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'Beauty sleep' treatments spark controversy in Japan
Some Japanese clinics have been advertising private “beauty sleep” treatments on social media and prescribing potentially addictive psychotropic drugs and other medications. Experts are criticizing the practice while raising concerns…
Irdai's Stricter Stance on Insurer Operating Costs: What it Means for the Industry
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India is intensifying its scrutiny of insurers' operating and distribution costs, with recent actions against several firms for breaching expense of management limits signalling a stricter…
Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind
Like overgrazing livestock denuding a pasture, rising fixed costs stunt institutional growth, severely damage the balance between expenses and revenue, and erode the financial equilibrium important to making education affordable. Rising costs to do…
Insurers call for high earners without health cover to pay more tax
Almost one million high-income Australians would pay thousands of dollars more in tax penalties for not having private hospital insurance under a proposal by health funds opposed to the Albanese government's planned axing of age-based rebates for…
US price pressure 'threatens new drugs' in Switzerland
In an interview with Swiss public broadcaster SRF, Buholzer also warns that price pressure from the United States is preventing new drugs from being developed in Switzerland. SRF: Why does such a powerful industry need political support from a…
Informed consumers can shape insurance market
One of the defining characteristics of mature consumer markets is not simply the abundance of products, but the quality of consumer decision-making. Across sectors, rising financial awareness, easier access to information and digital discovery are…
Salesforce And Others Are Hiring For This New $200,000+ AI Job
Salesforce just created a role worth up to $216,000 that will shape the future of AI in the workforce But now that it's been created, the future of the workforce depends on it. And it pays up to $216,000 a year. This is Salesforce's job posting for…
Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback
The situation is dire. Millions of people in the United States are months away from losing their health care. On January 1, dramatic changes to Medicaid outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBA, will take effect, impacting who is…
Congress killed surprise bills - or did it?
Surprise billing was never the result of patients making faulty choices. Patients did everything right. They paid their premiums and sought care at in-network hospitals, only to be treated by out-of-network specialists they neither chose nor, in…
Illegal imports of obesity drugs surge 3.5-fold in Korea
The number of illegally imported obesity treatment drugs detected surged in the first half of this year, driven largely by drugs ordered from foreign websites and shipped through international mail. According to the Korea Customs Service (KCS)…
I left Canada for Bangkok and now work while the city sleeps. My quality of life has never been better.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Francis Coultier, 39, who is originally from Canada but now lives in Bangkok. It's been edited for length and clarity. The first time I learned about about digital nomadism, I was around 29 and…
The Democratic Socialist policies seeing support among Republicans
As Republicans and some moderate Democrats increasingly portray democratic socialists as out of step with mainstream America, polling suggests a more complicated reality—a majority of Republican voters support several of the economic…
Israel relies on foreign workers after banning Palestinians, faces housing crisi
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been rapidly replacing its Palestinian labor force with foreign workers. 250,000 foreign workers are already in Israel, and their number is set to rise to 330,000. Many unseen challenges lie behind these numbers…
Watch: Mark Cuban says you can't fix healthcare until every price is known
Interview by Julie Rovner and video by Hannah Norman for KFF The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn't be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said this…
What Life Insurance Companies Know About Addiction
Posted August 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Drug and alcohol impairment, psychiatric symptoms, and medical harm predict a greater risk of early death. Life insurers treat substance use as an important and powerful predictor of illness and…
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