| Dr. Kevin J. Logel Joins Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic welcomes Kevin J. Logel, M.D., to the practice effective December 17, 2007. Dr. Logel is a fellowship-trained Foot and Ankle specialist focusing on sports injuries, post-traumatic reconstruction, and chronic conditions of the foot and ankle. Dr. Logel has a special interest in dance medicine and has worked closely with the Carolina Ballet since 2005. In addition to several research publications and presentations, Dr. Logel served as a clinical instructor of Orthopaedics at WakeMed teaching UNC Orthopaedic residents from 2005-2007. Dr. Logel attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for both undergraduate and medical school. He completed his residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the University of Utah Hospitals. A fellowship in Foot and Ankle Reconstruction followed at the Union Memorial/Johns Hopkins Hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland.
Untrained coaches lead to big injuries
Each year more than 1 million suffer an injury that causes missed school, forces a trip to the hospital or requires surgery. Besides the usual sprained ankles and knees, doctors report a surge of serious injuries from overtraining, poor athletic techniques and rushed recovery from old injuries -- cases that might have been avoided if adults had taken steps to prevent them. Still, many schools and sports organizations require little training or proof that their coaches know how to keep such injuries from happening. "It's a great problem and something we have to address," said Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of sports medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston. "Quality of the adult (coaches') supervision is key." A CNHI News Service survey of coaching requirements found seven states -- Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Virginia -- have no medical training standards at all for school sports coaches.
Top Scientist and Prolific Inventor is Strategic Hire for UB
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The renowned inventor of the tiny batteries that have helped make implantable cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical devices a life-saving reality for millions of patients has accepted a faculty position in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D., is leaving her post as chief scientist at Greatbatch, Inc., after 22 years and will begin her new position as a professor in the UB departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering on Sept. 1. Takeuchi often is cited as the woman awarded the most patents in the U.S. -- 134 at last count, most of them related to her pioneering development of sophisticated power sources for implantable devices, now a booming multibillion-dollar business.
Is it time to bring tennis balls and sack races to the All-Star Game?
Editor's note: In our "Friday Faceoff," ESPN.com NHL writer Scott Burnside (based in Atlanta) and Toronto Star columnist and frequent ESPN.com contributor Damien Cox (based in Toronto) duke it out over any given hockey topic. Let the games begin! This week's topic: The rosters were named this week for this season's All-Star Game, which will be held Jan. 27 in Atlanta. But really, who cares? How can the NHL make the All-Star Game relevant and fun again? Scott: Hello, Damien. How are things on the West Coast? I see the Leafs don't much like the weather out there, either. But you must be pumped about the All-Star Game. Or not. Damien: You know, being an Eastern Conference guy now after years of following the Maple Leafs when they were in the West, it's weird to come back to L.A.
What's hot, what's not in region's job sectors
The retail sector shed 750 jobs in the North Shore Workforce area from 2001 to 2006, state data show. The losses may have been the result of the merger of Filene's and Macy's department stores. There are some signs the retail decline may be slowing. NorthshoreMall in Peabody - the region's largest shopping center with 2,600 employees - expects to add 600 to 800 jobs by next year, when Nordstrom's is to open a new anchor store, while other stores expand. A Macy's Men's and Home Furnishings became the newest mall tenant last week when it opened at the former Lord & Taylor site. Other new tenants include Timberland, The Cheesecake Factory, and a revitalized Filene's Basement. "Cashiers and sales workers aren't fast-growing jobs," said Eliot Winer, chief economist at the state Department of Employment and Training.
nor pleasure nor this thing
There are better ways of measuring human progress than growth. Than getting more, or bigger, or richer, or more powerful. A wise American corporate CEO, wary of unrestrained growth, said years ago, "Growth for its own sake is the logic of the cancer cell." Yet growth is an imperative of the human condition. And at times like this, with non-stop reports of growth curtailing as an ailing U.S. economy threatens to pull us down with it, there is a perfectly natural sense of unease. What assurance have we that growth will return, along with job creation, personal-income gains, and reason to hope that cottage in the Kawarthas will someday be within reach? The clinical answer is that growth is the natural state of affairs in Western civilization. The nine North American recessions since World War II have been of such brief duration as to account, in total, for about 10.1 per cent of the time elapsed since 1945.
As Super Bowl approaches, experts say NFL needs to tackle HGH issue
Athletes in Super Bowls have abused HGH for years without prudence, as they have throughout the National Football League and much of NCAA football: The Carolina Panthers just happened to be hapless enough to be the only ones to get caught, exposed in the Dr. James Shortt scandal involving illicitly prescribed HGH, steroids and associate chemicals. Growth hormone builds power, size and speed, especially in synergy with low-dose testosterone, and, despite much misinformation afloat, synthetic HGH cannot be reliably detected in a blood or urine PED screen. "Because it is so difficult to test for, it seems to be the product du jour for increasing performance," says Paul Doering, a University of Florida pharmacy professor and anti-doping official. "It's a drug manufactured to be exactly like what's in the body." In other words, the smoking gun for detection of systemic muscle doping in American football - growth hormone, anabolic steroids, insulin, GHB and more - comes before us routinely, on fields of cartoonish physiques and performances, parameters ever increasing.
Head injuries, damaged lives
Doctors and researchers have linked the deaths of several professional athletes to traumatic brain injury caused by long careers in high-impact sports. n Hall of Famer Mike Webster died in 2002 at age 50. Webster was diagnosed with brain damage in 1999. n Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk was killed in a fiery automobile crash in 2004 at age 36 after a high-speed police chase. A 2007 inquiry showed severe brain damage. n Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Terry Long committed suicide in 2005 by drinking antifreeze. Doctors say brain damage led to depression and suicide. n Andre Waters, a 44-year old former NFL defensive back, committed suicide in 2006. An inquiry showed that Waters' brain tissue was consistent with those of an 85-year-old man, with signs of the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
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