AMD’s impossibly thin nano PC prototype sits on your TV, but don’t call it a set-top box

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Let's take a moment to forget the technical nonsense. Seriously. Besides, we only really know the broad strokes about Mullins, AMD's next-gen ultra-low voltage APU. Instead, let's just gaze upon the tiny wonder that is the Nano PC for a bit and soak it all in. This reference design from the Sunnyvale company packs enough power to run Windows 8.1 pretty seamlessly and even get in a quick game of FIFA 14 at 1080p. Inside, in addition to a Mullins chip, is a 256GB SSD, a camera, Bluetooth, WiFI and a DockPort connector. And, it's really not much larger or thicker than a Note 3 -- it's pretty much a marvel of engineering. It's the last of those specs that's pretty important, since it allows you to connect to a tiny breakout box with HDMI and USB ports. Obviously you'll need one of those to connect it to a TV, which the Nano PC is designed to sit atop. Here's hoping that a company or two picks up on the design and starts making absurdly thin machines of their own.

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When germs attack: A lens into the molecular dance

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have zoomed in on what is going on at the molecular level when the body recognizes and defends against an attack of pathogens, and the findings, they say, could influence how drugs are developed to treat autoimmune diseases.

The focus of the research is a pathogen "sensor" known as human IFN inducible protein-16 or IFI16, one of the body's key responders to viruses and bacteria, including herpes, HIV, listeria and salmonella. When IFI16 goes awry, it can prod the immune system to attack its own cells, triggering autoimmune disorders such as lupus and Sjgren syndrome (in which the glands that produce tears and saliva are destroyed). By figuring out how IFI16 operates, biophysicist Jungsan "Jay" Sohn, Ph.D., and his team say they have set the stage for finding ways to stop or limit the damage.

For the study, described online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Early Edition in December, the Hopkins team used high-powered microscopy to show that these sensor proteins of the human immune system assemble into strands to signal infection. This strand-forming appears in other pathogen sensors, suggesting that this may be a common host defense mechanism.

"By understanding how IFI16 works at this fine molecular level, we may be able to boost this activity to build up immunity or taper down this activity to correct autoimmune disorders," says Sohn, an assistant professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry.

Sohn and his research team first generated genetically engineered IFI16 from bacteria and exposed it to synthetic DNA sequences of varying lengths to see how the protein might react to "foreign," pathogenic DNA. They then observed the IFI16 and DNA interact via electron microscopy. What they saw was surprising.

The team expected that IFI16, like other pathogen sensors, would react to foreign DNA if it is long enough to accommodate just one IFI16 molecule. But IFI16 didn't react strongly until the synthetic DNA fragments exceeded 60 base pairs in length, which can accommodate about four IFI16 molecules. It was as if a light went on when the "invading" DNA reached 70 to 100 base pairs, Sohn says. "We call that switch-like behavior."

IFI16's preference for long DNA strands explains a longstanding mystery, according to Sohn. Researchers, he explains, have wondered how our bodies' immune systems mostly avoid "friendly fire," or being sent into overdrive and attacking themselves. The new experiments suggest that the length of DNA could be the key: Our DNA is packaged such that there are only short exposed fragments, and IFI16 won't activate in the presence of short DNA, but will in the presence of pathogenic DNA, which typically expose much longer strands.

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Robert Babineau, pioneer in family medicine mourned in Fitchburg and beyond

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FITCHBURG -- Friends and colleagues remember Fitchburg's Dr. Robert Babineau Sr. as a pioneer in family medicine, as well as the creator and visionary of the Fitchburg residency program for medical students.

"He was a great guy," said Dr. Daniel Lasser, chairman of the family medicine and community health for UMass Medical School in Worcester. "If you were a patient, you would feel like he gave you all time in world, but he had a reputation for going home on time. People felt like they got their full visit with him, but somehow he stuck to a schedule. I wish I knew how he did it."

