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Dominican University professor explores links to breast cancer

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Dominican University of California associate professor Dr. Maggie Louie.

There will be no summer vacation for Dr. Maggie Louie, an associate professor of biochemistry at Dominican University in San Rafael.

Louie and her two student assistants are working through the summer, continuing their research into the role that the heavy metal cadmium plays in the incidence of breast cancer. She and her team have received more than $450,000 in grants from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to fund their work.

In April, Louie released research results that show cancer cells become increasingly aggressive the longer they are exposed to small concentrations of cadmium, commonly found in cosmetics, food, water and air particles. While other studies had previously shown links between acute cadmium exposure and breast cancer, Louie's study is one of only a few to link chronic cadmium exposure to the disease.

Now, Louie says she is investigating further to understand the biochemical process involved, and she believes she has found a protein that plays a key role.

"We've identified a potential player, which is stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1)," Louie said, "and we're trying to figure out how this small protein is being regulated by cadmium and what its role is in terms of increasing the cancer's ability to metastasize."

Louie said, "Unfortunately, cadmium is all around us. Cadmium is in our food, our water, our makeup, and our air."

Cadmium is produced mainly as a byproduct

Louie said many people believe there is nothing to worry about because the levels of exposure are so low. She, however, has her doubts.

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Sara Ramirez of 'Grey's Anatomy' weds longtime boyfriend

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Sara Ramirez, who plays Callie Torres on "Grey's Anatomy," married her longtime boyfriend Ryan Debolt, the actress' spokesperson confirmed to OnTheRedCarpet.com on July 9.

"On July 4th 2012, after a year long engagement, Sara Ramirez and Ryan Debolt were married in an intimate ceremony in New York," the actress' rep Nancy Seltzer told OnTheRedCarpet.com.

The private wedding was attended by close family and friends. This is the first marriage for the 36-year-old actress.

The actress' rep told OnTheRedCarpet.com of the couple's engagement last June. Ramirez and Debolt got engaged in Paris on June 17, 2011.

Ramirez's "Grey's Anatomy" character got married to her girlfriend Arizona Robbins on the hit show's seventh season.

Ramirez won a "Best Featured Actress in a Musical" Tony in 2005 for her portrayal of the original Lady of the Lake in the Broadway production of "Spamalot."

Ramirez, who has starred in "Grey's Anatomy" since 2006, has released two albums, "Silent Night" in 2009 and "Sara Ramirez" on iTunes in March 2011.

(Copyright 2012 OnTheRedCarpet.com. All Rights Reserved.)

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Research and Markets: Nanotechnology Cookbook. Practical, Reliable and Jargon-free Experimental Procedures

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ctsvt2/nanotechnology_coo) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new report "Nanotechnology Cookbook. Practical, Reliable and Jargon-free Experimental Procedures" to their offering.

The peculiarities of materials at the nanoscale demand an interdisciplinary approach which can be difficult for students and researchers who are trained predominantly in a single field. A chemist might not have experience at working with cell cultures or a physicist may have no idea how to make the gold colloid they need for calibrating an atomic force microscope. The interdisciplinary approach of the book will help you to quickly synthesize information from multiple perspectives.

Nanoscience research is also characterized by rapid movement within disciplines. The amount of time it takes wading through papers and chasing down academics is frustrating and wasteful and our reviewers seem to suggest this work would give an excellent starting point for their work. The current source of published data is either in journal articles, which requires highly advanced knowledge of background information, or books on the subject, which can skim over the essential details of preparations. Having a cookbook to hand to flick through and from which you may select a preparation acts as a good source of contact both to researchers and those who supervise them alike.

This book therefore supports fundamental nanoscience experimentation. It is by intention much more user-friendly than traditional published works, which too-frequently assumes state of the art knowledge. Moreover you can pick up this book and find a synthesis to suit your needs without digging through specialist papers or tracking someone down who eventually may or may not be able to help. Once you have used the recipe the book would then act as a reference guide for how to analyze these materials and what to look out for.

- 100+ detailed recipes for synthesis of basic nanostructured materials, enables readers to pick up the book and get started on a preparation immediately.

- High fidelity images show how preparations should look rather than vague schematics or verbal descriptions.

