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...this summer, a large pilot program involving hundreds of human patients got under way at the Alzheimer's Community Care agency in West Palm Beach, Florida. The maker of the RFID chips used in the program, VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of the Delray Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is funding the initiative and wants to market its tags to the roughly 45 million high-risk patients in the U.S. with diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. The company says these patients can benefit from having instant and accurate access to medical records, which the chip would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Microchip Tags Safe? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...number of Alzheimer's patients in South Florida and the potential for natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods, the VeriChip comes in handy, says Mary Barnes, president and CEO of Alzheimer's Community Care, because, unlike a medical medallion, it cannot be taken off or lost. "In Palm Beach County and South Florida, we have projected over 200,000 Alzheimer's patients," Barnes says. "When you've got that kind of risk out there for our family members ... this type of technology is a godsend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Microchip Tags Safe? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Ahmadinejad's incendiary rhetoric may seem harmless enough now, but we should remember that Hitlers don't become Hitlers unless they are underestimated and appeased. The Adolf Hitler of 1933 was much smaller than the 1944 version. John Root, Grover Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...died when nurses ignored his pleas for help after his appendix burst. The nurses were later charged with manslaughter and third-degree murder, to which they have pleaded not guilty, and their trials are pending. Prosecutors at the trial of Valdes - who was awaiting execution for murdering a Palm Beach County corrections officer in 1987 - contended that one of the reasons he was beaten was the letters he'd begun writing to the media about abuses at Florida State Prison under its then warden, James Crosby. That made it all the more surprising when Bush appointed Crosby secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons? | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

Reminiscing about her time as a player, Rooney praised the depth of the Harvard program and the completeness of her training as a golfer. “Last year we went to Monterrey and San Francisco and we played Pebble Beach and Cypress Point and the San Francisco Golf Club. I think I’ve already reached the peak of my golf life,” she said...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Captain Lends Hand As Assistant Coach | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

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