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Breastfeeding for at least six months might lower the risk of infection of developing so-called "triad negative" breast cancer, an aggressive sort of the disease that is more common in black and younger women, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Cancer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Paulson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/24).
Nearly 50% of black women younger than age 55 wHO are diagnosed with white meat cancer have the three-bagger negative type, compared with 22% of white women. The five-year survival rate for triple negative chest cancer is 15% lower than for other types of the disease, in part because the disease responds ailing to most breast cancer treatments (Kaiser Health Disparities Report, 5/30).
To set what puts women at risk for the triad negative type of white meat cancer, lead researcher Amanda Phipps, a scientist in the public health division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and colleagues studied two groups of women ages 55 to 79. One group was made up of 1,cxl women wHO had several different forms of breast cancer, including the triad negative type, the most common "sodium thiopental" form and another mannequin associated with the HER2 protein. The second grouping was made up of 1,476 women wHO had not been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Researchers took into account the participants' procreative health histories, which would provide indicators of hormone levels over time, such as breastfeeding practices and the onslaught of flow and change of life.
Among other findings, researchers found that breastfeeding for at least six months corresponded with a lour risk of developing the triple-negative signifier of chest cancer and the mutual luminal var.. It is not exactly clear wherefore breastfeeding influenced hormonal cancer risks. Phipps said, "One possible explanation is that while women are breastfeeding, they aren't menstruating and so their hormones aren't cycling," so the yearner women suckle, the less chance their hormones have to develop a cancer. Another theory is that breastfeeding alters the social structure of breast cells in a way that makes them less prone to develop into cancer cells, Phipps aforesaid.
She aforementioned the findings indicate that reproductive behavior "helps explicate why some women ar at higher risk and also why certain therapies are non effective against these more aggressive forms of breast cancer" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/24).
An abstract of the study is available on-line.
Reprinted with kind permit from hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the intact Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or foretoken up for email obstetrical delivery at hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.
Sunday 31 August 2008
Thursday 21 August 2008
Music highlights for Sat., Aug. 16
SATURDAY
Tipitina's turns its yearly "Instruments Have Come" ceremony -- dozens of new instruments are distributed to local school bands -- into a free street party with a "Battle of the High School Marching Bands" featuring St. Augustine, McDonogh 35 and Edna Karr, starting at 6. The party moves inside for the presentation ceremony, followed by a ticketed show with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Rebirth Brass Band.
Also Saturday, a rapping marionette headlines the House of Blues for the low time: Lil' Doogie, the puppet-with-attitude conception of local comic rappers Ballzack and Odoms, graduates from his own democratic guerrilla videos to hosting his "West Bank Field Trip" at the HOB. Baton Rouge rock dance band Barisal Guns celebrates its new "No. 1" CD at The Parish of the House of Blues. Visit keyboardist Marc Adams & the New Orleans AntiSocial Club at the Banks Street Bar. Saturday's free Cutting Edge Conference showcases include Riccardo Crespo and Smoky Greenwell at Cafe Negril; the Bourbon Cowboys, Rebecca Owen, Jenny Brooks, Dirtfoot and The Way-Goners at the Blue Nile; and the Pin Stripe Brass Band and bikers Won Ton Lust at Ray's Boom Boom Room.
Blues guitar player Lil Ray Neal, buddy of Baton Rouge guitarist Kenny Neal, headlines the Howlin' Wolf. Jazz and R&B vocaliser Phillip Manuel leads his quintette at Snug Harbor. Visit Big Sam's Funky Nation at the Mid-City Lanes. Catch the Benjy Davis Project at The Buzz in Hammond. The Zydepunks circus tent the bill at Checkpoint Charlie. John Boutte sings early at d.b.a., followed by Good Enough For Good Times. The Maple Leaf presents Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters. Ruby's Roadhouse in Mandeville goes honky-tonk with Christian Serpas & Ghost Town.
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Monday 11 August 2008
Student Project Address Access To Healthcare For Underserved
�In a journal clause released August 1 students and module at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School discuss the success of a service learning design created and operated by medical students in 2004 to address access to healthcare for New Brunswick's uninsured residents. The Promise Clinic: A Service Learning Approach to Increasing Access to Health Care, reports on the implementation of the Promise Clinic, which provides primary care services to clients of Elijah's Promise, Inc., most of whom are uninsured and lack conventional access to health care.
Elijah's Promise is a community organization that assists people by providing nutritious meals, a broad range of social services, health screenings, and life-skills development. Through the Promise Clinic, and under the direct supervising of volunteer licensed physicians, teams of volunteer medical students service as primary care providers. The patients also receive, at no cost, prescription medications, basic laboratory studies, and vaccinations which are supported by grant financial backing. Student leaders at the clinic ar responsible for recruiting patients, student doctors, and faculty to staff the clinic. They too handle grant writing and budgeting, as well as managing the day-to-day operations.
