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Pop!Tech: Cellphones Used to Fight AIDS in South Africa

Is the cellphone the most promising new weapon in the fight against HIV/AIDs? A group of designers, tech companies, health care providers and AIDs activists are betting that mobile phones can help crack this intractable problem: delivering health care information to one of the world's most severely affected regions.READ»

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How to Overcome Hearing Loss in Miami

How you hearHearing happens when sound waves reach the structures inside your ear, where the vibrations of the sound waves re converted into nerve signals that your brain recognizes as sound. Your ear is made up of three major ...READ»

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Tech Award Laureates: Solar Ear Provides Affordable Hearing Aids to Developing Countries

Businessman Howard Weinstein shed his former life, moved to Botswana, and developed a solar-powered analogue hearing aid that costs under $100--and won a Tech Award.READ»

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Silk bedding is the healthy option for you and your family

Naturally healthy silk bedding. Simply put, silk bedding is healthier for us than down, feather or synthetic bedding.There are so many products on the market today that claim to be healthy and good for us - it’s not always easy to ...READ»

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SmartHand: Cyborg Limbs Will Feel Like User's Own

SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»

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Medicare Supplements to Change in 2010

By June 1, 2010, there will be new changes to Medicare supplements that will likely create a great deal of confusion for consumers.READ»

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Looking for an Audiologist in Miami?

Finding a professional and economical Audiologist in Miami Florida is hard to find. A skilled audiologist can be a very usefully ally as you work to combat hearing loss. Having the wrong audiologist, on the other hand, can create many ...READ»

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Self Test Shows if you Need to See an Audiologist in Miami

Hearing loss affects many all over the world, especially in the United States. Although we have no concrete number of how many people worldwide are affected by hearing loss we can approximate 30 million people as being diagnosed ...READ»

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All Illinois Medicare Supplements Are the Same

You'd be surprised that many people don't know Illinois Medicare supplements are the same, no matter from which health insurance company you buy them. The only difference is how much you pay for them.READ»

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Health Insurance for Those Over 65

When Wellcare and Coventry no longer carry Medicare Advantage in 2010, it will be a change that will affect many older Americans. READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME 9/11/09

Lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a heated August recess to continue to negotiate health care reform. Americans remain sharply divided on legislation: In a Gallup Poll released Tuesday, 39% of those polled say they would direct their member of Congress to vote against a health care reform bill this fall, while 37% want their member to vote in favor of a health care reform bill.READ»

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Everyone in Miami Goes to Dr. Joseph K Duran for Audiology

Starting a new company may be a daunting task for some, but not for the brother and sister team of Dr. Joseph K. Duran and Yvette Duran Someillan. They combined their vast knowledge and experience in the field of Audiology and hearing ...READ»

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In Your Jeans

Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»

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Medicare Advantage is Going Bye Bye in 2010

Well Care and Coventry, two of the largest companies in the Medicare health insurance business will no longer be offering Medicare Advantage in 2010.READ»

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Futuristic Z!n Hearing Aid Bags People's Design Award

Recognized as an unprecedented marriage of design and technological innovation, Stuart Karten's Z!n hearing aid walked away with this year's Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award.READ»

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Earnings of Primary Care Physicians

As an informal part of my research for the book I’m presently working on, Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job, I have chatted with physicians who are personal friends and have asked about their ...READ»

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Make a New Health Insurance Plan

The new administration may make some interesting changes in health care, but don't expect too much to be happening.READ»

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The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking

Founder and Board Chair: Victoria HaleREAD»

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China's Sinovac Is Exporting H1N1 Vaccine, but Who Will Vaccinate the Chinese?

Chinese vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac has the first government-approved H1N1 vaccine in its possession, and now stands to make a killing in exports. Mexico has already ordered 10 million doses, according to a recent report in China ...READ»

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Health Insurance Rates Are Changing

Be prepared for some interesting changes in health insurance rates by June 2010 – rates may very well be dropping.READ»

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The State of Healthcare 2008

This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

This Week in Health Care ReformREAD»

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Medicare Advantage Health Insurance Disappearing

Medicare Advantage will no longer be offered in 2010, as the two largest companies (Wellcare and Coventry) offering it are shutting their doors.READ»

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Another Rubber Tree Plant

In the Arizona desert, the start of something big--or anyway something that feels good on your hands.READ»