5 Ways to Lose Weight without Giving up your Favorite Food

5 Ways to Lose Weight without Giving up your Favorite Food

Love ghee-laced gajar ka halwa? Cannot absolutely think about abstaining from street-side chole bhature for the rest of your life, even though you desperately want to lose weight and definitely know that these high-calorie treats can hamper your efforts? Here’s something you need to know – weight loss should not be considered as a journey where […]

Judge approves Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67B antitrust settlement

Judge approves Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67B antitrust settlement

A federal judge approved Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ $2.67 billion antitrust settlement on Tuesday.   Barring an appeal, this would mark the end of policyholders’ 10-year legal battle against 34 Blues plans. The plaintiffs alleged that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s rules limiting the amount of revenue member plans may generate from non-Blues-branded businesses, and geographic limits to […]

3 tips for surviving the stomach virus

3 tips for surviving the stomach virus

Maybe you’re not usually one to fall prey to seasonal viruses. You do what you can to stay healthy—work out regularly, try and eat a balanced diet, and limit the amount of time spent around others who are sick. You wash your hands regularly at home, at work and in public, and clean countertops and other surfaces with a bleach […]

ColourPop On the List Palette Review & Swatches

ColourPop On the List Palette Review & Swatches

On the List ColourPop On the List 12-Pan Pressed Powder Shadow Palette ($18.00 for 0.3 oz.) is a new, Ultra-exclusive palette that included seven matte shades and five shimmer shades across a darker, earthy color story. The products performed consistently with the brand’s eyeshadow formula; the matte shades were pigmented, blendable, and a little powdery, while the shimmers (except one) […]

12 Quality Fanny Packs That Are Both Fashionable and Functional

12 Quality Fanny Packs That Are Both Fashionable and Functional

As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. It seems like everywhere we look, we see people wearing fanny packs with their casual outfits. On a recent hike, I saw what feels […]

Stanford spinout raises $14M for its point-of-care physician consult service – MedCity News

Stanford spinout raises $14M for its point-of-care physician consult service – MedCity News

There’s a severe evidence gap in healthcare treatment guidelines. Clinical trials shape most care guidelines and payer decisions, yet they exclude about 70% of the U.S. population, according to Brigham Hyde, co-founder and CEO of Atropos Health. He pointed out that this dynamic is even more pronounced for patients with chronic comorbidities or those who belong to rare groups, such […]

Insurers to crack down on patients’ unscheduled procedures

Insurers to crack down on patients’ unscheduled procedures

Health insurance companies are increasingly pressing doctors for more information when they perform unscheduled, minor procedures on patients the same day as visits for other reasons, such as to draw blood, perform a skin biopsy or conduct an electrocardiogram.  Insurers are zeroing in on providers evaluation and management claims that include modifier 25. Providers use evaluation and management codes on claims for assessing or […]

Are health care prices falling?

Are health care prices falling?

It seems like everything just gets more and more expensive.  But are prices for medical care declining?  Cutler et al. (1998) found in seminal paper “Are medical prices declining? Evidence for heart attack treatments” that while unadjusted prices of medical care were in fact rising, quality-adjusted health care costs actually were falling.  In my own research, Lakdawalla et al. (2015), […]