Yearly Archives: 2016

How to Make Your Resolutions Happen

How to Make Your Resolutions Happen
Good health has a lot to do with your health habits. After the excesses of the holiday season, many people are adopting New Years resolutions to try to be more healthy. Whether you are trying to lose weight, get fit, quit smoking, cut down on the drinking, the hard part is putting those resolutions into…
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The Obamacare “Dead Zone”

Great article in the NY Times magazine handed out at the Moss Clinic board meeting, about people caught in the "dead zone" who are too poor to get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (there is a lower income limit) who were expected to get Medicaid - but the Supreme Court decision allowed Republican…
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Marijuana – The Panacea

Marijuana – The Panacea
It would appear that marijuana is the panacea that all those dope-heads think it is.   The Washington Post reports that in the 17 states where medical marijuana is legal the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants; 562 less anti-anxiety medicines; and 1,826 fewer doses of pain medicine. And may I dare to…
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