Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Infrared saunas positive aspects – what sauna can do for your well being

Infrared saunas positive aspects – what sauna can do for your well being

Let us take an example and show some figures to examine the efficiency of porcelain spas and carbon built infrared saunas. If we look at a 2-person spa, a panel of a standard size with porcelain rods would produce around 56 square inches of far infrared warmth.

With a carbon panel of around 56 square inches, a carbon based sauna spa will produce about 572 square inches of far infrared energy, which is significantly more than its ceramic equivalent making it way more effective. The far infrared heat dissipated by carbon panels is uniformly distributed and as a result one can lie down absolutely against any panel within the sauna spa and have no chance of owning burned. Ceramic technology is clearly substandard to carbon built systems and yet the ceramic saunas are trading as they are less expensive and ordinary men and women don’t know the change amongst the two. Carbon-based far infrared sauna systems has been around now for several years, and the virtually all the modern study research done nowadays are based upon this new-age innovative systems.

The business players in the far infrared sauna marketplace nowadays sell mainly two kinds of spas – carbon based ones and ceramic ones. The carbon built sauna spas are excellent in their own rights, but the ceramic spas are not great ones to opt for simply because they include a entire bunch of natural difficulties that may not be clear to first time sauna spa buyers.

The most basic job of a far infrared sauna is to produce significant heat at the lowest possible temperature and disperse the energy efficiently over the human body surface. The mechanism of ceramic sauna spas to yield infrared heat is always to use an array of glass tubes placed to focus infrared heat produced from ceramic supports. More frequently than not, placing of the far infrared ray tubes is not great adequate, leading to hot spots within the sauna that see a lot of infrared ray coverage and cold spots that do not receive pretty much any far infrared ray. The human body gets over-subjected to the ceramic heating technique produced infrared rays at certain parts and under-exposed to the warmth at some other parts at similar time, and that leads to red burn marks all more than the body of the person relaxing in the sauna.

Not a single thing wrong with classic spas to be sincere, although many individuals are leaving them. It is classic spas that used to drive the planet of heat based dermis purifying and sauna till the other day and the infrared sauna is an item that has been available only for a long time now.

Far infrared saunas offer certain advantages that are not offered on classic steam saunas. An infrared sauna is better than a traditional steam sauna in the sense that the far infrared radiation is equipped of developing far more heat and sweat at a far lesser warmth when compared with its steam counterpart. The warmth density that the new generation infrared sauna can create is way ahead of the classic sauna making it more health efficient. The traditional steam sauna spas can never penetrate within your skin and can clear only the outer portion of your body while a far infrared sauna can go way deeper and clean your skin pores thoroughly from deep inside.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Radio Station Gives Away Breast Implants

Radio Station Gives Away Breast Implants

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Dr. Scott Greenbaum Selected For Patients' Choice Award 2011

Dr. Scott Greenbaum Selected For Patients' Choice Award 2011

Dr. Scott Greenbaum of Forest Hills, NY, has been ranked among the top physicians in the nation based on patient reviews.

FOREST HILLS, N.Y., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A select few physicians were honored with the prestigious 2011 Patients' Choice Award, and this year they include Dr. Scott Greenbaum.

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Only doctors who have received top scores by their patients and pass other quality measures are awarded the Patients' Choice Award. In fact, of the nation's 720,000 active physicians, just 5 percent were accorded this honor in 2011.

Every month, millions of patients across the U.S. access websites like Vitals (http://www.vitals.com) to share feedback about their experiences with their doctors. Patients rate various components of the care they receive, such as the accuracy of their diagnosis, the amount of time they spent with the doctor, and the doctor's bedside manner and follow-up care. Patients' Choice ranks the top reviewed physicians and looks at other quality measures to compile its yearly list.

Dr. Scott Greenbaum commented on the recognition: "This is quite an honor for me. I am very pleased to have been selected and grateful to my patients who went out of their way to rate me and give me positive reviews."

About Scott Greenbaum: a short profile by and about the honoree:
Dr. Greenbaum is the inventor of the Greenbaum Anethesia Cannula an instrument designed to prevent needle trauma from traditional needle delivered anesthesia. He holds a US patent on this instrument which is licensed to Alcon/Novartis. He is currently, for the third time, President of the Ophthalmic Anesthesia Society, a national organization of Ophthalmologists, Anesthesiologists, and Certified Nurse Anesthetists, who share an interest in anesthesia for eye surgery. Dr. Greenbaum is also a consultant to Halozyme Therapeutics.

For more information on this Patients' Choice Award winner, please visit Dr. Scott Greenbaum's profile on PatientsChoice.org.

Following the publication of Dr. Scott Greenbaum's selection for the Patients' Choice Award, American Registry seconded the honor and added Dr. Greenbaum to The Registry™ of Business Excellence. An exclusive recognition plaque has been designed to commemorate the honor. The doctor's custom wall plaque is shown here.

For more information on Dr. Scott Greenbaum, located in Forest Hills, NY, please call 718-897-2020.

This press release was written by American Registry, LLC with approval by and/or contributions from Dr. Greenbaum and was distributed by PR Newswire, a subsidiary of UBM plc.

Patients' Choice provides in depth information on doctors in your area who have been recognized and awarded for outstanding patient care and expertise. The Patients' Choice Award is the honor roll of physicians who have received the highest ratings by their patients.

American Registry, LLC, recognizes excellence in top businesses and professionals. The Registry™ includes over 2 million significant business and professional recognitions. For more information, search The Registry at http://www.americanregistry.com.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

What Is Trisomy 18?

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The KHN Conversation: 'Innovation' Advisors On Achieving CMS' Triple Aim

The KHN Conversation: 'Innovation' Advisors On Achieving CMS' Triple Aim

One of the more controversial, yet least expensive, aspects of the health law is starting to kick in.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched the Innovation Center, which is supposed to experiment with different ways to deliver health care more efficiently. As one of its first initiatives, the center has selected 73 people to be “Innovation Advisors.” Their year-long commitment with CMS' Innovation Center requires they test out an idea -- with the goal of improving health, improving quality of care and decreasing costs -- and, if successful, could see it scaled up by CMS.

Among those first selected to receive grants of as much as $20,000 are doctors, nurses, hospital executives, public health and policy experts, and they represent institutions in 27 states plus the District of Columbia. CMS expects to pick as many as 200 advisors by the end of the year.

Innovative Ideas On The Table

Details about the programs that four of the newly named "innovation advisors" plan to pursue.

In advance of their first meeting next week, four of the newly named advisors talked with KHN's Christian Torres. Dr. Stephanie Bruce, a D.C. geriatrician and medical practice director for Washington Hospital Center's medical house call program; Dr. Alen Voskanian, the medical director of VITAS Innovative Hospice Care; and Dr. Zahra Esmail, palliative care director at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles participated in a group conversation. Torres also spoke with Dr. Richard Young, director of research for the family medicine residency program at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

The advisors -- who were chosen without regard to political affiliation -- said they are looking forward to working with CMS and to sharing their projects with each other. Here are edited excerpts from the conversations.

Q: Concerns have been raised about the CMS Innovation Center. In November, Sens. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius questioning the center's ability to reel in health care spending under a fee-for-service system. What's your opinion?

Bruce: I see it as just the opposite. This is exactly the time CMS should be looking at the systems we use to provide care and spending money on creative, well-coordinated systems that will ultimately achieve these goals of better health and lower costs at the same time.

