The Cost of Being Uninsured Today Can Cost Your Life Tomorrow by Marly Bobillier Grosso A few years ago, my then employer announced reductions in staff to every department within the company, including the visual design team where I worked. I became one more casualty of the crumbling retail world. Along with my job, our health Read more
The Bennies of CBD By Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. CBD has been around since the early 1900’s when chemist Roger Adams isolated cannabidiol compound while researching prophylactics to potential gas attacks during the trench warfare in Europe. Working at the National Research Council in Washington DC a few decades later, Adams presented a paper to Read more
Vaxxed Up & On the Road Again by Peter Kravitz For the first time in 403 days, I was able to travel. Fully vaccinated, I flew to Colorado in late March. I felt safe thanks to the miraculous Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but I nonetheless took the usual precautions on the Southwest Airlines flight—I wore a mask Read more
The Horror of Thinning Hair by Lucy E.M. Black Healthy, thick hair was one of the few remaining vestiges of my youth. And although I allowed the color to naturally change from the darkest of browns, to a much lighter shade of brown, to salt-and-pepper, and finally to silver-grey with only the tiniest amount of Read more
Quality v Cost by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. According to a recent study published in May 2020 (https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00237) and led by Adam J. Schwartz, M.D. out of the Mayo clinic found that adults are willing to pay more than 20% more for a highly rated physician than they are for a lower rated physician. Yet, Read more
To COVID and Back by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. Not in a million years would I have thought that I would get “the Vid,” as Kevin Hart calls it in his latest comedy skit. Yet, I did. On a Wednesday mid-November, I had dinner reservations to celebrate my Mom’s 84th birthday. I called her after Read more
On Dust, Germs, and Toilet Plumes by Angie Littlefield I really, really don’t like germs, so you can imagine how I am dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic—not well! It all started with a petri dish. In grade eight the teacher gave us a petri dish to label with our names and fill with a substance Read more
All Joking Aside, Laughter Is Healthy for You by J’Nel Wright Why did the chicken cross the road? It doesn’t matter as long as it’s funny. Not only does a good gag make us giggle, experts say laughter is actually good for our health. If you are debating between downloading the latest chick flick versus Read more
Telehealth Catastrophe by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. According to physicians at Johns Hopkins University (Annals of Internal Medicine August 11, 2020), telehealth medicine may not be as productive for older adults. Although JHU states that loss of hearing is mostly to blame, I believe there is more to it than that. Many older adults did Read more
Helen of Troy’s Tears in My Garden by Angie Littlefield I saw a tall weed with a bright-yellow flower in a sumpy ditch when I was driving around a few years back. I stopped to see if I could pull it out, considering its roots might yield from the squidgy soil. Yes! The plant gave Read more
