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Study of aging in Group Health patients aims to prevent dementia, including Alzheimer's
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Every two years, 2,000 senior Group Health patients check in with the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study. The joint project between Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington (UW) focuses on finding ways to delay or prevent dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and declines in memory and thinking. It aims to deepen understanding of how the body—especially the brain—ages.....
The ACT study has learned many lessons to date, published in nearly 250 scientific articles. The study is known best for findings about the benefits of physical activity:
Regular exercise is linked to reduced risk of dem...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 19, 2009 Category: Dementia Tags: alzheimer study aging dementia prevention Source Type: blogs
Regina Brett, 90 years youngEmail this article to a colleague.
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This was written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.
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"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It
is the most-requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
parents will. Stay in touch.
...
Source: Ψ Dare To Dream... - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Mental Health and Aging expectations Regina Brett wisdom Source Type: blogs
Anxiety Lowers Mortality Of The Depressed?Email this article to a colleague.
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The direction of causation is not clear but a little bit of anxiety might be good for your health. Depressed smokers must have terrible life expectancy. A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking. Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years following the survey, the mortality risk was increased to a similar extent in people who were depressed as in people who wer...
Source: FuturePundit - November 19, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Studies Source Type: blogs
Council on the Ageing Society, at the Summit of the Global AgendaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Heading to Dubai today (a 15-hour direct flight!), coming back to San Francisco next Monday.
Last year I wrote about this remarkable new initiative by the World Economic Forum here (proposal) and here (reflections, emerging discussion). This year’s update:
Overview: Network of Global Agenda Councils
List of Councils: Here
List of Members: Here
Members of Ageing Society Council: Here
Info on 2009 Summit: Here
Report from 2008 Summit: Here (opens PDF in new window)
Twitter: #WEFDubai. Will tweet during the event, and blog about it next week. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - November 18, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Brain Fitness Industry Health & Wellness ageing ageing society aging aging-society Dubai Summit of the Global Agenda World-Economic-Forum Source Type: blogs
john hoeffel, LAtimes: da cooley vows to prosecute medical cannabis dispensaries regardless of law (2067)Email this article to a colleague.
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D.A. chides L.A. council, says he’ll target pot dispensaries
Steve Cooley insists sites that sell marijuana are violating state law and will be prosecuted. Of the City Council’s effort to pass an ordinance, he says: ‘Quite frankly we’re ignoring them.’
By John Hoeffel
November 18, 2009
With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if the city’s leaders decide to allow those transactions.
“Th...
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john hoeffel, LA now: da cooley says he will prosecute medical cannabis dispensaries over cash reimbursements despite city’s ordinance (2066)Email this article to a colleague.
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D.A. will prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries — even if L.A. does not ban sales [Updated]
“It makes no sense to play political football with people’s lives.” says councilmember Reyes in update below [after jump],
by John Hoeffel
November 17, 2009
Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said today he will prosecute dispensaries that sell medical marijuana even if the Los Angeles City Council adopts an ordinance that does not ban such sales.
On Monday, two council committees rejected the city attorney’s advice and changed a provision in the proposed ordinance, allowing cash transactions as long as they complied with sta...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: 2 council committees reject trutanich’s 5th medical cannabis draft ordinance & support cash reimbursements (2065)Email this article to a colleague.
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In rebuff to city attorney, council committees support pot dispensaries
Rejecting advice that Los Angeles must ban sales, lawmakers endorse patients’ cash contributions to outlets, which cannot make a profit.
By John Hoeffel
November 16, 2009
Two Los Angeles City Council committees rejected the advice of the city attorney and voted Monday to approve an ordinance that allows marijuana dispensaries to continue to sell the drug to people with a doctor’s recommendation.
The city attorney’s office has maintained for a year and a half that Los Angeles has no choice but to ban sales because state law and court ...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: weho’s medical cannabis regs working just fine (2064)Email this article to a colleague.
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West Hollywood’s medical marijuana success story
The small city enforces a strict ordinance and eliminates the drama that plagues L.A.
By John Hoeffel
November 16, 2009
A few miles from Los Angeles City Hall, a small experiment in marijuana regulation has been underway for years. While the state’s largest city passed a flawed moratorium, failed to enforce it, debated proposed rules endlessly and watched flummoxed as dispensaries multiplied, West Hollywood pressed ahead.
