Good News About HIV You don’t hear much about the HIV epidemic any more, despite the fact that an estimated 1.2 million Americans are living with the disease, and an estimated 44,000 new cases are reported in this country every year. The Center for Disease Control says that 36.7 million people around the world have […]
Bees an endangered species? You probably know that the bee population in the U.S. has been collapsing for the past several years, due to factors that are only now being partially understood. Scientists call the phenomenon “colony collapse disorder,” but the term “beemageddon” has become popular among laypersons. Suspects for the population decline have included […]
The Anti-Trump Fund to Watch You can go to Las Vegas and bet on the U.S. election, or make a side bet with your friends. Or you can buy an ETF. Say what? Professional investors have noticed that the iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF (ticker: EWW), an ETF that focuses its investments in Mexican stocks, […]
2016 Third Quarter Report The Bull Continues… 100 days after the Brexit scare, three quarters of a year after the most recent Fed rate hike, the markets once again confounded the instincts of nervous investors and went up instead of down. Last week, Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen told the world that the U.S. economy is […]
Chances are you’ve felt a bit discouraged by the global warning reports. On the one hand, they say that our world is in for trouble unless we make significant changes in how our global economy produces the energy it needs to function. On the other, they tell us that even if we shift totally over […]
By all accounts, stress—and its accompanying emotional mix of frustration, anxiety and fear—is bad for your health. When you experience stress in your body, you release increased amounts of glucose from our liver into your blood, and your body produces cortisone, which is actually toxic to your system. Your heart rate goes up, sending more […]
Just over 35,000 Americans were killed in automobile crashes in 2015, a 7% increase over the previous year, which represented the largest annual increase since 1965. Does that mean Americans are less safe, or more safe, than drivers in other parts of the developed world? Apparently the answer is “less.” The U.S. has a rate […]
How do you become an empowered health care consumer? A recent blog post on the Forbes magazine website, authored by financial planner/doctor Carolyn McClanahan, suggests that the relationship between doctors and patients is entering a third phase of its long-term evolution. Phase one was paternalistic, where the doctor told the patient what to do and […]