Babineau, 91, died Thursday. Helen, his wife of 66 years, had died five days earlier. The couple had lived in Fitchburg, but moved to Brewster on Cape Cod two decades ago.

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Raised in Fitchburg, Babineau took advantage of a program in the 1940s in which the Army paid for him to attend Boston University Medical School in exchange for four years of service as a military doctor. He spent a portion of those four years in Korea, where he established an orphanage in Seoul and left with the rank of major.

He was an intern at Maine General Hospital, where he met his wife, who was the head maternity nurse at the time. They later moved to Fitchburg, and he opened his own practice in 1952 as a general practitioner.

"He was a doctor back when doctors made house calls," said Dave Svens, a former patient and now the executive director of Fitchburg Access Television.

Around 1957, when Svens was 9, he was running along a sand embankment, and the next thing he knew, he was waking up in his own bed. He could hear Dr. Babineau say, "He's coming to."

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Review: ‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’ on PBS: forensic medicine’s birth

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Debuting Tuesday as part of the PBS series "American Experience," "The Poisoner's Handbook" offers a fascinating look back at how the chemical age changed police work.

Based on Deborah Blum's 2010 book "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York," it is divided into toxin-specific "chapters," (cyanide, arsenic, carbon monoxide, lead, radium, denatured alcohol and so on), but there is nothing particularly instructional about it. A certain sort of viewer might get ideas, of course, but should he watch to the end he will learn that poisoning is a hard crime to get away with anymore.

Some credit for this goes to pioneering main characters Charles Norris, a crusading, visionary New York City medical examiner, and Alexander Gettler, who ran his toxicology labs. They were an unlikely pair, Norris from Philadelphia money but with a healthy sense of noblesse oblige (he paid for equipment and subsidized salaries in his department when money was short); Gettler, a Lower East Side Jew who liked bowling and playing the ponies. But both were dedicated to "a medical-legal justice system" and the rule of science.

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The film, which seems to be about one thing and then another, is also a story of New York itself during Prohibition and the Depression, a melting pot on a high flame. It's as well about the birth of American forensic science and the transformation of the untrustworthy office of the coroner formerly a political appointment, with no qualifications needed and plenty of opportunity for graft into the much-respected forensic science of current practice and pop culture. And it's a chronicle of the chemicals and compounds that transformed modern life even as they made it deadly in brand-new ways.

And finally, it's a story of human fecklessness and haplessness of the injuries we do, not just through spite or greed but from our love of convenience: Call it suicide by technology. Norris and Gettler set themselves not only against murderers and policemen their evidence often being exculpatory but against the makers of radioactive watch dials and of lead-laced gasoline. (The lesson being that as hard as it might have been to fight City Hall, going up against Standard Oil and General Motors is simply impossible.)

For not all of the deaths investigated in the course of "The Poisoner's Handbook" are murders even some that first seem to be. Carbon monoxide, present in the gas used for lighting, cooking and refrigeration, killed more New Yorkers in a year than measles, tuberculosis and typhoid combined. And both Norris and Gettler were opposed to Prohibition, seeing correctly that it would not end the consumption of alcohol but only promote the consumption of bad, sometimes deadly, alcohol. ("Our national experiment ... in extermination," Norris called it.)

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There are many re-created events in courtrooms, at crime scenes and in the lab, with its many attractive antique instruments, that go on a little longer than is usual in such films. They have a goofy charm that fits the film's bemused tone.

Norris to cop: "You can't hold that man for murder. He didn't kill her. ... I'm taking possession of the body."

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Digital age guru to speak at Glen Urquhart School

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Author and expert on parenting in the digital age, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed D will speak at Glen Urquhart School on January 27 at 8:30 AM. Internationally renowned clinical psychologist, school consultant, and Harvard Medical School Instructor, Dr. Steiner-Adair is the author of The Big Disconnect; Protecting Childhood & Family Relationships in the Digital Age. Steiner- Adair has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Discovery Channel, CNN, and PBS stations nationwide.

