Obamacare supporters tend to give credit to the law where credit is not due. In the latest attempt, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D–WA) tried to link lower projections for Medicare and Medicaid spending to the Affordable Care Act. During today’s hearing on the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, Chairman Murray said: As [...]

Who? Who do you want to be when you retire?  What does retirement look like for yourself ?  Who will you be enjoying your daily activities with? Be proactive about your “Golden Years”!  Before you retire build a picture of the true YOU and  who you want to be!  Be sure to write it down [...]

According to a study in a  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)  article from 2012, over 30% of adult older than 65 years sensorineural hearing loss, also called presbycusis and as many as 70% of those older than 85 years found to have it (Ann R. Punnoose, MD; Cassio Lynm, MA; and Robert M. [...]

Medigap protections — or guaranteed issue rights — are rules that require insurance companies to sell you Gap insurance coverage even if you have pre-existing medical conditions. As a general rule you have about 60 calendar days to join a new gap insurance company after you had to drop a previous coverage. Below we have [...]

  Champagne and a mouth full of  watering garlic doesn’t sound like a recipe for love on Valentines Day, however, garlic has a history of being a “hot” herb as an aphrodisiac. Garlic owes its smell to a sulfur compound. The fact that it stinks isn’t unique–sulfur compounds are renowned for their nasty odors. In fact, sulfur [...]

The Supreme Court rules that companies cannot attain patents on naturally occurring strands of human DNA. Companies can, however, patent synthetic ally created strands composed of cDNA, or composite DNA. As gene therapy progresses and expands in scope, emerging medical technology has burgeoned to a $1B industry.  As private genetic labs race to find new [...]