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Hugh Jackman (cancercrushers.com)
Young Australian father of 2 boys and husband, diagnosed with cancer creates a heartfelt silent video for his wife. Kristian thanks his wife, Rachel, for the support she’s given him and asks her not to lose hope.
“I need you like I need a cure for cancer….We all do!”
Hugh Jackman chimes in to show his support for the ultimate message of finding a Cure for Cancer.
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Stephen Strasburg (abcnews.com)
According to the Washington Post, rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg will undergo Tommy John surgery Friday. The operation will be performed by Dr. Lewis Yocum with Nationals team doctor Wiemi Douoguih assisting. The top pick in the 2009 amateur draft has gone through two arthrograms, both revealing a significant tear in the ulnar collateral ligament. Following the surgery, Strasburg will rehab at the Scripps Clinic outside San Diego and is scheduled to be able to throw again in four months. (leeinks.weei.com)
Dr. Lewis Yocum is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Elbow Surgeries, according to a physician website, Vitals.com. He completed his medical degree at University Of Illinois College of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lewis Yocum has a 5-minute waiting time in the his practice, as per patient reviews.
See more about what patients are saying about Dr. Lewis Yocum
Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac (bakersfield.com)
Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac’s body was found wedged in the fireplace flue of her boyfriend’s home in Bakersfield, CA.
Dr. Kotarac was a board-certified Internist, seeing up to 200 patients weekly.
“She was a very good doctor, a wonderful person,” doctor’s boyfriend, William Moodie said. “She just had her problems.” (kget.com)
As strange as the circumstances were, the investigation found no foul play.
“The Bakersfield Police Department has been investigating the death as suspicious from the onset and there is no evidence of foul play,” said Sgt. Mary DeGeare in a news release. “All the evidence, thus far, indicates the woman voluntarily accessed the roof via a permanent ladder and voluntarily removed the chimney cap then slid down the flue feet first.”
Moodie left the house undetected to avoid a confrontation and stayed Wednesday night elsewhere. When Dr. Kotarac did not arrive for work on Thursday, both her assistant and Moodie searched for her at Moodie’s home and located her car and belongings, the BPD reported. But they found no indication Dr. Kotarac had entered the home. She was reported missing by Moodie and her medical staff on Thursday afternoon. (kget.com)
An autopsy on the body of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac is scheduled for Tuesday, September 1st.
According to Vitals.com, Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac completed her medical degree at a top-ranked University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine in 1991 and her residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
My son just found out his absent teacher just contacted mumps on the first day of school. It seems like every day someone else has come down with the mumps.
A new study in the Sept. 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases measured the U.S. population’s immunity to mumps. Dr. Preeta Kutty, MD, MPH, and other researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 90 percent of the participants tested had antibodies to mumps; this is on the lower end of what is needed to protect the overall population through “herd immunity,” the proportion of the population that needs to be vaccinated to stop transmission of mumps.
The researchers note that 90% isn’t good enough to prevent a mumps outbreak. The findings emphasize the “importance of achieving and maintaining a high rate of vaccination in the community, continuing surveillance for mumps, promptly reporting known and suspected cases of mumps to public health officials so that they can take immediate steps to stop further spread of the virus, and studying and understanding the changing factors that affect the introduction and spread of mumps in the U.S.,” Kutty says.
Here’s the latest CDC report on the recent Mumps Outbreak:
However, beginning in July 2009, the largest U.S. mumps outbreak since 2006 has occurred. The index case was an 11-year-old boy who had returned on June 17 from the United Kingdom where an ongoing mumps outbreak involves more than 4000 cases. Because of the potential for more extensive disease transmission, efforts should be made to heighten surveillance for mumps and assure that children and adults are appropriately vaccinated against this disease.
Two doses are currently recommended for children. Dr. Eli Rosen, a family practitioner in hard hit Brooklyn, says that it his contention that a third dose of MMR is necessary to stem this epidemic in all older children and adults who have been previously vaccinated and have had recent close exposure. However, health authorities have not approved a third dose, and as such, it cannot be routinely given to those who have clear evidence of having received 2 doses of MMR.
Dr. Mary Patricia Quinlisk, state epidemiologist and medical director of the Iowa Department of Health claimed the case, agreed with the study authors, noting that over time, immunity to mumps may diminish. This can occur even after a second dose of the MMR vaccine, which was recommended, starting in 1989, for children entering school. To ensure individual lifelong immunity and appropriate levels of herd immunity, Quinlisk suggested that a third dose may be needed or that the second dose should be delayed until later in adolescence.
See more on Dr. Mary Patricia Quinlisk and Dr. Eli Rosen
Dr. Jane Seward of the CDC discusses in December 2008 the 2006 US Mumps Outbreak. At that time it was thought the MMR Vaccine was 95% effective and a third dose was totally not needed. Watch this:
Stem Cell Harvest (rso.cornell.edu)
Judge Royce C. Lamberth, chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled yesterday to temporarily block the Obama administration’s expanded efforts toward further stem cell research. After a former MIT scientist opposing stem cell research brought the case to court, the judge decided that Obama’s plans violated a law protecting embryos from destruction for research purposes.
Dr. Leonard Zon of the Children’s Hospital in Boston said the ruling was a “step backward” and that “it throws things into a confused state.” (boston.com)
Scientists agree that the ruling puts stem cell research into a sort of limbo as researchers are unsure how it will affect federal funding that has already been rewarded to scientists. It is also unclear how the decision will impact less controversial adult stem cell research.
Dr. George Q. Daley reiterated the damaging effects of the ruling on his research: “Our lab will have to return to the old mode of keeping human embryonic stem cell research separate from everything else, which means slower progress. It’s a shame.” (boston.com)
According to Vitals.com, Dr. Leonard Zon is a hematologist specializing in medical oncology and hematology. He completed medical school at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in 1983. Dr. George Daley is a hematologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He completed medical school at Harvard University School of Medicine in 1991.
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