Monthly Archives: February 2017

health care
The ultimate goal of ACA was to insure more Americans. If the insured rate is the measure of success, then Obamacare succeeded. At least 20 million more people now have health insurance than they did before the law. To improve the uninsured rate, the Obama administration wanted to make it easy for people […]

Trump Administration Announces New ACA Ruling

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Tuesday, February 14, insurance giant Humana announced that it’s completely pulling out of the ACA exchanges. As a result, President Donald Trump used Humana’s decision as evidence that President Obama’s signature healthcare law is struggling. “Obamacare continues to fail,” Trump tweeted. “Humana to pull out in 2018. Will repeal, replace […]

Three Reasons Why Humana Left the Marketplace

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Believe it or not, the clinical studies people have quoted all your life about flossing may be biased. In 2010, research found that 85% of dental industry-funded studies reported positive results from flossing regularly. On the other hand, only 50% of government-funded studies had favorable outcomes towards flossing. Then, to make matters […]

Flossing: Is It Worth All the Hassle?

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Are ‘Superfoods’ Superficial? Diets are like fashion; there’s always a new trend. You can’t go to the store or your favorite restaurant nowadays without seeing qualifiers like “gluten-free,” “paleo,” or “keto-friendly,” it seems. Similarly, superfoods are all the rage. Supposedly, certain foods energize, vitalize, immunize, and even help prevent serious […]

Are Superfoods Overrated?

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Deciding to start a family can be a very exciting time in a couple’s life. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t come so easily to everyone. Fertility is a crucial aspect of reproductive health, but many factors can negatively influence an individual’s ability to conceive. Understanding these factors will be important for […]

15 Factors That Negatively Affect Fertility

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Mediation, Medication, and Migraines Study Published recently in Behavioral Medicine, “Effect of Different Meditation Types on Migraine Headache Medication Use” investigates how a combination of spiritual meditation and migraine medication can affect, if at all, analgesic medication usage. Lasting only 30 days, the study comprised of 92 participants with frequent migraines (>2 per […]

Meditation, Medication, and Migraines

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