The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.
The pharmaceutical company Teva sells QVAR RediHaler, a corticosteroid inhaler, for $286 in the U.S.
In Germany, Teva sells that same inhaler for $9.
https://theconversation.com/asthma-meds-have-become-shockingly-unaffordable-but-relief-may-be-on-the-way-222858
#health
Makes climate change look like approaching escape velocity. Time to cut off its fossil fuel – literally.
A Ukrainian soldier says he stopped shelling small Russian units because he is running out of US-made artillery ammo - Business Insider A Ukrainian soldier said he stopped shelling small Russian units because his brigade was running out of US-provided artillery ammunition, per The Times of London. "When it's two or three soldiers, I'm not shooting any more; only when it's a critical situation, say, ten guys close to our infantry, we will work," Sergeant Taras "Fizruk" told the newspaper. The 31-year-old mortar gunner said that he and his comrades from the 47th Mechanized Brigade "had ten times more ammunition over the summer." per the newspaper. "American rounds come in batches of almost identical weights, which makes it easier to correct fire, with very few duds. Now we have shells from all over the world with different qualities, and we only get 15 for three days. Last week, we got a batch full of duds," said the soldier. The lack of shells, Fizruk said, has hampered his unit's control over the northern flank of Avdviivka in eastern Ukraine and their ability to shoot at Russian troops. "We should be controlling our sector from 4km away, so we can kill a few hundred Russian soldiers before they get to our infantry, and we only take a few wounded," he told the newspaper, adding: "But without ammunition, we can't." The US and NATO allies have struggled to keep up with Ukraine's demands for artillery shells and ammunition, with Western ammunition stockpiles depleting. Ukrainian forces have been burning through artillery shells and ammunition at a rate of about 7,000 rounds a day, according to figures from Estonia's defense ministry. And Western supplies are now at the "bottom of the barrel," Admiral Rob Bauer of the Netherlands, who chairs NATO's Military Committee, said at a Warsaw Security Forum meeting in October. "We need large volumes. The just-in-time, just-enough economy we built together in 30 years in our liberal economies is fine for a lot of things — but not the armed forces when there is a war ongoing," he said, per the BBC. The issue has been compounded by Republicans in Congress, who are threatening to withhold crucial aid to Ukraine, including ammunition, a defining element in frontline combat. Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine's presidential office, said that Congress' delay in providing aid to Ukraine would "very likely make it impossible to continue liberating territory and create a high risk of losing the war," per The New Voice of Ukraine.
Related to my post earlier today that showed decadal changes in ice thickness, this animation shows the corresponding transition from older (usually thicker) #Arctic sea ice to younger (usually thinner) ice in early December...
Hi DeJoy.
#USPS allegedly ignored its own heat safety programs & manipulated official records to hide those actions ahead of unrelenting summer of extreme heat that killed scores of people across the U.S.
...allegedly doctored heat training records of thousands of mail carriers. One of them died on a blistering day in June. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/11/usps-major-heat-deaths-00128875?cid=politico_threads
Climate change is unleashing a tsunami of infectious diseases–and we have fewer and fewer drugs that can treat them
#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #FossilFueledDestruction #health
Cop28: Australia, US and UK say they won’t sign agreement that would be ‘death certificate’ for small islands
Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, says umbrella group of countries is united in saying draft agreement is too weak
#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #FossilFueledDestruction #COP28
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Greetings REI Board Members,
I've been an REI member since the mid 1980s--nearly forty years.
I have been led to believe that REI was often on the right side of issues; it cared for the environment, sustainability, and its employees. I was disappointed to learn of management's anti-union and union-busting tactics that have recently surfaced.
Please change your course on this issue and embrace your employees' efforts to be represented by a union, or you will lose this life-long REI member. It's that simple.
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