More than 25% of the American populace suffer insomnia for various reasons. Sufferers filled over 50 million prescriptions for sleeping medications in 2009. Sleeping pills don’t actually solve a person’s chronic problem. Some specialists even said they’re not worth taking at all. With the advances of technology, insomniacs can now fight this issue without taking medications by enrolling at an online sleeping program developed by sleep expert Dr. Gregg Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs from the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has offered this sleeping alternative called...

A recent study suggests that expecting parents who often converse in two languages is likely to encourage the baby to tune into both languages after his/her birth. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in France as well as a group of psychological scientists from the University of British Columbia in Canada has observed the sucking reflexes of several newly born babies of mothers speaking in monolingual English as well as of mothers who are speaking in both English and Tagalog, the native language of Filipinos. According to the researchers, the sucking behavior of these...

When the term “identity theft” comes to mind, most people think of credit cards and bank accounts. But there is another form of dangerous identity theft that can be equally devastating—the theft of medical records. The New York Times reported on this quickly expanding type of fraud. In 2007 alone, 250,000 Americans had their medical records compromised. According to Pam Dixon, the executive director of World Privacy Forum, medical identity theft is on a rapid rise. Another study conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research, the 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report, revealed that 7% of...

The international journal of the American Cancer Society has recently published a study ran by Healthcore Inc. The study, which demonstrates the differences in the treatment of breast cancer between commercially insured white and black women, was released in the journal’s January 1 edition. The study suggests that African-American women under government health programs are often diagnosed in the later stages of cancer. According to Dr. Joe Singer, current vice president of clinical affairs for HealthCore, the findings of the study suggests that certain disparities in the treatment of breast...

Treating physical illness has high importance in today’s world. The development and distribution of drugs, treatments, and therapies have a high priority. They have been so highly prioritized that in some cases, legislators have tried to mandate vaccines. For example, some states have tried to mandate the new HPV vaccines to women of a certain age, as a cervical cancer vaccine. Treatment: Sublingual immunotherapy, or allergy drops , taken under the tongue. Why important: Serves as an alternative to injection therapy, or allergy shots. Injection therapy is not recommended for pregnant...