Medicine Park virtually off-limits to sex offenders

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MEDICINE PARK, Okla._Recently, Governor Mary Fallin signed a new bill preventing aggravated or habitual sex offenders from being near any park in the state.

Under the new law, sex offenders considered as habitual or aggressive would not be allowed within 500 feet of a park. Lawton has 82 parks in all, but it is not just limited to parks, the bill also includes schools and day care centers.

In the town of Medicine Park, all along Medicine Creek is considered a park, so when 500 feet on each side of the creek is off-limits, these specific sex offenders aren't allowed to enter essentially the entire town.

For Jenna Thornton, who runs a business in Medicine Park and brings her son everyday, she's always wary of what could happen.

"Honestly it's a constant concern I think with any parent. As soon as you have any children, automatically you are suspect of everyone," said Thornton.

The new law gives the town a little more protection and reassures her that her son is safe.

"It does provide an extra buffer zone and you can keep people out to a certain extent and I think that is going to help," said Thornton.

The town runs off of tourists and visitors, especially the creek. During the summer on any given day you can spot multiple children in their bathing suits.

"It's definitely comforting to know we have that little extra assurance and I think for all of our citizens and tourist who come to town that's an added bonus," said Thornton.

Along with the added bonus of it being illegal for aggressive sex offenders to enter the town, state law doesn't allow any sex offender to live with in a 2,000 foot radius of a park which makes Medicine Park virtually safe from sex offenders.

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Answering YOUR Questions! Part 2 of 3 (Staying motivated in medical school) – Video

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Google Glass handed out to all medical students at UC Irvine

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Dr. Warren Wiechmann, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of instructional technologies, will oversee implementation of the Google Glass four-year program at UCI. Steve Zylius/UC Irvine

The fledgling Google Glass is slowly working its way into the mainstream, and one place that people should get used to seeing the device is in hospitals.

Several medical institutions have already been testing the computer-enabled eyeglasses to see if the devices enhance doctor's work. But the University of California Irvine School of Medicine is taking it one step further by it's issuing Google Glass to all of its students.

Irvine will be the first medical school to fully incorporate Glass into its four-year curriculum. Its first- and second-year students will use the device in their anatomy and clinical skills courses, while third- and fourth-year students will wear Glass during their hospital rotations.

"I believe digital technology will let us bring a more impactful and relevant clinical learning experience to our students," UC Irvine's dean of medicine Dr. Ralph V. Clayman said in a statement. "Enabling our students to become adept at a variety of digital technologies fits perfectly into the ongoing evolution of healthcare into a more personalized, participatory, home-based and digitally driven endeavor."

While the general public appears to still be making up its mind about the idea of wearing a face computer, some fields of work see the wearable as a helpful asset. For medicine, doctors won't have to use their hands to dig through files, search computers, or look up facts on a tablet. With a simple nod of the head or blink of the eye, they could get all of the real-time information they need without having to leave a patient's side.

Besides UC Irvine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has also been testing Glass with its emergency room doctors. The center found that the wearable has proven helpful with getting summarized information to doctors as they're speaking with and examining patients.

UC Irvine has also found Glass helpful in the pilot tests it has conducted in operating rooms, intensive care units, and the emergency department.

"Medical education has always been very visual and very demonstrative, and Glass has enormous potential to positively impact the way we can educate physicians in real time," UC Irvine's assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of instructional technologies Dr. Warren Wiechmann said. "Indeed, all of medicine is based on 'seeing,' not 'reading,' the patient."

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Temple to name medical school after Katz

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Lewis Katz's mother always wanted him to be a doctor, but he couldn't stand the sight of blood and didn't much like dissection.

So he went to law school instead, and then made a fortune in parking, banking, billboards, and real estate.

Wednesday, his alma mater announced that Temple University's medical school will be named after the longtime member of the university's board of trustees and the largest donor in the school's history.

"I got the second-best thing for her," said Katz, 72. "She's got to be smiling today."

Katz, a co-owner of The Inquirer, pledged $25 million to Temple in November - the biggest single gift in the university's history. That represents 8 percent of the university's endowment, which as of last June totaled $324 million.

At the time of Katz's pledge, no purpose for the money was specified. University officials said Wednesday that the funds would be used to enhance research and faculty support at the School of Medicine, soon to be called the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple.

The 11-story education and research building on the university's medical school campus in North Philadelphia opened in 2009 and cost $160 million.

While university officials declined to say how much money Katz has given his alma mater over the years, they acknowledged him to be is the largest benefactor in Temple's history.

