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2023-02-25 California Says It Can No Longer Afford Aid for Covid Testing, Vaccinations for Migrants Don Thompson All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru, […]
2023-02-25 People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana – that are critical to many bodily functions A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions. Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Digital Vision via Getty Images Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina Over the past two […]
2023-02-25 Regulators Overhaul Inspections of Hospice Providers 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: The Hospice Hustle How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers In late January, amid intensifying scrutiny of […]
Dog Day Saturday 2023-02-25 Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may […]
2023-02-24 A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she didn’t even use her insurance to pay […]
Mirror, Mirror, On the wall… By John Purvis Our battle was fierce and the winner in doubt, but in the end, vanity was his undoing. It was man versus bird, a Giant Bird. No, not a giant chicken, but a large emu. In the mid 90’s a fad swept across America. It was […]
2023-02-24 Book Review: The Strange History of Binding Books in Human Skin by Elizabeth Svoboda In 2015, Megan Rosenbloom traveled to Harvard University’s Houghton Library in search of a book called “Des destinées de l’âme“ (“Destinies of the Soul”), by the French author Arsène Houssaye. This copy of Houssaye’s masterwork had a singular distinction: At […]
Mental Health Friday 2023-02-24 On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what […]
2023-02-23 In Tennessee, a Medicaid Mix-Up Might Land You on a ‘Most Wanted’ List Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Life was upended for LaShonia Ingram over the past year, and a shadow still follows her around. Search her name online, and the first result includes the words “fraud” and “most wanted.” “It was […]
10 DISCONSOLATE LIFE HACKS By Olajide Makinde The fact that life is worth living does not still give a forever freedom that would not allow one to experience the negative side of life. We, sometimes, display the inward reactions which would have been swallowed without any effect, but rather reflect this which would […]