Day: December 1, 2012

LaSalle Softball Signs Six | cnbnews

PHILADELPHIA – La Salle head softball coach Ron Shoemaker announced the signing of six athletes to join the 2014 roster, all of whom are Pennsylvania natives.

\”This is my first recruiting class and I could not be more pleased,\” Shoemaker said . \”This group will add power, speed, solid defense and pitching to our program. The future of La Salle softball is bright and has been made even brighter with the signing of these six student-athletes, both on the field as well as in the classroom.\”

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Only in America: Alyosha\’s story | cnbnews

source The Christian Science Monitor

I have never been a fan of platitudes, but \”Only in America\” was the first thing that came to mind as I sat in the bleachers at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, N.J., this past June, watching my son, a newly minted Coast Guardian, pass in review.

Alyosha\’s story is not so simple or unremarkable as a kid growing up and joining the service. His beginnings were difficult, and certainly inauspicious. As a small child, he had been found wandering in a tiny Russian village, dirty and malnourished. Who would have thought that my life would eventually intersect with his? But it did, at an orphanage a couple of hours south of Moscow. By then Alyosha was 7, healthy and rambunctious. He had not been told that I was coming to adopt him, but when we finally met, his first word was \”Papa?\”

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Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor\’s haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan | Mail Online

By SUE REID and SIMON CALDWELL

PUBLISHED: 18:03 EST, 28 November 2012

Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.

Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.

But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

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Sick children and babies are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial \’death pathways\’ (file photo)

One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.

 Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.

The LCP – on which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die each year – is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by ministers.

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FDA approves Cometriq to treat rare type of thyroid cancer | cnbnews

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cometriq (cabozantinib) to treat medullary thyroid cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastasized).

Medullary thyroid cancer develops in cells in the thyroid gland that make a hormone called calcitonin, which helps maintain a healthy level of calcium in the blood. This type of cancer may occur spontaneously or in families with certain genetic mutations that result in one or more cancers of the endocrine system, including the thyroid gland.

The National Cancer Institute estimates that 56,460 Americans will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 1,780 will die from the disease in 2012. About 4 percent of thyroid cancers are medullary thyroid cancer, making it one of the rarer types of thyroid cancers.

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Rapid Response Helps Contain Outbreak Linked to Peanut Butter | cnbnews

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The majority of those infected in the multi-state outbreak this fall of Salmonella Bredeney in peanut butter have been children under age 10. However, more people would have fallen ill if not for fast action by federal and state public health agencies.

Those actions culminated on Nov. 26, 2012 with FDA\’s suspension of the food facility registration for Sunland Inc., of Portales, N.M., which produced the peanut butter product linked to the outbreak—Trader Joe\’s Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter made with Sea Salt. Sunland will not be able to distribute food from this facility until the suspension is lifted.

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