The pharmaceutical industry is in the same position as the NRA. Like guns, the drugs approved by the FDA are safe. But put the drugs in the wrong hands and there can be serious problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is increasingly warning of an epidemic. Here’s an interesting fact for you. Take people aged between 35 and 55 as a group and look at causes of death. More people are going...

There are plenty of remedies out there for insomnia. However, we have to recognize that the inability to sleep is a chronic condition, not a temporary state. While it is important to get some rest every night, you can’t stay on sleep medicine forever. It just isn’t good long-term. What you have to do is treat the underlying condition. While it’s easy to say we need to change our habits or exercise...

Sometimes life just is not fair. You think you have done everything absolutely right and then circumstances show you everything is turning out wrong. So it is that you get to see the end of hope played out in court cases. You know it should never come to this but, when it comes to people’s lives, there are few real choices if you feel you want justice. You do your best to be reasonable. You offer to settle....

The time we spend asleep should all be restful. For the sake of those with whom we share our beds, we should lie still and make as little noise as possible. For our own sakes, we should be able to wake feeling refreshed. Unfortunately, the allocated time for sleeping can be filled with movement, noise and disturbed sleep. The main classification of sleep disorders involving movement and behavior is called parasomnia....

If you own a car for quite some time, you probably know how much money it takes to maintain it in a good condition. With the past years the payments on insurance have increased so much that people no longer want to have it. Unbelievable, isn’t it? If you are not a newcomer to driving, you probably have always invested big sums in your cars. A good driver knows that the better conditions he will provide,...

Insurance companies are known to cost lots of money. They make your face pale just with one thought. But hey, brighten up! It doesn’t have to be a nightmare. It can be pricey but without driving you totally nuts. We all were born to believe that good things don’t come free when it comes to purchases. We hate to break it but this is not so. You can save pretty much on anything you want nowadays without...

There is no point in writing endless complaints that people should not get too worked up about lack of sleep. The pharmaceutical companies have convinced too many millions of people that drugs are the answer when we are “suffering” through insomnia. The fact that some people only need a few hours sleep every night is of no importance when profits amounting to billions of dollars are at stake. We...

One of the things that seems to happen to people when they become famous, is a sense they are somehow better than us in everything. We put them up on a pedestal and “worship” them. If worship is too strong a word for you, then we want to see them as role models. They become our heroes. Yet this can be a problem. Some who achieve fame because they are excellent at one thing may be less than perfect...

Those in the realty business say location is everything. Whether you are buying or selling, a good location always commands a good price. When you apply this to the insurance industry, location is also a vital part of the assessment of risk. Excluding California which had the wisdom to exclude the use of zip codes in calculating auto insurance premiums, almost all the other states allow insurers to price risk...

Those who own a mobile home often ask if there’s a type of insurance that is something between home and car insurance and is suitable for covering their property. The answer is positive, as there is a special type of insurance products designed to cover mobile homes, and they are relatively inexpensive, with premiums of about $250 per year. And if you really want to make sure that your mobile home will...