Infographics
Infographics
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Doctors on Drugs
Increasing in costs each year, prescription pills are one of the most profitable and dominating industries in the nation, with annual sales in the hundreds of billions. P [...]
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Sitting is Killing You
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards comp [...]
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Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500 – Part Two
Still have questions about the American system of health care? Part Two of our look into why health care costs are soaring in the United States examines some of the myths [...]
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Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500 – Part One
The United States has fallen behind other nations, failing to provide affordable healthcare to its citizens. Americans spend $477 billion a year MORE on healthcare than i [...]
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Finding the Cure for AIDS
Since 1993, the average lifespan of a person infected with HIV (after their initial diagnosis) has tripled, largely thanks to treatments like the "cocktail." However, wit [...]
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Obesity In America
Unfortunately, the link between sedentary lifestyles (particularly experienced by people that work in jobs requiring them to sit most of the day) and obesity is quickly b [...]
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The Facts on STDs
STDs are a major problem in the United States today, largely impacting high risk groups like people that engage in unprotected sex with multiple partners. STDs are also a [...]
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13 Strange Ways To Get High
Substance abuse is a common issue that the United States faces today. Of course, this also means that medical billers and coders often handle codes and bills outlining se [...]
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Facts about Sesame Street
Since 1969, Sesame Street has been one of the preeminent educational shows dealing with complex issues that children face each day. In fact, many episodes and skits of Se [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery
Many medical billers and coders will encounter cosmetic surgery at some point in their career. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Surgery, the most common co [...]
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Life Summed Up
It can be easy to forget how expansive life often is. We take life one meal at a time, one step at a time. However, those meals and steps add up to some big numbers when [...]
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Interesting Facts about Sex
Despite the efforts of Hollywood to portray their superstars as having Wilt Chamberlain levels of sexual partners, you might be surprised about the truth. According to th [...]
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The War on Drugs
Illegal drug use is becoming a major problem in the United States, with the Mayo Clinic estimating that 19.5 million people over the age of 12 use illegal drugs and 19,00 [...]
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Facts about the Internet
With the push for electronic medical records in the medical billing and coding industry, and the increasingly computerized nature of the field, more and more billers and [...]
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Who Are the Sexual Predators?
One of the most confusing aspects of the term "sexual predator" is how interchangeable it can be with other terms, especially sex offender. Some states use legal differen [...]
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10 Things to Know About Torture
Until the English Bill of Rights in 1689, cruel and unusual punishment was a staple of most countries' system of criminal justice. In fact, torturous interrogation and ex [...]
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15 Things You Didn’t Know About Urine
Most American citizens believe that urine is unsanitary. But in the first century A.D., Romans used urine in their toothpaste in order to whiten their teeth. Urine contai [...]
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A Look at Suicide Statistics
Suicide is a word that has become synonymous with fear, depression, and hopelessness. Each year, about one million people around the world make this final choice, with di [...]
