Residents suffer as Mississippi and 13 other states debate Medicaid expansion HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — Darlene Velasco can’t afford to treat her Type 2 diabetes. She doesn’t make enough money at her job selling college sports memorabilia to pay for medication or private health insurance and, at $13.50 an hour, earns too much to qualify […]

Mayo Clinic: Increasing incidence of throat cancer related to HPV We know that HPV can cause cervical cancer, but recently I’ve heard it also can also cause other forms of cancer. HPV(Human papillomavirus infection) HPV can cause a form of cancer in the back of the throat. Currently, the number of cases of this type […]

Do you know what your bank does with your money once you give it to them? The company’s differences start with an option for customers to set their own fees on bank or investment accounts (or choose to pay the bank nothing at all). “At the core of the business model for most financial institutions […]

What-does-Google-know-about-me When you search on Google, they keep your search history forever? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow end of the very deep pool of data that they try to collect on people. What most people don’t realize is that […]

A Patient Hopes Gene-Editing Can Help With Pain Of Sickle Cell Disease “Back in the spring of this year I blogged an article about Sickle Cell and this is an update as to how gene editing has given the article’s young lady hope for curing symptoms of the disease” Victoria Gray, who has sickle cell […]

Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness A top Education Department official involved in student financial aid resigned Thursday, announcing that he would push an agenda to cancel much of the country’s student debt as he vies for a political appointment in the U.S. Senate. Although he has no political experience, […]

As Court Case Imperils Affordable Care Act, Some States Prepare Contingency Plans A federal appeals court decision that could strike down the Affordable Care Act as soon as this month has rattled officials in several states who are pursuing legislation to preserve some coverage in the absence of any Trump administration contingency plan. Lawmakers in […]

Offshore wind farms ‘can provide more electricity than the world needs’ | Wind power Erecting wind turbines on the world’s best offshore sites could provide more than enough clean energy to meet global electricity demand, according to a report. A detailed study of the world’s coastlines has found that offshore wind farms alone could provide […]

China is giving the U.S. a taste of its own medicine We Americans tend to treat trade as a matter of purely economic exchanges. But we’ve recently learned that to become entangled with a country via trade almost inevitably invites broader entanglements as well — of culture, ideology, and policy. After enmeshing ourselves in trade […]

AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon team up to push next-gen RCS texting Google has been working on a new system of text messaging that will improve security and totally upgrade this popular messaging service. For many years Apple I-Messaging has been far superior to SMS messaging used by android devices, but this will be changing […]