Confronted with its own dispensary explosion in 2005, the city surrounded by L.A. imposed a moratorium on dispensaries, clamped interim rules ...
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barbara boxer, courage campaign: please sign petition opposing stupak anti-choice abortion amendment (2063)Email this article to a colleague.
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We are honored to have Senator Barbara Boxer share with Courage Campaign members her commitment to strip the horrific Stupak Amendment from any healthcare reform bill and pass true health care reform. Her message is powerful. We need to show her — and the nation — that thousands and thousands of us stand with her by signing the petition. –Rick Jacobs, Chair, Courage Campaign
Dear Friend,
Ten days ago, the House passed the Stupak Amendment, which would be one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health in recent decades - unless we stand together and stop it.
That’s why we are launc...
Source: aids-write.org - November 17, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action barak obama beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm gay hiv/ai Source Type: blogs
john hoeffel, LA now: city council joint committee scraps trutanich’s medical cannabis “cultivation only” ordinance draft (2062)Email this article to a colleague.
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L.A. City Council panels reject ban on medical marijuana sales
John Hoeffel at City Hall
November 16, 2009
Rejecting the advice of the city attorney, two Los Angeles City Council committees voted today to scrap a proposed provision that would have banned the sale of medical marijuana.
The controversial measure, first proposed a year and a half ago, delayed deliberations as council members debated the wisdom of ignoring the opinion of the city’s top prosecutor. But about four hours into a raucous hearing, council members made it clear they were ready to move on.
“When can we finally stop the merry-go-round?R...
Source: aids-write.org - November 17, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs
Folic Acid Boosts Cancer Risk?Email this article to a colleague.
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A vitamin boosts cancer risk? Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin B12, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. Most epidemiological studies have found inverse associations between folate (a B vitamin) intake and risk of colorectal cancer, although such associations have been inconsistent or absent for other cancers, according to background information in the article. Experimental evidence suggests that folate deficiency m...
Source: FuturePundit - November 17, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Cancer Studies Source Type: blogs
franklin avenue blog: atomic cafe hosts rest stop in 11-21 “great los angeles walk 2009″ (2061)Email this article to a colleague.
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Mid-City Gets Into the Great Los Angeles Walk Spirit November 12, 2009 GREAT NEWS from the Mid-City Neighborhood Council! They’ll be sponsoring a water and supply station for this year’s Great LA Walk! Here are the details, from Bruce Durbin of the Mid City Neighborhood Council:
The Mid City Neighborhood Council is going to sponsor a “Water & Supply Station” for the Great LA Walk. We will be setting up a table outside the Atomic Cafe, located at 5001 W. Washington Blvd. (on Washington, a block west of La Brea). We will have free bottled water, snacks, sunscreen/band-aids, and also a limited numb...
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Low Vitamin D Boosts Heart Death Risks?Email this article to a colleague.
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Okay, weeks have gone by without a vitamin D post. Well, with big turkeys on the horizon it is time to think about heart health. Patients over 50 years old with the lowest vitamin D levels died at higher rates. MURRAY, UT While mothers have known that feeding their kids milk builds strong bones, a new study by researchers at the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City suggests that Vitamin D contributes to a strong and healthy heart as well and that inadequate levels of the vitamin may significantly increase a person's risk of stroke, heart disease, and death, even among people who've never ...
Source: FuturePundit - November 16, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Heart Studies Source Type: blogs
m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 2— unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2060)Email this article to a colleague.
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Pesticides & Politics, Part 2
the second of two guest blogs
concerning medical cannabis safety
by M. Backes
November 11, 2009
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office found 5.25% of the cannabis samples tested from purchases made at Los Angeles dispensaries (3 out of 52 samples) to contain pesticide residues. Legal thresholds of pesticide residue on cannabis have not yet been established by the EPA or CDPR. By comparison, when the CDPR tests fresh ginger root purchased from California supermarkets, it has found that 5% of samples contain illegally high levels of pesticide residues.
Questions:
Should California state ...
Source: aids-write.org - November 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs
m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 1—unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2059)Email this article to a colleague.
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Pesticides & Politics, part 1
(This is a guest blog
by M. Backes,
responding to allegations by
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
about pesticides on medical cannabis.)
