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Warris Bokhari founded Claimable to tackle insurance-claim denials using AI technology.Bokhari says denial is a major issue in the US healthcare system, causing fear about getting help.Claimable’s AI-driven platform boasts an 85% success rate in overturning claim denials.After working in the insurance industry, Warris Bokhari saw that claim denial was…
The idea that testing and tracking your health will help you live longer is buzzy right now.I feared I had problems like high cholesterol or blood sugar and paid $156 for a direct-to-consumer health test.I learned there isn’t good evidence that these general tests improve our health.It was a Friday…
Brittany Randall believes her 15-year-old daughter contracted E. coli after eating at McDonald’s.Her symptoms were initially mistaken for the flu, delaying proper medical treatment.Randall’s daughter is currently hospitalized and receiving dialysis treatment. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brittany Randall, a 39-year-old from Mesa County, Colorado, whose…
Americans are well-known for being hard workers. The midday siestas and monthlong vacations so beloved in Europe don’t cut it with bosses stateside.According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly one in four US workers isn’t entitled to a paid sick day. But despite their industrious reputation, there is…
A CEO caused a stir on X with a post about the workplace culture he promotes.Rob Dance, who is the founder of Rock, one of the UK’s largest IT consultancies, wrote a list on a whiteboard of things he was “sick of hearing” from his employees.It included, “Can I leave…
Dozens of tourists who hiked to a waterfall in the Grand Canyon have fallen ill, including one woman who had to be airlifted out of the national park.The illnesses broke out near Havasu Falls in the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Arizona this week. Mary Blair told Fox 10 that her…
Spring has sprung, and with warmer weather comes the start of a far less pleasant time of year: tick season. As ticks become more active this spring, both humans and their pets will be at greater risk of diseases like Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis.But a new science report from…
