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>News Release on Embryonic Stem Cell "Breakthrough" Changed

>From the Kaiser Network Daily Reports (free, no subscription), we learn that the Washington Post and others are being forced to backtrack on an unethical press release. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that scientists who have no respect for human life go along with press agents who don’t mind spinning the story! Daily Women’s Health PolicyBioethics … Continue reading

More on dialysis funding

Here’s more information on all the ways that kidney dialysis is funded. End Stage Renal Failure makes a patient eligible for Social Security Disability.

>More on dialysis funding

>Here’s more information on all the ways that kidney dialysis is funded. End Stage Renal Failure makes a patient eligible for Social Security Disability.

Long Term Acute Care

I’ve never had any experience with admitting patients to Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals, such as the one that Ruthie Webster is admitted to, so I did some research. I was wrong about the Medicare payment rules for Long Term Acute Care. The patient pays a copay for the middle part of the stay, … Continue reading

>Long Term Acute Care

>I’ve never had any experience with admitting patients to Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals, such as the one that Ruthie Webster is admitted to, so I did some research. I was wrong about the Medicare payment rules for Long Term Acute Care. The patient pays a copay for the middle part of the stay, … Continue reading

Exciting (Ignored) Adult Stem Cell Stories

There’s better things to do than to arguing about whether Advanced Cell Technology really made embryonic stem cells and whether it’s worth millions of dollars if they did: how about learning about knee regeneration and finding a key to making adult stem cells work they way we want them to work, where they’re needed? And … Continue reading

>Exciting (Ignored) Adult Stem Cell Stories

>There’s better things to do than to arguing about whether Advanced Cell Technology really made embryonic stem cells and whether it’s worth millions of dollars if they did: how about learning about knee regeneration and finding a key to making adult stem cells work they way we want them to work, where they’re needed? And … Continue reading

And this is just yucky

Warning – yucky (adult) topic follows. Supposedly to raise funds and awareness about HIV/AIDS, several “Masturbate-A-Thons” have been held in England, and San Francisco. The real purpose – at least for the reporters – seems to be a chance to comment on the prude-ish-ness of Americans and our insistence that the best policy to prevent … Continue reading

>And this is just yucky

>Warning – yucky (adult) topic follows. Supposedly to raise funds and awareness about HIV/AIDS, several “Masturbate-A-Thons” have been held in England, and San Francisco. The real purpose – at least for the reporters – seems to be a chance to comment on the prude-ish-ness of Americans and our insistence that the best policy to prevent … Continue reading

Art mimics life ("Day By Day")

I’ve linked to the cartoon by Chris Muir on this blog for months and enjoy watching the wry political humor. I haven’t been happy with the personal relationships depicted, with the implication that the 2 unmarried couples featured in the cartoon are intimate. (I even wrote the author suggesting that they marry – the granma … Continue reading

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