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Opinion: Good health care price transparency rules are at risk if Congress doesn’t act

STAT

Consider shopping for cereal in the grocery store. Award winning  hip-hop artist Fat Joe  recently said, “Well, if I’m going to have a colonoscopy, I want to look up my three favorite hospitals and see what the prices are. Yet in the U.S. health care market, this often isn’t the case.

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Memory Palaces: The Art behind Effective Memorization

Pulses

Grocery Store: Contraindications Lastly, you stop by the grocery store to get three or four boxes of your favorite heart-healthy (New York Heart Association class III-IV heart failure) cereal, Cheerios ®. Author Bio(s) : Kaley Shepard is a PGY1 pharmacy resident at UofL Health – UofL Hospital. Adv Physiol Educ.

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STAT+: Patient groups push federal government to enforce health care price estimates

STAT

People don’t receive bills after going to a grocery store or a mechanic’s shop. They know what things will cost them well before they leave. But in health care, patients get bills and “explanations of benefits” after the fact — usually creating confusion or shock as to how much they owe.

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The Best Probiotics for Hashimoto’s

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Not only is making your fermented food simpler than you might think, it’s also delicious and will save you money at the grocery store! Fermented cabbage : Check your organic grocery store and make sure you get the kind that is refrigerated, as the probiotic bacteria only survive for a couple of weeks at room temperature.

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Air Quality and Hashimoto’s – Is the Air You’re Breathing Making You Sick?

The Thyroid Pharmacist

39) You can find organic broccoli sprouts at your local health food or grocery store. They are being used in hospitals and other public places to kill viruses, but only when there are no people in the room. I also recommend supplements such as BroccoProtect by Designs for Health.

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Opinion: Tariffs will make it even more expensive for Americans to eat healthy

STAT

But for many of our patients, perhaps the most far-reaching consequences of the trade war won’t be felt in hospitals or pharmacies. It will be felt in grocery stores and restaurants.    Read the rest…

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Ep. 005 – Dave Chase Podcast Transcript

Pharma Marketing Network

I started my career in consulting implementing systems inside of a couple dozen different hospitals and then I went on to find Microsoft’s healthcare partner ecosystem. Even there, that’s impacted by some distortions around pbms and how hospitals radically markup those drugs, but that’s probably the one exception.