- Author: Health Informer
- Filed under: Health News
- Date: Jan 13,2012
You can help lower your out-of-pocket health care costs by understanding what your health plan covers, what it does not cover and how to make the most of every dollar spent on health care and health insurance.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (BCBSD) offers these suggestions to help you optimize your health care budget this year:
Stay in-network. Make sure your doctor(s), laboratory and hospital are a part of your health plan’s provider network so you save on copays and coinsurance amounts.
- Have a referral. Before you see a specialist, check to see if you need a referral and, if so, find out how to request one. Without a referral, you may have to pay for services at the full out-of-pocket cost. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Author: Health Informer
- Filed under: Health News
- Date: Jan 12,2012
After a 20-year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk of the disease.
A report on the discovery, published in the January 12, 2012, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, was led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan Health System. The research team found that men who inherit this mutation have a 10 to 20 times higher risk of developing prostate cancer.
While accounting for only a small fraction of all prostate cancer cases, the discovery may provide important clues about how this common cancer develops and help to identify a subset of men who might benefit from additional or earlier screening. This year, an estimated 240,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
IBM announced that BodyMedia is using IBM software to help consumers more easily achieve their weight-loss goals.
Powered by IBM software, the new personalized feedback capabilities in the BodyMedia FIT body monitoring system now provide users with their own fitness coach.
The new FIT coach component of the BodyMedia FIT Activity Manager software is the first solution of its kind that can calculate and deliver information on:
- Whether users are missing, meeting or beating their targets for burning calories daily
- Multiple activity options for making up shortfalls in daily goals for burning calories (e.g. “Hop on the treadmill and walk for about one hour at a speed of four mph and you should hit your goal for burning calories today”)
- Nutritional analysis of each day’s eating patterns, along with relevant recommendations for correcting problems such as excess fat intake
- Overall progress towards the users’ weight loss goals, along with advice to stay on course Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: Health Informer
- Filed under: Health News
- Date: Jan 10,2012
Genius Labs is proud to announce the launch of Cram It! a dietary supplement designed to help college students that struggle with procrastination.
It is no secret that college students are among the worst procrastinators. Researchers estimate that 80%-95% of college students procrastinate when it comes to studying or completing assignments. This issue can lead students down a path to subpar performance and even failure. College is also a particularly challenging setting in which to maintain good nutrition.
Many college students eat an unbalanced diet that is heavy on “junk” foods and light on fruits, vegetables and other nutrient-rich foods. The brain requires adequate nutrients to perform at its best so it may not be surprising to learn that studies have positively linked a healthy diet to a higher GPA. Read the rest of this entry »