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		<description><![CDATA[Medicine is fraught with ethical dilemmas. The very nature of health care, medicine and biology offer insights into humanity. Additionally, issues of medical ethics delves into the most intimate parts of our lives, focusing on our bodies &#8212; sometimes at a cellular level. The state of health care, and the technology that is coming to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Medicine is fraught with ethical dilemmas. The very nature of health care, medicine and biology offer insights into humanity. Additionally, issues of medical ethics delves into the most intimate parts of our lives, focusing on our bodies &#8212; sometimes at a cellular level. The state of health care, and the technology that is coming to medicine offer new challenges to the idea of what is right and wrong. Here are 50 medical ethics blogs that can offer insight on the debate.<span id="more-61"></span></p>
<h3>General Ethics Blogs Related to Medicine</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/72362970@N00/97187153"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-62" title="97187153_16040f08b7" src="http://bestmastersinhealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/97187153_16040f08b7-150x150.jpg" alt="97187153_16040f08b7" width="150" height="150" /></a>Medical ethics is about more than doctors and patients. Here are medical ethics blogs that look at ethics as they relate to medicine, technology and other intersecting areas.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.medhumanities.org/">Medical Humanities</a>: Tackles questions about medical terms, and looks into questions of humans and medicine, including when life begins and the ethics behind vaccination.</li>
<li><a href="http://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/">Engineering Ethics Blog</a>: Looks at questions of ethics in terms of current events, and also looks at medical technology as well.</li>
<li><a href="http://genethics.ca/">Genethics</a>: Concerns itself with questions of ethics related especially to genetics.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.medicalfutility.blogspot.com/">Medical Futility</a>: This medical ethics blog focuses on the ethics related to end of life care.</li>
<li><a href="http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/">Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma</a>: Delves into the practices seen in the medical field, and the ethics of some of the freebies and perks that medical personnel enjoy.</li>
<li><a href="http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/">Sufficient Scruples</a>: Concerned with questions of medical ethics and health care.</li>
<li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/">Adventures in Ethics and Science</a>: A look at the ethical implications of scientific advancements, including those made in medical fields.</li>
<li><a href="http://researchethics.ca/blog/">The Research Ethics Blog</a>: Tackles concerns related to human subject based medical and scientific research.</li>
<li><a href="http://lostintranslationethics.blogspot.com/">Lost in Translation</a>: A look at clinical trial ethics and other subjects related to medical ethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://brainethics.wordpress.com/">BRAINETHICS</a>: Explores the implications of research on the brain. An interesting look at ethical questions related to neuroscience.</li>
<li><a href="http://healthcareorganizationalethics.blogspot.com/">Health Care Organizational Ethics</a>: A look at the types of ethical situations that arise in organizations devoted to health care.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Bioethics Blogs</h3>
<p>These blogs look specifically at ethics questions related to biology. These questions have a profound impact on medicine and the medical field.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.lifeethics.org/">LifeEthics</a>: Focuses on upholding human dignity, and the medical and biological issues that can get in the way.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.bioethics.net/">blog.bioethics.net</a>: This blog from Loyola looks at different issues in bioethics and medicine, and tackles tough questions.</li>
<li><a href="http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/">Bioethics Discussion Blog</a>: This blog is meant to be a place where anyone can come and share their views about medicine, ethics and what is happening in the world.</li>
<li><a href="http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/">Women&#8217;s Bioethics Project</a>: Looks at questions of bioethics from a female perspective.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?list=class&amp;class=20&amp;qty=4">Biopolitical Times</a>: Addresses issues and questions of ethics and their relationship to current events and politics.</li>
<li><a href="http://philosophyandbioethics.blogspot.com/">Philosophy and Bioethics</a>: Learn more about the place where philosophy intersects with bioethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/">Ethics Illustrated</a>: Bioethics International offers this project, designed to tackle questions of bioethics and make them more &#8220;real&#8221;.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thehastingscenter.org/BioethicsForum/default.aspx">Bioethics Forum</a>: Features the commentary from a number of people on issues relating to bioethics and other subjects related to medical ethics.</li>
</ol>
<h3>International Medical Ethics Blogs</h3>
<p>Medical ethics and bioethics are topics that span the globe. Here are some of the best sites that tackle these issues from an international perspective.</p>
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<li><a href="http://globalbioethics.blogspot.com/">Global Bioethics Blog</a>: Takes a look at different happenings around the world, and puts them into a medical ethics perspective.</li>
<li><a href="http://thestar.blogs.com/ethics/">Medical Ethics Blog</a>: This blog is written by a Toronto Star journalist intent on covering issues that affect medical ethics around the world.</li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/">Journal of Medical Ethics Blog</a>: Follows different medical ethics developments from around the world.</li>
<li><a href="http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com/">Scientific Misconduct Blog</a>: Follows the exploits of scientists, including those in the medical field, as they violate codes of ethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://phrblog.org/">Health Rights Advocate</a>: Tackles issues of health and medical ethics around the world, and makes arguments in favor of health rights and protections.</li>
<li><a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/health/">Global Voices</a>: Stories from different people around the world on the subject of health, rights and medical ethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/">Global Health Policy</a>: This blog looks at health policy around the world and includes discussions on medical ethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://karengrepin.blogspot.com/">Karen Grepin&#8217;s Global Health Blog</a>: Looks at what is happening on the global health scene, and asks questions dealing with health and medical ethics.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Medical Law</h3>
<p>Law and ethics are closely related. Explore the relationship between medical law and medical ethics. Get an idea of what is legal &#8212; even if it may not necessarily be ethical.</p>
<ol start=28>
