A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that Englishmen, who ate mainly fruit, vegetables and fish. were less likely to get depression 6 years later, compared to those who were heavy meat and bread eaters. This study had…

Since my last blog, I have flown from the Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic Ocean to the Grand Hotel des Illes Borromees in Stressa on Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. I’m here to take part in a conference on the role…

The average person with kidney failure makes the journey three times a week to an expensive dialysis center. Here she is connected to large machines which suck blood out of her body and purify it. In 1972, President Nixon signed…

Results from a survey commissioned by the American Optometric Association, show that 36 percent of Americans say they’re cutting back on visits to the eye doctor and other doctors because of the recession.

The American Eye-Q survey, conducted annually by the…

As I awoke this morning, I heard Mr Limbaugh pointing out that if we did not think that Governor Palin was right about “death panels”, the Veterans Administration already had nurses doing this. When I recovered from realizing that this…

As much as we may find Michael Moore annoying, we need to accept that when he claimed health care outcomes in Cuba and the United States were roughly equivalent, he was right. Life expectancy in both Cuba and the USA was…

Do you wonder if your insurance will cover both the swine flu and seasonal flu vaccines?

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri, which has a regional headquarters in St. Louis, says it will as long as vaccines are covered as benefits…

If you lost your job this year and have been taking prescription medicines made by Pfizer Inc., you might be able to get them free starting on July 1.

Under a Pfizer program called Maintain, unemployed adults and immediate family members…

Following are 10 Ways…

Statistics in Cancer Facts and Figures 2009 the annual statistical analysis by the American Cancer Society shows that cancer deaths are declining and they’d drop faster if people would stop smoking.
Lung cancer remains the top killer among men and women while…