Healthcare / General Information
In my last post, I described how GLP-1s were discovered and how they work. Now, I want to look at the different options and how they differ from each other. First, it is important to understand how FDA approval works. After a medication or treatment has been found to...
If you have Type II Diabetes or if you need to lose weight, you are probably aware of some hot new drugs, Jardiance, Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. You may also have been besieged by texts, emails, and phone calls about “compounded” versions of...
When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. From foam to heatstroke: The business of bird flu depopulation Bird flu containment isn’t just a...
As of now, there is LOW RISK for Americans to acquire Bird Flu (H5N1 Influenza). This DOES NOT mean that the virus is NOT dangerous; it DOES NOT mean that the spread is under control; it DOES NOT mean that there should be no concerns. NO. Low risk, in this parlance...
There is quite a lot of media attention to “Bird Flu”. Is it something that we need to worry about? SHOULD WE BE SCARED? Normally I would say no, but today I say Yes. In the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, healthy people in their 20’s got sick in the morning, and many...
This week’s news includes the FDA approval for two treatments for Sickle Cell Anemia. This is wonderful news, and a result of years of government-financed research that has provided tools for correcting genetic abnormalities. Some background: Sickle Cell anemia is a...
It seems so simple. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. We know the sex of the baby immediately at birth and we write that down on the birth certificate. Done. No questions, no issues, that is the “fact”. However…. Like most things in the real world, it...
Do you wonder where the most gun murders occur? If you listen to politicians, it occurs “somewhere else”. Here is the data from the CDC for the most recent years. The gun-related murder rates for people of all ages, recorded as murders per 100,000 people in the 50...
This essay was prompted by a friend who asked some really important questions about how COVID-19 is mutating and trying to evade our immune response. Viruses have no “brain”, they have no volition to “evade”. Viruses are very simple organisms with a very small set of...
December 1940. Hitler had finalized his plans for Vichy, France, the German invasion of Russia and the invasion of Greece. Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Nick Buoniconti and Phil Ochs were born. In Oxford, England a police constable named Albert...
This example is based on fact and is designed to provide a discussion framework for looking at the complexities of managing healthcare costs. The Disease: Hemophilia A [1] The Cause: A...
Both the Democrats and the Republicans Know Better BOTTOM LINE Politicians are motivated by how their voters perceive them. It matters that their public statements reinforce their closely cultivated political image. Deviation from that posture is seen as “selling...