Kaiser's McCulloch unloads on GOP health care plan
Andrew McCulloch, who will retire this week, sees Republican efforts to dismantle Medicaid as "extraordinarily shortsighted." (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 5, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
Kaiser's McCulloch unloads on GOP health care plan
Andrew McCulloch, who will retire this week, sees Republican efforts to dismantle Medicaid as "extraordinarily shortsighted." (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - July 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
Implantable Collamer Lens Effective in Low-to-moderate Myopia Implantable Collamer Lens Effective in Low-to-moderate Myopia
Posterior-chamber implantation of a phakic intraocular lens using the Hole Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) appears to be as effective for low-to-moderate myopia as it is for high myopia, researchers from Japan report.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medscape Today News Source Type: news
Three-year study says new contact lens therapy slows myopia progression in children by 59 percent
(McDougall Communications) A pioneering contact lens therapy has considerable potential to impact the rising prevalence of myopia (nearsightedness) in children, according to study outcomes presented today at the British Contact Lens Association Clinical Conference in Liverpool, England. Three-year findings indicated that use of the dual-focus contact lens was effective in slowing myopia progression: 59 percent as measured by mean cycloplegic spherical equivalent when compared to the children in the control group wearing a single vision 1-day contact lens. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
5 Benefits Of Being Outdoors
This article is part of The Whole Family Happiness Project series. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shortsighted priorities
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Source: ScienceNOW - June 1, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Berg, J. Tags: Editorials Source Type: news
Californian Sues Jelly Belly Over Sugar-Packed Jelly Beans
A California woman claims that the candy company Jelly Belly tricked her into buying its Sport Beans, a candy that doubles as a diet supplement to “fuel” the body and help burn fat, which had more sugar than she thought.
Jessica Gomez, of San Bernardino County, filed a class-action lawsuit against the jelly bean company in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in February. She claims that the company attempted to mask how much sugar was in its Sport Beans Energizing Jelly Beans by labeling sugar as “evaporated cane juice” on the list of ingredients, Forbes magazine reported.
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 26, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Californian Sues Jelly Belly Over Sugar-Packed Jelly Beans
A California woman claims that the candy company Jelly Belly tricked her into buying its Sport Beans, a candy that doubles as a diet supplement to “fuel” the body and help burn fat, which had more sugar than she thought.
Jessica Gomez, of San Bernardino County, filed a class-action lawsuit against the jelly bean company in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in February. She claims that the company attempted to mask how much sugar was in its Sport Beans Energizing Jelly Beans by labeling sugar as “evaporated cane juice” on the list of ingredients, Forbes magazine reported.
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Staar Surgical wins CE Mark for EVO+ Visian ICL, readies presbyopia study
Staar Surgical (NSDQ:STAA) said today it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Evo+ Visian ICL intraocular lens with Aspheric Optic technology, and reported that a presbyopia study of the device is underway.
The Monrovia, Calif.-based company’s EVO+ Visian ICL is the company’s next-gen lens, designed to be surgically implanted and operate with the patient’s eye to correct vision. The lens is designed to be positioned inside the eye between the iris and natural lens where it stays indefinitely.
The EVO+ Visian ICL won indications for correcting or reducing hyperopia and myopia between +3 and...
Source: Mass Device - May 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Clinical Trials Optical/Ophthalmic Regulatory/Compliance STAAR Surgical Co Source Type: news
8 Stupid Office Rules That Drive Everyone Crazy
Companies need to have rules—that’s a given—but they don’t have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.
I understand the temptation. As my company has grown, so has our difficulty maintaining standards. There have been many instances where someone crossed a line, and we were tempted to respond with a new rule that applied to everyone.
But that’s where most companies blow it.
In just about every instance, upon closer inspection, we realized that establishing a new rule would be a passive and morale-killing way to address the problem. The vast majority of the time, the problem needs to be handled on...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Visioneering Technologies closes $26m IPO
Visioneering Technologies Inc said today it closed a $25.5 million (AUD $33.3 million) initial public offering in Australia, with funds slated to support its NaturalVue multifocal contact lenses.
In the offering, the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company floated approximately 79.4 million shares of Class A common stock at 32¢ (AUD 42¢) per share, with strong support from Australian and Asian investors. The IPO was fully underwritten by Cannacord Genuity.
“With a very successful pilot launch completed, with the calibre of sales leadership we have recently attracted and installed, and with a successful IPO enabling rapid ex...
Source: Mass Device - March 16, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Initial Public Offering (IPO) Optical/Ophthalmic Visioneering Technologies Source Type: news
Halting nearsightedness epidemic goal of UH vision scientist
(University of Houston) Funded by a $1.9 million grant from the NIH's National Eye Institute, UH College of Optometry's Earl Smith is looking at how certain aspects of indoor lighting affect eye growth and testing a new pharmaceutical agent that has shown promise in slowing the development of myopia. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 10, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
2 ways the GOP ACA replacement plan would alter Medicaid in Oregon
House Republicans ’ American Health Care Act would alter Medicaid in fundamental ways.
Rather than an Obamacare repeal, one commentator called the proposal “a Medicaid repeal.” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said the Republican bill “ends Medicaid as we know it.” Gov. Kate Brown lamented that it “represents a radic al change that is shortsighted and moves health care backward, not forward.”
This was just days after U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, the sole Oregon Republican in the congressional delegation… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 9, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
2 ways the GOP ACA replacement plan would alter Medicaid in Oregon
House Republicans ’ American Health Care Act would alter Medicaid in fundamental ways.
Rather than an Obamacare repeal, one commentator called the proposal “a Medicaid repeal.” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said the Republican bill “ends Medicaid as we know it.” Gov. Kate Brown lamented that it “represents a radic al change that is shortsighted and moves health care backward, not forward.”
This was just days after U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, the sole Oregon Republican in the congressional delegation… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 9, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
Inslee condemns Obamacare 'defacement,' Brown calls it a step backward
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, both Democrats, have condemned the House Republican replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act.
“The Republicans’ proposed health care bill represents a radical change that is shortsighted and moves health care backward, not forward,” Brown said in a statement on Tuesday, a day after the plan was unveiled.
Read more about the impact of ACA replacement in Oregon
Inslee, who was at tending an open house for a biotech startup in Vancouver,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 8, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
