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Need help driving the point home. Please share. : antiwork. WTF : WhitePeopleTwitter. Egypt eradicates Hep C with a two-drug three-month therapy costing $45. The US is still gripped by Hep C, same treatment costs $80,000. : ABoringDystopia. Health care is in stack : facepalm. Huge crowd confronted Joe Manchin at his yacht club, chanting “we want to live.” : PublicFreakout. SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Inhalation Aerosol. Happy birthday to Tommy Douglas, who brought single-payer universal healthcare to Canada! His beliefs that anyone should have access to healthcare regardless of their income has become a strong part of Canadian pride and identity. : onguardforthee. A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US - PNHP. (Transcribed from a talk given by Karen S.

A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US - PNHP

Palmer MPH, MS in San Francisco at the Spring, 1999 PNHP meeting) Late 1800’s to Medicare The campaign for some form of universal government-funded health care has stretched for nearly a century in the US On several occasions, advocates believed they were on the verge of success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing lesson in American history, ideology, and character. Other developed countries have had some form of social insurance (that later evolved into national insurance) for nearly as long as the US has been trying to get it. Drain sinus and clear stuffy nose in one move. This actually works! : videos.

IAMA Chiropractic Assistant for two years and believe 90% of chiropractic medicine is bunk. Tomorrow I quit, AMA : IAmA. U/the_silent_redditor breaks down chiropractics in a single comment. : bestof. Medicaid coverage for children has more than paid for itself in the long run. Young children in 60s & 70s—who grew up with Medicaid—became healthier adults who paid more work-related taxes and relied less on welfare. Minorities were likely to see long-run. Federal Court: Anti-Vaxxers Do Not Have a Constitutional or Statutory Right to Endanger Everyone Else. Study: When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher. These findings support the politics hypothesis that the social determinants of health are, at least in part, constructed by the power vested in governments. : science.

Cross section of two human males, one obese and the other in good shape. : Damnthatsinteresting. Wow. Medical Debt causes divorce for married couple of 52 years. : WhitePeopleTwitter. Don't kill yourself for your job : antiwork. We already pay for it. : MurderedByAOC. The ol' switcheroo : MurderedByWords. A 13-year-old who was raped by her grandfather traveled hours across Texas to get an abortion. She wouldn't have been able to under the state's new 6-week ban. : politics. Free healthcare for all is a must. : WhitePeopleTwitter. "Who’s going to pay for it?" : ABoringDystopia. Utah governor signs bill requiring biological fathers to share the cost of pregnancy : nottheonion. Musings of an anonymous, pissed off virologist. By Paul Bieniasz Dr.

Musings of an anonymous, pissed off virologist

Bieniasz is Professor and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University. As viruses go, SARS-CoV-2, is quite easy to neutralize with antibodies and, it turns out, straightforward to generate effective vaccines based on the spike protein. Perhaps, even probably, those two properties are causally related.

The one-third of Americans who have bachelor's degrees have been living progressively longer for the past 30 years, while the two-thirds without degrees have been dying younger since 2010, according to new research by the Princeton economists who first id. New studies show just how hard US politicians have worked to restrict abortion access - The Academic Times. A pair of recently published studies quantify the barriers to accessing abortions that state lawmakers across the U.S. have established in recent years, in what one researcher described as a “death by a thousand cuts” for reproductive health care.

New studies show just how hard US politicians have worked to restrict abortion access - The Academic Times

As detailed in a research letter published Feb. 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that in the three years and 11 months between January 2017 and November 2020, state legislatures enacted 227 laws restricting abortion access in 35 states. Meanwhile, a Feb. 18 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the number of laws restricting medication abortions — the non-invasive “abortion pill,” which is highly effective in the first 11 weeks of pregnancy and which the Food and Drug Administration says a pregnant person can safely take at home without a follow-up exam — went from 16 in 2000 to 96 by December 2018. The letter's lead author, Eoin B. Sarah J. Texas and Mississippi Say It's Time to Reopen Without Masks. Live Venues Say No Thanks : Music.

