Tr__p is planning to cut Medicaid because he can do so with Republican support. Somehow, he has to find a way to pay for the tax breaks for the upper income followers. Doing so will have consequences for both the low-income citizens and also for the healthcare infrastructure. One Republican Senator is starting to take […]
Down where I now live in Arizona, we had waters issues. No shortage of water. Just issues with the quality of the water. There is a large abundance of water near us. Apparently, there was an event where E. coli bacteria got into the potable water system. Supposedly, this occurred around the 25th of August. […]
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 […]