Both amusing and frightening.
Who says animals can’t learn from observation
?
Both amusing and frightening.
Who says animals can’t learn from observation
?
Andrew Schneider writes:
(Nov. 16) — It’s federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal lifesaving care, whether or not they can pay for it.
But that’s not happening, according to a new report.
The study, conducted by Children’s Hospital Boston research fellow Dr.
Heather Rosen and colleagues from three other hospitals, found that un insured trauma victims ages 18 to 30 are dying at an annual rate 89 percent higher than
insured victims with identically severe injuries.
As a friend in the medical field points out, it’s probably the after care that is much poorer for the uninsured than the insured that makes for the huge difference in death rates between them.
Andrew Schneider writes:
“Now new research out Tuesday has put hard numbers to those fears, showing that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women’s bodies, and that their children enter the world already exposed to known toxics.”
It’s so much cheaper, not just in monetary terms, but in terms of pain and suffering, to think ahead and try to prevent the full onslaught
of disease than let it get out of hand.
This time, it’s Medicare that is acting stupidly:
Many diabetic foot amputations are preventable By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP, who writes:
“It costs $1,400 to cover the oozing sore on the diabetic’s foot with a piece of artificial skin, helping it heal if patients keep pressure
off that spot.
So when Medicare paid for the treatment but not the extra $100 for a simple walking cast to protect it, an artificial skin maker last year started giving free casts to some needy patients.”
David Knowles writes:
In the study rele ased by Consumer Reports, c
anned soup, tuna, juice and green beans have all been found to contain potentially dangerous levels of bisphenol A, a man-made chemical preservative that increases shelf-life.
It appears that H1N1 is mutating.
There are different stra ins now be
ing found, and not just
in humans but in animals such as pigs, cats, ferrets.
All the more reason most of us need to put aside our fears and get vaccinated.
If you happen to be one of those who are told you shouldn’t get it by your health care professional, you need to follow such advice as well.
Many of us have added liberal doses of cinnamon to our diets because it helps control blood sugar.
However, in such cases, we need to be careful only to use Ceylon (or true) cinnamon. Other types can damage the kidneys and liver.
I’ve done some checking and it appears that the following from Wikipedia is correct:
Due to the presence of a moderately toxic component called coumarin, European health agencies have recently warned against consuming large amounts of cassia.[18] This is contained in much lower dosages in Cinnamomum burmannii due to its
low essential oil content.
Coumarin is known to cause liver and kidney damage in high concentrations.
True Ceylon cinnamon has negligible amounts of coumarin.
LAURAN NEERGAARD writes:
French scientists mixed gene ther apy
and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.
The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn’ t cause AIDS, and
then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.
I’m reminded again that, if we look hard enough, we can turn what appears bad, like the HIV virus, to good.
This is such an important lesson for us all that it deserves emphasizing again and
again.
CHARLES Q. CHOI, LiveScience writes:
(Nov. 5) — From their very first days,
the cries of newborns already bear
the mark of
the language their parents speak, scientists now find.
In a perceptive political article, David Knowles writes about the hoard of millionaires populating Congress:
“What’s easy to see is that the economic reality of our elected officials is not reflective of the general population,” said Dave Levinthal, who helped compile the study’s findings.
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.