Steiner-Adair will speak with parents in the morning and meet with students, faculty, and administrators during the remainder of the school day. "Families in our school and, I suspect,

others struggle mightily with the issue of how to best contextualize the constant connectedness our digital world now affords. Our children are perpetually plugged in, and it is often difficult to come to terms with the impact on how we communicate and operate as a family. We are delighted to have Catherine Steiner-Adair with us to help make sense of such a timely and important topic, said David Provost, Head of School at Glen Urquhart.

The author and educator contends that not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects, but children desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. She broaches such hot button topics as how technology can put child development at risk, cyber-bullying, sexting, texting, and viral gossip among teens. She also offers advice on how to turn technology into an ally for closeness, creativity, and a sense of community.

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SOUTH BEND Dr. Rudolph Navari will step down in April as dean and director of Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend to take a new job with the World Health Organization.

Navari has led the medical school program here since its new building at Notre Dame Avenue and Angela Boulevard opened in 2005. The program is a partnership with the University of Notre Dame.

With WHO, Navari will be based in Geneva, Switzerland, and will serve as director of the Cancer Care Program in Eastern Europe. WHO will work with pharmaceutical companies to help cancer patients and provide treatments at a greatly reduced cost in eastern European nations.

It was just an opportunity I couldnt pass up, Navari said Tuesday. Hes worked in South Bend since 1999, when he joined the Notre Dame faculty as director of Walther Cancer Research Center.

In 2005, he was named director of the IU School of Medicine program here, and has continued as a researcher and an adjunct Notre Dame faculty member. Hes also a practicing oncologist.

IU medical students have been able to take their first two years of training in South Bend since 1971 through a joint program run by IU School of Medicine and Notre Dame. The program has grown and changed and gained greater visibility in the community.

Since that time, 10 to 12 new IU teaching professors have been hired who also conduct medical research in collaboration with Notre Dame researchers, Navari said. Weve developed a significant collaboration with Notre Dames colleges of science and engineering, he said.

Under Navaris leadership, the medical school training program also grew from a two-year to a four-year program. That means students can complete all four years of medical school here, and dont have to transfer to Indianapolis for their last two years. That makes it more likely those graduates will stay and practice in the South Bend area. The expansion to a four-year program started six years ago.

The total number of medical students here has grown, as well. In 2005, there were about 32 medical students in the South Bend program, and now there are more than 100.

Annual research grants to the South Bend medical program faculty have grown from about $500,000 to about $2 million annually.

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Four years after controversy rocked the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, the campus is rocking again.

But this time its the banging of hammers, humming of drills and moan of heavy equipment marking the first phase of a $60 million, five-year master plan to expand the school.

The construction demonstrates that we are committed to move forward, said Marc B. Hahn, who arrived in July as the osteopathic medical schools new president and chief executive officer.

In 2009, then-president Karen Pletz was fired over mismanagement and misuse of money, and several top administrators resigned. The university sued Pletz; she countersued. Then a federal grand jury indicted Pletz, alleging she had embezzled more than $1.5 million from the university, engaged in money laundering and falsified tax returns. She committed suicide in November 2011.

A university spokesman said all litigation involving the school and Pletz or her estate has been settled.

The only thing that we can control is what we do now, Hahn said. We have a great story to tell.

Two months ago, work began on the campus at 1750 E. Independence Ave. to convert Weaver Auditorium into an academic center with two big lecture halls and several classrooms and study rooms.

The university is dividing up its auditorium because it needs classrooms more than it needs an auditorium, Hahn said. Its a more responsible use of the space, he said.

The auditorium was built in 2008 to host graduations and was used once or twice a year. It seated 1,500, but graduations drew about 2,200.

It was obsolete on the day it was built, Hahn said.

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Idiocy is not a First Amendment offense

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Fair warning: This is about the Duck Dynasty controversy. Yes, I know. Im sick of it, too.

