One common topic of discussion these days is healthcare — whether it’s worrying about the ever rising cost of healthcare, how to find the best insurance, or where to seek out the best medical treatment, healthcare is always on our minds it seems. This is only going to increase as American continues to gray — indeed, it’s estimated by 2030,…
Month: August 2016
The 3 Most Obvious but Most Difficult Obstacles to Shedding Pounds
If you have always struggled with your weight then it can be frustrating to be with people who have not and don’t understand. Maybe you have tried all the weight loss programs, been to every medical weight loss clinic in the city, worked with numerous trainers and still have not been able to lose weight. Maybe you then tried to…
More and More People Using Urgent Care Centers
For a number of reasons, urgent care services are being utilized more and more by the American public. There are a number of reasons why people choose urgent care services over going to the regular doctor. Here are just a few. One of the main reasons more and more people are seeing an urgent care doctor is the convenience. Only…
3 Major Benefits Associated With a Multivitamin for Children
While eating the proper amount of fruits and veggies is important for everyone, it’s especially important for young children. However, no matter how many vegetables a child may or may not eat, a multivitamin for children is always a good idea. Most children are extremely picky eaters, which means getting them to eat the proper amount of fruits and veggies…
Quick Care Clinics Provide Affordable Quality Care in an Efficient Manner
What are your family’s most memorable health care visits? For many, these visits include evening and weekend emergency trips to quick care clinic around the country. From a quick x-ray at a urgent care Allen TX to a couple of stitches in an urgent care setting Chicago IL, families often have some fairly memorable stories from their visits for health…
Can These Pedal Wheelchairs Help Stroke Victims Walk Again?
With more than 3.3 million Americans using wheelchairs and another two million new users added each year, the wheelchair industry is thriving. So much so that the industry for manual wheelchairs is estimated to reach $2.9 billion by the year 2018, and new products are coming out all the time. Recently, an old press release about a pedal wheelchair that…
Why Going to an Urgent Care Might Be a Better Option than an Emergency Room
When your little one falls and fractures their wrist or we just can’t seem to get a fever to go down, no matter what we do, the first place we tend to go on short notice is the emergency room. This isn’t necessarily wrong or a bad thing but there is a better choice available. As long as the situation…
Why Getting Healthy Should Be on the Top of Everyone’s List
There are so many different ways that different people prioritize the things in their lives. In fact, in general, success can be a bit difficult to measure or assess, as so many people have different ideas of what that could mean. Someone who makes the effort and eventually gains the ability to travel may deem the person who sits behind…
Substance Abuse in the Workplace: A Discussion
Substance abuse sometimes causes serious problems, not just for the person suffering with a substance abuse disorder, but also the people who lives and works with them. It is, unfortunately a huge problem. Every year, one out of every five Canadians experience a mental health or addiction problem, and substance abuse causes 47,000 deaths in Canada annually. Then there’s the…