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Wonkblog: Obama administration predicts significantly lower health-care enrollment

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The Obama administration announced Monday that it expects the number of people who will have gained health coverage in the next year through the Affordable Care Acts insurance marketplaces to be significantly lower than previous government predictions.

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwellsaid 9 million to 9.9 million Americans as much as 30 percent below other estimates will have insurance by the end of 2015 through fledgling federal and state insurance exchanges intended for people who cannot get affordable coverage through a job.

The figures mark the first time that the administration has made public its view of how popular the marketplaces health plans, which began to provide coverage in January, will prove in their second year. They are more cautious than estimates last spring by the Congressional Budget Office, which predicted that 13 million people would have health coverage through these insurance exchanges in 2015.

Burwell said early Monday afternoon that HHS's figures arebased on a department analysis that took into account how quickly people have tended to be drawn to other kinds of public health insurance programs when they were new, combined with predictions of how many people who bought health plans through theexchanges this year will keep them.

At a briefing for reporters earlier in the day, other HHS officials said that, as of mid-October, 7.1 million people were paying customers of health plans they had bought through the marketplaces, a slight decrease from 8 million customers just after the first, shaky enrollment period ended early last spring. The decrease is, in part, because not all customers have continued to pay their monthly insurance premiums and because the government has dropped 112,000 immigrants who did not prove that they were eligible.

Burwelldisclosed the HHSestimates five days before the second open enrollment season begins on Saturday.

The administration is touting various improvements they have made to the federal online marketplace, HealthCare.gov, in an attempt to avert a repeat of massive technical problems that frustrated customers and created political embarrassment for President Obama when the exchange first opened for people to buy health plans in October of last year.

The lower estimates alsoemerge as the health-care law, enacted in 2010 as a crowning domestic achievement of Obamas presidency, is facing new political and legal peril. Congressional Republicans, who won a Senate majority in the midterm elections last week, have vowed to continue their efforts to try to destroy the law, or at least make dents in pieces of it. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Friday said it would review the legality of a linchpin of the law: the government subsidies that are helping more than four in five people who have gotten insured so far through the federal exchange to afford their health plans.

The White House is promising a vigorous defense when the Supreme Court hears a new case involving the health care law. (AP)

In explaining the HHSpredictions, health officials said their analysis suggests that congressional budget analysts were too optimistic in assuming that enrollment in the marketplaces health plans would reach its final level within the first three years. The officials said the ramp up was more likely to take four or five years.

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New approach helps women talk to their families about cancer risk

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10-Nov-2014

Contact: Kathryn Ryan kryan@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News @LiebertOnline

New Rochelle, NY, November 10, 2014--To understand their risk for hereditary forms of cancer, such as breast and colon cancer, women need to know their family history. The design and effectiveness of a 20-minute skills-based intervention that can help women better communicate with relatives and gather and share information about cancer family history is described in a study in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/jwh.2014.4754 until December 10, 2014.

In the article "The KinFact Intervention - A Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Family Communication About Cancer History," Joann Bodurtha, MD, and coauthors from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA), and Boston University (MA), describe the Keeping Information about Family Cancer Tune-up Program (KinFact) intervention.

KinFact participants were significantly more likely to gather and share family cancer information with relatives and to communicate with them more often than were women who instead received a handout about lowering cancer risk and cancer screening. The authors found that the effectiveness of KinFact varied depending on whether women were pregnant and on their level of genetic literacy.

"Communication within families about cancer diagnoses and risk is difficult, and interventions like KinFact are useful to better understand patients' family health risks," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the official journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.

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Can HIV be transmitted via manicure instruments?

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Contact: Kathryn Ryan kryan@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News @LiebertOnline

New Rochelle, NY, November 10, 2014--The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists numerous potential alternative sources of HIV transmission in addition to the known classical modes for acquiring the AIDS virus. Although manicure instruments is not on this list of alternative sources, a case of HIV transmission that may be linked to sharing of manicure instruments is presented in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article appears in special issue on HIV Prevention Science and is available free on the AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses website at http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/aid.2014.0264 until December 10, 2014.

In the article "An HIV-1 Transmission Case Possibly Associated with Manicure Care," Elaine Monteiro Matsuda and coauthors from Santo Andr AIDS Program, Adolfo Lutz Institute, and University of So Paulo, Brazil, describe the case of a 22-year-old woman who had advanced HIV infection but no apparent risk factors for acquiring HIV. She reported having shared manicure instruments years before with a cousin who was later found to be HIV-positive. Genetic analysis of the viruses from both patients suggests that they shared a common viral ancestor, indicating the possibility that HIV was transmitted via the manicure instruments.

"HIV is not transmitted by casual contact, such as sharing eating utensils, or drinking from the same water glass," says AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses Basic Sciences Editor/Sequence Notes Brian Foley, PhD, HIV Sequence Database, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. "This transmission of HIV by shared manicure equipment is a very rare event that should serve not to make people fear HIV or contact with HIV-infected people. It should make people aware that sharing any utensils with possible blood-blood contact, such as needles used for drugs, tattoos, or acupuncture can result in transmission of viruses such as hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV. In addition, there are other common viruses and bacteria that can also be spread by sharing equipment without proper disinfection between users."

