Archive for May, 2009
U.S. rate of AIDS infection worse than previously estimated
(Editor’s Note: This is a “recycled” post from some time back. I’m using a special piece of software that pulls posts from the “older” part of this blog from categories I specify, and brings them back to the top of the front page. That gives them a chance to be read again — or ignored again — to a newer generation of visitors. Enjoy.)Read more on U.S. rate of AIDS infection worse than previously estimated…
Even in real estate hard-times, dream home raffles aid good causes
It’s exciting to know that, even in real estate hard-times, “dream home raffles” for charity generate aid for good causes.We’re having a “Dream Home raffle” to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, in the area where I live, and it seems like a terrific idea to me. I haven’t followed how ticket sales are going (for $100 you get a chance at a newly built house in a nice subdivision which has been valued at $375,000), but I hear a lot about the raffle (the drawing is next month) on local television newscasts, so I assume it’s doing all right.
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Why does the U.S. continue to fail military veterans?
I was disturbed reading a story today about the medical and financial crises being faced by increasing numbers of military veterans in America.Oh, sure, we all remember the Walter Reed hospital debacle of a couple of years ago — but how aware are you of the sad stories of so many who serve their country in Iraq or Afghanistan — only to return home crippled and end up impoverished because of their service.
The story, if you read it, points out that battlefield medicine is better than ever, producing more survivors of battlefield injuries — and leaving a huge number of men and women demanding more continuing medical care and facing lifetimes of financial burdens.
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