…Are you paying more for prescription drugs? The stats say that you probably are. I recently wrote an article about the prescription drug industry. Through my research, I learned that nearly 7 in 10 Americans are on at least one
Category Archives: Health Care
AskNadia: I Need Free or Inexpensive Insulin
I receive many emails from people asking me to help them get access to insulin. This column is for you, the person and family member who has reached out to me for help in gaining access to free or affordable …
Home Visits By Nurses For First-Time Mothers Help Reduce Government Costs
Symphonie Dawson was 23 and studying to be a paralegal while working part-time for a temporary staffing agency when she learned that the reason she kept feeling sick was because she was pregnant.
Living with her mom …
Beware of Illegally Sold Diabetes Treatments
As the number of people diagnosed with diabetes continues to grow, illegally sold products promising to prevent, treat, and even cure diabetes are flooding the marketplace.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to use such products. …
Struggling With Type 2 Diabetes
In 2009, when Bruce Share started drinking five glasses of iced tea before dinner and dropped 15 pounds from his already lean frame, he immediately knew that he had diabetes. In the preceding four years, he had learned a great …
40 Years Of Preventive Care Saves Lives And Money
The rest of the country could learn a thing or two from the residents of a county not too far from Stephen King’s stomping grounds.
According to research that appeared recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Maine’s …
Governors Weigh Options On Health Insurance Exchanges
To partner with the federal government or not. That is the question facing many of the nation’s governors as crunch time approaches to carry out the 2010 health care law.
Their decisions about whether to set up state-run online markets …
President’s Win Is Reprieve For ‘Obamacare’
President Barack Obama’s victory cements the Affordable Care Act, expanding coverage to millions but leaving weighty questions about how to pay for it and other care to be delivered to an increasingly unhealthy, aging population.
“The reelection of Obama and …
Settlement To Deliver Victory For Tens Of Thousands Of Older And Disabled Adults Served By Medicare
Burlington, Vt. – The Center for Medicare Advocacy and co-counsel from Vermont Legal Aid today announced that plaintiffs and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius filed a Settlement Agreement in the landmark case of Jimmo v. Sebelius, bringing …
Workers Who Take Their Medicine Are More Productive
Editor’s Note: Portions of this report were taken from a press release from CVS-Caremark.
It seems commonsensical to say that employees who take their medicines as prescribed are more productive than workers who risk medical problems because they neglected to …
