- Another Hidden Risk of Obesity article- Studies show even being a little bit obese increases the liklihood that doctors will view you as a non compliant patient and misdiagnose you, before factors like medicine and test being less effective and some conditions being harder to diagnose are worked in.
- Bisexuals are more likely to suffer from depression–even more likely than gays.
- Anthem in California wants to raise premiums by 39 percent while health insurance companies are also posting a 250% increase in profits<~~This is why we need health care reform. Public option for everyone who can’t afford private insurance, law reform to prevent insurance companies from these kinds of profits while also gouging clients as well as malpractice limits and shifting public habit toward urgent care centers and regular doctor appointments instead of ERs.
- Pets for Vets program–because both need help and pets have been proven to reduce stress and improve mental health.
- Utah passes bill making “intentional, knowing, or reckless act” that cause miscarriage illegal.–I’m so mixed on this one because it could possibly be used to punish women for miscarriage (by vindictive spouses or the religious right or whoever), but trying to have a miscarriage on purpose (the bill comes after a woman supposedly paid someone to make her miscarry) is bad bad bad.
Michele Lee
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