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A TED Talk on Preparing for the Inevitable

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Home & FamilyWhen the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference began in 1984, the Los Angeles Times called it “an obscure gathering of engineers, theorists and artists.” But in the nearly three decades since then, TED has morphed into a series of mind-expanding showcases staged in several countries that attract scores of celebrity visionaries, ranging from physicist Steven Hawking and neurologist Oliver Sacks to former President Bill Clinton and rock stars Bono and Peter Gabriel. Better yet, the nonprofit Sapling Foundation, which stages the …

Does Your Doctor Use Electronic Records?

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | TechnologyFrom The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reaches a “tipping point” in America. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services says more than 50 percent of doctors’ offices and 4 in 5 hospitals have transitioned from paper to electronic records, thanks partly to more than $14 billion in government incentive payments. The hope is that electronic records will make …

Blood Glucose Meters — How Accurate Are They?

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | TechnologyBy Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News Blood glucose meters, which millions of diabetics rely upon to regulate their blood sugar, have become less costly and easier and less painful to use. But they haven’t become more accurate, a top Food and Drug Administration official said May 21 at a meeting of researchers analyzing studies that show wide variation in the performance of the machines used to measure blood glucose levels. Katherine Serrano, diabetes branch chief in the FDA’s division of …

Senate Aging Committee to Showcase Virtual Talking Dog

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Personal Health | TechnologyAs you’ve probably noticed, congressional events increasingly seem to feature movie stars such as Harrison Ford and other celebrities as a way of gaining public attention for an issue. But at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging’s Healthy Aging Forum, scheduled for May 23 on Capitol Hill, there will be an even more unusual guest: GeriJoy, the talking virtual dog developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. GeriJoy is specifically designed to give older people with dementia or …

Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, Reunited on ‘Arrested Development’

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Television and Entertainment | Comments

EntertainmentWhen the new season of Arrested Development starts streaming on Netflix Sunday at midnight (PST), it won’t just mark the return of a beloved sitcom most fans thought was gone for good. It also brings back a couple of talented older comic actors in two of their best roles — Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, who play George and Lucille Bluth, the oft-estranged oddball parents who spawned one of television’s most hilariously dysfunctional clans. TV’s recent past is littered with …

All the Lonely People

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeI received word the other day that a long-time acquaintance had died. We had worked together in the beginning years of my newspaper career, and while we hadn’t been that close, he nonetheless had represented a link in a circle of friends that was growing smaller every year. I was losing my history. We were a hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking, fun-loving bunch back then, not eating right or exercising or generally taking care of ourselves. Hell, we were in our 30s and …

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