Point & Medication Testing Affected by Hearing Aids?! As one of those individuals who for mostly hereditary reasons has reduced hearing capacity and of necessity uses hearing aids, I encountered a series of interesting situations over the past few months. For those of us who are hearing impaired, using hearing aids is akin to using glasses to see better. I don’t think about them much, and I just put them on early in the morning when I reach for my glasses and take them both off when I’m

Vaccinations, Measles and Choices I’ve watched with interest – and a dose of horror – as the vaccination controversy has once again exploded in our province of British Columbia, Canada. As of this morning there are 15 “new” cases of measles diagnosed and reported here. I wonder how many of those ill children were previously vaccinated, but so far no one has answered that part of the equation. Within just a week’s time, the news is flooded with reports of 10’s of thousands of anxious parents signing petitions

Welcome to the NEW P2P It has now been several weeks since the doors of Occidental Institute Research Foundation made that final closing “kathunk” and freed me from all its business and corporate obligations and responsibilities. Although they tell me I’m supposed to be “retired” I haven’t been idle. It does however take time and some thoughtful introspection to look at the future possibilities and consider how I will go forward into this next chapter of my life. During these weeks since the announcement of the OIRF closure,

Announcement Regarding Occidental Institute Today I write to you with mixed feelings. We here at OIRF have passed through another one of those crossroads in time that change our pathway into the future forever. This transition has been a long time in the making but has been hurried to a conclusion after external but inalterable changes to our commercial distributorship contracts representing the loss of our major financial fund-raising ability. Within a few short weeks OIRF would have celebrated 46 years of continuous operation – not bad for