Category: Consumerhealth

JGrimes
iVillage, one of the largest Web sites for women, is hoping to capitalize on a female penchant for seeking help online for health concerns or questions — especially those they are too embarrassed to discuss with anyone else.
iVillage launched a new health portal today, as part of a redesign of its site started […]

JGrimes
African-Americans are twice as likely as Caucasians to have Alzheimer’s and related memory-robbing diseases, and Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, are 1.5 times as likely, according to a new report released this morning by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The higher risk is likely linked to factors like high blood pressure and diabetes, […]

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As Washington dissects President Obama’s health-care plan and both parties prepare to grapple with health woes at Thursday’s summit, employers are saying their biggest cost problem lies at home.
Workers’ poor health habits were cited by 67% of companies as a top challenge to maintaining affordable benefit coverage in a new survey by […]

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We end the day with this warning from the FDA: Consumers should “steer clear of ear candles — hollow cones that are about 10 inches long and made from a fabric tube soaked in beeswax, paraffin, or a mixture of the two.”
Indeed, there are people who stick the candles in their ears, […]

Anna Wilde Mathews
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JGrimes
What causes cavities — bacteria that form a film on and eat away at teeth — is the same in kids and adults, but how prone an adult is to cavities is usually set in childhood, according to Burton Edelstein, a dentistry professor at Columbia University and president of the Children’s Dental Health […]

JGrimes
Most women probably remember the gynecologist saying that it’s important to conduct breast self-examinations at home once a month, or have heard the tale of how a friend or family member found a lump in their breast that wasn’t detected by a mammogram.
So the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new recommendation against teaching […]

Jacob Goldstein
Egg nog is showing up on grocery shelves, and holiday songs can be heard on the radio. So it must be time for all of us to assess the state of our health benefits.
At least that’s what I argue in my Healthy Consumer column today. The point is that most health plans […]

Jacob Goldstein
Egg nog is showing up on grocery shelves, and holiday songs can be heard on the radio. So it must be time for all of us to assess the state of our health benefits.
At least that’s what I argue in my Healthy Consumer column today. The point is that most health plans […]

Laura Landro
The flu had been rampaging through our kids’ school for weeks –- some days, their classes were less than half-full -– and we hadn’t been able to find any pediatricians or pharmacies with the H1N1 vaccine in our suburban Denver community.
So when the county announced a free H1N1 clinic for students, I […]