Protecting Your Health While Flying

A recent health scare on a Chicago airport tarmac last month has heighten awareness about a daily occurrence that typically goes by unnoticed and ignored: the spread of infectious disease by airline travelers.

Last month, a female passenger who had just returned from a visit to Africa had broken out in hives and the condition had gotten progressively worse since leaving the nation of Ghana. By the time the regional jet had arrived at Midway airport, the local airport fire department had surrounded the plane and the Centers for Disease Control had been notified of the possible... (more)

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Medical Cannabis: An Effort towards Creating Better Health

...it was declared illegal in the United States. This law perverted people from realizing the medicinal benefits that this drug offers. However, over the last 15 years people have started realizing the extraordinary medicinal value of marijuana and have started using it to treat a wide variety of health issues. But because of the ill effects that marijuana and other medical cannabis products have on health, this drug is currently only available by prescription from a licensed doctor. Some of the most common ailments that can be treated with the use of marijuana include cancer, HIV, AIDS,... (more)

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Just how Substance Abuse Detrimentally Influences Health

...just for your brain. While scientific research continues to increase knowledge of exactly how a substance comes to be a real crutch, researchers are likewise locating a lot more evidence of the dangerous results of chronic and experimental addiction on our bodies, which results in considerable health issues to the user.Central Nervous SystemThe nerve fibres can be likened to the control system of your body. Different regions control emotion, impulsiveness, response time, and simple life functions such as breathing. With out substances, the conventional working brain keeps most of these in... (more)

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Crunch Time in D.C. for Health Care

...key (or on the fence) senators in order to move a bill for passage and signature before his State of the Union address. At the same time, House leader, Nancy Pelosi has been in front of the cameras expressing her intention for transparency in the deliberations.

The Senate version for health care legislation has been established as the basis for reconciliation legislation. This is a bit of departure from a normal reconciliation process where both the House and Senate versions are fully vetted for reconciliation. By promoting the Senate version, the Democrats are indicating that the ... (more)

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Senator Jim Webb Shares His Views on Health Care Legislation

Thank you for contacting my office regarding health care reform. I appreciate your taking the time to share your views. I voted in favor of health care reform legislation in the Senate. Despite my disappointment with some provisions in the bill, as well as the process under which it was considered, the final package presented to the Senate reflects many improvements that take into consideration the concerns that I and others brought forward during the debate.

Our country needs health care reform. Most importantly, the status quo of our present system, which is damaging... (more)

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A Rebuke to the AARP on Health Care

The debate over health care including the media reports about favors for special interest groups like the Unions, the cost of expanding medicaid and the lack of transparency by the Democrats in their negotiations with the President have caused most Americans to believe that this is the wrong direction for the country.

Recently, a lady received a letter from a Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of the AARP to renew a lapsed membership. The AARP has been vocal in their unequivocal support for Obama and his agenda including health care reform of whatever shape and size. The lady responded... (more)

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Deforming Health Care: A Banner Year

The country's five largest health-insurance companies increased their combined profits by $4.4 billion dollars in 2009 -- the year everyone else was struggling to stay aflloat in the worst recession in memory -- according to a study by the reform advocacy group "Health Care for America Now!" The study shows how the five companies (WellPoint, CIGNA, UnitedHealth Group, Aetna Inc. and Humana) pulled it off; by collectively dropping insurance coverage for millions of customers, denying coverage to millions more, eagerly enrolling customers in privately administered, publicly subsidized plans such... (more)

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Obstinate President Pushes His Version of Health Care Reform

...physician. Maybe worst of all it is not a good time to be a concerned American – young or old – who is concerned about growing federal deficits, increased taxes and expanding government size and control.

All of this is possible as a result of the Obama’s administration announced health care plan “The President’s Proposal” an 11 page document which the President has purportedly put on the table for bipartisan debate and discussion this week in Washington. Early analysis of the proposal shows that it contains many of the biggest and most controversial features of the... (more)

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Health Care Reform: How Many Wrongs Made it Right?

According to the apparent consensus of pundits, President Obama did everything wrong as he tried to lead the country to health-care reform.

In the beginning he didn't demonstrate sufficient leadership, he left the writing of the bill to the Congress, and at the end he made it too personal, went on TV too much, risked his entire presidency. His timing was all wrong, he should have put the whole matter aside until the recession was over and concentrated instead on jobs, jobs, jobs. He was trying to do too much; he should have put it aside until he first achieved peace in the Middle East... (more)

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Getting the 411 on Finding Reliable Health Information

In the wake of the passing of the Health Care Reform bill, an interesting question can be raised: do you know how to find health information that is reliable?

Probably not, because if you, as a non-healthcare professional, have ever tried to go into a library for personal research, you most likely have been denied.

About 20 some odd years ago, I remember being able to go to a library at a Kaiser Permanent facility with my parents. I got to watch videos about the human body and read books. Nowadays, that access is rarely available to the general public.

Now, there is a public... (more)

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