Author Archives: health

The Health-Care Crisis Has Spread to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance – New York Magazine

So you’ve got health insurance but can’t afford the deductibles? You’re not alone. Photo: Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images For most of this century, the big U.S. health-care policy issue has been providing insurance to the uninsured, including the uninsurable people with expensive health conditions. Yes, the majority of non-elderly Americans covered by employer-based insurance were affected… Read More »

Breakthrough for 345,000 Aussies

What if I told you that the answer to combating one of the world’s most devastating brain diseases was not something sitting on the shelf in a pharmacy, but something on the end of your fork? That’s the philosophy behind Dr Dale Bredesen’s groundbreaking research into dementia, a heartbreaking and wide-reaching disease that affects about… Read More »

Induced labor not more expensive to healthcare system than spontaneous labor

Expectant parents wait 40 weeks for the arrival of their new baby, but what if labor was induced a week earlier? Conventional wisdom holds that inducing labor at 39 weeks would be cost-prohibitive to a health system. But the results of a joint study between University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare show inducing labor… Read More »

(KAPOTASANA) Pigeon Pose Benefits

The Kapotasana or pigeon pose benefits the chest and hip areas, while stretching the thighs, hip rotators and flexors, and aligning the pelvis and increasing the pelvic floor circulation. Health benefits of pigeon pose:     Stretches the hip rotators and the hip flexors, this is one of the best hip opening stretches for tight hip… Read More »