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Eating out instead of cooking at home continues to increase as a factor impacting the American diet. Americans face a large variety of food options and food establishments when choosing to eat out.

Certified Professional Coder, Melissa D. Miller, has joined the ACOM Healthcare Business Consulting group as a Chiropractic Consultant bringing years of experience with coding and documentation accrued both in the clinic and insurer environment.

Runny nose. Upset stomach. Whatever illness it is, it can make you feel miserable. It is hard enough to be under the weather but it is even more difficult to handle being sick if you have diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), people with diabetes who develop an illness are at risk for serious complications if they don’t take care of their diabetes.

A study of middle aged and older people living in Norfolk, UK, has suggested that not smoking, being active, eating enough fruit and vegetables and drinking only moderate amounts of alcohol can increase lifespan by an average of 10 years compared to people who do none of these things.

Medicare spending rose faster in 2006 than it had done during the previous 25 years, due mainly to prescription drug benefit for disabled people and the elderly. In 2006, health care spending represented 16% of the American economy, a rise of 6.7% to $2.1 trillion, according to a report in Health Affairs. Healthcare spending continues to outpace economic growth. The cost of medical services in America continues to increase at a faster rate than people’s incomes.

Proposed cuts to Florida property taxes could reduce funding for safety-net hospitals in fiscal year 2009, the Tampa Tribune reports.

New research suggests that at any given time, almost 10 percent of the emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics in the United States miss work because of injuries and illnesses they suffered on the job.A study examining how common these injuries are and tracking new cases of work-related injuries and illnesses in these professionals also suggests that in one year, an estimated 8.

The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined the efficacy of two diagnostic tests used to determine which drugs to prescribe women with invasive breast cancer. According to the Journal, thousands of women with breast cancer might be receiving the wrong treatment because of errors in the two tests predominantly used to determine which drugs to prescribe.

The same vitamin D deficiency that can result in weak bones now has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, Framingham Heart Study researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.”Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased cardiovascular risk, above and beyond established cardiovascular risk factors,” said Thomas J. Wang, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

Benzene concentrations in beveragesOnly nine percent of 199 beverage samples had benzene levels above the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limit of 5 parts per billion (ppb) for benzene in drinking water, according to a study by EPA and U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists. It is scheduled for the current issue of ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal.