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Medical Therapy No Help
Patients in their 80s appeared to get no benefit from commonly used cardiac drugs when they have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, data from a small retrospective study suggest. Action Points Explain to patients that this study found no benefits from medical treatment of patients older than 80 with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. Note that the findings were based on a retrospective subgroup analysis of a larger study and involved a relatively small number of patients, which may have limited the ability to identify significant differences. Antihypertensives, vasodilators, and statins all failed to make an impact on survival during five ...

The Cost of Not Having a Heart Attack
A great article on keeping employees healthy, from MLive and Wendy Wigger. I know this comes as no surprise. But when it comes to wellness programming, how do you know if the money you invest in helping to create healthier employees will pay off? With much of its focus on prevention of disease, decreasing risks associated with disease and creating healthier lifestyle habits, measuring the impact of worksite wellness can seem to be an elusive and daunting task. Think about it -- if your programming is doing a good job of preventing disease, how do you measure the heart attack that ...

If it Works for Humans…
As more people are seeking a natural approach to their own health, it is no surprise that many are doing the same for their dogs. Holistic care looks at the whole dog on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level. It is thought that most illness and disease is a result of unresolved emotional issues. Just as Einstein believed all life was made of energy, holistic care focuses on healing your dogs body and its energy system. While holistic care is not meant to replace veterinary care, it can be a wonderful addition to it. While most dog owners are familiar ...

Chiro & Kids’ Backpacks
Take The Pain Out Of Returning To School Article courtesy of the New Zealand Chiropractors...

Parkinson’s Disease & Chiro
How Chiropractic Care Relates to Parkinsons Disease Parkinsons is a degenerative...

Massage is one of the oldest healing arts: Chinese records dating back 3,000 years...

Physical rehabilitation is the process of physically recovering from your ailment...

New Rating Systems
If you find your supermarket labels confusing, help is on the way. New rating systems are coming this year. Toni Hope, health editor of Good Housekeeping magazine, says the new systems can help you make healthier choices if you know how to use them. “The big one coming out this year is Smart Choices. Foods get the Smart Choices checkmark if they... [Read more of this review]

School Nutrition Programs
The USDA is defending their school nutrition, food stamps, and other public nutrition programs to the government, saying that there is no concrete proof that these programs contribute to the country’s obesity epidemic. The USDA nutrition programs will cost an estimated $73 billion in fiscal year 2009. Currently, around 31.8 million people accept... [Read more of this review]

What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a safe, natural form of medicine, based on the practice of treating like with like. Homeopathy is derived from the Greek words homios, meaning like or similar, and italios, meaning suffering. Homeopathy is concerned with treating the whole mortal rather than the illness alone. The homeopath will consider the patient as a whole, both physically... [Read more of this review]