Health News

Medical Device Tax: Obama-Care – What Is It

The medical device tax has been misrepresented as something that would cost American jobs – and some bloggers have cited companies. In fact, it won’t cost jobs. Here are some of those companies and why they are losing jobs- nothing to do with Obama-care. This is an excise tax, which is like many other excise taxes that are used in this country.

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Obama-Care: Adding People to Insurance Costs Us Less

The myth that increasing the number of people with insurance will add to healthcare costs has been disproven by the award winning care given by SouthCentral Foundation.

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Physician Shortage in the U.S.: Increasing Wait Times

The shortage of American doctors has arrived, and it is becoming critical. There are more physicians who are retiring than we are training, and fewer people are entering medical school as a profession.

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BPA and Obesity

A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA

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Acupuncture: It Still Doesn’t Work

In spite of a recent study about acupuncture, it does not overcome the bias of the person performing the acupuncture, or the placebo effect. Acupuncture is attempting to find a place in chronic pain, where treatments don’t work well- but cannot find a place in acute pain- such as that caused by an acute injury.

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Six Obama Care Myths

No matter who you vote for in November, the myths going around about what the Affordable Health Care Act (Obama Care) abound. Here are the simple facts about Obama Care, and six myths you may not know.

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Bugs In the News: Brain Eating Amoeba, Hanta Virus, West Nile Virus

Bugs were in the news this month from Ebola in Africa, West Nile Virus in Texas, and the Neti Pot brain-eating bugs in Louisiana, and for the healthy campers of Yosemite there is Hanta Virus. Global warming and increasing temperatures have made conditions ripe for mosquitoes, amoebas, and virus to grow.

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Canada Health Care: Part 2

Update to the Canadian Health Care system. Turns out there is a reason that more Americans go to Canada for medicine, and health care, than Canadians come here. It is less expensive, the physicians spend more time with patients. So you have to ask US Big Pharma- do you really have to be this greedy?

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Pertussis: Adults get Re-vaccinated

The largest epidemic of Pertussis (whooping cough) is on-going – fueled in part by people who refuse to vaccinate their children, but more from adults who don’t know that the vaccine they had in childhood has worn off. If you are going to come in contact with an infant or newborn, do them a favor- get vaccinated today- it is easy, inexpensive, and you will be doing your part to stem this deadly epidemic.

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