- Sequential and user-friendly by design, so the reader won't get lost in overly detailed theory or miss out a step from ignorance.

- A cookbook, by design and structure the work is easy to use, familiar and compact.

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Newton rower Gevvie Stone on her way to London Olympics

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Gevvie Stone has promised herself that the next phase of her life begins on Aug. 27 when she returns to Tufts Medical School for her third-year residency.

That gives her about six more weeks to immerse herself in the dream of nearly every young athlete in America as the Newton rower represents the United States in the 2012 London Summer Games.

For the past decade, Stone has done her best to alternate between the two spectacular parts of her life. She won an NCAA championship while a student at Princeton University and then moved back to the Boston area to begin medical school while she trained daily on the Charles River.

It was a workload and time-management puzzle that would have crushed many a twenty-something who lacked the focus and discipline of someone like Stone. But it was one she felt she managed well in all but a few of the most extreme cases.

The one time that was really tricky was the spring of my second year when I was studying for board exams, she said. At the same time, I had won the National Selection Regatta, so I was already defined as the U.S. single scull for the World Cup. So I felt more pressure on myself to train more seriously because I wanted to perform at the World Cup, while at the same time I was supposed to be spending 12 hours a day in the library studying for my board exams.

That was the only time where I was full-time training and full-time studying, and I was probably not at 100 percent for either. I probably didnt get anywhere near enough sleep.

Once Stone got through her boards June 15, 2010, she remembers - she knew the better part of the next two years would be dedicated to rowing as she attempted to follow in the footsteps of her mother, Lisa, who rowed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and her father and coach, Gregg, who was likely headed to the 1980 Moscow Games until the U.S. boycott.

It was tremendous challenge of training on the water and in the weight room that saw its share of achievements and its share of setbacks. It all came down this spring when she competed in the single sculls at the 2012 Non-Qualified Small Boat Olympic Trials and won. That earned her a spot at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta where she would need to finish top four to make the Olympic team in the only window of opportunity her school and impending medical career would likely allow.

She finished third. She was going to London.

She was fulfilling that dream she said every little girl athlete has at one moment of her life.

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Construction begins on QU med school

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NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Construction is underway on the state's third medical school at Quinnipiac University in North Haven.

While the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University doesn't look like much now, much like its namesake, a renowned medical illustrator, school officials view it as a palette for change.

"We will train medical students with nursing students, physician assistant students because healthcare more and more is a team activity," said Dr. Bruce Koeppen, Dean, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine.

And more and more in need of primary care doctors.

"If you look at the needs of CT and in fact, the country, there is a physician shortage in general," said Koeppen, "but a severe shortage for primary care physicians."

That's where the medical school, which will be the third medical school in the state, sees its role in the future of healthcare. Its focus will be on training medical students to enter the primary care field.

"Right now if you look at the national statistics about 15 percent of current medical students are planning a career in primary care," said Koeppen. "We hope that 50 percent or more of our graduates will go into primary care."

Studies in the medical field indicate lower salaries and less control over work hours in primary care practice play a role in steering med students to specialized fields.

Yet, Koeppen says there is no better time to grow the field of primary care than now, especially since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, which supports more preventative health care.

"Absolutely, you've got the uninsured who will have insurance," Koeppen said. "Estimates are 30 plus million. You also have the baby boomers that are entering the Medicare system and there you've got 80 million plus, so there will be a huge influx of patients into the health care system."

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A deeper look into the pathogen responsible for crown gall disease in plants

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Contact: Angela Hopp ahopp@asbmb.org 240-283-6614 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Next week's Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" by Wai Mun Huang and colleagues at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and the University of Minnesota reveals new insights into the molecular properties of the rod-shaped soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the pathogen responsible for crown gall disease, a tumor-forming infection in plants, such as tomatoes, walnuts, grapes and beets.

The bacterium is parasitic: It infects its plant host by entering through an open wound, inserts a small segment of its genetic code into the plant's genome, devours energy made by the plant, and forms knobby brown lesions on the plant stem.

Huang's group focused on the pathogen's genetic material. Most bacteria have circular chromosomes. But A. tumefaciens C58, the strain studied by Huang's group, contains one circular chromosome and one linear chromosome (along with two circular plasmids). Huang's research illuminates how this bacterium maintains its linear chromosome.

