[It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level.] There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home, ... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers. |
and look at various kinds of medical information, no matter what its source. |
I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,' |
I'm hopeful some good folks will step forward and help us here. But I don't think there's enough time. |
This is original art, and some of the people are great and some are awful, but (the Fringe) is a place you can be awful. . . . And the people choose who they want to see. . . . (The Fringe) gives the local community -- the artistic underground -- a chance to really do their stuff. And for people like me, it's great, because I'm trying to work a show out that I can tour with. |
We need to step back, let the kids that raised their money for next year go and work with the parents. |
We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get. |
We're making the currency safer, smarter and more secure, |
You can't check your brain at the door, ... I'd like to encourage people to be wise consumers and not take any information at face value. |