After Wrath: Locals Share Family Dust Bowl Migration Memories
After Wrath: Locals share family Dust Bowl migration memories
My colleague Julian Guthrie has a very good read in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, interviewing Bay Area-based “Okies” who moved to California during the Dust Bowl agricultural disaster of the 1930s — immortalized in the 1939 John Steinbeck novel …
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Is Your Doctor One of the 340 in Texas to Make More Than $1 Million From …
Is your doctor one of the 340 in Texas to make more than million from …
More than 340 doctors and other care providers in Texas received over $ 1 million each in 2012 under the government's Medicare health insurance program, according to data released Wednesday that provides the public… Continue reading
Conservatives Seek to Lead on Prison Reform
Conservatives seek to lead on prison reform
At first blush, the Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank, might seem an unlikely cheerleader for prison reform. Michael LaFaive, a fiscal analyst for the Mackinac … Does it makes sense to lock up as many people …
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We Want to Send Our Mom to Drug Rehab. She Has Medicare. How Do We Find if She Qualifies and Find a Provider?
Question by Fergdidly: We want to send our mom to drug rehab. She has Medicare. How do we find if she qualifies and find a provider?
We searched the web. What we did find is that people with Medicare can “qualify” for drug rehab. But what are the qualifications and… Continue reading
Duke Researchers Uncover New Disease in Mysteriously Sick Child
Duke researchers uncover new disease in mysteriously sick child
April 20 — DURHAM — Their mission, like detectives tackling a stack of cold case files, was to determine the genetic underpinnings of disease in patients who had been undiagnosable, sometimes for years. But the team of Duke researchers — whose… Continue reading
Families Flee Kansas and Missouri So Sick Kids Can Get Medical Marijuana
Families flee Kansas and Missouri so sick kids can get medical marijuana
Various doctors, different hospitals, ketogenic diet, two pages of drugs. Nothing worked. Then they heard about Charlotte's Web. So the family is leaving Baldwin City, Kan. … Orrin Devinsky, a professor of neurology at New York University and… Continue reading