In the past, healthcare was a lucrative business. As the producer of medical products and services, the healthcare system determined the market need for these products and services and was paid more for producing more. There were none of the economic controls seen in other businesses. The reimbursement model of the time was an indemnity coverage that paid for 100 percent of services with essentially no limitations. Read the rest of this entry »
* Clay and Shii Ann
* Penny and Brian
* Erin and Ted
* Helen and Ken
* Jan and Jake
Shii Ann and Clay got further instructions to go to Chuay Gahn camp while Ken and Helen got a note to go to Sook Jai camp. Shii Ann learned about the monkey, Magilla, and thought their camp was just a wonderful thing. Read the rest of this entry »
A study in the Feb. 28 Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that only a fraction of people with elevated blood cholesterol levels are receiving adequate treatment.
Women’s Causes: The industry sponsored the Virginia Slims Women’s Legend Tennis Tour. and Woman Thing Music — as well as many women’s organizations including Catalyst and the Republican Women’s Leadership Forum.
The cigarette industry is under siege — the subject of federal and private lawsuits and a spectrum of proposed regulations to curb its advertising and promotion. And now, more than ever, the industry is turning to charitable giving as a means of gaining respectability while it continues to manufacture and market the leading cause of preventable death in America and the world: cigarettes.
According to the July issue of the Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource, one in nine women aged forty five to sixty four has some type of heart disease. By age 65, that number climbs to 1 in 3.
Deactivating Sperm’s Tail Could Be Key to Unisex Contraceptive, New Research Says
Taking the wiggle out of a sperm’s tail may be key to creating a new contraceptive that doesn’t involve hormones and can be taken by either a man or a woman, say scientists in Boston.
The months that passed between that phone call and the day of my departure were long and laborious. I had to convince everyone around me why I was doing this. My husband was not very happy with me leaving him with two kids for 17 days. My family and friends didn’t get why I would want to go off to a retreat and learn to teach yoga. What the hell is yoga any way? How long have you been doing this? Are you having a breakdown? Yes! The biggest struggle was the workplace. No one ever takes two weeks off at the same time! There is too much to be done. Who will be able to cover your assignments for that long? You are being very selfish to do this to other people. Read the rest of this entry »
My head was pounding. The ability to turn my neck, left or right, had left me several days earlier, due to stress. Every cell of my being was screaming for me to get up, move, run for the exit, never look back. That wasn’t possible. Quitting time had come and gone about 45 minutes earlier. I was trapped in yet another department meeting, listening to what I considered to be ceaseless whining about something, we as a team, had no control over. It was my opinion of course, not matching the eager, wide eyed ladder climbers of about half of my department. What was I doing here? What was I doing here? This used to be fun! Read the rest of this entry »
Many people are confused about stress and the role it plays in daily life. Stress is a natural state of readiness or response to a challenge or threat. All humans and animals experience stress. Although too much stress can be disabling, it is neither a mental illness, nor does it cause mental illness. Individual levels of daily stress vary over a wide range. Read the rest of this entry »