New research continues to affirm the prognostic utility of the coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)-derived perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) score in assessing cardiovascular risks for patients without common risk factors such as smoking history, obesity, hypertension and diabetes. What CCTA-Based AI Detection of Coronary Inflammation May Reveal About Patients with No Traditional CV Risk […]
Source: It’s Mostly the Hospital Prices, Stupid https://rickriley.substack.com/p/its-mostly-the-hospital-prices-stupid Yikes.
BD overall is associated with excess mortality from both natural and unnatural causes. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that all-cause mortality is approximately doubled, with particularly high relative risks for suicide (12-fold) and other unnatural causes (7-fold) alongside a substantial increase in natural-cause deaths (2-fold).9 However, most mortality studies have not separated BD-II from BD-I, leaving BD-II’s […]
Another quiet Saturday and thoughts turn to retirement (again). Today I thought about retirement income streams and how life would look once I stopped working. We need to find someplace affordable. In California, Hawaii, and Massachusetts, retirees often need between $1.5 million and $2.2 million to maintain their lifestyles, according to a 2026 study by […]
Until your city loses 3,000,000 gallons of water. Massive El Reno water leak traced to Bitcoin mining data center facility – https://kfor.com/news/local/massive-el-reno-water-leak-traced-to-bitcoin-mining-data-center-facility/ The culprit – https://athlonbt.com/about-us/ The website went down while I was reading about the company. Scheduled maintenance? I call bullshit.
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That is a very interesting article. I would think for programs like SNAP and WIC, they could easily make it so only fruits, vegetables, dairy, and healthy proteins could be purchased. If people want chips and cookies and soda and candy they can buy it out of their own pocket. Dollar stores and convenience stores need to start having some healthier options. Actually the Tom Thumb stores around me now do. I’m not sure about vegetables but they have fresh fruit every day. I think the only vegetables they have there are frozen and canned. I’m probably the only healthy proteins are canned tuna chicken and sardines.