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The Five Types of Insurance Every College Student Needs

Parents face many challenges in preparing a child for college. The process generally starts in the junior year, including monitoring grades, applying for scholarships and grants, and visiting various college campuses. The focus on college can become an all-consuming task. Once a college is chosen, and your child is accepted, a new set of challenges arises.  One neglected area to add to the college "to-do"...

Better Off Getting Stuck, Then Suffering The Consequences.

With the flu that is. Hospital emergency rooms are filling up around the country from what appears to be the worse flu epidemic in maybe a decade. If you’ve been watching the evening news, you would have noticed the newscasters indicating to a map of the U.S. and the states that are affected with the flu outbreak. All but three of the states are in...

Breast Cancer Is Every Woman’s Disease

Breast cancer awareness has come a long way, but it’s still a shock when a young woman is diagnosed with the disease. The fact is that 60% of all breast cancer diagnoses are women over the age of 60, but there has been a significant spike in the numbers of under 40 years old breast cancer cases. Breast cancer is now every woman’s disease. Therefore, women of...

U.S. Biggest Health Risk: Even The Military Is Getting Involved.

United States biggest health risk today has nothing to do with infectious diseases, germ warfare or an illness of any kind. It’s childhood obesity, believe it or not. Obesity now affects 17% of all children and adolescents in the United States and those numbers are triple the rate from one generation ago. In a 2012 study from the American Heart Association has indicated that the...

Tips on Insuring Your College Student

College students and parents alike are overwhelmed with the cost of tuition, books and settling into the new life at the dorms. But there are other concerns that could drive the already considerable costs through the roof. Issues such as stolen property, a car wreck as well as an injury or illness, all need to be addressed.       Auto Insurance If your student...