Tag Archives: Disrupting

‘Uber’ of Pharmacy: Disrupting the Market, or Patient Care? – MedPage Today

Capsule, a digital pharmacy armed with a fleet of couriers that delivers prescriptions directly to patients’ doors, has been described as the Uber of pharmacy, but some patients have raised concerns about delays and missing medications. The app-based pharmacy delivers same-day prescriptions in four of New York’s five boroughs (Staten Island excluded). The company describes… Read More »

Disrupting Healthcare Payment with Mobile Platform M-TIBA | Maarten Ras, CarePay

Health Tech Jan 6, 2020• BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH What’s the future of healthcare payment? Could it be mobile?? CarePay is a health tech startup that is revolutionizing the way people in Africa send, save and spend funds for medical treatments via their mobile app M-TIBA. Maarten Ras, Regional Commercial Director shares how M-TIBA… Read More »

How to Avoid Hormone Disrupting Chemicals

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are similar in structure to natural hormones such as the female sex hormone estrogen, the male sex hormone androgen and thyroid hormones, which allow them to interfere with development,1 reproduction, neurological functioning, metabolism, satiety and your immune system function, and much more.2 For example, they may block certain hormonal signals, alter… Read More »