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Postgame Franscript: Coach talks Minnesota loss

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Heres a transcript of Fran McCafferys postgame news conference. The questions are paraphrased but the quotes are direct.

How would you describe the defense right now?

We need some work, and well keep working on it.

Is the defensive performance puzzling because of the strides youve made?

I think we played against a team that was inspired that was really working, sharing the ball. They have good shooters. They havent been shooting well. It doesnt mean theyre not good shooters. Austin Hollins has always been a good shooter. Hes been off. (Malik) Smith has been off. They have a lot of guys who have been off. Tonight they were making them.

What specifically do you need to work on?

I think we just have to stay in our stance, stay engaged, stay after them. Whether its ball screens or drive and kicks or transition defense. It came easy for us early; we were up nine and we didnt lock in defensively then like I think we should have. All the sudden you look and youre down 10.

Now they were on fire. I get that and the crowd got into it and stuff. Youve got to adjust when (Charles) Buggs is hitting or (Austin) Hollins is hitting. They were on fire in the first half. I dont know that Ive coached against a team that made nine in a half. But this team has the potential to do that. Theyre a good 3-point shooting team.

How much of it was not getting back in transition or do you just tip your cap to your opponent?

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Clinical Genetics and Epigenetics: Precision Medicine for Age Management by Florence Comite, MD – Video

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Magical Medicine for oboe clarinet bassoon tuba celesta violin composed by David Huang – Video

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News Express Sting Operation: Ayurvedic doctor’s Allopathy medicine to patients – Video

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Northwestern Medicine debuts new prostate test, reducing need for invasive biopsies

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26-Feb-2014

Contact: Bret Coons bcoons@nmh.org 312-926-2955 Northwestern Memorial Hospital

CHICAGO Northwestern Medicine is the first health care provider in the country to offer a new non-invasive blood test for prostate cancer that is nearly three times more accurate than the current standard prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Known as the Prostate Health Index (phi), the new test's accuracy will effectively remove the need for many men who test positive for elevated PSA levels to undergo a biopsy to achieve a reliable diagnosis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prostate cancer is the most common type of non-skin cancer for men in America and is a leading cause of cancer death among men of all races. The most widely used screening test for prostate cancer is currently the PSA test, which measures the blood's level of PSA, a protein that is naturally produced by the prostate gland and is typically increased when cancer is present. While the PSA test is simple and non-invasive, its results can often indicate the possibility of prostate cancer when none is present.

"The PSA test is based on the fact that men with higher levels of the PSA protein are more likely to have prostate cancer," said William Catalona, MD, urologist at Northwestern Medicine and director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. "The problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false-positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm."

In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force called attention to the heightened risk of unnecessary patient harm caused by false-positives from PSA testing and released a recommendation calling for "a better test and better treatment options" for prostate cancer screening.

Because PSA testing isn't conclusive enough on its own, physicians normally advise men with increased PSA levels in the range of 4-10ng/mL to undergo a prostate biopsy. However, the phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, FreePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels. Because of the substantial increase in accuracy, results of a multi-center clinical study that Catalona led found a 31 percent reduction in unnecessary biopsies due to false-positives as a result of using the phi test.

In addition to being much more accurate and reducing the need for prostate biopsies, the new test also offers patients a screening option that still only requires a simple blood test. The phi test will become available to all healthcare providers within the first quarter of 2014, and was developed by Beckman Coulter and evaluated in a multi-center clinical research study lead by Catalona as the principal investigator.

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Family Medicine Is Tops in Osteopathic Match

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More osteopathic physicians matched to family medicine than any other medical specialty in the recently completed American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program, which matches graduating osteopathic physicians with residency programs nationwide.

"Every year, we take pride in seeing that the majority of osteopathic medical students match into primary care specialties," said Clinton Adams, D.O., a family physician and chair of the AOA Council on Postdoctoral Training, in the press release.

"Now, in the shadow of the (Patient Protection and) Affordable Care Act, more than ever, our country needs primary care physicians to lead health care teams designed to educate patients about healthy lifestyles in order to help prevent disease and to work as partners with that team to develop the best treatment plan when illness does strike."

Also included in the AOA Match numbers were another 968 residency positions that were filled in nonprimary care areas, such as orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology and emergency medicine.

Perry Pugno, M.D., M.P.H., AAFP vice president for education, told AAFP News that the osteopathic Match results were yet another example of how the much-publicized U.S. primary care physician shortage was affecting the career choices of graduating medical students.

