Personal Health:
Personal Care, Personal Health
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Aug 31st, 2009
With millions of teenagers and young adults texting, pushing buttons on video game controllers, and tapping on computer keyboards for hours at a time, it's no wonder they're complaining of pain in their hands and wrists at a younger age.
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Aug 31st, 2009
Winter is on its way and so is the likelihood of catching the flu or cold. There are many ways to boost our immune systems to help fight illness. By boosting their immune system people have a stronger chance to fight off everything from a dangerous pandemic virus like swine flu to the common cold.
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Aug 28th, 2009
The credit crunch may be tightening our purse strings, but there’s no reason to suggest that a limited budget will mean an unhealthy diet.
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Aug 27th, 2009
Death risk rankings, a new website from Carnegie Mellon, allows you to calculate your death risk rankings over the next year. The website tells you where you rank in terms of dying for up to 66 causes of death. Death risk rankings was developed to provide valuable health information that compares disease rates, risk of death based on ethnicity, and location.
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Aug 25th, 2009
The use of electronic health records (EHRs) benefit both patients and health care providers, but many practices have a list of excuses for not implementing an EHR and that seems unchanged by the Obama HITECH Act’s $22 billion in incentives for physicians. ePatientHistory.com is an easy-to-use, cost-effective solution for secure digital capture of patient health records that results in a practical ROI with effortless implementation.
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Aug 24th, 2009
The human appendix is not a useless, evolutionary remnant of a larger structure. The appendix has a function, and the newfound understanding of its purpose may help researchers someday find a way to prevent appendicitis.
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Aug 21st, 2009
Do you know anyone who needs intervention for internet addiction? There is now an inpatient center in Fall City, Washington. It is the first in the United States though China, South Korea, and Japan already have several.
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Aug 20th, 2009
New regulations requiring health care providers, health plans, and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to notify individuals when their health information is breached were issued today by HHS.
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Aug 20th, 2009
Adults may think vaccinations are kid stuff, but that's not true.
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Aug 19th, 2009
Playing video games has now been found to be associated with significant health risks in adults. Time spent in front of the television and computer was found to be associated with higher BMI, and less social interaction. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found substantial health risk associated with adults who play video games.