Dr. Zahra Esmail

Esmail: At this time, when we are tackling the big, luminous issue of health care, if one is not a visionary and cannot look decades ahead with the changes that we're trying to propose currently, then I think that we're never going to be able to solve these problems.

Voskanian: The aim of the program is very clear: It's better care, better health and lower costs. There's no way to argue -- that's what we all want to achieve. And that's a reason I applied to the program.

Young: I think their point about the fee-for-service system being a cause of health care cost increases is valid, but they're being too closed-minded about what the possibilities are. ... Someone needs to pay for the experiments if they really expect change to happen. I get where they're coming from with the worry about fee-for-service, but I think there's lots of other ways you can innovate to lower costs and keep the quality up. You've just got to let people try it.

Q: Your commitment to the program is for one year. Do you expect that to be enough time? Or are you focused on other, short-term benefits, like networking opportunities?

Bruce: I would say a year is very generous. Our goals [at Washington Hospital Center] are to take a program that is working but is disconnected from the larger health care system, and integrate it into, first, our local health care system. Our ultimate goal is to see this or similar models of care provided to elderly across the country, but that can happen in a very organic way.

Dr. Richard Young

Voskanian: One of the most important values this program has is bringing different people from different organizations together where people can brainstorm and talk about ideas. Within a year, there's going to be a database of over 70 projects that different people have worked on from different angles. I think that is then going to expand each year. So yes, some projects might end in one year, and some might take longer than that, but at least we're going to be creating a database of information -- both as far as decreasing costs and improving quality of care -- and it's going to improve dialogue amongst different entities. And that's what we need.

Young: My experience with other professional meetings is that the real magic happens in the networking. It's not so much that a speaker made all the difference, it's that you met three other people who all bought into some points that were made and then the three of you take it to another level. You cooperate, you bounce ideas off each other, you go back to your home and start to implement some things. That's where the real action occurs.

Q: The Innovation Center's triple aim is to find ways to bring down the cost of care, improve the quality of care and improve health overall. How can CMS help achieve these over-arching goals? How can your project help?

Dr. Stephanie Bruce

Bruce: I'm sure the other folks feel the same, but I'm excited to have CMS dip their toes into formalizing support for innovative programs. I suspect [everyone] struggles with the same things we struggle with [at Washington Hospital Center], which is: There are better, lower-cost ways to take care of complex populations, but the way the system is set up now, you're sometimes fighting against the system to do that.

Voskanian: My proposed project and interest in this program is that currently there's a strict line between hospice and curative care, and it seems like Dr. Bruce has tried to bridge that gap by providing home care to the patient, very similar to what we do in a hospice setting. I'm trying to come up with a project where we can make this home care delivery system more common amongst those who might not necessarily be toward the end of life but are debilitated by their chronic illnesses and would benefit from a home health care setting. Unfortunately, a lot of those patients end up going back to the hospital, and are in and out of hospital, and that causes a lot of costs to our health care system. If we can provide better care, we can improve their health in their home setting and also decrease costs -- it'll really help to achieve that triple aim.

Q: Along with the ideas you present in your projects, what does CMS needs to consider in future initiatives?

Dr. Alen Voskanian

Voskanian: The focus of care currently is on the disease process. That's the most important issue when physicians are trying to treat patients -- to cure the disease instead of focusing on the patient and the patient's quality of life. For example, if someone has [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease], sometimes the pulmonologist really concentrates on their pulmonary function testing. Or if they have a cancer, the cure is the ultimate goal. But the patient gets lost in the entire process. I think that's something that needs to be the CMS [focus]: patients and improving the quality of their health is the most important issue.

Esmail: Taking that a step further, the focus on trying to coordinate care is so important. Sometimes I see a lot of physicians and consultants practicing in a vacuum. Nobody in this fast-paced world has time, because they have so many patients to see and so many responsibilities, they don't necessarily have the time to communicate and talk about the plan for care.


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Friday, January 27, 2012

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 28

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 28

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28: OATMEAL MONTH

Profile America — Saturday, January 28th.  Foods come and go in popularity but one seems to stay high on the list when it comes to breakfast — oatmeal, especially in cold weather.  In fact, this is Oatmeal Month, set aside to recognize the long-term favorite for its up-to-date health characteristics — low fat, no sodium, and the ability to help lower the risk of heart disease.  Oatmeal also fits today's time pressures, since a bowl can be made in seconds in the microwave.  And, of course, oatmeal cookies are among the nation's favorites.  The U.S. is the world's third largest oat producer — after Russia and Canada.  Each year, Americans eat an average of more than 4 1/2 pounds of oats.  You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.

Sources:  Chase's Calendar of Events 2012, p. 68
United States Department of Agriculture
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2012, t. 217

Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

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Dental medicine is Low-cost if you Attempt to do some Planning

Dental medicine is Low-cost if you Attempt to do some Planning

Locating an affordable dentist should be one of the first concerns for newcombers in a new city. There are lots of possibilities for new patients to save money. It is just a case of finding cheap dental services in the area.

Instant oral care centres offer affordable dentistry and trustworthy services. Whether the concern is an aggravating tooth or learning how to brush more successfully, affordable dental services are available. Low upkeep services like a cheap tooth extraction can be finished through programs that provide financing thru monthly statements.

There are numerous acceptable finance programs out there that is excellent for the working pro, but what if you do not have a job? There are plenty of insurance plans that provide help for families for as low as $40 a month. Blue Cross Insurance is one corporation that supplies cost-effective and reliable plans.

Affordable dentists can be found at most dental clinics scattered across the nation. Regardless of what city you find yourself in, these clinics offer cheap dental work in a timely efficient manner. Be aware , however , that dental hospitals may lack the professionalism found in family dentistry.

Dental schools are always keen to accept new clients in the area. These faculties offer massive rebates on their services because the work is done by students who are training to be dentists. Someone could pay half the price tag paid at a regular dentist office; it's just a matter of putting your trust in the young impressive student to take care of your teeth.

These are some helpful hints for finding a cheap dentist in a new city. Whatever your financial standpoint is, there are lots of options to explore if your goal is to save cash. You will find that cheap dentists can match a large amount of family dentistry offices in quality but come out on top in terms of affordability to form that healthy, white smile.

Lawrence Atkinson is a dental industry insider with years of expertise and lost of knowledge. He is helped many folks find a dentist, and even operates a website that includes a dentist finder feature. He writes regular articles for health journals and has made appearances on television. If you have the require to locate a tooth doctor right today, just visit our web site and call our toll free number. We are to link you to a regional dental surgeon.


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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Vitamin C and Diabetes

Vitamin C and Diabetes

The pressing issue of type 2 diabetes recently took on an unexpected spokesman: Paula Deen. Ever since the highly publicized announcement of her illness and related drug endorsement, a hailstorm of negative and positive reactions has made its way to all forms of media. Instead of adding yet another voice to the chorus, I’ve decided to share some breaking information for Ms. Deen and other type-2 diabetics that may improve their health care prospects.

The simple addition of Vitamin C to conventional diabetes treatment can safely and significantly improve fasting, postmeal and long-term (HbA1c) blood sugar levels in adults with diabetes mellitus or DM. This finding was published in the December 28th edition of the journal Advances in Pharmacological Sciences. In the 12 week study, 500 mg of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) was taken twice-daily along with the popular diabetes drug metformin. Another relatively obscure trial from March 2011 reports that a combination of purified fish oil (EPA) and Vitamin C effectively lowers blood sugar, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and triglycerides, while elevating HDL (“good”) cholesterol. The latter study employed a daily dosage of 500 mg of EPA and 200 mg of Vitamin C.

Sadly, many physicians do not recommend therapeutic levels of Vitamin C to patients with DM. Their rationale is based on a general consensus that supplemental antioxidants don’t confer important changes to health outcomes in diabetics. But, it’s important to note that even conservative reviews of antioxidant therapy in DM tend to point out some benefits. For instance, a critical summary from February 2011 states that antioxidants, “can decrease lipid peroxidation, LDL-cholesterol particles oxidation and improve endothelial function and endothelial-dependent vasodilatation” – changes that lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. In addition, current studies reveal that adults with blood sugar disorders and related complications tend to have lower plasma Vitamin C than healthy adults. All of this research strongly suggests that improving Vitamin C levels via diet and/or supplementation addresses an underlying cause of diabetes and its comorbidities.

For those who prefer getting their Vitamin C partially or wholly from food, consider my top ten list of fruits and vegetables that contain the most Vitamin C: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, lemons, limes, mustard greens, red bell peppers and strawberries. Of the ten, I want to emphasize the value of eating more red bell peppers. A single serving provides upwards of 300% of the recommended daily value of Vitamin C. Peppers also contain a wealth of complementary antioxidants and phytochemicals which may yield additional protection for diabetics and just about everyone else. When selecting peppers, I recommend choosing the organic variety and opting for those that are kept under refrigeration. Conventionally grown bell peppers are on the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list of produce containing pesticide residues. Refrigeration is important because unrefrigerated peppers demonstrate a precipitous decline in Vitamin C content.

To learn more about the studies referenced in today’s column, please click on the following links:

Study 1 – Supplementation of Vitamin C Reduces Blood Glucose and Improves (link)

Study 2 - Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid and Vitamin C on Glycemic Indices (link)

Study 3 – Antioxidants and Diabetes Mellitus: Review of the Evidence (link)

Study 4 - Serum Antioxidant Status Is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome (link)

Study 5 - Relationships Among Diabetic Retinopathy, Antioxidants and Glycemic (link)

Study 6 - Nutrition Data: Peppers, Sweet, Red, Raw (link)

Study 7 - Microbial Quality and Bioactive Constituents of Sweet Peppers from (link)

Study 8 - The Effects of Ripening Stage and Processing Systems on Vitamin C (link)

Study 9 - Characterization and Quantification of Antioxidant Constituents of (link)

Study 10 - Antioxidant Systems and Their Relationship with the Response of (link)

Vitamin C Works Synergistically with Metformin to Lower Blood Sugar

Source: Adv Pharmacol Sci. 2011; 2011: 195271. (link)

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What Is Stress? What Are Its Effects?

What Is Stress? What Are Its Effects?
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Stress can be defined as a response of the body to demands placed on it and can be either positive or negative.

Some stress is necessary for optimal functioning. It�s what enables us to give interesting presentations, makes sporting events fun to watch, serves as a protection in dangerous situations, and motivation and energy in challenging ones. People perceive demands differently and what can be motivating for one may be distressing to another.

When the body faces a stressful event, your central nervous system gets ready for action. Certain areas of your brain activate hormones which in turn activate adrenalin. All of this happens within a matter of seconds � you know it�s kicked in when you feel your heart beating faster and your face flush. In the meantime, seventeen other hormones are being released, sending the body into a hyperactive state.

Sugars stored in the liver are released providing quick energy. Your red blood cells release more oxygen, your stomach goes into hibernation allowing more blood to reach your brain and muscles in preparation for flight. Your intestines are affected � either constricting or � yikes, relaxing! If allowed, your body will finally relax after the threat passes.

The problems lie when we are in a chronic state of arousal whether through repeated acute episodes of stress or prolonged chronic states such as through poverty, unemployment, grief and other long term situations.

In episodic acute and chronic stress, your body hasn�t had a chance to turn off the switch and recent research has confirmed negative health effects ranging from cardiac damage, increased susceptibility to viruses, increased headaches, insomnia, GERD, skin problems, stroke and other health issues.

How Do You Respond to Stress?

When experiencing stress, you may be affected totally, not only in your body but also in your emotional reactions, your personal thoughts, and your relations with others.

The following list of stress symptoms contains the most typical reactions to stress. It can also help you begin focusing on ways to manage stress.

Physical

Headaches, Fatigue, Insomnia, Weight change, Colds, Digestive upsets, Accident prone, Teeth grinding, Restlessness, Alcohol, drug, or tobacco use, Shoulders tighten up or ache, Pounding heart rate.

Mental

Forgetfulness, Dull senses, Poor concentration, Low productivity, Negative attitude, Confusion, Lethargy, No new ideas, Boredom.

Emotional

Anxiety, The “blues”, Mood swings, Bad temper, Crying spells, Irritability, Depression, Nervous laugh, Worrying, Easily discouraged.

Social

Isolation, Resentment, Loneliness, Lashing out, Clamming up, Lowered sex drive, Nagging, Fewer contacts with friends.

Look over the symptoms you’ve experienced and circle those that occur frequently or regularly.

Study your list. Which symptoms cause you the most concern? Are you aware when they are happening to you? Can you stop them from happening? Do you see a pattern in your symptoms? Are they mostly physical? Do they usually involve other people? This might give you a clue in directing your stress management program.

About the author

Cathy Gariety is a Registered Nurse and CEO of Gariety Group Consulting – a firm specializing in stress management providing services to individuals, corporate and healthcare facilities. She is also Editor of their Stress Buster newsletter. Email stresscoach@getresponse.com for a complimentary Mini Stress Management E-Course delivered to your email address once per week for four weeks.


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Colon Cleanse To Jump Start Your Health

Colon Cleanse To Jump Start Your Health

Colon cleansing has been in the media involving wellness enthusiasts for a while as it can offer relief for any number of signs and symptoms. The reason for this is that the intestinal tract normally becomes affected with fecal matter, which often produces harmful toxins (poisons) into the bloodstream. When constipation is usually a principal sign of this kind of circumstance, other symptoms could be traced to the released poisons.

A number of the symptoms which have also been associated with an impacted bowel include head aches, fatigue, depression symptoms, and also allergies. Gaining weight plus an inability to drop it are also connected with an impacted bowel. Additionally,folks report nervous signs just like irritability and “walking around in the fog.” Feeling “bloated” with gas is another typical sign, and some individuals also report problems with their particular skin.

The traditional methods have incorporated increasing the fiber inside the diet when taking laxative herbs, including Cascara Sagrada or Senna. These kinds of laxatives are usually harsh for the entire body and may develop a dependency similar to an addiction. Fiber regarding constipation typically is made up of psyllium seed husks. This kind of natural plant kind takes up water in the bowel and gets mucilaginous. This results in a volume which is ideal for removing substances from your colon, but it is not really a total cleanse.

A lesser known technique, oxygen based colon cleansing, can also be taken orally, but does not work on the identical basic principle like the fiber and herb method. This particular approach uses an “oxidation reduction” type of chemical reaction to burn off the material within the bowel. Because the reaction gives off oxygen, that is next distributed around our bodies, it really is healthful and also energizing. Another choice within traditional treatment of an impacted bowel would be to take enemas or perhaps colonic irrigation. These types of methods force water, herbal teas, or any other medications up in to the digestive tract via a tube placed into the rectal cavity.

