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Child Care: A new National Alliance for Caregiving study says 1.3 million to 1.4 million children (ages 8-18) in the U.S. care for sick or disabled relatives. At least 75% get some help, but half spend a ...read more
Americans had 3.27 billion drug prescriptions filled by pharmacists in ’04. (Foster Letter ...read more
Between ’00 and ’04, use of drugs for ADHD doubled for adults ages 20-44 and rose 56% for children according to a new Medco Health Services study. ...read more
40% to 50% of people older than 85 have Alzheimer’s. (Foster Letter ...read more
Roughly 16% of Americans are without health insurance. (Foster Letter ...read more
Hurricane Katrina has swept away more than New Orleans buildings: According to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll 39% of New Orleans residents assisted by the Red Cross say they definitely or probably won’t move back. That is an astounding migration of an estimated 50,000 households that could change ...read more
About 1 in 5 Americans have had to evacuate their homes because of a pending natural disaster. (Foster ...read more
Life is Harder 67% of U.S. 13 year-olds say their lives are harder that their parents when they were teens. 18% say it’s easier while 15% say it’s ...read more
Herbal supplements now generate $4 billion a year in retails sales in the U.S. (Foster Letter ...read more
1 in 10 men and 1 in 200 women are born with inherited color blindness. (Foster letter ...read more
Employee Weight related costs are adding $12 billion a year to costs of employers nationwide, including medical bills, reduced productivity, increased absenteeism and higher health and disability insurance premiums ...read more
1 in 5 U.S. nursing homes has deficiencies severe enough to harm or endanger residents. (Foster ...read more
About 1 in every 37 U.S. adults was either imprisoned at the end of ‘01 or had been incarcerated at one time. (Foster ...read more
About 10 million U.S. citizens go online or cross the border to buy drugs in Canada and Mexico. (Foster ...read more
40% of seniors take 5 or more prescription drugs weekly, 12% take more than 10, plus vitamins, herbs and OTC pills. ...read more
There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said, “Although pain isn’t real, If I sit on a pin And it punctures my skin, I ...read more
"The full acting out of the self’s surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the ...read more
"If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can ...read more
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds ...read more
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