Source: http://yourbodyyourtemple.net/health/how-congestion-can-be-cured-naturally-1/
Saturday, 12 November 2011
How Congestion Can be Cured Naturally: 1
The weather is changing.� That has a lot of people getting sick. They might just get little colds, but those are still awfully unpleasant, especially as the weather starts to get warmer. So let’s take a look at some natural ways you can get rid of your chest congestion!
Rerun: Narrow networks. Nice idea but no panacea
I?m taking a break from blogging this week so am rerunning some favorite posts from 2010. Please visit the original post to comment. In Health Insurers Get Tough on Hospital Prices, the Wall Street Journal reports that health plans and employers are using narrower provider networks to negotiate lower prices with hospitals. The idea is [...]
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CareEdge: a patient-centered approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment planning (podcast)
An initial diagnosis of cancer is enough bad news for anyone, but unfortunately it often also comes along with being thrown into an oncology diagnosis and treatment environment that is a lot less patient centered than one might expect. Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has recognized the challenges cancer patients face and is positioning [...]
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Friday, 11 November 2011
Nurse care lines: Wait a minute, I thought you were the expert?
My Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts card has a “Blue Care Line” phone number on the back. I’d never used it until recently but in the past couple weeks have had the occasion to call it twice. It’s a good service, which connects fairly quickly to an RN, who then uses a protocol driven [...]
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Happy Columbus Day
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Do These Bite Sized Drops Make Bad Breath Stop?
When an Everyday Health editor received a ?crazy amount? of Binaca breath drops, she sent out a mass email for everyone to share. I grabbed a couple, but since I?ve never had a problem with bad breath, I waited until I ate a lamb gyro, complete with tomatoes, sweet peppers, and onions to try them. Binaca claims that these re-launched breath drops will kill bad breath-causing germs instantly. Immediately, I imagined the blue liquid spreading in my mouth like soldiers and eradicating any traces of halitosis. (Have you ever seen those mouthwash commercials?)
But, then reality hit and nothing felt killed. After a lifetime of using mouthwash, I expected the Binaca drops to deliver that familiar burn, and I felt cheated when that didn?t happen. The peppermint-flavored drops tasted more sweet then bitter, but after about two minutes, that fresh-breath feeling was gone. It was as if I never even tried them in the first place.
When my (brave) friends checked my breath, they agreed: these drops didn?t deliver. ?At least the bottle?s cute,? I thought. (If anything, the size makes them convenient. At about two inches tall with the width of an index finger, these drops easily fit in my coin purse.)
But in the world of halitosis, cute doesn?t cut it.
The drops are available in Walgreens nationwide, so if you?d still like to give them a try, impulse-shop to your heart?s content.
-- Alysha Reid
Miscarriage pregnancy-best is conceive soon
Women who conceive within six months after a miscarriage have a better chance of a healthy pregnancy without complications compared to women who wait longer, according to a study .They are less likely to have another miscarriage, and are also less likely to experience a cesarean section, deliver prematurely or have low-birth weight babies, the study showed.The findings, published in the British Medical Journal , are likely to be controversial.The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women who experience a miscarriage should wait at least six months before getting pregnant again, and other medical authorities suggest holding off even longer.
To get a clearer picture, researchers led by Sohinee Bhattacharya at the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital in Scotland reviewed the medical histories of more than 30,000 women in Scotland who had a miscarriage in their first pregnancy and then became pregnant again between 1981 and 2000.
"Our research shows that women who conceive within six months of an initial miscarriage have the best reproductive outcomes and the lowest complication rates in a subsequent pregnancy," they concluded.
Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/08/miscarriage-pregnancy-best-is-conceive.html
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