Video: How to handle stress if your child has a medical complication

Parents of children with medical complexities are more likely to experience even higher levels of stress than children without a medical condition.
We asked our clinical social worker, Monica Handlos, to share some tips on how you can manage the stress in your life and take time to relax. Do...
Video: How to handle stress if your child has a medical complication

Why Dangerous Supplements Linger on Store Shelves

Flaws in the way that dietary supplements are monitored and reported are causing potentially life-threatening delays in how long dangerous products linger on store shelves.
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Why Dangerous Supplements Linger on Store Shelves

Healthcare Reform Made Simple for Washington Residents

Do you know how you’re affected by big changes coming in 2014 to individual health plans? Watch to learn more from Premera Blue Cross, or call 888-304-4755.
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Healthcare Reform Made Simple for Washington Residents

Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk

A brief stroll, even one just around your office, can spur creativity, according to a new study.
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Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk

Video Content is the Dominant Online Healthcare Medium

When Google pushed “universal search results” to the world in 2007, our search results suddenly went beyond simple links to websites. Overnight, we were greeted with images, maps, social content—and videos. We learned that humans have an insatiable appetite for video watching.
Ever since then, v...
Video Content is the Dominant Online Healthcare Medium

Reading Pain in a Human Face

Researchers have found that a computer is much better than people are at telling the difference between real and faked pain, a discovery that may lead to methods to detect children’s pain and to treat depression.
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Reading Pain in a Human Face

Health Care Reform Readiness Webinar

To register for LIVE webinars similar to this one, please visit Career Innovations at www.career-innovate.com Is Your Company Taking the Proper Steps Toward …
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Health Care Reform Readiness Webinar

Exploring ‘Cancer & Me’ video series

Half of all cancers can be prevented through healthy living. It’s simple; eating well, being sun smart, limiting alcohol, avoiding tobacco and being active, can help prevent cancer.
“Cancer & Me” is a video series about the cancer journey. Cancer affects everyone. Today, doctors and res...
Exploring ‘Cancer & Me’ video series

A Stroke You Must Have

It’s never too late to learn how to swim, a crucial skill, as more than 70 percent of the drowning victims in the United States each year are adults.
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A Stroke You Must Have

Four Seasons' luxe private jet: $119,000 per person to circle globe

Four Season Hotels, the luxury five-star hotel company, is extending its extravagant service to air travel with the launch of private jet service.
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Four Seasons' luxe private jet: $119,000 per person to circle globe

Key Issues Facing Healthcare Today

The CEO of MDdatacor discusses the most pressing issues for healthcare providers and payers including cost, care coordination and disparate information silos.
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Key Issues Facing Healthcare Today

Ask Well: Do Foam Rollers Aid Workouts?

A reader asks: At the gym, instead of traditional stretching, I see tons of people rolling around on foam rollers. What does the research say about the benefits?
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Ask Well: Do Foam Rollers Aid Workouts?

Clippers LOL Skip Bayless: "I Have Pride In Blake Griffin Because His Mother Is White"

Source: www.spurstalk.com – Wednesday, April 23, 2014 :lmao@white America…. she's a tall red head he went to school with….always looking for the great white hope:lmao but I love Skip's honesty tbh dude is funny as fuck..he must love Obama as well :lol….and me...
Clippers LOL Skip Bayless: "I Have Pride In Blake Griffin Because His Mother Is White"

Treating Appendicitis Without Surgery

For many years, immediate surgery has been considered the only proper treatment for appendicitis in children. Now a small study suggests that in some cases, antibiotics alone may be better.
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Treating Appendicitis Without Surgery

Barack Obama Speech on Healthcare Insurance

This is Barack Obama speech on healthcare insurance. Healthcare insurance is human right everyone should have. Healthcare should not be just a privilege for …
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Barack Obama Speech on Healthcare Insurance

Quiche Meets Whole Wheat

In this week’s Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman uses butter, whole-wheat flour, eggs, milk and cheese — in moderation — for an old vegetarian mainstay.
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Quiche Meets Whole Wheat

Spending down but quality of care might not rise with ACOs

New research suggests that healthcare costs may decrease when hospitals and medical groups agree to an ACO with even one insurer, but the quality of care may stay the same.

