Not all grievous injuries are apparent to the eye, as anyone who has experienced catastrophic illness or injury can attest. And now we’re learning a lot more about the hidden costs — mental, emotional, social, and spiritual — inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. Reporters Emily Baumgartner and Russ Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times surfaced….
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Pandemic toll nears 800,000, as Delta rages and Omicron threatens
The coronavirus pandemic is nearing another grim mark: 800,000 deaths in this country in its two-year run, with 1 in 100 of the fatalities occurring among those 65 and older. The pandemic toll exceeds the population of cities like Washington, D.C., Seattle, Denver, Boston, and Memphis, and is heading toward the equivalent of spots like….
Continue ReadingFor happy holidays, ensure safety of gifts, decorations, food prep
With seasonal festivities getting into their full swing, be sure to take common sense steps to ensure that the holidays stay safe and healthy as well as fun. As the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has reported: “Unsafe toys, cooking fires, decorating, holiday trees and candles lead to thousands of injuries and deaths each year…..
Continue ReadingShots and boosters get yet more emphasis as Omicron spreads
The steady, global spread of the Omicron variant and the huge uncertainty about what menace it may pose also may provide a powerful prod for anyone still fence-sitting to finally get those coronavirus vaccinations, including booster shots. Experts are furiously researching and may not know for weeks or longer whether Omicron will be worse than….
Continue ReadingIn year-end crunch, Senate weighs Biden plan for health care boost
Leave it to lawmakers on Capitol Hill to wait until the year’s end to take up a major package pushed by congressional Democrats and the Biden Administration and that could potentially improve Americans’ health — big time. The machinations by which the proponents hope to pass the “Build Back Better” program have, sadly and significantly,….
Continue ReadingNew York Times hypes unproven diabetes therapy as a “cure”
Critics are alarmed about a news article published on the front page of the New York Times and headlined: A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked. Really? We all fervently wish for a cure for the devastation of diabetes, especially type 1 which starts in childhood. But the problem,….
Continue ReadingFDA under renewed fire over dubious approval of Alzheimer’s drug
Taxpayers and patients are suffering the rising negative consequences of the federal Food and Drug Administration’s dubious decision to overrule its own independent expert advisors and to approve on scant evidence Aduhelm. It is a prescription drug targeting Alzheimer’s disease, and concerns are rising about the medication’s safety and costs, not to mention whether it….
Continue ReadingU.S. invests $1.5 billion to boost health staffing in underserved areas
For anyone who believes that health care, in the wealthiest nation in the world, is a right and not a privilege, the Biden Administration provided some cause for optimism. It came in the form of an announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris that the nation will invest $1.5 billion to help reduce the shortage of….
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