Please take note of the charts and numbers for a half a dozen states detailing the damage to healthcare by Republicans taking no action on ACA subsidies. It will occur in all of the states. I chose these states as an example as they also had complete numbers to cite. “How Much Will ACA Premium […]
Shingles can be extremely painful. So much so that some people with shingles contemplate suicide. Shingles is caused by a virus. In fact it’s the same virus that causes chicken pox. The virus can hide out in ganglia, typically in the trunk area, and then escape later in life to cause a painful rash. Fortunately, […]
A partial of a much larger report. The complete report can be found here. As taken from: Americans for Tax Fairness “Sick Profits.” This portion of the article looks at the differences in profits and where those profits are going. The additional profits (mostly gained from tax breaks) are not going to reductions in healthcare […]
Briefly . . .Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health. Characterizing foods people are eating today . . . people in the US aged 1 year or older obtain an average of 55% of their calories from eating ultra-processed foods. Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at the University of Rhode […]
AB: Yesterday. Both Jan and I decided we would go to Walgreens (Arizona) to get our Covid inoculation. We are both over 65 and supposedly were eligible. Jan called one Walgreens to find out if they had the Pfizer vaccine. She was told we can not get inoculated without a prescription. So, we called and […]
Trump has no fear of US Citizens. Republicans have reason to be fearful in the next election, if this bill is passed. But Repubs are not showing much fear. A lot of detail in this commentary. To make things from bad to really bad? The new law restricts a states’ ability to raise revenue for […]
In the early years of the USSR, Soviet genetics was internationally recognized. Then along came Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist who convinced Stalin that he could bypass the laborious genetics of plant breeding to develop strains of wheat through the transmission of acquired traits. This fit well with the Soviet philosophy that humanity could be transformed […]
A first level of review is carried out by a scientific review group (SRG). It is composed (primarily) of non-federal scientists who have expertise in relevant scientific disciplines and current research areas. Their role is to assess the overall impact a proposed project (or resource, or training, or center, etc.) will likely have on the […]
“Advanced recycling” is a toxic scam — now the EPA is turning a blind eye to some of the most toxic chemicals it produces – Environment Defense Fund, EDF Health What’s new: Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a proposed rule covering 18 new chemicals, which would have paused industry efforts to turn toxic […]
Hmmm. I read this and wonder what should veterans do if the Government is spending more money? Since the sixties, many of us were exposed to chemical warfare in Vietnam. drank the polluted water at Camp Lejeune, were wounded in action or lost limbs, suffered mentally, and had a difficult time adjusting to society. The […]