Literally. It’s shaving years off of your life. Those are the American Cancer Society’s and Dr. James Levine’s conclusions after five years of rigorous study. And they’re not alone. An Australian study cited in this article concluded that “for each additional hour of television a person sat and watched per day, the risk of dying [...] Learn More →

Picture yourself stuck in a hole that’s ten feet deep. A person appears at the top of the hole and offers a six-foot high ladder. What good is it? When it comes to Arizona’s deep revenue hole, Proposition 100 is that shorter ladder. But its approval tells us that we all can act together to [...] Learn More →

If all goes well (and with your permission), in 2011 Proteus Biomedical will be emailing reports on prescription drug performance and compliance from your stomach directly to your doctor. It works like this: patient swallows a pill with both medicine and a tiny sensor chip (where stomach acid acts as a battery for the chip), chip transmits to a skin patch, the skin patch to a cell phone, and the cell phone to your doctor. Learn More →

Do you have a program or service… …perhaps one that provides volunteer services, helps persons with disabilities, targets youth, obesity or some other community issue? Do people tell you… …that you need to be a non-profit organization and have a 501(c)(3) designation? Do you know what that means? Along with the tasks of how to [...] Learn More →

It’a all over the newspapers and the TV today: the fear that swine flu will overwhelm emergency rooms and cause rationing of services like intensive care beds and respirators. More ominous, there is already a shortage of children’s Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug that is often prescribed to treat the H1N1 virus. Pharmacists are compounding adult [...] Learn More →

I was fortunate enough to attend SLHI’s “The R Word event” today, at which Dr.Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Univ of Pa and arguably one of the ten most influential people in science, raised the questions President Obama has asked us not to mention: At what time do you put a price [...] Learn More →