Commercial Health Plan and Medicare Costs Also on the Rise Data released by Standard & Poor’s for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by private insurance and Medicare programs rose 7.32% over the 12 months ending August 2010. Hospital and physician claims for patients [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2010
The Beryl Institute Announces Ten Health Care Organization Recipients As part of its commitment to supporting efforts to improve the patient experience in healthcare, The Beryl Institute has awarded $1,000 grants to ten health care organizations that are exploring effective methods for addressing patient experience issues. The winners of the 2010 Beryl Institute Patient Experience [ Read More ]
“10 Tips for Breast Cancer Prevention” is provided by Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Hutchinson Center’s Prevention Center, a member of the Center’s Public Health Sciences Division, and author of “Breast Fitness” (St. Martin’s Press). 10 TIPS FOR BREAST CANCER PREVENTION Avoid becoming overweight. Obesity raises the risk of breast cancer after menopause, [ Read More ]
Throughout October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and its clinical care partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are offering a series of weekly research-based tip sheets regarding a variety of topics related to breast cancer, including breast cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment, and survivorship. Today’s tip [ Read More ]
Mounting Awareness and Concern Fail to Trigger Planning A growing number of Americans report knowing a relative or friend afflicted with Alzheimer’s, according to a national poll conducted by the public opinion research firm Abt SRBI. Yet despite this rise in awareness, often accompanied by significant anxiety about one day getting this fatal brain disease, [ Read More ]
Research shows Pycnogenol is effective in relieving tinnitus symptoms and improving inner ear blood flow More than 50 million Americans will experience some degree of tinnitus in their lifetime, according to the American Tinnitus Association. Tinnitus is a hearing condition that causes the constant misperception of sound, including hissing, ringing and rushing noises. A study [ Read More ]
New Research Shows Potatoes Can Be Part of a Weight Loss Regimen Research just released by the University of California, Davis and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrates that people can include potatoes in their diet and still lose weight. This research was presented at the Obesity Society’s [ Read More ]
Five women recognized for their dedication to women’s health and dignity worldwide Business and community leaders, dignitaries and philanthropists joined forces to celebrate advancements in the health and rights of women globally on Thursday, October 7 at the Americans for UNFPA Awards for the Health and Dignity of Women. Award winners included super-model and film [ Read More ]
Durex “Girl Talk” House Party events encourage women to take sexual pleasure into their own hands. Studies continue to confirm what Durex, the number-one condom brand in the world, has known for years: there is a “pleasure gap” between men and women that is getting in the way of truly fulfilling sex. To help address [ Read More ]
One-day ride starts in Mission Viejo, course covers large part of county Dozens of cyclists will pedal their way through several communities to raise money for the thousands of people affected by HIV/AIDS, in Orange County’s first Ride for AIDS event Saturday, Oct. 9. The event begins and ends at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo [ Read More ]