October 15, 2009
LA City Attorney, Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich, has been all over the media trying to convince Los Angeles that a pesticide used to kill Mexican fire ants is evidence that medical cannabis provided by dispensaries is poisonous and supporting Mexican drug cartels. Having abandoned the flawed interpretation of the California Supreme Court’s decision in People v. Mentch, Mr. Trutanich and LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley have now la...
Source: aids-write.org - November 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs
john hoeffel, latimes: AMA jumps into medical cannabis fray (2058)Email this article to a colleague.
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Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group
The American Medical Assn. changes its policy to promote clinical research and development of cannabis-based medicines and alternative delivery methods.
By John Hoeffel
November 11, 2009
The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research.
The nation’s largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, the AMA has maintained since 1997 that marijuana sho...
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High Selenium Boosts Blood Cholesterol?Email this article to a colleague.
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Too much selenium probably boost blood cholesterol. A new study from the University of Warwick has discovered taking too much of the essential mineral selenium in your diet can increase your cholesterol by almost 10%. Selenium is a trace essential mineral with anti-oxidant properties. The body naturally absorbs selenium from foods such as vegetables, meat and seafood. However, when the balance is altered and the body absorbs too much selenium, such as through taking selenium supplements, it can have adverse affects. A team led by Dr Saverio Stranges at the University's Warwick Medical School has found high leve...
Source: FuturePundit - November 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Heart Studies Source Type: blogs
Drugs Better Than Diet For Cancer Prevention?Email this article to a colleague.
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Gina Kolata, writing in the New York Times talks to a lot of top medical researchers and reports on cancer-preventing drugs that go unused and the many disappointing diet and vitamin interventions for cancer prevention. Many Americans do not think twice about taking medicines to prevent heart disease and stroke. But cancer is different. Much of what Americans do in the name of warding off cancer has not been shown to matter, and some things are actually harmful. Yet the few medicines proved to deter cancer are widely ignored. The article does an excellent job of reviewing assorted great hopes for reduced cancer risk via di...
Source: FuturePundit - November 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Drugs Source Type: blogs
Chocolate Lowers Stress HormonesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Eating chocolate might be good for people whose metabolisms show up as stressed in blood tests. Though I have to wonder whether attacking the underlying causes of high stress hormones would be more likely to deliver a real benefit. The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. Everyone's favorite treat also partially corrected other stress-related biochemical imba...
Source: FuturePundit - November 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Metabolism Source Type: blogs
kearns to la city council: carmen trutanich & LA’s “extraordinary response” to HIV/AIDS (2057)Email this article to a colleague.
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[tuesday, November 3, 2009] good morning
president garcetti, distinguished council
members. i have given the clerk copies
of my prepared remarks.
my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old
gay man with AIDS, a long-term survivor & activist,
a medical cannabis advocate, a poet & journalist.
i am here this morning to suggest a
plan B for medical cannabis in LA
please empower a special high-speed
ad hoc medical cannabis team, who,
starting with the text of the city’s
legislative analyst submitted to the
plum committee september 25th
can finish translating the whereases
to section numbers inside a month
(sort of ...
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kearns, aids-write.org: wikipedia entry for satyagraha (2056)Email this article to a colleague.
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chers—
wanted to put up reference info from the wikipedia entry for satyagraha, not only because it doesn’t get enough circulation, but also because i believe it could be a successful strategy when applied to the development of an LA medical cannabis ordinance. i don’t think it has truly been applied yet.
take a read
namasté
—rk
Satyagraha theory also influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. during the campaigns he led during the civil rights movement in the United States:
Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonv...
Source: aids-write.org - November 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs
kearns, AIDS-write.org: dr. jai mahara’s definition of namasté (2055)Email this article to a colleague.
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chers—
this is my favorite essay on the term “namasté,” which belongs in the mix before we go too much further along. i make no claims about divinity here, because nothing can really be verifiably known about divinity. but we all share & perceive & express greatnesses whose roots reach into an inner invisible realm of spirit.
namasté
—rk
. . . while we are singing the praises of namasté, it should be observed how efficient a gesture it is in an age of mass communication. A politician, or performer can greet fifty thousand people with a single namasté, and they can return the honor instan...
Source: aids-write.org - November 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm Source Type: blogs
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The old H1N1 vaccine/cold combo obliterated my productivity last week. When they say don’t get with a cold, there is a very good reason for it.
