Category Archives: Medicine
Web Visits on the Rise – Doctors Practicing Medicine on the Internet [Health 2.0]
photo credit: john-norris I recently read an interesting article on Medical News Today reporting health insurers will begin covering online physician visits: Health insurers Aetna and Cigna have announced that they will pay for online physician visits, and patients will … Continue reading
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Tagged doctor, health, internet, Medicine, online, physician, second life, surgery, Technology, web visit
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FDA Approves Generic Ambien, Fosamax, Coreg and more
I was wondering why I haven’t seen any Ambien commercials lately. According to the FDA, Generic drugs cost about 20% to 70% less than their brand name counterparts. The Congressional Budget Office has reported that generic drugs save consumers an … Continue reading
Multivitamins may cause “aggressive and fatal” prostate cancer
I’m not too hip on multivitamins. Not only do we take on faith what’s in them, we take on faith they’re healthy. My own personal opinion – get your vitamins the way they’re meant to be processed, from food. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, fast-food, fatbloggers, Fatblogging, Medicine, multivitamins, prostate, vitamins
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When your body speaks, do you listen?
Well you haven’t been hearing much from me this week. I large part of that is because I pulled back on my exercise. This past Saturday, I tried to do a little bit of speed work. Nothing crazy, just moving … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, Medicine
Tagged back, Exercise, Jump-Start-Your-Fitness, knee, Medicine, Motivation, pain, Running
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Drug companies are fun to mock (and they deserve it, too)
Penny Arcade has a great strip today that sums up how I feel about consumer-targeted pharmaceutical advertising: I especially like how drug ads are starting to use the verbage “Ask your doctor for a sample of Killzoudedia” – between the … Continue reading
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Tagged ads, advertisement, arcade, commercial, drugs, dsacdad, fitness, havidol, Medicine, penny, penny-arcade, pharmaceutical, tv
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