Baby watches
No, they’re not tiny timepieces babies wear on their teeny weeny wrists. I’m talking about the wait for a baby to be born. It’s sort of like waiting for toast to pop out of a toaster or eggs to boil, … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Health
Surprise, surprise!
Another untruth in the selling of Obamacare emerges: “Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor.” The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through … Continue reading →
What I took away…
…from this post of Ace’s is that Al Sharpton is 58. Fifty-eight? He looks seventy-eight to me. I consider fifty-eight young (hey, I’m starting to consider seventy-eight kinda young, too. It’s all in the attitude, right?) Sharpton used to be … Continue reading →
US drops to second…
…in the list of the world’s fattest developed nations. Quick—without reading the article, what are the others? I would not have had a clue. I’m not even sure what I would have guessed—maybe Samoa (or is that considered a “developed” … Continue reading →
Stop me before I snack again!
Saw a link to this at Ace’s: It’s a simple concept, but one that many people could use. The Kitchen Safe measures 6 x 6 x 6.5 in. (15.2 x 15.2 x 16.5 cm), which is large enough to fit … Continue reading →
America: a nation of drug users
Legal ones, that is: Researchers find that nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half receive at least two prescriptions. Mayo Clinic researchers report that antibiotics, antidepressants and painkiller opioids are the … Continue reading →
An unpleasant truth about 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan’s lung transplant…
…is that her getting it means that someone else won’t get one right now. Another unpleasant truth about lung transplants (and transplants in general) is that, until we can grow new organs in labs, there will be a finite number … Continue reading →
Suffering is suffering
I forget what led me to this video. But I’m impressed by the matter-of-fact way this young woman discusses her situation (she’s a C-5 level quadriplegic as a result of an auto accident), without excessive drama but actually saying some … Continue reading →
Prostate vs. breast cancer
Prostate cancer and breast cancer have a lot in common, although they’re very different as well. The first affects men only, and the second almost entirely women (although about one in a hundred breast cancer patients are men, a fact … Continue reading →
Centenarians on why they lived so long
If you live to be over 100 I guess you get to opine about how you think you managed to do it. But that doesn’t mean you really have a clue. My extremely strong hunch is that these stalwarts lived … Continue reading →
Megan McArdle deserves some sort of prize for this one
Please please do yourself a favor and read Megan McArdle’s comprehensive and penetrating analysis of that Medicaid outcome study. And afterward, please send it to some other people whom you think might actually be inclined to read it.
Continue reading →More Boomers are committing suicide
It’s particularly true for men in their 50s, for whom the rate has jumped by a factor of 50% (up to 30 per 100,000) during the first decade of the twenty-first century. For women ages 60-64 the rate jumped 60% … Continue reading →