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Spending down but quality of care might not rise with ACOs

American Healthcare Reform: Fixing the Real Problems by by Earl Wilson Ferguson, MD, PhD

Meaningful healthcare reform requires understanding of our complex healthcare system. This book was written to help clarify the difficult and poorly understo…

American Healthcare Reform: Fixing the Real Problems by by Earl Wilson Ferguson, MD, PhD

FDA's proposed e-cig rule: Too far or not far enough

The federal government’s plan to regulate electronic cigarettes is drawing criticism from those who believe restrictions on the product will interfere with smokers’ efforts to switch to a less-harmful habit. But many public-health advocates fear the…
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FDA's proposed e-cig rule: Too far or not far enough

Are Med School Grads Prepared to Practice Medicine?

Each July at teaching hospitals across the country, freshly minted M.D.s take their place as interns at the bottom of the ladder. Are they ready to practice medicine?
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Are Med School Grads Prepared to Practice Medicine?

Hospira Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall of One Lot of 0.25% Marcaine™ (Bupivacaine HCI Injection, USP), 10 ml, Single-Dose, Preservative-Free Vial Due to Visible Particulates

Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), announced today it will initiate a voluntary nationwide recall to the user level for one lot of 0.25% Marcaine™ (Bupivacaine HCl Injection, USP), 10 mL, Single-dose Vial – Preservative Free (NDC 0409-1559-10), Lot 34-440-DD. The recall is due to a confirmed customer rep...
Hospira Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall of One Lot of 0.25% Marcaine™ (Bupivacaine HCI Injection, USP), 10 ml, Single-Dose, Preservative-Free Vial Due to Visible Particulates

High Altitudes May Aid Weight Control

A four-year study of overweight military personnel has found that those stationed at high altitudes are less likely to progress to obesity.
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High Altitudes May Aid Weight Control

Disruptive innovation in health care

Rising costs, market pressures, and scientific advancements are creating new opportunities for growth in health care. http://pwc.to/Pdb0Ij.
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Disruptive innovation in health care

The Limits of ‘No Pain, No Gain’

A new study helps to explain why exercise makes our muscles ache, and suggests that it’s not always a good idea to ignore fatigue and push on.
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The Limits of ‘No Pain, No Gain’

New Medicare Data Reveal Startling $496 Million Wasted On Chiropractors

Ten days ago, the federal government released a huge data set detailing how it spent $ 77 billion in Medicare funds in 2012 to over 880,000 health care providers. The release of this data is part of a new transparency effort by the government, which many of us applaud.
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New Medicare Data Reveal Startling $496 Million Wasted On Chiropractors

The Lure of Forbidden Food

Researchers found that during experiments, “reactive eaters,” those willing to put forth the most effort for food rewards, had the strongest response to forbidden food.
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The Lure of Forbidden Food

Top 5 Health Care Management Jobs

Brief explanation of the top 5 health care management jobs as measured in terms of growth and stability. Jobs in health care management are in high demand. A…
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Top 5 Health Care Management Jobs

Infographic: Time for a digital health check-up

This infographic originally appeared here.
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Infographic: Time for a digital health check-up

Low Vitamin D in Mothers Tied to Cavities in Babies

Low levels of vitamin D in pregnancy are associated with the development of cavities in babies, researchers report.
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Low Vitamin D in Mothers Tied to Cavities in Babies

Lifesaving Procedure With an Image Problem

Though donating bone marrow has become simpler and less painful, more like giving blood, perception has not caught up with reality, scaring off some potential donors.
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Lifesaving Procedure With an Image Problem

Attract More Patients With a Strong Online Reputation

Today’s patients have become increasingly smarter in terms of choosing the right healthcare practitioners for them. The rapidly growing trend is checking out a doctor’s or dentist’s online reviews before arranging a first consultation. Whether you are a doctor, a dentist or an ancillary healt...
Attract More Patients With a Strong Online Reputation

Free Samples Influence Doctors’ Prescriptions

One method pharmaceutical companies use to promote new medicines is to give free samples to doctors. A new study confirms the technique is highly effective.
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Free Samples Influence Doctors’ Prescriptions

