Community Health Map: Geospatial and Multivariate Visualization Tool for Medicare Data
June 29, 2010 by
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This video gives an overview of the core features of Community Health Map – a web application for visualizing geospatial and multivariate Medicare datasets. The tool was developed as a part of the CMSC734 course on Information Visualization at the University of Maryland, College Park. More information available at the class wiki on the following [...]
Georgie Holbrook (Rosacea and Colon Health)
June 29, 2010 by
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How To Shrink An Enlarged Prostate:Ayurstate Review
June 28, 2010 by
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www.YourReviewPro.com – Shrink an enlarged prostate with an enlarged prostate gland natural remedy. For more info visit: www.YourReviewPro.com
Surviving The Day Job: Six Easy Lessons
June 28, 2010 by
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Before I became a full-time writer, I had a job counting envelopes. Not colored envelopes or large manila envelopes, mind you, but white #10 envelopes. I had to count them in series of a hundred. Even now I can see them flashing in my eyes as I flipped through them, blinding myself as though I [...]
Focus on Eye Health
June 28, 2010 by
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A message on eye health from Dr. Claude Cowan, deputy director of the Vision Center of Excellence. Visit www.health.mil/eyehealth for additional information and resources.
Many People Go Without Health Insurance Georgia Plans
June 28, 2010 by
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According to a recent study by Families USA, there are many people across the country who are going without health insurance Georgia included. Their study was designed to identify who was going without health insurance, Georgia specifically. They published a fact sheet that gave specific data regarding the information about those lacking health insurance Georgia [...]
Importance of Colon Health
June 28, 2010 by
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Importance of Colon Health
Overpowering the Demands of Caregiving – Lessons From Madelyn
June 27, 2010 by
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Madelyn Kubin was a Kansas farm woman who overpowered her own failing health to care for her husband after he suffered a debilitating stroke. She chronicled her experience through writing letters to her daughter. There are many lessons for all caregivers in Madelyn’s experiences. Here are three, illustrated with excerpts from the book Letters from [...]
Eye Infection Outbreak in the United States
June 27, 2010 by
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Rare eye infection suddenly appearing everywhere Fungal Keratitis sounds like something you pick up at the gym but in reality its no laughing matter. A rare infection that can cause blindness it is increasingly appearing all over the United States and the world. Originally thought to appear only after contact with rare plants [...]
Health Insurance in California Needed with High Pollution
June 27, 2010 by
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California’s inability to meet air pollution standards has generated a lot of expensive hospital care, according to a study by the nonprofit research RAND Corporation. More people in California live where air quality fails to meet the federal clean air standards than in any other state. From 2005 to 2007, California’s poor air quality resulted [...]