Still, relying upon my First Amendment right to freedom of speech, I will make a few observations about Phil Robertson, the grizzled Louisiana duck hunter turned reality TV star whose comments about black and gay people recently got him suspended and then unsuspended by A&E. If you find my observations disagreeable you may, relying upon your own First Amendment rights, protest to my employer. Assuming enough of you bring enough pressure, my employer may dump me. Feeling angry and betrayed, I might heres that First Amendment again blast my now-former bosses for defects of character, courage or cognition.

But one thing I could not say at least not credibly is that theyd violated my First Amendment rights. There is nothing in the First Amendment that says a private company cant fire you.

Well return to the First in a second. Right now, let me offer the promised observations about Mr. Robertson: The man really needs to wake up and smell the 21st Century.

His comments, made in an interview with GQ, are almost cartoonish in their stupidity. They sound less like they were made by a backwoods ignoramus than by someone doing a takeoff on a backwoods ignoramus.

For instance, Robertson explains his aversion to homosexuality by discoursing on the comparative merits of the male anus and the vagina. For good measure, he invokes bestiality and the Bible. He also notes how black people were singing and happy when he was young. Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare they were godly, they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

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So anyway, A&E was shocked shocked, I say, shocked! to learn that a self-described redneck from the Louisiana woods harbored such illiberal views. It suspended Robertson, thereby igniting a scrum of conservative pols jockeying to express newfound love for the First Amendment.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he can remember when TV networks still believed in it. Sarah Palin calls free speech an endangered species. Mike Huckabee says, Stand with Phil and support free speech.

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Judge: Ohio cannot change rules in mid-game

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BY JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS Ohio cannot change the rules on minor parties for the 2014 ballot in mid-game, a federal judge ruled today.

Republican-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson in Columbus issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a new law and ordering Secretary of State Jon Husted to follow through with his original directive granting several small parties spots on the primary election ballot.

The ruling, however, applies only to 2014.

Attorney General Mike DeWines office said it had not decided whether to appeal the ruling.

The Libertarian and Green parties had objected to the retroactive application to the current election cycle of a law theyve dubbed the John Kasich Re-election Protection Act. Senate Bill 193, passed by Republicans and signed into law by Mr. Kasich in November, would have voided the Husted directive putting the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Socialist parties on the 2014 ballot.

The upshot of that provision, along with other provisions in the bill, is that minor parties must start from scratch to qualify for ballot access, wrote Judge Watson, a 2004 George W. Bush appointee. if S.B. 193 goes into effect, the nominating petitions already filed by minor party candidates to appear on the 2014 primary election ballot in reliance on [Mr. Husteds directive] would be nullified, and the time and resources expended on those petitions will have been wasted.

The same judge in November put on hold another law passed last year by majority Republicans that raised the bar for proposed constitutional amendments, referenda, and other initiatives to quality for the 2014 ballot.

Once again, the courts stand with us and with the First Amendment rights of all Ohioans to political freedom and suffrage in Ohio, said Kevin Knedler, chairman of the Libertarian executive committee. The foundation of a democratic society is the right to vote and to have real choices on the ballot.

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Ruling opens path for Libertarian challenger to Kasich

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The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday January 8, 2014 6:00 AM

Gov. John Kasich might have escaped a primary challenge from the right, but a federal judges ruling yesterday made it more likely that the Republican governor could face conservative competition come November.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson in Columbus granted a preliminary injunction against GOP-passed legislation that would have made it more difficult for minor-party candidates to reach the ballot. The ruling allows Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl to be in the November race when Kasich seeks re-election.

Senate Bill 193, passed two months ago by Republican legislators and signed hours later by Kasich, would have blocked all minor parties from having a primary on May 5 and significantly raised the number of signatures needed for a minor-party candidate such as Earl to reach the ballot.

The law was dubbed by critics as the John Kasich Re-Election Protection Act, based on perceptions that he had angered conservatives over policies such as Medicaid expansion and that some conservatives would drift toward Earl come Nov. 4.

