ACTOR Peter Hardy, who appeared in Neighbors as well as a number of other films and TV shows in his native Australia, has died aged 66.
The actor was revealed to have drowned at a beach in Fremantle near Perth, Western Australia, on Thursday.
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He had traveled to Perth from London where he had lived for a number of years on a canal boat to visit his
Kaiser Permanente is the best US health insurance company in 2023, according to Insure.com’s annual ranking.
In the final 1 through 5 scores, 60 percent came from member survey results, 25 percent from NCQA quality ratings, and 15 percent from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which tracks customer complaints against payers.
The survey portion of the ranking was conducted in late 2022 and asked 1,500 customers about their health plans across multiple categories, including customer satisfaction, ease of service and policy offerings. Respondents were also asked to rank their insurer’s top three attributes out of more than a dozen
Ozempic, an injectable type 2 diabetes drug, has been in short supply for months now as a growing number of people seek it out for one of its side effects: dramatic weight loss.
The drug and another medicine, Wegovy, has the same active ingredient: semaglutide, which regulates blood sugar. Semaglutide also makes people feel fuller and eat less, curbing appetite and slowing digestion in the stomach. In addition to weight loss, semaglutide can cause side effects such as nausea, diarrhea, constipation and headaches.
Both Ozempic and Wegovy have been on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug shortage list
Many of our clients have heard of the powers of attorney, but do not know what they actually entail.
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It is important to know that there are different types of powers of attorney, however, they are all legal documents that allow you to pick an agent or attorney-in-fact on your behalf.
Powers of attorney allow another person to make financial, legal, and medical decisions for you, depending on the type.
Nova Scotia’s opposition leaders say the provincial government failed to do its due diligence before spending $34 million in a sole-sourced deal for an incomplete hotel it plans to convert into a site for some hospital patients.
“The whole thing stinks, frankly,” said NDP Leader Claudia Chender.
“Why on earth would the government let tens of millions of dollars go out the door without a procurement process, without any oversight for a building that experts say is unfit for the purpose — I think people should be concerned.”
Last month, the province completed the purchase of 21 Hogan Court in
A non-statin drug known as bempedoic acid may be effective in lowering the risk of a heart attack in people who
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HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans use HEDIS as a standard to measure the performance of their plan. The data is tracked from year to year to measure the performance of the health plan and thus provide information regarding the population served.
The data that is collected is used to monitor the health of the general population, evaluate treatment outcomes, etc., and the data is collected
