This is one of my favorite places to go or pick up food in Green Valley/Fairfield. The staff is friendly and the food and service is always great. Surprisingly there is rarely any wait. They have frequent specials which you should always consider. Some of my favorite include the Sweet Basil Chicken, Mu Yang (BBQ… Read More
From my Nov 1, 2010 Napa Valley Register Column Head injuries come to mind Like many of you, I grew up with football. I would cheer and applaud the big hits. In high school, college and especially the pros, people worried about broken bones and joint injuries. With helmets, we rarely worried about head injuries.… Read More
Chianti Osteria is one of my favorite Fairfield/Suisun City restaurants and also a wonderful Italian restaurant anywhere. Chef Salvio De Furia and his brother Carlo De Furia cook “their authentic childhood recipes” They utilize “local farm to table ingredients, fresh pasta made daily using free-range eggs and high quality ‘00” flour, fresh fish and hormone-free… Read More
This February 24, 2017 study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Society concludes that adults who ate home cooked meals and didn’t watch television during meals had a lower incidence of obesity. The study looked at over 12,000 Ohio Medicaid patients and surveyed them as to how much television they watched… Read More
L’Ardoise is a French restaurant in San Francisco, that claims it serves “traditional and authentic fare in a cozy atmosphere.” It was ranked by In Magazine as the most romantic restaurant in California. Amanda Gold in a review from Sfgate in October 2008 ranks the 28 seat restaurant at 2 1/2 stars. Her recommendations… Read More
This February 21, 2017 JAMA Internal Medicine article concludes that testosterone improves bone density and bone strength in men with low testosterone. Although they couldnt determine if there was lower fracture risk, the investigators found that the treatment of older men with low testosterone increased volumetric trabecular bone mineral density of the lumbar spine. They… Read More
The California Department of Managed Health Care found ninety person ( 36 out of 40) healthplan/insurance company department compliance reports for 2015 contained data inaccuracies significant enough to render them essentially usable and certainly not consumer friendly. This story originally appeared in California Healthfax and then reported on in HealthLeaders. From HealthLeaders . A state… Read More
This January 1, 2014 JAMA article studies Mechanical Chest Compressions and Simultaneous Defibrillation vs Conventional Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest There are clearly many factors that affect the chances of survival after a cardiac arrest, including early recognition of arrest, effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), timely defibrillation, and postresuscitation care. One important link is thought… Read More
A July 2016 Health Affairs article looked at the adequacy of provider networks for plans sold through insurance Marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act by conducting a “secret shopper” survey of 743 primary care providers from five of California’s nineteen insurance Marketplace pricing regions in the Summer of 2015. They found less than 30%… Read More
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