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American Health Care Act: Is the New AHCA Better Than Obamacare?

In a previous post, titled Latest Health News and Headlines for You and Your Family, we mentioned a list of five areas for concern that critics of the new American Health Care Act (AHCA) have detailed. These were: no fix to rising drug prices, no assurance on quality of health care, inconsistent pricing of procedures more >

Latest Health News and Headlines for You and Your Family

Staying up-to-date on the latest health news and headlines is a great way to ensure your own health, and that of your family. As a continuing feature of our work here at the blog, we hope to be able to offer further glimpses into what is going on in the world of health and wellness more >

Why Diets Don’t Work

Why is it that diets don’t work for most people? Well, by definition, “going on a diet” is a temporary weight loss strategy that is nearly impossible to maintain over the long term. For most of us, dieting includes setting a weight loss goal over a pre-set time span. Once that goal is reached – more >

Are Anti-inflammatory Foods Really a Thing?

For folks battling chronic inflammation, as well as the pain that often accompanies it, making changes to your diet can be beneficial, as can moderate exercise. Of course, such inflammation can make even the most basic of physical activity a real challenge so, adding anti-inflammatory foods to your diet may be the key to finding more >

Potential Cure for HIV/AIDS on the Horizon

More exciting health news is reaching us this month, as scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to tether HIV-fighting antibodies to immune cells, creating a cell population resistant to the virus. Experiments under lab conditions show that these resistant cells can quickly replace diseased cells, creating a potential cure for more >

Targeted Cancer Treatments Use New “Designer” Drugs

Exciting news has developed concerning the use of so-called “designer” drugs for targeted cancer treatments. An article from ABC News tells us that progress is being made by researchers who are working to create drugs that will “attack and hopefully kill [specific types of] cancer cells, or at least slow their growth”. This is huge, more >

Possible Cause of Gluten Sensitivity & Celiac Disease

In a previous post, April Health News Headlines, we shared a headline about a recent study into a possible cause of gluten sensitivity , also known as celiac disease. As we mentioned then, a new study by the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center has found that an otherwise harmless virus could trigger a person’s more >

April Health News Headlines

Now that spring has sprung, and while many are giving their homes a thorough cleaning, it seems a good time to devote some space the latest health news headlines concerning the health of you and your family. As we debut our April Health New Headlines, we hope to be able to offer further glimpses into more >

Raw Food Diet and Detoxification: The Legacy of Ann Wigmore

While eating raw foods and detoxification have become increasingly popular over the past decade or so, and while many think of these ideas as “new age”, both have been around for a very long time, indeed. Back in the 1940s, as the holistic health and wellness movement began in Europe, Ann Wigmore began promoting the more >

Mindfulness and Meditation: A Therapeutic Perspective

The book, Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective, by psychotherapist Mark Epstein, MD, blurs the line between psychology and spirituality, and deliberately so. Epstein’s credentials are impeccable. He is a long-time meditator, student of Buddhism, a psychiatrist practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy, who blends mindfulness and meditation as tools for his therapeutic practice and more >