If you are one of the 48 million beneficiaries of Medicare, then open enrollment period for 2012 starts and ends earlier than usual. The open enrollment period has been moved up a month to Oct. 15, and ends Dec. 7, not Dec. 31. Eligibility Anyone who is eligible for Medicare can take advantage of short [...]
Bad cholesterol, depression, high blood pressure; these are all conditions that often prompt a trip to the pharmacy. But now, physicians are administering a different treatment entirely: produce. Doctors at select clinics across the country are writing some obese patients “prescriptions” for fruits and vegetables. The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program provides daily $1 subsidies to buy [...]
Though it’s mostly one-sided and sometimes plays like a commercial for the alternative medical community, “Doctored” makes a cogent case for real cooperation between Western medicine and less traditional protocols. Writer-director Bobby Sheehan (he also produced and shot the documentary) begins by exploring chiropractic care and presents a case that, despite mainstream medicine’s longtime crusade to brand [...]