Colonic irrigation should go farther up in to the intestines than does an enema. This ought to be done by the licensed professional. Obviously, this is an unpleasant matter at best, but could be helpful whenever employed in conjunction with oxygen based colon cleansing.

The best option for dealing with constipation as well as the other symptoms of an impacted bowel is to use a great oxygen based colon cleansing product.

The very best of these will include the nutrient germanium within an organic form. This mineral, called Ge-132, is found in many of the most healthful food as well as herbs around, including garlic herb, comfrey, watercress, ginseng, and specific edible fungus (mushrooms.)

Having germanium within your colon cleanse will help reduce blood pressure, boost artery wellness, minimizing cholesterol levels. It is believed to be anti-carcinogenic, or an agent to prevent different cancers. It assists the colon cleanse to produce much more oxygen, which brings life as well as health to the internal organs. Germanium can also be ideal for reducing the growth of the fungus, Candida albicans, in the body. Candida has become related to signs including fatigue, itching, headaches, plus a host regarding others.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Anxiety, other disorders more common in autism

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Autism tends to go hand in hand with a variety of other mental and behavioral conditions in kids, suggests a new study that highlights the fuzzy nature of autism diagnoses themselves. Researchers said that other disorders that often go along with autism -- such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or learning disabilities -- may complicate the diagnosis, or slow down any improvement in kids who do get diagnosed and treated early. ... Credit of the story

Sunday, January 22, 2012

National Health Spending Grew Slowly In 2010

National Health Spending Grew Slowly In 2010

National health care spending grew slowly for the second consecutive year in 2010, bringing it in line with growth in the U.S. economy, the Department of Health and Human Services reported Monday.

Spending grew by 3.9 percent in 2010, to $2.6 trillion, while the gross domestic product increased 4.2 percent, according to the agency, which published its findings in the journal Health Affairs. In 2009 spending increased 3.8 percent. By contrast, in 2007, it grew by 7.6 percent. Spending increases sometimes reached double digits in the 1980s and 1990s.

While spending growth overall remained slow, for the first time in seven years premiums for people in private insurance plans grew faster than what was spent on their care, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Premiums in 2010 rose 2.4 percent, slightly lower than the 2.6 percent increase in 2009. But private health insurers’ spending on actual benefits rose only 1.6 percent in 2010. That’s down from 3.7 percent in 2009.

The recession had a lot to do with the trend, CMS officials said. With fewer people insured, and private insurers generally picking up less of the cost, patients went to the doctor and hospital less.

Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said that the portion of premiums “allocated to health plans administrative costs was among the lowest in recent years, despite the fact that health plans have been incurring new compliance and regulatory costs related to the health care reform law.”

Spending on prescription drugs also declined in 2010. Not only did individuals buy fewer drugs, but there were also more switches from brand to lower-cost generic medications. Moreover, CMS noted that fewer new drugs came onto the market.

Two health care analysts, however, said that the explanation may go beyond the recession. “The utilization slowdown is at least in part structural, and not just cyclically driven by the economy, and the adoption of higher cost sharing plan designs will result in some level of permanent slowdown in trend,” said Ana Gupte, a senior analyst at Sanford Bernstein, which conducts research for investors.

Tom Miller, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said that the trend is worth watching since it has continued more than a couple of years. “We may have broken the old dynamic, where there’s an ingrained force that says we will spend more on health care than we do on other things,” he said.

As in other areas of the economy, he said, people are checking their spending on health care because they are faced with paying a greater share of the cost. “This is more in balance with how we’ve pulled back on consumption spending in other areas. Even this last remaining holdout has begun to buckle, and it’s been enough years to say the basic forces are changing.”

At the same time, there has been a shift in health care spending from the private sector and the states to the federal government. The federal government’s share of total national health care spending increased from 23 to 29 percent between 2007 and 2010. Over the same time, business’ share of health care spending decreased from 23 percent to 21 percent, and spending by state and local governments declined from 18 percent to 16 percent.

Again, CMS officials cite the recession; the federal government gave states extra help to get Medicaid coverage to more uninsured people. The federal government matches state spending on Medicaid, and, during the recession, it stepped up its contributions. Still, total spending on Medicaid increased 7.2 percent in 2010, which is down from 8.9 percent growth in 2009.

Medicare spending grew 5 percent, which is slower than the 7 percent growth the year before. The main reason, according to CMS, was that the health law required the federal government to decrease payments to Medicare Advantage plans. About a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in these private insurance plans, and Medicare had been paying about 14 percent more for people in these plans than in the traditional fee-for-service program. The health law aims to equalize what the federal government pays for beneficiaries in both programs.

As a result of the change, says Anne Martin, a CMS economist, enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans increased more slowly in 2010, as beneficiaries instead chose traditional Medicare, reversing a long-time trend. Following several years of declines, enrollment in fee-for-service increased 1.5 percent, marking the highest growth rate since 2004. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage, meanwhile, increased 5.6 percent in 2010, much less than the 10.5 percent growth in 2009.

Gupte, though, says that Medicare Advantage enrollment growth has increased since then.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Helpful information when choosing the very best photography book with regard to beginners or skilled photography enthusiasts

Helpful information when choosing the very best photography book with regard to beginners or skilled photography enthusiasts

Technologies have affected dozens of visitors to discover the actual wonders associated with existence effortlessly. Today’s advancements have opened up numerous possibilities for everybody to savor different actions. Pictures for just one has evolved and widens it’s field due to countless interest showed by different person with diverse personas and needs.

Are you currently attaining some curiosity around the latest Digital Single Zoom lens Response digital camera? Do you want to go through the art associated with capturing significant pictures? Learn and know more about photography via publications by select the right pictures book available for your requirements.

To ensure that we understand and enhance our skill in pictures, publications that contains different subjects was published. How to pick the best photography book to suit the photographer’s needs?

Here’s a guide you can use when choosing the right book for you personally regardless if you are an amateur or perhaps an experienced digital photographer. * It contains fundamental terminologies, abilities and techniques. The very best book for you personally should contain the basic principles of pictures. In each and every chosen career or even pastime the fundamental understanding is paramount in order to achievement. All advance applications depends towards the fundamental understanding of the field. Look into the catalog of the guide. Will it contain sufficient amount of basic information you need? If it will then its the right guide for you. * Choose the book along with simple answers. In every guide you want to read, less complicated is much more understandable. Try to check out it. An ideal guide consists of good examples with regard to much better understanding. Don’t grab a magazine that’s as well wordy, you’ll just get bored after a few minutes. Make certain every declaration is actually direct to the stage and are not misleading. * It contains charts or images that you could adhere to. With regard to much better knowledge of the procedures, images should be present to help you. You can’t contemplate everything if it is just about all within words. An ideal guide includes a simple step to action instruction for every procedure that you can monitor. * Consider exactly what area of photography you want to develop. There are many books for various areas of great interest. It would give you information regarding how to improve what you have learned. Select the right book that will enhance your skill and knowledge of your chosen area.

