Healthcare is one of the most common news stories over the past couple of months. For seven years, Republicans have been promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). They’ve had seven years to come up with an acceptable and workable replacement for Obamacare, but like a school kid given an assignment to write a
Even though Oregon has become one of the nation’s leading states on anti-American liberalism, there are still some conservatives and Christians in the state that are having their faith violated by the state’s liberal Democratic politicians. In the past, Oregon has passed laws that opened the door for illegal aliens and any non-citizen to illegally
Perhaps these days, despite our somewhat open culture, there are some things that most women just do not discuss or like to discuss, not even with their doctors. Visit your local Walmart and you’d think that vanity is all but gone, yet when it comes to a variety of common health conditions, vanity rears its
Cellulite is a curse to millions of women as they get older. It can appear anywhere, but generally shows up first and most noticeably on the thighs and buttocks. Some describe it as looking like there is cottage cheese under the skin or that their skin looks as rough and dimply as an orange or
The entire nation has been fixated on the Trump-Russia probe and the Senate Republicans’ healthcare plan. Everyone wants to know what kind of healthcare coverage they can expect under whatever new healthcare plan will replace Obamacare. Many are also wondering what will happen to their existing healthcare plans if the new GOP plan is passed
When it comes to childhood obesity, it might just take a village. Or that’s the implication of a two-year, community-wide intervention in two low-income Massachusetts towns, Fitchburg and New Bedford, which took place between 2012 and 2014. The effort focused on messages about: reducing screen time and soda consumption, replacing nutrient-poor foods with fruits and vegetables, increasing
Ladies, from the moment you begin to develop in your mother’s womb, you begin to develop muscles. After you are born and through adolescence and early adulthood, those muscles continue to grow and develop. You gain strength and body mass, hopefully in all the right places. In your twenties, you felt like you could do
Death is something that none of us like to think about, but it’s something we will all face at some point in our lives. From the moment we are conceived in our mother’s womb, we are set on a course that leads to death. Some will experience death suddenly and before they are prepared to
That may seem like an odd question, but the answers one gets may help explain some general misinformation. The number one answer many people give is heart disease. While heart disease is the number 1 cause of deaths for people over the age of 65, it’s not the number 1 health condition that older people
Millions of Americans get some form of cancer. The cost of treating and fighting cancer reaches into the billions of dollars. One source lists the cost of cancer care in 2010 at $157 billion. Imagine how much could be saved if researchers could find a successful way to fight cancer that didn’t require traditional chemotherapy
