The deadline for ACA open enrollment for 2015 is December 15th and the penalty for not enrolling? 2.5% of your income. The good news is that Obamacare does have 14 hardship exemptions–some of which you might find surprising. At least 2 of them do not...
The CDC has sent out an emergency advisory to doctors this week warning that 2 factors have set up the 2015 flu season to be more miserable and potentially more deadly than in years past. First, the dominant strain of influenza virus in circulation is H3N2 and...
Quit smoking today and you may stop a heart attack tomorrow! One of the major risks for smoking is a heart attack–and your risk for a heart attack drops within 24 hours of quitting smoking! Smoking causes 480,000 deaths every single year. To put this in relative...
The United States is experiencing a record number of measles cases with 603 confirmed measles cases since January 2014 which is the highest number of cases since measles elimination was documented in the U.S. in 2000, as reported by the CDC. According to the WHO...
Arsenic in Maryland’s well water increases risk for heart disease. This statement arises from two simple facts. First, that even low to moderate levels of arsenic cause heart and vascular disease and secondly, that low to moderate levels of arsenic have been...
