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China and Japan have crossed swords again over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, just days after the first summit by their top leaders which gave hope for improvement in their rocky ties.
A spokesman for China's embassy in Japan yesterday criticised Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida for his remarks that Japan has not changed its position that the East China Sea islands administered by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing are not in dispute.
According to Japanese media reports, Kishida also said at a press conference on Tuesday that maritime tensions between both countries were caused by China's air defence identification zone in the East China Sea and activities by Chinese fishermen in the waters nearby.
"We express serious concern and opposition to comments from the Japanese," said the spokesman for the Chinese Embassy.
"Diaoyu islands are Chinese territory. The meaning and spirit of the four-point consensus reached by both sides days ago are clear."
The territorial dispute, which sparked turmoil in bilateral ties after Japan nationalised some of the islands in Sept 2012, was a key part of a four-point agreement reached by both sides last Friday.
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BETHESDA, MD - The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) has named Robert R. Gotwals, Jr., M.S., chemistry and research instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) in Durham, the 2014 recipient of its Genetics Education Award.
This annual award recognizes innovative, student-centered classroom instruction to promote the understanding of genetics and its impact on inheritance, health, and biological research. Sponsored by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the award will be presented to Mr. Gotwals on Saturday, November 15, during NABT's 2014 Professional Development Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to a recognition plaque and a year of complimentary membership to NABT, GSA, and ASHG, Mr. Gotwals will receive a $1000 cash prize.
Mr. Gotwals, who holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry and master's degrees in science education and education for the hearing-impaired, has developed resources related to research and computational chemistry for both students and teachers. In particular, he worked with the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, to create and implement a program for high school students to conduct genetics research. Using videoconferencing, students in the program collaborate with Jackson Laboratory scientists to analyze complex genetic and genomic data obtained from disease studies in mice.
"NABT is proud to recognize Mr. Gotwals as its first Genetics Education Award recipient," said Priya DasSarma, M.S., of the University of Maryland, chair of the NABT Awards Committee. "He has impressive genetics education credentials, including producing a video, 'DNA: The Secret of Life,' with Dr. James D. Watson. He is an ideal messenger for high school students, motivating them to analyze data coming down the bioinformatics, genomic, and genetic pipelines along with researchers in a fruitful collaboration," she said.
In addition, Mr. Gotwals developed the North Carolina High School Computational Chemistry server, which he continues to support; and curricula in general chemistry, research methods, and computational sciences, which he has taught at NCSSM since 2006.
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Award Presentation: The 2014 NABT Genetics Education Award will be presented at the NABT Honors Luncheon on Saturday, November 15, 2014, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in Junior Ballroom A at the Cleveland Convention Center. Tickets are required.
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In 2015, employees will pay 55% more for health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical bills than they did in 2010, according to a report Thursday from human resources company Aon Hewitt.
The average worker with employer-sponsored health insurance will pay about $2,664, or nearly 24% of the total cost of their plan next year. Five years ago, employees paid $1,835, which worked out to 22.3% of the total premium payment.
What's more, employees will pay an average of $2,487 in out-of-pocket costs, such as copayments, coinsurance and deductibles next year. That's nearly double what employees paid in 2009, when those costs amounted to $1,276.
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The increase comes after a period in which the weak economy kept insurance costs from rising too much. But with the job market now improving, employees are spending more on health care and other "discretionary items," said Tim Nimmer, chief health care actuary at Aon Hewit.
Related: Obamacare enrollment unlikely to meet 2015 goal
Overall, average health care costs are expected to rise to $11,304 per employee in 2015, up 5.5% from $10,717 in 2014.
The figures are based on data from 561 large U.S. companies with 13 million insured employees.
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WASHINGTON The Republican Party's ardent campaign against President Barack Obama's health care law gained new momentum Wednesday as lawmakers reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way to pass Congress.
On both sides of the Capitol, leading conservatives said they may call economist Jonathan Gruber to testify about his remarks, which were made last year and surfaced this week in a video on social media. In the video, Gruber suggests that the administration's signature health care legislation passed in part because of the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" over its funding mechanisms.
"The strategy was to hide the truth from the American people," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who is to chair the Senate Budget Committee next year. "That is a threat to the American republic."
Gruber has been a complicated figure in the history of the health care law. He helped the Obama administration craft the measure and has been a leading advocate of it, but he has also made sporadic comments sparking political brushfires that have been problematic for the law's supporters. In the recently surfaced video, Gruber expresses frustration with the political process surrounding the law, rather than with the law itself.
