Perhaps the one point of the new healthcare law that most every consumer could agree on was the requirement that all insurance plans would have clear and concise summaries of coverage; summaries that just about anyone could understand. Now, that may be no longer be the case. Consumer advocate groups such AARP, the American Cancer Society, [...]
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Many doctors advise women with high cholesterol to take statins (cholesterol lowering medications). However, a new study, Statin Use and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Postmenopausal Women in the Women’s Health Initiative, has found that statins highly increase post-menopausal women’s risk of getting diabetes. The study questions the current medical recommendations and guidelines for post-menopausal [...]
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It is that time, when we need to be aware of snow shoveling injuries and medical emergencies. There was a study that was from 1990 – 2006 and the findings were that most injuries were as follows: Overworking your muscles, falling, and being hit with the shovel Muscle, ligament, tendon, and other soft tissue injuries [...]
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Many physicians in the US are paid by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers for advising and lecturing about and for their products. The New York Times states that about one-fourth of doctors accept cash from the drug and device manufactures and nearly two-thirds accept lunch and dinner for staff and the doctors. Now the Obama administration [...]
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What is diabesity? Most likely the word was coined by Dr. Francine Kaufman in 1995 when she wrote the book, Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America. Diabesity is a word that simply weaves together diabetes and the word obesity, as there is a relationship. It is said to be a health problem that may [...]
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Twenty-six states, including Indiana, and an independent business group filed a brief Tuesday. They are challenging the portion of the healthcare reform law that mandates (coerces) states – by the loss of their federal funding – into expanding their Medicaid programs. The fight against the mandatory expansion (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) of Medicaid [...]
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Sciatica or sciatic pain is symptom of a back problem, and it is not a diagnosis of the actual problem itself. Sciatic pain refers to pain along the length of the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The sciatic nerve branches off your spine at the pelvis and travels down each leg. A [...]
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A study in the Journal of Behavioral Neuroscience shows that artificial sweeteners such as Saccharin and Sucralose do not prevent weight gain, and the artificial sweeteners creates physiological and hormonal responses that actually make you gain weight. The study was done with rats; by giving two different groups of rats a yogurt diet. One rat [...]
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The following five insurance companies, UnitedHealth Group, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana and Cigna — cover 42.3 million people, or about 17 percent of the health insurance in American. These major insurance companies have prospered by expanding into government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. In the last three years, their revenues jumped from 36 percent to 42 [...]
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They say politics makes strange bedfellows. The rapid transformation of healthcare is making strange ones too. In the last months, there has been major activity of certain insurance companies acquiring and operating doctors’ practices. In November 2011, United Health Group Optum closed a deal to acquire an independent practice association in California, with 2300 primary [...]
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