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Highmark's ACA plans lose $590 million 10:40 am Highmark Health lost...
2016-04-05 07:10:12| Beverages - Topix.net
Highmark Health lost $590 million on its health plans sold on the Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2015, joining the ranks of other large multistate companies that covered marketplace patients who desperately needed and used care. Many of Highmark's ACA enrollees suffered from expensive chronic conditions and sought treatment more often than expected after being locked out of affordable coverage for many years.
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Weekly Overview: New EU Animal Health Law Aims to Reduce Disease, Improve Ag Competitiveness
2016-04-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The EU has adopted a new Animal Health Law which will come into force on 20 April 2016. The new law aims to help prevent animal diseases, reduce the use of antibiotics and therefore, keep EU livestock production competitive.
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Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns
2016-04-04 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change poses a serious danger to public health worse than polio in some respects and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warned on Monday. The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, formally unveiled at the White House, warned of sweeping risks to public health from rising temperatures in the coming decades with increased...
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New EU Animal Health Law to Improve Ag Competitiveness
2016-04-04 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - The EU has adopted a new Animal Health Law, which Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said was another weapon in the fight against animal diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
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Zika is linked to microcephaly, health agencies confirm
2016-04-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The World Health Organization says there is now scientific consensus that the Zika virus is connected with microcephaly - a condition in which babies are born with very small heads and brain damage. Scientists have been working for months to confirm a link between Zika and microcephaly, ever since Brazil reported a startling increase in cases last fall. Zika infection during pregnancy appears to increase the risk for several types of birth defects and miscarriages, a recent study found. And...
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