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A Contagious New Neighbor Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Category: Health Beat Published: March 2018
 
Ah-Choo to Winter Amanda Reed
Category: Health Beat Published: January 2018
 
COVID's Overdose Beat Leigh Wedenoja
Category: Health Beat Published: July 2021
"There was catious optimism that the rapid intensification in drug mortality had begun to plateau. However, much of that optimism faded during the first days of stay-at-home orders in March 2020."
 
Don't Cave to Corona Jane M. Orient
Category: Health Beat Published: March 2020
"Prepare to take care of yourself and your family. Be sure you have a fever thermometer, disposable gloves, plastic garbage bags, and cleaning supplies. A pulse oximeter, available in many places for around $40 is good to have to check oxygen levels."
 
Mission Impossible Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2018
The biggest obstacle to great medical care is the socialist brigade rallying around Medicare-for-All, a proposed federally-financed program w/ no premiums, deductibles or copays, w/ medical, dental, vision & hearing benefits. What could possibly go wrong?
 
Not a Racist . . .Not Enough Jane M. Orient
Category: Health Beat Published: May 2021
"[Patients] probably would like their doctor to be studying about the latest giagnostic and therapeutic developments instead od attending a struggle session where he is expected to confess his guilt about 'white priviledge.'"
 
Pandemic Worsens Overdose Crisis Leigh Wedenoja
Category: Health Beat Published: May 2022
"The stress and isolation associated with COVID-19 mitigation strategies led to some people using drugs more frequently, in greater doses, or in more dangerous ways. . . . "
 
Promises, Promises Jane M. Orient
Category: Health Beat Published: January 2021
[Pres.-elect Joe] Biden and Vice Pres.-elect Kamala Harris were not in a position to determine health policy, so they ran on promises--so many promises.
 
Testing by the Bay Elizabeth Fernandez
Category: Health Beat Published: May 2020
"[A] new study aims to counteract the lack of data about the community spread of SARS-CoV-2 that has made the virus so challenging to combat."
 
That Stings! Daniel Ray
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2020
Be on the lookout for the "10 worst biting, stinging insects and pests in the U.S."
 
The Right to Try Jane M. Orient
Category: Health Beat Published: July 2018
When we say the "most vulnerable" need to be protected, does that mean the patients or academic research establishment? Organizations that determine standards of care? Medical journals? Pharmaceutical companies? Insurers? Pharmacy benefits managers?
 
The Suspect Science of Gov't Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2021
Federal and state govts are bribing, cajoling, and pressuring us to take an injection of a product that could be killing us in numbers not seen before. Serious reactions include miscarriages, Bell's palsy, Guillain-Barre, blood clotting disorders, etc.
 
Turns Out It's More than a Number Liz Mineo
Category: Health Beat Published: May 2022
". . . More older people than ever seem to lead healthy lives, engaged in a full range of activities. . . . "
 
Which Way to Go? Louise Fleming
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2017
 
Will Health Spans Rise Along with Life Spans? Richard Jackson
Category: Health Beat Published: May 2022
"It sometimes is said that 60 is the new 40. Looking to the future, it is even possible that 80 someday will be the new 60."