Nurses at Santa Memorial Hospital are on strike today. They, and nurses at Petaluma Valley Hospital are upset at new proposed contract conditions from their employer, St. Joseph Health. If adopted, they say, nurses will be driven away and patient care will suffer. From the picket lines, Danielle Venton reports. (Image: KRCB.) 

Lyme Disease is hard to detect and diagnose, harder still to treat effectively. So perhaps it's not surprising that the disease is becoming more and more common.

Ticks are known as common carriers of Lyme Disease, but Nurse Practitioner Mara Williams, author of the Lyme handbook, Nature's Dirty Needle: What You Need To Know About Chronic Lyme Disease And How To Get The Help To Feel Better, explains that Lyme is just one part of the medical hazard the little bugs pose.

Ticks may be the most widespread vector for Lyme Disease and its related ailments, they're not the only ones. And the ticks themselves are increasingly widespread.

Social media, tracking software, online surveillance... it's a Brave New World of online data. Learn how to keep your information under your own control. Siobhan MacDermot speaks at Book Passage in Corte Madera Saturday, Jan. 12 at 4:00 p.m. Wide Open Privacy: Strategies For The Digital Life is for sale on Amazon.com. But first she caught up with KRCB's Danielle Venton, to share some of today's most important privacy secrets. (Images courtesy of AVG technologies, J.R. Smith and Siobhan MacDermott.) 

One of the most interesting things she learned while writing the book, MacDermott says, is that people display a variety of "paradoxes" in their online life. They might think their online commentary is private, for example, when it's not really.

Working in the wine industry is increasingly an option for women. But owning the winery is another matter. We hear from some two local women winery owners in this North Bay Report.

Merry EdwardsMerry Edwards, one of the early trailblazers among women winemakers, recounts being fortunate to have her early career path enabled by a series of other outsiders.

In addition to the gender-based genetic differences that give women in general a more discerning palate, Carol Shelton (pictured above) recalls how a game invented by her mother also helped train her olfactory acuity.