Huang's team ascertained the DNA sequence for the telomeres, or the protective end caps, of the linear chromosome in A. tumefaciens C58 and confirmed that an enzyme, TelA, actually forms them by making hairpin loops. These end caps are important for maintaining the stability of linear chromosomes. Interestingly, TelA also binds the telomeres. This activity is unique among bacterial enzymes of this kind and may protect the telomeres (which degrade over time and thus lose their ability to preserve DNA), as telomere binding proteins do in eukaryotes.

"Hairpin-ended linear chromosomes and plasmids are found in a number of branches of bacteria and viruses," Huang says. "They are simple and elegant to form and to maintain." But what remains to be understood is why this linear configuration is not more common or even the preferred configuration for bacteria, Huang emphasizes.

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From the article: "Linear chromosome generating system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58: Protelomerase generates and protects hairpin ends" by Wai Mun Huang, Jeanne DaGloria, Heather Fox, Qiurong Ruan, John Tillou, Ke Shi, Hideki Aihara, John Aron, and Sherwood Casjens

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Dominican University professor explores links to breast cancer

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Dominican University of California associate professor Dr. Maggie Louie.

There will be no summer vacation for Dr. Maggie Louie, an associate professor of biochemistry at Dominican University in San Rafael.

Louie and her two student assistants are working through the summer, continuing their research into the role that the heavy metal cadmium plays in the incidence of breast cancer. She and her team have received more than $450,000 in grants from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to fund their work.

In April, Louie released research results that show cancer cells become increasingly aggressive the longer they are exposed to small concentrations of cadmium, commonly found in cosmetics, food, water and air particles. While other studies had previously shown links between acute cadmium exposure and breast cancer, Louie's study is one of only a few to link chronic cadmium exposure to the disease.

Now, Louie says she is investigating further to understand the biochemical process involved, and she believes she has found a protein that plays a key role.

"We've identified a potential player, which is stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1)," Louie said, "and we're trying to figure out how this small protein is being regulated by cadmium and what its role is in terms of increasing the cancer's ability to metastasize."

Louie said, "Unfortunately, cadmium is all around us. Cadmium is in our food, our water, our makeup, and our air."

Cadmium is produced mainly as a byproduct

Louie said many people believe there is nothing to worry about because the levels of exposure are so low. She, however, has her doubts.

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Research and Markets: Mexico Neurology Devices Market Outlook to 2018 – Interventional Neurology, Neurological …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/75qphh/mexico_neurology_d) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Mexico Neurology Devices Market Outlook to 2018 - Interventional Neurology, Neurological Diagnostic Equipment, Neurostimulation Devices and Others" to their offering.

GlobalData's new report, Mexico Neurology Devices Market Outlook to 2018 - Interventional Neurology, Neurological Diagnostic Equipment, Neurostimulation Devices and Others provides key market data on the Mexico Neurology Devices market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment within six market categories - CSF Management, Interventional Neurology, Neurological Diagnostic Equipment, Neurostimulation Devices, Neurosurgical Products and Radiosurgery. The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories. The report is supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants with information on company financials and pipeline products, wherever available.

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- Market size and company share data for Neurology Devices market categories - CSF Management, Interventional Neurology, Neurological Diagnostic Equipment, Neurostimulation Devices, Neurosurgical Products and Radiosurgery.

- Annualized market revenues (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each of the segments and sub-segments within six market categories. Data from 2004 to 2011, forecast forward for 7 years to 2018.

- 2011 company shares and distribution shares data for each of the six market categories.

- Global corporate-level profiles of key companies operating within the Mexico Neurology Devices market.

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- Medtronic, Inc.

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New Breakthroughs Propel the Field of Green Chemistry

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In late June, the American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonprofit organization chartered by Congress, held its 16th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference, which was sponsored by the American Chemical Societys Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI), had a theme this year of Innovation, Jobs, Sustainability The Role of Green Chemistry. A number of noteworthy new green chemistry processes were presented at the event.

Textile manufacturing involves some of the worlds most resource-wasting processes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it takes about 2,900 gallons of water to produce a single pair of jeans. Most of this water is used in whats known as wet processing, as well as in the dyeing of fabric.

