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• Best Health Care In The World...Really?

  
  the BL Rag — Authority: 103
  Heres an excellent, if sobering, graphical examination of health care spending around the world from National Geographic .  The presentation represents three particular data points - spending per person, number of doctor visits per year, and life expectancy.  Click on the graphic to enlarge. The question is ...
  4 hours ago

• ‘Obesity now a bigger threat to people’s health than smoking’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Scientists in the U.S. have warned that obesity is now a bigger threat to people’s health than smoking.Their study has shown that expanding waistlines now cause as much or more disease than tobacco, and do as much or more to shorten healthy lifespans.To reach this conclusion, researchers ...
  22 hours ago

• We are paying more and not getting enough for our healthcare dollar

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 440
  I said when this debate started that we, Americans, should not have to pay another dime. WE are paying enough. From DK : Via  Nate , here are  two pretty striking representations of the same data on the costs of healthcare, versus one measure of effectiveness of a system–life expectancy. The first ...
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• Male Disposability – Myth or Reality

  
  Fight for justice — Authority: 121
  View This Poll poll Male Disposability – does the term strike any resonance with your thought process? Or is it that before striking any resonance do I need to ask the basic question – Do you even realize what Male Disposability is? If yes, then you probably know what’s going to be in the article. If ...
  5 days ago

• Positive Expectancy Is A Necessity For Achieving Success

  
  Success Is Achievable Now! — Authority: 99
  “Our BELIEF at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the only thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.” - William James Positive Expectancy is an absolutely crucial ingredient for one to experience accomplishment and personal success .  Successful people agree that one’s attitude when ...
  5 days ago

• This New Decade Will Be What We Make It

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 435
  If you are one of those who dont accept that 2010 is the beginning of a new decade, thats fine. You dont have to convince me. Personally, Im trying to understand why 2011 doesnt start a new decade. But thats neither here nor there. The video above, shows that we have been through ALOT, in the past ten years. So much ...
  5 days ago

• A New Year for Health: Give Thanks for Medical Advances

  
  Seniors For Living — Authority: 119
  It helps to dwell on the positive when much around us is otherwise, especially as we embark upon a new year. So instead of all the depressing health news lately (i.e. H1N1, the trials and tribulations of the health care reform debate, and other Debbie Downer-esque reports), check out Melinda Beck’s recent post in ...
  6 days ago

• Journal of Public Health 2009 (Vol 31 No 4)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 148
  Journal of Public Health 2009 (Vol 31 No 4) Contents Page Fade Fave: Impact of antisocial lifestyle on health: chronic disability and death by middle age Fade Skinny: This article looks at a longitudinal study which attempts to determine whether death and disability by the fifth decade are strongly associated ...
  6 days ago

• The Real Healthcare ‘Chart of the Day’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 821
  Andrew Sullivan posted the following chart, which he found in National Geographic, and he noted, with considerable justification, that this was evidence of an insane and inefficient healthcare  system in America. Sullivan-Healthcare – The chart shows that America spends a lot more than other nations ...
  1 week ago

• Warning: Graphic Health Politics

  
  Better Health — Authority: 521
  A friend sent me this interesting graph from the blog of the National Geographic. You’ll have to click on it to see a bigger version.  It captures a lot of data very elegantly on a single graph–  Professor Tufte would love it. What it shows is health care spending per person across a group of countries, ...
  1 week ago

• Christmas could have increased diabetes risk for millions, say experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 28 (ANI): Christmas could have increased the risk of diabetes for millions of people, experts have warned.Charity Diabetes UK said that eating and drinking too much over the festive period could have increased many people’s risk of developing prediabetes - an under-diagnosed and symptomless condition ...
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• Increase Life Expectancy |How to Live Longer| Methionine Effects on Body

  
  Health and Wellness: Home Remedies, Natural Cures, Treatment, Causes, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Diagnosis — Authority: 145
  How to Increase Life Expectancy: Lowering the consumption of a certain type of protein that is found in meat, fish, and nuts, could slow down the ageing processes, and greatly improve life expectancy , says a research. A vegetarian diet could be the answer to long life. Methionine is an essential amino acid. It is ...
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• Chiropractic: The First Step Toward a Healthy 2010

  
  Chiropractic Unity — Authority: 103
  The American healthcare system is failing. Americans spend 16.5% of our total economy on healthcare, estimated to be $2.4 Trillion in 2008 (that’s $2,400,000,000,000) which equates to twice as much per capita as other industrialized nations. Despite this obscene level of spending, we rank at the bottom of the list ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care is NOT a Right

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 440
  While this subject has been discussed on this site previously, in light of the looming Senate vote and my recent announcement to only accept my district’s median household income for my congressional salary, and to make a charitable donation to local non-profit hospitals, I’d like to review this subject once ...
  2 weeks ago

• Living to a ‘very old age’: a note from the Australian Government Actuary’s office

  
  SuperGuide.com.au — Authority: 128
  In November 2009, I wrote an article, ( Updated life tables: Is the tide shifting for Australian life expectancies? ), reporting that average life expectancies have increased, except for women in their eighties and nineties, based on the latest life tables released by the Australian Government Actuary. I invited ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shearwater Research Pursuit technical computer

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 129
  It is available in five configurations to suit your diving from the basic air/nitrox scuba version to the fully loaded nitrox, trimix and heliox open and closed circuit model with external active one and three cell ports. Each configuration is fully upgradeable to any other via a personal code, so you can upgrade as ...
  2 weeks ago

• WPA primer

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 491
  Another excellent job by Alex.
  2 weeks ago

• Life Expectancy in U.S. Hits New High

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 465
  WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Average life expectancy in the United States has reached almost 78 years, a record high, federal health officials said Wednesday. Image:  read more
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• Series examines life expectancy disparities

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  In their Contra Costa Times series “ Shortened Lives ,” Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman start by profiling three different people from three very different (though nearby) ZIP codes, noting the life expectancy for each. Then they deliver the kicker on which all subsequent reporting hinges: The Contra ...
  2 weeks ago

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