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Cebu, Bohol on mag’s list of Top 5 Islands in Asia

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CEBU CITY, PhilippinesOn the day a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Cebu and Bohol, these islands landed in the Top 5 Islands in Asia list of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.

The magazine announced on Oct. 15 the winners of its 26th Annual Readers Choice Awards, which ranks the best cities, islands, cruise lines, airlines, hotels and resorts in the world. The complete list will appear in the magazines November issue.

Conde Nast said Cebu and the Visayan islands have it all, including all the shopping and restaurant needs for any traveler with the friendliest people anywhere in the world!

The night life is big here, but not as wild as Phuket, one reader said. Entertainment is smaller, more upclose and personal, he added.

The Visayan Islands in the survey included Cebu, Panay, Negros, Bohol, Leyte and Samar.

One survey taker said in all my years of traveling, Cebu is my No. 1 choice! Another said: It is probably the best island city on the universe.

Cebu and the Visayan islands got a Readers Choice Rating of 80.4 points, behind Koh Samui but ahead of Phuket. The latter two islands are in Thailand.

The Top 5 Islands in Asia with their corresponding choice ratings are: Bali, Indonesia, with 83.1 points; Koh Samui, Thailand, with 82.8 points; Phuket, (Thailand), with 78.9 points; and Lombok, Indonesia, with 77.8 points.

Readers raved about Bali for its exquisite hotels, exotic and rich culture and extraordinary food, and the sweetest people in the world.

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"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." Barack Obama Supercut – Video

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Flu shot requirement upheld for health care workers

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For some health care workers in the province the choice between being vaccinated against the flu and wearing a surgical mask at work is no choice at all.

Debbie Hodges is a psychiatric nurse at Powell River General Hospital. She risks severe allergic reaction if she comes into contact with the flu vaccine and may not be able to do her job if she is required to wear a mask while on shift.

She is one of many health care workers who took their concerns to the union, Health Sciences Association of British Columbia (HSABC), last year when the ministry of healths policy was announced last fall. It states that health care workers who do not want to take the flu vaccine must wear a surgical mask while performing duties that bring them into contact with patients during flu season, which could run from late November to March. The policy outlines progressive levels of discipline for employees who do not comply with the policy, including dismissal.

HSABC filed a grievance against the provincial policy. However, last week Robert Diebold, a BC Labour Relations Board-appointed arbitrator, ruled that the policy is a reasonable and valid exercise of the employers management rights.

Health care workers do not have to immunize; they have a choice to immunize or mask during the influenza season, wrote Diebold in his decision handed down Wednesday, October 23.

Hodges said she is not against vaccinationsjust the ones shes allergic to.

She is, however, aware that there are people who are concerned that the evidence around the flu shot is very shaky, she said.

She added shes disappointed with the ruling because it puts her into a difficult position. I work in acute psychiatry and a lot of our job is communicating and wearing a mask prohibits that, she said. Its not allowing me to be able to de-escalate situations so it could put me or other people at risk. Its just not an ideal situation.

Hodges said circumstances in her job vary and in some cases wearing a mask, while perhaps reducing her effectiveness, may work, while in others it may not. If she needs to visit the medical floor of the hospital to assess an elderly patients level of dementia she said she would wear a mask and explain to the patient why she needed to wear the mask. However, she questions how she would be able to do her job wearing a mask if a psychotic person is brought into the hospital in handcuffs.

Ive got to go down there to build rapporthow can I do that wearing a face mask? she asked. I just dont think this is good for me or my patients if I have to wear a mask. I dont think I can do my job effectively wearing a mask.

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READER SUBMITTED: Journalist Steven Brill Tells Quinnipiac Panel 'Health Care Is Overpaying Its Leaders'

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The health care industry is overpaying its leaders, according to Steven Brill, author of the Time Magazine special report, "The Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us." Brill was among the speakers taking part in the panel discussion, "Drowning in Health Care Costs: All Hands on Deck," on Monday, Oct. 28, in the auditorium at the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences on Quinnipiac University's North Haven Campus.

Patrick Charmel, president and CEO of Griffin Hospital, of Derby, and State Comptroller Kevin Lembo, who represented the perspective of the state employee plan that is experimenting with ways to reduce health care costs, joined Brill in an animated conversation aimed at answering the question: "How do we reduce health care costs and who will lead the charge?" Author and columnist Susan Campbell moderated the discussion.

Because the consumer pays the same co-pay at each provider, Charmel asserted, the current health insurance system offers no incentive to patients to seek out other health care providers that offer comparable care at less cost.

