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You can’t walk through a drugstore without seeing at least a dozen signs advertising flu shots for $25 or $30. Heck, you can’t even drive by a store without a banner or electronic message board flagging you in for a shot.
Getting a flu vaccination is a good idea. An estimated 12,000 people in the United States died from the virus last year.
But be careful before you pay full price.
Chances are you can get the shot for a lot less — or nothing at all. And who can’t stand to save a buck — or 25 — in this economy?
The money raised by private, nonprofit organizations for medical research in the United States is but a tiny sliver of the overall funding picture. A 2007 report by Rand (pdf), a nonprofit research organization, placed that number at 3 percent.
Even so, these groups continue to sprout, not only to raise money, but also to raise awareness of the conditions and diseases they hope to eradicate.
Countless efforts, from huge national organizations to home-grown foundations that sponsor dinners and races, raise money for cancer research.
Interest in Race for the Cure bigger than ever, but not everybody who comes contributes to the cause
- Race for the Cure funds local hospital breast cancer programs
- While Komen is inspiration for races, it was her sister who got them going
- Breast cancer survivor becomes key volunteer for Race for the Cure
This year’s Race for the Cure starts at 9 a.m. from a new location near Cleveland State University. The change is the third in 16 years.
Linda Campbell, former chairwoman of the Junior League of Cleveland, planned Cleveland’s initial race in 1994.
“The community was so positive about bringing the Race for the Cure to Cleveland,” she said.
Fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, fiber and phytochemicals.
MyPyramid recommends that adults eat 1½ to 2 cups of fruits and 2½ to 3 cups of vegetables every day. Try to eat at least one good source of vitamin C daily, such as oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, guava, papayas, peppers, broccoli, potatoes and collard greens.
Also, try to eat at least one good source of vitamin A daily. A form of vitamin A (carotenoids) is found in red, yellow, and orange fruits and vegetables and in many dark-green leafy vegetables. <
My husband used to think that working in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) meant that I sat in a chair and watched people breathe during my entire shift. He now knows that after 12 years, there’s a bit more to being an SICU nurse than that.
I am sometimes a charge nurse of a 20-bed SICU where we take care of the most critical patients. I get people out of bed that haven’t been out of bed in five days. I am in charge of a bedside machine that checks your clotting time, and I make sure that the staff members are competent in its use, every year. I t Read more…
The simmering summer of 2010 is coughing up a sickly and unprecedented batch of toxic blue-green algae in western Lake Erie and nearly a dozen of Ohio’s shallow, inland lakes.
Many lake scientists are speculating that it’s only going to get worse.
“We’re going to see a greener and greener lake until changes are made,” said John Hageman of Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University’s water research station on Gibraltar Island in western Lake Erie. “Everything points to this just getting worse.”
That might be hard to imagine.
An FDA panel of outside experts — including an FBI agent! — voted against expanding the use of Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ narcolepsy drug to fibromyalgia, in part because of its potential as a street drug.
An illegal form of sodium oxybate is similar to the drug GHB, Dow Jones Newswires reports. As the NPR Shots Blog noted in the run-up to the meeting, GHB gained notoriety for its use as a date rape drug. Right
Eli Lilly has scrapped a drug being tested for use against Alzheimer’s disease because it increased patients’ symptoms and was also tied to a higher risk of skin cancer. As Dow Jones Newswires reports, the announcement — on top of the disappointing results for another experimental drug reported earlier this year by Pfizer and Medivation — underlines how hard it is to develop new treatments for Alzheimer’s.
But why is it so hard?
That’s the question we posed to P. Murali Dora