The News Review:
- Irregular Heartbeat Linked To Genetic Mutation, Study Shows
- Drug Treatment Improves Learning in Mice With Down Syndrome Symptoms,…
- Dr. Manny’s Good Health Awards: Celebrities Who Live Healthy Lives
- Murtha Stumbles on Iraq Funding Curbs
- The past 20 years justify another 10
- A groundbreaking deal
Irregular Heartbeat Linked To Genetic Mutation, Study Shows
Science Daily - Science Daily (press release) - Feb 25, 2007
Doctors prescribed medication, but it proved to be ineffective. As a next step, Mayo Clinic physician researchers explored and confirmed the presence of a genetic mutation that clearly established an inherited predisposition to atrial fibrillation. Their study findings appear in the February issue of Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine. "Why certain patients develop atrial fibrillation while others do not, despite comparable environmental stress exposure, might ultimately depend on their genetic makeup," the authors write. Atrial fibrillation is recognized more often in the elderly who have underlying structural heart disease. But in this study, Mayo Clinic researchers address the gene-based form of atrial fibrillation that affects younger people who do not otherwise harbor risk factors for the disease. The case was compared to 2,000 individuals who did not carry the mutation or suffer from atrial fibrillation.
Drug Treatment Improves Learning in Mice With Down Syndrome Symptoms,…
Free with registration - Business Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Feb 25, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire STANFORD, Calif. — A once-a-day, short-term treatment with a drug compound substantially improved learning and memory in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. What’s more, the gains lasted for months after the treatment was discontinued. The researchers are now considering a clinical trial to test whether the compound has a similar effect in humans with Down syndrome. “This treatment has remarkable potential,” said Craig Garner, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of Stanford’s Down Syndrome Research Center. “So many other drugs have been tried that had no effect all… ” The center was created by researchers at Stanford and Packard Children’s in 2003 to rapidly translate research discoveries into useful treatments for people with Down syndrome. The research, which will be published Feb. 25 in the advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, was conducted by Fabian Fernandez, a graduate student in Garner’s laboratory. Fernandez found that affected.
Dr. Manny’s Good Health Awards: Celebrities Who Live Healthy Lives
FOX News - Feb 25, 2007
Buying organic foods is one way to eliminate the additives in processed foods, genetically-modified ingredients and insecticides, from your diet. Take it one step further, and you’ve got a raw foods diet. Heating food causes the natural enzymes in food to break down, so the goal of the raw foods movement, according to its advocates, is to preserve the enzymes in food by eating only foods that have not been heated above a certain temperature–typically, 118 degrees. Food rich in enzymes is not only healthier, say raw foods advocates, it is also more easily digested and will help you feel more energetic and even look younger. Raw foodists consume fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and nuts, though some also add fish, meat and dairy products. There are concerns that individuals might not get all the nutrients they need from a diet that eliminates meats, fish, dairy, and processed foods, but having people think about the health benefits of foods in their more natural states might have more people making healthier choices with their cooked foods… com, and is a regular medical contributor on the FOX News Channel. He is chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. Additionally, Alvarez is Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
Murtha Stumbles on Iraq Funding Curbs
Washington Post - Feb 25, 2007
In the words of our best military commanders, our military is close to being *broken*. Bush proposes to surge more troops as our closest alley withdraws from the battle field and has the gaul to masquerade that retreat as a sign of success in Iraq. The 3,100 dead soldiers mask the depth of cruelty suffered by our soldiers because of the great advances in battle field medicine that allow many of them to live with multiple amputations and psychological damage that is uncalcuable while Walter Reed hospital houses them as out patients in deplorable conditions while pretending to treat them. Bush has instituted a defacto draft by forcing Reserve and Guard soldiers to deploy repeatedly for historically unconcionable lenght tours of duty with minimal turn arround times. Murtha is now being denounced for wanting to attach conditions of reason and sanity to the funding of our troops and he didnt do it diplomatically enough. Did I miss something?Dear God, maybe this country does deserve George Bush. Its time for Congress to find a spine and put a stop to this insanity.
The past 20 years justify another 10
St. Petersburg Times - Feb 25, 2007
What they were willing to do, in both 1989 and 1997, was approve 10-year levies of a sales surtax. The tax adds 1 cent to the state's 6 cent sales tax. That extra penny on a dollar is charged only on the first $5,000 of a purchase, and essentials like food and medicine are not taxed. The tax, which is divided among the cities and county, raised more than $800-million its first 10 years, $1. 3-billion the second 10, and is forecast to raise $1. 9-billion if extended another decade. That is a lot of money, but it has been put to good purpose and wisely spent… 9-billion if extended another decade. That is a lot of money, but it has been put to good purpose and wisely spent. The parks, libraries, nature preserves and recreational facilities the tax has helped build are wonderful amenities. But much of the penny revenue has gone for essentials such as roads, bridges, fire stations, jail expansions and flood control projects. That essential work never stops, and the cost of such projects is skyrocketing. One of the best reasons to vote "yes" on March 13 is that everyone who buys something in Pinellas County pays the tax. Not just property owners, but also renters, vacationers and day visitors pay into the penny pool.
A groundbreaking deal
Pakistan Dawn - Feb 25, 2007
In consequence, it may not be constitutionally permissible to go for the election of the president from the present assemblies. Does it look like an anomaly? Yes. But this is in the nature of such things. We have seen that Article 41 (3), as substituted in 1985, altered the presidential electoral college from the two Houses of parliament to one that also came to embrace the provincial assemblies. However, Article 41 (4) & (5), somehow, remained unaltered providing that in cases where the presidential election fell at a time the National Assembly stood dissolved,
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