<li><a href="http://medicalmalpracticelawblog.com/">Medical Malpractice Law Blog</a>: Learn about your rights as a patient, and find out what you can do in cases where medical ethics are not observed.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.juvanshealthlawupdate.com/">Juvan&#8217;s Health Law and Private Equity Report</a>: Look at what is happening in the world of medical law.</li>
<li><a href="http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/">Neuroethics &amp; Law Blog</a>: Tackles questions related to the line between ethics and law related to neuroscience.</li>
<li><a href="http://lawblogs.slu.edu/healthlaw/">Journal of Health Law &amp; Policy</a>: Learn about what goes into health law and policy, and how it relates to medical ethics.</li>
<li><a href="http://druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com/">Drug and Device Law</a>: Medical device liability, as well as drug liability, are discussed on this blog.</li>
<li><a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/">HealthLawProf</a>: Get helpful information and discussion on the ethics behind the health care debate, and the laws that may be affected.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.camlawblog.com/">CAMLAW</a>: This is a blog about complimentary and alternative medicine law. It&#8217;s an interesting look at the ethics of alternative medicine, and the issues surrounding its use vs. more traditional medicine.</li>
<li><a href="http://healthlawblog.blogspot.com/">HealthLawBlog</a>: A look at what is happening in the world of health care, and a discussion of the ethics of what&#8217;s going on right now.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Pharma Blogs</h3>
<p>These blogs focus on policy issues and ethical issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<ol start=36>
<li><a href="http://blog.prescriptionaccess.org/">Prescription Access Litigation</a>: Explores the ethics of access to prescription drugs, as well as pricing.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.drugchannels.net/">Drug Channels</a>: Get the latest on pharma, new drugs and their ethical implications.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pharmalot.com/">Pharmalot</a>: Looks at questions of ethics in the pharmaceutical industry.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.pharmexec.com/">PharmaExecBlog</a>: Get an inside look at different drugs and their development.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.drugwonks.com/">DrugWonks</a>: These bloggers keep an eye on what is happening in the world of pharmaceuticals, and discuss ethical and policy questions that arise.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eyeonfda.com/">Eye on FDA</a>: Keep track of what is happening at the FDA, ethical issues that arise between government and pharma interaction, and other subjects of interest.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.drug-injury.com/">Drug Injury Watch</a>: Keep an eye on the ethics of drug use, and the injuries that can result &#8212; and who should be responsible.</li>
<li><a href="http://pharm-aid.blogspot.com/">Pharm Aid</a>: Looks at ethical issues surrounding access to prescriptions, as well as news of pharma antics and more.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Health Care Industry and Ethics</h3>
<p>Many of the following blogs concern themselves with questions of ethics as they relate to the health care industry, health care reform and medicine.</p>
<ol start=44>
<li><a href="http://blogs.myspace.com/onecarenoworg">Health Care for All</a>: Looks at the ethical implications of health rights and medical access for everyone.</li>
<li><a href="http://community.the-hospitalist.org/blogs/default.aspx">Wachter&#8217;s World</a>: Considers the hospital industry, ethics and quality of care.</li>
<li><a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/">Health Care Renewal</a>: A look at health care reform and the ethics of health care policy.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.emedconcepts.com/">EMedConcepts</a>: Medical ethics and emerging concepts in the field.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.disruptivewomen.net/">Disruptive Women in Health Care</a>: An interesting look at health care policy, ethics and what could be fixed in medicine today.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/">The Health Care Blog</a>: Tackles issues related to the health care debate, reform and the ethical questions of medical access.</li>
<li><a href="http://drthompsonsbooks.typepad.com/my_weblog/">Dr. Thompson&#8217;s Blog</a>: An interesting blog about the place where medicine, ethics, business and politics meet, and how you can navigate a dysfunctional medical system.</li>
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		<title>Top 50 Blogs by Physicians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are studying to be a doctor or if you&#8217;re just a voyeur into the medical world, these blogs may interest you. We&#8217;ve discovered, in creating this list, that doctors don&#8217;t run lukewarm&#8230;and they are totally human. They feel pain, anger, joy and humor just like their patients, only most doctors are more articulate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are studying to be a doctor or if you&#8217;re just a voyeur into the medical world, these blogs may interest you. We&#8217;ve discovered, in creating this list, that doctors don&#8217;t run lukewarm&#8230;and they are totally human. They feel pain, anger, joy and humor just like their patients, only most doctors are more articulate in voicing these emotions. Thus, the top fifty blogs by physicians.</p>
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<p>The following blogs were chosen by Google rankings, but also by the number of times they were recommended by other doctors. The list is divided into categories and each link is listed alphabetically to show that we do not favor one doctor over another.</p>
<h3>The Human Side</h3>
<p>Although the following doctors have their specialties, their outside interests seem to take front stage.</p>
<ol>
<li><a title="Book of Joe" href="http://www.bookofjoe.com/">Book of Joe</a>: This &#8220;world&#8217;s most popular blogging anesthesiologist&#8221; offers his opinions on some odd subjects, always entertaining.</li>
<li><a title="Musings of a Dinosaur" href="http://dinosaurmusings.blogspot.com/">Musings of a Dinosaur</a>: if you want great writing and humor that makes you snort your coffee up your nose, this is the blog for you.</li>
<li><a title="Musings of a Distractible Mind" href="http://distractible.org/">Musings of a Distractible Mind</a>: Go from seriousness to absurd from one blog post to the next in this strange, yet not harmful, blog.</li>
<li><a title="Notes of an Anesthesioboist" href="http://anesthesioboist.blogspot.com/">Notes of an Anesthesioboist</a>: Combine a specialist with an oboe and this is what you get.</li>
<li><a title="Doctor Bruno's Blog" href="http://bruno.penandscale.com/">Doctor Bruno&#8217;s Blog</a>: Don&#8217;t look for medical advice here. This is an interesting personal views and opinions blog.</li>
<li><a title="Polite Dissent" href="http://www.politedissent.com/">Polite Dissent</a>: Enjoy comics, medicine television and fun from this family practitioner.</li>
<li><a title="The Blog that Ate Manhattan" href="http://theblogthatatemanhattan.blogspot.com/">The Blog that Ate Manhattan</a>: Cooking and doctoring in this blog, which focuses on both.</li>
<li><a title="The Doctor Is In" href="http://www.docisinblog.com/">The Doctor Is In</a>: Dr. Bob is a Christian doctor who has a very popular blog.</li>
<li><a title="The Happy Hospitalist Blog" href="http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/">The Happy Hospitalist Blog</a>: From the hospital doctor straight to your computer screen with various topics and a sense of humor.</li>
