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10 Tips To Help You Find The Right Doctor

1/18/12 12:24am by Lissa Rankin
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If you weren't getting what you needed from your massage therapist, hairdresser, or yoga instructor, you would find someone else, right? Why should your doctor be any different? And yet, your doctor is even more important. This is serious stuff we're talking about here.  Read more >

Becoming the Best ME Ever!

1/13/12 9:30am by littlebitfunky
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healthy heart, fitness, health,

Hello again friends. Part two to my series with Blogher and Best Buy will be once a week journal entries for the Inspiration to Fitness program, where I will talk about my progress and goals and how much I love/hate all the exercising I have been doing. Once again...it will be ALL me and my opinions and my very own thoughts and feelings on it all.  If you have any questions, send me an email I will do my best to help.  Read more >

Heart Health in Motion: Intensity

1/12/12 9:04am by InspiredRD
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healthy heart, heart health, fitness, inspiration to fitness

Before you get started with your new Inspiration to Fitness program, it is important to learn how to track your exercise intensity.  You want to be sure that you are exercising hard enough to see results, but not so hard that you are putting yourself at risk of injury. There are three ways to measure exercise intensity, and it is important to use all of them together.  Read more >

Know Your Employer: HIPAA in Case of Emergencies

1/9/12 8:09am by texasebeth
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A word of caution: call your insurance company and employer's Human Resources department as well as that of your spouse and see what is required for you to access each other's information in the event they are incapacitated or there is a health care emergency.  Read more >

Brain-Eating Amoeba? The Facts

12/26/11 10:52pm by avflox
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Before you swear off nasal irrigation -- the practice of douching the nasal passage to remove blockages and mucus from the nose -- let's take a look at all the information we have about this "brain-eating amoeba" everyone's been reporting about.  Read more >

E!'s Giuliana Rancic Announces Double Mastectomy

12/8/11 7:38am by greetingsfromtexas
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Giuliana Rancic

This week Giuliana Rancic made an announcement that she'll be undergoing a double mastectomy. Having experienced my own slew of cancer drama, I just want to say how nice it was to have a relatable, inspiring spokesperson for this sort of thing.Recently at MD Anderson, the hospital I attend, I witnessed a vast display of quilts - all made in the name creating ovarian cancer awareness. (My particular disease.) While quilts are nice (I guess?), I really had a hard time feeling connected to them. I mean, they're quilts.  Read more >

How Much Do You Know About HIV?

11/16/11 5:38pm by avflox
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Magic Johnson announces he is HIV positive

A week ago, Magic Johnson commemorated the 20-year mark since his HIV diagnosis. On November 07, 1991, he stepped up to a podium in Inglewood, California, surrounded by photographers and journalists and announced that he would be retiring from the National Basketball Association after testing positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.  Read more >

What's Broken About Health Care & How To Fix It

11/15/11 10:33am by Lissa Rankin
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The U.S. healthcare system is broken. Lissa Rankin is a doctor, and yet, because she was diagnosed with high blood pressure in her twenties, and because her husband accidentally cut two fingers off his left hand with a table saw, they're now completely uninsurable under a traditional family health insurance program. This piece summarizes everything Lissa thinks is wrong with the healthcare system in the U.S. -- as well as what can be done do to fix it.  Read more >

One in Three Million: Putting a Face to National Epilepsy Awareness Month

11/9/11 4:00am by alexash
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Emma

About 3 million people in the US have epilepsy caused by over 40 different syndromes. It's a fact: one in 10 Americans will have a seizure in their lifetime. For Emma, Epilepsy Awareness isn't an event in November: it's a way of life. This is her story.  Read more >

The Difference Between Healing And Curing

10/24/11 11:00am by Lissa Rankin
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Lego Magician Sawed in Half

Welcome back to The Pink Medicine blog series, wherein I share with you my vision for a new type of health care model, a model I call “Pink Medicine.” In my last post, The Difference Between Sick, Well, & Whole, I talked about my father's death and said that I learned that there is a critical difference between healing and curing.  Today I want to expound a bit on that difference.  Read more >