Home Attitude with Skip Prichard
Skip Prichard is President and CEO of OCLC, a global nonprofit computer library service and research organization. He is also the author of newly published The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future. Skip was giving a speech in Edinburgh, Scotland recently and, as shown above, he made some remarks about my new book, Home […]
Obesity
One of the topics in Health Attitude is obesity, a chronic condition which has become a pandemic. In 2013 at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, physicians voted overwhelmingly to categorize obesity as “a disease that requires a range of interventions to advance treatment and prevention”. In the United States, 36.5% of adults are […]
Eradicating Polio
It was a pleasure to speak to the Rotary Club of Flagler CountyPalm Coast, Florida at their monthly luncheon meeting. As is their custom, the club made a donation on behalf of their guest speaker to the Polio Plus Program of The Rotary Foundation. The donation will enable immunization of 25 children against polio. Polio is […]
Clinical Trials for Stem Cell-based Cartilage Underway
One subject among my weekly e-briefs which consistently generates a lot of feedback is related to knees. One thing baby boomers have in common is the need for joint replacements. The number of hip and knee replacements in the U.S. is roughly one million per year, 2/3 of which are knees. Over the years ahead, projections […]
Tuscany Beach Club Party Raises $6,800 for Flagler Habitat
On Sunday evening, February 18, a fund raiser was held at the Tuscany Beach Club at Hammock Dunes in Palm Coast, Florida. Lindsay Elliott, Executive Director of Flagler Habitat for Humanity, presented a moving and compelling summary of the great work the organization is doing, including now having built more than 100 homes in the […]
