Showing posts with label Health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health care. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Take Care of Pets When You are Broke

If you are a pet owner you know how difficult it is to take care of pets when you are broke.  Feeding ourselves and our families is hard enough as it is, much less keeping a roof over everyone's head.  Many of us pet owners know that are animals can be just as precious to us, and we want the best for them, but our families have to come first.  Well it doesn't have to be that way.  Plenty of people get pets when life is going good, and they feel like they can be responsible pet owners.  However, life takes many turns and they can find themselves in a position that they never intended on being in.  How do we get through these trying times and still keep our pets healthy and happy, after all, sometimes they are our best friends.
     I ran across this interesting site based out of Georgia that offers help to the residents there.  They are a food bank organization for animals.  How cool is that!  They also provide a National Listed for other states in which they have found aid.  Here is the link.  I will be searching for other sites in other states and I will add to this post as I find them.
     What about the pets that have medical problems?  Paying for veterinary services can be very expensive.  In searching for some information about this subject, I ran across another list of useful services.  This list even has a list of organizations that we help you with canine specific needs.  I hope this helps you in your quest for finding food and health care for your little friends.  If you know of any other sites that would be helpful to our reader, please list them in the comment box and I will add it to this post.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Could You Use Some Free Surgery or Meds?

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     I once met a lady at the hospital that told me because of her medical conditions that she could not get insurance.  She said that she had even been on the Montel show about it.  I having lots of coverage pondered about how that would feel, being in the ER with no coverage.  This is an issue that alot of people face and it terrified me.  Here is a suggestion for you if you have no way to get coverage.  You can go to http://www.centerwatch.com/ and look up clinical trials for your medical conditions.   If you get accepted into one in your area you could get free medical care for the duration of the trial.  Not only could you receive excellent care, but you could  possibly be getting a jump start on new up and coming therapies, but you could also be a part of valuable research that can change the outcome for millions of patients.  If you get into Phase IV of a trial, you could receive care for years.  While you are on their website, look under patient notification and you can put your email address down and check up to 24 medical conditions that  affect you.  When a trial becomes available in your area, they will notify you via e-mail.  You can also go to http://www.clinicaltrails.gov/ to see their listings.  There are inclusion/exclusion criteria that you have to meet to be accepted.  You will also need the approval of your family doctor.  Go to http://clinicalstudies.info.nih.gov/ and type in the keywords: healthy and normal.  This site studies mental health issues and uses healthy individuals for their research.  They also compensate you for your time.  If you volunteer for clinical studies for money then you should make sure that they are governed by the FDA.  They set strict guideline for these studies.  Whether it be for money or medication you are helping advance medical treatment and considering there are risk involved this is a very honorable quest.  Good luck on your journey.
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