meanwhile, surveys of IBD patients have found that poor sleep tends to be the top contributor to quality-of-life issues.
The fact that so many people with IBD experience problems sleeping is bad news for a number of reasons. For one thing, a lot seems to go wrong with the human mind and body when sleep is inadequate; sleep disorders such as insomnia are strongly linked to an increas...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Gut health healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
