Category Archives: FYI

F.Y.I. – The Health Care Debate

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

Don’t Assume Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Austin Frakt, a health economist with several governmental and academic affiliations, lay out the case in the New … Continue reading →

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F.Y.I. —

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

Our Faces Show Whether We are Rich or Poor People can reliably tell if someone is richer or poorer than average just by looking at a “neutral” face, without any expression.  That’s the conclusion of a new study by psychology … Continue reading →

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Researchers Develop Microneedle Patch for Flu Vaccination

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

A National Institutes of Health-funded study led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have shown that an influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses and be administered safely with an experimental patch of dissolving … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 30, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

Sleeping Late on Weekends May Harm Your Health Can’t sleep? For many Americans, it’s a question that comes up night after night. A team of University of Arizona researchers is working to better understand sleep and its relationship to health. … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 28, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

G.O.P. Senators Might Not Realize It, but Not One State Supports the A.H.C.A. New estimates show that Republicans have stumbled upon the rare thing that unites red and blue states: opposition to the Republican health care bill, The New York … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 7, 2017 by Donna Whitaker

Why Your Muscles Get Weaker as You Get Older Loss of muscle stem cells is the main driving force behind muscle decline in old age in mice, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have found. Their finding challenges the current … Continue reading →

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