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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Clinical Studies for Floss Are Biased In 2010, research found that 85% of industry-funded studies reported positive results. Contrarily, only 50% of government-funded studies had favorable outcomes. Then, a study, conducted in 2014 found that 97% of “head-to-head” randomized clinical trials favored the sponsor’s product. Unsurprisingly, the same biased research is evident in […]

Flossing: Is It Worth All the Hassle?

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Diets are like fashion; there’s always a new trend. You can’t go to any grocer or restaurant nowadays without seeing “gluten-free” it seems. Similarly, superfoods are all the rage. Supposedly, certain foods energize, vitalize, immunize, and even cure serious diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Fads have touted the power of these […]

Are Superfoods Overrated?

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1. Physically Demanding Jobs A Harvard study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that women with physically demanding jobs have a tougher time getting pregnant. Consisting of 500 women seeking fertility treatment, the results showed that those who do heavy lifting at work had 8.8% fewer total eggs and 14.1% […]

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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