The board of Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited (JSE:LHC) has announced that it will be paying its dividend of ZAR0.17 on the 19th of June, an increased payment from last year’s comparable dividend. This will take the dividend yield to an attractive 2.6%, providing a nice boost to shareholder returns. […]
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Billionaire Charlie Munger Labels US Healthcare A ‘Disgrace’ as Report Shows Lowest Life Expectancy Despite Highest Spending
In 2019, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Vice Chairman Charlie Munger made a scathing comment on the state of healthcare in the United States, declaring that the entire system was going awry and that it was utterly absurd. Don’t Miss: The House-Printing Robot Shaking Up a $7.28 Trillion Industry But Munger was […]
Water, The Elixir Of Life: Drink It For Beauty, Fitness And Health, Says Shahnaz Husain
Drinking enough water helps to keep the system cleansed and flushed of toxins and wastes. Drinking enough water helps in the efficient elimination of wastes. This improves skin health, boosts fitness and keeps you healthy too. We all know how important it is to drink adequate water. We lose water […]
How the pandemic shifted our daily lives: From shopping to home life
Ever since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, life in the United States has changed in big and small ways. Some of the changes — like toilet paper shortages and social distancing — were temporary. Other shifts have had more staying power, and some new trends are just […]
COVID survivor paints portraits of health care workers to honor them after saving his life: “I felt like I was taking my last breaths”
In the days after America locked down, Adam Espinoza got sick. “I felt like I was taking my last breaths,” the Reunion father of two said. He was experiencing flu-like symptoms and trouble breathing. Adam’s wife, Tritia, rushed him to the Platte Valley Emergency Room in Brighton, but she couldn’t […]
Can you pass this ’10-second balance’ test? Here’s why it’s the key to a longer life, say health experts
Exercises to help improve your balance Strength training is an effective way to combat a decline in your balance and help add years to your life. It helps maintain and build muscle mass, reduce the risk of osteoporosis, and helps improve cognitive function so that you can have better control […]
Slices of Life: Happy New Year, happy today | News, Sports, Jobs
Jill Pertler The new year – January as a month – is a time for reflection. To assess our progress in life: where we were, where we are, and where we are going. I’ve learned, in the hard way, that where I was – the past […]
Life Time Announces Top Health & Fitness Trends for 2023
Accredited experts weigh in on mental wellbeing, nutrition, fitness, and more MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Life Time (NYSE: LTH), the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brand with more than 160 athletic country clubs across North America, is keeping tabs on the emerging trends in all-encompassing wellness as we start 2023. […]
Health-Focused Box Subscriptions and Apps for the Fitness Lover in Your Life
Christmas is right around the corner, and if you’re running short on gifts (and time), don’t fret. Nowadays, apps and subscription boxes are the thing. However, they’re more than just trending. Apps provide personalized, convenient support while helping people reach their goals, while subscription boxes on the other hand, gives […]
Leeds woman kicked out of dental practice while in intensive care tells of ‘worst nightmare of my life’
Mandy Sharp said she’d been left in “so much pain and so distressed”, because she’d been able to access so little dental treatment since. In an emotional address to a panel of local councillors on Tuesday, Ms Sharp, from Otley, told how she’d lost almost all of her top teeth […]
The short life of baby Serhii, killed in a Ukraine maternity ward
November 25, 2022 at 4:29 p.m. EST Family members place a cross on the grave of 2-day-old Serhii Podlianov at the family’s village cemetery in Novosolone in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Nov. 24. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) Comment on this story Comment NOVOSOLONE, Ukraine — On […]
New Cambridge Centre to Connect AI, Medicine and UK Life Sciences Sector
Nov. 11, 2020 — On 11 November the University of Cambridge announced a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca and GSK to fund the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM). For the 5-year duration, AstraZeneca and GSK will support five new PhD studentships per year. This program will enable the best […]
New Cambridge Center to connect AI, medicine and life sciences sector
A new centre at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with AstraZeneca and GSK, aims to use AI to make medical discoveries, accelerate the development of precision medicine and develop new treatments On 10 November the University of Cambridge announced a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca and GSK to fund the […]
‘Lifestyle medicine’ can help you live a better, longer life | Sponsored Content
In Latin, the word “physician” means “teacher,” and a unique form of specialty medicine known as Lifestyle Medicine is taking that meaning literally by teaching patients how to live their healthiest lives. Lifestyle Medicine is an effort to reverse an alarming trend in the U.S. that has seen patients eating […]