After you have chosen the very best photography book for you personally, see clearly. Understand it. Apply your learning. Always remember that artwork relies towards the artist’s good eye for beauty. As long as you adore what you want, you may make great things out of it.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

In This Post I Will Be Looking At A Program Intended To Cope With Toothache’s

In This Post I Will Be Looking At A Program Intended To Cope With Toothache’s

No one enjoys having tooth pain. The honest truth is that the moment your tooth starts to hurt, it is tough to focus on anything else. Toothache’s and mouth pain are two things that each one of us had to go through previously. Oftentimes it will prompt you to go straight to your dentist–but what if you have a better way to take care of things? What would you do if you had the opportunity to improve your total dental health also? This is what Diane Puttman is trying to offer to people. She has created a book titled How to Get Rid of A Toothache Naturally in Less than Twelve Hours and claims that it can help you remedy your oral health issues.

Diane Puttman is a veteran in selling e-books. She is likewise the author of another e-book, Banish Tonsil Stones. This book, just like the one reviewed in this article, provides you natural ways to make your tonsils better. This isn’t Diane’s first time selling her own e-books.

“How to Get Rid of a Toothache Naturally in Less than Twelve Hours” by Diane Puttman costs in the high twenty dollar range and you can purchase it in the Clickbank store. It gives an account of the research Diane did while trying to determine how to cure a massive amount of oral pain after visits to the dentist and oral surgeon had failed. She found a few secrets held by native Polynesian tribes. These are folks that have a number of the most exceptional oral health globally despite the fact that they haven’t ever been to the dentist so she tried out some of their methods and had some truly great results.

There are a whole lot of promises contained Diane Puttman’s book. It offers you methods for naturally plugging tooth decays on your own, how to neutralize having your enamel eroded and gives you a few acupressure techniques for relieving pain. The sales page makes a lot of promises–all of which make the book seem like the greatest thing that has ever crossed your path. It certainly makes the price of $30 worthwhile. It is accompanied by a sixty day long money back guarantee that makes us feel good. There are a number of reasons to purchase the book, particularly if you have been plagued by tooth health problems for most of your life.

We do have a problem, though, with the fact that Diane Puttman looks like she found out all of these things by herself in her own free time. She conducted lots of research but there is nothing to indicate that she spent any money to learn the things she has learned. Thus, we’re asking why you would spend money if you can get the same information free of charge? Plainly, the cost might be worth it if it saves you a lot of time but if you can’t afford it, why not do the research yourself? You can decide for yourself.

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The High Cost Of A Good Night's Sleep

The High Cost Of A Good Night's Sleep

On a Monday night in December, Lauretta Martin, 47, visited the sleep lab at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. for the second time. On her first visit, Martin, a heavyset woman whose husband reports she is a loud snorer, was diagnosed with sleep apnea. This time, she was being fitted for a CPAP machine, which helps keep a snorer’s airway open throughout the night.

The sleep lab has six testing rooms, each of which looks just like a room at a Holiday Inn, with striped wallpaper, a floral bedspread, framed prints of the seaside and free wifi.

Annie Mokonya, a registered sleep technician, prepares Lauretta Martin for a sleep test at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. in December (Photo by Jenny Gold/KHN)

“They have a brochure that says it’s just like being in a hotel room, and it is,” says Martin, sitting on the edge of her bed wearing a pair of soft grey pajamas and watching a football game on her flat-screen TV. Aside from the two-dozen colorful electrodes taped to her body to monitor her every motion and the scuba-style mask on her face to enhance her breathing, she looked ready for a cozy night of slumber.

In the tech room a few doors down, a professional sleep technician observed her over a video monitor, testing the electrodes and preparing to listen in to the sounds of her sleep.

Snoring was once considered a simple annoyance for bed partners, but there is a growing awareness in the medical community that the grunts and snorts of noisy sleepers can also be a sign of sleep apnea, a condition shown to increase the risk of numerous serious illnesses, including heart disease, stroke and dementia.  Critics, however, worry that overnight tests to diagnose apnea, particularly those done in sleep labs, may be overprescribed at great cost to the health care system.

Testing can be a lucrative business, and labs have popped up in free-standing clinics and hospitals across the country. Over the past decade, the number of accredited sleep labs that test for the disorder has quadrupled, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). At the same time, insurer spending on the procedure has skyrocketed. Medicare payments for sleep testing, for example, increased from $62 million in 2001 to $235 million in 2009, according to the Office of the Inspector General. 

Sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax, causing an airway obstruction that can stop a person’s breathing for several seconds or even minutes.  It causes restless sleep and sometimes dangerously-low blood oxygen levels. The disorder can be diagnosed by monitoring a snorer’s sleep patterns, either in an overnight visit to a sleep lab or at home using a portable testing device. It is then often treated with a CPAP machine, which helps keep a snorer’s airway open during sleep.

Sleep apnea has likely gotten more common as the population has grown older and more obese, two major risk factors for apnea, and the National Institutes of Health estimates that more than 12 million Americans suffer from the disorder.  Many are never diagnosed.

“I think the medical community is sort of dropping the ball” on apnea, explains Dr. David Gross, medical director of the sleep lab at the National Rehabilitation Hospital. “It’s just sad when you walk through the hospital and you see these patients with heart failure—the person might be 35 years old, he’s 350 lbs -- but no one’s thinking that he has sleep apnea, which he statistically does.”  He says more than three-quarters of the patients who come to the lab are diagnosed with apnea.

Dr. David Gross, director of the sleep lab at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., analyzes a sleep test (Photo by Jenny Gold/KHN)

But the testing isn’t cheap: each night at a hospital sleep lab can cost $1,900 and is usually mostly covered by a patient’s health insurance. Some patients, including Martin, end up spending two nights at the lab – one to test for apnea, and the second to try the CPAP machine.

Dr. Fred Holt, an expert on fraud and abuse and a medical director of Blue Cross Blue Shield in North Carolina, says some patients aren’t having basic exams done first and are therefore being prescribed expensive tests they don’t need. Not everyone who snores has a chronic disorder, he notes.

In other cases, Holt says the labs prescribe CPAP machines right away without first suggesting other strategies like losing weight or sleeping on your side, which can also reduce apnea.

“We are spending more and more money on sleep testing and treatment, and like anything else in health care, there are unscrupulous people out there who are more than happy to do testing and treatment that might be of questionable value,” says Holt. “This might be because of naiveté on the part of the physician, or unfortunately, it could be done for the sake of improving the cash flow of one’s business.”

It’s no secret that the sleep business can be lucrative for physicians. A website for Aviisha, a sleep testing company, has a section for physicians showing a picture of a doctor with a stack of money in his lab coat pocket.  And in February, the AASM is offering a seminar on the “business of sleep medicine for physicians” at a golf resort in Arizona.

Dr. Nancy Collop, president of the AASM, says that while many sleep centers offer comprehensive care for sleep disorders, others are largely focused on overnight sleep testing. “A lot of people have gotten into the sleep business specifically to do that procedure,” she explains. The goal of the AASM’s accreditation process, she says, is to make sure sleep labs are offering more because “many patients may not even need a sleep study.”

Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, which represents large employers offering health insurance to their workers, says the tests are driving up the cost of premiums.  “This is a good example of something where we have technology, we have financial incentives to use more of it then we have historically done, you have enough problems including a growing obesity epidemic, and you sort of put together the so-called perfect storm for driving up overuse and health care cost.”

She says doctors should focus instead on common-sense approaches to sleep apnea, like losing weight, before turning to expensive testing and medical devices.

Another option are home sleep tests, which costs less than a fifth of the cost of a lab test, and are considered effective for most patients. Medicare began paying for home sleep tests in 2008, but the tests have had only modest growth.

