EAGLEVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Amanda Phillips used her experience fighting Crohn’s disease to create a line of adaptive clothes fit for patients like herself. She left her career in finance to start her small business, ‘BeWell.’ Through it, she sells shirts fit with discreet zippers to facilitate bloodwork, IVs, ports, breastfeeding, and more. BeWell has…
Hong Kong authorities are considering requiring patients to pay deposits and face no-show charges for missing booked services at public hospitals as part of plans to reduce government subsidies for healthcare, according to the city’s health minister. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau on Sunday likened the planned healthcare fee reform to “an additional health insurance…
China’s so-called century baby has died at 25 from heart attack and is being remembered as a talented artist. From the moment she arrived in the world at midnight on January 1, 2000, Xie Yueqian made national headlines. One at the time read: “To the second, the standard century baby has arrived.” Her birth marked…
A Chinese tourist in Sri Lanka was critically injured after she hung her body out of a moving train for photos and slammed into a tunnel wall. The woman’s actions have sparked a heated debate about travel safety on mainland social media. The 35-year-old is reportedly in critical condition after she suffered severe head and…
February 19, 2025 8:59 AM EST | Source: Zhibao Technology Inc. Shanghai, China–(Newsfile Corp. – February 19, 2025) – Zhibao Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ZBAO) (“Zhibao,” “we,” or the “Company”), a leading and high growth InsurTech company primarily engaging in providing digital insurance brokerage services through its operating entities in China, today announced that its…
US Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. departs the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 12, 2024 in New York City. US President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.Image: David Dee Delgado / Contributor (Getty Images) In This Story Robert…
Guy wearing fitness tracker on arm and reading data about heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure on a phone screen.Image: PeopleImages (Getty Images) Obesity rates have been steadily rising around the world for decades. Globally, obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990, reaching 1 billion people in 2022 — that’s one in…
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000). On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out…
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Gyms and beauty centres will no longer be able to claim they offer services such as pain treatment under a planned ban by the Hong Kong government to avoid misleading claims, but some non-medical professionals argue their services warrant the description. The ban, aimed at ensuring the public does not wrongly believe medical services are…