The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to provide a wealth of healthcare options for Americans’ healthcare, and especially those with financial difficulties. According to a recent study, women living in states that expanded Medicaid are more likely to receive breast...
What are the New Guidelines on Mammograms The American Cancer Society just recently changed their guidelines on breast cancer screening recommendations, which have tremendous influence on how often doctors order mammograms for women and may even have an effect on how...
The recent outbreak of measles that originated in Disneyland in California this past December and spread to seven states, infecting 147 people, has caused increased concern among individual states as to the rising rates of unvaccinated children in the United States...
Dr. Bryce Chackerian, with the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology of the University of New Mexico co-authored a study in the journal Vaccine revealing that a new vaccine had significant success in reducing the bad cholesterol (LDL) in mice and monkeys,...
Over the past fifty years or so America’s obsession with weight loss has steadily grown, and sadly so has American waistlines. As of 2006 Americans had made diet and weight-loss products a $35 billion dollar a year industry, according to CBS News correspondent Sharyn...
You probably have heard about the latest celebrity trend, IV vitamin therapy, the rich and famous are touting as the “New-Age Fountain of Youth” and cure all for all that ails you, it’s the latest rage in Hollywood. Proponents of IV cocktails include Cindy Crawford,...
Coconut oil is making big news these days, it has recently been classified as a “superfood” but the incredible benefits of coconut oil don’t stop there, coconut oil has so many more wonderful properties and uses. Although a long list could be produced of the many uses...
First of all it is important to establish that not all “guilt” is bad, none of us are perfect and as fallible human beings feeling guilty about a mistake we’ve made is a good thing, not bad; it’s called having a conscience. Guilt feelings help us to examine our...
In today’s society there is a lot of focus on aging well. It is no secret that humans are living longer than our ancestors, in part due to the innovations over the generations in medicine and health care, but also because we as a people are more concerned with health...
How Healthcare Delivery is Changing The face of healthcare is changing in America, somewhat in part due to Affordable Care Act, but the delivery system of healthcare has been inching towards yesteryear for some time now. Yes, I did say yesteryear, do you remember the...
