Yearly Archives: 2018

I read the 2017 Diabetes Fact Sheet — Texas reported by Texas Department of State Health Services. The key information in this sheet are: An estimated 11.4% of adults in Texas had diabetes and 7.5% had prediabetes. On average, Medicaid spent over $1,600 per beneficiary with diabetes.   Actually, acupuncture […]

President Donald Trump signed sweeping opioids legislation into law on Oct 24th, 2018, to combat the opioid epidemic, according to CNN. Last year, more than 70,000 Americans died from a drug overdose. Opioids were responsible for about two-thirds of those deaths. This bill is aimed to control the overuse of […]