On the day of peak gorging, we are reminded that America is facing a sustained obesity crisis. As Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, many doctors are warning that the fat scourge is reaching epidemic proportions.
Some experts believe that obesity is responsible for more ill health than smoking. Diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure are just three prominent illnesses that are caused by obesity.
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81 year old John McCain (R-AZ) has had a string of unfortuate heath issues this year. In mid-july, the Arizona Senator underwent brain surgery for aggressive cancer – returning to Washington D.C. five days later to cast his vote against the healthcare bill.
Then, a little over two weeks ago McCain was treated for a tear to his achilles tendon at Walter Reed medical center – emerging on November 6th in a walking boot on his RIGHT leg:
A new medical breakthrough in southern Russia could hold the key in solving America’s opioid epidemic.
Scientists at Volgograd Sate Medical University are launching clinical trials into a pain-killing drug which outperforms morphine, and does not cause addiction. This would be a big step in the right direction, as the crisis in the United States spirals out-of-control.
From Morgan Stanley overnight:
The reason the S&P healthcare sector is lower on the day...
... with distribution names getting hammered, is because in a report published overnight, Morgan Stanley analysts predicted that the sector, and severeal specific names, are most in danger of being targets of Amazon's unstoppable monopoly juggernaut, soon to be scheduled for Bezosian eradication.
Forget Bitcoin; ignore Roku... it's time to look at nano-cap medical device-maker CHF Solutions - which is up almost 500% today on absolutely no news whatsover...
$10mm market cap, CHF Solutions, Inc. distributes health care products. The Company provides commercialization of medical devices for the treatment of fluid overload, heart failures, and other cardiac diseases. CHF Solutions serves customers in the United States.
Efficient markets... (halted 14 times so far)