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Bingo Helps Elderly Stay Sharp
Author: Charlie is a guest contributor from www.onlinebingofinder.co.uk, the only site that lets you search 100′s of live bingo rooms. While online bingo operators have remained adamant that bingo is no longer just for your grandma, there’s still plenty of evidence that suggests the elderly can benefit from playing bingo games. A variety of studies more
New EpiPen Ad is Dangerous for Food Allergy Families
Update 4/21/2012: The makers of EpiPen have agreed to remove the commercial below. I want to thank the makers of EpiPen for listening and responding. More info from Allergic Living Magazine here. —— EpiPen, a brand-named epinephrine auto-injector that delivers a shot of adrenaline into the system of a food allergic individual having a severe, more
How Google Keeps Their Employees Healthy
There are a few forward thinking companies who offer free lunch to their employees with delicious, healthy alternatives to what they would get if they bought their own lunches. Zappos is one such company, offering an in-house cafeteria with free lunch to all of their employees everyday. It’s one of the many benefits that makes more
Kate Middleton’s Diet Doctor to Lose License
Around this time last year, I slammed Kate Middleton’s diet as nothing more than the old dieting and weight loss tips repackaged as the Princess’s Royal Wedding Diet plan conjured up to sell magazines to desperate women. I actually got some hate mail because of it as well. No, seriously. I did. I’m not even more
Medicare Supplemental Insurance Programs
Last week, we discussed how many Americans find themselves without insurance and may have to resort to purchasing short term health insurance coverage to bridge the coverage gap. This time, I want to talk about another gap in healthcare: Medicare. Medicare is an amazing benefit for American seniors, giving free and discount health insurance coverage more
New Vaccines for Hep C, Norovirus, and the Flu
These ridiculously smart and innovative scientists are always coming up with new vaccines to protect us against various diseases and viruses. Vaccine Prevention for Hep C Michael Houghton, a University of Alberta researcher and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Virology, may have discovered a Hepatitis C vaccine. Oddly enough, Houghton also led the team that more
Sick and Tired of Food Allergy Discrimination
We see school bullying happening against kids with food allergies, and it’s not just from the kids. It’s from teachers and other parents. It disgusts me. We saw the poor little girl in Florida get protested against by other parents outside of her school. They held up picket signs during drop off in the morning more
I’d rather suck on a lollipop licked by a stranger with chicken pox than get the vaccine, because vaccines aren’t safe
If you think my headline is a joke, it isn’t. Many parents, afraid of vaccines such as the Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccine are opting to take their children to Chicken Pox Parties so they can naturally contract the virus and avoid the shot mandated for school entry. While I’m not totally opposed to the idea more
Flu Shot Reactions – Is the Flu Shot Safe?
Is the flu shot safe? It’s flu season, and naturally, with the new flu shots out and those combined with H1N1 (Swine Flu) which is still relatively new, many people continue to question the safety and usefulness of the flu vaccine. I was once one of those people, insisting the flu vaccine was dangerous and more
No vaccines? No school! – San Francisco students, get your booster shots!
San Francisco schools are going to send some kids home next week if they don’t get their pertussis booster. It’s not a surprise that California is concerned with pertussis. The reduction in vaccination rates have caused this deadly disease, also known as whooping cough, to make a come back, infecting individuals across the board. San more
