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Now that President-Elect Trump�s opinions and omissions can create harmful consequences, this is your Jumping-Off-the-Cliff guide to staying informed, develop an action plan and mitigate damages from his reign. First, the cliff notes on his cabinet and chief staff members: What�s at Stake Nominee Perspectives Analysis Your Health The Secretary of Health and Human Services controls the following agencies: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Food and Drug Administration, administers the Affordable Care Act, and grants more money for medical research than any other agency in the world. Tom Price, Republican from Georgia, He is an orthopedic surgeon, and represents one of the healthcare sectors with expensive medical devices and lucrative profit margins for health systems. Resentful of the 3% medical device tax his industry pays to fund the Affordable Care Act for low-income Americans. Wants to get rid of Obama Care and replace it with another insurance base...

New Treatment for Back Pain Using an Ipod and Neurotransmitter Opioid addiction cost the U.S. 79 billion dollars in 2013.   (Silverman, 2016) This article reviews an alternative treatment for lower back pain, besides prescription opioids.   In a review of all emergency admissions between 2004 and 2008, two million people in the United States were found to have sought treatment for lower back pain each year. Back pain is also the second most common cause of workplace absenteeism and disability.   (Waterman BR, 2012)   A 1992 North Carolina survey of chronic lower back pain, defined as those who have experienced this problem for three months or longer, found that 3.9% of survey respondents reported debilitating back pain. The survey was repeated in 2006 and the incidence of lower back pain had increased across all sectors and had risen to 10.2% of the population.   (Janet K. Freburger, 2009) The treatments for this health curse can be invasive and ineffective, ...

The Rise of Fascism in the United States In the aftermath of the unruly election and the debacle of Trump�s ascendency to the highest office in the land, this represents the public repudiation of decency and respect for women. Throughout his campaign he referred to women in derogatory terms and physical evidence was presented about his sexual assaults on women. However, like a flashback to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, the victims of his sexual harassment, were treated as criminals. As a child, I was acutely aware of my lower status as a girl, but I concentrated on being studious and working 20% harder than everyone else at every job, such was my desire to live an independent life. I was grabbed and groped in vocational agriculture class and the teacher did nothing, because he wished I wasn�t there. These humiliations and many others were something I endured because I knew no one would intervene on my behalf. I believed in women�s rights and the promise of eq...