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Named Best Health Insurance Company of 2024

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If you head to Insure.com to review your health plan options, you’ll find Kaiser Permanente listed as the top health insurer in the nation. Insure.com recently rated us at the top of its Best Health Insurance Companies of 2024 list. We also earned the top rating for affordability, customer satisfaction, and trustworthiness. Second year in a row Insure.com reviewed more than 70 health insurance companies in the US It used industry data to put together its list. It also used a survey of consumers — a mix of people with health insurance and people looking to buy health insurance. The…Continue Reading

Claims hospital staff at The London Clinic tried to access Kate Middleton’s private health records referred to police

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In short: UK Health Minister Maria Caulfield says she’s told police to probe “severe and serious” allegations about the conduct of staff at the hospital where the Princess of Wales had abdominal surgery earlier this year. Claims that hospital staff attempted to access the princess’s private health information hit the British press on Tuesday What’s next: The UK’s data-protection watchdog has also announced it is probing the allegations. Britain’s health minister says she’s asked police to investigate claims that staff at the hospital where Kate, Princess of Wales, had surgery in January, attempted to access her private medical records. The…Continue Reading

$24M NIH grant extends Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans

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(SACRAMENTO) Researchers at UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente Division of Research have received a $24 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR) for an additional five years. STAR, which launched in 2017, follows a group of approximately 750 older adults to understand how behaviors and lifestyle may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias for Black and African Americans. The study is also trying to better understand the factors that may protect brain health. Black Americans have…Continue Reading