The White House sought Wednesday to distance itself from Gruber and his comments.
"The Affordable Care Act was publicly debated over the course of 14 months, with dozens of congressional hearings, and countless town halls, speeches and debates," White House spokeswoman Jessica Santillo said in a statement. "The tax credits in the law that help millions of middle-class Americans afford coverage were no secret, and in fact were central to the legislation. Not only do we disagree with (Gruber's) comments, they're simply not true."
Nevertheless, the widely circulated video has again made the health care law a primary focus for congressional Republicans, even after an election in which the party played down its zeal to repeal it. Now, rank-and-file conservatives and their grass roots supporters are using the Gruber video to pressure congressional leaders to be more aggressive in their efforts to dismantle the law.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and an influential tea party voice, said House Republicans may hold hearings on the matter, given the intensity of the reaction.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said House leadership is also closely monitoring reaction to the video. "(Gruber's) comments are a sad reminder that this awful law was passed in the worst possible way, with lies, secrecy and more lies from Washington Democrats," he said in an email.
According to his allies, Boehner plans to gauge the reaction among his members this morning at a closed-door conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol.
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WASHINGTON The questions kept coming up across Michigan as soon as the Supreme Court said it would take up a case that could reshape the Affordable Care Act by ending insurance subsidies in many states.
Dizzy Warren, director of Michigan's biggest health-care enrollment group, dealt with it in her presentation to health- care advocates last week in Detroit, then again on Wednesday's conference call with 57 workers: What do we do now?
Her answer? "Keep calm and keep enrolling," she said.
Organizers are bracing for more skepticism and confusion as the second year of enrollment begins this weekend under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which has promised health insurance to tens of millions of Americans without it. In the past two weeks, Republicans won control of Congress and pledged to chip away at the law, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case that challenges who's eligible for insurance subsidies, and the Obama administration lowered the bar for its enrollment goals.
Now comes the toughest challenge: signing up uninsured Americans who are confused, clueless or downright hostile to the programs available for them.
"It seems like the program itself is trending in the wrong direction, not in the right direction," said Les Funtleyder, a health-care portfolio manager at ESquared Asset Management in New York. "Momentum seems to be going against them, not for them."
The administration said this week it expects coverage to expand to about 10 million at most 2 million more than this year and 3 million fewer than congressional budget analysts had estimated.
Open enrollment runs from Nov. 15 to Feb. 15, and until recently, the administration's allies said they hadn't heard much from the government about its plans for the year. That began to change with a brief conference call Nov. 7 with President Barack Obama and his health secretary, Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
"We are confident that we are going to have a successful open enrollment," Burwell said this week at an event hosted by the Democratic-aligned Center for American Progress. Success, she said, means that the Affordable Care Act continues to dent the "fundamental number," the U.S. uninsured rate, which is down about four percentage points this year to 13.4 percent, according to Gallup.
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Small business owners are less angst-ridden about health care than you might think.
Health care costs are second among owners' major concerns in a survey released Thursday by Bank of America. Seventy-two percent cited health care costs as a big concern, down from 74 percent in a similar survey in the spring. The No. 1 concern was the effectiveness of government leaders, cited by 74 percent versus 75 percent in the spring.
Owners are less worried about health care now that they've seen what insurance under the health care law looks like and costs. Uncertainty about the law had intensified owners' concerns. And surveys taken before the new insurance began selling last year showed owners were extremely anxious about whether the law would continue to drive premiums higher.
"There used to be regular double-digit, sometimes triple-digit premium increases and now we're seeing increases of often under 5 percent," says John Arensmeyer, CEO of the advocacy group Small Business Majority.
The law has increased competition among health insurers, and that has helped lower premiums and in turn, owners' anxiety, Arensmeyer says.
The Bank of America survey, taken last month, also found oil, gas and other commodities, are much less of a concern, cited by 63 percent of owners, down from 70 percent in the spring. Energy prices have receded as a major worry as the national average price of gasoline has fallen below $3 a gallon from nearly $3.70 in April.
The survey, which questioned 1,000 owners, found they're modestly upbeat about national and local economies. Forty-five percent expect the national economy to grow in the next 12 months, up from 40 percent in the spring. Half predict growth in their local economies, down slightly from 51 percent.
They're slightly less upbeat about their companies. Sixty-two percent expect their revenue to grow over the next year, down from 68 percent in the spring. Owners of the largest small businesses, those with $750,000 to $5 million in revenue, were the most optimistic; 70 percent predicted revenue growth.
