Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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The first is the problem with the universal measurement of weight itself, called BMI or body mass index. The BMI is … In the final analysis, it seems that we don't know a healthy weight range for most adults and to say otherwise is to ignore the …
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NATION: Medicare wastes billions on name-brand drugs

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ProPublica analyzed the prescribing habits of 1.6 million practitioners nationwide and found that a tiny fraction of them are having an outsized impact on spending in Medicare's massive drug program.Just 913 internists, family medicine and general …
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State Of Affairs: Funding Of HIV Programs In Jeopardy

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Under federal rules, MDCH is allowed to keep 10 percent of the funding for administrative costs, and grantees are allowed to use no more than 10 percent of the funding for administrative costs. To fully fund Michigan's AIDS Drug Assistance Program …
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Problems at Tulsa County Jail are Increasing

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If, for example, the analysis concludes that it costs $ 65 per day, per inmate, and the average daily population in the jail is 1,900 inmates per day, that would mean the operating cost of the jail is over $ 45,000,000 each year. If we are to reduce …
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