| Cancer victim helps prescribe spiritual Rx for patients at local ...
Right before Christmas, a woman sat quietly in a sterile medical office in Riverside, Calif. as she listened to the results of recent tests. Her Kaiser doctor explained the options she had—to live or die. Lynn Koch, who was diagnosed with breast cancer Dec. 6, had the biopsy two days later and before she got dressed they asked when she wanted to schedule surgery. "It all went so fast," she said. "But I had no fear." Since then she has been cleared of cancer and has started a yearlong treatment of chemotherapy to keep the cancer from recurring. She credits a prescription she was given from a man in Tennessee with the results of her quick healing and "fear-free" existence, knowing many women die as a result of this disease every year.
Fed rate is cut 0.25%
At the heart of today's economic problems is a severe housing slump, and the packaging of shaky mortgages into bonds of dubious value. Banks holding those suspect notes fear that they'll have to write down their asset values, and rather than take on more risks with new loans, some are hoarding their cash reserves.
That has spawned mounting concerns that credit markets, where banks make short-term loans to corporations for financing day-to-day operations, may cease functioning.
That's why some economists want the Fed to slash the discount rate more aggressively. The rate at the Fed's discount window is more expensive than in private markets, thereby earning the federal government a premium when banks borrow.
But if the Fed were to lower that discount rate, perhaps even below the federal funds rate, it would remove the stigma of borrowing from the government, spur borrowing and enliven credit markets.
Life After Mastectomy: Adjusting to Reconstruction
As soon as my doctor recommended a bilateral mastectomy after diagnosing me with breast cancer, she quickly followed with a discussion about reconstruction, as if to soften the blow. Somewhere in the back of my mind, the idea of being rebuilt at age 40 seemed like the first potentially positive trade-off to the whole ordeal. Still, it turned out that deciding how to reconstruct was as difficult a decision as deciding whether to reconstruct. There are a number of options: saline and silicone implants, using tissue and muscle from the stomach or other areas of the body, or combination of methods. .
Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
Large Percentage of HIV-Positive Women in Arab Countries Contracted Virus From Their Husbands, UNDP Regional Coordinator Says U.N. Agencies Launch Manual To Teach AIDS Orphans in Africa Farming Skills Election 2008 Huckabee Says He Is Willing To Meet With Family of Ryan White [Dec 12, 2007] Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday said that he is "very willing" to meet with the mother of Ryan White, the Los Angeles Times reports (Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 12/12). The Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Institute on Tuesday sent a letter to Huckabee asking him to meet with White's mother to discuss comments he made in 1992 about people living with HIV/AIDS. Huckabee -- who made the statements in an Associated Press survey while running for Senate in 1992 -- wrote that in order for the federal government to effectively address the spread of HIV, "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague." He added in the survey, "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents." Huckabee in the survey also said that HIV/AIDS research was receiving too much federal funding.
Local model makes a like rocking stone with jewelry line
But SoFla resident Lee Dahlberg put it all on the line to launch his jewelry design company, Rock Bands.
The risk paid off. Tabloid temptress Britney Spears wore his signature bracelets on the covers of People and Us Weekly magazines and inside OK magazine this month alone.
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On an annual basis, experts must provide EBSCO Publishing with an updated copy of their professional credentials or licensure. EBSCO Publishing agrees that it will not edit the experts' advice in a manner that causally changes its original meaning; will not require an expert to promote a product, device, or service; and will not ask experts to provide advice for information that is outside their area of professional expertise. Robert C. Algar, MD received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He performed his residency at Cornell Medical Center serving New York Hospital and Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. In addition, he completed fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology. Dr. Algar is currently practicing as a board certified Neurologist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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