Ezekiel Emanuel Says HealthCare.gov Had 'No Problem' With Late Surge- Unaware it Crashed

Ezekiel Emanuel who has been one of the biggest proponents of Obamacare declared on MSNBC that the HealthCare.gov website had “no problem’ with the last-minu…
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Ezekiel Emanuel Says HealthCare.gov Had 'No Problem' With Late Surge- Unaware it Crashed

The Trouble With Rice

The rice plant is one of nature’s great metal scavengers, with potential health consequences for consumers.
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The Trouble With Rice

Sean Hannity and Bob Beckel Battle Muslim Guest Over Easter Controversy

Source: conservativetalkradionetwork.com – Thursday, April 10, 2014 Muslim father and Beckel gang up on Hannity over Easter issue.
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Sean Hannity and Bob Beckel Battle Muslim Guest Over Easter Controversy

Kevin Finkenscher (AMIA CEO) speaks on how Informatics will Change Healthcare

Incorporating information technologies and information management, this work describes evolving areas of efficiency in the healthcare industry due to healthc…
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Kevin Finkenscher (AMIA CEO) speaks on how Informatics will Change Healthcare

Why Patients and a Growing Number of Doctors Prefer Concierge Medicine – Part 2 of 2

According to the Concierge Medicine Research Collective, which has been studying consumer demand for concierge or direct care models for years, the number of patients seeking concierge medical care is far greater than the actual number of concierge doctors and practices available to serve them....
Why Patients and a Growing Number of Doctors Prefer Concierge Medicine – Part 2 of 2

Applause for Avocados

This is the best time of the year for picking up some Hass avocados, the most common type in grocery stores, and putting together these innovative avocado-based dishes.
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Applause for Avocados

The Best Cities For Raising A Family

Raleigh, N.C., has built a solid economy around financial services, software and energy, a major retail shipping operation and its renowned Research Triangle.
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The Best Cities For Raising A Family

Michael Porter on "Value Based Health Care Delivery"

Faculty Perspectives on Healthcare. March 7, 2012.
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Michael Porter on "Value Based Health Care Delivery"

The Antidepressant Generation

A growing number of young adults are taking psychiatric medicines for longer and longer periods, at the very age when they are also consolidating their identities, making plans for the future and navigating adult relationships.
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The Antidepressant Generation

Infographic: The nursing code

This infographic originally appeared here.

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Infographic: The nursing code

Dr. Ben Carson: Let's Save our Healthcare

Obamacare isn’t working. We must put patients first and Save our Healthcare. Together, let’s ensure every candidate in 2014 knows where we stand. Join us at …
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Dr. Ben Carson: Let's Save our Healthcare

Younger Skin Through Exercise

Exercise appears to slow and even reverse the effects of aging on the skin.
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Younger Skin Through Exercise

10 tips for getting patients to come to your blog

How many times have you asked yourself, “How can I increase awareness of my hospital’s blog?” Putting up a blog is one thing. Getting people to pay attention to it is another. Creating an engaged audience for a blog is a common problem for many health care organizations, including hos...
10 tips for getting patients to come to your blog

Beans and Peas Lower Cholesterol

A review of studies found that consuming a few legumes a day appeared to reduce levels of “bad” cholesterol.
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Beans and Peas Lower Cholesterol

Digital in Healthcare

Do you think digital is important to healthcare? IMPORTANT NOTE: In the time since this video was uploaded the stats have shifted up significantly. Check out…
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Digital in Healthcare

Two Door Cinema Club Rock Coachella

Source: www.gretschguitars.com – Wednesday, May 08, 2013 During the recent two-weekend Coachella music festival, Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club performed an evening set at the Outdoor Stage that had a huge crowd jamming along with them. Perhaps that was because of their excellent...
Two Door Cinema Club Rock Coachella

Too Much Family Love

Every patient needs a moment alone, as one woman with a terminal illness and a large band of affectionate relatives made clear.
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Too Much Family Love

A Number That May Not Add Up

As a measure of overweight, obesity and health, the body mass index has plenty of drawbacks, researchers say.
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A Number That May Not Add Up

