tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42725207883478824412024-11-01T03:41:11.091-07:00Healthy InformationHealthy is for wellness, integrative medicine, alternative therapies and mind-body-spirit healthavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2692125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-5289423730641310972011-04-11T04:46:00.001-07:002011-04-11T04:46:46.292-07:00Individual plan health care services Individual plan health care services
What is an individual health insurance plan? If speaking technically, it is an agreement between the insurer and the customer regulating that the insurer will pay for listed customer's medical services in case of an emergency against a certain fine. But the main question that many people are asking is about the elements to be avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-68703194932597453562011-04-11T04:43:00.000-07:002011-04-11T04:43:44.570-07:00The Health Benefits of Red Wine
The Health Benefits of Red Wine
Can wine really improve our health and increase longevity? Scientists are beginning to say "Yes!" Supposing that the theory is true -- which wines give us the most bang for the buck?
Researchers have found that red wines rich in flavonoids are best for our health. Flavonoids are best known for their antioxidant qualities and help the body resist such avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-75663468765989587872011-04-10T21:28:00.001-07:002011-04-10T21:28:32.555-07:00Privacy Policy for dr-healthyinformation.blogspot.com/Privacy Policy for dr-healthyinformation.blogspot.com/
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at oeng.avicenna@gmail.com.
At dr-healthyinformation.blogspot.com/, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-7043797806840544462011-04-10T20:01:00.000-07:002011-04-11T04:39:13.737-07:00Heartburn and Acid Reflux Relief During Pregnancy!Heartburn is a common condition for many, unfortunately, is even more common for women during pregnancy. The acidity is caused by stomach acid to escape and move into the esophagus. It can create pain, pressure and burn the women during pregnancy and naturally women would like a natural and effective solution that will not affect your growing baby. There are two reasons why the heartburn avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-18930537106140345352011-04-10T19:52:00.000-07:002011-04-11T04:39:13.739-07:00Head Sweating And Your Social LifeThree percent of people in the world suffer from head sweating. This is a staggering statistic. If one suffers from this medical condition one need not feel alone. The entire surface of the body is covered in millions of sweat glands that control the body temperature and allows the skin to perspire to cool down when hot. When this intricate system gets out of sink excessive head sweating of a avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-9782757128291459932011-04-10T19:48:00.000-07:002011-04-11T04:39:13.741-07:00Exercise for Stomach FatWith all the fast food we eat, only the fortunate few avoid a flabby gut without doing some sort of exercise for stomach fat. Two of the simplest types are planks and crunches. Before you start on either, bear in mind that pregnant women shouldn’t do these exercises. Also, if you have back problems, doing crunches on a hard surface can aggravate those problems, so don’t do that. As always, warm avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-67184234460560596162011-04-08T04:15:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:15.980-07:00Dr. Silverstein and Dr. Poses in WSJ: "The Literature Is Hardly Pristine"I have considered Dr. Roy Poses' Dec. 14, 2010 post "The Lancet Emphasizes the Threats to the Academic Medical Mission" (with its hyperlinks to source posts and articles) an excellent summary of many of the pathologies we address at Healthcare Renewal, especially with regard to the academic mission and the disruption of the integrity of the medical literature by commercial interests. His post isavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-1800055780992898302011-04-08T04:15:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.006-07:00Dr. Silverstein and Dr. Poses in WSJ: "The Literature Is Hardly Pristine"I have considered Dr. Roy Poses' Dec. 14, 2010 post "The Lancet Emphasizes the Threats to the Academic Medical Mission" (with its hyperlinks to source posts and articles) an excellent summary of many of the pathologies we address at Healthcare Renewal, especially with regard to the academic mission and the disruption of the integrity of the medical literature by commercial interests. His post isavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-34681456642932434172011-04-02T08:00:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.010-07:00Breast Cancer Complexity in Personalized MedicineScientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have conducted the single largest cancer genomics investigation to date by sequencing the entire genomes of tumor from 50 breast cancer patients. They compared the cancer DNA to healthy cells in the same patient and found mutations that only occurred in the cancer cells. They uncovered incredible complexity in the cancer avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-79511485614258305272011-03-30T09:13:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.023-07:00How Large Health Care Organizations Set the "Rules of the Game" to Dominate Health CareThe notion that health care is increasingly "dominated by large, bureaucratic organizations which do not honor ... [its] core values"(1) just made it into a main-stream, large circulation US medical journal. A brand new commentary in the American Journal of Medicine(2) by Supri and Malone declared:To explain why we have the most expensive health care system in the world and yet one of avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-53659565682297478722011-03-30T09:13:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.027-07:00How Large Health Care Organizations Set the "Rules of the Game" to Dominate Health CareThe notion that health care is increasingly "dominated by large, bureaucratic organizations which do not honor ... [its] core values"(1) just made it into a main-stream, large circulation US medical journal. A brand new commentary in the American Journal of Medicine(2) by Supri and Malone declared:To explain why we have the most expensive health care system in the world and yet one of avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-30630688940996021982011-03-27T15:38:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.030-07:00Lifesaving Antibiotics Losing Power Due to Resistant Germs The single most important medicine ever discovered is the antibiotic. Prior to 1930, humans died at early ages of simple infections and even childbirth was a major killer of women because of infection. The mortality rate from simple staph aureus was as high as 80%, but between 1944 and 1972 the human life expectancy jumped by 8 years because of antibiotics. By 1950 the golden age of avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-16265815165581830422011-03-25T09:05:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.054-07:00The Institute of Medicine Releases Reports on Practice Guidelines and Systematic Reviews Which Generate Few EchoesTwo days ago, the prestigious US Institute of Medicine released two reports on important health care issues, clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews. Systematic reviews of the relevant clinical research have been advocated by evidence-based medicine proponents as the appropriate basis