
Emma Court
Reporter and Editor at Bloomberg
Health reporter Bloomberg Business, covering all things Covid-19
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- Doctors are being bought up by private equity — and it’s your health on the line8 Jun 2018—MarketWatchMarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Your physician has become big business. And patients should be worried. Even if the waiting room, staff and doctor herself look exactly the same as in the past, medical practices of all kinds are increasingly being snapped up by larger groups, hospital systems and even health-insurance companies. Lately, those buyers aren’t even from the health-care world. In a growing and powerful trend, private-equity and venture-capital groups have been swooping...
- One side effect of being young, female and sick: People won’t believe you15 Mar 2018—MarketWatchGetty Images After Michele Lent Hirsch had a major hip surgery in her early 20s, even as she hobbled around on crutches people didn’t always believe that she’d had surgery. “Oh, my grandmother had that,” she’d hear, or “weird, hip surgery.” An older woman yelled at her for taking a seat on a mostly-empty bus, and one bus driver refused to lower the steps so she could get on. Other health problems beset Lent Hirsch throughout much of her 20s, from a severe allergic reaction that nearly killed...
- Don’t fall for fake flu medications, FDA warns2 Mar 2018—MarketWatchThose looking for relief during an unprecedented flu season should beware unproven flu treatments and counterfeit medications, which could be found online or in stores, warned the Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The regulator also gave some simple ways to spot fraud: Don’t, for example, buy over-the-counter products claiming to prevent or cure the flu — since no such legal products exist. Plenty of over-the-counter products do work on flu symptoms, including fever, muscle aches and...
- ALS patients are unhappy with how $115 million raised by the Ice Bucket Challenge is being spent14 Feb 2018—MarketWatchMarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto, Getty Images The “Ice Bucket Challenge” became a global phenomenon in the summer of 2014. Participants lined up to have a bucket of ice water poured over their heads, with videos spreading virally across social media. Everyone from politicians to executives, athletes, rock stars and even elephants did it (sans the ice), raising awareness of the neuromuscular disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and generating donations to the cause in the...
- Wal-Mart offers customers a new opioid crisis solution: Get rid of old meds safely, at home, for free17 Jan 2018—MarketWatchWalmart One way an opioid addiction can start is in the medicine cabinet, where leftover medications from painful procedures can languish for months or years. Now, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.18% is offering a new kind of solution, with a free product that allows consumers to safely and conveniently throw out what’s left over of their medication. The product, DisposeRx, consists of a small packet — around the size of flower food that typically accompanies a bouquet — that is dumped in a pill...
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