Image via Wikipedia Many people want a golden glow of a tan even though it can lead to health care costs in the future. It is possible to achieve a dark tan without ever stepping foot into a tanning salon or to a beach with instant tanning products. Instant tanning lotions, sprays and airbrushing techniques [...]
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18 Aug 10
Healthcare with No Insurance
Not everyone can afford health insurance or has the option of purchasing it through employment. There are other alternatives to help ensure that you won’t go broke if an emergency occurs where you’ll need health care or hospitalization. Many states offer their own insurance options for those that live in the state. There are even [...]
11 Aug 10
Healthy Eating Habits
An old saying goes “you are what you eat,” but healthy eating can be a challenge that many of us who struggle with in our fast paced and modern society. Too often, the pressures to eat badly catch-up to us and leads us to make decisions we know we should not, like eating that doughnut [...]
7 Aug 10
Utilize Auto Insurance and Low-cost Health Medicine to Save Money
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr If you have medical issues that require prescriptions, the cost of medicine can quickly become more than you can afford. However, you don’t want to stop taking the pills because you need them to remain healthy and also to avoid more complications. Therefore, the following are a few tips [...]
5 Aug 10
Who Needs Life Insurance
Life insurance isn’t one of those topics you usually bring up over the dinner table or during a family party. Talking about death and what will happen to your family if you should die isn’t exactly one of those warm-fuzzy topics. But the fact of the matter is, it’s a topic that needs to be [...]
30 Jul 10
The benefits of electronic health records
Image via Wikipedia Technology is creeping further and further into the doctor’s office as more and more doctors are trading in paper patient charts for laptops and big film copies of MRI images to ones on Cd’s. As more doctors switch over to electronic records, it is important to understand just how beneficial this is [...]
6 Jul 10
Using technology to improve your health
Image by goosmurf via Flickr With all of the appointments, meetings and everything else to remember throughout the day, sometimes take medication falls by the wayside. A missed antibiotic here, a skipped vitamin there may not seem like a big problem at the time but for some medications timing is extremely important. Luckily, with all [...]
17 May 10
Managing spinal stenosis with surgery
Back pain plagues millions of Americans, and studies show that almost 5 out of every 1,000 of those struck with back pain suffers from a condition known as spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spine in the back and the neck. It’s a chronic condition that often causes pressure on the spinal [...]
17 Apr 10
The Vitamin B-Complex
Vitamins are an important part of a healthy diet, and most come from your food, drink or the human body itself. Vitamin K, for example, is made by the body as it soaks up the sunshine. Thus, it is often called the sunshine vitamin. Another important vitamin made by the body is Vitamin B. Vitamin [...]
11 Mar 10
Tonsillectomy: risks and rewards
Image via Wikipedia Getting your tonsils out used to be one of the milestones of childhood. But recently, the procedure has become less common than it was a generation ago. If a doctor suggests a tonsillectomy, it is important to know the risks and possible rewards of such a surgery. A tonsillectomy usually involves removing [...]