According to FierceHealthcare.com, a bill was signed into law on Tuesday in Wisconsin that forces providers to reveal the costs of common tests and procedures, which in turn will allow patients to compare prices and shop around. “The Health Care Transparency bill will give patients a better idea of their out-of-pocket costs and effectively enables them to price shop,” said Gov. Jim Doyle, who signed the bill into law.
In any other situation people see the price of a product before they purchase it; however, in healthcare it is the exact opposite.
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Allergies are such a downer and so hard to pinpoint – not to mention to get rid of. Thankfully, Health.com has provided several ways to keep allergies at bay inside your home:
* Utilize A/C or air purifier with high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter
* Air out the house and keep as dry as possible.
* Vacuum and dust twice a week. If possible use a HEPA vacuum which will remove dust-mite particles and pollen (wear a mask)
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It is easy to learn about symptoms of men having a heart attack, but like most everything in life, women and men are completely different… even when it comes to having a heart attack.
WebMD.com has provided the down low on warning signs for women when it comes to having a heart attack…
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Everyone knows how bad smoking is for your insides but does everyone know how ugly smoking can make your outsides?
Health.com has provided ways that smoking un-beautifies yourself:
* Baggy Eyes…4 times more likely to feel sleepy and it shows
* Psoriasis- 60% higher chance
* Kiss a dazzling smile goodbye! Nicotine stains teeth
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Amanda Bennet lost her husband of 20 years to a grueling battle with kidney cancer December 14, 2007. Bennet’s husband, Terence Bryan Foley, fought for seven years, and had been told several times that he was going to die, yet somehow made it through. Bennet and her husband were forced to make several difficult decisions throughout the seven years, and every choice they made was made to save Terence’s life regardless of the price. They had “robust” medical insurance, which allowed them to keep on fighting. Bennet says, “We didn’t have to think about money, allocation of medical resources, the struggles of roughly 46 million uninsured Americans, or the impact on corporate bottom lines.”
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First Lady Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign emphasized the importance of keeping kids active to America.
According to Health.com, keeping your kids active physically will help pump up their grades in school! Studies have found that the more fit the student the better their grades are.
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A common flavoring used in soups, sauces, hot dogs, snack foods, dressings and dips has been voluntarily recalled due to a possible salmonella contamination. So far no one has reported any illnesses from eating the contaminated food. Reuters reports that U.S. food regulators “did not estimate how broad the recall will be,” but the recall is expected to get bigger over the next few days.
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Low-fat or low-carb, which one do you prefer? Which one works best for you? Do you even know? Well you’re in luck if you don’t; a new study revealed that a genetic test can help people choose which diet is more effective in helping them lose weight. The study followed 133 overweight women for a year. All the women “with a genetic predisposition to benefit from a low-carbohydrate diet lost 2 1/2 times as much weight as those on the same diet without the predisposition,” reports Ron Winslow from The Wall Street Journal. Also, women with a “genetic makeup that favored a low-fat diet lost substantially more weight than women who curbed fat calories without low-fat genes,” says Winslow.
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Parents naturally think their children are the best in the classroom… the smartest, the most well-behaved and of course the cutest. But what happens when your kid is, point-blank… the bully?
According Boston.com, an 11-year old girl was charged with assault and battery after beating up children at an elementary school. Three teenage boys were charged for bullying kids on the internet. A different teenage girl hung herself after being bullied via text messages and Facebook messages.
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A new study revealed that children’s language skills don’t get better after watching educational DVDs like the Baby Wordsworth from the Walt Disney Company’s Baby Einstein series. Frederik Joelving from Reuters reports, “While The Baby Einstein Company does not explicitly make educational claims, it notes on its web page that the Baby Wordsworth DVD is a “playful introduction to words and sign language.””
The study was over a 6 week span and involved 88 children, ages one and two. Some children were assigned to watch the Baby Einstein DVD, and others were assigned not to. At the end of the study, researchers “then tested the language skills in each group based on how many words the kids knew according to their parents and how well they did in a lab test,” states Joelving. These tests revealed that children who watched the DVD had the same language skills as the children who didn’t watch the DVD.
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Bacteria in your stomach may actually have a big impact on your health and your weight. These germs in your gut might contribute to obesity, and can affect your “appetite as well as inflammatory bowel conditions like Crohn’s disease and colitis,” reports Maggie Fox from Reuters.
Obesity is caused from people overeating, and intestinal bacteria might be a cause for people eating more.
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