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Current trends and topics in health care news highlight the on-going changes in health policy, health insurance and health care expenses.

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What’s up? New blood pressure guidelines

Frugal Nurse Posted on November 21, 2017 by Frugal NurseDecember 6, 2017

new blood pressure guidelinesTarget BPs are much lower

Last week the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiologists (ACC) published new guidelines in the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure.

What are the new numbers and what do they mean?

Many people will be surprised to find out they now have “elevated” high blood pressure, which could be a reading as low as 120/70, or Stage 1 hypertension at … read on

Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged diagnostic-tests, doctors, drugs-and-supplements, evidence-based, lifestyle, overtreatment

Alcohol and cancer. Here we go again.

Frugal Nurse Posted on November 9, 2017 by Frugal NurseNovember 8, 2017

alcohol and cancerFear-mongering and clickbait

While sipping a glass of wine with dinner last night, my ears perked up when I heard a teaser for NBC Nightly News: “New report links even light alcohol intake with increased risk of cancer.”

Oh, boy, I thought. Here we go again.

I don’t like network news because of this kind of lousy health reporting (I just wanted to see local election returns). Again and again, … read on

Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged cancer, evidence-based, lifestyle, research

Why do prescription drugs cost so much?

Frugal Nurse Posted on October 12, 2017 by Frugal NurseOctober 12, 2017

Higher drug prices = higher health costs

Soon we’ll be finding out how much our health insurance will cost next year. Premiums are set to rise by double digits across the country.

Related post: Premium increases for 2018. Ouch

While uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is partly responsible, insurance companies put the biggest blame on the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.

Why are prescription … read on

Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged drugs-and-supplements, health-care-costs, health-care-policy, health-insurance, marketing

Carbs vs fats: It’s all about moderation

Frugal Nurse Posted on October 3, 2017 by Frugal NurseOctober 6, 2017

carbs vs fatsCarbs vs fats in the news…again

A few weeks ago, a study was published that resulted in a lot of dramatic headlines, such as “Your Low-Fat Diet Could Kill You!”

The media always make a big deal out of these nutritional studies because they know we need to eat, we like to eat, and we’re already confused about what we should eat. Or not eat.

Headlines that the one above … read on

Posted in Health Care News, Stay healthy | Tagged evidence-based, lifestyle, nutrition, research

What’s in your supplement?

Frugal Nurse Posted on February 12, 2015 by Frugal NurseFebruary 12, 2015

I read a recent article that New York’s attorney general has ordered some drugs stores (Target, Walgreen’s, GNC and Wal-Mart) to stop selling their store-brand supplements because of quality concerns: Herbal Supplements Without Herbs.

Using DNA analysis, several products were examined in a university study:

Among the popular products examined were ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort and ginseng pills. Four out of five of the products tested did not

… read on
Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged drugs-and-supplements, marketing, patient safety

HPV vaccine in the news

Frugal Nurse Posted on February 11, 2015 by Frugal NurseFebruary 10, 2015

I was happy to see the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) report that the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine does not increase risky sexual behavior in adolescent girls.

HPV, or the human papilloma virus, is a sexually-transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. In some instances, it can also cause anal cancer or mouth cancer, in men as well as women.

An effective vaccine has been available … read on

Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged evidence-based, patient safety, prevention, vaccination

Elisabeth Rosenthal on the problems of Obamacare health insurance

Frugal Nurse Posted on February 10, 2015 by Frugal NurseFebruary 9, 2015

Take time to read Elizabeth Rosenthal’s latest installment of her “Paying Till it Hurts” series in The New York Times: Insured, but not Covered.

If you are like many Americans struggling with high-deductible, narrow-network health plans, you might relate to the families she writes about.

The Affordable Care Act has ushered in an era of complex new health insurance products featuring legions of out-of-pocket coinsurance fees, high deductibles and

… read on
Posted in Be informed, Health Care News | Tagged affordable-care-act, health-care-costs, health-care-policy, health-insurance, obamacare

Tanning beds are dangerous to your health

Frugal Nurse Posted on January 14, 2015 by Frugal NurseJanuary 13, 2015

Isn’t Florida known as the “Sunshine State”?

Then why do they have so many tanning beds?

That’s what I learned in a recent New York Times article regarding the dangers of tanning beds: Warning: That Tan Could Be Hazardous.

Here in the Sunshine State, there are more tanning salons than McDonald’s restaurants, CVS stores or Bank of America branches, according to a 2014 study by University of Miami researchers.

… read on
Posted in Health Care News, Stay healthy | Tagged cancer, evidence-based, lifestyle, prevention, skin-health

Measles – a Disneyland souvenir

Frugal Nurse Posted on January 12, 2015 by Frugal NurseAugust 30, 2017

measles outbreakNews stories like this make me crazy: Disneyland measles outbreak grows, sparks concern. Or this from my local newspaper: Measles makes it to Seattle from Disneyland.

At least 17 people have been infected in the outbreak, which occurred among people who visited Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park in Orange County, Calif….It’s likely that a person who was contagious visited the theme park during that period and spread

… read on
Posted in Health Care News, Stay healthy | Tagged evidence-based, prevention, vaccination

The DASH diet – boring but it works

Frugal Nurse Posted on January 9, 2015 by Frugal NurseJanuary 19, 2018

the DASH dietUS News & World Report published another one of their ubiquitous “Best of” lists this week. This one focused on diets. January, after all, is the month of diet resolutions  😉

For the fifth year in a row the winner was the DASH diet.

DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (or High blood pressure). It was a study implemented in the … read on

Posted in Health Care News, Stay healthy | Tagged books, lifestyle, nutrition, prevention

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