Get a health insurance quote – On average, Americans watch 31 hours of television per week. And new research shows that your television could be killing you–at least in one sense. Data from an Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study, which followed 8,800 male and female participants, found a strong correlation between sedentary television viewing […]

Get a health insurance quote – Adults aren’t the only ones struggling to secure health insurance. A report from the Oregon Health & Science University reveals that 6.7 million children in the U.S. are without health insurance. The report also stated that 25 percent of children with health insurance are not adequately covered. Many of […]

Get a health insurance quote – I’m afraid I just can’t pass this one up…just a couple of months after I wrote about some of the questions surrounding running shoes and Christopher McDougall’s book “Born to Run,” a new study has been released that seems to suggest that running shoes can cause more strain on […]

If you’re still measuring your child’s liquid medication with a kitchen spoon, a new study may shock you. Researchers at Cornell University found that the size of the spoon used to administer medicine directly affects the amount of medicine poured. According to the study, 200 students were asked to pour 5 ml of liquid medicine […]

Get a health insurance quote – While Congress debates the specifics of a health care bill, Americans wonder what reform will mean for them–and when they can expect it. The good news is that many changes would be felt immediately or within a few months of the bill’s signing. If the health care bill becomes […]

Get a health insurance quote – While officials in the U.S. have stopped short of writing the obituary for the H1N1 swine flu, the damage caused by outbreak has, thankfully, fallen well short of a major epidemic on the scale of the 1918 flu pandemic. One of the major reasons is that the swine flu […]

Get a health insurance quote – To reduce expenses, health insurance companies encourage consumers to opt for generic drugs whenever available. But certain prescription drugs may not work as well as their brand-name counterparts. A fascinating article in the New York Times, Not All Drugs Are the Same After All, explores this topic in detail. […]

A common thread is emerging in the right wing response to healthcare reform. Its opponents aren’t claiming that public healthcare will be bad. Rather, they are terrified that the new system will be so good that no citizen would buy expensive private insurance–or vote for politicians who wanted to take public insurance away. The Obama […]

As Congress debates creating insurance “exchanges” as part of a health-care overhaul, the failure of a similar effort in California may offer important insights, former participants in the program say. From 1993 to 2006, small businesses in California could buy health insurance through an exchange run initially by the government, and later by a nonprofit […]