How Prostate Cancer Therapies Compare by Cost and Effectiveness | cnbnews.net

Source: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Surgery Ranks as the Most Cost-Effective Type of Treatment, According to UCSF-Led Study

Newswise — The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness is reported this week by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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News from the Camden County Freeholder Board

Michelle Gentek Sworn in as Freeholder
Freeholder-Director Louis Cappelli, Jr. delivered the state of the County address today at the 169th reorganization of Camden County. Newly elected Freeholder Michelle Gentek took the Oath of Office along with Ian Leonard, Jeffrey L. Nash to join their colleagues on the 2013 Freeholder Board. Camden County Sheriff Charles Billingham was also sworn in to another term.

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Men’s Volleyball Preps for Run at NCAA Championship

HOBOKEN, N.J. (January 4, 2013) – After a late addition to the 2013 schedule, the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s volleyball team will begin its season on Saturday night in the Canavan Arena against the University of Waterloo, a Canadian college, at 6 p.m. Stevens was slated to kick off its campaign on January 18 against Division I Harvard University in Hoboken before the recently added match.

Last season, the Ducks finished with a 28-8 overall record and narrowly missed out on an at-large bid to the first NCAA Division III Championship after a runner-up finish in the United Volleyball Conference. Stevens was ranked sixth nationally in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. The 2013 preseason poll will be released on January 8.

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White House petitioned to label Catholic Church a \’hate group\’

By Michelle Bauman

Washington D.C., Jan 4, 2013 / 04:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An online petition asking the White House to designate the Catholic Church as a \”hate group\” for its views on marriage is drawing criticism for generating unjust animosity.

The petition reveals an \”underlying agenda,\” which is not simply to prevent violent crimes, but to \”stigmatize any disapproval of homosexuality at all and essentially to silence us,\” said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.

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The Food Think Tank Launches January 10th

A bold new voice in the fight for health-based agriculture, alleviating hunger and poverty, stemming the tide of obesity, and improving nutrition and environmental sustainability [www.FoodTank.org]

There’s no doubt that the food system is broken. More than 1 billion people are obese, nearly 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night, and at least 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. We need solutions—from schools and hospitals to fields and forests and from boardrooms to parliaments. Food Tank: The Food Think Tank [www.FoodTank.org], founded by food and agriculture experts Ellen Gustafson and Danielle Nierenberg, is a bold new voice in bringing attention to these crucial issues. Food Tank, which launches on January 10, will help propel change by fostering the growing community of voices on food issues. Watch the trailer here: www.FoodTank.org.

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Fattah Introduces Bill That Ties Debt Ceiling to Congressional Spending

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) offered legislation today on the first day of the new Congress that will head off one of the thorniest problems of the previous Congress – constant and pointless wrangling over the debt ceiling.

Fattah, a senior Appropriator from Philadelphia, introduced the \”Ending Fiscal Cliffs Act of 2013,\” one of the first bills before the 113^th Congress. The legislation streamlines the process of raising the debt ceiling – which Congress could face within two months – to avoid paralyzing political maneuvers.

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County Permanently Preserves 18,229 Acres of Farmland & Open Space

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(Washington Twp., NJ) – Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger and Freeholder Adam J. Taliaferro announced today that Gloucester County has exceeded the 18,000-acre mark for permanently preserved farmland and open space.

Freeholder Director Damminger said, \”The Gloucester County Office of Land Preservation has been working to make settlement on some major land acquisitions for the county that not only put us over the 18000-acre mark in permanently preserved land, but also put the county over the 15000-acre mark in permanently preserved farmland.\”

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Morning Bell: Uproar Over Bloated Sandy Aid Package

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie \”in an angry news conference decried the ‘selfishness and duplicity,’ the ‘palace intrigue,’ ‘the callous indifference to the people of our state,’\” ABC News reported.

Representative Peter King (R-NY) accused Boehner of \”plunging ‘a cruel knife in the back’ of storm-ravaged residents ‘who don’t have shelter, don’t have food.’\”

The real \”selfishness and duplicity,\” however, comes from those who insist that this bill is meant for Sandy’s victims—when in reality, it is a special-interest money fest. This is a terrible way to treat storm victims, by piling on other projects and tying them to an emotional legislative vote.

It amounts to exploiting disaster victims, which is inexcusable. That’s where the anger should be focused.

The estimate of insured losses from Sandy comes in around $20 billion—but the total aid package proposed is three times that amount. Roughly $28 billion of the request is marked for future disaster-mitigation projects.

The bill includes funding for Head Start, the federal day care program. As Heritage’s Lindsey Burke, the Will Skillman fellow in education policy, explains, some Head Start centers may need repairs from hurricane damage, but handing the program $100 million—as the Sandy aid package would—is a large expenditure that deserves more scrutiny.

Other questionable items in the package, which have received wide media coverage, include money for fisheries in Alaska, free money for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and repairs to the Smithsonian. Heritage’s Patrick Louis Knudsen adds that \”there is the truly audacious $17 billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, an embarrassingly transparent slush fund.\”

As Heritage visiting fellow Matt Mayer has said, there is a much larger issue here. The spending request:

reflects the President’s cavalier attitude toward spending and deficits. He intends to exploit loopholes in the Budget Control Act that allow this new spending, above existing spending limits, without offsets. In an era of chronic trillion-dollar deficits, this is an act of willful fiscal negligence.

Mayer says the priority should be Sandy’s real victims: \”all requests for funding for federal departments and agencies that does not flow to states, localities, businesses, or citizens for response and recovery activities should not be included in this supplemental request.\”

Hurricane Sandy is the type of disaster that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should address. Federal assistance is needed. But the Obama Administration’s exploitation of hurricane victims for billions in additional government spending deserves an angry response from those affected by the storm.