Specialty chemicals company Clariant may soon change that. It has debuted a new process called Advanced Denim, which it says can produce a pair of jeans using up to 92 percent less water and up to 30 percent less energy than conventional methods. The process also generates up to 87 percent less cotton waste (which is often burned) and virtually no waste water, according to Miguel Sanchez, a textile engineer at Clariant.

While traditional denim production requires up to 15 dyeing vats that contain a cocktail of chemicals, Clariants process uses a single vat of liquid sulfur dyes that require only a single, sugar-based reducing agent, says Sanchez. The reducing agent, sodium hydrosulfite, is a much greener alternative to traditional reducing agents.

The result is a more eco-friendly process that cuts out most of the waste from traditional jean production. Sanchez says that if even one-quarter of the jeans produced in the world were made via the Advanced Denim process, enough water about 2.5 billion gallons would be saved to cover the needs of 1.7 million people each year. It would also prevent the release of 8.3 million cubic meters of wastewater each year and save up to 220 million kilowatt hours of electricity. At the same time, it would cut down carbon dioxide emissions significantly.

The jeans produced via Advanced Denim look similar to other commercially produced jeans, or even better, Sanchez says. Clariant claims that the process can produce looks and effects not possible today with current technologies.

One thing the world has a lot of today is algae. One thing its getting short on is fuel. For years, scientists have been searching for ways to make fuel out of algae, and many have succeeded at least in the lab. Its an economical process that, thus far, has eluded most researchers.

At the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, a team of researchers from Yale University presented a breakthrough toward a long-sought viable process, which turns algae into biodiesel.

The new process extracts from algae fatty molecules called lipids and transforms them into usable fuel in a single process. It would make biodiesel from algae much cheaper, faster and greener than current multistep methods that require separate stages and chemicals. The reaction involves supercritical carbon dioxide, which at elevated pressures and temperatures fills its container like a gas but is as dense as a liquid, according to the researchers.

Algae has great promise as a next-generation biofuel, a fuel that is sustainable and renewable, says research team leader Julie Zimmerman,

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Article: Grey’s Anatomy Star Sara Ramirez Weds

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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Caption Sara Ramirez attends Greys Anatomy: The Songs Beneath The Show after party hosted by Remy Martin VSOP, Los Angeles, on March 18, 2012Greys Anatomy star Sara Ramirez has gotten hitched.

On July 4, 2012, after a yearlong engagement, Sara Ramirez and Ryan Debolt were married in an intimate ceremony in New York. The private event was attended by close family and friends, a rep for the actress told E! News.

Sara, who plays Dr. Callie Torres on Greys, first confirmed news of her engagement in June 2011.

Ryan, Saras longtime love, first popped the question while the couple was in Paris, France that same month.

A rep for Sara did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Access Hollywood about the wedding news.

Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Spaceflight may extend the lifespan of microscopic worm

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The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss of bone and muscle mass experienced by astronauts after extended flights in space. The results of this research have been published, July 5 2012, in the online journal Scientific Reports.

Dr Nathaniel Szewczyk, from The University of Nottingham, was part of the ICE-FIRST project which involved scientists from Japan, France, the US, and Canada. They discovered that spaceflight suppressed accumulation of toxic proteins that normally accumulate within aging muscle. They also discovered a group of genes that are expressed at lower levels during spaceflight. When the expression of these same genes were lowered in worms back on Earth the worms lived longer.

Dr Szewczyk, an expert in muscle metabolism, said: "We identified seven genes, which were down-regulated in space and whose inactivation extended lifespan under laboratory conditions."

How do these genes play a role in longevity control? "We are not entirely certain, but it would appear that these genes are involved in how the worm senses the environment and signals changes in metabolism in order to adapt to the environment.

"For example, one of the genes we have identified encodes insulin which, because of diabetes, is well known to be associated with metabolic control. In worms, flies, and mice insulin is also associated with modulation of lifespan."

What could this mean for space travellers? "Well, most of us know that muscle tends to shrink in space. These latest results suggest that this is almost certainly an adaptive response rather than a pathological one. Counter-intuitively, muscle in space may age better than on Earth. It may also be that spaceflight slows the process of aging."

