Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) has been boasting his state’s health insurance reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 more people added to the state’s health insurance rolls. What he doesn’t mention is that four out of five of them are relying heavily on taxpayer subsidies for their health [...]
The office of Bernard Paniel on the outskirts of Paris has for years been a mandatory stop for many Muslim women nervous about getting married.
An obstetrician-gynecologist for France’s public health system, Dr. Paniel performs an operation to reattach the hymens of women who want to appear as virgins. For such patients, virginity is a prerequisite [...]
Cigna HealthCare of Arizona announced Tuesday it is adding more health plans targeting small businesses.
Beginning June 1, businesses with 50 or fewer employees will get some of the same benefits previously only offered to larger companies. The insurer is adding three health savings plans and eight open access plans targeting small businesses.
Jason Holmes, group health [...]
Oklahoma Area Health Education Center at Okla-homa State University and Rural Health Projects NwAHEC will conduct a free cancer survivorship education session in Enid noon to 2 p.m. June 21 at Senior Life Network’s activity room in Oakwood Mall, 4125 W. Garriott.
This is the first of several two-hour cancer survivorship education sessions planned throughout rural [...]
A new report says Vermont’s the second-best place in America to raise children, even if it does have high health care costs.
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The report, by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that supports health policy research, compared children’s health in the states and concluded that Vermont’s just behind Iowa in healthiest state [...]
The AMA and more than 70 other organizations are conducting a comprehensive multi-specialty survey of America’s physician practices. The results will be used to positively influence national decision makers to ensure accurate and fair representation for all physicians and patients, and to articulate the challenges of running a practice that provides expert patient care, while [...]
The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. Health Insurance An important new study, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best fixed by legislation [...]
Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. It did not examine what [...]
Essentially, green clothing and accessories are made from organic raw materials produced without pesticides or from recycled materials, says Spencer. No harmful chemicals and bleaches are used to process or dye the goods. And laborers earn fair wages and enjoy healthy working conditions.
“Eco-fashion doesn’t mean a burlap sack anymore,” says Aimee Hitchner, co-owner of Ginger, [...]
Anticoagulants are routinely prescribed before and after total hip and knee replacement operations to reduce the risk of thrombosis, and death from pulmonary embolism in particular, as recommended by the Chest Physicians Consensus Statement. During the last decades, deaths from pulmonary embolism have fallen significantly due to a combination of advancements in anesthesia, better surgical [...]
