Daily Choice: Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Reflection: Spiritual vs. Material

Is Cadmium the New Lead?

Mike Magee MD The report began “Could cadmium be the new lead?” and was illustrated with four “Shrek glasses”, part of a promotional McDonald’s campaign. (1) Now that caught my eye because I’ve been following lead and fast food for awhile. In 2005 I first reported on the checkered history of lead in America. (2) […]

Tom Linden on the BP Disaster

The blowout of the BP exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico may be the biggest environmental disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. Eleven workers died on the Deepwater Horizon platform, and no one knows the ultimate cost to the environment and to the local economies of the Gulf states and the rest […]

Will Google Deliver a Killer Health Application?

Will Google deliver a killer health application? Who knows? Neil Versel, of Fierce EMR, weighed in on June 3rd with this post: “Google is denying a report by an industry analyst that it is giving up on its much-hyped but little-used Google Health PHR. ‘The project is alive and well from a staffing perspective,” an […]