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Discover the key to health and well-being at The Health Blog, where you'll find in-depth news and commentary regarding the latest heath care issues, including posts focused on alternative and conventional medicine, anti-aging treatments, new exercise and fitness regimens, and proper nutrition.

At The Health Blog, learn how aromatherapy is used to calm nerves, how poetry therapy can release emotional trauma, and how the right combination of exercise and diet can go a long way in solving most common health ailments. In addition, TheHealthBlog.com features breaking news items concerning new medicines that are making headlines and how health care research is leading to phenomenal breakthroughs in diseases and illnesses like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and AIDS.

Concerned about drug recalls and surgical procedures? Want to learn more about complementary health treatments like acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage therapy? At The Health Blog, gain valuable insight by reading what the experts–and your peers–have to say about their personal experiences, and whether or not they'd try it again.

Visit The Health Blog on a regular basis to find out about the latest techniques and therapies being used to stop smoking, increase blood circulation, improve immune system, and boost memory. Here, you can gain comprehensive insight and improve your family’s overall well being by joining the discussion on health disorders and life improvement measures currently being adopted throughout the health-conscious community.

Should Steve Jobs talk more openly about his pancreatic cancer?
As you have read here and elsewhere, Apple’s Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant for a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He, howeve...

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Is Chantix safe, and why Zyban, or bupropion, also received a black box warning
Popular smoking cessation drugs Chantix and Zyban received black box warnings from the FDA, the strongest of its kind. Chantix, in particular, is quit...

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Beautiful Truth - NewsGrabs Thursday, 2 July 2009
Movie: The Beautiful Truth Garrett, an Alaskan boy, was home-schooled by his father. His first assignment was to study a controversial book...

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Did propofol, or Diprivan, kill Michael Jackson?
As predicted, the details surrounding the singer’s death continue to get more bizarre. Recent reports have stated that the powerful anesthetic D...

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Why removing the tax breaks for non-profit hospitals could be dangerous
It’s because of the unintended consequences, of course. In their regular column in Slate, physicians Zachary Meisel and Jesse Pines ta...

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America’s failed attempt at a single-payer system, the Indian Health Service
Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, the United States has already tried its hand at a pseudo-single-payer system. The VA is on...

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Activating Patient-Centric Health Care Reform
It is often observed wryly that Americans have more interest in the well-being of their automobiles and pets than their own health. The challenges of...

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Vicodin and Percocet banned and taken off the market, or is a black box warning more likely?
The FDA has declared war on acetaminophen, with Vicodin and Percocet being collateral damage.  You can bet Dr. Gregory House is sweatin̵...

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Open MRI vs. Closed MRI
A friend of mine who had an MRI a few years ago described it as being inside a garbage can while someone pounded the outside with a rubber mallet....

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Reader take: Moral hazard, and whether patients should consider cost in their health care decisions
The following is a reader take by an anonymous medical student. One of the ideas that comes up in the search for explanations of high healthcare costs is th...

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