|  | Job changes are forcing a growing number of Latinos to switch carriers. |
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| | Study shows what businesses want in medical coverage for their workers. |
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| | A Web site offers consumers ways to be informed and protected from vulnerabilites.
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| | Psychiatrist tells how to improve health by coping with stress.
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A Caifornia hospital's pilot project could give a new communication-consolidating method a boost.
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| | Taking a fresh look at your coverage. |
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| | Exams are for acute-care certified nursing assistant, physical therapy and occupational therapy. |
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| | Save money on prescriptions without having an insurance plan. |
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| | Enjoying your holiday feast doesn't have to mean adding on the pounds. |
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| | More than One treatment option for depression can be helpful. |
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| | Flash drive puts a patient's health history on a keychain. |
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| | The most effective preventive 'drug' may be soap. |
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| | New program offered by Niche Prescriptions has no income or age restrictions. |
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| | Atlanta children's healthcare system creates role models with wellness program for its own employees. |
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| | Health Insurance 101 five-step guide is offered to fill campus void. |
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| | Protecting health, wallets and sanity. |
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| | NexDose allows physicians to manage dosages remotely. |
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| | New guide details five steps to help consumers choose the right plan. |
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| | Cost, customer support and billing services are compared. |
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| | Methodical way for patients to compare conventional treatments to alternative and complementary therapies. |
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| | My Diary for Life encourages better communication with healthcare providers. |
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| | Resource offers ideas and tools for saving money on healthcare. |
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| | None of the bills (so far) outright repeal HSAs. |
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| | Understand, identify, and take action against health care fraud. |
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| | Institute offers new forum for people with hearing loss. |
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| | Web site encourages fitness and health accountability. |
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| | What some insurance companies won't tell you can cause budget ills. |
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| | Annual eye exams save companies nearly $3 billion a year. |
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| | American Academy of Ophthalmology Offers Tips for Safe Fun in the Sun |
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| | Consumer Reports offers ratings and tips for protection from sun's rays. |
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| | Here's advice for the growing number of new college graduates who will lack employer-paid health insurance. |
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| | Companywide employee get-healthy programs could pay off at bottom line. |
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| | Discovering the Country of Origin |
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| | Concerns about healthcare costs outweigh concerns about other issues. |
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| | Five types of hidden stresses |
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| | Prevent disease and early detect disease |
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| | A new free website allows you to chart everything from sleep cycles and television viewing habits to diet and prescription drug intakes so you can assess health patterns. |
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| | Pulling together all of a consumers' health and healthcare financial information |
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| | Most people are not proactive in planning to ensure the peace of mind of their family |
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| | A study led by Dr. Roland Staud, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, found that a common ingredient in cough syrup may be the next new hope in controlling pain of fibromyalgia patients. The cough suppressant, dextromethorphan, helped relieve pain by blocking a chemical messenger (NIMDA) from sending the brain pain signals. |
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| | A reactivated ancient retrovirus embedded in the human genome may be active in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. |
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| | Book demystifies today's healthcare and healthcare insurance worlds for consumers. |
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| | Designed to help enhance the health and well-being of Spanish-speaking Hispanics and their families and dependents. |
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| | The new site lets visitors share their experiences, research quality data, review other users’ ratings and contact providers directly. |
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| | To help educate claimants, here are seven common mistakes people make when filing for SSDI benefits. |
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| | While there is sometimes no way to predict a catastrophic illness, much less an accident where medical costs can rise quickly, steps can be taken to soften the financial burden |
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| | A new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. |
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| | For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems |
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| | Later this year, supermarkets across the country are expected to post signs on aisle shelves ranking each food, drink or product by a number. |
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| | The PlanningWise Program provides a 90-day one-to-one consultation for people with MS that offers career and job coaching, financial planning and insurance benefit counseling, and direct financial assistance with COBRA health insurance payments, if appropriate. |
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| | When it comes to getting health information, a growing number of consumers are turning to the Internet to connect with others. |
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| | To update a home remedy arsenal, seven experts shared their latest discoveries, from headache panaceas to simple solutions for stiff backs, indigestion, charley horses, and more. |
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| | “Often, it’s your dentist who’s first on the case diagnosing medical problems, all because of what we discover in your mouth”, says Dr. Joseph Kravitz. |
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| | Based on input and user feedback, the Editors of HealthAndWellness.com have released the Eight Keys to Health and Wellness for 2008 |
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| | New, free Health Kit with six important tools to help people achieve optimal health in 2008. |
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| | Today the average American consumes nearly twice the recommended maximum of sodium and nearly 460 nutritionally empty calories of added sugar every day. |
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| | Wise executives recognize that while employees are most definitely human beings, they also are machines of production that require maintenance. |
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| | The book contains the results of Volpe's research and information for people to make conscious food choices that benefit one's health. The dangers of a fast-food diet can include risks posed by food-borne illnesses, increased risk of obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. |
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| | Are you addicted to the Internet? According to Jennifer R. Ferris, a psychology major at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Internet addiction is a "…presenting problem that is becoming more common in society as on-line usage increases by the day. Ferris continues, "Some say that the Internet can be addicting, to the point that it disturbs one's life and the lives of those around him. Others say that there is no such thing as Internet Addiction Disorder-- getting pleasure out of a computer is not the same as getting pleasure from cocaine or any other drug. Whether there is or is not a bona fide disorder, the Internet is disrupting many people's lives." |
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| | With more than 60 million people suffering from different forms of insomnia in the United States, important to know that some insomnia can be prevented and treated with simple behavioral changes. While short-term insomnia is often treated with sleeping pills, taking these medications over a long period is not recommended because of the chance of addiction and other serious side effects. |
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| | A recent survey presented on June 27, 2005 at the American Headache Society meeting in Philadelphia suggests that doctors need to pay more attention in diagnosing migraines and in giving patients prevention options. |
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| | Many years ago Bill Moyers, the well-known journalist, did a show on PBS called, "Healing and the Mind." Moyers discussed how the mind often influences the body's health. I watched with interest, never realizing how important this concept would become to me years later. |
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| | Continuing a trend towards reducing the direct cost of drugs outside of negotiated insurance rates, Merck & Co. announced a discount-drug program for uninsured Americans. |
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