Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014, insurers raised concerns about their ability to provide healthcare coverage. Insurers had the option of turning down applicants with pre-existing conditions, with some charging higher premiums depending on an applicant’s health history. Now the ACA...
In Manitoba on Tuesday, December 14th, more than fifty firefighters, mainly women, sat in the visitor’s gallery, waiting as the Province’s Labor Minister Jennifer Howard, introduced Bill 6. Bill 6 is a document that expands coverage to firefighters for four work-related cancers, which includes...
There have been recent reports about a two year old baby named Ardi Rizal in Indonesia who is addicted to nicotine and smokes over 40 cigarettes a day. Ardi was given his first cigarette by his parents in order to provide him with pain relief...
Antidepressants have achieved the number one spot for the most prescribed class of medications in the United States....
Social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter are being used in medical practice to circulate health information and create online societies where patients can share their experiences....
“Continued degradation of nature despite decades of warning, coupled with the burgeoning human population, suggest that human quality of life could decline substantially in the near future.”...
Today, December 1, is Worlds AIDS Day. Extensive research has granted us with treatments for the disease, but there is still no cure. The spread of the AIDS virus has grown to the monster it is today. In 1990, roughly 8 million people were living with...
There's a whole world of possibilities out there. You can pretty much do anything you really set your mind to. Yes, the world is just waiting for you to experience it. However, with endless possibilities there are also endless setbacks. Many women have experienced struggle with...
It seems that lately there have been a few doctors that have been caught doing some of those things that doctors should never do. There was a doctor that was charged with molesting some of his younger patients and now there is a that has...
Somebody is getting a lump of coal in their stocking this Christmas, and possibly a nice orange jumpsuit and a new room that is cold, gray, and has metal bars. In Toronto, Canada, someone found a cat with an arrow through its torso. Police determined...
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