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Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug? How About Funding This Instead?

Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug? How About Funding This Instead? Judith Graham July 6, 2021 If you could invest $56 billion each year in improving health care for older adults, how would you spend it? On a hugely expensive medication with questionable efficacy — or something else? This isn’t an abstract question. Aduhelm, a […]

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Bullying and LGBTQ Youth (2021-07-08)

  As bullying is so prevalent, and destructive we have decided to post a series of informational articles, one per day, beginning July 5 and ending Wednesday, July 14. On Friday, July 16, we will begin a series of informational articles dealing with cyberbullying. – Editorial Team LGBTQ Youth Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning […]

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New Research Finds J&J Vaccine Has Muscle Against Covid’s Delta Variant

New Research Finds J&J Vaccine Has Muscle Against Covid’s Delta Variant Victoria Knight   In the past two weeks, many medical experts started to question whether the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is administered in a single dose, would be as effective as the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine in protecting against the new, highly […]

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How Prison Education Programs Transform Lives and Communities

How Prison Education Programs Transform Lives and Communities (StatePoint) In 2014, Benito Castro was sentenced to six years in prison for passing bad checks as a result of a gambling habit he’d developed. Today, he’s the director of operations for a grocery store chain and runs freedomrides.org, a non-profit he started that provides transportation for […]

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Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess.

Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess. Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News   A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use. Long hidden, such price variations are supposed to be available in stark […]

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