October 2009

Concierge Medicine – A Further Divide

This morning, I skimmed my tweets to see what the tweeples are talking about.  One posting about concierge medicine really stood out.  Premium-based healthcare, as it is called, allows people to pay a fee in order to ensure quality healthcare.  …
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My First Mammogram!

Well, it’s Breast Cancer Awareness month so it’s no surprise that I decided to have my first mammogram today.  I’d been putting it off for over a year because of all the horror stories.  I’d heard of women coming out …
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CFS is NOT caused by a virus!

I don’t usually post twice in one day, but I was online and read an article about chronic fatigue syndrome that I found particularly disturbing. Apparently some genius wrote an article in Science magazine linking the retrovirus knows as XMRV …
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What’s Your Happy Place? How to Alleviate Stress

While we’ve all heard that stress is bad for our health, very few people actually take this statement to heart. In addition to playing a role in inducing heart attacks and strokes, stress can increase blood pressure, damage white blood …
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