Kasich won election in 2010 by 2 percentage points (roughly 77,000 votes), and likely Democratic nominee Ed FitzGerald works in Democrat-rich Cleveland, so a siphoning of votes in either direction could make a difference.

Because the law would have gone into effect on Feb. 5 the filing deadline for all primary candidates Watson ruled that it would violate minor-party candidates constitutional rights, and he stopped its immediate implementation.

Earl said of its passage: It was intentional, and it was ludicrous, and the court saw through it.

In his decision issued yesterday, Watson wrote that the Ohio legislature moved the proverbial goal post in the midst of the game.

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Islands make animals tamer

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A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at the Galapagos Islands National Park rests calmly as tourists walk by a behaviour that may have evolved because of a lack of predators.

When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands, he noted that many of its animal inhabitants were so unafraid of people that a gun is here almost superfluous. He swatted birds with his hat, pulled the tails of iguanas and sat on giant tortoises.

These antics fuelled his famous idea that animals become tame when they live on remote, predator-free islands. Now, William Cooper Jr of Indiana UniversityPurdue University in Fort Wayne has tested Darwin's hypothesis on 66 species of lizards from around the world and found that island dwellers tended to be more docile than their continental relatives the strongest evidence yet for this classic idea. The results are published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B1.

Several studies and unpublished reports have shown that particular species are more approachable on islands where there are fewer predators, or quicker to flee on islands that contain introduced hunters such as feral cats. But despite this largely anecdotal evidence for island tameness, no one has ever established that its a general phenomenon in any group, says Cooper. We showed that for a large prey group lizards there really is a significant decline in wariness on islands.

Island tameness is an old idea, but there have been few tests of it, says Dan Blumstein, a behavioural biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. This is a needed paper that convincingly shows some of the drivers of island tameness in lizards.

Cooper and his colleagues scoured past studies and collated data on the distance at which lizards start to flee when approached by a researcher. They took a conservative approach, discarding studies in which researchers had pointed at the lizards, walked towards the animals faster or slower than a particular fixed speed, or studied populations that were habituated to humans.

Cooper and his team ended up with data for 66 species, from the Eurasian common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) to the Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). The results clearly showed that humans can get closer to island-dwelling lizards than to mainland ones, and that lizards become more approachable on islands that are farther from the mainland.

Island ecology is so important that it overrides any effect of evolutionary history, Cooper and his co-authors say. They also showed that even closely related lizard species have different escape behaviours depending on where they live, and that their evolutionary relationships were mostly irrelevant.

The results do not explain why island lizards are tamer than those on the mainland, although the relative lack of island predators is the most likely reason. Animals with skittish dispositions can needlessly abandon valuable resources, and natural selection would be expected to weed out such responses if predators are rare or absent.

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Argentina appoints Malvinas Secretary to push Falkland Islands issue

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According to a statement from the Argentine embassy in London, Mr Filmus's brief will include: "Bilateral actions, negotiations, strategies and co-ordination of actions with all countries to defend the Argentine rights and interests at the multilateral levels, as well as the promotion of Argentine rights worldwide."

Falklanders in the grounds of Christchurch Cathedral in Stanley celebrate the 98 percent Yes vote

Hector Timerman, the Argentinian foreign minister, said the appointment was "historic". "Never before in Argentina's history has this matter, a question of territorial integrity, occupied such an important place in a government and we are very pleased that the president has elected none other than Daniel Filmus as secretary", he said.

Taking up the position, Mr Filmus said: "It is unacceptable that in the 21st century Argentina is unable to take decisions over its entire territory and that a part of this territory is being occupied by a colonial power."

The Foreign Office said: We are aware of the appointment of Daniel Filmus, but this does not affect our position nor the position of the Falkland Islands people, who voted to remain British by 99.8 per cent in last years referendum.

