(BPT) – Millions of Americans with high-deductible health insurance plans rely on health savings accounts to help them manage the …
There’s a new drug on the streets and it can kill you if you stand close to it.
From the U.S. First Responders Association comes this warning: Dear Medics, Police, and Firefighters. Please share this with your colleagues. …
One diet drink a day ‘triples your risk of stroke or dementia’, scientists find
Wow! If this headline from the London Evening Standard is correct, we’re in a lot of trouble. For years, so-called …
Regular exercise may improve odds of surviving a heart attack
By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – Just a few hours a week of moderate exercise may not prevent all heart …
“Strew the road to the tomb with flowers” – W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
This essay was first posted on an amazing resource called Public Domain Review. It’s full of fascinating items. I thought …
35 Minute Total Body Chair Workout
35 minutes of exercising using just a chair. No expensive gym kit here! We can all do that right? This woman …
Understanding mesothelioma
Did you or someone in your family work in the insulation business, regularly use asbestos at work, serve in the …
Waiting on a dental appointment for a bad tooth?
If you have ever had a cavity in which a nerve was exposed you need to read this. Recently I …
Health insurance: The solution to a non-problem is to do nothing.”
CBO: 8 million will choose to leave private insurance market without fines By Natalia Castro The Congressional Budget Office is …
This Country Won the War on Drugs by Giving It Up
For more than 100 years the United States has looked to prohibition to curtail the use of drugs. Proponents argue …
8 Ways to Optimize Your Sleep
(Family Features) While a healthy lifestyle requires a balanced diet and exercise, sleep is another pillar of overall wellness that …
Home-cooked meals, less TV, linked to lower obesity
(Reuters Health) – Adults who never watch TV during family meals and eat mostly home-cooked food are much less likely …
How’s your poop? Check the chart!
The normalcy of your stools may be determined by comparing them to the Bristol Stool Form scale, or the BSF scale for …
Tired? Want a snack? Add protein powder to these great recipes
Now that it’s getting warmer, we’ll be spending more time outside. Having a little extra energy and power would be …
5 smart steps to preserving brain health
(BPT) – Everyone knows aerobic exercise gets the heart pumping and lifting weights keeps muscles strong. But when it comes …
Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection
Here’s a wonderful series of miniatures from a late 12th-century manuscript thought to hail from England or Northern France, once …
You can buy insulin without a prescription, but should you?
If you’re living off the grid you may not have health insurance, you may not have a doctor. You may …
Seniors Get Destroyed by Medical Bills for this Medicare Mistake
COBRA, Retiree Plans, VA Benefits Don’t Alleviate Need To Sign Up For Medicare By Susan Jaffe When Cindy Hunter received …
Take Precautions to Be Safe this Holiday Season
(Family Features) Although good tidings and joy abound during the holiday season, this time of year can also pose a …
Life Hack: DIY mini-storage solution
You never know when you’ll need a small amount of something, like antibiotic cream, or salt, or medicine, or cooking …
Is the era of antibiotic medications over? What does this mean for humanity?
In a report from the BBC, the world is on the verge of a “post-antibiotic era”, scientists have warned after …
Why are elderly Americans being over-treated with statins?
Surge In Statin Use Among Very Elderly Without Heart Trouble Raises Doubts By Lisa Gillespie Many doctors are choosing a better-safe-than-sorry …
Dental Tourism – A viable and cost-saving alternative
Medical tourism is so popular in the United States that an average of 150,000 people travel abroad every year for …
EXPOSED: Giant cover-up of deadly infection in US hospitals. Be very vigilant.
EXPOSED By Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Aboutaleb. (Reuters) RICHMOND, Va. – Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did …
This berry destroyed a cancerous tumor in days.
Watch this amazing result! An experimental cancer treatment based on rainforest berries has been successfully shown to destroy tumours in …
I never heard of these programs, did you? Cardiac rehabilitation programs are great – if you do them.
Cardiac Rehab Improves Health, But Cost And Access Issues Complicate Success CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mario Oikonomides credits a massive heart attack …
How to give yourself a 3-minute foot massage.
Hard day at work? Kids running you ragged? Overdid it on the machine? Got a spouse who’s always demanding a foot …
Allergies: Finding alternatives to antihistamines
You’ve probably seen commercials before for antihistamine allergy medicines like Sudafed and Benadryl. For some people, these products offer relief …
Cupping – It worked for Phelps, would it work for you?
In cupping , through either heat or suction, the skin is gently drawn upwards by creating a vacuum in a …