When we pay monthly insurance premiums or towards our deductible, the assumption is we’ll pay less for healthcare in the long run than if we were uninsured. That’s the whole point of health insurance, right?
When Dani Yuengling scheduled a biopsy for a lump in her breast, she asked for a price; but the best she could get was an estimate through the hospital’s online estimate calculator. The bill to her insurance ended up being six times that amount, and Yuengling was on the hook for a sizable chunk of it. It turns out, she could have saved money if she had paid the hospital in cash– going around the insurance altogether.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Anthony Fauci has been a household name as the face of the Federal government’s COVID strategy, a clear science communicator in a global crisis, and a key player in vaccine development.
While COVID has defined Fauci's last few years as head of the NIAID, he began at the agency in the early 1980's, where he earned a reputation among AIDS activists for being one of the few powerful people in Washington who would listen to their concerns. Richard Harris, who covered science and medicine for NPR for most of Fauci’s tenure, has this look back.
The sweat from our armpits “contains a cornucopia of compounds, including oils, fats and proteins,” writes NPR science correspondent and formerly-embarrassed-stinky-sweater Michaeleen Doucleff. Many of those compounds are food for bacteria that live on our skin. . It's the waste products of those bacterial snacks – new compounds – that emit odor. And one type of smell-producing bacteria actually protects us from skin conditions like eczema and infections like MRSA. Keep this in mind next time you encounter that college student at the co-op who smells so…healthy.
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