Trumpedemic: The Coronavirus Death Toll Reached 500,000 Because Trump Sabotaged the Covid Response : politics. Trumpedemic: The Coronavirus Death Toll Reached 500,000 Because Trump Sabotaged the Covid Response : politics. U/victorvictor1 gives a detailed timeline on how Trump is directly responsible for the spread of the coronavirus, replete with sources. Trumpedemic is a fitting name. : bestof.

Katalin Kariko's work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine. Karikó has spent decades of her career researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA, a component of DNA that is considered to be one of the main building blocks of life.

Katalin Kariko's work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine

Through multiple setbacks, job losses, doubt and a transatlantic move, Karikó stood by her conviction: That mRNA could be used for something truly groundbreaking. Now, that work is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine. Karikó, 65, began her career in her native Hungary in the 1970s, when mRNA research was new and the possibilities seemed endless. But the call of the American dream (and more researching and funding opportunities) took root. In 1985, she and her husband and young daughter left Hungary for the US after she got an invitation from Temple University in Philadelphia.

‘Poverty is expensive’: Toronto doctor says universal basic income actually costs society less. Drug expiry debate: the myth and the reality. Why are US Republicans and right-wing people in the US so opposed to healthcare? : Ask_Politics. Roosevelt and Polio : nextfuckinglevel. When wrestling is a lifetime skill. : nextfuckinglevel. Universal child care would generate up to $29 billion a year in tax revenues, new report says.

A cross-Canada, universal child-care system would generate $17 billion to $29 billion in annual government revenues and easily pay for itself in the long run, according to a new report.

Universal child care would generate up to $29 billion a year in tax revenues, new report says

Published Wednesday by the Centre for Future Work, the report finds that the combination of jobs created by an expanded child-care system and increased participation in the labour force by women could add more than $100 billion to Canada’s GDP. The report suggests that building an affordable, national child-care program is Canada’s best path toward a post-pandemic economic recovery. Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how. In 2019, Oslo, Norway recorded zero pedestrian or cyclist deaths.

Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how

There was only a single traffic fatality, which involved someone driving into a fence. (For comparison, preliminary figures in London show 73 pedestrian and six cyclist fatalities in 2019; New York recorded 218 total traffic fatalities, including 121 pedestrian and 28 cyclist deaths.) Oslo’s achievement means that it is just one step away from “Vision Zero”, an undertaking to eliminate all deaths on public roads. The foundation for reaching Vision Zero is to significantly reduce the number of cars on the road.

Oslo officials have removed more than a thousand street-side central parking spots, encouraging people to lean on an affordable and flexible public transport network, and added more bike lanes and footpaths. It's a sport. It can't be bad for you... : awfuleverything. "Veganism is a modern fad for white people", 11th century vegan Arab poet: : vegan. Meet the New C.D.C. Director: Walmart. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened branch offices in Bentonville, Ark., and Seattle this month.

Meet the New C.D.C. Director: Walmart

Shannon Brownlee: Why Hospitals Are Still So Dangerous. Imagine you are sitting in first class on a plane, waiting for the plane to push off from the gate, when you see two people in uniform, the pilot and co-pilot, dash from the Jetway into the cockpit.

Shannon Brownlee: Why Hospitals Are Still So Dangerous

A few seconds later, a voice comes over the intercom, saying, “This is Captain Jones, please be sure your seat belts are fastened. We’re ready for takeoff.” What crucial event could not have occurred in this scenario? The pilot and co-pilot did not go through their checklist of safety measures. Fuel tanks full? HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media.

HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media

We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Insurance Companies Just Accidentally Made The Case For Medicare For All. What caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic? The CDC’s museum knows but won’t say. Last Friday, a friend doing research at the U.S.

What caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic? The CDC’s museum knows but won’t say.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta sent me a photo of a display at the CDC’s in-house museum. The Patient's Checklist: 10 Simple Hospital Checklists to Keep you Safe, Sane & Organized: Elizabeth Bailey: 9781402780585: Amazon.com. Surgeon Scorecard.