If you’re happy and you know it you obviously aren’t 47. A new study pegs 47.2 as the age when people in the developed world have the least amount of happiness, and 48.2 in developing nations. “Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age,” David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former Bank of England… Read More »
Walking slowly is a sign of aging fast: A plodding pace at age 45 may be a warning sign for dementia, and early death, study suggests Doctors have long known that elderly people who walk slowly are at higher risk of an early death But new Duke University research found that people who walk at… Read More »
Payment rates to doctors and hospitals could fall by as much as 20% on average nationally under a bill making its way through the Senate, according to a projection published Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office. The bill, the Lower Health Care Costs Act, advanced out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee… Read More »
Dive Brief: Providers are allocating a smaller percentage of medical supply purchases to Amazon this year compared to 2018, though they’ve increased the percentage of non-medical office supplies buys, perhaps because companies receive higher discounts in office than medical supplies from the e-commerce giant, a survey of hospital purchasing managers by UBS found. This isn’t… Read More »