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Health Care’s Growing Cadre of Bionic Beings
photo credit: Dashu Pagla Imagine constructing a human being synthesized completely through science—a seemingly supernatural fabrication of life. You may think Frankenstein. You may visualize Iron...
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How Much is Your Health Worth?
Many of us rarely ponder what our health and life are worth. It’s often assumed that life is priceless, but that doesn’t do justice to the stratospherically rising health care and insurance costs; in...
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Why you could be Paying Too Much for Your Prescriptions
Prescription medications are expensive, and many doctors seem to become “prescription-happy.” These doctors’ first response to a patient complaint is usually to prescribe something new if something...
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AARP Collects Fat Fees for Endorsements, Kaiser Network Reports
AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, but now known more commonly by its acronym) is a non-profit, non-government interest group which, according to its web site mission...
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Health Insurance Options if You’re Laid Off
Nearly two million Americans have lost their jobs over the last year: around 500,000 in the last couple of months alone. That’s a staggering number of people who have lost their livelihood, perhaps...
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Health Breakthroughs that Made 2008 Headlines
The medical breakthroughs that get reported in the media rarely end up being the miracle cures they’re often portrayed as. In 2008, however, there were several important advanced made in medical...
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Online Family Health Tree Helps Track Health History
Trees are good for your health – they suck up carbon dioxide and release oxygen, help reduce greenhouse gases and provide welcoming shade during the summer. But those aren’t the trees that have...
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Stimulus Package to Fund Federal Health Care Comparison Studies
The $787 billion economic stimulus package that was signed into law last week includes one or two health-related measures that haven’t been widely publicized, but which are no less important for it....
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With Health Reform, It’s the Little Things, say Seniors
President-elect Barack Obama should take note – health reform is about the little things just as much as it is sweeping changes to the system. Information gathered from a batch of more than 8,500...
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Blue Cross of California Rates are Rising
Blue Shield of California claims that the 59% rate hike for individuals comes as a result from rapidly rising health care costs as well as many other expenses stemming from the recently passed health...
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