Reacting to skyrocketing prices for insulin, the Trump Administration announced on Tuesday a new benefit that would limit Medicare recipients’ copays for insulin to a maximum of $35 a month and save them about $446 a year if they have prescription plans that offer the benefit. Instead of the fluctuating copay amounts that are common […]
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Kara Keough Shares Tribute to Her Baby Boy: ‘You Would Have Been 1 Month Old'
Thinking of McCoy. Kara Keough penned a heart-wrenching tribute to her late son on Wednesday, May 6, one month after he died during delivery. “You would have been 1 month old today. Your baby acne would be gearing up. You would be getting the hang of pacifiers, sorting out your days and nights, and figuring […]
What would people say? What would people think?
I couldn’t quite work out what was going on. It was the week before Christmas, and I was about to be sworn in as a Member of Victoria’s Parliament. By confronting the culture of silence that surrounds mental illness, we can confront the stigma that so often allows it to prevail. For my colleagues, it […]
You'll Never Guess How Much Money Stay-at-Home Parents Would Make Per Year
In news that stay-at-home parents will probably not find terribly surprising, they’d be compensated to the tune of six figures if a salary accompanied the gig. According to data collected by Salary.com, stay-at-home parents would earn a grand total of $162,581 per year if they were paid. The amount of work that stay-at-home parents do is […]
Protein found in patients with severe asthma can help identify who would benefit from targeted drugs
In a novel study, researchers succeeded in identifying patients with a form of severe asthma (type 2 endotype) by measuring periostin concentrations in their airways. These patients with the type 2 (T2) endotype may benefit from newly developed targeted treatments that have the potential to transform their quality of life, report researchers in the journal […]
Would YOU wear it? The hi-tech ring that could banish your snores
Would YOU wear it? The hi-tech ring that could finally banish your snores Made from silicone, it is packed with sensors which track blood oxygen levels A fall in blood oxygen readings at night is one of the main signs of sleep apnoea The device will be available in the UK later this year and […]
Removing Medicare exclusion would improve prisoner health
An expert in prisoner health from The University of Western Australia is calling for the Federal Government to stop excluding prisoners from Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to improve health outcomes and close the gap for Aboriginal people. In an article published in the Journal of Law and Medicine Research Fellow Craig Cumming, […]
Would Alicia Silverstone Really Ask Her Ex to Have Another Baby?
Alicia Silverstone’s parenting style has yielded a lot of headlines over the past seven years. There was the time she posted a video of herself bird-feeding her son, Bear. Then Silverstone shocked fans by admitting she ran a diaper-free household in which she monitored her son’s "elimination needs" to make sure she got him to […]