Category | Health & Fitness

National Nurses United: Health Care Crisis To Continue Regardless Of How Court Rules

Posted on 26 March 2012

As the Supreme Court meets to pass judgment on the 2010 health care law the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses today warned that health care will remain beyond the reach of millions of Americans no matter how the court rules. “Whether the Court overturns part or all of the law, or [...]

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Eight Year Old in Indonesia to Kick Smoking Habit

Posted on 18 March 2012

A young boy, who is just eight years old, smokes a more than twenty-five cigarettes each day. To kick his habit, he will undergo thirty days of therapy. This habit that he is kicking is a four year old habit. Yes, he has been smoking since he was four years old. The boy, only identified [...]

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Now Available—Pixy Stix Vitamins

Posted on 18 March 2012

Do you remember the Pixy Stix of yesteryear? The little paper straws where you tore off the end and dumped the sugary contents on the middle of your tongue? Well, they are now back and instead of sugary nothings they are filled with a multivitamin powder called “AlternaVites Melts” that will melt on your tongue [...]

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Latest Study Shows Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Lead To Heart Rhythm Disorder

Posted on 12 March 2012

Here is a piece of bad news to all patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA). According to a latest medical study, people suffering from RA are at risk to also suffer from heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation. Based on a study conducted on four million people in Denmark, people who have RA are 40 [...]

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Smokers At Higher Risk For Psoriasis

Posted on 08 March 2012

Here is another reasons why people need to quit smoking. A recent medical study has shown that those people who smoke are at a higher risk of suffering from psoriasis. Psoriasis, is a skin disease that affects many people around the world. This skin disease mostly affect adults and is characterized by itchy and painful [...]

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Foods That can Help Fight the Flu

Posted on 01 March 2012

The flu season has gotten off to a slow start in the United States this year so if you have been one of the lucky ones who has not gotten the flu, here are some foods that might help you fight the flu.        Sweet potatoes—yes, sweet potatoes.  This is a vegetable that is full of nutrition and [...]

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Doctors Rebuild Man’s Dented Forehead

Posted on 01 March 2012

Tim Barter fell twenty-five feet from a drainpipe in June, 2009 and hit his head on a brick wall.  He was in a coma for ten days and when he woke up, his forehead was caved in.  The reason was that doctors had to perform an emergency life-saving operation to repair his skull which was [...]

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Important Health Information Offered by Medical Tattoos

Posted on 27 February 2012

For many years, tattoos have been a way of expressing one’s beliefs, what they like, what they stand for, and more.  Now a few people in the United States are using tattoos for a different purpose. This purpose is practical and can be potentially lifesaving and can warn first responders, or EMT technicians, about important [...]

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Three Popular Vitamins That can Hurt You

Posted on 26 February 2012

Each year Americans spend approximately twenty-eight billion dollars on vitamins, herbal and dietary supplements.  In some cases, this is like flushing money down the toilet literally because if your body gets too much of a certain vitamin or supplement your body will often excrete the excess out in the form of urine.  And in other [...]

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Hepatitis C Deadlier Killer Than HIV

Posted on 21 February 2012

In the United States in the mid-1990s, more than fifty thousand people were dying from HIV and now that number is down to approximately thirteen thousand due in part to condom distribution and education campaigns.  Now there is a new deadlier killer on the horizon and that is Hepatitis C and one that they are [...]

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