Medical Bills

How would you feel if you had a procedure done at the hospital and your bill was $292,643? Not only did the hospital room cost $72,624, but the patient received this bill on Thanksgiving. The family was celebrating being thankful for the surgery their family member received at Cedars-Sinal Hospital, now to have a huge bill to pay. Even though this medical bill a large, it is definitely not the largest. A $1,196,246 bill was given to a family who's child was in the Neonatal ICU (NICU) for one month and only had one surgery. Why should medical services be so expensive and you wonder why some people do not like surgery. These bills are outrageous at any stand point, and should be looked into. Both of these patients even had insurance that took out part of the payment. And to get a huge bill on Thanksgiving? What a great thing to be thankful for. What do you think about his? 

Diseases of Pumpkins

In honor of Halloween, this article will be about diseases of pumpkins. This 2014 growing season, pumpkins were getting angular leaf spot. The pumpkins were also getting an another type of disease called bacterial leaf spot. Symptoms of the angular leaf spot disease are spotted by farmers very easily. This disease is also common in cucumbers, melons, and squash. Lesions appear on the object and they become brittle and break. Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans, which causes angular leaf spot, begins in the seed and can infect the pumpkin before it even grows. Xanthomonas cucurbitae causes bacterial leaf spot. The lesions appear underneath the leaf and are very small. These diseases are mostly present in midwestern parts of the United States. It is in places like Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. Since both of these diseases are seed born they are hard to control. Angular leaf spot and bacterial leaf spot have only known to come up in the year 2014 and they are trying to control them so the 2015 growing season is not ruined.

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/bacterial_diseases_of_pumpkins_an_old_enemy_and_an_emerging_bacterial_disea?__scoop_post=bc2bde10-62bd-11e4-8127-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611#__scoop_post=bc2bde10-62bd-11e4-8127-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611