BEWARE OF DOG BYTES

The New Yorker issue of July 5, 1993, carried a now-famous cartoon by Peter Steiner.  The cartoon and its caption, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” became famous enough to warrant its own Wikipedia Page.

In the early days of the Internet it was true: conversations (online chat, Usenets) took place on a level playing field. Not only...


Got Stress? Here’s a solution

Let’s collaborate and create that so you have less tension in the New Year and for the next big holiday!   The Stress Intelligence coaching program has launched.  I am super-excited about this project and know it will give some relief. There are multiple options. By exploring newsletter packages and the coaching program packages, you will be able to choose a program that fits your schedule and your needs.

The Stress...


New Patient App Saves Time and Money

miTRAX Custom Patient App Improves Outcomes, Saves Time and Money

Doctors’ appointments can be frustrating for two reasons: too little doctor face time and difficulty remembering what the doc told you to do. A new Nebraska-based patient mobile app solves both problems.

miTRAX, available in desktop and mobile versions, provides custom information to individual patients and gathers data for doctors...


Crystal Energy in the Bronx

Meet Aman Mukar of Crystals of India Inc.,  a company that sells crystals based on their Holistic and Metaphysical properties. He teaches crystal healing and meditation with crystals. He provides guidance on how to tune into the frequency of Crystals and how to use the High Vibrations of Crystals to uplift your aura.

Aman left a 10-year financial services career to pursue this passion where he worked for not just materialistic...


DOCTOR’S ORDERS: FOUR MUST-SEE SHOWS THIS WINTER

THE BROADWAY BEAT – DOCTOR’S ORDERS: FOUR MUST-SEE SHOWS THIS WINTER

This fall we saw several incredible productions grace the Broadway stage.  Though the winter is not scheduled to be as jam-packed with Broadway openings, there are a few productions this winter that I would consider "must sees."

Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) makes his Broadway debut in a...


Smile: it makes people wonder what you’re up to

 

“When you’re smiling,” Louis Armstrong (and dozens since) sang, “when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.” More than 80 years later, scientists are getting around to proving that Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, and Joe Goodwin’s lyrics were more than just a pleasant homily. All thanks to an ancient evolutionary development called “mirror neurons.”

Italian researchers in the 1990s first found...


Babies with pre-natal drug exposure get special care

   In the 1980s, Barbara Drennen was a foster mother who specialized in caring for premature newborns in Kent, Washington. One day, she was assigned a baby who had been prenatally exposed to drugs. “The baby came to me on oxygen, then had to be readmitted to the hospital, then came back to me on a ventilator.”

   To give this medically fragile infant the attention it needed, Drennen converted the lower part of her house into a 24...


Laughter is the Best Medicine

Here's interesting fact. One of the reasons why doctors have visiting hours is because research has shown when patients are with family and friends they heal a lot faster. Because the patients laugh and feel good all over and the body doesn't want be sick and pushes out good endorphins to heal the body faster.

Wali Collins is America’s Most loved comedian and the author of “The Y’NEVANO book of Encouragments. 

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