<li><a title="The Knitting Doctor" href="http://mousepotato.typepad.com/knittingdoctor/">The Knitting Doctor</a>: Lorette shares her passions &#8212; knitting and internal medicine. Yes, it works.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Specialties</h3>
<p>The following doctors have outside interests, but their specialties are the focus.</p>
<ol start="11">
<li><a title="A Blog Around the Clock" href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/">A Blog Around the Clock</a>: Bora Zivkovic&#8217;s scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism) and additional interests in comparative physiology.</li>
<li><a title="A Life In The Day Of A Basics Doc" href="http://basicsdoc.blogspot.com/">A Life In The Day Of A Basics Doc</a>: This roadside doctor handles trauma and writes about his experiences. Sobering and riveting.</li>
<li><a title="Bioethics Discussion Blog" href="http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/">Bioethics Discussion Blog</a>: Once a week or so, Dr. Bernstein offers a blog entry of varying interests, always in the world of bioethics.</li>
<li><a title="Buckeye Surgeon" href="http://ohiosurgery.blogspot.com/">Buckeye Surgeon</a>: Ruminations by a non-academic general surgeon from the heart of the rust belt.</li>
<li><a title="CancerDoc" href="http://cancerdoc.blogspot.com/">CancerDoc</a>: A budding oncologist &#8220;tries to make sense of the world.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog" href="http://casesblog.blogspot.com/">Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog</a>: This blog offers health news, updated daily, by a former Cleveland Clinic assistant professor of medicine.</li>
<li><a title="Doctor David's Blog" href="http://doctordavidsblog.blogspot.com/">Doctor David&#8217;s Blog</a>: Follow the musings of a pediatric oncologist.</li>
<li>Dr. Deb: This lady is all business. She&#8217;s a psychologist specializing in trauma and depression and uses her blog for educating the public.</li>
<li><a title="Dr. Is In" href="http://dr-is-in.com/">Dr. Is In</a>: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes offers advice on a variety of topics, including addictions and mental health.</li>
<li><a title="Dr. Len's Cancer Blog" href="http://www.cancer.org/aspx/blog/">Dr. Len&#8217;s Cancer Blog</a>: Dr. Lichtenfeld is Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the national office of the American Cancer Society.</li>
<li><a title="Gruntdoc" href="http://gruntdoc.com/">Gruntdoc</a>: A highly popular blog written by a doctor who once served in the U.S. Navy.</li>
<li><a title="Kidney Notes" href="http://www.kidneynotes.com/">Kidney Notes</a>: Dr. Schwimmer tags news and other articles that focus on nephrology.</li>
<li><a title="Notes from the Country Doctor" href="http://notesfromcountrydoctor.blogspot.com/">Notes from the Country Doctor</a>: Humor or medicine&#8230;or both? Don&#8217;t miss the quotes in the sidebar.</li>
<li><a title="RangelMD" href="http://rangelmd.com/">RangelMD</a>: Learn more about sickness with a dash of cynicism from this highly popular doctor&#8217;s blog.</li>
<li><a title="Rebel Doctor Web Log" href="http://rebeldoctor.blogspot.com/">Rebel Doctor Web Log</a>: This doctor specializes in sleep problems and psychology.</li>
<li><a title="Retired Doc's Thoughts" href="http://mdredux.blogspot.com/">Retired Doc&#8217;s Thoughts</a>: Although some entries focus on health care debates, the focus here is on internal medicine, endurance training, exercise and gerontology.</li>
<li><a title="Rural Doctoring" href="http://www.ruraldoctoring.com/">Rural Doctoring</a>: Small-town medicine in the Internet age by Theresa Chan, a family physician working in rural Northern California.</li>
<li><a title="Suture for a Living" href="http://rlbatesmd.blogspot.com/">Suture for a Living</a>: Although this plastic surgeon is into &#8216;stitches&#8217; in quilts as well as on bodies, the focus is more on medicine and health than on sewing.</li>
<li><a title="The Underwear Drawer" href="http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/">The Underwear Drawer</a>: This is a personal online journals os an anesthesiology resident in Atlanta and &#8220;what happens next.&#8221;</li>
</ol>
<h3>American Issues</h3>
<ol start="30">
<li><a title="Bad Science" href="http://www.badscience.net/">Bad Science</a>: Dr. Goldacre is an award-winning broadcaster and medical doctor who specializes in tearing apart dodgy scientific claims made by &#8220;scaremongerers.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="Fixin' Healthcare" href="http://www.fixinghealth.blogspot.com/">Fixin&#8217; Healthcare</a>: Dr. Newberry is a physician, former Dean of College of Medicine and Academic VP &amp; Provost at MUSC in Charleston, SC (retired) and currently at Nutritional Health Centers in Greenville &amp; Spartanburg, SC.</li>
<li><a title="Health Care Renewal" href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/">Health Care Renewal</a>: A variety of doctors contribute to this blog, which is focused on health care renewal.</li>
<li><a title="KevinMD.com" href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/">KevinMD.com</a>: Join the hippest, most happening doctor on the Internet today as he tackles health care issues from the lens of a primary care provider.</li>
<li><a title="Medical Humanities" href="http://medhum.blogspot.com/">Medical Humanities</a>: This blog, written by a slew of medical personnel, focuses on the intersection between medicine and the arts.</li>
<li><a title="SoloDoc" href="http://akifox.blogspot.com/">SoloDoc</a>: A family medicine doctor &#8220;goes from HMO to Solo&#8221; and comments on the healthcare debate.</li>
<li><a title="DB's Medical Rants" href="http://www.medrants.com/">DB&#8217;s Medical Rants</a>: Dr. Centor contemplates medicine and the health care system in this interesting blog.</li>
<li><a title="MD Whistleblower" href="http://www.mdwhistleblower.blogspot.com/">MD Whistleblower</a>: Get it while it&#8217;s hot! Dr. Kirsch enjoys writing about controversies in the doctor-patient relationship. When he&#8217;s not writing, he&#8217;s &#8220;performing colonoscopies.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="Notes from Dr. RW" href="http://doctorrw.blogspot.com/">Notes from Dr. RW</a>: Learn about strange happenings in the medical world, including the interface between medicine and politics, from this blog.</li>
<li><a title="The Covert Rationing Blog" href="http://covertrationingblog.com/">The Covert Rationing Blog</a>: Learn about healthcare rationing in America from Dr. Rich, a former professor of medicine.</li>
<li><a title="Wachter's World" href="http://community.the-hospitalist.org/blogs/default.aspx">Wachter&#8217;s World</a>: Dr. Wachter is MD is Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also writes this highly popular blog for and about doctors and their environments.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Other Countries</h3>
<ol start="41">
<li><a title="Angry Doc" href="http://angrydr.blogspot.com/">Angry Doc</a>: Angry Doc is anonymous, but he is located in Singapore, and his interests and opinions have garnered a large following over the years.</li>
<li><a title="Bad Medicine" href="http://www.badmed.net/">Bad Medicine</a>: This UK blog focuses on&#8230;yep, bad medicine; but, in a totally engaging way.</li>
<li><a title="Bagga's Blog" href="http://www.baggas.com/">Bagga&#8217;s Blog</a>: Dr. Paul Baggaley is a Christian family doctor from Perth, Australia with an interest in obstetrics and pediatrics.</li>
