Revolutions in dentistry

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toward the end of the dentist drill? — I grew up with a great family dentist but since adulthood my experiences have not been as good, and I sure hope ... Read more..

The Enzyme Factor, One False Move, and other recent books

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar by Cathcart and Klein. Philosophy lite. A diverting bathroom book, no more. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A parable ... Read more..

Turmeric to combat diabetes/obesity

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Common cooking spice shows promise in combating diabetes and obesity | Science Blog — I need to learn more about ayurvedic medicine Read more..

Licorice extract to treat canker sores

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Hurray. I hate canker sores. Read more..

Grabbag of software links

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Switch Between Your Gmail Accounts — hmm this has been an impediment to spawning more accounts Paypal toolbar gens one-off credit card numbers — always liked the one-off credit card idea; ... Read more..

Nutrition Data

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Squash, winter, acorn, cooked, baked, with salt — great site for detailed nutrional analysis of any food product. Read more..

Great experience at the Mayo Clinic

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Mayo Clinic: Gastroenterology and hepatology options and information at mayoclinic.org — recommended if you really really need some help. Everyone we met in the gastro department was top notch, ... Read more..

Drug Interaction Tool

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have no idea how good the database is behind this tool — Check Interactions - DrugDigest — but a nice idea. Read more..

Nutrition Data

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Great source of data on makeup of various food products — NutritionData’s Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter Read more..

Grabbag of links

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The blockbuster bestseller is dying. “…the evidence shows we are moving away from a winner-take-all society, not toward it” Solar powered flickering candles. Ordered for Halloween Great lens guidance from ... Read more..

Living Forever

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Eric recommend Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Kurweil and Grossman. Interesting read. The high level recos make a lot of sense and are ... Read more..

Why I’ve been quiet

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Among other reasons, we’ve been learning lots of new medical vocabulary in our household: clostridium difficile, celiac disease, lymphocytic colitis, flagyl, budesonide, not to mention tamiflu and telithromycin. Not ... Read more..

Duck and Cover not helpful

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Great pointer on marginal revolution to a discussion of earthquake survival — basically asserting that the duck and cover strategy is a sure way to get killed, instead you want ... Read more..

Investing in Medical Data

Monday, October 3rd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Very thoughtful article on investing in medical data. Fifteen years ago, I indentified data businesses as good place for venture capital investing. Being located in New York, I found investing ... Read more..

Steve Case’s Healthcare Investment Theses

Monday, June 20th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Interesting article in Sunday’s NY Times re Steve Case and areas of interest for healthcare investing: Online reviews and rankings of doctors and hospitals. Information and breaking news about medical ailments and ... Read more..

Hiking Progress

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve done a good job since rededicating myself to exercise — getting out on the trails 2 or 3 times a week. And I am still having fun. On ... Read more..

Hiking Squak Mountain

Sunday, May 29th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This weekend’s best hike was up Squak Mountain. The City of Issaquah website lists trailheads — we started at Mountainside Drive. Nice steady uphill hike for 2 miles ... Read more..

Small exercise victory this AM

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So sometimes I just don’t have time to get to a trailhead, like this AM. In the past I would have just blown off exercising in the face of ... Read more..

Today’s Hike — 5/20

Friday, May 20th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Back to Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park (for the second time this week) for Today’s hike. BTW, online maps for the park can be found at the King County ... Read more..

Getting serious about exercise

Friday, May 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I had my annual physical this week (man I am glad we signed up for MD Squared) and while I am generally healthy, I weigh 3 pounds more than last ... Read more..

Bronchitis

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Been quiet for a while, had a killer bronchitis/flu thing. Lost a week plus to fighting this thing. Don’t get it. Probably worsened by the fact that, ... Read more..

Completing the ageing trifecta

Monday, July 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Following on bifocals and lipitor, today I had my first colonoscopy. Whee. Clean bill of health so that is good news. Read more..

Getting old sucks

Thursday, July 15th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A banner year for me. Lipitor, and now bifocals Read more..

Full Body CT Scan

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I’m unfortunately at the age at which I need to worry a little more about heart disease and other issues. This week I went to Health-Scan and had a ... Read more..

Healthcare blog; Lipitor

Monday, May 3rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Good info up at The Health Care Blog on a variety of topics. Got there by searching for “Lipitor blog” — and I have to say, getting a prescription ... Read more..