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Oct 22
2012
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Experts Predict Doctor Shortage to Worsen with Affordable Care ActPosted by Health Travel Guides in Untagged |
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Health Travel Guides
Health Tourism, Health travel, medical travel, medical tourism
At Health Travel Guides we have a simple goal: to make quality health care accessible and affordable for everyone. Boomers represent a very large audience for a number of medical procedures including hip replacement, hip resurfacing, spinal fusion, weight loss surgery for remission of Type 2 Diabetes, FDA-approved Green Light Laser for enlarged prostate, adult stem cell therapy for conditions such as COPD, stroke, congestive heart failure, "diabetic foot", Alzheimer's Parkinson's, MS and ALS, and integrative cancer therapies for treatment of lung, colon, breast, prostate and ovarian cancer. Let us guide you to the highest quality, most affordable international health care options.
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Oct 03
2012
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Weight Loss Surgery: Re-Examining the Risk
Two thirds of the population is overweight and more than one third is medically obese; this has led to radical negative changes in our health, wealth, and self- image. Obesity threatens health in more ways than most people realize. For example, obese people (i.e. people with a BMI of 30 or more) are....
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Jul 19
2012
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Apr 19
2012
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Apr 17
2012
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Marge knew her BMI was too high. She tried diets, exercise, you name it - but like so many Americans with metabolic syndrome, she continued to gain at a slow but steady clip. As a Nursing Director, she'd seen the impact of excess weight on the health of many patients.
From 1990 to 2010, the obesity rate in America has double in some states and tripled in others. The consequences are wider than our waistlines: soaring rates of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes (the leading cause of kidney failure, adult blindness and amputation).
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Mar 05
2012
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The Politics of Health Care: Pope Declares It "An Inalienable Right"Posted by Health Travel Guides in Untagged |
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Feb 29
2012
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How are Medical Records Like Missing Socks?Posted by Health Travel Guides in Untagged |
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Answer: Your medical records aren't really lost, any more than those errant socks walk off by themselves. And as with the case with lost socks, you probably remember the last time you saw your medical records.
Good news for millions of overweight Americans resolving to lose weight in 2012: the new gastric pleat (also called plication) restrictive bariatric procedure features greater weight loss than banding. Even better: the gastric pleat procedure is device- and resection free - only one night at the hospital.
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Dec 23
2011
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Looking Forward to 2012!
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Dec 08
2011
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You've heard us talk about the Green Zone LAP-BAND before and we don't want you to get bored of the topic...but it's such an important innovation in minimally invasive weight loss surgery, we're going to mention it again.
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Oct 05
2011
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