<li><a title="Doctor Bloggs...The official online diary of Nasty Gnome Party" href="http://doctorbloggs.blogspot.com/">Doctor Bloggs&#8230;The official online diary of Nasty Gnome Party</a>: A highly political medical blog colored by a great British humor lens and focused on the British National Health Service (NHS).</li>
<li><a title="National Death Service" href="http://nationaldeathservice.blogspot.com/">National Death Service</a>: UK NHS horror stories drip from this &#8220;gotta watch this train wreck&#8221; blog.</li>
<li><a title="NHS Blog Doctor" href="http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/">NHS Blog Doctor</a>: Dr. Crippen, located in the UK, blogs about the trials and tribulations of family medicine in the NHS.</li>
<li><a title="Nip/Fuct" href="http://gettingcaned.blogspot.com/">Nip/Fuct</a>: &#8216;Dr. Vegas,&#8217; located in the UK, tags himself as a &#8220;greedy doctor looking for job satisfaction.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="The Jobbing Doctor" href="http://thejobbingdoctor.blogspot.com/">The Jobbing Doctor</a>: Follow this UK general practitioner who works in a &#8220;large industrialized conurbation outside of London.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="The Junior Doctor" href="http://thejuniordoctor.blogspot.com/">The Junior Doctor</a>: This junior doc is training somewhere in the UK and &#8220;loving it.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="Ward 87" href="http://www.ward87.blogspot.com/">Ward 87</a>: This doc is an NHS whistle-blower. You think the U.S. has health issues? Read this blog and weep.</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the beginning of a new year, and many people are making resolutions to lose weight and live healthier. One of the most interesting things you can do, though, is take a life expectancy quiz that can help you understand just how much your bad habits are likely to take away from your life. For [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s the beginning of a new year, and many people are making resolutions to lose weight and live healthier. One of the most interesting things you can do, though, is take a life expectancy quiz that can help you understand just how much your bad habits are likely to take away from your life. For many, this can be a good wake up call, offering motivation for changes to a more healthy lifestyle.<span id="more-36"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26358240@N02/3782523530"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-38" title="3782523530_3b54584933" src="http://bestmastersinhealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/3782523530_3b54584933-150x150.jpg" alt="3782523530_3b54584933" width="150" height="150" /></a>A life expectancy calculator or quiz has another useful function: It can help you with your financial planning. Indeed, a life expectancy quiz can provide you with a good idea of how long you might need your nest egg to last. It can be useful as you chart a course through your retirement, helping you to create a plan to outlive your money.</p>
<p>It is important to note, though, that these life expectancy quizzes and calculators are just estimates. While they can provide interesting insight into how long you are likely to live, it is important to remember that they are not the be all and end all; you might live beyond the calculated expectancy, or you might die before the calculator says you will. But it does give you an idea. Here are 25 intriguing online quizzes and calculators to test your life expectancy. Don&#8217;t forget to be honest!</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.livingto100.com/">Living to 100</a>: Take this quiz, and then find out how you can lengthen your life expectancy by following the recommendations and tips offered by the calculator.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.northwesternmutual.com/learning-center/the-longevity-game.aspx">The Longevity Game</a>: This fun quiz from Northwestern Mutual takes you through your lifestyle choices, and the image representing you waxes and wanes with your life expectancy.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.demko.com/boom0525.htm">Original Death Calculator</a>: Find out when you are likely to die. Answering these questions about your history, genetics, lifestyle and habits can help you figure out when you are likely to kick the bucket.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.deathclock.com/">The Death Clock</a>: Answer very simple questions, and The Death Clock will return an exact date and time of your death. As for how accurate it is &#8212; who knows? Especially since it is based on your birth date, gender, BMI and whether or not you smoke. But it sure is fun.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.realage.com/reg/regvar/st1.aspx?mod=LONGFORM">Real Age</a>: This life expectancy quiz asks you questions about how well you are maintaining your body. Your biological age may actually be younger than the age you are now. Of course, if you haven&#8217;t been taking care of yourself, your biological age could be higher &#8212; and your life expectancy shorter.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine">Death by Caffeine</a>: Figure out how much caffeine it would take to kill you, based on your favorite caffeinated beverages or foods. Your life expectancy may not be longer than you can guzzle 56.31 cans of Monster Energy drink in one sitting.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thebachelorguy.com/the-booze-death-calculator.html">The Booze Death Calculator</a>: Figure out your life expectancy if you are out partying hard and binge drinking. Pick your alcoholic beverage of choice, and see how much of it would kill you.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/npc-life-quiz.php">NPC Life Expectancy Quiz</a>: Read through this to determine how long you would survive in a video game. A fun look at life expectancy.</li>
<li><a href="http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html">How Long Will I Live?</a>: Answer questions about your current lifestyle, and then get a look at how long you are likely to live. Progress further in the test to get an analysis of your health risks and how you can improve you situation and your life expectancy.</li>
<li><a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expect/main.asp">Life expectancy calculator</a>: MSN money offers you a calculator that takes into account your current lifestyle, as well as different stressors that might be part of your life, and looks at your family history and other factors.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html">Find Your Fate</a>: This is another calculator that asks you more specific questions and attempts to pinpoint the possible date of your death. Interestingly, whether or not you brush or floss your teeth is on this quiz.</li>
<li><a href="http://evil.berzerker.net/death_predictions.php">The Amazing Death Predictor</a>: This is a tongue in cheek prediction that asks simple questions (some of which may not have to do with whether you are living a healthy lifestyle) and then generates a random death for you. Such as dying when you experience a mid-air collision when your personal jet pack malfunctions.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lifescript.com/Quizzes/Health/Will_You_See_Your_80th_Birthday.aspx">Will You See Your 80th Birthday?</a>: Check to see whether or not the chances are good for you to live to the age of 80.</li>
