| JAQUITTA'S JOURNEY: Read Her Blog
I'm going to make this one short and sweet. I'm sitting at my desk after making my necessary phone calls to set up my upcoming story. It's so good to see my co-workers and fill them in on how I'm feeling, and to find out how they've been doing. I will admit after work yesterday I was pooped!! I had gotten used to taking naps during the day and now I can't. My energy level was pretty good for most of the day. Radiation is still in full swing. I have to have my necessities at all times with me. One, my deodorant. I can't have anything on when I'm having radiation and it has to be all natural when I do apply it after my treatment. Two, my aloe vera to slather on after treatment to keep my skin as healthy as I can until it starts to change and look like I've got a horrible sunburn in the middle of winter.
Durbin a tough test for GOP
Sauerberg, of Willowbrook, has continued to see patients at his LaGrange family practice while campaigning. He calls Durbin a "career politician'' and "one of the most liberal and divisive senators in the nation.'' On health care, Sauerberg would seek to eliminate Medicare; instead, citizens would buy private insurance, with vouchers going to those who can't afford it. "I'd like to see seniors who can afford [insurance] on their own pay a little bit more than seniors who could not afford it,'' he said. He'd also like to create administrative health courts -- which would be overseen by a panel of doctors, lawyers and patient advocates -- to hear medical malpractice claims. He opposes federal funding of stem cell research and sees it as too "divisive'' and instead sees promise in recent research working with skin cells.
Malik has an injury after ‘painful’ defeat
DELHI: Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik got an injury scare on Monday soon after his team lost to India in the opening Test when he twisted his ankle during a training session here at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium. But a team official told media that it's a minor injury and the all-rounder should be fit in time to make the playing eleven for the second Test getting underway in Kolkata from November 30. Malik twisted his ankle while playing football during a training session that was held soon after the conclusion of the opening Test which India won by six wickets. “Malik twisted his ankle and was taken to a local hospital for an MRI scan," team manager Talat Ali Malik said. “Doctors here have examined his scan reports and have advised him a two-day rest. They believe Malik should be fit to play in the second Test," he added.
Spirituality Helps Older Black Women Beat Hypertension
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Spirituality helps older black American women with high blood pressure stick to the drug regimens that keep the condition under control, new research suggests. Older black Americans tend to have poorer anti-hypertensive medication adherence than either younger blacks or white patients, even though adherence helps reduce hypertension-related health problems and deaths, noted a team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. This study included 21 black women, average age 73, who were members of a Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly. The women had been diagnosed with hypertension for an average of 16.7 years, and they were taking an average of 3.3 prescriptions to battle the condition. All the women said they used their spirituality to manage their medication adherence.
Two Federal Public Health Grants Awarded To Weill Cornell Medical ...
Two major federal grants have been awarded to Public Health faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Dr. Kenneth W. Griffin is the recipient of a three-year $1.6 million NIH grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for research into the long-term effects of a school-based drug-abuse prevention program previously delivered to urban minority youth attending New York City middle schools. The study will focus on a sample of approximately 3,500 young adults, ages 21 to 23, who participated in a randomized prevention trial during their early teens. In addition to testing the long-term effects of the prevention program on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among the participants as young adults, the study will test whether the effects generalize to a variety of sexual risk behaviors.
Undiagnosed OSA Patients Have Altered Cardiovascular Responses During ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2008) A new study finds that people with untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have altered cardiovascular responses during recovery from maximal exercise. These results suggest an imbalance in the autonomic control of heart rate during recovery, and may be an early clinical sign of the progression of OSA. .
New Drug Application For Alogliptin (syr-322) In The US Submitted By ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) has announced that Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc. submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for alogliptin (development code: SYR-322), a highly selective dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor under investigation for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Discovered by Takeda San Diego, Inc., alogliptin was designed to selectively inhibit DPP-4 taken orally once daily.
DPP-4 inhibitors are a new class of oral agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, which slow the inactivation of incretin hormones GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) and GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide). The incretins play a major role in regulating blood glucose levels and may have the potential to improve pancreatic beta-cell function.
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.
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