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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/measles-epidemic-texas.html

Opinion | I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic. The outbreak in Texas could become much, much worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/22/dogs-will-help-sniff-out-bacteria-cystic-fibrosis-sufferers

Doctors’ best friends: dogs will help sniff out bacteria for cystic fibrosis sufferers Imperial College project could lead to less invasive testing and combat increase in antibiotic resistance

I guess that anyone with respiratory issues will know that this is not correct. A clean environment is priceless, especially when you are struggling to breathe.

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses........while poisoning the rest of us.

E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’ Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

Beyond infuriating. The companies make Billions, lives are lost because who can afford a $ 2 Million dollar cure?

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

Well, thanks to our new Emperor Donald Trump, we want to apologize to both our Mexican and Canadian customers for the extra 25 % tariffs placed on all US products.

Usually, I try to abstain from making any political comments on our business site, but this one just bites a bit too hard.

There is enough stupidity and greed in the world, but obviously Donald Trump doesn't seem to mind it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/health/hmpv-virus-china.html
Just FYI

What We Know About HMPV, the Common Virus Spreading in China While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV has circulated in humans for decades.

Well, this is too important not to share. Shame on all the 'winners'.

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

I have to admit, this got my blood pressure up a bit. This is how big companies make billions of dollars by defrauding the government and patients.

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In. Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal government has done little to stop it.

Life is for living. Not just for working and surviving.

Happy Birthday Kerry Alex Thorpe. Today would have been your 33rd Birthday. Hope you have a great party up there and hope you are still enjoying yourself, and still breathing easy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opinion/health-insurance-prior-authorization.html

Opinion | ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care Insurance companies have weaponized a seemingly benign process to protect their profits, and it’s putting patients at risk.

Cause for concern. Not panic. Yet. Hoping this will go away as quickly as it came on. Please, not another pandemic.

W.H.O. Asks China for Details on Surge of Respiratory Illness in Children Reports of overcrowding at pediatric hospitals in China have raised concerns about a jump in respiratory illnesses affecting children.