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MONKEY CANCER VIRUS in VACCINES, JFK Assassination & GLOBAL EPIDEMICS – Video

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U.K. doctor is new UBC dean of medicine

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The new dean of the University of B.C. medical school is an Irish gastroenterologist who for nearly three years has run one of the worlds top ranked medical schools.

Dr. Dermot Kelleher will move to Vancouver from London, England this summer after he leaves his post there as vice-president, health, and dean of medicine at Imperial College. He will take up his new duties here on Sept. 1.

The medical school at Imperial College, one of the largest in the United Kingdom, is about the same size as UBCs. It is affiliated with a similar number of teaching hospitals and is strongly focused on research. Like UBC, it is highly competitive and selective in its admissions process. According to QS World Universities Rankings, Imperial is ranked 10th out of the top 50 medical schools, while UBC is ranked 39th, third in Canada after the University of Toronto (14th) and McGill (26th).

Recently, Imperial College was engulfed in a controversy. According to British newspaper coverage and reports in the reputable publication Times Higher Education, a medical school professor, Stefan Grimm, took his own life last fall. He left an email that accused unnamed superiors of bullying through demands that he garner more research grants. The college said it would set up an internal inquiry into the circumstances around the toxicology professors death, the results of which have not been released.

Kelleher could not be reached for comment Monday but UBC provost Dave Farrar said the search was global and there were several top-notch candidates. Kelleher, Farrar said, has no personal connections to B.C. but is excited about leading an academic health science network and medical school with satellite campuses throughout the province.

Kelleher will succeed Dr. Gavin Stuart who has been dean for 12 years, overseeing the medical schools successful expansion to Prince George, Kelowna and Victoria. Kelleher, who will be paid about $500,000, said in a news release posted on the medical school website that hes honoured to succeed Stuart:

He has developed a vibrant organization combining excellence in education, biomedical science and population health with the capability to lead internationally in health care delivery.

Kelleher will be at the Vancouver campus March 6 to speak to faculty and students.

UBC medical school accepted its first students in 1950. It has 677 full-time faculty, 6,059 part-time clinical instructors, 1,146 medical undergraduates, and 1,169 postgraduate residents pursuing specialty training.

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The new dean of the University of B.C. medical school is an Irish gastroenterologist who for nearly three years has run one of the worlds top ranked medical schools.

Dr. Dermot Kelleher will move to Vancouver from London, England this summer after he leaves his post there as vice-president, health, and dean of medicine at Imperial College. He will take up his new duties here on Sept. 1.

The medical school at Imperial College, one of the largest in the United Kingdom, is about the same size as UBCs. It is affiliated with a similar number of teaching hospitals and is strongly focused on research. Like UBC, it is highly competitive and selective in its admissions process. According to QS World Universities Rankings, Imperial is ranked 10th out of the top 50 medical schools, while UBC is ranked 39th, third in Canada after the University of Toronto (14th) and McGill (26th).

Recently, Imperial College was engulfed in a controversy. According to British newspaper coverage and reports in the reputable publication Times Higher Education, a medical school professor, Stefan Grimm, took his own life last fall. He left an email that accused unnamed superiors of bullying through demands that he garner more research grants. The college said it would set up an internal inquiry into the circumstances around the toxicology professors death, the results of which have not been released.

Kelleher could not be reached for comment Monday but UBC provost Dave Farrar said the search was global and there were several top-notch candidates. Kelleher, Farrar said, has no personal connections to B.C. but is excited about leading an academic health science network and medical school with satellite campuses throughout the province.

Kelleher will succeed Dr. Gavin Stuart who has been dean for 12 years, overseeing the medical schools successful expansion to Prince George, Kelowna and Victoria. Kelleher, who will be paid about $500,000, said in a news release posted on the medical school website that hes honoured to succeed Stuart:

He has developed a vibrant organization combining excellence in education, biomedical science and population health with the capability to lead internationally in health care delivery.

Kelleher will be at the Vancouver campus March 6 to speak to faculty and students.

UBC medical school accepted its first students in 1950. It has 677 full-time faculty, 6,059 part-time clinical instructors, 1,146 medical undergraduates, and 1,169 postgraduate residents pursuing specialty training.

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U.S. faces 90,000 doctor shortage by 2025, medical school association warns

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The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical schools and teaching hospitals reported Tuesday.

The nation's shortage of primary care physicians has received considerable attention in recent years, but the Association of American Medical Colleges report predicts that the greatest shortfall, on a percentage basis, will be in the demand for surgeons especially those who treat diseases more common to older people, such as cancer.

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In addition to the growing and aging population, full implementation of the Affordable Care Act in all 50 states would increase demand for doctors as more people are covered by insurance. But Obamacare's impact will be small just 2 percent of the projected growth in demand, the organization said. The supply of doctors also will grow but not nearly as quickly as the need, officials said.

"An increasingly older, sicker population, as well as people living longer with chronic diseases, such as cancer, is the reason for the increased demand," Darrell G. Kirch, the AAMC's president and chief executive, told reporters during a telephone news briefing.

