Category Archives: health care

Problem with your bones?

Osteoporosis – a common bone problem encountered by all walks of life. Calcium and phosphate are two components needed to develop healthy bones. As we age, our bones become brittle because these two minerals are reabsorbed into our bodies, thus … Continue reading

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Pay Little for a Long Life

If you are suffering from diseases like type 2 diabetes then there is just one thing you need to do and that is invest in things that are healthy. This helps you a lot in cutting the cost on medicines. … Continue reading

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Medical Tourism

With the advancement of technology, the diseases have also become very complicated. The complexity in the diseases requires the treatments to be specialized. Thus the specialized skills of treatments are not available at the same place, and are distributed across … Continue reading

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Oil what? How?!!?

Oil Pulling is an age old tradition followed in Indian households from the times of ayurveda. This is a therapy that is practiced by swishing and swirling of about 10ml of cold pressed Sesame seed oil in the mouth for … Continue reading

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Choices In Childbirth

My best friend is having a baby. She lives right around the corner from a hospital–how convenient! Except that she really doesn’t want to have her baby in that particular hospital, whose C-section rates are some of the highest in … Continue reading

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Cyberchondria–It’s real and on the rise

John Markoff of the New York Times, wrote a really great article in November of ’08 profiling Microsoft’s study of Cyberchondria. Cyberchondria is a term that was coined around 2000 that refers to the jumping to conclusions of one’s health … Continue reading

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Online Smoking Support Groups

As they say, old habits die hard, and they die especially hard if they’re tough-to-break habits like smoking. If you find yourself on that familiar loop of quitting and starting up again and quitting and starting up again, you need … Continue reading

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STD Check – The Right Thing To Do

I’m a student and I don’t have health insurance. I don’t even know how to go about getting it. But when my girlfriend told me that she didn’t want to have sex until I got tested for STD’s, I knew … Continue reading

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Online Diagnosis is Convenient, But Not Always Credible

I had a friend of mine recently joke with me about how after she lost her health insurance; she had to resort to Googling her symptoms when she had a problem. But apparently she isn’t the only patient seeking the … Continue reading

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Sleep better with quality sleep apnea machines from CPAPmart.com

It’s crazy how many different kinds of sleep apnea machines you have to choose from—from brands to models to features to prices, the selection is completely overwhelming for new patients. And of course, so many of the sleep apnea masks … Continue reading

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