Surveys of small business owners have had differing conclusions in recent months, making it hard to draw conclusions about small companies in general. An American Express survey of 1,130 owners in September showed 63 percent were upbeat about their companies and the economy, up from 54 percent in the spring.
The expected drop in revenue in the Bank of America survey coincided with a modest dip in hiring and expansion plans. Forty-one percent said they plan to take on new employees in the next 12 months, down from 43 percent in the spring. Twenty-four percent said they don't plan to expand in the next year, up from 21 percent.
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(TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 13, 2014) - Prostate cancer researchers have developed a genetic test to identify which men are at highest risk for their prostate cancer to come back after localized treatment with surgery or radiotherapy.
The findings are published online today in Lancet Oncology. Study co-leads Dr. Robert Bristow, a clinician-scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Dr. Paul Boutros, an investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, report that the gene test provides a much-needed quick and accurate tool to determine with greater precision the men who will do well with local treatment only (surgery or radiation), and those who will need extra treatment (chemotherapy and hormone therapy) to ensure the cancer is completely eradicated. Dr. Bristow talks about the research at http://youtu.be/7dZyVm_y5WU
"Our findings set the stage to tackle the ongoing clinical problem of under-treating men with aggressive disease that will recur in 30% to 50% of patients due to hidden, microscopic disease that is already outside the prostate gland during initial treatment," says Dr. Bristow.
"This genetic test could increase cure rates in intermediate- to high-risk men by preventing progression to this metastatic spread of prostate cancer." The next step will be testing the gene signature on many more patients worldwide for three to five years to turn the test into one that is readily available in the clinic to guide personalized prostate cancer treatments.
The predictive test analyses biopsy tissue taken before treatment even starts to identify abnormal genetic characteristics (abnormal DNA) of the prostate cancer and its oxygen content. Low oxygen, or hypoxia, is an already known factor in the spread of prostate cancer. Together, this information can predict with almost 80% accuracy - and in about three days - those prostate cancer patients who are at greatest risk of their disease returning, the study shows.
"The clinical potential is enormous for thousands of patients," says Dr. Bristow. "This is personalized cancer medicine to the hilt - the ability to provide more targeted treatment to patients based on their unique cancer genetic fingerprint plus what's going on in the cancer cell's surrounding environment. We hope to improve cure rates by reducing the chances of the cancer recurring and prevent the cells from spreading."
The researchers developed the genetic test with two groups of patients. In the first group, the team analyzed DNA from initial diagnostic biopsies of 126 men who were treated with image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and followed for an average 7.8 years. In the second group, the team used the test on 150 men whose tumours were removed surgically (radical prostatectomy). The genetic test produced similar results in both groups and therefore can be used in patients who choose radiotherapy or surgery as their initial treatment.
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Prostate cancer researchers develop personalized genetic test to predict recurrence risk
CTVNews.ca Staff Published Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:30PM EST Last Updated Wednesday, November 12, 2014 8:47PM EST
Canadian researchers have developed a new genetic test to identify prostate cancer patients who are at highest risk of recurrence after surgery or radiotherapy.
By analyzing DNA from diagnostic biopsies of men who underwent either surgery or image-guided radiotherapy to treat their prostate cancer, the researchers came up with a test that can determine with greater precision which men will need extra treatment, such as chemotherapy, to ensure that the cancer is eradicated.
The findings were published online Tuesday in the Lancet Oncology journal.
This genetic test could increase cure rates in intermediate- to high-risk men by preventing progression to this metastatic spread of prostate cancer, Dr. Robert Bristow, a clinician-scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, said in a news release.
The test is currently still in research mode, Bristow told The Canadian Press. The hope is that the test will be validated, approved by Health Canada and ready for use in five years.
Bristow is the co-lead of the study, along with Dr. Paul Boutros, an investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
Hypoxia, or low oxygen, is a known factor is the spread of prostate cancer. The newly developed test can identify the cancers oxygen content, as well as the tumours abnormal genetic characteristics to determine which patients are at greatest risk of their prostate cancer returning, the study says.
The study showed that, among patients whose tumours had low levels of genetic changes and low hypoxia, the cancer recurrence rate was lower than seven per cent after five years.
Men with high levels of genetic changes and high hypoxia had much worse outcomes. More than 50 per cent of those patients had a recurrence of cancer.
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