Drug Recalls

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Sleep

Elle Hunt, (Sleep) “Shuteye and Sleep Hygiene: The Truth About Why You Keep Waking up at 3 a.m.”, The Guardian, February 17, 2020.

Rosa’s Opinion–What Makes a Good President

A good president cares about the world and all its people.

A president is only as good as the people she or he can rely on and the structure she or he has under them.    Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time before he or she will crumble.

That’s where allies come in because a president of one country can’t do it all.

A president is known by the company he keeps—good or bad.   It’s been proven time and time again.

“What’s Eating America”

Andrew Zimmern, American chef, is a man of heartfelt convictions.   He came up with a 5-part series recently on MSNBC entitled “What’s Eating America” on Sunday nights at 9 p.m.   The series includes the topics of Immigration, Climate Change, Addiction, Voting Rights, and Healthcare.    I watched the episodes on Immigration (in which he was accompanied by José Andrés, a fellow award-winning chef and humanitarian) and Voting Rights, and I hope to watch the fifth one on Healthcare on March 15.

If they repeat the series (and I hope they do), I will watch the ones that I missed—Climate Change and Addiction.   I know I could have DVR’d them, but my skills at that need improvement.  

This is the same man who starred on the series, “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern”.   Because I had seen some of that series, I wasn’t going to watch “What’s Eating America” because I figured it would be more of the same.

I appreciate that the results of the episodes I’ve seen which were well-reported and stuffed with pertinent information and locales across America.   I am so proud of his efforts.

Zawn Villines, “What is a Fecal Transplant?  Everything You Need to Know”, medicalnewstoday.com, May 8, 2019.

Here’s something I had never heard of.    And, don’t soon want to hear of it again.

“A doctor transplants feces from a healthy donor into another person to restore the balance of bacteria in their gut.  It may help treat gastrointestinal infection, etc.   Antibiotics destroy good as well as bad bacteria.  Other names the procedure goes under:  bacteriotherapy, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), etc.”

There’s something I’d like to implant fecally, but “won’t touch that”!