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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 9:52:10 GMT -8
Alcohol won’t fix your problems, but it’s worth a shot.
I Don't Have a Link For This But ...
On Fareed Zakaria this morning he interview a guy who said that Bibi was briefed by Israeli intelligence that his attemtps to change the court system and the controversey was leading Hamas to believe that Israel was weakening and ths was a good time to attack. Israeli intelligence recommended Bibi back off on the changes to the courts. Instead he told the intelligence people not to bring this up again.
I have not heard this elsewhere, and I don't know if it is true.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 9:55:13 GMT -8
Alabam LOVE Babies. They Just Hate Mothers.
By the end of the month, two Alabama hospitals will stop delivering babies. A third will follow suit a few weeks later.
That will leave two counties — Shelby and Monroe — without any birthing hospitals, and strip a predominantly Black neighborhood in Birmingham of a sought-after maternity unit.
After that, pregnant women in Shelby County will have to travel at least 17 miles farther to reach a hospital with an OB-GYN. And because the county, one of Alabama’s largest, is bordered by another whose hospital also lacks an obstetrics unit, some of those residents are also losing the closest place they could go to deliver their babies.
“There’s a sense of dread knowing that there’s going to be families who are now not only driving to the county over, but driving through three counties,” said Honour McDaniel, director of maternal and infant health initiatives for the March of Dimes in Alabama.
People in Monroe County, meanwhile, could face drives between 35 to 100 miles to a labor and delivery department.
Trekking that far to give birth is not unheard of in Alabama, in which more than a third of the counties are maternity care deserts, according to the March of Dimes — meaning they have no hospital with obstetrics care, birth centers, OB-GYNs or certified nurse midwives.
The state has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country; only three others had higher rates between 2018 and 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alabama also had the nation’s third-highest infant mortality rate in 2021, the latest data available.
Physicians currently or formerly affiliated with the Alabama maternity units about to close fear the consequences for pregnant women and babies, especially if people are not able to reach birthing hospitals quickly enough in emergencies.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 9:56:41 GMT -8
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 9:59:56 GMT -8
Maybe You SHould Sell Your Novo Norosk Stock
There's even more evidence that tirzepatide, a medication originally designed to treat diabetes, may help people lose a lot of weight — even more so than other popular medications like Ozempic.
Patients taking a once-weekly injection of tirzepatide, currently available to diabetes patients under the brand name Mounjaro, lost more than 24% of their body weight, on average, by the end of the 84-week trial, according to new research. These findings, presented Sunday at ObesityWeek® 2023, an annual conference of the Obesity Society, are the full results of a study that funder Eli Lilly previewed in July.
By comparison, patients using Ozempic and Wegovy, which contain semaglutide, lost about 15% on average over a similar time period, according to a different study.
"These are extraordinary findings," Thomas Wadden, lead author, past president of the Obesity Society and professor of psychology in psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a press release.
Patients on tirzepatide also saw significant improvements to other measures of health such as blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure, he said.
The findings add to a growing body of research suggesting that tirzepatide could be a highly effective treatment for weight management and related health complications. It's also promising news for manufacturer Eli Lilly, which is developing a new brand name version of tirzepatide for weight loss, which awaits FDA approval.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 10:00:54 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, for refusing to recuse herself from a case involving gerrymandered districts in the state despite MAGA threats to impeach her
The prosecution in Trump's New York fraud trial, which continued for another week to tighten the legal vise by making witnesses squirm like worms and spill bean after bean
President Biden: great jobs report; stands with Israel after Hamas attacks; inflation report offers optimism; announces plan to eliminate junk fees; multitasks like a man half his age
California Gov. Gavin Newsom: signs slate of pro-voter bills, and one that targets food additives known to pose health risks (No, MAGA twits, he's not banning Skittles.)
Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin, who won the Nobel economics prize (the 3rd woman to win it) for research on the gender gap in the labor market
House Democrats, led by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, for showing the country what unity and common sense look like as the MAGA members fling poo at each other
The nerds behind the OSIRIS-REx project, for revealing the composition of the sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu, suggesting asteroids may have helped create life on Earth
The jury that convicted Denver cop Randy Roedema of homicide & 3rd-degree assault for the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name was invoked in protests over racism in policing
The European Union, for forcing Elon Musk to clean up the disinformation on his social media site Twitter or be dangled by his ankles from the Eiffel Tower
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 15, 2023 10:04:43 GMT -8
This Didn't Happen This Week
CLAIM: A video shows a BBC News report confirming Ukraine provided weapons to Hamas.
THE FACTS: The widely shared video clip is fabricated, officials with the BBC and Bellingcat, an investigative news website that is cited in the video as the source, confirm.
CLAIM: The U.S. military is planning to reinstitute the draft.
THE FACTS: Two articles discussing such a move are being misrepresented, and Defense officials confirm the armed forces have made no such recommendation to Congress or the president, which are the entities empowered to authorize a draft.
CLAIM: Bill Gates obtained approval for an “air vaccine” that will be administered without people’s approval.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: A website known for spreading misinformation is misrepresenting a Yale University study that tested an inhalable COVID vaccine on mice; it was not tested on humans, nor funded by Gates. An article, by scientists at Yale University, is about their research into using an inhalable polymer to deliver mRNA, the technology in many COVID-19 vaccines. The research was performed on mice, not humans, one of the authors told the AP. It involved a vaccine being delivered nasally, not sprayed from the air, as the helicopter photo suggests. What’s more, Gates had nothing to do with it.
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