<li><a href="http://deathdate.info/">Death Date</a>: Get a death date, and poke around for other interesting tidbits, such as what you will do in the afterlife, what you will come back as, should you reincarnate.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pacificlife.com/Channel/Educational+Information/Calculators/Life+Expectancy+Quiz">Life Expectancy Quiz</a>: Pacific Life tests your knowledge of life expectancy facts, and helps you figure out whether you really are adequately providing your future.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4265092281">Date of Death Calculator</a>: This is a fun Facebook app that lets you figure out when you will die. You can compare with your friends and post to your profile.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php">Life Expectancy Calculator</a>: You can learn your virtual age as well as your life expectancy. Learn about how you compare to others of your physical age, and whether you are actually younger or older than your current physical age suggests. The sliding scale allows you to more accurately assess your situation when answering questions.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.msrs.state.mn.us/info/Age_Cal.htmls">Life Expectancy Calculator</a>: What to figure your life expectancy yourself? This formula from the Minnesota State Retirement System can help you out.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.metlife.com/individual/financial-tools/life-expectancy-calculator/index.html">Life Expectancy Calculator from MetLife</a>: This calculator will help you determine your life expectancy &#8212; and help you figure out how you can outlive your money.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.boredquiz.com/personality_quiz/life-expectancy-quiz/1">Life Expectancy Quiz</a>: Answer these questions about your lifestyle, and find out whether or not you are as healthy as you think you are.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.deathriskrankings.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1">Death Risk Rankings</a>: Compare life expectancy and death risk in different countries, and by other factors, such as gender. It&#8217;s an interesting death quiz that helps you compare your life expectancy to others&#8217;.</li>
<li><a href="http://ajeducation.com/psy/life.html">Life Expectancy Calculator/Life Expectancy Test</a>: This quiz asks you questions about your personal life, financial life and lifestyle habits in an effort to help you figure out what your life expectancy is likely to be.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.growyouthful.com/quiz.php">What is your biological age?</a>: Find out whether you are aging more quickly than you should be. See what certain habits and lifestyle choices are doing for your biological age.</li>
<li><a href="http://exercise.bizcalcs.com/Calculator.asp?Calc=Increased-Life-Expectancy">Increased Life Expectancy Calculator</a>: Add years to your life by adjusting your fitness routine. This calculator helps you see how much you could gain by making changes with your exercise.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lifeexpectancy.com/asp/Calculator/">Life Expectancy Calculator</a>: Your age, race, education and income can all affect your life expectancy. Here is a calculator that shows you how.</li>
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		<title>50 Open Courseware Classes to Learn About the Healthcare Debate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel prepared to discuss or debate health care issues? If not, the following free courses, supplied by noted universities such as MIT, may prove enlightening. The list below contains courses that range from health policy basics and public policy basics to environmental issues and aging as well as legal issues and conflict resolution. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you feel prepared to discuss or debate health care issues? If not, the following free courses, supplied by noted universities such as MIT, may prove enlightening. The list below contains courses that range from health policy basics and public policy basics to environmental issues and aging as well as legal issues and conflict resolution.<span id="more-41"></span></p>
<p>This list is divided into categories, and each link is listed alphabetically within those categories. The university that offers the course is shown in brackets after each course description.</p>
<h3>Health Policy Basics</h3>
<ol>
<li><a title="Changing the Face of American Healthcare" href="http://ocw.nd.edu/center-for-social-concerns/changing-the-face-of-american-healthcare">Changing the Face of American Healthcare</a>: This new course invites students to learn about strengths and weaknesses within the American health care system [Notre Dame].</li>
<li><a title="Comparative Health Policy" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-315Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm">Comparative Health Policy</a>: The course shows how the historical development of the American health care system may limit policy options [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Introduction to Health Policy" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/IntroHealthPolicy/">Introduction to Health Policy</a>: This course focuses on four substantive areas that form the analytic basis for many of the health policy and management issues [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-732-1Spring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm">Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health</a>: Students only need a general interest in medicine or public health issues to tackle this course [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="The Politics of Health Care" href="http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/1133_detail.html">The Politics of Health Care</a>: Learn about the uninsured in this country as well as health care roots, Medicare, Medicaid and more in this series of seminars [Columbia].</li>
<li><a title="Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/UnderstandingCostEffectiveness/">Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care</a>: Learn basic economic concepts needed to understand the recommendations from the U. S. Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine [Johns Hopkins].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Public Policy Basics</h3>
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<li><a title="Fundamentals of Public Policy" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-002JFall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm">Fundamentals of Public Policy</a>: Explore policy-making as both a problem-solving process and a political process in this undergraduate course [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-020Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm">Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy</a>: This course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice into poverty, public policy and controversy [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Public Opinion and American Democracy" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-265Spring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm">Public Opinion and American Democracy</a>: Explore how citizens&#8217; thinking about politics is shaped and the role of public opinion in political campaigns, elections, and government in this course [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="U.S. Social Policy" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-317Spring-2006/CourseHome/">U.S. Social Policy</a>: Examine the policy-making process in the U.S., why some alternatives are implemented and others abandoned, why some interests are privileged over others [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Values, Ethics, and Public Policy" href="https://open.umich.edu/education/fordschool/pubpol580-fall2009">Values, Ethics, and Public Policy</a>: How do moral and political values come into play in the American policy process? Learn about this issue and more from this course [Open Michigan].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Public Health Basics</h3>
