The Changing Healthcare Landscape Infographic
Infographic: The Changing Healthcare Landscape While the growth of U.S. healthcare spending as a percent of GDP has slowed in recent years, healthcare costs are still increasing, while life expectancy rates are flattening, according to a new infographic by Deloitte. The infographic looks at how national healthcare expenditures are changing, trends among the newly insured […]
Consume Oral Methandrostenolone For Fast And Effective Results
Consume Oral Methandrostenolone For Fast And Effective Results Methandrostenolone, generally known as Dianabol, Averbol and dianabol. It is the popular anabolic steroid which is very much used by the athletes and the bodybuilders. This is taken in the oral form. In Germany Methandrostenolone was developed and it reaches US in the year 1960s. As soon […]
Dr. Wulf Utian Speaks Out on Hormone Therapy
It is never ever pleasant in the practice of medicine to live to see a health warning you issued become fact. In July 2002, right after the infamous press conference held by the NIH to announce the premature termination of the estrogen–progestogen arm of the Womens Health Initiative study (WHI) and warn women off taking […]
5 Foods You Thought Were Unhealthy But Aren’t
Food fads and facts come and go. Remember when fat-free foods were the answer to everything? It wasn’t too long before people began to learn that something else had to be added to make up for the loss of flavor caused by removing the fat. That something was sugar. There’s nothing like a little knowledge (and […]
Resources for Health Care Professionals
Welcome to HealthyWomen’s new For Professionals channel, where women like us who are health care providers can find industry news, information and printable patient-education resources. As a nurse practitioner (NP) I know all too well the time constraints associated with office visits. To be able to build on the foundation you’ve established in the exam […]
Words That Can Mislead You into Thinking Healthy
Do some of your New Year’s resolutions include eating healthier? Nothing wrong with that. But it pays to be not only educated, but also specific. Looking for wholesome and nourishing foods can be confusing. Food items with words like “healthy,” “natural” and “multigrain” might fill your shopping cart and make you feel virtuous, but the […]
Protect Yourself: Keeping Your Medication Usage Safe
Prescription medication usage is rising. Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription in the past month climbed from 44 percent to 48 percent, says the CDC. And there was a similar climb for people using two or more and five or more. The average American fills 12 […]
5 Tips to Liven Up a Tired Face
For the last month I have been completely entrenched in the process of moving. The chaos of this has left me running on a lot less sleep than normal. Add that lack of snoozing to my winter-pale skin and most mornings I don’t look like the liveliest of ladies. Luckily, however, I have a few tried and […]
Midlife Minute: A Surprising Health Benefit of Prunes
Prunes are good for more than just a well, you know. In fact, after you read why, you may never look at those dried out, wrinkled fruits (which are actually dried plums) in quite the same way again. Quick. Free association time: When you think about a prune, what’s the next thing that pops into […]
Infographic: Six Health Plan Design Changes To Maximize ROI
Infographic: Six Health Plan Design Changes To Maximize ROI Employers are using a number of strategies to maximize health plan return on investment in light of increasing healthcare costs. A new infographic by Towers Watson explores the strategies and approaches companies are adopting, such as new coverage or utilization restrictions on specialty pharmacy, employee accountability, […]
9 Ways to Observe UN World Health Day
Sunday, April 7, is World Health Day, and this year the focus is on high blood pressure, one of many chronic diseases that is common around the world. About one-third of adults worldwide have high blood pressure, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Poor diet is one of many factors contributing to high blood pressure and other […]
Healthy Body, Healthy Records
The phrase “health records” might bring to mind all the records that a doctor keeps”age, weight, height, immunizations and so forth. Often we use this type of data to show change, like pounds of fat lost or pounds of muscle gained. But health records need not be limited to objective data. When we’re healthy, we […]