Dr Szewczyk's role was to provide expertise in the culturing of worms in CeMM - a special liquid food for worms. Dr Szewczyk transported the samples to and from the Russian launch site and ran a series of 'health' checks to ensure that the tiny astronauts were fit for flying. On their return he helped with the analysis of the data.

Nottingham's space biology lab Dr Szewczyk studies the signals that control muscle protein degradation in the human body. C. elegans is the perfect substitute for studying long-term changes in human physiology because they suffer from muscle atrophy - muscle loss - under many of the same conditions that people do.

C. elegans was the first multi-cellular organism to have its genetic structure completely mapped and many of its 20,000 genes perform the same functions as those in humans. Two thousand of these genes have a role in promoting muscle function and 50 to 60 per cent of these have very obvious human counterparts.

When the research began Dr Szewczyk was working at NASA. He is now based at The University of Nottingham's MRC and Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research. He is one of the leading scientists studying 'worms in space' and his lab is currently the most productive 'space biology' lab in the UK.

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Do people want to know if they are at risk for Alzheimer’s disease?

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Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, July 9, 2012Genetic tests exist to identify risk for the rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to predict susceptibility to the more common, late-onset form of AD, but do people want to know, and how do they react? The answers can be found in the article published in Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available free on the Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers website.

"This article addresses a major disease of tremendous impact on increasing numbers of people and documents the large psychological component that physicians and genetic counselors must be ready to address." says Kenneth I. Berns, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, and Director of the University of Florida's Genetics Institute, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL.

In the article "To Know or Not to Know: An Update of the Literature on the Psychological and Behavioral Impact of Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease Risk," B. Rahman and a team of researchers from Australia review the latest studies on whether people at risk for early-onset familial AD want to know their genetic profile and actually undertake testing, and how they tend to respond to the results. They also evaluate the attitudes of the general population and people with a family history of late-onset AD toward testing for disease risk factors and what motivates them to undergo genetic testing.

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About the Journal

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published 10 times per year in print and online that reports on all aspects of genetic testing, including molecular and biochemical based tests and varied clinical situations; ethical, legal, social, and economic aspects of genetic testing; and issues concerning effective genetic counseling. Tables of contents and a free sample issue may be viewed on the Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers website.

About the Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Human Gene Therapy and OMICS. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc..

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New CDC study on racial disparities in infant mortality published in Journal of Women’s Health

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New Rochelle, NY, July 10, 2012Improving access to health care for minority women of childbearing age could improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce racial differences in infant mortality, according to an article in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.

Infant mortality rates for non-Hispanic blacks and other minorities are much higher than for non-Hispanic whites. Better preconception heath care for women is a promising strategy for reducing racial disparities in reproductive health outcomes. This may include reducing behavioral risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and excessive drinking. It could also involve greater access to preventive care and preconception and reproductive counseling.

The article "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preconception Risk Factors and Preconception Care" by Clark Denny, PhD and colleagues, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA), estimated the prevalence of five risk factors for negative pregnancy outcomes in more than 54,600 women ages 18-44 years. They found that more than half of the women had at least one risk factor and nearly 20% of women had two or more risk factors.

An accompanying Editorial, "Forthcoming Changes in Healthcare Financing and Delivery Offer Opportunities for Reducing Racial Disparities in Risks to Reproductive Health" by Anne Dunlop, MD, MPH and Darcie Everett, MD, MPH, Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA), highlights changes in health care policy, financing, and delivery that will expand coverage, emphasize prevention, and improve access to preconception and reproductive health care for lower-income Americans.

"Clearly, there is a need for better preconception health care, particularly among high-risk groups, in order to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce racial disparities," says Editor-In-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the Academy of Women's Health.

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DNA evidence gets man new trial

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AKRON, Ohio - After 17 years in prison for murder, Dewey Jones will get a new trial in Summit County.

Jones motion for a new trial was granted by the Summit County Common Pleas Court Tuesday based on new DNA evidence.

Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands wrote in her decision that the absence of Jones and another suspect Gary Rusus DNA on newly tested evidence calls into question the States entire theory of the case.

Jones, 50, was convicted in 1995 for the 1993 murder of Neal Rankin, a 71-year-old Goodyear retiree, who was discovered shot inside his home on Valentine's Day in Akron's Chapel Hill area.