Obamacare under attack as conservatives eye 2016

Republicans eyeing the 2016 White House race battered President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and nicked each other Saturday, auditioning before a high-profile gathering of conservatives that some political veterans said marked the campaign’s…
Modern Healthcare Breaking News

Obamacare under attack as conservatives eye 2016

Health Care Reform Debate

University of Arkansas hosts a Health Care Reform Debate sponsored by the Federalist Society University of Arkansas School of Law. With Mr. Ilya Shapiro of t…

Health Care Reform Debate

Medical Practices Anticipate Reduced Profitability

Last year, a new index that gauges the financial and operational health of physician practices forecast a downward trend in profitability for 2014. The Practice Profitability Index, or PPI, revealed that two out of three practices polled anticipate reduced profitability based on several...
Medical Practices Anticipate Reduced Profitability

Great Grain Salads

The vegetables of early spring and fresh herbs are big elements in these main-dish grain salads, some of them inspired by demonstrations at the “Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives” medical education conference recently held at the Culinary Institute of Ame...
Great Grain Salads

Healthcare Reform and You

Healthcare Reform and You

Yes, the Obama administration is cooking the books to boost Obamacare

Source: www.unitedliberty.org – Tuesday, April 01, 2014 In a segment on Fox News Sunday , Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) dismissed the claim that 6 million people have enrolled into health plans and accused the Obama administration of “cooking the books” to boost Obamacare enrollment numbers. Th...
Yes, the Obama administration is cooking the books to boost Obamacare

Displaying lab prices on EHR systems cuts costs

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that there is great potential for significant healthcare cost reductions when physicians know the up-front cost of ordering routine lab tests.
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Displaying lab prices on EHR systems cuts costs

Re: Problems with Healthcare in the USA

As a result of the care my friend, Rich, received he is back in the hospital with a diagnosis of osteomyelitis which is a serious bone infection. With Rich’s…

Re: Problems with Healthcare in the USA

Drinking Milk Linked to Arthritis Relief

A large study has found evidence that milk consumption may slow the progression of knee arthritis.
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Drinking Milk Linked to Arthritis Relief

Do rural provider bonus payments do more good than harm?

If you live in the rural U.S., you probably face relatively limited access to the wonders of American health care.  There won’t be as many physicians per capita offering you their services.  This paucity of health care professionals will be especially sta...
Do rural provider bonus payments do more good than harm?

RAND Comes Clean: Obamacare's Exchanges Enrolled Only 1.4 Million Previously Uninsured Individuals

Last week, I wrote about an article in the Los Angeles Times, on a then-as-yet unpublished report from the RAND Corporation. The report indicated that only one-third of Obamacare’s purported 7.1 million exchange sign-ups were from the previously uninsured. But Noam Levey, the author of the Times ...
RAND Comes Clean: Obamacare's Exchanges Enrolled Only 1.4 Million Previously Uninsured Individuals

Pain Relievers Tied to Heart Rhythm Disorder

A new study found that the popular pain relievers known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or Nsaids, may increase the risk for the most common type of irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation.
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Pain Relievers Tied to Heart Rhythm Disorder

What is a Subsidy? Getting Help Paying for Insurance | Health Care Reform

Learn how you might get help paying for your health plan– this is called a ‘subsidy’ and it is paid by the government. You can use the subsidy estimator on …
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What is a Subsidy? Getting Help Paying for Insurance | Health Care Reform

Are You Programmed to Enjoy Exercise?

According to an eye-opening new genetics study of lab rats, the motivation to exercise — or not — may be at least partly inherited.
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Are You Programmed to Enjoy Exercise?

The Latest News About Online Patient Reviews

Today’s healthcare environment is putting individual patients and quality of care at the center of the American health universe. New payment models are rewarding value and quality over volume. And patients are acting more like traditional consumers and relishing their new role as empowered c...
The Latest News About Online Patient Reviews

Look for Cancer, and Find It

Researchers say that mammography can “overdiagnoseâ breast cancer, meaning that some of the tiny cancers it finds would probably never progress, but tumors are treated anyway.
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Look for Cancer, and Find It

