On Taking ‘The Pill’
I take it every morning. It’s called Levothyroxine– an old generic med for hypothyroid. It’s cheap, and my insurance covers prescription drugs with a small co-pay. If I needed something expensive I’d be covered. Every so often, I get a blood test to make sure I’m on the right dose. If I feel run down [...]
Gain a Child, Lose a Tooth
Pregnancy and childbirth are profound events in the life of women and families, no less physically than spiritually. ‘Gain a child, lose a tooth’, even in 2007, the New York Times Science section concludes that there’s some truth to this old saying. A recent poll shows that a majority of Catholics support including birth control [...]
Gov. Howard Dean Continues to Talk Sense
This past Saturday, February 4, former governor of Vermont and 2004 presidential candidate Dr.Howard Dean spoke at the Providence Public Library for the kickoff of ‘Shape Up RI’. He was introduced by Brown graduate, Dr. Rajiv Kumar, founder of ‘Shape Up RI’. Dr.Kumar said, “I was a Deaniac, knocking on doors in New Hampshire for [...]
Phew — Now If We Can Get Komen to Focus on Prevention as well as Cure
The Susan G. Komen foundation just released a letter stating that they will continue to fund Planned Parenthood. Well, that’s a relief, but only a small one for me. The big thing I worry about in cancer activism is that the corporate influence is pushing us to look too much toward treatment and not enough [...]
Amputations Bad–Public Health Good
If you spend a lot of your working time nagging people to keep their blood sugar under control and to take good care of their feet you will appreciate this. From the Centers for Disease Control… CDC report finds large decline in lower-limb amputations among U.S. adults with diagnosed diabetes The rate of leg and [...]
Good News Break
Strange weather. The first snowfall hit while the leaves were still green, and this second one late in January. We could get buried before Spring gets here. The Occupation continues, not much noted in the ProJo, though the Boston Globe has covered the negotiations for a homeless day center. Until the ten-year plan to get [...]
Like, Duh
Stop the presses! This just in from Yahoo News. Incredibly, lack of health insurance keeps people from getting care–Diabetes Care Thwarted by Unstable Health Insurance: Study Among patients with continuous insurance, 48 percent received at least three lipid-screening tests during the three-year study, 25 percent received three or more flu shots, 72 percent received three [...]
World AIDS Day 2011
Our generation has seen the global eradication of one devastating disease, Smallpox, and the emergence of another, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV has been uniquely merciless in its reaping of the young and the healthy in their prime, in its mutations and transformations into a thousand awful ways to die. It was almost two decades into [...]
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