Health Attitude on Audible and iTunes
I am very pleased to announce audio versions of Health Attitude. It was a pleasure to work with John Edmondson, an outstanding narrator. You will find him pleasant to listen to — not too fast, not too slow. You can listen to a sample of the book here. If you would like to do an unbiased review […]
Apple Watch A Dud?
As usual, the Apple Keynote at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) was done with great marketing aplomb. For two hours and 24 minutes, it was tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them. They do it masterfully every time. Also as usual, some financial analysts and […]
How Watson Is Helping Cancer Patients
Physicians are increasingly able to sequence a cancer tumor and use the data to find a match with a treatment that can cure the patient. The problem is that the analysis can take weeks. IBM is deploying its Watson supercomputer technology to reduce the analysis to minutes. In collaboration with 14 cancer centers (and more to follow), […]
The Fifth Dimension Keeps On Going
Most of the entries in the Favorite Concerts page are classical music concerts, but last night at The Ridgefield Playhouse was a different kind of “classical” music. The Fifth Dimension was in rare form as they entertained with Up-Up And Away, Go Where You Wanna Go, Learn How To Fly, Wedding Bell Blues, Worst That Could Happen, Aquarius, and many more […]
Are Pills Priced Right?
A Wall Street Journal story on Friday morning was called New Push Ties Cost of Drugs to Effectiveness. Sounds similar to pay for performance. What a novel idea. It continues to amaze me how far behind healthcare is compared to other industries. In Health Attitude, I wrote about how Congress precluded Medicare from negotiating with the pharmaceutical […]