Posted by Stephanie Lieber
Health
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
An Alzheimer’s disease (AD) study published in February of 2007 in the Archives of General Psychiatry explored a connection between Alzheimer’s and loneliness. The study concluded that loneliness which is defined as someone with a socially isolated lifestyle with no close connections to others around them double the risk such individuals could develop Alzheimer’s disease. [...]
Posted by Stephanie Lieber
Health
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
One of big benefits to Romneycare (Massachusetts government run healthcare) and Obamacare is that their supposed to cover everyone and do it at a significantly reduced cost all could afford. The government run healthcare of Massachusetts is not only a petri dish experiment showing this not to be the case, but that the exact opposite [...]
Posted by Stephanie Lieber
Health
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
This past Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson dismissed the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s motion to dismiss the state of Virginia’s challenge to the new health care law passed by congress earlier this year. In the case of Virginia and most lawsuits against the current health law is not so much [...]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Diabetics’ choices have increased over the years with advances in diabetes supplies that include prescription medications and person sensors and pumps to control the disease. But the sear money potential for some companies to profit from the disease can cause some products to hit the market before proper testing can be evaluated. According to 2007 [...]
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Late Sunday the U.S. government expressed concern over what appears to be a seeping of oil from the ocean floor near the recently capped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. A letter to BP Chief Managing Director Robert Dudley from retired U.S. Coast Admiral Thad Allen said that monitoring of the seabed is “of [...]
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
So far federal authorities have charge 94 suspects with plotting to defraud the Medicare system out of $251 million dollars by filing false healthcare related claims. The indictments were part of an orchestrated crackdown in five major U.S. cities including Miami, Brooklyn, Baton Rouge, Detroit and Houston. All told there were 350 agents involved for [...]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Currently only 20% of doctors and 10% of hospitals use basic electronic medical records. The others rely on paper systems that are extremely inefficient and subject to damage, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Part of the reason why so many medical facilities still use paper is the huge cost of converting [...]
Posted by Stephanie Lieber
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The prescription drug Avandia which is used to help diabetics to control blood sugar has also been found associated with an increased risk of heart attack. This risk now has two FDA advisory committees deciding to meet July 13th and 14th to decide whether the drug should be allowed to stay on the market or [...]
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
NIAID scientists Peter Kwong, Ph.D., John Mascola, MD, and Gary Nabel, MD, Ph.D. led two research teams that have made what some consider a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. The scientists have discovered antibodies known as VRCO1 & VRCO2 that prevent more than 90 percent of the HIV strains from infecting human cells. [...]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Atlanta (GA) – In a normal flu year Millions of doses of vaccine typically go unused and are marked for burning, but the left over doses generally amount to around 10% of the supply, rather than the 25 percent expiring with the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Government flu experts couldn’t recall discarding anything close to [...]
