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Nearing $1B In Sales, Alignment Healthcare Unveils Medicare Advantage Expansion

Alignment Healthcare is expanding deeper into the potentially lucrative California market to sell its Medicare Advantage plans to seniors.

UnitedHealth Group To Sell Medicare Advantage In 100 More U.S. Counties

UnitedHealth Group said it will expand its Medicare Advantage health plan offerings to seniors in 100 new counties next year in what has become the most competitive business for health insurance giants.

Tuesday’s Google Doodle Honors Addiction Researcher Herbert Kleber

Tuesday’s Google Doodle celebrates the work of psychiatrist Herbert Kleber, one of the first to treat addiction as a medical problem.

Don’t Make The Vaping “Crisis” Worse With Hasty New Regulations

Broad bans on legal vaping products could hurt more than they help.

‘Smart Shirt’ May Help Monitor Breathing For Patients With Chronic Lung Disease

Researchers have developed a novel way to monitor breathing using a “smart shirt”, a wearable that can record important parameters of breathing by sensing subtle movements of the chest and abdomen.

CVS Pulls Zantac, Here Is The Latest On Cancer Concerns

If you bought these ranitidine products, you can return them as long as you have your very long receipt.

Brick, Mortar And Pestle: Telemedicine Website Hims Will Open Its First Mail-Order Pharmacy In 2020

Hims, Inc. is set to open its first mail-order pharmacy next year in Columbus, Ohio.

Why Medicare Is Focused On Food Insecurity

The issue of food insecurity has emerged as a healthcare concern and is now on the radar of health insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid administrators as a way to get seniors better care.

A Shameful American Fact: Enormous Racial Disparities In Death Rates From Lupus

That the chance of living a long life is often heavily influenced by socioeconomic disparities.

Across The Atlantic, Nationalized Health Care Is Failing Cancer Patients

There are few places in the developed world worse for those with cancer than the United Kingdom. Simply put, the UK’s National Health Service is failing cancer patients. This is the reality of single-payer healthcare. If the United States implements Me…