“I believe lab tests, as opposed to the home tests, are being wildly overprescribed,” says Mike Backus, senior vice president of American Imaging Management, a subsidiary of Wellpoint. Right now, he says, 99 percent of the sleep tests given to Wellpoint patients are done in the lab, but “it should be 70 percent at home and 30 percent in the lab.”

Backus adds that the majority of patients who are diagnosed with apnea and then given CPAP machines stop using them within the first year.

Some insurers, including Wellpoint, are changing the way they pay for sleep testing to curb the costs. Many now require a special pre-authorization. They also ask the doctor whether a patient qualifies for a home sleep test instead of one at the lab.

Those changes are now widespread among Massachusetts insurers and are having an effect on the sleep industry in the state.

Dr. Lawrence Epstein, the chief medical officer of Sleep Healthcenters in Massachusetts, says the labs have already experienced a 20 percent drop in the number of patients coming in for testing. While the past decade was focused on industry growth, he says it’s “now going to be about consolidation and provision of better quality, more efficient care.”

Sleep Healthcenters has shut down three of its 15 sleep labs, and more closures may be on the way. Epstein says the company is focusing more on “sleep wellness,” including treating and managing sleep disorders, and less on testing. The key, he explains, is to become more efficient without decreasing access to care for patients who need it. 


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Renee Graziano's Advice For People Considering Plastic Surgery

Renee Graziano's Advice For People Considering Plastic Surgery
"Alcatraz" (8 p.m. EST, Fox) two-hour series premiere Produced by J.J. Abrams, this moody mystery series combines procedural elements with a hint of supernatural suspense. Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Alcatraz historian Doctor Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) team up with a secret agency that is dedicated to finding and catching inmates from the infamous prison who went missing 50 years ago and have begun reappearing today.
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G-Spot Scientists Reach Surprising Conclusion

G-Spot Scientists Reach Surprising Conclusion

Many women swear they have one, but a new review of 60 years of sex research shows science still can't definitively find the G-spot.

Researchers have used surveys, imaging scans and biopsies of women, all trying to locate and define the presumably orgasmic area on the vaginal wall known as the G-spot. Based on a review of 96 published studies, an Israeli and American research team came to one conclusion.

"Without a doubt, a discreet anatomic entity called the G-spot does not exist," said Dr. Amichai Kilchevsky, a urology resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and lead author of the review, published Jan. 12 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Kilchevsky conceded the work is not "1,000 percent conclusive," allowing that other scientists could one day find something his team missed. But they would need new technology to do it, he said.

A half-century quest

The G-spot was named in honor of the late Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, who in 1950 described a particularly sensitive 1- to 2-centimeter wide area on the vaginal wall. Gräfenberg's description put Western medicine on a quest to define and learn more about the spot, purported to be a few centimeters in from the vaginal opening, on the vaginal wall toward the front of a woman's body.

But Gräfenberg wasn't the first to write about such an erogenous zone. The Kamasastra and Jayamangala scripts dating back to 11th century India describe a similar sensitive area, according to the new study.

Modern surveys of women on the subject only confounded the search. From a review of 29 surveys and observational studies, Kilchevsky concluded that a majority of women believe a G-spot actually exists, although some of those women also say they can't locate it.

Other researchers have looked for physical evidence. Biopsies of tissue taken from the vaginal wall often find more nerve endings in the area of the purported G-spot than in other regions of the vaginal wall. But Kilchevsky and his colleagues also found biopsy studies with inconclusive results, and the authors point out that sensitivity in the human body isn't determined by the number of nerve endings alone.

One 2008 study used ultrasound imaging to explore the vaginal wall of women, and found evidence of thicker tissue in the area of the G-spot among women who reported having vaginal orgasms. Women who said they had never had vaginal orgasms had thinner tissue in that area. However, other imaging studies included in Kilchevsky's review couldn't find a conclusive G-spot.

Ultimately, Kilchevsky said he hopes his conclusions support women who worry they can't find the G-spot at home.

"Women who can't achieve orgasm through vaginal penetration don't have anything wrong with them," he said.

Kilchevsky doesn't think women who claim to have a G-spot are crazy either. "What they're likely experiencing is a continuation of the clitoris," he said. G-spot skeptics often point out that the tissue of the clitoris extends into the body, behind it where the G-spot would be located.

One study may yield clues

One study in the review kept "the possibility of a discrete G-spot viable," according to Kilchevsky.

A Rutgers University research team recently asked several women to stimulate themselves in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) machine. Brain scans showed stimulating the clitoris, vagina and cervix lit up distinct areas of the women's sensory cortex. This means the brain registered distinct feelings between stimulating the clitoris, the cervix and the vaginal wall – where the G-spot is famed to be.

Barry Komisaruk, the lead author of the fMRI study and professor of psychology at Rutgers University, advocates calling it the G-area, or G-region, instead.

"I think that the bulk of the evidence shows that the G-spot is not a particular thing. It's not like saying, 'What is the thyroid gland?'" Komisaruk said. "The G-spot is more of a thing like New York City is a thing. It's a region, it's a convergence of many different structures."

Komisaruk said that pressing on the area proclaimed to be the G-spot also presses the urethra and a structure called Skene's gland, which is analogous to the male prostate.

"Each of those areas have different nerve sites," said Komisaruk. "I think there's good enough data that a lot of women feel that that is a particularly sensitive  region."

Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University and author of "Great in Bed" (DK Publishing, 2011), pointed out that ambiguity is nothing new in sexual research.

"I'm not sure why some people get caught up in this desire to find this anatomic thing that is the end all be all," Herbenick said.

Findings from the well-known Australian researcher Dr. Helen O'Connell show the vagina, clitoris and urethra may act as "clitoral complex," during sex, Herbenick said. Any time one of these parts is moved or stimulated, it moves and stimulates the others.

"We don't even have orgasm all figured out yet, I don't why we would expect to have the G-spot figured out," Herbenick said. 

Pass it on: A new review of 60 years of evidence suggests that the G-spot doesn't exist. 

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

U.S. Wants to Buttress Alzheimer's Arsenal by 2025

U.S. Wants to Buttress Alzheimer's Arsenal by 2025
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- With the Alzheimer's epidemic predicted to reach crisis proportions as the U.S. population ages, a panel of experts is meeting for two days to draft a plan to combat a disease that is fast emerging as one of the nation's biggest -- and costliest -- health threats.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

[Free Members] - Our New Credits Formula and Domain Limit Increase

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Teens of Lesbian Parents Appear Well-Adjusted

Teens of Lesbian Parents Appear Well-Adjusted
MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Teenagers with lesbian mothers are as well adjusted as their peers being raised by heterosexual parents, according to a new study from the University of Amsterdam.
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Use Glucosamine HCL As an Alternative to Prescription Drugs For Treating The Onset Of Ostoe-Arthritis

Use Glucosamine HCL As an Alternative to Prescription Drugs For Treating The Onset Of Ostoe-Arthritis

Many of us suffering the consequences of arthritic joint disease have discovered that glucosamine is a dynamic shield against the suffering and effects accredited to osteoarthritis. For years doctors have been prescribing drugs to deal with the effects of arthritis and the damage it does to the body of both humans and dogs. Although many of these drugs are very effective in dumping the symptoms and discomfort linked with arthritis, there also incorporates them many undesirable complications which can often be quite severe in some cases.

In reality many of these prescription drugs have been banned by the FDA because they have ended in such severe issues and often even death in the users of them. And not only are these medicines frequently perilous to use they are quite dear matched against lots of the supplement products available online such as glucosamine.