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AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, published monthly in print and online, presents papers, reviews, and case studies documenting the latest developments and research advances in the molecular biology of HIV and SIV and innovative approaches to HIV vaccine and therapeutic drug research, including the development of antiretroviral agents and immune-restorative therapies. The content also explores the molecular and cellular basis of HIV pathogenesis and HIV/HTLV epidemiology. The Journal features rapid publication of emerging sequence information and reports on clinical trials of emerging HIV therapies. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses website at http://www.liebertpub.com/aid.

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Where is 3D Printing going?

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Dr Jordan Brandt plays the role of futurist, anticipating trends that impact manufacturing industries worldwide, including 3D printing and making things on a global scale. In an exclusive interview with Krishna Bahirwani, Dr Brandt, Manufacturing Technology Futurist, Autodesk, reveals his journey to becoming one of the most established figures in the 3D Printing world

Tell me about your journey from Horizontal Systems to Autodesk. Obviously it's a big change going from a startup to a large company, but the amazing part was that we were able to tap into such broad resources and deep expertise. With such a focus on products and technology, we often forget about how many brilliant people there are behind the scenes making it all happen. On a personal level it allowed me the freedom to investigate other areas of research that I didn't previously have time to do, which is what brought me into the current futurist role.

You have experience in diverse fields rangingfrom architecture and aerospace engineering to cloud computing, was this your intended career path or is this something that happened organically along the way? I wish I could say that it was part of a grand strategy, but it was really just a result of following passions and opportunity. There were many great mentors, friends and colleagues over the years that influenced my direction. Regardless of the domain, the common theme for me has always been designing and making stuff, whether it's building a business or a mobile factory. I've never been a firm believer in industry verticals, and technology is accelerating a convergence across engineering disciplines.

If you had to hand out one life lesson to those starting out in technology, what would it be? Creativity and passion are your best assets. Use them purposefully.

Tell me about your work in 3D Printing? 3D printing is an increasingly broad domain; my near term focus is in additive, or augmented, manufacturing in which 3D printing complements existing digital processes. Injection molding, composites fabrication and casting are all being revolutionized right now and the opportunities really seem endless. Too often we idealize the Star Trek replicator and forget how the technology is transforming industry today.

What can this maker movement that seems to picking up pace, mean for India? I can't think of a place better suited to be revolutionized through makers than India. I've only spent a week in Mumbai, but the resourcefulness and creative solutions that I see in the streets is amazing. This morning we did a tour through Dharavi that demonstrated the power of natural born makers. Those slums are really a network of micro factories; clothing, aluminum, pottery and plastics all being manufactured and recycled right in the heart of the city. In particular I think there is great opportunity to manufacture 3D printed goods in Dharavi. Instead of exporting recycled plastics as a commodity, we should empower them with the tech to produce valued added products to be consumed locally here in Mumbai. What could that do for their micro-economy?

What is distributed manufacturing and why do you believe it is important? There is a strong analogy to be found in telecommunications right here in India. Instead of investing in landlines and massive infrastructure to connect rural areas, you have successfully 'leapfrogged' into mobile technology. Similarly, the cost of capital to manufacture products is dropping precipitously. Instead of centralized factories, massive ports and transportation networks, the trend will be towards smaller, distributed digital factories located much closer to the point of demand. This creates a more resilient and agile production capacity that can respond to local needs and increases transportation efficiency up to 2,000% by shipping raw material versus packaged products. In the end, people will get products designed specifically for their need using far less energy.

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Imogen Taylor: Glory Hole

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Imogen Taylor Glory Hole

15 October - 22 November Preview Wednesday 15 October 6-8pm

Michael Lett is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Imogen Taylor, her third solo exhibition with the gallery. Continuing her interest in balancing between abstraction and representation, these works carry the artists signature forms and colour palette although on a much larger scale than seen before. Taylors ongoing appreciation for a camp sensibility is apparent in this show as macho gesture of proportions; in Glory Hole size does matter.

Imogen Taylors works hold an ongoing conversation with histories of painting, both internationally and locally. References to historical movements of the 20th century, such as Futurism, Dada and Cubism, filter through her work. As large, nebulous movements, they are given more particular acknowledgment through references to the work of New Zealand painters and the histories of painting in this country. Nods to Tony Fomison, Philip Clairmont and Rita Angus create a dialogue about the lineage of painting in New Zealand that may often be considered unfashionable or irrelevant in contemporary art discourse.

Taylors revelry in what is off trend and what is mannered and ostentatious is also manifest in her material choices. Combining bright and artificial colour with hessian canvases, she creates a juxtaposition of the organic and alien. This tension produces a sense of vulnerability that is humorous and awkward. Emphasising this are the human forms and suggestions of bodily functions - penetration, secretion and taction that push through her layers of abstraction. The sensuality and potential sexuality in Taylors work is light yet enthralling. Camp, says Susan Sontag, is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. In Glory Hole Imogen Taylor presents a world where erotics are arousing, not for their anonymity or discretion, but rather their resolute presence.

Imogen Taylor (b. 1985, Whangarei) graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010 and lives and works in Auckland. Recent exhibitions include Girls Abstraction, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (group) 2014; From the Vault, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (group) 2014; New Paintings, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) 2013; and Blow Hole, Kalimanrawlins, Melbourne (solo) 2013.

_____________ [1] Sontag, Susan. Notes on Camp', Against Interpretation and Other Essays. London: Penguin, 1966.

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