Tag: Science

Diabetes remains very costly
ecthompsonmd March 7, 2013

If we truly want cost-effective medical care, then we are going to have to figure how to control diabetes. Diabetes is an expensive disease. I have been arguing for years that the real expenses in health care are right in front of our noses. Diabetics have to pay for doctors visits but it is stuff like syringes and alcohol wipes that drive up the price. We have to figure out how to prevent the costly complications of diabetes like foot infections, hypertension, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and blindness. Diabetes cost us over $245 Billion last year. 

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More Violent Weather – Maybe Science Doesn’t Suck
ecthompsonmd April 16, 2012

‘Tis the season for ugly weather. From Weather Channel: 5 confirmed fatalities in Woodward, Oklahoma; 29 people were injured in the town and the tornado was rated a preliminary EF3 by the National Weather Service Thousands without power in Oklahoma and Kansas 75 percent of Thurman, Iowa destroyed; tornado that touched down was rated EF2 (wind speeds of up to 130 mph) with a path length of about 10 miles Tornado that hit Wichita, KS area rated a preliminary EF3, with some of the strongest damage observed at McConnell AFB Ottawa/Dickinson Counties: Preliminary EF1 tornado with winds of up to 100

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Let’s crank it up on climate change
ecthompsonmd April 4, 2011

Progressives really try to get along. It is in our nature. It is time that we quit smiling and get serious about our planet. From ClimateProgress: Some of the best pollsters have known for years that progressives can and should talk about climate change  (see Mark Mellman on climate messaging: “A strong public consensus has emerged on the reality and severity of global warming, as well as on the need for federal action” [5/09]).  Mellman calls the polling that suggests one shouldn’t talk about global warming, a “politically naïve, methodologically flawed and factually inaccurate.” Sure, if you talk about any subject

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