The organization called on Congress to raise the federal cap on slots for medical residents at teaching hospitals by 3,000 annually, at a cost it estimated would be about $1 billion per year. The government provides its $40,000 share of the cost of training each U.S. physician estimated at about $152,000 annually via the Medicare program. Currently, those hospitals train 27,000 to 29,000 doctors each year.

In 2013, there were about 767,000 doctors practicing in the United States, according to the report.

Policymakers have debated the doctor shortage for years, with some arguing that certain types of doctors are clustered in cities and affluent areas, leaving rural and poor Americans critically underserved. The government runs programs to encourage doctors, especially primary care physicians, to practice in shortage areas. Some states help doctors pay off their medical school debt, which can run into six figures, if they agree to practice in underserved parts of the country.

In a 2013 paper in the journal Health Affairs, Linda Green, a mathematician who studies the health care system, argued that the projected shortage of primary care doctors may not occur. The move toward larger practices, which enable physicians to share support staff and office space, can allow them to take on more patients. And the increasing use of physician assistants and nurse practitioners will have the same effect, she wrote.

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Liberty Mutual tops 2014 with strong fourth quarter profit

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A focus on deliberate underwriting actions and solid investment results boosted profits and premiums in 2014 for Liberty Mutual Holding Co., though the insurers workers compensation business declined last year.

Liberty Mutual reported net income of $559 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 12.7% from the fourth quarter of 2013. Revenues for the fourth quarter last year reached $9.95 billion, down slightly from $9.96 billion the same period in 2013.

Liberty Mutual said its net written premiums increased 1.1% to $8.86 billion in the recent quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2013.

Deliberate underwriting actions and solid investment results led to net operating income of $2.2 billion for the year, an increase of 16% despite higher catastrophe losses and continued low interest rates, Liberty Mutual Chairman and CEO David H. Long said in a statement.

Net income for 2014 reached $1.83 billion for Liberty Mutual, up 5.2% from the prior year, while revenues for the full year climbed 3.2% to $39.63 billion last year.

Liberty Mutual net written premiums reached $36.28 billion for 2014, up from 3.3% from the prior year. The company reported a combined ratio of 97.5% last year, down from 99.7% in 2013.

Despite overall improvements in Liberty Mutuals business, the insurer reported lower premiums last year for its workers comp segment.

Net written premiums for voluntary market workers comp policies declined to $479 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, down 12.9% from the fourth quarter of 2013. Voluntary workers comp net written premiums decreased to $2.15 billion for all of 2014, down 14% from the prior year.

Mr. Long said last year that the insurer is attempting to reduce its workers comp exposures. The company is the second largest workers comp insurer behind Travelers Cos. Inc., according to 2014 data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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Libertarian candidate hopeful for 2015

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The official Libertarian candidate for the upcoming federal election in the riding of Lakeland has no illusions about his chances.

Allen Kenneth Paley was born and raised in the Lakeland area. Born in Pierceland, Saskatchewan, Paley lived outside Bonnyville for most of his early life, later going to school in Red Deer until Grade 10, when he came back to Elk Point and finished his high school career. With the exception of a year spent in Vancouver, Paley has been living and working in the Lakeland area ever since. He now works with SAGD technology in the oil patch.

Paleys political awareness became a part of his life after the death of his father in Bonnyville. After his passing, Paley inherited his fathers guns, and began to read up on the legal framework regarding firearms in Canada. He soon grew frustrated with rules that he saw as draconian, and became a supporter of the Conservative Party. However, he later distanced himself from the party in 2013.

As time went on, I discovered they were perhaps not all that they presented themselves to be, said Paley. It seemed to me that they were merely giving lip service to the firearms community. Once I took off those rose coloured glasses, it became clear to me that it wasnt the right fit for me.

Fresh off the dissatisfaction of the Conservative Party, Paley found an online community of podcasts and Internet radio that proposed ideas that sounded more appealing than what he had been hearing. Paley read up on the Libertarian movement, and agreed with the idea of a more limited government.

Some of the hardliners will say that taxation is theft, and there are arguments to support that, said Paley. However were not trying to seize the levers of government to abolish it on our first day. We are stepping into the arena to make improvements to things.

Paley is now getting ready to submit papers and enter the political arena. It will be his first time running for office, and he said that he hopes to find support within the Lakeland riding. A clear policy platform is not yet down on paper, but privacy is one thing Paley plans to focus on, with the controversial Bill-C51 making its way through Ottawa.

Were opposed to the C-51 bill, said Paley. We can look back a decade, and our neighbour to the south rolled out this kind of policy, and look where its gotten them.

Tax reform is also a key talking point for Paley, with the proposal of a 15 per cent flat tax across the country replacing the current tax system, and the raising of the personal tax exemption to $17,000 from $12,000, and the ending of corporate welfare.

As for the success of the party in Lakeland, Paley said that he has no illusions about what will happen in the election.

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