Tag: health

Senior Health Worsening Though Much is in Our Control

Time to Take Control From my article at Ground Report: United Health Foundation recently released America‰Ûªs Health Rankings Senior Report ‰ÛÒ A Call to Action for Individuals and Their Communities. It finds preventable chronic illness at troubling levels among seniors. Nationwide, about 80 percent of seniors are living with at...

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Health Tap New Resource for Health Information

I came a across a new resource called HealthTap. Essentially you can submit questions to a physician via mobile and receive vetted, peer-reviewed health information back.All doctors on HealthTap are licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. and are in good standing.They include doctors from leading U.S. medical institutions (like...

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Class Helps People Help Elders

From the LA Times… Valencia’s College of the Canyons in Ca. has designed a course to train students to help the elderly cope with chronic medical conditions and live more comfortably. The semester-long pilot program is the first of its kind in the country, administrators told the Times. During the...

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