Over the course of the past few weeks, it seems like there has been this onslaught of people I know getting sick, or worse dying.
Yesterday I heard news of yet someone else whose last message on Facebook was something to the effect of having either a cold or flu and was going to take some over the counter meds and sleep it off.
It was a sleep he never woke up from.
My sponsor has been in the hospital struggling, but thankfully getting better. Friends close ones have been dyin...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - November 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Ramblings Trauma Acidrefluxweb.com Acid Reflux aging friends Source Type: blogs
New Generation Of Elderly Suffer More Disabilities?Email this article to a colleague.
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At least in the United States people in their 60s have more of several types of disabilities than the previous cohort of people in their 60s. In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation's health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to a new UCLA study. The findings, researchers say, may be due in part to changing American demographics. Have more obesity, less exercise, and other changes in diet and lifestyle begun to cut into life expectancies? In the study, which will be publishe...
Source: FuturePundit - November 12, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Studies Source Type: blogs
Telomere Genes Linked To Longer LifeEmail this article to a colleague.
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The tips of chromosomes are known as telomeres and they shrink in size every time a cell divides. Eventually the telomeres become short and interfere with cellular replication. This interference is probably an anti-cancer defense mechanism. At the same time, the shrinking of telomeres probably contributes to aging by reducing the ability of the body to make replacment cells to repair the body as we age. Well, old people with genetic variatns that cause longer telomeres have a greater chance of living to age 100. November 11, 2009 (BRONX, NY) A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...
Source: FuturePundit - November 12, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Mechanisms Source Type: blogs
Should Older People Pay More for Health Insurance?Email this article to a colleague.
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Older people are more likely than younger people to need expensive medical care. So should they pay higher premiums for health insurance to reflect their higher health costs? If so, how much more?
On the individual market, people in their 50s can now pay five or six times as much as twentysomethings, according to a story in this morning’s WSJ on the whole age/premiums issue.
The big health-care bills in Congress would still allow variation, but the range would be capped. Under the House bill, insurers could charge older people twice what they charge younger people. The Senate bill could allow a ratio of 3 to 1, the W...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Aging Congress Health Reform Insurance Health-Care Overhaul Source Type: blogs
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In recent years, the fear of too much mercury from fish has been instilled in us. Pregnant mothers and children are urged to limit their tuna consumption, and there are always new reports on which fish are safe to eat and which are not.
The Environmental Defense Fund has a very handy seafood selector on its website (http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521) that lists the safest and most harmful fish, sushi choices, health guides, and even printable pocket guides.
According to the EDF, the safest foods are pink shrimp from Oregon, wild Alaskan salmon, and farmed rainbow trout. The worst offenders are Chilean sea bass and va...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - November 10, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Sergey Kalitenko MD Tags: Antiaging Do you know General health Anti-aging fish Food Source Type: blogs
kearns to LA city atty: medical cannabis peace mission letter (2054)Email this article to a colleague.
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this is the second publication of this letter, which originally went to rocky degadillo, the LA city attorney at the time (march 4, 2009). in it, i itemize the many problems with a “cultivation only” type ordinance for people who are sick & dying, an ordinance such as the current city attorney, carmen trutanich, has currently proposed, an ordinance whose intent is to shut down medical cannabis in los angeles by making the regulations unreasonable, contrary to the intent of voters and the LA city council.
i will be offering a copy of it to mr. trutanich at the lgbt community forum tonight. he i...
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ryan vaillancourt, downtown news: “lavender los angeles” opens thru 11-20, exhibit of gay LA from 1880’s (2053)Email this article to a colleague.
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Standing Up Before Stonewall
Exhibit Illuminates Los Angeles’ History of Gay Life and Activism
by Ryan Vaillancourt
Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 3:55 PM PST
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In 1969, the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the nation’s gay rights movement, proving to be a flashpoint for organization and advocacy against discrimination and prejudice. The riots followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.
Although Stonewall is widely considered the most important event for the gay rights movement, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Nor was New York alone as a host city for gay a...
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michael weinstein, AHF: join the world AIDS day “testing millions” campaign (2052)Email this article to a colleague.
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Dear friends and colleagues,
I am reaching out to you today to invite you to join the World AIDS Day “Testing Millions” campaign. A global coalition is working hard to make HIV testing free and accessible with linkages to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Be a part of this worldwide movement to conquer AIDS.
