Critics have attacked Sen. Bernie Sanders for his proposal to wipe out $81 billion in medical debt, including by changing rules around debt collection and bankruptcy. He also called for “replacing the giant credit reporting agencies with a ‘public credit registry’ that would ignore medical debt when calculating credit scores,” reported the New York Times…..
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A toast to clear and simple advice: Parents, it’s just milk and water for the kids
Milk and water — it’s that simple. That’s the latest and official recommendation for what children 5 and younger mostly should drink. For parents, if any doubt persists, that advice comes from leading health authorities, including Healthy Eating Research, a nutrition advocacy group funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The group developed the kids’….
Continue ReadingWhile it’s still warm and sunny, saunter in for that annual flu shot
The weather may be sunny and temperate, the seasonal foliage a slowly changing delight to behold. But the savvy are prepping for sterner days ahead. It’s that time of year when doctors and public health officials urge us all to get that annual flu shot. It’s never easy to forecast the severity with which influenza….
Continue ReadingWashington DC Child Seat Laws
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1,233 children under the age of 14 were killed in traffic collisions in 2016. This represented an 8% increase from 2015. On average, it is estimated that three children are killed in traffic crashes every single day. The use of car seats and restraints has greatly reduced….
Continue ReadingAdministration actions give us all plenty of reasons to not breathe easy
Even as investigations deepened into the harms caused by vaping and e-cigarettes, the Trump Administration confounded those concerned with public health and the environment with rollbacks of legal ways to get vehicles to be cleaner and less polluting and of measures to ensure food safety, notably via changes in inspections of long problematic pork producers…..
Continue ReadingCan a Car Accident Cause Post-Traumatic Arthritis?
When most people hear the word “arthritis,” they think of an aging and degenerative condition. However, arthritis itself is defined simply as the inflammation of a joint. Any joint can become inflamed, and that inflammation can occur in numerous ways. One way arthritis can occur is through a sudden physical injury to that joint. This….
Continue ReadingShoulder Pain After a Car Accident
One of the most common, but often overlooked, car accident injury symptoms is shoulder pain. Shoulder pain after a car accident can be debilitating and result in a significantly decreased quality of life. In addition to pain, injuries to the shoulder can prevent injured accident victims from returning to work, performing basic daily care, and….
Continue ReadingIt’s a season to get ripe view of money-grasping Big Pharma and plutocrats
For those who get a rise out of following the plight of plundering plutocrats, forget about pop culture shows like Succession, Dynasty, or Empire. Instead, it may be worth peeking in on the true-life Sackler family saga. It also underscores the truth of this idea: Never get between Big Pharma and a buck. The Sackler….
Continue ReadingNursing homes and long-term care facilities may be infection ‘cauldrons’
The battle to reduce the sky-high cost of hospital care may have created its own unforeseen and harmful consequence: By hastening to get patients out of traditional hospitals and into skilled nursing facilities and long-term care centers, doctors and policy-makers may be contributing to a medical nightmare — serious infections acquired in health care institutions…..
Continue ReadingThere hospitals go again: UVA Health backpedals on draconian debt collection
Is a public pillorying the only way to stop big hospitals from pursuing patients for medical debt with the zeal of demons from the underworld? The University of Virginia Health System — an enterprise that racked up an $87 million operating profit on revenue of $1.7 billion in the fiscal year ending in June and….
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