for clinical and policy decisions. Clinical practice guidelines have been advocated avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-68102245632789058762011-03-25T09:05:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.062-07:00The Institute of Medicine Releases Reports on Practice Guidelines and Systematic Reviews Which Generate Few EchoesTwo days ago, the prestigious US Institute of Medicine released two reports on important health care issues, clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews. Systematic reviews of the relevant clinical research have been advocated by evidence-based medicine proponents as the appropriate basis for clinical and policy decisions. Clinical practice guidelines have been advocated avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-15613020251720334762011-03-23T22:45:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.065-07:00Japanese Hospital Provides Disaster CareSenen General Hospital was hit hard by the Tsunami in Japan, but it continues to provide care for patients even though there is no electricity or running water. The hospital is located between a river and the coast and it was flooded on the first floor when the giant tsunami hit the neighborhood. The basement held the boiler, electrical room and other machinery. The kitchen was ruined and thereavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-56617561026620498162011-03-22T09:32:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.066-07:00Millions to Health Insurance CEOs, But Blame Everyone Else for Rising Health Care CostsThe revelations about the huge golden parachute given the outgoing CEO of ostensibly non-profit Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield induced some public discussion about the disconnect between executive compensation and the mission of health care organization (see most recent post here). Several other recent stories should generate more discussion on these issues. First, new proxy avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-71453650879301974142011-03-22T09:32:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.070-07:00Millions to Health Insurance CEOs, But Blame Everyone Else for Rising Health Care CostsThe revelations about the huge golden parachute given the outgoing CEO of ostensibly non-profit Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield induced some public discussion about the disconnect between executive compensation and the mission of health care organization (see most recent post here). Several other recent stories should generate more discussion on these issues. First, new proxy avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-20545320461952762872011-03-22T07:05:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.078-07:00How Academic and Government "Anecdotes Are Not Data" Ideologues Kill PeopleI'm already receiving comments that, regarding Prof. Jon Patrick's detailed exposé of the dangers of ill-suited-for-purpose ED EHR's, Patrick's observations are:... not really valid because they're not peer reviewed; they're just anecdotal. Only an egghead could pen such words.I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But without a scientifically controlled experiment with all theavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-77223940419110494432011-03-22T07:05:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.084-07:00How Academic and Government "Anecdotes Are Not Data" Ideologues Kill PeopleI'm already receiving comments that, regarding Prof. Jon Patrick's detailed exposé of the dangers of ill-suited-for-purpose ED EHR's, Patrick's observations are:... not really valid because they're not peer reviewed; they're just anecdotal. Only an egghead could pen such words.I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But without a scientifically controlled experiment with all theavicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-19582653600128581262011-03-21T22:39:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.089-07:00Exercise Helps Knee OsteoarthritisWhen we think of osteoarthritis (OA), we think of chronic "wear and tear" on a joint that has just plain worn out. Many patients with arthritis become less and less active and that is actually the worst thing for an arthritic joint. A new study published in Arthritis Rheum. looked at the functional performance in 2589 adults with knee OA and found that there was a consistent relationship avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-38433906392119939262011-03-21T19:37:00.000-07:002011-04-11T04:39:13.744-07:00How To Find the Best Stop Snoring Solution for YouWhen you start researching stop snoring solutions you begin to realize just how many different approaches are available for you to try. They range from stop snoring sprays to mouthpieces which are designed to keep your airways open to pretty drastic surgeries. You can be forgiven for feeling that you need to be a qualified MD to work out which snoring solution would be most appropriate for you.avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-11225335611099662992011-03-20T12:12:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.103-07:00Radiation From JapanThe week after the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami have had Americans watching the events unfold in horror. The explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima and the threatened melt down of the reactors created a near panic in some Americans thousands of miles away. I am not downplaying this event and the potential damage to the reactor core with release of large quantities of radiation is avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-1082329229010240962011-03-20T06:42:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.137-07:00"Real" Medical Informatics: What Does a Problem List of Typical Health IT Look Like, Part 2At my Mar. 15, 2011 post "What does a "problem list" of typical health IT look like?" I displayed a chart by Jon Patrick at U. Sydney on the ill-suited nature of an American EHR system for use in Emergency Dept. settings. That system had been mandated for rollout in public ED's in the entire Australian state of New South Wales.As it turns out, that chart was just preliminary.A new chart is up avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-10393409485120015642011-03-20T06:42:00.000-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.142-07:00"Real" Medical Informatics: What Does a Problem List of Typical Health IT Look Like, Part 2At my Mar. 15, 2011 post "What does a "problem list" of typical health IT look like?" I displayed a chart by Jon Patrick at U. Sydney on the ill-suited nature of an American EHR system for use in Emergency Dept. settings. That system had been mandated for rollout in public ED's in the entire Australian state of New South Wales.As it turns out, that chart was just preliminary.A new chart is up avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272520788347882441.post-15994350156456652652011-03-17T14:35:00.001-07:002011-04-11T07:10:16.148-07:00Health Care Executives' Compensation: Head's, They Win, Tail's, You LoseIt seems to be the season for stories about the pay of health care leaders to appear in the press. Here is our latest round-up.Novant HealthFirst the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal reported hefty pay received by executives of a regional hospital system:Four of the top five executives at Novant Health Inc. received substantial salary increases during 2010, according to the health-care system.However, avicennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01086402288542457492noreply@blogger.com