Lembo stated that there is a need to incentivize preventative care among patients and health care providers. But he raised the question: "When one hospital facility charges three times more than another hospital for the exact same artificial hip, we must ask 'what is layered into those costs to make them so different?'"

All three panelists agreed that there is a need for much more transparency about health care costs and effectiveness. Consumers should be able to better understand which providers have good outcomes and what the costs for service are.

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Gene therapy needs a hero to live up to the hype

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A modified version of the virus that causes AIDS could be the unlikely saviour of a promising treatment for a host of deadly diseases

IN TECHNOLOGY, it is called the hype cycle: what initially seems a promising breakthrough leads to inflated expectations until it becomes clear that a great deal of time, money and effort will be needed to realise that promise. Disillusionment sets in until the first real successes are reported, and then the hype is on again.

So it has gone with gene therapy. When, in the late 1980s, the genes for debilitating inherited diseases began to be identified, many believed that cures were within reach, by replacing the faulty genes with working ones. But getting the right gene into the right place without doing more harm than good proved tricky. Now, 23 years after the first gene therapy trial for a rare immune disease called ADA-SCID, researchers finally have some successes to report (see "'Bubble kid' success puts gene therapy back on track").

Still, a major barrier remains: cost. The first gene therapy drug to be approved for clinical use, to treat a pancreatic disease, is also the world's most expensive drug. At the moment, the production of modified viruses the vectors used to shuttle genes into a person's cells is prohibitively expensive, meaning only a handful of those with the diseases in question can be treated.

Pharmaceutical companies may have the means and know-how to scale up production, but inherited genetic diseases are not common. So the industry has been reluctant to invest in treatments for them, preferring instead to channel cash towards bigger killers like cancer.

By a stroke of fortune, a promising form of cancer treatment relying on immunotherapy uses the same viral vector that gene therapists are working on to treat diseases like SCID: a modified version of the virus that causes HIV. Some 700 trials using this kind of safer vector are under way, treating a range of degenerative and immune disorders.

It may seem ironic that a virus that has killed so many holds the potential to yield a cure for a host of other deadly diseases, but such is scientific progress: it comes from unexpected places. That should give fresh grounds for the pharma industry to look again at gene therapy. With a bit of ingenuity and effort, gene therapy might finally live up to the hype.

Correction: When this article was first published on 30 October 2013, the strap and standfirst confused HIV and AIDS.

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STAMFORD, Conn. -- Stamford's Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy's "Achieving Cancer Remission with Cell and Gene Therapies" event attracted more than 100 people to New York City last week.

More than 100 donors, scientists, biotech representatives and physicians attended the Tuesday night event at the Harvard Club of New York City, according to a news release.The event "highlighted recent tremendous strides made in combating cancer with cell and gene therapy treatments, and served as appreciation for donors who have committed time and funds to furthering research and clinical trials across the nation," according to the release.

Our donors have allowed top scientific minds to explore this new and promising avenue of cancer treatment, and their philanthropy is directly linked to the lives saved so far, said Barbara Netter, who co-founded the alliance in 2001 with her husband, Edward, in the release.

Netter later said that "much additional research needs to be funded in order to achieve the goal of the fully successful treatment of all types of cancer," according to the release. Netter has assumed the mantle of president of ACGT to "chart a strategic course for the organizations continued success" and further the goal, according to the release.

Guests at the evening event were treated to a reception at the Harvard Club, followed by a salutation from host Dr. Savio Woo, according to the release.

"Dr. Woo Chairman of ACGTs Scientific Advisory Council and Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City was instrumental in ACGTs founding over a decade ago," representatives said in the release.

Connie Burnett-West, a cancer survivor "who overcame a critical case lung cancer with gene and cell therapy treatment," also attended the event, according to the release.

Surgery and radiation werent options, and I was told I had limited hope for recovery, Burnett-West said in the release. But after a sixth-month course of gene therapy, Ive been in remission for over 10 years. I could not have imagined a treatment so easy and effective.

The evening also featured a presentation from three of ACGTs Research Fellows, including Carl H. June (M.D., University of Pennsylvania), Laurence Cooper (M.D., Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center) and Michel Sadelain (M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), according to the release. The three "spoke of the breakthroughs and growing momentum that gene and cell therapy has achieved with the support of ACGT," according to the release.

ACGT has the potential to provide less expensive and less harrowing cancer treatment and, ultimately, a cure, Dr. Carl June said in the release. And all of ACGTs life-saving work was funded through philanthropy.

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