"We are very proud to have implemented this broadcast," said Manuel Jimenz, pencil lead author of the paper, a 2007 graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a paediatric resident at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
"The collaborative environment of the Promise Clinic allows the students to make a significant contribution to the community by serving those wHO most pauperism access to necessary health care."
The Promise Clinic was structured by the medical students and faculty advisors using a team advance to patient role care, providing opportunities to students in all four years of medical schooling, which enhances clinical preparation and to the highest degree importantly ensures continuity for the patients. With the assistance of students and faculty at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, the team is tracking and reporting patient role outcomes and satisfaction for continued research.
"The students' work at the Promise Clinic, both in its structure and manner of speaking of healthcare to the uninsured, serves as an excellent poser for other communities where access to healthcare is a business," said Alfred Tallia, MD, MPH, professor and chairperson of kin medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
"Ultimately, the continuity of care that is provided to patients is the greatest success of the clinic."
In its conclusion, the report encourages other aesculapian schools to establish interchangeable service learning programs to enhance medical education for students. The report says: "The student-doctor team example provides rich learning opportunities and exposure to continuity of charge for students at all levels of training� Continuity experiences canful provide valuable lessons, including observation of the course and treatment of disease and formation of relationships with patients (rather than complaints or disease). Such long-term interactions can create powerful bonds between a patient and a student."
The clinic uses the facilities of St. John's Family Health Center which is located crossways the street from Elijah's Promise. St. John's is operated by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., and managed by medical director and primary physician Steven Levin, MD, associate professor of family medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty adviser at the Promise Clinic. If a patient of necessity inpatient aid, he/she is admitted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital under the Family Medicine service. Inpatient costs are covered in contribution by Charity Care, the New Jersey Hospital Care Payment Assistance Program. Physician inpatient services are donated by the physicians. The Promise Clinic is funded through the Pfizer/Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Caring for the Community award, the J. Seward Johnson Charitable Trust, as well as generous private donations.
About Robert Wood Johnson Medical School:
As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuance of excellency in education, research, health care rescue, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the part.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Liberty Plaza, 335 George St., Ste. 2300
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
United States
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/rwjms.umdnj.edu
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Elijah's Promise is a community organization that assists people by providing nutritious meals, a broad range of social services, health screenings, and life-skills development. Through the Promise Clinic, and under the direct supervising of volunteer licensed physicians, teams of volunteer medical students service as primary care providers. The patients also receive, at no cost, prescription medications, basic laboratory studies, and vaccinations which are supported by grant financial backing. Student leaders at the clinic ar responsible for recruiting patients, student doctors, and faculty to staff the clinic. They too handle grant writing and budgeting, as well as managing the day-to-day operations.
"We are very proud to have implemented this broadcast," said Manuel Jimenz, pencil lead author of the paper, a 2007 graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a paediatric resident at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
"The collaborative environment of the Promise Clinic allows the students to make a significant contribution to the community by serving those wHO most pauperism access to necessary health care."
The Promise Clinic was structured by the medical students and faculty advisors using a team advance to patient role care, providing opportunities to students in all four years of medical schooling, which enhances clinical preparation and to the highest degree importantly ensures continuity for the patients. With the assistance of students and faculty at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, the team is tracking and reporting patient role outcomes and satisfaction for continued research.
"The students' work at the Promise Clinic, both in its structure and manner of speaking of healthcare to the uninsured, serves as an excellent poser for other communities where access to healthcare is a business," said Alfred Tallia, MD, MPH, professor and chairperson of kin medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
"Ultimately, the continuity of care that is provided to patients is the greatest success of the clinic."
In its conclusion, the report encourages other aesculapian schools to establish interchangeable service learning programs to enhance medical education for students. The report says: "The student-doctor team example provides rich learning opportunities and exposure to continuity of charge for students at all levels of training� Continuity experiences canful provide valuable lessons, including observation of the course and treatment of disease and formation of relationships with patients (rather than complaints or disease). Such long-term interactions can create powerful bonds between a patient and a student."
The clinic uses the facilities of St. John's Family Health Center which is located crossways the street from Elijah's Promise. St. John's is operated by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., and managed by medical director and primary physician Steven Levin, MD, associate professor of family medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty adviser at the Promise Clinic. If a patient of necessity inpatient aid, he/she is admitted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital under the Family Medicine service. Inpatient costs are covered in contribution by Charity Care, the New Jersey Hospital Care Payment Assistance Program. Physician inpatient services are donated by the physicians. The Promise Clinic is funded through the Pfizer/Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Caring for the Community award, the J. Seward Johnson Charitable Trust, as well as generous private donations.
About Robert Wood Johnson Medical School:
As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuance of excellency in education, research, health care rescue, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the part.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Liberty Plaza, 335 George St., Ste. 2300
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
United States
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/rwjms.umdnj.edu
More info
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