Human avian flu has been detected in 8 states as of November 15, 2024, including Washington last month and Oregon this week (see stories here and here). The CDC says (here), “Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) viruses have been detected in U.S. wild aquatic birds, commercial poultr[...]
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
Their grievances aren’t your problem
Whatever Republicans were in the past, MAGA isn’t about individual freedom, or live and let live. Frank Bruni (photo, left; profile here) is a journalist, book author, and professor. In his latest book, The Age of Grievance, published in April 2024 (get it here), he describes (at pages 17-18) [...]
Why Vance is an enemy of people with pre-existing health conditions
With Obamacare, you know what you’re getting. Trump plans to replace it with an ill-defined “concept.” Prior to Obamacare, the attitude of Republicans was that health care was a luxury of the well-off; tens of millions of Americans couldn’t afford, or couldn’t get, heal[...]
How food makers deceive health conscious shoppers
What they want you to see when you’re shopping: 90 calories and 650 mg of sodium per serving. What they don’t want you to notice: “About 2.5 servings per container”. Who carefully measures 40% of the contents of a soup can into a saucepan or microwave dish? Nobody. If you eat[...]
GOPer demands Biden take drug test before debate
This is political theater, nothing more. It’s in the category of “believing something makes it true.” For example, “if Republicans believe elections are unfair, that makes them unfair.” The polite term for this is “logical fallacy;” the impolite term starts [...]
June 15th, 2024 - 9:51 pm § in Health, Republicans
Dr. Fauci didn’t kill puppies
In 2021, a Republican advocacy group accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of funding “cruel” drug and vaccine testing on beagles. Rightwing media ran with the story, which became known as “Beaglegate,” and Don Trump Jr. even sold “Fauci kills puppies” t-shirts (photo below).[...]
June 1st, 2024 - 1:21 am § in Health
Is a herpes cure coming?
An experimental gene therapy developed at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center “eliminated 90% of facial infection and 97% of genital infection in lab mice who were infected with herpes simplex 1,” U.S. News reported on May 15, 2024 (read story here to find out how it works). Wa[...]
RFK Jr. is lying about the pandemic
In his early days Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (photo, left) struggled with drugs and initially failed the New York bar exam, but then bootstrapped himself to a highly successful environmental law career, much of it working for nonprofits and teaching law students (read his bio here). I’ve attended e[...]
Ex-legislator has second thoughts about strict abortion ban
Former Idaho state senator Jim Woodward (photo, left) voted for all the legislative bills that made his state’s abortion ban among the strictest in the country, a Politico story begins (read it here). In 2020, he voted for a law that threatens doctors with “fines, lawsuits, jail time and rev[...]
May 18th, 2024 - 6:23 pm § in Health
A home remedy for Alzheimers?
Two Alzheimers patients who participated in a clinical study claim to have halted or reversed its progression, the Daily Mail reported on May 18, 2024 (read story here). That’s not a strong study, but it certainly piques interest. One of those patients reported a “remarkable turnaround&#[...]