We at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) believe that the best way to reach the estimated 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS is to identify those who do not know they are infected and link them to treatment. This is also the best route to combating the spread of the disease, as it is believed that the source o...
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andrew jack, ft.com: glaxo smithkline, pfizer form ViiV to fight HIV/AIDS (2051)Email this article to a colleague.
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ViiV vows joint venture will help fight HIV
By Andrew Jack
November 3 2009
The new head of the pioneering HIV joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline andPfizer predicts his company can operate for at least five years without fresh funding from its shareholders.
Dominique Limet, chief executive of ViiV Healthcare, which was formally launched on Tuesday, says it will generate £1.6bn a year in sales to finance its own research and would begin paying a dividend to its two owners in 2011 as it sells new products.
A woman infected with HIV prepares her medicines in Indonesia. She could be one of thousands who would benefit f...
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NATAP: pharmatimes reports merck/schering merger (2050)Email this article to a colleague.
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Larger Merck says merger will actually increase R&D efficiency
pharmatimes.com
05 November 2009
The new Merck & Co has opened its doors for business, and the company has been laying out its plans for future growth now that Schering-Plough has been added to the group.
Chief executive Richard Clark says that “our integration teams prepared us well for a strong start…with thorough plans designed to ensure a seamless transition”. The new entity now has more than 15 late-stage candidates “spanning critical therapeutic categories” and has 106,000 employees in more than 140 countries.
That figure...
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rebecca roberts, top of the nation (NPR) interviews new US drug czar gil kerlikowske (2050)Email this article to a colleague.
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Drug Policy Changes Under New Director
Talk of the Nation
The Department of Justice will no longer prosecute medical marijuana users who comply with state laws. Some reform advocates hope the move means decriminalization of pot may be in the works. Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske talks about the direction of U.S. drug policy.
REBECCA ROBERTS, host
please click here to kisten to audio recording of Kerlikowske’s interview on the NPR site
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m Rebecca Roberts in Washington.
Last month, medical marijuana advocates cheered when Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justi...
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LA city atty carmen trutanich to appear at LGBT community forum tues nite (2049)Email this article to a colleague.
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LGBT forum with
los angeles city attorney
carmen trutanich
an evening of discussion on how the los angeles city attorney’s office may address issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
tuesday, november 10, 2009
the village at ed gould plaza, renberg theatre 1125 n. mccadden place los angeles, ca 90038
reception 6pm
refreshments will be served
community forum 7-8pm
presented by
asian pacific islander pride council
la gay & lesbian center
jordan/rustin coalition
log cabin republicans
stonewall democratic club
2009 LA Pride Parade held in West H...
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Widespread Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague.
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John Tierney of the New York Times draws attention to the high prevalence of chronic pain. Chronic pain affects more than 70 million Americans, which makes it more widespread than heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined. It costs the economy more than $100 billion per year. So why dont more doctors and researchers take it seriously? Think about that 70 million number. It is worse than it looks. At about 23% of the population that means almost 1 in 4 people live in chronic pain. But since the injuries and illnesses that cause chronic pain accumulate with age your own odds of eventually living in chronic pain are much ...
Source: FuturePundit - November 9, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Population Problems Source Type: blogs
How Do You Treat Empty-Nest Depression?Email this article to a colleague.
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Several mom friends of mine have lately come down with a bad case of “empty-nest depression” — moms who just dropped off their youngest offspring to college, or moms having difficulty keeping busy now that the youngest is in kindergarten all day.
I googled the term “empty-nest depression” to see what I could find on this topic. I was surprised to see the Beyond Blue post I wrote in 2007 at the top of the search results. But, after reading it, I can see why it was so popular. I merely asked a question, and all of you answered it. On the comment box of that post are written different kinds of co...
Source: World of Psychology - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Aging Depression General Grief and Loss Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Personal Relationships Women's Issues Bad Case Combox Different Kinds Empty Nest Friends Insightful Respon Source Type: blogs
What Exactly Does Resveratrol Do?Email this article to a colleague.
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Resveratrol's a mighty interesting compound. It seems to extend lifespan in yeast and various lower organisms, and has a wide range of effects in mice. Famously, GlaxoSmithKline has expensively bought out Sirtris, a company whose entire research program started with resveratrol and similar compound that modulate the SIRT1 pathway.