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<li><a title="Ethical Issues in Public Health" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/EthicalIssuesPublicHealth/">Ethical Issues in Public Health</a>: This course focuses on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/HealthAcrossLifeSpan/">Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements</a>: This comprehensive course can help learners understand the complexity of health issues that face various populations across a lifetime [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Medicine and Public Health in American History" href="http://ocw.nd.edu/history/medicine-and-public-health-in-american-history">Medicine and Public Health in American History</a>: Learn more about the conception of disease, health and healing throughout American history [Notre Dame].</li>
<li><a title="Public Health Practice 101" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/publichealthpractice101/">Public Health Practice 101</a>: Learn about four ways to describe and define public health and ten essential services [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Public Health Preparedness &amp; Emergency Response" href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2009-D-76241&amp;semesterid=2009-D">Public Health Preparedness &amp; Emergency Response</a>: This series of lectures deals with public health and history of emergency responses as well as changing policies [Berkeley Webcast].</li>
<li><a title="Public Health Seminar" href="http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/course.aspx?id=83">Public Health Seminar</a>: Dr. Frederick Burkel provides a seminar on &#8220;Public Health Emergencies: The Common Thread,&#8221; a topic delivered as part of a public health seminar cosponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine [UCIrvine].</li>
<li><a title="The History of Public Health" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/HistoryPublicHealth/">The History of Public Health</a>: The content provides an historical interpretation of how the theory and practice of public health in today&#8217;s world has come to be what it is today [Johns Hopkins].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Health Policy in Specific Topics</h3>
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<li><a title="Contemporary Biosocial Problems in America" href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/52">Contemporary Biosocial Problems in America</a>: Among major issues examined in this course are ideological uses of science, the biological basis of sex roles and homosexuality, behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, and the meaning of race in medical practice [Tufts].</li>
<li><a title="Coping with Mental Illness and Crafting Public Policy" href="http://mentalhealthpolicy.berkeley.edu/">Coping with Mental Illness and Crafting Public Policy</a>: This site focuses on a 2002 symposium that addressed public policy issues surrounding mental health care [University of California at Berkeley].</li>
<li><a title="Disease and Society in America" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Science--Technology--and-Society/STS-005Fall-2005/CourseHome/">Disease and Society in America</a>: This undergraduate course uses an historical approach to examine the changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, the evolution of medical theory and practice, the development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical research industry, and the ethics of health care in America [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Global Tobacco Control" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/GlobalTobaccoControl/">Global Tobacco Control</a>: Learn about the health and economic burden that tobacco creates and learn practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Measuring Health Disparities" href="https://open.umich.edu/education/sph/health-disparities">Measuring Health Disparities</a>: Learn about health disparities and about a range of health disparity measures [Open Michigan].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Environment and Health</h3>
<ol start="24">
<li><a title="Biology of Water and Health" href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/55">Biology of Water and Health</a>: Learn how to think outside the box when addressing water-related problems [Tufts].</li>
<li><a title="Environment and Society" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-122Environment-and-SocietyFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm">Environment and Society</a>: This course examines environmental and social impacts of industrial society and policy responses [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Environmental Health" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/EnvironmentalHealth/">Environmental Health</a>: Topics in this course include how the body reacts to environmental pollutants and emerging global environmental health problems [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/nutritionalhealthfoodproductionandenvironment/">Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment</a>: Ever wonder why one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight in this world? Take this course to learn more about this issue [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease" href="http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/1111_detail.html">Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease</a>: What are the connections between the disruption of ecosystems and eruptions of human disease? [Columbia].</li>
<li><a title="Public Health Toxicology" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/publichealthtoxicology/">Public Health Toxicology</a>: Learn about environmental toxicology, including information about the elimination of toxic agents as well as the fundamental laws governing the interaction of foreign chemicals with biological systems [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="The Politics of Pollution" href="http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/1162s_detail.html">The Politics of Pollution</a>: This two-part series examines the impact of industrial production on public health and economics, including the politics of policy when it comes to environmental health [Columbia].</li>
<li><a title="Watermanagement" href="http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/watermanagement/">Watermanagement</a>: This educational track focuses on understanding natural surface and groundwater streams and on managing, controlling and using water streams for society [TUDelft].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Pharmaceuticals</h3>
<ol start="32">
<li><a title="Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases" href="http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/course.aspx?id=85">Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases</a>: This lecture covers some ways that modern theoretical and computational chemistry are contributing to the discovery of new pharmaceuticals [UCIrvine].</li>
