Got this poorly timed postcard in the mail today:
Poorly timed because my Blue Cross Blue Shield benefits don’t cover a whole year’s worth of brand name medication, which means I’m in the part of year when I’m paying $300+ per month for prescriptions, on top of the nearly $500/month that I pay for insurance premiums.
I [...]
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How did I miss this? Just heard from my pharmacist that imitrex is now available as generic sumatriptan. Happy happy happy dance!! Since the nearly-$500/month I pay in health insurance premiums doesn’t cover a year’s worth of brand-name medications, this could save me hundreds of dollars a year.
Now, if they will only release montekulast sodium [...]
I admire people who are slaves to routine. I really do. Up at 5am, morning jog, at their desk at 8:30am, blah blah blah fall into bed and fast asleep by 9:30. I suppose I have a routine, but it drifts like a fourth-grader’s attempts to sing on key.
Monday: Up before 6am. Work out. At [...]
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An article about ending perks that pharmaceutical companies grant to doctors in the form of swag and cushy conferences included this quote:
“I would often grab samples off the shelf because I thought I was doing patients a favor,” Krumholz said in a telephone interview. “I was naive. I didn’t realize this was a very effective [...]
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Nothing like reading the news first thing in the morning to find out you have double the risk of developing cancer.
Good thing I packed the 999 spf sunblock for our beach vacation. That and the pouring rain oughta keep the ‘omas away for this week, at least.
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Note to self:
Next time you buy a new pair of sneakers, don’t break them in by going on a 3-mile walk. Without socks.
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Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]
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I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]
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An article in the New York Times states:
The United States has a long history of separating the treatment of mental and physical illnesses, dating back to the days when the severely mentally ill were put in poorhouses, jails and, later, public asylums. That ended after the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, but mental health experts [...]
Looks like I’m not the only one who picked up on the telltale signs of migraine in the Harry Potter books. I hadn’t thought about the scar in that respect, but when he is gets a pounding headache from the fluorescent lights in his aunt’s kitchen, I had my Aha! moment.
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