There are nearly 11.2 million senior citizens in the United States that are currently diagnosed as diabetics. Of those who are afflicted with diabetes, only about 10% are Type 1 while the other 90% are Type 2. There is nothing that can be done to prevent the 10% of diabetics…
Thyroid cancer is one of the many cancers covered under the EEOICPA and RECA free home health benefits which we provide, as long as the person who has developed this cancer worked for the DOE in the US. Thyroid cancer is projected to develop in more than 56 thousand individuals in…
United Energy Workers Health provides free home health services for EEOICPA and RECA beneficiaries. This means that our patients are generally older and are suffering from either cancer or another occupational illness. Though we can only help people with certain diagnosed diseases, we also provide our patients with other healthcare…
Multiple Myeloma is a relatively uncommon cancer which develops in about .06% of the American population each year (a little more than 20,000). Though multiple myeloma is a generally manageable cancer, healthcare professionals have yet to find a cure. Through substantial courses of different treatments and healthy living, doctors have…
One of the most common health-related problems associated with the elderly population is a condition referred to as a urinary tract infection (UTI), an infection of any of the parts that assist in urination. One out of every five people will develop a UTI in the United States, and that…
One of the types of unfortunate cancers covered under your EEOICPA and RECA benefits is leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the body’s white blood cell production and is almost always malignant, claiming the lives of more than 24 thousand Americans in 2016 alone. Leukemia patients have a better-than-ever chance…
The most common blood disease across America and the world at large is a condition called ‘anemia’. Anemia is either the lack of red blood cells, a lack of hemoglobin in your blood, or both, resulting in a loss of oxygen to the body. Though this is not a specifically…
The select cancers we cover under our free home healthcare services for EEOICPA and RECA beneficiaries are in large part caused by high levels of exposure to radiation. The potential to develop a radiation-induced cancer is particularly high in some professions, such as those which are associated with the mining…
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a common ailment among senior citizens in the United States. Hypertension is the result of many factors, but all of these all factors result in extra pressure against the walls of your arteries, thus making your heart work harder and more strenuously…
Beryllium is everywhere. It is in your cell phone, car, and computer. It may be in your cavity filling, and it is in such common, everyday items – like springs and pipes – that we barely recognize how abundant it is. So what is beryllium, and should this concern us?…