"The UK has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and surrounding maritime areas, nor about the Falkland Islanders right to decide their own future, the right of self-determination as enshrined in the UN Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Mike Summers, a member of the Falklands assembly, said: We have noted the developments of a new Secretariat in the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Whilst it may be anticipated that this will result in an increase in activity on the part of the Argentine government, in trying to persuade others of their right to colonise the Falkland Islands, it will not result in any strengthening of their weak claim to our Islands, and is unlikely to address the fundamental human rights issues underlying Falkland Islanders rights to self determination.

Diplomatic rhetoric over the windswept territory in the South Atlantic soared to fever pitch in 2012 the year that marked the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. Argentina invaded the islands in April 1982, leading to a 74-day conflict that left 649 Argentinians, 255 Britons and three Falkland Islanders dead.

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Health Care Costs Grew More Slowly Than The Economy In 2012

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Health care spending grew at a record slow pace for the fourth straight year in 2012, according to a new government report. But the federal officials who compiled the report disagree with their bosses in the Obama administration about why.

The annual report from the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published in the journal Health Affairs, found total U.S. health spending totaled $2.8 trillion in 2012, or $8,915 per person.

Health spending consumed 17.2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, but that was slightly down from the previous year's 17.3 percent. And in a rare event, the growth rate of 3.7 percent was actually slower than that of the overall economy, which grew at a rate of 4.6 percent.

The report found several things that led to the slower spending increase, especially the residual effects of the recession.

But one thing that did not lead to slower growth, according to the authors, was the Affordable Care Act.

"The Affordable Care Act ...had a minimal impact on overall national health spending growth through 2012," the report said.

Instead, the law likely produced a small overall increase in spending for the first three years that the law was in effect, the actuaries say.

And the persistent slow growth in health spending, even a few years after the economy has begun to recover, is what you'd expect to see now, according to Aaron Catlin, deputy director of the National Health Statistics Group that leads the annual study.

"What we can tell you is that the period of stability is consistent with the historical experience," he told reporters at a briefing on the report.

In other words, health inflation has traditionally remained in check for at least a few years following a recession.

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Sanford Health Announces $125M Gift to Fund Genomic Initiative for Internal Medicine

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Newswise (Sioux Falls, SD) Sanford Health announced today Denny Sanford, the preeminent health care philanthropist in the United States, will gift the organization $125 million to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a first-of-its-kind program in the country that integrates genomic medicine into primary care for adults.

Mr. Sanfords generosity to this organization is humbling, said Kelby Krabbenhoft, president and CEO of Sanford Health. Including this $125 million gift, Denny has given Sanford Health nearly a billion dollars. Its an incredible honor as well as a tremendous responsibility.

Internal medicine physicians assist adult patients by diagnosing and managing complex health issues. Later this year, Sanford Imagenetics will offer patients the opportunity to undergo precise genetic testing and genetic counseling which will provide internal medicine physicians with unprecedented patient-specific information. Arming these physicians with their patients genetic information will improve their ability to prescribe the right medication, appropriate dose or most effective treatment with drugs such as statins and blood thinners.

Most physicians can only dream of what it would be like to practice not only on the cutting edge of medical advancement but also work to fundamentally change how patients are treated. The creation of this environment does not occur spontaneously. It requires great leadership and generosity at a level not previously seen, said Eric Larson, MD, board-certified internal medicine physician with Sanford Health.

Sanford Health has a long-standing history of providing comprehensive genetic health care to the region. With Sanford Imagenetics, Sanfords MD geneticists, genetic counselors and diagnostic clinical genetics laboratories will move hand in hand with the organizations internal medicines physicians. There are currently no organizations in the country that similarly embed genetics health care professionals into these primary care practices.

Thanks to Mr. Sanfords continued generosity, Sanford Health will take a national lead role in using existing genetic markers and incorporating future discoveries for internists to individualize care for patients with cancer, diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease and other conditions, said Dan Blue, MD, president Sanford Clinic.

