Lung cancer is a very serious form of cancer. It is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in the United States. It can cause more deaths than any other cancer among men and women. Lung cancer makes up fourteen percent of the total cancer records and twenty-eight percent of cancer deaths in America.This is [...]
With all the present news about our health care crisis, it is worth asking how we got into it. The culprit is history, not conspiracy.Consider that the latest several hundred years witnessed a huge technology change from the prior several hundred millenia in which we evolved from cave men.Item: Nearly all of the presently treatable [...]
The only way to lose weight is to change your attitude and the life style that you are following. If you really want to see you in a good shape or a healthier physique you should be ready to bring some changes in your behaviour and habits. When you prepare to do some thing positive [...]
Isn’t it good health one of our priorities in the family among other things? With that in mind, would not it be very comforting to know also if the community where we live in also promotes public health nursing? Even if your eyebrows meet and your forehead carries a large question mark because you don’t [...]
This article basically deals with answering the question – Hypertension why is it a public health problem?. So without wasting any time, let us get to the point.Needless to say, we can’t give our best shot unless we have a healthy body and a fresh mind. We are more likely to make mistakes in whatever [...]
ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT With Peter JenningsPeter Jennings – …Dr. Drummond Rennie is an editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association. He says researchers who are critical get attacked all the time. Do you actually believe, Dr. Rennie, that drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs, which are not as [...]
Enhancing Services of Panchayat Raj in Public Health * Ramaiah Bheenaveni Panchayats in India are an age old institution for governance at village level. In 1992, through the enactment of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment, Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) were strengthened as local government organizations with clear areas of jurisdiction, adequate power, authority and funds commensurate [...]
It’s proven by modern science that a healthy life style matters much to how long you can live or how well you live. With more and more quick work pace and tons of fast food around you, may be you are already deeply effected by it without awareness. Help yourself to find out those improper [...]
The Senate Finance Committee rejected an amendment Tuesday that would have created a government-run health insurance plan. The committee voted 15 to 8 to reject an amendment proposed by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV. Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, sought to add a public option called the Community Choice Health Plan.All Republicans on the [...]
 The current debate on health reform is getting lost in the numbers and dollars game in Congress. The arguments have become about price. What is the cheaper option? How can we pay for it? What is the best value? It is about the health insurance industry defending its ground, and attempting to maintain the current [...]