<li><a title="Exploring Pharmacology" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Special-Programs/SP-236Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm">Exploring Pharmacology</a>: This seminar imparts information on over-the-counter drugs, drug abuse, drug policies and more information [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Pharmaceuticals Management for Under-served Populations" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/pharmaceuticalsmanagementforunder-servedpopulations/">Pharmaceuticals Management for Under-served Populations</a>: Analyze problems and develop strategies based upon real world drug management issues [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Principles of Drug Development" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/drugdevelopment/">Principles of Drug Development</a>: This course offers the underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures as well as economic risks [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Regulatory Requirements for Pharmaceutical Products" href="http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/course.aspx?id=16">Regulatory Requirements for Pharmaceutical Products</a>: Learn about the requirements for pharmaceutical products and for the industry and how they were established [UCIrvine].</li>
</ol>
<h3>The Elderly and Managed Care</h3>
<ol start="37">
<li><a title="Ageing and disability: transitions into residential care" href="http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3544">Aging and disability: transitions into residential care</a>: Learn more about how settings for elder-care work in this module [Open University].</li>
<li><a title="Health Issues for Aging Populations" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/agingpopulations/">Health Issues for Aging Populations</a>: This course introduces the study of aging and the background for health policy related to older persons [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Managed Care and Health Insurance" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/managedcare/">Managed Care and Health Insurance</a>: This course covers basic concepts pertaining to private and public sector health insurance/benefit plans [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Managing Long-Term Care Services for Aging Populations" href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/managinglongtermcareagingpopulations/">Managing Long-Term Care Services for Aging Populations</a>: Learn conceptual frameworks surrounding changes and health problems that accompany aging [Johns Hopkins].</li>
<li><a title="Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care" href="http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2494">Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care</a>: Learn what end-of-life care is about through this mini-course [Open University].</li>
<li><a title="Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/9-110JSpring-2005/CourseHome/">Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging</a>: Learn more about the loss of memory and other cognitive abilities in normal aging, as well as neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson&#8217;s and Alzheimer&#8217;s diseases [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Population Medicine" href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/42">Population Medicine</a>: Directed at physicians, this course asks doctors to shift attention away from the pathophysiologic effects of disease on individuals, and refocus it on a public scale. The elderly are used as a population model in this examination [Tufts].</li>
</ol>
<h3>Legal Issues</h3>
<ol start="44">
<li><a title="Law and Society" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-219Law-and-SocietySpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm">Law and Society</a>: This course emphasizes the relationship between the internal logic of legal devices and economic, political and social processes [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-166Fall-2002/CourseHome/index.htm">Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience</a>: This course introduces theoretical frameworks from legal and social movement theories and focuses on the impact of the relationship between courts and grassroots activism on current issues [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Legal Issues Affecting the Terminally Ill Patient" href="http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=226">Legal Issues Affecting the Terminally Ill Patient</a>: This lecture focuses on the rights of terminally ill patients and how they may be affected by state and federal laws [Case Western Reserve University].</li>
<li><a title="Resolving Public Disputes" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-007Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm">Resolving Public Disputes</a>: Topics to be considered in this course include national, state, and local policy disputes [MIT].</li>
<li><a title="Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-969Summer-2005/CourseHome/index.htm">Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution</a>: This course features the Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution [MIT].</li>
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<h3>Collections</h3>
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<li><a title="Harvard Medical School" href="http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/">Harvard Medical School</a>: Use your page search option to view lectures and papers on health policy issues found on this site [Harvard].</li>
<li><a title="Health-Medicine" href="http://www.virginia.edu/uvapodcast/search.php?submit=true&amp;category=4">Health-Medicine</a>: This series of podcasts and Webcasts covers current debates in health and medicine [University of Virginia].</li>
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		<title>7 Excellent Career Tips for Criminal Justice Professionals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for being a criminal justice professional there are wide array of career options that a person can select from. He can select career options for himself in the areas like; ATF Agent, Criminologist, Custom Agents, DEA agents and in Forensic Science. However, career in forensic science is somewhere close to healthcare industry as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for being a <a href="http://www.bestmastersincriminaljustice.com/" target="_blank">criminal justice</a> professional there are wide array of career options that a person can select from. He can select career options for himself in the areas like; ATF Agent, Criminologist, Custom Agents, DEA agents and in Forensic Science. However, career in forensic science is somewhere close to healthcare industry as a professional in criminal justice needs to know about intricacies of human anatomy, medical related technology and terminology. As a <a href="http://www.forensicsciencetechniciandegree.com/" target="_blank">Forensic science expert</a> you help authorities by collecting important evidences and proofs from the crime scene. Therefore following a career in criminal justice one needs to follow certain career tips.</p>
<p><strong>Right Type of Educational Background</strong>: A person practicing criminal justice works in the related fields like administration, law enforcement, forensics, criminal psychology and sociology. Therefore, he should have right type of educational background for pursuing career in Criminal Justice being a student of political science, sociology, psychology, law and social work favors at your way.</p>
<p><strong>Look out for the Job Scope</strong>: An aspirant before deciding for career in criminal justice should look out for the career options offered by it. He can become any one of the police investigator, defender, prosecutor, judge, administrator, prison guard, security guard and probationary officer. He can be an agent for the Secret Service, FBI or Homeland Security.</p>
