The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was enacted in 1996. In its inception, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was required to make public the standards for exchanging electronic health information and the standards for security and privacy of this information. An additional […]

Hedonism is a theory that asserts the aspect of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure are the only components of wellbeing. Under this theory, pleasure is understood from a broad perspective. This is to say that it tends to include all the pleasant experiences or feelings. This includes contentment, enjoyment, gratification, […]

Heart stents have been in use to treat chest pains and open blocked arteries in patients. A recent study has reported that the procedure is useless in many of the patients. The study conducted on patients with chest pains showed that the procedure might not be necessary at all. The […]

Everyone would love to live a long healthy life void of illnesses and full of enjoyable activities. A group of scientists have been working to materialize a proposal introduced in 1980 by a physician from Stanford University, that would enable people to live healthily until into old age and pass […]