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Patients, too, turn to the Internet for fund-raising0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- November 22, 2011
With a few keystrokes, friends and strangers can help defray treatment costs for patients who have started fund-raising campaigns on web sites like IndieGoGo, which is becoming increasingly popular. The New York Times, 11/21/2011
READ MOREPatients rarely told about medication errors0
- Health & Healing
- January 16, 2013
Patients and their families are rarely told when hospitals make mistakes with their medicines, according to a new study. Reuters, 1/11/2013
READ MOREPatients in the Dark on Medical Costs, Study Finds0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- April 25, 2012
A new study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco found that medical costs vary wildly from hospital to hospital. People often fail to ask ahead of time what a procedure is going to cost, and then they suffer from sticker shock when they get the bill, especially if insurance isn't picking
READ MOREPatient’s own stem cells help heal heart0
- Health & Healing
- February 16, 2012
A patient's own heart cells can be used to regrow new heart tissue and help undo damage caused by a heart attack, according to early research published on Monday by scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. CNN Blogs, 2/13/2012
READ MOREPastor Rick Warren born again to healthier living0
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- February 9, 2012
Pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling The Purpose Driven Life and head of Saddleback Church in Southern California, is spreading the word about how he lost 60 pounds on a program he invented called The Daniel Plan. The plan was created with help from three well-known doctors: Mark Hyman, Daniel Amen and Mehmet Oz.
READ MOREParents: Help Your Kids Make the Most of Winter Break0
- Home & Family
- December 27, 2011
This article goes through numerous ways to keep teens busy and engaged during the long holiday break, including educational (but fun) trips to museums, zoos, or factories; virtual field trips; community volunteer work, etc. Yvette Jackson, CEO of the National Urban Alliance, a nonprofit that focuses on improving student engagement in low-income schools, advises, "The
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