Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: 15 Early Signs of Cancer

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: 15 Early Signs of Cancer: Cancer is a group of diseases which can bring about a number of signs and symptoms. Depending on the location of the cancer, along with its ...

15 Early Signs of Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases which can bring about a number of signs and symptoms. Depending on the location of the cancer, along with its size and impact on affected organs, these symptoms may sometimes be general in nature or may appear specific to a particular organ or tissue.

1. Unexplained weight loss

2. Fever

3. Fatigue

4. Pain

5. Skin changes

6. Changes in bladder function or bowel habits

7. Sores

8. White patches in the mouth

9. Unusual bleeding or discharge

10. Lumps in different body parts

11. Difficulty swallowing

12. Changing warts, moles or freckles

13. Hoarseness or nagging cough

14. Heartburn

15. Breathlessness

For detailed information 

http://dailyhealthlifestyles.com/10-24-2016-15-early-signs-of-cancer/

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month: Martin was fatally shot on February 26, 2012  by then-neighborhood watch guard George     Zimmerman, who claimed he fired his weapon ...

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month: Martin was fatally shot on February 26, 2012  by then-neighborhood watch guard George     Zimmerman, who claimed he fired his weapon ...

Celebrating Black History Month

Martin was fatally shot on February 26, 2012 by then-neighborhood watch guard George     Zimmerman, who claimed he fired his weapon at Martin because he said he believed him to   be "a suspicious person" who posed a threat. Martin, who was walking home from a near by store, was wearing a hoodie and holding a bag of Skittles in the moments before he died. His killing ignited a wave of intense protests that denounced police brutality and ultimately birthed the Black Lives Matter movement.  

Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin have taken the great lost and grief of their son to the public bringing awareness to young black men lives being taken unjustly.   Through their pain they have brought forward powerful unity and movement through their Trayvon Martin Foundation which  is a social justice organization committed to ending senseless gun violence, strengthening families through holistic support. S.T.E.A.M. education of women and minorities and mentoring.  Their strategy is to move from intervention to reform.  Positively changing the lives of youth and their families through strategic programming and perpetual services is at the core of our existence.  The Circle of Mother's, Circle of Father's and recently released book by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin is a true testament of the love and lost of parents, honoring their sons short life.  

Reference
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-trayvon-martins-parents-keep-his-spirit-alive-5-years-after-his-death_us_58a1f0a3e4b094a129ed9772?utm_hp_ref=trayvon-martin
http://trayvonmartinfoundation.org/

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL: I first wanted to start this new year 2017 with the stats on all those who have affordable healthcare better known as Obama Care. But I foun...

Affordable Healthcare For All

I first wanted to start this new year 2017 with the stats on all those who have affordable healthcare better known as Obama Care. But I found myself in a maze of confusion of the millions of people enrolled in healthcare fact or fiction. What are the real numbers? What laws affected actual numbers?  And finally do I really care about the fact and issues brought about when all I want is to have healthcare,  so I have decided to just speak on why healthcare should be affordable for all..

For most of us healthcare is a bill we pay without taking advantage to the actually services that are provided unless there is an emergency. There goes the first problem because healthcare should be used as a preventive tool.  This means you should be visiting you Primary care provider annually whether you are sick or not.  You should be armed with your benefit package full with resources and follow-up to all medical providers necessary to you living a healthy life style. Last but least this is you opportunity this is your turn to make your health concerns heard if your doctor is not hearing you find another one.

Affordable Healthcare is not what our government wants because studies show that the cheaper healthcare is the more it will be used.  Therefore increasing healthcare cost.... But there are other factors to be taken under consideration medication cost which also will increase.

Findings Per capita prescription drug spending in the United States exceeds that in all other countries, largely driven by brand-name drug prices that have been increasing in recent years at rates far beyond the consumer price index. In 2013, per capita spending on prescription drugs was $858 compared with an average of $400 for 19 other industrialized nations. In the United States, prescription medications now comprise an estimated 17% of overall personal health care services. The most important factor that allows manufacturers to set high drug prices is market exclusivity, protected by monopoly rights awarded upon Food and Drug Administration approval and by patents. The availability of generic drugs after this exclusivity period is the main means of reducing prices in the United States, but access to them may be delayed by numerous business and legal strategies. The primary counterweight against excessive pricing during market exclusivity is the negotiating power of the payer, which is currently constrained by several factors, including the requirement that most government drug payment plans cover nearly all products. Another key contributor to drug spending is physician prescribing choices when comparable alternatives are available at different costs. Although prices are often justified by the high cost of drug development, there is no evidence of an association between research and development costs and prices; rather, prescription drugs are priced in the United States primarily on the basis of what the market will bear.

Conclusions and Relevance High drug prices are the result of the approach the United States has taken to granting government-protected monopolies to drug manufacturers, combined with coverage requirements imposed on government-funded drug benefits. The most realistic short-term strategies to address high prices include enforcing more stringent requirements for the award and extension of exclusivity rights; enhancing competition by ensuring timely generic drug availability; providing greater opportunities for meaningful price negotiation by governmental payers; generating more evidence about comparative cost-effectiveness of therapeutic alternatives; and more effectively educating patients, prescribe, payers, and policy makers about these choices.

Not all components of healthcare  contribute equally to employer costs.  Roughly half of all medical costs come from hospital spending:  30% to employer costs.  Roughly half of all medical costs come from hospital outpatient.  Physicians account for about 30%  and prescription drugs 17% 

Drug spending is still a relatively small portion of overall health spending, and as such, concerns of even-increasing cost growth from new cures may trigger false alarms.  

Aging is also a factor in healthcare cost people are living longer, the median age of the world's population is increasing because of a decline in fertility and a 20-year increase in the average life span during the second half of the 20th century (1). These factors, combined with elevated fertility in many countries during the 2 decades after World War II (i.e., the "Baby Boom"), will result in increased numbers of persons aged >65 years during 2010--2030 (2). Worldwide, the average life span is expected to extend another 10 years by 2050 (1). The growing number of older adults increases demands on the public health system and on medical and social services. Chronic diseases, which affect older adults disproportionately, contribute to disability, diminish quality of life, and increased health- and long-term--care costs. Increased life expectancy reflects, in part, the success of public health interventions (2), but public health programs must now respond to the challenges created by this achievement, including the growing burden of chronic illnesses, injuries, and disabilities and increasing concerns about future care giving and health-care costs. 

  

In conclusion as we fight over healthcare the one question I ask myself is should we all have affordable healthcare..I can only speak for myself and I say yes.  I pay for healthcare every month a co-payment when I make a visit to any doctor. I found my health outcome improving. Those visits keep me out of the emergency room, aware of the prevention tools available and my primary-care provider on speed dial. Don't we all deserve these services?

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6. World Health Organization. World Health Report 2002, Annex Table 2 (deaths by cause, sex and mortality stratum in WHO Regions, estimates for 2001). Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2002:186--91.
7. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. Chronic disease notes and reports: special focus. Healthy Aging 1999;12:3.
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9. CDC. Prevalence of self-reported arthritis or chronic joint symptoms among adults---United States, 2001. MMWR 2002;51:948--50.
10. Hubert H, Bloch D, Oehlert J, Fries J. Lifestyle habits and compression of morbidity. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 2002;57A:347--51.
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