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Is your nail salon safe?

We offer some tips on what to look for before you get a manicure or pedicure.

How often should you shower?

Is it gross to not shower or bathe every day? How often should you shower or bathe and wash your body with soap?

Why I Almost Fired My Doctor

Was I going to risk my longevity to avoid hurting my doctor’s feelings? I needed a physician I respected and trusted.

Secrets Massage Therapists Know About Your Body

In just one hourlong session, they can decode everything from whether you need a new pillow to how bad those childhood accidents affected you.

How limiting women's access to birth control and abortions hurts the economy

Reproductive health isn’t just about abortions, despite all the attention they get. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else. Such access lets women control the timing and size of their families so they have children when they are financially secure and emotionally ready and can finish their education and advance in the workplace. After all, having children is expensive, costing US$9,000 to $25,000 a year. And that’s why …

Tips For Becoming Healthier As A Family

Learn how to live and maintain an active and healthy lifestyle for the whole family.

What Is Evidence-based Medical Care?

Choosing medical care backed by science is important to ensure safe and effective treatment. Learn more about evidence-based care.

AnMed Health: Don’t forego a trip to the hospital if you need medical care

Doctors at AnMed say they aren’t seeing as many patients as usual and worry that some who need care are staying away from medical facilities over fears of COVID-19.

When Parents Disagree on Medical Care for Their Children

Parents have a legal obligation to take care of their children including providing them with shelter, food and medical care. After separation or divorce, a court or the parents themselves will make…

How do divorced parents decide on children's medical care?

Children are not old enough to make all of their own decisions regarding their medical care, so parents of minor children are allowed to make these decisions on their behalf. For married couples, this

We’re Bad at Evaluating Risk. How Doctors Can Help.

Who Determines What Medical Care Should Be Approved?

Under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, if you are injured on the job you are entitled to reasonable and necessary medical care that is related to your work injury. In other words, getting physical therapy for a work related back injury would be reasonable and necessary. They’d have to pay for 100% of it at any medical provider you wanted to see (with very few exceptions). But if your appendix needed to come out, they wouldn’t have to pay for it as that…

Would You Want Your Soon-to-Be Ex-Wife Making Medical Decisions for You?

Another celebrity situation that points to an important lesson: until a divorce is final, you are still married. For Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian, still being legally married in Nevada means that Khloe is legally permitted to make medical decisions for the former NBA player, who has an address in...

Keeping Up With Medical Knowledge

Stakeholders in the “curation” of medical research respond to an Op-Ed article.

Medical Care When Injured at Work

Medical Care When Injured at Work Most injured workers in Connecticut do not understand or realize that when hurt on the job, under Connecticut’s workers’ compensation laws, they may ch…

Medical care: More than just the doctor and patient

The provision of medical care is complex. Many factors can influence what treatments a patient can receive, or if they can even receive treatment at all. Today on the blog, we discuss insurance.

Health care hacks: Saving money by asking the right questions

We all want to save money on healthcare and experts say it's possible to do if we ask the right questions.