But does it really do that? The picture just got even more complicated. A group at Amgen has published a paper saying that when you look closely, resveratrol doesn't directly affect SIRT1 at all. Interestingly, this conclusion has been reached before (by a group at the University of Washington),...
Source: In the Pipeline - November 5, 2009 Category: Chemists Tags: Aging and Lifespan Source Type: blogs
AIDS.gov hosts federal phone conference for world AIDS day 2009 (2048)Email this article to a colleague.
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World AIDS Day
Federal Conference Call
Tuesday,
November 17, 2009:
2:30pm - 4:00pm (EST)
AIDS.gov is hosting a World AIDS Day Conference Call for Federal staff and grantees. The call will provide a brief update on the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and a brief overview of the global epidemic.
Participants will have a chance to ask these representatives about Federal HIV/AIDS programs:
Dr. Howard Koh, HHS
Mr. Christopher Bates, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy
Ambassador Eric Goosby, PEPFAR
Dr. Kevin Fenton, CDC
Mr. David Vos, HUD
Dr. Deborah Parham Hopson, HRSA
Dr. Carl Dieffenbach, NIH/NIAID
Ms. Beverly Watts Dav...
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Silk Pillow Cases Do Not Make You A Sleeping BeautyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Left Brain updates:
I created quite a stir in the world of silk pillow cases last year when I tried to answer the question “Are Silk Pillow Cases Good For Your Skin? (Follow the link for the original post and all the entertaining comments.)
Silk from a sow’s ear?
According to the ASA (the UK organization that enforces British advertising laws) it looks like I was right. Cosmeticsdesign reports that they have ruled that Direct Beauty Products have not adequately supported their advertising claims that their silk pillow cases have anti-aging properties. A key issue was the lack of support for minimizing w...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 4, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Left Brain Tags: Anti-aging Questions silk pillow cases Source Type: blogs
Full Fat Milk Drinking Children Weigh LessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Could the conventional mainstream wisdom about diet (more carbo, less fat) be, like, totally wrong? Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden find that children who drink full-fat milk have lower body mass index. Eight-year-old children who drink full-fat milk every day have a lower BMI than those who seldom drink milk. This is not the case for children who often drink medium-fat or low-fat milk. This is one conclusion of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy. The study showed that children who drink full-fat milk every day weigh on average just over 4 kg less. "This is an interesting observation, but we don...
Source: FuturePundit - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Weight Studies Source Type: blogs
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Will cutting your cholesterol lower your cancer risk? PHILADELPHIA A pair of studies in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, lay to rest the decades-long concern that lower total cholesterol may lead to cancer, and in fact lower cholesterol may reduce the risk of high-grade prostate cancer. Demetrius Albanes, M.D., a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, said early studies suggested that low cholesterol could increase the risk of certain types of cancer. "Our study affirms that lower total cholesterol may be caused by undiagnosed cancer. In terms of public health message, we found that highe...
Source: FuturePundit - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Cancer Studies Source Type: blogs
Metabolic Syndrome Is A KillerEmail this article to a colleague.
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High cholesterol isn't as dangerous as a combination of obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar (insulin resistant diabetes). The team, led by Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at Warwick Medical School Dr Oscar Franco, has discovered that simultaneously having obesity, high blood pressure and high blood sugar are the most dangerous combination of health factors when developing metabolic syndrome. How dangerous are these factors? Way more. In his study, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, Dr Franco has identified the most dangerous combination of these conditions to be ce...
Source: FuturePundit - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Metabolism Source Type: blogs
Low Exercise Not Cause Of Adolescent Obesity Spike?Email this article to a colleague.
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This result strengthens my suspicion that high fructose corn syrup is to blame for the obesity epidemic. Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prompted by growing concern that the increase was due to decreased physical activity associated with increased TV viewing time and other sedentary behaviors, researchers examined the patterns and time trends in physical activity and sedentary behaviors among U.S. adolescents based on nationally representative data collected since...
