Here’s a firm you probably never heard about- Altoida.
It’s a local DC firm (situated at the Navy Yard section of DC) hoping to make it possible to diagnose Alzheimer’s more easily.
Continue reading How is my brain doing?
Do you recall my article about the IRS hiring bodies? (Can’t really call them specialists, since the requirements were so low, as was the pay.)
Continue reading Population Shift?
I barely remember when IRA (Individual Retirement Accounts) came into being. That came about during my first year of marriage (1974)- and, was the first chink in the armor destroying the American pension system that obtained.
Continue reading Retirement Plans- stacked for the rich and for bribing Congress
It’s that time of year again. OK. For many of you- those easily fooled- it’s always that time of year.
Continue reading Don’t fall prey…
Dear Readers:
I want to apologize for my failure to post these past few days.
Unfortunately, while celebrating the Pesach seders, my body decided that the minor ailment I’d been accommodating for the previous two weeks was no longer going to be an intermittent pain-in-the-ass.
Continue reading MIssing in Action
Do you ever wonder what we do with your data when you decide to let us prepare your taxes for you?
Well, since you probably haven’t asked us to do your taxes, I’m pretty sure you have no idea.
Continue reading Did you sign away your privacy?
So, you’ve been procrastinating.
Even though the Feds gave you three more days. Because Friday was a holiday, they extended the deadline to file (yet again).
Continue reading Today’s the day!
Tonight is both Shabat and the first night of Pesach (Passover). Other than Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipur, this is the one holiday that most Jews celebrate. Oh, Chanuka comes close, but most folks still don’t light the menora.
Continue reading Shabat Pesach
So, we’ve been discussing all those long-term symptoms that accompany one’s recovery from COVID-19. One I haven’t discussed in a while has been cardiovascular complications. Again, like the other long-term symptoms, the manifestations do not require the subject to have been hospitalized with the disease. In the case of cardiovascular complications, COVID survivors are roughly 63% more likely to manifest a heart attack and about 52% more likely to suffer a stroke. But, there’s also heart failure, irregular heart beats, and a slew of other cardiovascular complications that are caused by COVID-19.
Continue reading COVID and Cardiovascular Complications
Tarjinder Singh (Broad Institute- MIT and Harvard), as well as Benjamin Neale and Mark Daly (both from Mass General), along with more than 100 coauthors (dozens of research institutes) published “Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia” in Nature recently.
Continue reading Schizophrenia and genetics