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How Well Do Menu Labels Work?
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
The recent Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has cleared the way for national requirements regarding posting information about calories, fat, and sodium content. A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in July of 2012 that looked at the impact of menu labels in King County, Washington...
Influenza and the Bird Flu
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The ABCs of influenza viruses are and how they are defined are reviewed; where the bird flu virus fits in discussed. Shift and drift and the potential danger of this virus are explained.
Integrative Medicine and Health Disparaties with Davi Pakter, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Health care disparaties are common and as a society we are only as healthy as our weakest link. We also need to be in harmony with our environment, and many medical treatments pay no attention to this. Mayor Newsome has created a program called "Healthy San Francisco," that provides a beginning program of integrative health care for the indigent. Diet,...
Is Ebola a Scam?
submitted by: admin on 07/29/2019
Ebola and Marburg viruses cause hemorrhagic illnesses characterized by bleeding, multi-organ failure, and in 50-90%, death. The incubation period is 2-21 days and the disease is contracted from infected animals such as African monkeys, chimps, other primates, as well as from person to person spread through contact with infected body fluids or through shared needles....
Is Medical Tourism Realistic?
submitted by: admin on 07/29/2019
According to the CDC, medical tourism refers to people who travel to foreign countries to obtain medical care at a reduced price. Generally, the services most often sought are for cosmetic surgery, dentistry, cardiac surgery, and orthopedic surgery. The cost for these surgeries is in the range of 10-20% of what it would cost in the US and are done in 5 star facilities.
Common...
It's Time For Health Care Efficiency
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The government has taken the position that health care reform will lead to cost savings by being more proficient. However, we're adding 30 million more people to the system and are still trying to save costs...where's the logic? The problem is that the economy cannot stand to reduce health care costs because it is an economic stimulus in itself.
Kids with Fewer Vaccines have Fewer Doctor and Emergency Room Visits
submitted by: admin on 11/08/2017
Pediatrics published an article looking at the "benefits" of having vaccines on schedule vs not in two groups of infants between the ages of 6 and 24 months. What they found and what they reported is very different. To their surprise, those children who did not have vaccines by deliberately avoiding some of them, had fewer visits to their...
Last Year of Life in Health Care
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The cost of health care is highest in the last year of life. This is a difficult issue as the question is where can money be spent the best. We spend 50% of all health care dollars in the last year of life. This is discussed.
Making Self Care Possible with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
One of the concepts stressed by Dr. Kunin is self care and how it is really the big healer. People don't realize what they can do to help end this era of chronic disease. Self care shoud be a part of health care reform.
MDs Teach Lifestyle
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine is now here but only has a few hundred of the 700,000 MDs supporting it. We must shift from disease oriented medicine to wellness and prevention. This is discussed.
Medical Dept in the US is the Leading Cause of Bankruptcy
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
79 million US citizens have medical debt. Millions are un- or under-insured. Health care is a right but disparities are common. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy. Business trumps service today. We need real health care reform.
Medicare Prescription Plan Problems
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
The Medicare prescription plan provides some cost savings, but the government is prohibited from negotiating for lower prices and there is a hole in coverage that many cannot afford to pay for.
Medicine For The Third Millennium
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki introduce us to Health Medicine: integrative, holistic, person-centered, preventive health care.
Most Cancers are Preventable Today
submitted by: admin on 07/06/2016
An article published in Science Translational Medicine in March of 2012 concluded that 1/3 of all cancers were caused by smoking and another 20% from being overweight or obese. However, diet, exercise, sleep, and exposure to environmental toxins likely account for another 30-40% of all cancers. Genetic factors are not that common. The American Cancer Society...
Natural Skin Care Products with Amazon John Easterling
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Rain forest plants are grown in rich organic soil and what he uses in his products. We absorb what we put on our skin as much as what we eat. John discusses how many of the Amazon herbs he uses work.
Naturopathy Reduces Cardiovascular Risk Factors
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
According to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in April of 2013, naturopathic care enhanced conventional care from MDs by showing a 17% reduction in prevalence of the metabolic syndrome over a one year period.
Primary healthcare supposedly provides in-depth lifestyle counselling, however, why then does ND care lower...
Obama Pulls Plug on Long Term Home Health Care
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
The obama administration pulled the plug on long term home health care, which was part of the Affordable Health Care Act. The program was deemed to be unaffordable because it would increase health care costs.
The Affordable Health Care Act is slowly disintegrating and the Republicans and corporate America are loving it. It is hard to believe that before the...
Obama's Health Care Summit Feb.25, 2010
submitted by: admin on 05/03/2024
The purpose and agenda for this historic debate is reviewed and discussed. President Obama's effort to win bipartisan support in an open meeting on C-Span is presented.
Obama's Selection for HHS
submitted by: admin on 05/03/2024
Whoever heads up HHS should be an experienced MD who knows about health care. Lifestyle needs to be promoted, not more disease care. Promoting wellness is critical to cut costs and turn to wellnes and prevention. There are no qualified candidates that are being considered.
Obamacare and New Legislation Are Based on the Wrong Diagnosis
submitted by: admin on 05/03/2024
"A Return to Healing" Blog: Thu, 10/08/2009 - 12:41 — BBelitsos
Not too surprisingly, the Senate Finance Committee’s pro-corporate health-care reform bill received a financial thumbs up this week (on October 7) from the Congressional Budget Office. The committee's unambitious proposal insures another 29 million Americans—while leaving...
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