One of the important differences between employing a supplement product in these prescription medications is that a supplement like glucosamine in the liquid form actually helps the body reconstruct and regenerate damaged cartilage tissues which result from the beginning of arthritis joint disease. In reality liquid glucosamine contains the construction blocks the body really uses in nature to build cartilage tissue in the joints in the 1st place. Oftentimes, those suffering from arthritis joint disease have a decreased quantity of glucosamine in their system and thus can utilise additions of it for reconstructing and replacing the damaged cartilage.

Glucosamine sulfate is available in one or two forms but it is preferred version is that of the liquid. Many individuals who've difficulty swallowing tablets and capsules find the liquid version of the supplement product to be preferred because it’s so straightforward to take the regular doses needs. Only 1 quarter ounce of the glucosamine product contains a full 750 mg of glucosamine matched against many pills and tablets which only contain a few hundred each.

One thing that glucosamine users must be aware of is that the regeneration and the advantages linked with taking the supplement are often not seen immediately and can take a few months before the benefits are experienced. Way too many who begin taking the supplement quit the method too soon before they have given it time to really help the body rebuild the damaged due to the arthritis joint illness.

Glucosamine sulfate is a tried and proven supplement product which is available on the net at many local retail locations for treating the results of this dreaded joint disease. It’s safe and highly effective and without the feared side-effects regularly caused by prescription medicines.

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Considering Cost: Bloggers Reveal ‘Parsimonious’ Ponderings

Considering Cost: Bloggers Reveal ‘Parsimonious’ Ponderings

Should doctors think about cost when they’re helping you make your health care decisions?

Yesterday on the main KHN site we had a round robin of experts talking about the American College of Physicians’ latest update of its ethics manual. The manual encourages doctors to be “parsimonious” in doling out health care — that is, if you see our handy definition, “having an extreme reluctance to spend money.”

The term, which has actually been part of the ethics manual since 1998, has recently been the source of controversy. Some say docs shouldn’t consider cost when caring for patients and call the idea ”rationing” — that minefield of a phrase — while others say doctors have an increasingly important role to help the U.S. control its health costs.

After we talked to experts for the round robin, I also sauntered around the Internet looking for blog posts on the subject. Here’s a sampling:

Aaron Carroll, at The Incidental Economist, in the second of two postings: “I think it’s fine for patients to see that some treatments may be a waste of money, and they might want to save that money. But I’m not sure that I think it’s as great an idea for doctors to consider “health care resources” in the same way. I’m just not as comfortable with that. At least, not when we’re talking “ethics.” Is a physician who advocates for a treatment that’s not cost-effective acting unethically? Again, I don’t think that’s what the ACP intended” (1/5).

Over at The Health Care Blog, Dr. Shilpa Iyer, in a crosspost from the Costs of Care blog, considers how programs might teach medical residents about costs, by using a game: “I am not sure if and how practice patterns will or should change, but perhaps knowledge of the systemic charges will better inform our counseling of patients, and consideration of their resources. And, I did pause before obtaining an unneeded gonorrhea/Chlamydia culture the day afterwards with my newfound knowledge” (1/3).

For the SHOTS blog, NPR’s Rob Stein talked to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, of the American Enterprise Institute: “For Gottlieb, a parsimonious approach to medicine ‘really implies that care should be withheld. There’s no definition of parsimonious that I know of that doesn’t imply some kind of negative connotation in terms of being stingy about how you allocate something’” (Stein, 1/3).

At his National Center For Policy Analysis blog, John Goodman opines: “Can you imagine a lawyer discussing the prospects of launching a lawsuit without bringing up the matter of cost? … Of course not. Then what is so special about medicine? Answer: the field has been completely corrupted by the idea that (a) patients should never be in a position to choose between health benefits and monetary cost, (b) doctors shouldn’t have to think about such tradeoffs either, (c) in order to insulate the patient from having to choose between health care and other uses of money, third-party payers should pay all the medical bills and (d) since no one else is going to think about what anything costs, the third-party payer is the only entity left to decide which services are worthwhile and which ones aren’t” (1/9).

At her ReformingHealth blog, Naomi Freundlich examines the delicate nature between the “virture or vice” of parsimony, in this cae: “In the pursuit of a cure or in an attempt to extend a child’s life a doctor might feel that his patient is the exception, one of the few who has a chance of responding to a treatment not considered cost-effective in most others. This hardly seems a breach of ethics. But I also can see the wider intent of the ACP authors who state very clearly in the same highlighted box:  “The physician’s first and primary duty is to the patient.” This is followed by, “Physicians must base their counsel on the interests of the individual patient, regardless of the insurance or medical care delivery setting.” Parsimony shouldn’t override a treatment decision that could benefit an individual patient. The real goal is to avoid wasteful, ineffective care that is not only costly, but likely to be harmful in the long run” (1/9).


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Health Highlights: Jan. 16, 2012

Health Highlights: Jan. 16, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Work Insurance Often Offers Coverage For Programs To Stop Smoking

Work Insurance Often Offers Coverage For Programs To Stop Smoking

Seventy percent of smokers say they'd like to quit, and now, just three days into the new year, many may already be struggling to stick to their resolution to make 2012 a smoke-free year. If quitting were easy, after all, chances are good that nearly one in five adults wouldn't still be smokers, a figure that hasn't budged much in several years.

Smoking is such a familiar health hazard that some experts say it doesn't get the attention it deserves; the focus is often on other lifestyle-related conditions, especially obesity. But smoking is still the No. 1 cause of preventable death in this country. Nearly half a million people die prematurely because of smoking-related illnesses, including lung cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Most smokers need some sort of assistance to quit, whether it's counseling, support groups or medication to help reduce nicotine cravings. But getting that help can be difficult.

Scrambling to address budget problems, states this year will spend less than 2 percent of their tobacco-tax and tobacco-settlement billions on programs to help people quit smoking or prevent them from starting , according to a recent report by a coalition of public-health organizations. In the past four years, state spending on tobacco prevention and cessation has declined by 36 percent, to $457 million.

Tobacco-related health-care spending is nearly $100 billion annually, according to the CDC.

"It's a travesty," says Danny McGoldrick, vice president for research at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "These programs more than pay for themselves."

Carrots And Sticks

While public funding falters, a growing number of companies offer smoking-cessation programs to their workers. Last year, two-thirds of companies with 200 or more workers offered such programs, while 31 percent of smaller companies did so, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's annual survey of employer-sponsored health benefits. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)

At the same time that they offer a helping hand to quit, more companies are also penalizing employees who don't kick the habit by hitting them with higher health insurance premiums.

At firms with more than 20,000 employees, 24 percent vary premiums based on whether someone smokes, as do 12 percent of companies with 500 or more workers, according to the 2011 survey of employer-sponsored health plans by human resources consultant Mercer.

Public-health advocates generally agree that this punitive approach isn't ideal. "The issue isn't smokers, it's smoking," says McGoldrick. Charging people higher premiums may just make smokers drop their coverage, he says.

But employers argue that charging smokers more is only fair. "The cost of medical care for smokers is considerably higher," says Helen Darling, chief executive of the National Business Group on Health, an employer group. "Employers are increasingly saying that if someone costs the pool more, they should pay more."

Darling points out that companies that go this route typically offer free smoking-cessation services and give employees plenty of notice before implementing the change.

