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      As the Need Rises, Hospital Emergency Rooms are Closing

      May 17, 2011 /

      Hospital emergency rooms serving the poor are closing at alarming rates.

      As the need for emergency care has increased hospitals have been met with longer wait times and less effective care.

      As eligability for Medicaid increases with the new health care law, more recipients will turn to emergency rooms as their primary care option as many physicians do not take Medicaid payments.

      Urban and suburban areas have lost a quarter of their hospital emergency departments over the last 20 years, according to the study, in The Journal of the American Medical Association. In 1990, there were 2,446 hospitals with emergency departments in nonrural areas. That number dropped to 1,779 in 2009, even as the total number of emergency room visits nationwide increased by roughly 35 percent.

      Emergency departments were most likely to have closed if they served large numbers of the poor, were at commercially operated hospitals, were in hospitals with skimpy profit margins or operated in highly competitive markets, the researchers found.

      Doctors, Health Care Policy, Health Insurance, Hospitals, Medicaid, Quality Control

      Developing Healthy Habits is the Key to Wellness

      May 17, 2011 /

      Seemingly little things like getting up early in the morning and daily schedules make a big impact in helping to insure the success of your health goals.

      Healthy habits create an environment for achieving your healthy lifestyle.

      Make a commitment. Write it down, and tell your friends and family and make it public. Ask them to keep you accountable, support your goals, and join you as you build better habits.

      Schedule it. Don’t expect exercise time to appear by magic. You have to make time for it, just like you would a dentist appointment, pedicure, or business meeting. Program it into your day planner. Schedule a couple weeks worth of exercise slots in advance so you can plan for it.

      Do it first thing in the morning. If fitness is part of your morning routine, you’ll have it over and done with and won’t let anything else that comes up get in the way.

      Do it at work. Give up your lunch-hour fast food run and hit the gym, bike trai,l or local track instead. Ask coworkers to tag along. Or, add “fitness” to the end of your workday and exercise on your way home.

      Make no excuses. Even if you’re exhausted, bored or feeling lazy, honor your exercise commitment to yourself. You don’t have to do a full-court press every time. If your energy level is low, do something easy like a walk instead of a run. If you’re bored, do something different like a bike ride instead of running on treadmill. Any exercise you do counts as part of your new habit.

      Wellness

      Late Night Binging Brings on the Bulge!

      May 17, 2011 /

      Does late night eating cause weight gain?

      The debate has gone back and forth with no real scientific evidence either way.

      Sleep in and of itself plays a huge part in proper weight maintenance.

      The accepted widom was that a calorie is just a calorie, however recent findings may have proven otherwise.

      Although researchers have found that late night eating does cause weight gain they are not sure why.

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

      African-Americans With Liver Cancer Get Fewer Transplants

      May 14, 2011 /

      The treatment of liver liver cancer is expensive, high tech and on the rise.

      But that doesn’t address the issue fully.

      African -Americans face obstacles such as, lack of insurance, information, community and family support.

      There is also the issue of discrimination within the medical community toward minority patients.

      American Cancer Society statistics have shown the following:

      African Americans with liver cancer are less likely than whites to get a transplant for the disease, according to U.S. researchers.

      About one in 100 men in the U.S. develop the cancer at some point, while women are less than half as likely to do so, according to the American Cancer Society

      The researchers found that over the first half of the study, white liver cancer patients had a 30 percent chance of receiving a new liver, compared to only 15 percent for blacks.

      Although there are probably several reasons for the disparity, the biggest driver is the difference in access to care at the early stages of the disease due to health insurance.

      Research, Wellness

      Government Crack-Down on Hand Sanitizer Claims

      May 4, 2011 /

      Labeling and marketing materials for hand sanitizers claim that they can prevent infection from disease-causing germs and viruses, and some claim to protect against E. coli and the H1N1 swine flu virus.

      There is no proof to support these claims and the companies are marketing them in violation of federal law.

      Federal regulators are warning companies that make over-the-counter hand sanitizers to stop exaggerating the bacteria-killing benefits of their products

      Hand sanitizer and other over-the-counter products can’t prevent dangerous staph infections no matter what they claim, federal officials warned Wednesday.

      The Food and Drug Administration ordered four companies that make such promises to change their marketing practices, arguing there is no proof the store-bought products prevent H1N1, MRSA or E. coli – as they suggest.

      The products include Staphaseptic First Aid Antiseptic/Pain Relieving Gel, Safe4Hours Hand Sanitizing Lotion, Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic Gel and CleanWell All-Natural Hand Sanitizing Wipes.

      The manufacturers were given 15 days to change labeling and marketing material or face seizure of products.

      Research, Wellness

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