This is a slightly edited and enhanced version of an article that appeared November, 2011 as part of the Times-Standard/Redwood Technology Consortium Tech Beat series. The health industry in slowly adopting technology on a large scale, moving to electronic documents, computer generated prescriptions and information sharing. It’s been a rough road as standards and privacy issues have to be grappled with beyond the sheer technical problems. But the trade-offs in efficiency, accuracy and data...
Cancer is a scary disease. It can lie hidden for years and suddenly a test reveals your bones/lungs/liver/brain/colon is riddled with it. But I have been fighting the good fight. I have been fending off cancer by drinking red wine. Not only that, but the same cancer fighting ingredient, resveratrol, is also helpful in staving off some of the effects of diabetes. And there is some indication that red wine could be good for...
Well, after strutting around all winter with nary sniffle I came down with one of this year’s versions of the crud. Really, just a cold. But a mean one with a debilitating dry cough that caused my entire torso to ache and found me spending two nights in the living room chair trying to sleep in a semi-upright position. I tried to work, off and on, at home. I tried to read when I...
