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japantimes.co.jp - 'Beauty sleep' treatments spark controversy in Japan
'Beauty sleep' treatments spark controversy in Japan
The Japan Times

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…

rediff.com - Aathira Varier - Irdai's Stricter Stance on Insurer Operating Costs: What it Means for the Industry
Irdai's Stricter Stance on Insurer Operating Costs: What it Means for the Industry
Rediff.com

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…

insidehighered.com - Kathy Johnson Bowles - Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind
Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

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…

afr.com - Michael Smith - Insurers call for high earners without health cover to pay more tax
Insurers call for high earners without health cover to pay more tax
Australian Financial Review

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…

afr.com - Timothy Moore - ASX 200 LIVE: Australian shares set to openly modestly higher
ASX 200 LIVE: Australian shares set to openly modestly higher
Australian Financial Review

Australian shares are set to edge higher at the open. Wall Street was mixed with the Dow modestly up and the S&P 500 modestly down as semiconductor stocks fell again. ASX 200 futures were up 8 points or 0.1 per cent to 9050 near 4.25am AEST. The…

swissinfo.ch - Karoline Arn - US price pressure 'threatens new drugs' in Switzerland
US price pressure 'threatens new drugs' in Switzerland
www.swissinfo.ch

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…

dailycaller.com - Ireland Owens - The Real Reasons Why You Keep Paying More For Employer Healthcare
The Real Reasons Why You Keep Paying More For Employer Healthcare
The Daily Caller

U.S. employer healthcare costs are expected to surge again next year – but why is this the case? A recent report from benefits consultant Aon projects that employer healthcare costs in the U.S. are set to climb 9.5% in 2027, pushing average…

hollywoodreporter.com - Kevin Dolak - Disney Tightens Spousal Health Benefits as Industry Costs Surge
Disney Tightens Spousal Health Benefits as Industry Costs Surge
The Hollywood Reporter

As the Walt Disney Co. enjoys another banner summer — its Toy Story franchise returned to bring in $1.1 billion globally — staff across the brand and its subsidiaries received unprecedented news last week announcing changes to their…

thehindu.com - Amit Chhabra - Informed consumers can shape insurance market
Informed consumers can shape insurance market
The Hindu

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…

forbes.com - Rachel Wells - Salesforce And Others Are Hiring For This New $200,000+ AI Job
Salesforce And Others Are Hiring For This New $200,000+ AI Job
Forbes

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…

newrepublic.com - Abdullah Shihipar - Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback
Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback
The New Republic

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…

washingtonexaminer.com - Mike Tuffin - Congress killed surprise bills - or did it?
Congress killed surprise bills - or did it?
Washington Examiner

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…

buzzfeed.com - Abby Zinman - I Can't Look At These 22 Things The Same Way After Learning That They're Actually Massive Scams
I Can't Look At These 22 Things The Same Way After Learning That They're Actually Massive Scams
BuzzFeed

Note: Since these are, yanno, opinions from people on the internet, please take them with a grain of salt. We're not the official scam police. Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.

koreatimes.co.kr - Park Ung - Illegal imports of obesity drugs surge 3.5-fold in Korea
Illegal imports of obesity drugs surge 3.5-fold in Korea
The Korea Times

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)…

businessinsider.com - Amanda Goh - I left Canada for Bangkok and now work while the city sleeps. My quality of life has never been better.
I left Canada for Bangkok and now work while the city sleeps. My quality of life has never been better.
Business Insider

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…

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