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Integrative Medicine: The Health Care of the Future is Happening Now

54 by Lauray MacElhern The U.S. medical system, although referred to as "health care" is largely one of disease care, a status quo that threatens our country's economic and societal well-being. An inside-out transformation of this system, that teaches and encourages prevention and wellness, not just disease management, is...

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Achieving the Proper Temperature Insights into Gourmet Home Cooking Products, Techniques, and Burned Yams

43 by Eric Norman I recently burned roasted yams. Luckily it was Thanksgiving, so nobody really cared because we needed to have yams. Plus they were still rather tasty. But it bothered me, and I tried to think of why. Perhaps because I added maple glaze and didn't reduce the cooking time. Perhaps my oven is different than the oven...

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The Yelp Effect

48 by Vanessa Cabling In a society highly dependent upon the Internet for gathering information, online consumer reviews have become the new word of mouth. Ratings on Amazon, TripAdvisor, Angie’s List, Rotten Tomatoes, and Yelp have helped consumers narrow down a barrage of choices. For local San Diego businesses, learning how...

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Obamacare & the San Diego Life Science Industry

24 by Matt Archer When President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 13, 2010, he cemented his legacy as the architect of a new U.S. health care system. The bill ignited political conservatives who claimed it was a step into socialism, and provided fuel to boil any liquid left in the tea...

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THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: The Only Certainty is That We Live in Interesting Times

31 by Mike Murphy As we welcome in the new year, I am sure we would all agree that for various reasons we are living in interesting times, not the least of which is the Affordable Care Act and health care reform. A day does not go by where we do not hear significant negative and positive headlines about the possible impacts of the...

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Emergency Preparedness With Micro-gaming

28 by Sara Jones Any newcomer to San Diego soon learns that it is a small-business and startup town. About 94 percent of the 97,000 businesses in San Diego are small businesses.1 On average, these small businesses have between three and 10 employees. They span industries as diverse as retail, finance, and manufacturing. As different as...

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Walking the Line Between Cheating and Competing

24 by Elanor Williams Amazing technological advances have reduced the constraints that our physical bodies and minds place on our performance. Medications can increase people's ability to concentrate, to stay awake or get a good night's sleep, or even make full use of the oxygen in their blood. Implants can make the blind see or the deaf...

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Hiring Innovation

34 by Tyler Presnall For one weekend in November of 2012, Sony Electronics USA welcomed more than 40 MBA students to its San Diego headquarters for its annual Case Competition. Grouped in teams of four with strangers from other top MBA programs across the country, participants were given 24 hours to develop 15-minute business pitches in...

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Justifying the Jump

25 by Erica Dawson I do not remember why I decided to jump out of a plane. But I had reserved a date, put down a sizeable - and nonrefundable - deposit, and, most significantly, bragged to everyone I knew that I was going to do it. There was no backing out, despite the fact that as the day neared I was growing increasingly...

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