Sanford Imagenetics will include development of a rigorous research program to define the genomic markers most successful in managing primary care for adults.

We will also study the outcomes to evaluate the efficacy of this approach as well as in-depth bioinformatics research focused on the practical clinical interpretation of the complicated biological data, said Gene Hoyme, MD, president of Sanford Research and board certified geneticist.

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Increased risk of prostate cancer in African American men; implications for PSA screening

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New Rochelle, NY, January 7, 2014African American men have an increased risk of prostate cancer and are two times more likely than Caucasian American men to die from the disease. Despite recent questions about the overall usefulness of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to detect prostate cancer, should PSA screening be used to detect early-stage disease to help save lives in this at-risk population? The controversy is explored in a Review article in Journal of Men's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Men's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jomh.

In the Review "PSA Screening for the African American Male: When and Why?" Tyler Luthringer, Ilija Aleksic, Vladimir Mouraviev, and David Albala, Associated Medical Professionals of NY, PLLC, and SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, support the American Urological Association's position that early detection of prostate cancer should include multiple parameters to assess personal risk. Together with their physicians, men should decide on an individualized approach to risk assessment and screening, which may include PSA testing and digital rectal examination.

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Narconon Freedom Center Reunites Families with Christmas Dinner

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Narconon Freedom Center helped addicts reunite with their families at a cheery Christmas Dinner this holiday season. The center knows first-hand that a major side-effect of drug addiction is the breakdown of the family unit and how important reuniting family is to the recovery process.

This years Christmas Dinner was filled with many happy families. Loved ones were encouraged to bring favorite traditional dishes to share with their family member in recovery.

We never tire of hearing from families that this is first Christmas in years they have been able to spend with their loved one sober and in a safe environment. Its very gratifying to see families have hope for the first time that they will be able to spend many more holidays with their loved one happy and sober, said John Walser, Senior Intake Counselor, Narconon Freedom Center Michigan.

Families expressed thanks that their loved ones who had been struggling with addiction are now on the road to recovery. I am so happy to see my son doing well and see all the positive changes he is making, said the mother of student D.D.

This is the best Christmas Ive spent with my son in years, said the mother of student M.T.

We are very impressed with how Narconon Freedom Center set up the Christmas Dinner. I felt like I was setting down with my family at home having everyone safe and together, said the mother of student N.K.

One of the biggest side effects of drugs is the breakdown of families. The addict withdraws from their families and often does not talk with or see them. Families often refuse to see their loved one struggling with addiction due to their lying and stealing. The holiday season can be an extremely stressful time for addicts and can trigger increased drug use and overdose leading to death. Families of addicts often spend the holidays in fear for their loved ones life wondering where they are and what they are doing.

Getting a loved one into rehab can save their life, said Walser.

For more information on alcohol or drug addiction or to enroll a loved one in drug rehab, call an Intake Counselor today toll-free at 877-362-9682. All calls are no charge and confidential.

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ONLY two days into the new year we were blessed with another politically inspired missive from regular contributor Mr Cook, from Bradwell.

We had two contributions in December.

The first was congratulating npower on sacking 400 workers in Stoke. He vindicates this by claiming he has only ever received poor service from npower.

How can such a staunch leftist support job losses, whatever the circumstances?

His next piece of literary genius was to berate Boris Johnson for his speech, in which BoJo referred to the low attainment levels of people with below average IQ.

Mr Cook suggested that BoJo and, ergo the coalition leaders, were in favour of eugenics (look it up in the dictionary) a speech which both David Cameron and George Osborne distanced themselves from.

His latest offering (Sentinel, January 3) is a rant about the state of our poor nation, which has been brought about by the Coalition and suggesting that folks take to the ballot box in 2015 to re-elect Mr Brown's Boys.

I wonder if Gordon Brown might become more visible during that campaign.

Mr Cook, why not look on the bright side of life, offer some positive opinions once in a while, give a balanced view and stop ranting?

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The Sentinel commented Writer should stop his ranting