<p><strong>Choose the right course</strong>: As there a number of popular courses are available in the market. One should opt out for the best ones accommodating with the educational needs and right direction in the career of criminal justice.</p>
<p><strong>Select the Right College</strong>: The choice of college or program depends on what you wish to become in your intended career ranging from the police detective, forensic scientist, law enforcement officer or else. A set goal for the particular area definitely helps to choose out a career of your choice.</p>
<p><strong>List out the Colleges</strong>: As you have defined course you wish to follow and colleges where you can study. Now list them as for the purpose to choose out the best one where you can study on the basis of available faculty and facilities at the colleges.</p>
<p><strong>Duration of the Course</strong>: The next important factor to take into consideration is the duration of the course that you wish to follow. At different Colleges duration of the course differ according to syllabus and training schedule they follow. Therefore selection of course according to duration should be accommodating to your career choice.</p>
<p><strong>Fee Structure</strong>: Last and the most important is the fee structure and surely it should be accommodating to your pocket and budget or you can look out also for the options of educational loans.</p>
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		<title>Top 5 &#8220;Lifehack&#8221; Bloggers for Your Health and Wellness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you claim to know about health and related issues, there are still a few things that skip your knowledge. There are so many amusing things pertaining to your health that you just may not know about. Steps in – health blogs! From discussing various health related problem to giving you some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No matter how much you claim to know about health and related issues, there are still a few things that skip your knowledge. There are so many amusing things pertaining to your health that you just may not know about. Steps in – health blogs! From discussing various health related problem to giving you some of the finest tips on how to keep up your health, these lifehack bloggers have a lot to offer. Here are some of the best health and wellness blogs that can prove to be of great aid to you.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/" target="_blank">Healthcareblog</a></strong> – This health and wellness blog covers a wide range of topics about health and wellness. Unlike most health and wellness blogs, the Healthcareblog not just discusses the usual subjects pertaining to health. Instead, the website also informs you about various health news. The blog lays focus on policy and corporate aspects of the health care system. Addition of appropriate videos further makes the blog more interactive.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webmd.com/" target="_blank"><strong>WebMD</strong></a> – Community blogs from WebMD have become the most popular choice in the health and wellness category. This health and wellness blog segregates different health topics into various categories. Mind, body and spirit, Sclerosis, pain Management, Pediatrics, Sex and health, Prostate cancer are just some the categories that you can browse through. Each of these categories comprises various topics pertaining to the subject. The easily navigable nature of this health blog makes it a great choice.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/" target="_blank">MayoClinic</a></strong> – Though this health and wellness blog covers various areas of health, its key offering includes information about numerous diseases. Countless diseases have been categorized into alphabetical order so that you can easily find the one you are looking for. This health blog provides you detailed information about various health conditions such as symptoms, risks, diagnosis and treatment. It also features podcasts to facilitate interaction. If you are suffering from a particular disease or a health condition, this health and wellness blog is the perfect option to vouch for.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.drweil.com/" target="_blank">DrWeil</a></strong> – DrWeil puts together the best of eastern and western medicine together. Along with modern day treatments, the health blog also focuses on alternative medicine. The web blog features on day-to-day common issues that could concern your health. A daily Q &amp; A section invites users to ask their queries. Further on, this health blog also gives you various tips as regards your lifestyle and eating habits. Unlike most health and wellness blogs that make use of rather complicated terminology, DrWeil uses an easily comprehensible language.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.becomenatural.com/" target="_blank">Becomenatural</a></strong> – If you are the one who wants to achieve good health the natural way, then this health and wellness blog is the way to go. Becomenatural emphasizes on the power of nature to improve your overall health and well being. This health and wellness blog discusses various natural therapies that can be used to treat various ailments. It also provides numerous homemade remedies for skin care, hair recovery, improving vision and the like.</p>
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		<title>Masters In Healthcare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few students are capable of paying the school fees by their own in today’s world, only the very few who are wealthy can, manage to do so. Due to this, there are scholarships and grants that help the students to pursue their education to higher levels. The purpose of these grants is mainly to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very few students are capable of paying the school fees by their own in today’s world, only the very few who are wealthy can, manage to do so. Due to this, there are scholarships and grants that help the students to pursue their education to higher levels. The purpose of these grants is mainly to make the funds for education minimal and available to the students who cannot afford the college fees. Grants can be got by searching by subject or by student type.</p>
<p>Completing a master’s degree in health care enables you to be prepared for an advanced career in health care. Masters requires a great commitment and a lot of energy therefore it is important for you receive your education from the best school possible. The masters degrees is very useful since you want to make sure that your hard work is rewarded with a degree from the best and respected school. Through research, you will be able to choose your desired school and desired program in order to find out the quality of the education that is offered. You will also be able to know how good the program or the chosen school fits your specific needs.</p>
<p>As a professional in health care, you can extend your career with education and experience that are offered by the masters in health care. Researching for health care masters degree is useful since you can choose from the kind of programs that are offered such as financial aid, options, reputation, class size and faculty among others. By researching, you are able to identify the strengths and the weakness of the school and you will also be sure that the institution you have chosen is best for you before you commence your masters in health care.</p>
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