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Our Deluded HHS Secretary Kennedy
Our deluded HHS Secretary Kennedy is at it again. Earlier this week he fired all 17 members of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee and will replace them with new members. Have you read how he justified this change? “Today we are prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific […]
HHS Dumps Successful Vaccine Developer
HHS dumps successful vaccine developer. Do you remember Operation Warp Speed? During the first Trump administration that program led to the unbelievably fast development of Covid-19 vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer. Those companies used newly-developed mRNA techniques to produce their vaccines in record time. According to Dr. Ashish Jha, who coordinated the Covid-19 response in […]
Facts about Vaccines
Facts about vaccines? Here are some worthy of notice. One hundred years ago, on May 2, 1925, the Journal of the American Medical Society cited W. W. Keen’s personal experiences with three epidemics of “the most loathsome, nauseating, sickening disease,” smallpox. To summarize his experiences, JAMA reported that before the use of Edward Jenner’s protective […]
Trump’s Jagged 100 Days
Trump’s jagged 100 days. It hasn’t been a serene beginning for our combative president. He’s ruffled more feathers in three months than a pair of wily foxes might ruffle when locked in a huge chicken coop for an equal duration. President Trump has set records. As of April 25, he had signed 139 executive orders, […]
Happiest Countries on Earth
Happiest Countries on earth. Have you seen the latest list? The top four happiest locations all lie north of the USA. I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in each of those easygoing nations, and I have no quibble with the results. I smiled a lot while in each country. I’ll mention a few reasons […]
Trump’s Atrocious Behavior
Trump’s atrocious behavior, a personal opinion. Readers following this blog may recall that I gave Trump a D- as his final grade for his first term in the Oval Office. He accomplished a few good things, I thought, but his personal behavior, embarrassingly non-presidential as it was, clearly deserved a flat-out F. Only some of […]
Our Little Irritations
Our Little Irritations. I think most of us sense them, those petty events that set off little twinges, those inconsequential triggers that blip on our radar and cause us to respond as predictably as Pavlov’s dog (or at least I do) when our bell rings. For me, it’s usually a word, or phrase, that rings […]
Medical topics in 2025
Medical topics for 2025. Happy New Year, readers! You may have noticed that I skimmed through the holiday season without writing anything here. Nevertheless, I have been thinking of topics to be considered in 2025. I plan to focus more on medicine, medical costs, and various methods believed to prolong lives, and to healthy living, […]
Absurd Prescription Drug Costs!
Absurd prescription drug costs! It is hard to believe that prices for a month’s supply of dozens of prescription medicines can differ by thousands of dollars, depending on where you buy them and what insurance plan (if any) you may use. Just last month The Journal of the American Medical Association published “Strategies to Help […]
My Harris-Trump Choice
My Harris-Trump choice drained me. But I finally have determined which candidate I will vote AGAINST. My decision came in a flash, thanks to an unexpected epiphany that focused on factors I had not even considered earlier. An examination of those factors revealed which of these sorry candidates scares me more. Like many of you, […]