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Mazvita Ethel Simoyi: Nursing Experience Paid Off in Medical School

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Newswise While 12-hour weekend shifts for nurses are typical, its not common to do it while also attending medical school full-time. But thats what Mazvita Ethel Simoyi did during her first year at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, commuting every weekend to a hospital in Washington, D.C. to help pay for her education.

Now set to earn her M.D. degree from UVA this month, Simoyi laughed when asked how she endured the relentless schedule of work, schoolwork and commuting. I honestly do not know how I did it, she said. Necessity makes you rise to the occasion.

Working Toward a Lifelong Dream Simoyi knew she wanted to be a doctor from the time she was 5 or 6, when her father, Dr. Mike Simoyi, a general practitioner in Zimbabwe, brought her to his clinic to observe a tubal ligation. I stood on a stool in the operating room, looking at him make the incision, she said.

As she got older, she helped direct patients at the clinic where her father worked with her mother Regina, a nurse. The time she spent there deepened her commitment to medicine.

The patients [at my parents clinic] are very, very grateful for the help they receive, she said. My father is also very involved in public health, and educating people at a time when HIV and AIDS was beginning to get a lot of attention. Thats why I wanted to be a doctor so I could help people and share my knowledge with them.

To continue her path toward becoming a doctor, Simoyi came to the U.S. from Zimbabwe at age 17 to attend college. After beginning as a biology/pre-med major at Butler University, she transferred to Howard University in Washington, D.C., earning a nursing degree in 2007. She went into nursing so she could earn a living while taking the remaining pre-requisite classes for medical school and ensure that medicine was 100 percent what I wanted to do.

After three years working as a nurse, she entered UVAs School of Medicine in 2010. But she wasnt quite done with nursing.

Full-Time Medical Student, Part-Time Nurse During her first year as a med student, Simoyi worked weekends on a medical/surgical/oncology inpatient unit at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. She would leave Charlottesville around 5 p.m. Thursday or Friday for Washington, staying with her sister Nyasha or friends from Howard University when she wasnt at work. She would return to Charlottesville around midnight Sunday to get some sleep before waking up at 7 a.m. Monday to begin another week of med school classes.

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AUCMS students badly hit by schools financial woes

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PETALING JAYA: Hundreds of Penang-based private medical school Allianze University Medical Sciences (AUCMS) students have suffered from the school's financial crisis, which has allegedly dragged on for a year.

An employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Star Online that the students were no longer allowed to serve their practical years in some government hospitals due to the colleges poor track record.

There are many occasions where the students are not allowed to enter the wards as the hospitals departments refused to accept students from AUCMS.

They complained that the quality of teaching in AUCMS has been below the standard of medical school, he claimed.

The plight of AUCMS employees was highlighted in The Star Online on Apr 22, with some turning to loan sharks in desperation as their salaries have allegedly not been paid in four months.

Despite repeated reminders to the colleges management including a signed petition, the employee said their concerns have been ignored.

Our patience is running thin. Its been five months now and we havent received a sen yet, he said, adding that the employees are planning to take legal action against the college.

More than 65 employees have signed a petition letter demanding their salaries, Employees Provident Funds contributions and scheduler tax reduction are paid according to their contracts.

However, the management still has not responded to the petition, he said.

He also said the employees are threatening to boycott the classes due to the ongoing problems.

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Scientists unlock mystery surrounding DHA

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SINGAPORE: It is widely believed that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is good for the brain, but how it is absorbed by the brain has been unknown.

That is - until now.

A study by researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) have found that the transporter protein Mfsd2a carries DHA to the brain.

Their findings have widespread implications on how DHA functions in human nutrition, Duke-NUS said in a statement.

It is widely known that DHA is as an essential dietary nutrient that can be obtained from seafood and marine oils.

It is thought to be crucial to the brain's function, but the mechanics of how the brain absorbs the fatty acid has remained elusive.

Associate Professor David L Silver of Duke-NUS, senior author of the research, explained the importance of unlocking this mystery.

"If we could show the link by determining how DHA gets into the brain, then we could use this information to more effectively target its absorption and formulate an improved nutritional agent," he said.

The findings, published online in Nature this week, marks the first time a genetic model for brain DHA deficiency and its functions in the brain have been made available, Duke-NUS said.

"Our findings can help guide the development of technologies to more effectively incorporate DHA into food and exploit this pathway to maximise the potential for improved nutritionals to improve brain growth and function.

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Springfield XD in 9mm with Liberty Mystic Suppressor High Speed Camera Slow Motion – Video

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