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• in Social Media
  The Link Between Social Media and Health Care
  An article from GP focuses on the link between social media and health care as more medical practitioners embrace social networking.
  by lanabandoim / on Mar 18, 2013
• in Politics
  Barack Obama for President
  Your choice could not be clearer. Make sure you make it in the form of a vote.
  by jimmyzuma / on Nov 2, 2012
• in Business
  Ben Cohen's Stamp Stampede: "Money's Not Speech, Corporations Aren't People!"


  Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's will be giving away ice cream October 2nd to the 9th
  by transmediartist / on Sep 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health care”

 

• Young Americans Likely To Drop Health Coverage As Premiums Rise

  
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  The crafters of Obamacare assumed that once they passed it and found out what was in it that millions of young Americans would buy health insurance, and the premiums paid by the young would subsidize the premiums for older, sicker Americans. What they failed to realize is that we’re all consumers, and that when ...
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• Is the gay lifestyle the same as the heterosexual lifestyle?

  
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  I am going to post this disturbing article from the radically left-wing New York Times about the latest new disease affecting the gay community in New York. (H/T ECM) Here’s an excerpt: At around 4 on a Saturday morning, a time when most of the gay bars in New York have closed and locked their doors, a steady ...
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• The Ayes Don’t Have It: Medicaid Expansion Fails In Missouri

  
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  The proposed Missouri Medicaid expansion has reached the end of the line, at least for this year. When Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced he would pursue the expansion after last November’s election, I expressed  my substantial reservations about both the cost and effectiveness of the program. And I repeated those ...
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• Healthcare REITs Don’t All Have Appetite for New Construction

  
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  Not all healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) are putting their money into new developments in senior housing, several REIT executives told attendees of the Assisted Living Federation of America’s conference held in Charlotte, N.C. last week. Some REITs are more willing to work with operators to fund new ...
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• Hospital CEO Pledges To Make Health Care Prices Public

  
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  The chief executive of a Miami, Florida hospital has pledged to begin addressing one of the most dysfunctional aspects of the American health care system, according to MedCity News . He’s striving for greater price transparency — giving patients and doctors the ability to easily see, before purchase , just what ...
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• Louisiana Senate panel approves dual provider rate bills

  
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  Two pieces of legislation designed to draw down more federal Medicaid dollars for Louisianas hospitals and nursing homes were passed by a Senate committee Monday, even as they faced opposition from the administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal and two prominent...
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• Medical Abbreviations Explained by Mobile App

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Rhona Finkel First Posted at HealthWorks Collective on 5/20/2013 Does this happen to you? Do you ever find something–something unusual, that perhaps no one else wants–and think to yourself, “Where have you been my whole life?” Well, anyone who has followed my love affair with mobile health apps will ...
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• Richie’s Sense Of Entitlement Beyond Expected

  
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  An Owsley County man died Saturday and a second man was shot after the two allegedly got into an argument involving an all-terrain vehicle. [ H-L ] Your hospital may be hazardous to your health. An interactive investigation into patient harm. [ ProPublica ] With U.S. Sen. Rand Paul edging ever closer to a ...
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• New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network

  
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  Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more sense when they’re turned into a chart. In fields like mass cytometry, though, where doctors might want to analyze dozens of ...
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• Challenges to Improving Health Care in Pakistan

  
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  Hamza Mazhar, a 35-year-old teacher from Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, says he never wants to see the inside of a government hospital again. “My mother was taken to the hospital with an upper respiratory tract infection in February this year and doctors said she needed care in the hospital’s Intensive ...
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• Many people with implantable defibrillators can participate in vigorous sports

  
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  NewMediaWire via Webwire Study Highlights: Many people with implantable defibrillators may safely participate in a number of vigorous sports. The study challenges some current science recommendations advising against vigorous competitive sports for people with implantable defibrillators. People with ...
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• Bill would change health FSA policy 

  
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  &via=&related=DolcePixel"> A bill that would allow workers who put money in a health flexible spending account to recover unspent funds at the end of the year, rather than having the funds revert to their employers, has been introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, and Mike ...
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• Information Missing from Studies on the “Benefits” of State Medicaid Expansion

  
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  Newscom Advocates of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion have produced a number of studies in various states that project significant economic benefits if states adopt the expansion. However, most of those studies omit one or more key factors that, when included, make expansion scenarios look considerably less rosy. ...
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• #RADIO this week! – National Women’s Health Week

  
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  This week on  MomsRising  Radio With Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner we discuss birth control, yummy & healthy foods, fitness programs that work, getting pre-existing conditions covered–and how to get access to affordable health care.   It’s National Women’s Health Week and we’ll cover it all on this ...
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• NYC Alzheimers Association Blondes Vs Brunettes Charity Football Game Played Saturday At Roosevelt Islands Octagon Field - Over $122,500 Raised For A Great Cause

  
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  The New York City Chapter of the Alzheimers Association played its third annual “Blondes vs. Brunettes” Powder Puff Charity football game last Saturday at Roosevelt Islands Octagon Field to raise funds and support for the New York City Alzheimer’s community. The mission of the NYC Alzheimers Association Chapter ...
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• Silly Me, Expecting My Mail-Order Pharmacy To Pay Attention To My Meds

  
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  ( voteprime ) Don’t expect your mail-order pharmacy to look out for you or for your health. That’s what reader Kathleen learned when her auto-refill prescription got auto-refilled, in spite of her new and exciting prescription for the same medication in a higher dose. Isn’t the point to having everything run ...
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• Immigrants Are Healthier until They Stay Here a While

  
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  As early as the 1970s, researchers found that immigrants lived several years longer than American-born whites even though they tended to have less education and lower income, factors usually associated with worse health. That gap has grown since 1980…Evidence is mounting that the second generation does worse. ...
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• New Sharp Healthcare Mobile App Helps Patients Manage Their Care

  
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  This post is sponsored by Sharp Healthcare. Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Centers have made their convenient online patient portal, mySharp, available as an app for Android devices. Sharp Healthcare Mobile App Sharp Rees-Stealy patients and those who manage the care of their loved ones will be able to ...
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• Projected Government Health Spending Down Almost a Trillion Since Deficit Hysteria Began

  
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  It can’t be stressed enough how much our projected deficit problem basically fixed itself while most of Washington was trying to scaremonger the debt to justify cutting benefits. Paul N. Van de Water at CBPP did the math and found that since the recent round of deficit hysteria began in back in 2010, the CBO 10 year ...
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• Form OBMA Added to IRS Forms for Tax Year 2014

  
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  Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has created a form  that likely won’t differ much from the real one from the IRS showing up in the mailboxes of the 140 million taxpaying Americans in 2014: it’ll be complicated, intrusive and will take still more time to complete. And, according to the ATR , it will result in at ...
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