Do we rely too much on drugs and not on prevention?According to some recent researchers: Between 2002 and 2012, they found 99.6% of trials of drugs aimed at preventing, curing or improving the symptoms of Alzheimer’s had failed or been discontinued. This compares with a failure rate of 81% for cancer drugs. The failure rate…
An article, Get Rich or Die Younger: The Shrinking Lifes Spans of Poor U.S. Women, includes the following 2 conclusions… Among men older than 55, life expectancies are growing fastest for the rich. Among women older than 55, life expectancies are growing for the rich and shrinking for the poor. Being female, and being poor,…
It is not just new college graduates and young adults moving back home. Now the 50-64 year olds are moving back home too. For seven years through 2012, the number of Californians aged 50 to 64 who live in their parents’ homes swelled 67.6% to about 194,000, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy…
Is it because it is January? Or is it because my birthday is this month? Every January, I get a five dollar coupon for a local restaurant that has good food. But I also get mail from a company that wants to sell me cremation services. Next up, I know I will get the…
10 years ago I bought a house, actually a floating home, in Portland Oregon. At the time when I was told things would need replacing or work would need to be done in 10 years, and I thought to myself: “Who cares, I won’t be here.” FYI – I never stay anyplace more…