Make sure you don’t miss the photo journal in last Sunday’s NY Times magazine of actress Lynn Redgrave’s treatment for breast cancer. Her daughter took unflinching, un-retouched photos of the period. It’s very moving. It’s this kind of courage that’s enabled us to deal with the reality of cancer. Our Journal, by Annabel Clark and Lynn Redgrave It’s at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html

I’m attending BIO 2004 being held here in San Francisco. There’s going to be 18K to 20K attendees, people from more than 100 countries, official promotion delegations from 65 countries and 38 states, 5 governors, hundreds of companies and a yet unknown number of protestors. But I got a real surprise this morning. In a previous post I said I’d ...

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Computer System Makes ‘Chain’ Of Health Care Stronger, Safer This is a pretty interesting article about U Mich. project to build a hospital information system that puts together a whole chain of information. Sounds like it would do a lot of good. But, actually, the in-hospital information is only part of the information that could be linked together potentially. If ...