Tag: Health
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Your Eyes May Be Giving Away More Than You Know!
Did you know your eyes could be giving away a heck of a lot more than you thought? This infographic takes you on a colourful journey through amazing properties displayed by the human eye! 8 individual panels draw the viewer through 8 astonishing facts regarding the eye including what it can tell you about someone’s…
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Keeping Your Children Safe
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death and disability for children and teens in the United States. A sobering fact that is sure to keep many parents awake at night. However, the simple fact is that most of the accidents that cause these injuries can be prevented and the risk of death can be…
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The surprisingly common world of Heart Defects
Congenital heart defects is the leading cause of birth-defect related death with 1% of children are born with a CHD (40,000 babies in the U.S. per year). 1/3 of infants born with a CHD need life-saving treatment in their first year of life considering the median age of CHD related deaths is 1 year old.…
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Are Antioxidants Important?
What exactly are antioxidants? Why do we need them? How do we get them? All these questions and more are answered in this infographic. We will go over some terrifying statistics, and look at how exactly antioxidants help your body fight off harmful free radicals.
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The Evolution of Psychotherapy
A brief history of the evolution of Psychotherapy as well as future projections.
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Is Mobile Healthcare the Future?
Is mobile healthcare the future? This is the question that many mobile app users and healthcare professionals are asking. Mobile health or mHealth is projected to be a 26 billion dollar industry by 2017. With over 97,000 health and fitness related mobile apps currently on Google Play and Apple App Store, and 4 million downloads…
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10 Cures for Hangover : Alcohol Effect
Hangover is body’s reaction to the toxicity of alcohol. It is generally characterized by fatigue, depression, headache, dehydration, nausea among other things. There are various forms of cures for hangover around the world and they differ from one geographical location to another. In Germany common cure for alcohol is pickled herring whereas in China it…
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The Science of Habit: Popular Habits vs. Popular Addictions
Did you know that we spend half the day in zombielike automation, repeating routines we set up days, months, or even years ago? Habits are difficult to avoid forming – routine is just human nature at work! However, some habits aren’t so good. Over time these bad habits turn into full-force addictions, bad for our…
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The Symptoms of Texting – the growing reach of mHealth
The partnership between healthcare and mobile technology has the ability to reshape the health industry, particularly in terms of outpatient care. In fact 40% of doctors believe that mHealth can reduce the number of visits to the physicians’ office, which reached 1 billion in 2011. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health systems and providers…
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What You Need to Know About Obamacare
Despite its 1900+ page length, and 234k words that impact substantive law, the basics of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Obamacare aren’t hard to grasp. See how Obamacare affects you and what will every American get starting 2014 in terms of health care.