"A 10 percent increase in the number of osteopathic students selecting family medicine is indeed gratifying and bodes well for another increase in the number of allopathic students selecting family medicine when the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) takes place next month," said Pugno.

Although there remains a large unmet need when it comes to the availability of primary care services in the United States, knowing that 25 percent of 2,064 D.O. graduates selected a career in family medicine feels good, said Pugno. "It is definitely a trend shift in the right direction."

The AOA press release pointed out that the number of students training in osteopathic medicine is on the rise. U.S. osteopathic medical schools have increased their class sizes to keep up with demand, and in the fall of 2013, three new osteopathic medical schools opened their doors to students.

The AAFP has been tracking the unprecedented growth of osteopathic medicine. In the AAFP's analysis of the 2013 NRMP Match(www.stfm.org) in the October issue of Family Medicine, authors pointed out that the number of D.O.-granting medical schools grew from 19 schools in 2002 to 37 schools -- including branch campuses and satellite programs -- in 2013.

In the same report, authors noted that osteopathic medical school first-year enrollment nearly doubled between 2002 (2,968) and 2012 (5,627), and predicted enrollment could reach 6,699 by 2017.

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What are some of the repercussions later in life from a conviction for a Wisconsin OWI? – Video

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UB successfully addresses concerns about its surgical residency programs

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It was an uncomfortable few years for the University at Buffalo Medical School and for all of Western New York when the school lost its accreditation for its surgery and pediatric surgery residency programs.

Not only is the Medical School a big player in the regional economy, its profile and its influence are about to rise significantly as the school prepares to move from the universitys South Campus to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.

The programs lost their accreditation in 2011, and while there has been no formal explanation, issues apparently included an insufficient number of faculty doing research, failure to comply with a directive to limit residents work weeks to 80 hours and poor communications between residents and supervising doctors.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education acted last week to restore the programs standing. In 2013, the council also restored the accreditation for UBs dermatology program, which ran into difficulties after four faculty members left. The university reorganized the program and accreditation was restored before the year ended.

These are all welcome and well-deserved outcomes. UB and its Medical School were confronted with significant challenges that could have undermined their reputations, and with them, their ability to recruit top faculty and students.

They met the challenges and kept alive the promise of the UB Medical School for providing skilled doctors and creating a powerful and synergistic new health economy in Buffalo.

Still, it is troubling that matters were ever allowed to get so far as to threaten the accreditation of these programs. In particular, having been warned by the council in 2003 to limit residents work weeks to 80 hours, why was that very issue able to threaten the Medical Schools standing nine years later?

The UB Medical School is about to become even more important to the regional economy. The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is developing into something approaching a world-class health care destination, and the Medical School will play an integral role in its success when it opens its doors there in 2016.

It wont do for a key component of Buffalos expanding health care economy to be periodically threatened with extinction. This is the time for leaders of the university to ensure that the Medical School has in place systems and practices that will keep the school well within the councils good graces.

For today, though, it is enough to celebrate the reaccreditation of these critical programs. There was a threat and it has now passed. Thats good news.

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New dean looks to retain doctors in South Texas

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HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - The dean of the new medical school in South Texas said Wednesday he will concentrate on producing doctors interested in remaining in the medically underserved region.

Dr. Francisco Fernandez said one of his goals for the School of Medicine at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley is to attract future doctors with ties to the area.

This will be an opportunity for them to study medicine, stay where their families are, and serve their community, Fernandez said at a news conference in Harlingen.

Fernandez, 62, said he will also focus on bringing in those interested in Hispanic health issues, which in the Valley would focus on high rates of obesity and diabetes in its predominantly Hispanic communities.

There is no place for anyone who wants to have a dedication to Hispanic health, he said. The place they will want to be is here.

A recent study found the area has higher rates of obesity and diabetes than the rest of the state and nation, with nearly one-third of South Texans classified as obese. About one in nine has been diagnosed with diabetes, according to a study published in August by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

One of Fernandezs first tasks will be to hire a diabetologist, said Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano, dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

We want the schools focus to mean something to the people in the Valley, Gonzalez-Scarano said.

UT Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, a surgeon from Laredo, said part of the strategy to increase the number of physicians in the fast-growing border region includes providing medical students with residency programs at hospitals in the area.

There is not a critical mass of residency slots so having a medical school and residency slots is the answer, Cigarroa said.

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