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Study to Explore Ethical Challenges Health Professionals Face While Caring For Children Affected by Neuromuscular ...

Published January 7, 2009, 7:29 pm, Newswise

The Greenwall Foundation recently awarded two core faculty members of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics a grant that will allow Drs. Gail Geller and Cynda Hylton Rushton to explore the ethical challenges health professionals face while caring for children and families affected by life-threatening neuromuscular diseases (LTNMD).

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Karen Russo, Sac Union Columnist

Published January 7, 2009, 7:28 pm, The Sacramento Union

Day 12 of the Chanukah War, and I think we’re all wearing out….. The Beersheba rocket alarm sirens continue to malfunction. Yesterday we heard one siren – and now we’re told that was a false alarm. On the other hand, two rockets hit when the siren didn’t activate. Go figure.

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South Austin blaze displaces residents

Published January 7, 2009, 7:12 pm, KXAN 36 Austin

Firefighter arrive to a fully engulfed apartment building. At least 20 rooms burned.

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New Bracelet Helps With Weight-Loss

Published January 7, 2009, 7:07 pm, KOLN Lincoln

Staff at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Medical Center are marketing a weight-loss plan that uses color-coded bracelets to monitor food intake.

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Evidence Mounts that Vitamin E Does Not Stop Prostate Cancer, Nor Does Selenium, Vitamin C

Published January 7, 2009, 7:04 pm, Senior Journal

Jan. 7, 2009 - In perhaps the largest cancer chemoprevention trial ever conducted, researchers have found that supplementation with vitamin E or selenium, alone or in combination, was not associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer or other cancers.

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State rep: give this area a trauma center

Published January 7, 2009, 7:00 pm, Baytown Sun

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the University of Texas Medical Branch shut down its Level 1 trauma center, leaving the Houston metro area with only two such centers when health officials claimed the area should have four.

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How to get healthcare after job loss

Published January 7, 2009, 7:00 pm, UPI

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- In the U.S. economic slowdown, many people have lost their jobs and their health insurance, but an expert says healthcare is available.

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UTMB Officials Testify Before Committee About Ike Damage

Published January 7, 2009, 6:57 pm, FOX 26 Houston

The future of University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston after Hurricane Ike may hinge on hundreds of millions of dollars from the state legislature.

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NY man demands former wife pay him for kidney

Published January 7, 2009, 6:56 pm, GMA News

GARDEN CITY, New York – A New York doctor is demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her while they were still on good terms. Dr. Richard Batista spoke Wednesday to reporters at his lawyer's office in Garden City, Long Island.

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Calendar of Events

Published January 7, 2009, 6:56 pm, The Saline Reporter

A benefit dinner to help the late Joe Mistopoulous' family will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. at Christ Our King Lutheran Church, 3255 Waterworks Road, in Saline. Mistopoulous died Dec. 18 after a 15-month battle with brain cancer.

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