Health Insurance Blue Shield-hospital Insurance Blue Cross Blue Cross was started in 1929 by Justin Ford Kimball, at Baylor University in Dallas, Texas It was developed to guarantee teachers 21 days of hospital care for $6 a year Later on the plan was enlarged to other people in the Dallas area and then throughout the country In 1939 the term Blue Cross was used to include other plans as well Blue Cross is a name used by an association of health insurance plans throughout the United ...

A Guide To Arthritis Pain Relief In a recent survey on pain conducted by the Stanford University Medical Center, arthritis pain was cited as the chief complaint among America’s seniors, with thirty-two percent of the senior population listing arthritis as the specific cause of their suffering Arthritis does strike children and young adults as well, although it afflicts the mature segment of the population more frequently It is estimated that 15% of the American adult population suffer from arthritis, and ...

Sleep Apnea – A New Treatment Option For Children Sleep apnea is estimated to affect some two to three percent of children today (getting on for two million children in the United States alone) and is particularly seen in children between the ages of about three and sixIn the vast majority of cases the main cause of sleep apnea, in this case obstructive sleep apnea, is enlarged tonsils and/or adenoids and the preferred method of treatment is surgery However, research ...

Acne And Stress Believe it or not, stress can actually be your cause for acne A study at a German university has proven the stress theory Another study found that acne worsened in students that were under stress from exams They discovered that when you are under stress, your body releases a chemical called CRH (corticotropin-releasing hormone) During times of stress, CRH is released from the hypothalamus to create a hormone called cortisol that is responsible for creating enough energy for the brain amongst other things The problem with ...

Another Increase In Health Premiums The health industry's main lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans, reports that medical premiums increased 88% between 2004 and 2005 The lobbying group claims this is good news since the actual premium rate of growth has continued to slow from a rate of more than 13% in 2002 The increase in health premiums is reportedly most likely due to the increased use of doctor and hospital services The accounting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, reports that just 14% of the increase had to do with administration ...

Massage For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Massage therapy eases the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome and increases grip strength, according to a recent study“Carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms are lessened following massage therapy” was conducted by staff at the Touch Research Institutes at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, FloridaSymptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome include pain, tingling, burning and numbness of the hand Sixteen people diagnosed with this syndrome participated in the study All of them held jobs involving ...

Country Living Help For Attention Deficit Disorder? Scientists don't understand why Attention Deficit Disorder is increasing so quicklyOne reason may be that more and more people are living in congested, overcrowded situationsA hundred years ago when most people lived on farms or in small towns with a lot of rural spaceADD ADHD wasn't even recognized by the medical communityHowever, there may be something to the constant stimulation of modern lifeWith its quick pace and technologylike automobiles, microwaves, cell phones and ...

Doctors Aren't Responsible DOCTORS AREN'T RESPONSIBLE: - How can we blame people who spend their childhood and teenage years working their butts off learning details by the proven rote method? The parents and society encourage the behavior that leads to a large number of dysfunctional patterns They often have no time to socialize as they learn volumes of unrelated and un-integrated bits of data Much of the data should be in hand held computers - it doesn't help to put ...

Low Back Pain In The Workplace… Do Those Low Back Belts Really Work? Back injuries are the leading cause of disability in the United States for people younger than 45 years of age and have been the most expensive health care problem for the 30-50 year old age group [Bureau of Labor Statistics Lost work time injuries and illnesses: Characteristics and resulting time away from work US Department of Labor, Washington, DC, 1998]There is evidence that low back belts are ...

Caution, Prevention And Cure Of Cataracts As the population ages, cataracts are becoming a growing health concern A cataract is a clouding of the eye lens to such an extent that it affects vision The majority of cataracts develop due to the aging process, and by age 80, more than half of all Americans have them However, there are also other type of cataracts: secondary cataracts, which form after surgery for other ophthalmic diseases such as glaucoma; traumatic cataracts, which can develop after an eye injury; congenital cataracts; ...