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How Insurer Denials Hurt Patients and Industry 08/21/2017 08:00pm • To reduce costs and maximize profits, insurance companies are increasingly denying coverage to patients treating chronic or persistent illnesses -- such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. But for the chronically ill in particular, trying 5 Tips for Traveling With a Chronically Ill Friend or Relative 08/20/2017 08:00pm • As any jet-setter with a chronic illness can attest, crisscrossing the globe with an underlying condition can quickly turn into a nightmare. Mustering up the courage to endure the potential nausea, dizziness and unexpected flare-ups or side effects is enough to make anyone with a serious medical co Nuremberg Code at 70: Are the Ethics Principles That Protected Patients Failing Them? 08/19/2017 08:00pm • This month marks the 70th anniversary of the writing of the Nuremberg Code, a set of medical research ethics principles laid down by American judges during the 1947 Doctors' Trial, in which 16 Nazi physicians were found guilty for crimes against humanity. The Code has since informed modern ethical Trump not first president to vacation in New Jersey 08/19/2017 11:28am • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to vacation in New Jersey. But unlike Trump, who spent most of his "working vacation" at his private golf club in Bedminster, his 19th century predecessors sought relief along the New Jersey shore from Washington's swamp-lik Nationals owner Mark Lerner had cancer, leg amputated 08/18/2017 12:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner said Thursday night in a letter to a Washington Post columnist that he had cancer and had his left leg amputated. In the letter to columnist Barry Svrluga, the 63-year-old Lerner wrote: "Thanks very much for your concern and good wishe What Are the Best Strategies for Living With COPD? 08/17/2017 08:00pm • If you've recently been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, you probably already know that it's an incurable lung condition that progressively makes breathing more difficult. As time goes on, your lung function may deteriorate, and many patients find that completing everyday tasks 7 Things You Should Never Say to Someone With Depression (and What to Say Instead) 08/17/2017 08:00pm • Depression is a confounding condition, both for those who have it and for their friends and family. Mental illness often makes it extremely hard for the person with the disease to take action to get better. That's hard to understand for anyone who has never had to deal with it. It's the main reason Is This the Answer to Ending Chronic Pain? 08/17/2017 08:00pm • Six and a half years ago, Elizabeth Ruddick, now 21, rolled her ankle playing Frisbee. A longtime athlete, Ruddick assumed it would heal just like any of the other sports injuries she'd dealt with in the past. "I thought that for the next nine months," she says. "But it just kept getting worse." Learn how to look: The eclipse can damage your eyes 08/17/2017 04:08am • WASHINGTON — Looking at the sun during the upcoming solar eclipse can damage eyes, doctors warn. "Staring at direct sunlight can burn and potentially scar your retina," said Dr. Shilpa D. Rose of Whitten Laser Eye. "Solar retinopathy is a photochemical reaction that causes damage to the retin Does Career Success Carry Over to Investing? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • Most successful professionals didn't get where they are today by accident. It takes a particular skill set of ambition, intelligence, savvy and tenacity to be successful in the business world. Unfortunately, that skill set might actually do more harm than good when it comes to investing. More often 11 Ways to Get Moving More When You Have Diabetes 08/16/2017 08:00pm • The positive benefits of increased physical activity when you have diabetes are just too powerful to ignore. First, there's the blood sugar-lowering benefit. Then there's the role that physical activity plays in weight loss and weight maintenance. And there are also the overall health benefits that Should Antipsychotics Be Used for People With Dementia? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • In people with dementia, like that caused by the progressive brain disorder Alzheimer's disease, a decline in mental abilities can affect all aspects of one's life. The advancing changes also profoundly affect how people with dementia interact with their caregivers. Among older adults with dementia 9 Ways to Maximize Your Retirement 08/16/2017 08:00pm • When you retire, a wide array of new possibilities become available to you. You have the opportunity to create a life that's determined by your interests, desires and priorities, unencumbered by the constraint of having to earn a living. Yet many people don't take advantage of the possibilities tha Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Grit 08/16/2017 08:00pm • A funny thing happened to Caroline Adams Miller, an executive coach and speaker specializing in positive psychology, after she finished writing a proposal for a book about grit: Her own grit was seriously tested as she searched for a publisher. This was in 2015, on the eve of the publication of Mac Does Having Health Insurance Improve Breast Cancer Survival Rates? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • Although most of us could probably surmise that having health insurance increases the chances of surviving a major illness, researchers at Loyola University Chicago recently put the theory to the test. In a June 2017 study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, researchers found that more patients were