A Quitter's Story

For Tommy Piver, 59, the combination of pricier cigarettes and looming health insurance penalties finally motivated the two-pack-a-day smoker to give up the habit he'd started at age 13. Increased taxes had caused the price of a pack of cigarettes at the gas station near his home in Naples, Fla., to double within a year, to $5. Then he got a notice that his insurance carrier was going to triple the health insurance premium and reduce the amount it covered for all sorts of care from 90 percent to 70 percent for smokers.

"Kicking and screaming," Piver quit on Jan. 1, 2010. About a week later, he saw a television ad for an online stop-smoking program developed by Legacy, a nonprofit created under the settlement between the states and the tobacco industry. Piver joined the free EX program and hasn't had a cigarette in two years.

The EX campaign is an "excellent, science-based tool" for smokers who want to quit, says Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends for the American Cancer Society. Another option is a national toll-free line, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, which routes callers to free support services, including free medication in the handful of states that provide it, says Glynn.

The 2010 federal health law expanded coverage for smoking cessation, though not to the degree that advocates wanted. Under the law, states must provide tobacco-cessation coverage for all pregnant women in their Medicaid programs at no cost. But anti-smoking activists would like broader Medicaid coverage requirements: Although 19 percent of adults smoke overall, 31 percent of adults living below the poverty line are smokers.

The health law also requires that new health plans - those that have either just begun or have changed their benefits sufficiently to lose grandfathered status under the law - screen adults for tobacco use and provide free stop-smoking interventions.

Exactly how much intervention is required isn't spelled out in the law; that will be up to federal rulemakers to decide. Smokers typically make several attempts to quit before they succeed. Advocates hope that federal guidelines will provide coverage for more than a single four-session counseling module, for example, or a standard 12-week round of medication. "Data is accumulating that 12 weeks is not enough," says Glynn.


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Yummy Berry Crisp

Yummy Berry Crisp

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Ingredients:
4.5 cups of fresh berries, mixed (i.e. blackberries, blueberries, raspberries)
4 tbsp white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups rolled oats
1 cups brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
tsp ground nutmeg
1 cups butter

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 F.

Place the berries into a large bowl, sprinkle with white sugar, toss gently and allow to stand for a little while.

Meanwhile, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl. Cut in the butter with a pasty cutter or two knives, until mixture resembles crumbs.

Lightly grease a 9x13inch pan. Press half of the flour/oat mixture into the pan and top with the berry mixture. Lightly spread the rest of the flour/oat mixture on top of the berries. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes or until the berry crisp is hot and the topping golden brown.


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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Vitamins for COPD

Vitamins for COPD
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COPD is a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is a lung condition that makes breathing difficult by obstructing the airways of the lungs. A common disease, it occurs most often in people who suffer from frequent episodes of bronchitis, or who have asthma or emphysema. Although a common disease, it can become life threatening and is one of the leading major killers in the United States.

During COPD, the airways and sacs within the lungs often can become blocked. This tends to make breathing very difficult because the air can become trapped in your lungs. Exhaling becomes almost impossible and makes expelling the air difficult.

Symptoms of COPD often begin quietly before being noticeable. A person with COPD will worsen quickly once the symptoms are noticed. The symptoms of COPD are a chest tightness, audible wheezing, excessive mucous secretions, a cough that lingers, shortness of breath with difficulty in performing physical activity, and/or respiratory infections that occur frequently.

It is thought that because people who have COPD undergo high levels of oxidative stress that giving them antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatories could be helpful in slowing down the progression of COPD. This would, in turn, decrease their need for prescription medications, which is always a good thing.

It has been found that vitamin A may be helpful in removing the reactive form of oxygen radical in COPD. Vitamins C and E may also be beneficial vitamins in COPD although not as significant as vitamin A. Vitamin A serum levels were more apt to be lower in those with COPD.

Supplements of vitamin A for one month were found to improve performance on PFTs in some people. Vitamin C levels, which tend to be lower in patients with COPD, may help to prevent oxidant-medicated lung injury during an inflammatory COPD period and can also help to reactivate vitamin E. Vitamin E can help to decrease the risk of suffering from COPD.

Coenzyme Q10 can help to improve the oxygen levels of the blood, as well as a decrease in heart rate. N-acetylcysteine can help to protect against some toxins. This will also help to enhance the immune system. L-carnitine boosts the immune system, improves fatty acid and glucose energy metabolism. L-carnitine has also been known to improve exercise tolerance while strengthening the muscles of the respiratory system. Bromelain helps to reduce mucous in patients with COPD.

Bromelain is found in pineapple. Omega-3 fatty acids can help with the inflammatory responses. It can improve oxygen levels and show increased improvement in pulse oximetry and shortness of breath.

If you suffer from COPD talk to your doctor about vitamin supplementation for COPD and their uses. Consider using them on a trial basis and see if any improvement is noted. Reactions to treatment are an individualized matter. If improvement is noted, consider vitamins for COPD as an alternative form of treatment.


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Pain Relief from the Most Effective Chiropractor in Sydney

Pain Relief from the Most Effective Chiropractor in Sydney

The Australian capital of Sydney presents a richly varied urban centre consisting of people from a wide assortment of ethnic, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds. With a total estimate of 177,000 residents dispersed in 26.25 square kilometres of local administration territory, Sydney is upheld by an estimated 385,000 strong workforce manning about 20,000 diverse companies.

With a large and still expanding population that swells to as much as 600,000 working in, shopping in and visiting this busy city, the appearance of stress related health problems could very well be expected. This can more often than not include signs of recurrent pains around the mid and the lower back areas along with the neck and shoulders, originating from poor postures and positions within their everyday activity.

When such indications of chronic muscle and back pains happen, it is most advisable to visit a chiropractor Sydney City provides in large numbers in several locations within the city. The Encarta Dictionary defines the practicing field of the chiropractic as “a medical system based on the theory that disease and disorders originate from a misalignment of bones, specifically in the spine, that inhibits proper nerve functions.”

Whenever such bone misalignments and nerve malfunctions develop, the resulting symptoms are usually chronic pains in various body parts directly impacted by the main neurological system. There is then the need to engage the professional methods of a Sydney chiropractor to fix the suffering individual’s spinal misalignment.

Proper spinal manipulations, when managed by professional Sydney chiropractic practitioners, may very well bring about immediate respite from spinal pains. Australian licensed chiropractors are professionally trained and fully equipped in providing spinal alignment treatments to patients to be able to relieve recurring pain triggered by long time bone and nerve disorders.

Periodic pains around the neck, shoulders and back, coupled with migraines, would be the usual indications of these bone misalignments and nerve malfunctions. The chiropractor technique is a holistic strategy in the management and relief of a constantly symptomatic pain such as headaches that comes through vertebrae disorder.

Believing that misalignment of the vertebrae could seriously affect a person’s general health and wellness, chiropractors use anatomically technical manipulations to remedy the misaligned position of the back bones so that nerves are not irritated when they leave the vertebrae. So they can perform their backbone manipulation techniques more accurately, the chiropractor Sydney employs to aid its ailing residents prescribes corresponding laboratory tests, ultrasounds and x-rays for prospective patients.

This grants expectant patients a deeper feeling of trust in a chiropractor’s medical professional capacity and better hope for alleviation from the suffering they have for some time been undergoing. When this occurs, life will carry on for them in a normal and exciting manner in the wonderful bustling area of Sydney.

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