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Driven ... Steve Jobs. Photo: Getty Images
The news of the transplant was just the latest of a series of events that saw Jobs and Apple dig themselves deeper and deeper into a pit of secrecy surrounding his health. The first the world knew about his problems was in August 2004, when it was announced he had been treated for a rare form of pancreatic cancer.
This article shows how a person’s health privacy can be “hacked”, and hints at how a corporate star is privileged by wealth to travel to where there is a ready organ donor for a transplant. Our own forum has discussed this man’s recent liver transplant in a thread with the word “fishy” in the title.
Canadian and international cancer experts recommend limiting intake of red meat. (CBC)
"We observed positive associations between pancreatic cancer and intakes of total, saturated and monounsaturated fat overall, particularly from red meat and dairy food sources. We did not observe any consistent association with polyunsaturated or fat from plant food sources," Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and her colleagues wrote.
"Altogether, these results suggest a role for animal fat in pancreatic carcinogenesis."
Oh my, almost every day we hear something bad about eating too much meat, so far it looks like the Mediterranean diet has the most balance of meat and veggies.
President Obama meets at the White House with five governors, two Republicans and three Democrats, to hear their concerns about health-care reform. (By Pablo Martinez Monsivais -- Associated Press)
A bipartisan group of governors told President Obama yesterday that they share his urgent desire to restructure the nation's health-care system but warned that any changes should not place more burdens on strained state budgets or eliminate innovative programs they already have in place.
This article reminds us that some states have evolved their own health care plans, and where they are working, they need to be respected—or copied.
Giancarli for News
City hoops legends, ex-Knicks guard John Starks and ex-Liberty center Kym Hampton, celebrate the anniversary of The Bronx Knows, a program that uses community leaders to test Bronxites for HIV/AIDS.
Nurah Amat'ullah, Executive Director, Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development, is among those helping convince Bronxites to get tested for HIV/AIDS.
Testing is up 28% over the prior year and nearly 160,000 people received HIV testing throughout the borough.
"Knowing your status is one of the best things you can do to stop the spread of HIV," said Dr. Thomas Farley, the city's health commissioner. "Bronx residents are taking the lead by getting tested."
New York City has long been the epicenter of this country's HIV epidemic.
Here is a testing program and a philosophy that is hard to argue with, they are finding people 10 years sick with AIDS before being finally diagnosed.
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>>> This article reminds us that some states have evolved their own health care plans, and where they are working, they need to be respected—or copied.
Robert-
Can you give us an example of where universal healthcare has worked where it didn't increase costs, decrease services, and generally has been rated as "successful"? I don't know of any.
Al
Al Borges, M.D.