January 11, 2016 Smart Phone App Sends Alerts for CPR Help Firefighters in California have launched a new iPhone app to alert those trained in CPR when someone nearby needs help
January 11, 2016 6 Lamest Excuses for Not Losing Weight Reach your goal by giving these top healthy eating and exercise cop-outs the boot
January 11, 2016 Americans Get Too Much Health Care, Their Docs Say In a new poll of primary care physicians, nearly half of them said their patients received too much medical care and more than a quarter said they were practicing more aggressively than they'd like to
January 11, 2016 Plastic Surgery Is on the Rise Among Older Americans Elective cosmetic procedures among patients age 65 and older, both surgical and nonsurgical, rose 29 percent in the past five years, to more than 680,000
January 11, 2016 6 ways to balance work and marriage When both parents are working, juggling jobs and family responsibilities can put a strain on marriages. But trend data shows that working moms are good for the marriage and the kids
January 11, 2016 Who's Packing ERs? Not the Uninsured One in five people in the United States visit an emergency room every year, and most of them have health insurance of some kind, according to a U.S. government survey released on Wednesday.
January 11, 2016 3 new rules make weight loss successful Three habits are key to weight loss and sustained weight control
January 11, 2016 Common OTC Drugs Putting Elderly at Increased Risk Hundreds of thousands of older people taking well-known common drugs could be at increased risk of dementia and even death, new UK research suggests
January 11, 2016 Are Cellphone Towers Hazardous to Your Health? Living near a cellphone tower might eventually melt your brain, give you cancer, or worse, neuter your reproductive organs -- at least that’s the warning issued last week by a dissenting group of trade activists.Â
January 11, 2016 Hospitals react to SCOTUS decision on health care reform In the heart of Atlanta, Grady Memorial Hospital serves as the safety net for thousands of poor and uninsured Georgians. Last year, the public hospital delivered more than $200 million in uncompensated care to more than 100,000 uninsured patients. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, Grady can expect to recoup from insurance much of the charity funding it had previously passed on to local taxpayers