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For lots of us, the beginning of a new year means the beginning of a new diet. Michelle Musselwhite is more than happy to help.
Musselwhite is a registered dietician in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation with Rowan Regional Medical Center.
She suggests that the easiest way to lose weight is by making small changes in your diet.
One pound is equal to 3,500 calories.
“If you spread it over a week,” Musselwhite says, Read the rest of this entry »
Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economist at Princeton.
The graph below tells a compact story of United States health spending relative to that of other nations.
Shown on the horizontal axis is the gross domestic product per capita in 2006. The vertical axis represents 2006 health spending per capita. The data points in the graph represent two dozen developed countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.). Read the rest of this entry »
until June, I’ve seen rampant speculation on Steve Jobs’ health, and I’ve seen some wonder if
without Jobs. It’s all quite understandable; after all, Steve Jobs is by far the biggest figure in the company. But after reading a
(warning: Lam uses lots of profanity) on Gizmodo where he becomes completely unglued when responding to criticism he and Gizmodo received regarding their coverage of Jobs’ health, I really think it’s time for us in tech circles Read the rest of this entry »
Ultimately, there might be value in separating health insurance from employment; many a worker clings to a bad job for the healthcare benefits. The problem is that McCain’s plan doesn’t replace this system with anything solid. The tax credit would work for healthy young people who can buy cheaper insurance, but would leave older people struggling to find insurance they could afford. The big attraction of individual mandates is the pooling of younger Read the rest of this entry »
Two years have passed since Heather Finlay-Morreale and her University of Cincinnati College of Medicine peers studied carbon monoxide poisoning. She recalls the lessons that taught them how the gas creeps into the blood and slowly suffocates the body’s organs, binding to red blood cells much faster than oxygen.
But mostly she remembers the day of their biochemistry exam — when they were told one of Finlay-Morreale’s small-study-group members took Read the rest of this entry »
Obama’s campaign made speaking offers to the Illinois treasurer, the comptroller, the attorney general and a Chicago city clerk.
(Ill.) was asked to introduce Obama on the convention’s final night;
(Ill.) was told he would speak on television during prime time. Finally, fed up and embarrassed that he still had heard nothing, Blagojevich joked to a crowd at the Illinois State Fair that, yes, he also had been asked to speak — at 4 a.m., in a Denver Read the rest of this entry »
Deciding on grad school? In addition to taking on six-figure loans, late nights and ramen dinners, would-be students now must add in another challenge: family health insurance.
Increasingly, universities are dropping family health insurance programs, saying soaring costs make them a money-losing option. That’s forcing more families onto government programs like Medi-Cal or Healthy Families while moms and dads earn their law degrees or doctorates. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve had clothes custom-tailored by a seamstress. I’ve had vacations custom-planned by travel agents. And now, I’ve received a custom-designed personal health plan from medical experts.
Recently, I joined a group of volunteers at Emory University submitting to an exhaustive — and exhausting — “predictive health assessment” that researchers used to determine the specific health risks I face and to prescribe changes to my behavior and lifestyle Read the rest of this entry »
Ronald Kinston was a known, high-ranking member of
the Bounty Hunters set of the notorious Bloods street gang
when he was in state prison, so when the former
Middlesex County resident got paroled last January, the
State Police kept a close eye on him.
There was good reason, State Police Major William Toms
said yesterday. Despite being monitored by an electronic
bracelet and confined to his home most of the day, Kinston
quickly assumed control of Read the rest of this entry »