2121-11-29 Florida Sen. Rick Scott Off Base in Claim That Rise in Medicare Premiums Is Due to Inflation Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News An increase in Medicare Part B premiums means “America’s Seniors Are Paying the Price for Biden’s Inflation Crisis” — The headline of a press release from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) […]
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It’s Time to Rethink the 12-hour Nursing Shift
It’s Time to Rethink the 12-hour Nursing Shift by Maile Mercer Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the nursing profession was in dire straits. An aging U.S. population was raising the demand for nurses faster than professional schools could supply them, and increasingly, people working in the field were calling it quits, citing burnout and unsafe […]
The EPA Administrator Visited Cancer-Causing Air Pollution Hot Spots Highlighted by ProPublica and Promised Reforms
2021-11-29 The EPA Administrator Visited Cancer-Causing Air Pollution Hot Spots Highlighted by ProPublica and Promised Reforms by Ava Kofman ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Sacrifice Zones Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution Two days after ProPublica published […]
It Takes a Team: A Doctor With Terminal Cancer Relies on a Close-Knit Group in Her Final Days
2021-11-28 It Takes a Team: A Doctor With Terminal Cancer Relies on a Close-Knit Group in Her Final Days Judith Graham The decisions have been gut-wrenching. Should she try another round of chemotherapy, even though she barely tolerated the last one? Should she continue eating, although it’s getting difficult? Should she take more painkillers, […]
Recipe Sunday 2021-11-28: Easy and Delicious Ethnic Dishes
We feel, and studies suggest, that cooking can be a form of therapy for many. On Sunday, we post recipes for those looking for new ways to diversify their cookbooks (we do not get paid for this). —Editorial Team. Easy and Delicious Ethnic Dishes (Family Features) When tried-and-true family favorites turn stale and […]
Sunday’s Jokes 2021-11-28
Some say laughter is the best medicine, so, on Sundays, we post some jokes to hopefully brighten your day. – Editorial Team Safest Way to Drive Peter Ludwig, a caver from Austria who is appalled by American driving habits, offers the following advice: The probability of being involved in a traffic accident […]
Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.
2021-11-27 Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out. Christina Jewett They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19 — if they left at all. More than 10,000 patients were diagnosed with covid in […]
Reducing Stigma
Reducing Stigma Stigma is discrimination against an identifiable group of people, a place, or a nation. Stigma is associated with a lack of knowledge about how COVID-19 spreads, a need to blame someone, fears about disease and death, and gossip that spreads rumors and myths. No single person or group of people are […]
When the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera
2021-11-26 When the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera Sofie Kodner In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself. Wurdock was several years into a dementia diagnosis that […]
Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?
Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities? Substances that persistently luminesce are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat By Kurt Kleiner Around the year 1603, Italian shoemaker and amateur alchemist Vincenzo Casciarolo tried smelting some […]