Overweight costing California $22 billion per year We all imagine California as a state full of health fanatics – the opposite could not be more true, according to a new report which says that overweight and obesity is costing the state over $22 billion per year.  The report was commissioned by the California Dept of Health Services. Over 50% of ...

Yesterday the California Division Life Science Industry Work Group visited the Advocacy Relations department of Genentech. The company has a department that works with “patient advocacy” groups around their products. They have a person who works with cancer advocacy groups related to the oncology products it has on the market and in development. The groups help them understand patient issues ...

Search engine firm Google is to begin an experiment in "video blogging", according to co-founder Larry Page. Mr Page told a conference in San Francisco that the company would be archiving people’s video clips, starting in the next few days.

I highly recommend reading Thomas Freeman’s article in the Sunday NY Times Magazine, "It’s a Flat World, After All" is a real eye-opener about how technology is expanding globalism.  I’m going to pull a few quotes, but I highly recommend reading the rest of the article. Globalization 1.0 (1492 to 1800) shrank the world from a size large to a ...