The DNA Diagnostics Center of Fairfield conducted the DNA tests. They showed DNA taken from a rope used to tie Rankin's wrists and a knife found at the scene do not match Jones.

Rowlands said that evidence also undermines the testimony of State witness Willie Caton that Jones and Rusu went to Rankins house to rob the man and Jones shot him.

This newly discovered evidence calls into question the credibility and reliability of Mr. Catons testimony, and combined with the absence of any DNA supporting his testimony, requires this Court to grant the motion for a new trial, Rowlands wrote.

The Court denied the defenses argument of prosecutorial misconduct as grounds for the new trial.

Joness daughter Ashley told NewsChannel5s Bob Jones in May that her father believes hes innocent.

In one of his letters to his daughter, Jones wrote, "I've always knew God was going to bring out the truth. I just never thought it would take as long as it has been. I'm looking forward to the day the truth comes out and they set me free and I can see all my children."

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DNA linked to two Santa Fe murders

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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - Police say they have a DNA hit that links two murders just a few blocks apart.

Police have always suspected two Santa Fe killings were connected because one victim was a homeowner who walked in on burglars in his house.

Santa Fe police believe David Martinez ran with a group of burglars while he was alive. He or someone in that group killed a man who walked in on them as they were stealing from him.

That was in February when Ethaan Boyer, 34, who was a community volunteer and owned a graphic design company, was killed inside his Santa Fe home after coming home from work.

Police have not made an arrest in that murder.

A couple of weeks later David Martinez was shot and killed just a few blocks away, the body was dumped in a neighboring park..

His brother, Felix Martinez, admitted to shooting him at their home with the help of a man police considers another serial burglar, Sam Leyba.

They have been in jail since the shooting.

Santa Fe police have been trying to link the two murders since March to solve Boyer's case.

Detectives sifted through garbage at the Martinez home and the landfill looking for evidence.

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DNA evidence helps police find suspect in 2009 break-in, truck theft

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LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (WEAU) A suspect in a break-in two years ago is now charged in the case, and officers say DNA evidence is what led them to the suspect.

Curtis Brown, 25, of Lyndon Station is charged in Chippewa County with Burglary and several other counts. Hes scheduled to appear in court later this month.

Lake Hallie Police initially responded to Randys Holiday Towing on 115th Avenue in Lake Hallie on November 13, 2009. They say someone had forced their way in through the front door, and stole an employees pickup truck. The suspect drove it through the overhead garage door. Eau Claire Police found the truck that day, and a Lake Hallie officer collected DNA evidence by swabbing the interior of the truck. An unidentified mans DNA was found in the truck.

Brown, who was on probation in Sauk County, was reported to Lake Hallie Police as a matching person to the DNA evidence in March 2012. Officers interviewed him and collected his DNA. Brown admitted to police that he forced the door open and stole the truck. Police say the owner of the business doesnt know Brown. He also didnt know who owned the vehicle which was stolen.

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DNA tests win man new trial

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By Mike Wagner

The Columbus Dispatch Monday July 9, 2012 11:30 PM

Dewey Jones quest to prove that he isnt a murderer took another step forward today when a judge overturned his felony conviction and granted a new trial for the Akron man, who has served 17 years of a life sentence.

The ruling by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands follows the release in April of new test results showing that DNA recovered from an Akron murder scene didnt come from Jones.

Jones, 50, was convicted in March 1995 of robbing and killing 71-year-old Neal Rankin, a family friend. Jones previously had been convicted of drug trafficking and passing bad checks, but he has always maintained his innocence in Rankins murder.

Ive done some things Im not proud of in life and made some bad choices, Jones told The Dispatch at the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield last year. But Ive not hurt or killed anyone.

The lab tests, conducted by DNA Diagnostics Center of Fairfield in southwestern Ohio, found a partial male DNA profile on the piece of rope used to tie Rankins wrists, the knife used to cut the rope, and pieces of Rankins shirt sleeves. None of it matched Jones when compared with his DNA. The testing also found no DNA that matched Gary Rusu, whom the states lead witness testified was in Rankins home on the night of the murder, Feb. 13, 1993.

Rowlands, in her two-page ruling, said the lack of DNA evidence is significant.

