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Disrupting Today's Healthcare System
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system. Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic and expensive. It's sick care, not healthcare. This blog is about why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it. First, the Bad News: Doctors spend $210 billion per year on procedures that aren’t based on patient need, but fear of liability. Americans spend, on average, $8,915 per person on healthcare – more than any other count...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What It's Like When Your Mother Struggles With Major Anxiety
This article originally appeared on YourTango. More from YourTango: 5 Ways I Stay Happily Married To A Man With Chronic Anxiety 10 Things Your Friend Dealing With Anxiety Wants You To Know 10 Uplifting Quotes That Will Get You Through The Day A Guide To The BEST Birth Control For Every Type Of Woman Out There 7 Ways To Keep Their Passive-Aggression From Driving You Nuts Also on HuffPost: -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Learn the Warning Signs of a Stroke F.A.S.T
What if singing a song or rapping lyrics could give someone the power to spot stroke signs and take action? And what if sharing that song could spread power all around the world? Would you use it to save lives? Imagine the impact it could have.
Well the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) has partnered with me and David Augustine, aka Dee-1, a former teacher and now an up and coming hip hop artist, to do just that -- spread the word about stroke warning signs through music.
Our version of the song includes a music video that will bring life to the letters F.A.S.T.! Although we had plenty of...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Personalizing Medicine: Considering Preferences and Values
If you're interested in heart disease -- and who over the age of 40 isn't? -- you may have read an excellent series of articles by reporter Gina Kolata recently published in the New York Times. If you haven't seen it, the series includes pieces on blood pressure, stents, heart attack treatment and a new approach to aortic valve replacement. The heart valve article especially caught my eye, as this is a story I've been watching with personal interest: My 90-year-old mother has aortic stenosis for which surgery has been recommended. In fact, surgery was first recommended for my mom at least six years ago. I know that timing ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Saving and Improving Lives Mile By Mile, Coast to Coast
Since mid-March, they've been riding bicycles through communities from coast to coast. Perhaps you've heard about their efforts or even saw them roll through your area.
Their aim is noble. Their journey proved to be more difficult than envisioned.
They endured a tragedy halfway through.
And a near tragedy at the start.
And all that is on top of the devastating episode that birthed this whole thing.
The ride is called Heart Across America. It's the brainchild of Sean Maloney, a former Intel executive who overcame a debilitating stroke to resume his life and career.
Since beating those odds, Maloney set his sights ev...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hacking The Nervous System
(Photo: © Job Boot)
One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.When Maria Vrind, a former gymnast from Volendam in the Netherlands, found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie on her back with her feet in the air, she had to accept that things had reached a crisis point. “I had become so stiff I couldn’t stand up,” she says. “It was a great shock because I’m such an active person.”It was 1993. Vrind was in her late 40s and working two jobs, athletics coach and a carer for disabled ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
7 Steps To Finding Your True Purpose
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With average life expectancy now approaching 80, Americans can look forward to spending almost two decades enjoying retirement. That free time can seem heavenly at first—until the days stretch on. "[After] the honeymoon stage comes the disenchantment stage," says Dr. Sara Yogev, psychologist and author of "A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement." "People feel like everything is purposeless. They can get depressed, and we would like to avoid that stage."
Discovering your purpose—your driving force—is a proven way of escaping that emptiness. "From what we know from research, those that hav...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
11 Reasons Your Crazy Cat Obsession Makes You Happier And Healthier
Feline fans, rejoice: Your cat isn't just a cute and cuddly ball of fluff -- he's also incredibly good for your health.
Even pet owners who prefer puppies can't deny the major benefits that come along with caring for a furry friend of either species. Science shows that pets can help prevent allergies in kids, ward off respiratory infections, improve your mood and even boost self-esteem.
Whether you're a crazy cat lady or a dude ready to publicly proclaim your obsession with your feline friend, get ready to celebrate the many pros of being a proud cat owner -- all negative stereotypes aside.
Here are 11 reasons we should...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
