| Israeli Prime Minister Olmert discloses he has 'treatable' prostate ...
Olmert, who is 62, called in reporters Monday and disclosed, calmly and matter-of-factly, that he has a cancerous tumor in his prostate gland, and he will have to undergo surgery to remove it. There is never a good time for such news, but the announcement comes at a particularly sensitive time -- just as preparations are in full swing for a Mideast conference in the U.S., called by President Bush to push Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts forward. Olmert insisted the ailment and its treatment will not detract from his ability to run his country, and U.S. and European officials said his condition was not likely to delay the gathering. Olmert's Palestinian counterpart in the talks, President Mahmoud Abbas himself battled prostate cancer, undergoing surgery in Washington in 2001.
Novel physiological states identified for malaria parasite
The malaria parasite has been studied for decades, but surprisingly, little is known about how it behaves in humans to cause disease. In a groundbreaking study published in the advance online edition of Nature, an international research team has for the first time measured which of the parasite's genes are turned on or off during actual infection in humans, not in cell cultures, unearthing surprising behaviours and opening a window on the most critical aspects of parasite biology.
That insight springs from the genomic analysis of parasites in their natural state, derived directly from patients residing in Senegal, and also from the researchers' use of innovative computational approaches to interpret their results. These computational methods helped to identify three distinct biological states of the malaria parasite: an active growth-based state, a starvation response and an environmental stress response, presumably related to the body's inflammatory response to the parasite.
Resonant Hosts First Breast IGRT Symposium At The American Society For ...
Resonant Medical hosted the first Breast Image-Guided Radiotherapy Symposium at the 49th annual ASTRO meeting held in Los-Angeles. At this Symposium American and International Radiation Oncologists discussed and explored the need and future opportunities for image guidance in the planning and delivery of radiotherapy to breast cancer patients.
"Our research is demonstrating that ultrasound IGRT offers an excellent non-ionizing solution for localizing the lumpectomy cavity on a daily basis. The Symposium was a great opportunity to share our perspectives on ground-breaking approaches and discuss their positive impact with so many colleagues from across the nation", expressed Dr R Heimann, radiation oncologist at the Fletcher Allen Health Center in Burlington, Vermont, one of the panellists of the conference.
Comedian, impressionist Little brings act to Capital City
I don't know what the future holds for me, but if Hillary becomes president, I may be in big trouble!" Although Little does do some female impressions, such as Dr. Ruth, Carol Channing and Jean Stapleton, he said Clinton would be tough to mimic at the moment. "She needs to develop a lisp or a rasp or twitch to make her a little more distinctive," said Little. But should she win in November, "with the pressure of becoming president she may get one!" As for impersonating today's hot, young movie stars, Little also laments their lack of distinguishing voices and body language. "So many of the stars of the silver-screen era had distinctive voices, walks, hand gestures and facial mannerisms," said Little. "But how do you do Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp or Leonardo Dicaprio? Their acting is good, but their voices just aren't that distinctive.
School, Lindsay Roberts deny all
Oral Roberts University and its president's wife, Lindsay Roberts, issued written statements Saturday saying that claims and accusations added to a lawsuit Friday are untrue.
A report attached to the lawsuit Friday contains allegations that Roberts, 51, spent a great deal of time with an underage male.
"I live my life in a morally upright manner and throughout my marriage have never, ever engaged in any sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage as the accusations imply," Roberts said in her statement.
"Allegations against me in a lawsuit .
Sonoma moves on without Nativity
You have to give equal opportunity to a menorah, you have to give equal opportunity to any religion's symbol any time of the year."
Meanwhile, a group of people has started gathering at 5 p.m Thursdays to enact a living Nativity scene on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, a public place where groups have mounted demonstrations calling for an end to the Iraq war and for impeachment of President Bush.
"It is just a bunch of citizens, a group of people who realized during the debate on this issue the council had no issues with using the sidewalk to do their public display," said Councilman Ken Brown, who also supported the Nativity scene. "It was galvanized by the council decision."
The city of Sonoma had permitted a Nativity scene for decades before the council voted in 1990 to ban any displays of solely religious messages.
3 of family killed in hit-and-run case
Migrants also have high incidence of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) and reproductive tract infections (RTIs), making them more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. In the last evaluation conducted on HIV/AIDS targeted intervention projects being run to cover rickshaw-pullers and migrants from Colony no 4, the Department of Community Medicine, PGI had showed links between migration and risk to HIV/AIDS. Sharing the findings of the study with a group of development experts gathered at Parwanoo to discuss the implications of the issue today, Dr Lakshmi from the PGI said 10 to 15 per cent rickshaw-pullers and migrants inhabiting Colony number 4 had STIs and RTIs. Among rickshaw-pullers, who were surveyed during the evaluation of projects being run by the State AIDS Control Society some time ago, experts found that 3 per cent of them had pus formations in the genitalia; 10 to 12 per cent of wives of the surveyed rickshaw-pullers had the problem of pustules and ulcers.
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