| 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.
PrecisionRx Specialty Solutions Chosen as a Distributor for Letairis
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc., (NYSE: WLP) , the nation's largest health benefits company, today announced that its wholly owned specialty pharmacy, PrecisionRx Specialty Solutions, has been selected by Gilead Sciences as one of eight pharmacies in the United States to participate in the limited distribution program for Letairis, an oral drug that treats a potentially lethal form of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PrecisionRx Specialty Solutions was chosen as a distributor for the drug because of its capacity to provide "high touch" specialized support for people with complex, chronic diseases. "We were delighted with Gilead's decision to include PrecisionRx Specialty Solutions in their limited distribution channel," said Recie Bomar, vice president for specialty pharmacy.
Furniture store to be redeveloped as 'healing center'
He might have helped transform the Warehouse District into one of the city's premier neighborhoods, but developer Pres Kabacoff himself lives in the Bywater neighborhood, that redoubt of artists and eccentrics whose charm is inseparable from its grit. Kabacoff is now embarking on a project closer to home, and it is not his typical moneymaker. He plans to buy the former Universal Furniture store on St. Claude Avenue and turn it into a "healing center" with a cooperative grocery store, an organic restaurant, yoga studios, gallery space and a street university where people can give classes on anything from second-line dancing to filling out tax returns. He believes the proposal, in tandem with the city's plans to restore the iconic St. Roch Market across the street, has the potential to ignite a revival along St.
Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes
Christophe Boesch, director of Chimpanzee Projects at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, calls for better hygiene measures for Great Ape tourism. Credit: Sonja Metzge, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology .
The Bonds of Race
But as book has piled upon book, expert upon expert, guru upon gimmick, the whole messy realm has cried out for a rigorous, cultural cartographer. It has found one, finally, in Anne Harrington. A Harvard historian, she has expertly mapped the transmission of mind-body ideas in The Cure Within, showing us where they come from and why exactly they seem to have nine lives. That mind-body medicine has provoked influential skeptics to speak out against it hasn't checked its growth. In the late 1970s, Susan Sontag famously attacked the belief that character causes disease. "Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it," she wrote in Illness As Metaphor. Marcia Angell, then an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, echoed the fear that patients swept up in psychologizing would feel "the anguish of personal failure" if they couldn't cure themselves and might even "come to see medical care as largely irrelevant." Yet the mind-body message continues to thrive.
China can build things. Why can't India?
Shanghai has brilliant new skyscrapers and museums and parks and trains – and Bombay can't manage to have a decent airport. According to Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal, it's all because of democracy. “There is a different model of growth in our country," Sibal told reporters in Beijing, according to this report from wire service PTI carried on Indian portal Rediff.com. “We can't, for example, build a Pudong overnight." Well, neither did the Chinese. Pudong today is the result of more than a decade's worth of work and planning and investment. The place is hardly paradise; Pudong can feel overwhelming, especially along the district's broad boulevard. I'm not saying that Indian officials should be trying to replicate Pudong in Bombay. But falling back on the old “We're a democracy, don't expect too much of us" argument doesn't cut it.
Photo Album: Elexis schloss
Her remarkable life has been a whirlwind of family, work and philanthropic endeavours. Photo Album is an occasional series on the lives of distinguished Albertans The Elexis Schloss File Elexis Schloss, 61, has packed several lives into one, being a wife, mother, draughtsman, watercolour artist, interior designer, fashion designer, entrepreneur, socialite, philanthropist, social worker and event planner. .
Ken Livingstone's as bendy as his buses
One of the council's pet projects was to establish a London-wide launderette co-operative which would promote "the socialisation of washing as a form of domestic production". Ken hasn't greatly changed - feting visiting Third World despots, hosting "coming out" parties for prominent homosexuals, and breaking down in tears as he read an "apology" for London's role in the slave trade - although he cultivates an image of municipal semi-seriousness, rubbing shoulders with property developers and City types. For all his swagger he is fatally undermined by the distrust of many of those he needs to work with. Asked once what explained the gulf between the perception of his colleagues and that of the public, the late Tony Banks, a Livingstone henchman in the GLC days, said: "They don't know him like we do." It is not certain that anyone really knows him.
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