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Recession Prompting Increase In Number Of People With HIV Seeking Public Services In California
The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined how the recession is impacting people living with HIV in California. Brad Hare, medical director of University of California-San Francisco"s Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital, said that people living with HIV who have lost their jobs and private health insurance are turning to public and nonprofit clinics for the first time and are responsible for a 12% increase this year in the clinic"s overall patient visits. He added that many of the patients he sees have gone months without receiving medical care. In addition, at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, which also provides HIV treatment, the number of new patients has doubled over the last year, Thomas Soule, a spokesperson for the center, said. The Times also profiled a client of the center (Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5/31).
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Study Finds Dramatic Increase In Metastatic Colon Cancer Survival
Novel chemotherapy and biological agents for metastatic colorectal cancer, combined with surgical advances in liver resection, have resulted in a dramatic increase in survival for patients with advanced disease, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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Children Now Enjoy More Freedom At Home, But Are More Restricted Outside The Home
Children have certainly mastered the art of selecting, negotiating and even refusing the chores their parents assign to them. This growth in personal autonomy at home over the last few decades could be the result of shrinking opportunities to participate in activities outside the home, without Mom and Dad looking over their shoulder, according to Dr. Markella Rutherford from Wellesley College in the US. Her analysis1 of back issues of the popular US magazine, Parents, maps how the portrayal of parental authority and children"s autonomy has changed over the last century. Her findings are published online in Springer"s journal Qualitative Sociology.
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Active Commuters On Track For Healthy Hearts

A new study published yesterday looked at "active commuters" who biked or walked to work, and reported they had reduced cardiovascular risk factors. Commenting on the study (1), Ellen Mason, Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said: "It"s clear from this study that walking or cycling to work can be a great boost for your heart health, as well as potentially saving cash and being good for the environment. "If you can"t walk or bike to work, you still need to give your heart a workout. Whether you take a walk at lunch, or challenge your workmates to a game of footie after work, we all need to find a way to get our 30 minutes a day at least 5 days a week. "Our hearts need more exercise than many of us give them. The risk of heart disease can be reduced by being active, which can also reduce other risk factors for heart disease such as high blood pressure, obesity, and the development of diabetes." (1) Arch Intern Med. 009;169[13]:1216-1223 (2009) Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D et al, of the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues studied 2,364 adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study who worked outside the home. The British Heart Foundation


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