Health insurance scams are on the rise as criminals quickly take advantage of consumers’ confusion about how the new health care law changes their insurance coverage. Earlier this year, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned state insurance commissioners about new schemes to sell bogus insurance policies. Just last week, HHS gave […]

The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued some revised guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for both lay and professional rescuers. The recommended sequence of CPR steps is changing from airway-breathing-compressions to compressions-airway-breathing. This change will apply to adults, children and infants but excludes newborns. The former approach which began with tilting a victims head back […]