The absence of both Mr. Jones and Mr. Rusus DNA on the new tested evidence calls into question the States entire theory of the case, Rowlands wrote.

Carrie Wood, Jones Innocence Project attorney from Cincinnati, said she will now be seeking Jones release from prison.

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DNA tests lead to new trial for man serving life term

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By Mike Wagner

The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday July 10, 2012 7:26 AM

Dewey Jones quest to prove that he isnt a murderer took another step forward yesterday when a judge overturned his felony conviction and granted a new trial for the Akron man, who has served 17 years of a life sentence.

The ruling by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands follows the release in April of new test results showing that DNA recovered from an Akron murder scene didnt come from Jones.

Jones, 50, was convicted in March 1995 of robbing and killing 71-year-old Neal Rankin, a family friend. Jones previously had been convicted of drug trafficking and passing bad checks, but he has always maintained his innocence in Rankins murder.

Ive done some things Im not proud of in life and made some bad choices, Jones told The Dispatch last year at the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield last year. But Ive not hurt or killed anyone.

The lab tests, conducted by DNA Diagnostics Center of Fairfield in southwestern Ohio, found a partial male DNA profile on the piece of rope used to tie Rankins wrists, the knife used to cut the rope, and pieces of Rankins shirt sleeves. None of it matched Jones when compared with his DNA.

The testing also found no DNA that matched Gary Rusu, whom the states lead witness testified was in Rankins home on the night of the murder, Feb. 13, 1993.

Rowlands, in her two-page ruling, said the lack of DNA evidence is significant.

The absence of both Mr. Jones and Mr. Rusus DNA on the new tested evidence calls into question the States entire theory of the case, Rowlands wrote. Carrie Wood, Jones Innocence Project attorney from Cincinnati, said she will now be seeking Jones release from prison.

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Dr. Jue Brings Store-A-Tooth Dental Stem Cell Therapy Service to Sugarland

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Sugarland cosmetic dentist Dr. Jue from A Beautiful Smile at Lake Pointe becomes the first provider of dental stem cell therapy in Fort Bend County through Store-A-Tooth.Sugarland, TEXAS (PRWEB) July 10, 2012 Sugarland cosmetic dentist Dr. Lance Jue from A Beautiful Smile at Lake Pointe has become the first provider of dental stem cell therapy in Fort Bend County.Dental stem cell therapy saves ...

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Bibiyahe sa Germany kasama si Ruffa, Annabelle magpapakondisyon sa kampanya kaya magpapa-stem cell therapy

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Tuloy na ang stem cell therapy ni Annabelle Rama dahil naka-schedule na siyang pumunta sa Germany sa first week ng September.

Kasama ni Annabelle sa Germany trip ang kanyang anak na si Ruffa Gutierrez. Hindi ako sure kung may plano rin si Ruffa na magpa-stem cell therapy dahil walang age limit ang procedure na pinag-uusapan na ngayon sa apat na sulok ng showbiz.

Tinutukso si Annabelle Rama na may kinalaman sa kanyang pagkandidato sa Cebu ang desisyon niya na sumailalim sa stem cell therapy.

Tumawa lang si Bisaya na mukhang seryoso na sa pagkandidato bilang kongresista ng North Cebu sa eleksiyon sa susunod na taon.

Binibiro si Bisaya na magpapa-stem cell therapy siya para kundisyon na kundisyon ang katawan niya habang nangangampanya sa North Cebu.

Ayaw kumpirmahin ni Bisaya ang political plans niya. Hintayin na lamang daw ng mga tao ang kanyang bonggang announcement sa October.

Asawa ni Jose nag-iba ng abogado matapos matalo

How true na iba na raw ang lawyers ni Analyn Manalo kaya tumanggi nang magsalita ang kanyang mga dating abogado?

Si Analyn ang kontrobersiyal na dyowa ni Jose Manalo. Ilang buwan nang nasa news ang mag-asawa dahil sa kanilang paghihiwalay.

News noong weekend na natalo si Analyn sa kaso na isinampa niya laban kay Jose.

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Bibiyahe sa Germany kasama si Ruffa, Annabelle magpapakondisyon sa kampanya kaya magpapa-stem cell therapy