Earth Hour 2008

Earth Hour 2008 is expanding from 2007 when Sydney went black for one hour to promote the idea of easing the pressure on the Earth’s energy resources. You can also visit the website for Earth Hour 2008 here and the here.

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Types of Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are becoming popular among younger generation as compared to spectacles. The reason being lenses offer better cosmesis and visual field. But you need extra care in case of lenses than specs. Due to continued innovation, varied types of lenses are available in the market and for varied purpose. …
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How can insurance premiums be capped at 10 percent of income?

The big news today is that Hillary Clinton wants universal coverage that will cap health insurance premiums at 5 to 10 percent of a family’s income, regardless of income. Considering that health care represents 16 percent of the GDP (i.e., income) and rising that number doesn’t seem too realistic. From the transcript:
Q: You’ve also said […]

Lehman gets a taste of the high cost of health care

Lehman Brothers, a big investment bank, may have been swindled out of $250 million, which was supposed to be used to buy medical equipment. From the Wall Street Journal:
Late last year, a unit of the New York-based investment bank issued loans to a fund run by a medical consulting company owned by LTT Bio-Pharma Co., […]

West Nile Virus Can Cause Lifelong Symptoms

WebMD (on CBS) is reporting that a new study on West Nile Virus has found that one out of every 150 people infected suffer from severe nuerological disease. Of those about 40% have serious symptoms such as difficulty walking, memory loss and depression that they may deal with for the rest of their lives.

One in […]

1.2 Million Year Old Human Bones Found in Europe

Reuters reports in the video below that archaeologists have discovered bones, fossils and stone tools from the earliest known humans, or hominids, in Europe.
Archaeologists have discovered evidence that humans were active in Europe about 1 million years ago but they had never found any human remains - until now.

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The primary care bottleneck to health care reform

Benjamin Brewer, a family physician who writes for the Wall Street Journal, points out that the supply of primary care physicians is not up to the task of handling a surge of new patients unleashed by proposals for universal health care. (See Primary Health Care Needs Fixing Before Universal Care Can Work.) In fact, primary […]

What is EDTA Chelation Therapy

I heard about EDTA chelation therapy often. I was not knowing about it previously but then I read about it on internet and found that it is used in the treatment of coronary artery diseases. (CAD)
Now what is EDTA chelation Therapy. EDTA is a short form of Ethyelene Diamine …
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“I’m not a neurologist but I play one in the hospital”

From MSNBC (Pronounced dead, man takes ‘miraculous’ turn; Doctors can’t explain why 21-year-old Zack Dunlap recovered from accident)
…36 hours after the accident, doctors performed a PET scan of his brain and informed his parents, along with other family members who had gathered to keep vigil at the hospital, that there was no blood flowing to […]

Cavalcade of Risk is up at InsuranceYak

Check out the Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival at InsuranceYak.

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