With so many Anti-Wrinkle Creams on the market, each claiming to be the best and work the fastest, it’s extremely difficult to narrow down your choices. You would hate to sacrifice benefits of one cream for other beneficial ingredients in another cream. We have narrowed down the choices and found the most...
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In today’s world, the focus seems to be on electronics and new technology. Electronics are attractive to companies because they compile information all in one place and leave space more organized. With this, practices that have been around for centuries are in need of restructuring themselves to keep up with the modern...
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“Men are 24% less likely than women to go for their routine check-ups.” Men skipping doctor’s visits hinder preventative healthcare efforts. This in turn could lead to higher healthcare costs for the Baby Boomer generation. Preventative efforts for your health can treat a medical condition before it becomes a problem. Going to...
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Alzheimer’s is one of the most feared human diseases. It robs your memory and then your life. As many as 2.3 to 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). These numbers are likely to increase as more baby boomers find themselves entering old age and becoming more prone...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that Americans spent $33.9 billion on complementary and alternative medicines in 2007. These results come from a study which surveyed more than 70,000 across America and inquired into 36 forms of alternative medicine. These findings suggest that Americans spend more than 10% of their out-of-pocket health...
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Recent studies have found that men are almost twice more likely to develop skin cancer than women. Skin cancer is actually more prominent than prostate, lung and colon cancer in men over fifty years old. In fact, the majority of people diagnosed with skin cancer are white males over the age of 50. The...
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The White House has recently been circulating draft legislation that would create an executive agency for the purpose of overseeing Medicare reimbursement rates and policy changes. Under the proposal, there would be a paid five-member Independent Medicare Advisory Council whose members would serve five-year terms. They would be nominated by the president and subject...
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Many hospitals are quite happy with the news that the Obama administration has now agreed to decrease its proposed hospital cuts by about $70 billion. Originally the White house was planning to cut Medicaid and Medicare payments to hospitals around the US by about $224 billion over 10 years to aid healthcare reform. However,...
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Eight defendants were recently charged in an elaborate scam that involved billing Medicare for fake HIV and cancer infusion drugs. The fraud spanned the five states of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana and used 29 fake storefronts in order to attempt to steal $100 million from Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Two...
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A Yale School of Medicine research team recently discovered that suppressing a liver enzyme which induces glucose production helps diminish the symptoms of type 2 diabetes in rats. Consequently, this reduces blood glucose concentrations, decreases the rate of glucose production in the liver and improves insulin sensitivity. Since type 2 diabetes is characterized by abnormally high...
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