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...Ahead of a crucial meeting of the Food and Drug Administration vaccines advisory committee on Friday to discuss its booster proposal, Pfizer on Wednesday submitted a study by Kaiser Permanente Southern California...
...Liz Hamel, who directs polling at the Kaiser Family Foundation health think-tank, said: “We know that side effects are people’s biggest concern about the vaccine....
...In fact, the premium for a single person rose 4 per cent in 2017 to $6,690, and is up about 50 per cent over the past decade, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation....
...Most large US employers — 90 per cent of those with more than 5,000 employees, according to Kaiser Family Foundation — already use “self-funded” insurance whereby they bear the risk of their employees’ healthcare...
...health coverage reached $18,764 last year, up 3 per cent from 2016, with workers on average paying $5,714 towards the cost of their coverage and employers picking up the rest, according to a report from Kaiser...
...“If Amazon and co are going to have an impact, they can’t just have a few employers on board — everyone has to be in on it” says Mr Fronstin....
...(PNAS, Stanford) Fat switch Researchers say they have discovered a “switch” in the brain that co-ordinates energy expenditure with feeding and could have implications for the treatment of obesity....
...His biggest challenge will be to boost the reputation of the WHO as a respected norm-setting agency and co-ordinator of pandemic response....
...A company with such power and organisational might would do better to co-operate with an enemy so agile and capable of fighting back....
...But its approach is to put smallish buses on public transport routes, said Kaiser Kuo, director of international communications for Baidu....
...“There are a lot of people working hard to make sure similar mis-steps don’t happen here,” says Mollyann Brodie, who oversees polling at the Kaiser Family Foundation and is president of the American Association...
...Isaac Getz, co-author of Freedom, Inc, whose philosophy for “liberated” companies to grant more autonomy to workers is being adopted by groups such as France’s Decathlon and Michelin, says it may be more...
...According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than half of large US companies offer biometric screening to workers and 11 per cent of those groups reward or penalise employees based on the outcomes of...
...“There’s a huge false positive issue,” says Kaiser Fung, who has spent years developing similar approaches for retailers and advertisers....
...Dr Toni Yancey, a director at UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, says that even calories from unhealthy foods such as pizza and hamburgers have more nutritional value than those in soft drinks...
...Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, said the US’ inefficient health care system is a problem Silicon Valley technologists and data scientists are positioned to solve....
...A survey released this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a US think tank, shows disbursement for Aids from international donors already slipping, from $7.7bn in 2008 to $7.6bn in 2009, after a sixfold...
...Earlier, Mr Reilly gave an implicit guarantee to keep Opel’s four German plants open when he said that its factories in Bochum and Eisenach and trans-mission plant in Kaiser-slautern would play an “important...
...His first serious in-company work was with AT&T and, over the years, he has worked with corporations from Boeing to Microsoft and organisations from Nasa to Kaiser Permanente....
...Opinion: Holmes, I see this Gem of Tanzania vexes you The FT’s Jonathan Guthrie writes: Mounting the stairs to 221B Baker Street I was perplexed to hear the Kaiser Chiefs’ melody “Ruby” drifting from the...
...companies work their balance sheet,” said Jim Fogarty, managing director with the turnround and restructuring group of Alvarez & Marsal and former chief financial officer at apparel makers Levi Strauss & Co...
...Mike Milani, president and senior managing director of PwC Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Group and his colleague Keith Kaiser have been watching US business bankruptcy figures....
...Century Aluminium reached an all-time high of $68.58, up 4.5 per cent on the day, and Kaiser Aluminium climbed 3.1 per cent to $75.56 Energy stocks benefited from oil’s steady climb back towards $100 a...
...Moore implies, for example, that Richard Nixon began the ruination of the healthcare system in February 1971 by supporting insurance plans on the cost-containing model developed by the entrepreneur Henry Kaiser...
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