Source: FuturePundit - November 2, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Exercise Studies Source Type: blogs
80 Min Exercise Per Week Prevents Visceral Weight GainEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fat around your internal organs is thought to be a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than fat near the surface of the skin. Well, if you go on a diet, exercise, get your weight down, and then eventually go off the diet continued exercise will prevent the resulting weight gain from happening where the risk factor is greatest. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A study conducted by exercise physiologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes a week of aerobic or resistance training helps not only to prevent weight gain, but also to inhibit a regain of harmful ...
Source: FuturePundit - November 2, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Heart Studies Source Type: blogs
ken draper, citywatch-LA: carmen trutanich, LA city atty — buffoon or bully? (2047)Email this article to a colleague.
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Is LA’s City Attorney a Wolf in Loose Cannon Clothes?
CityWatch
By Ken Draper
Oct 30, 2009
So what are we to think of our Carmen Trutanich? Is the City’s attorney a sad buffoon or a wonderful, much needed, City Hall bully?
As has become the case in this considerably divided national and local political climate, the answer to who won the game depends on which side of the field the fans are sitting. As a society we’ve become quite good at defending … making excuses for … the foolish performances of those we blindly support. Such is the case these days with LA’s heat-seeking and controversial City Attorney. A bu...
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kim landers, the world today, ABC news australia: US officials vow crackdown on medical cannabis (2046)Email this article to a colleague.
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US vows
crackdown on
medical marijuana
By Kim Landers for
The World Today,
ABC news australia
Fri Oct 30, 2009
Audio: LA officials to clean up the joint(The World Today)
Officials in the United States are vowing to crack down on medical marijuana facilities even as the Obama administration signals a new hands-off policy on the drug.
Los Angeles officials have been agonising for two years over a move to introduce what they call sensible guidelines to help regulate the booming industry.
In the US, 14 states have laws allowing the use of medical marijuana, but no state has gone further than California and no city has gone fu...
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towleroad: obama signs ryan white CARE act extension, lifts HIV travel & immigration ban (2045)Email this article to a colleague.
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Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act Signed into Law
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT SIGNING OF THE RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS TREATMENT EXTENSION ACT OF 2009a
Diplomatic Reception Room 11:58 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
THE PRESIDENT: We often speak about AIDS as if it’s going on somewhere else. And for good reason — this is a virus that has touched lives and decimated communities around the world, particularly in Africa. But often overlooked is the fact that we face a serious HIV/AIDS epidemic of our own — right here in Washington, D.C., and right here in the Unit...
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chris johnson, southern voice: obama to sign 4-year ryan white CARE act reauthorization friday (2044)Email this article to a colleague.
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Obama to sign Ryan White reauthorization Friday
Measure would provide funds for an additional four years
By CHRIS JOHNSON
Oct 29 2009
President Obama plans to sign into law on Friday a reauthorization of funds under the Ryan White Care Act, according to Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson.
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 would provide funding for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS for an additional four years.
First enacted in 1990, the Ryan White Care Act is the nation’s largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS and is designed to assist low-income patients who are...
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kearns to speak at LMU panel about online journalism & blogging nov. 18 (2043)Email this article to a colleague.
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ONLINE JOURNALISM &
BLOGGING AS A
PROFESSION
Wednesday,
Nov. 18, 2009
4:30pm
English Dept.
University
Hall 3226
Loyola
Marymount
University
Featuring
Siel
Environmental Activist &
Founder of Green LA Girl Blog
http://greenlagirl.com/
Richard Kearns
Blogger & Activist,
HIV/AIDS issues
http://aids-write.org
http://havvacc.wordpress.com
Simon Samano
Associate Editor, NFL.com
http://www.nfl.com/
Sponsored by the LMU English Department • Refreshments will be served
For more info, contact Molly Youngkin, 310-568-6226
DIRECTIONS TO LMU
We will be meeting in University Hall 3226, which is at the east end of t...
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tradingmarkets.com: sam farr (D-CA 17th) introduces medical cannabis “truth in trials act” (hr3939) (2042)Email this article to a colleague.
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Farr Introduces Medical Marijuana Fair Trial Bill
Wed. October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Sam Farr on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow individuals accused of violating federal marijuana laws to offer evidence in federal court that their use of medical marijuana followed state medical marijuana laws.
Rep. Farr introduced the bill, called the Truth in Trials Act, in the wake of a recent directive from the Justice Department telling federal prosecutors not to prosecute individuals who are following state medical marijuana laws. The bill would codify legal protections for defendants caught between...
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