A story about how to celebrate employees who work

There I was, just out of college. I’d been hired at a brand-new hospital and now, I was managing my first department.
Gulp.
I knew that leading my new team (some of whom had 20+ years of experience) wouldn’t be easy, but I was up for the challenge. However, I don’t think anything could have pr...
A story about how to celebrate employees who work

Life With a Dog: You Meet People

The health benefits of owning a pet, particularly a dog, are well documented and wide-ranging, from cardiovascular to social.
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Life With a Dog: You Meet People

ICD-10 delay creates headaches

Killing ICD-10 would have made a lot of doctors happy, despite all the money wasted preparing for the transition to the new diagnosis and medical billing codes. Delaying it for a year may be a relief to them, as well, but it’s nothing but grief for ICD-10 project leaders. Though a...
ICD-10 delay creates headaches

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies

The new research, however, doesn’t show whether low levels are a cause of illness or are simply an indicator of overall health.
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Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies

CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems

CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems.
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CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems

Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles

Dr. Lisa Sanders challenges readers to solve a tough medical mystery involving a 23-year-old man with uncontrollable episodes of aggressive, manic behavior.
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Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles

CT screenings for lung cancer misleading

Nearly one in five patients with a history of cigarette smoking who is diagnosed with lung cancer with recommended CT screening don’t have a clinically significant disease and are overdiagnosed. But scientists don’t yet have any way of knowing which ones.
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CT screenings for lung cancer misleading

Turning Up the Heat on Fruit

Not too sweet, not too fussy, fruit compotes are a way to take advantage of the apples, pears and citrus available before the arrival of stone-fruit and berry season.
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Turning Up the Heat on Fruit

Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles Solved!

Dr. Lisa Sanders reveals the diagnosis in a mysterious case of an agitated young man with uncontrollable manic behavior.
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Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles Solved!

Health Care Reform: Your 90-Second Video Guide

WebMD explains the key issues in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Act.

Health Care Reform: Your 90-Second Video Guide

America's New Brainpower Cities

Brainpower rankings usually identify the usual suspects: college towns like Boston, Washington, D.C.,  and the San Francisco Bay area. And to be sure, these places generally have the highest per capita education levels. However, it’s worthwhile to look at the metro areas that are gaining ...
America's New Brainpower Cities

Ask Well: Ankle Replacements

A reader asks: If they can replace knees and hips, why not ankles?
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Ask Well: Ankle Replacements

Reform Update: Officials from troubled state exchanges emphasize enrollment success

Several officials from troubled state insurance exchanges Thursday focused on damage control, seeking to put a positive spin on their efforts when they trudged up Capitol Hill to testify about their operational problems.
Modern Healthcare Breaking News

Reform Update: Officials from troubled state exchanges emphasize enrollment success

The Hospital-Dependent Patient

Some fragile survivors of intensive, expensive treatments are like a house of cards, their health collapsing under even a minor stress.
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The Hospital-Dependent Patient

Health Care Reform

I read a great article in Time Magazine about American health care reform. The author, Fareed Zakaria, quoted statistics from a study by the International Fe…
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Health Care Reform

Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection

In what just may be the most stunning example of hypocrisy in my lifetime, Mother Jones has uncovered numerous investments on the part of Hobby Lobby’s retirement fund in a wide variety of companies producing abortion and contraception related products.
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Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection

How Exercise Can Help You Live Longer

An encouraging new study finds that exercise may slash your risk of heart disease, regardless of your cholesterol numbers or waist size.
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How Exercise Can Help You Live Longer

Bill O'Reilly: Universal Healthcare Is Communist

Bill O’Reilly opened his show Tuesday night claiming that Obamacare is just an element of the ideal society liberals have in mind for the U.S.: a socialist s…
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Bill O'Reilly: Universal Healthcare Is Communist

Why are doctors crazy enough to accept health care’s status quo?

We believe integrated will triumph fragmented every time. -Steve Jobs
Two articles recently got my attention. The first was an interview by Dr. Robert Pearl, CEO of the Permanente Medical Group with my favorite author and thinker Malcolm Gladwell. On...
Why are doctors crazy enough to accept health care’s status quo?

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Quick Gains After a Smoking Ban

Measures of children’s health improved around the world just a year after smoking prohibitions were enacted, researchers say.
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Quick Gains After a Smoking Ban