Newswise — ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Would you want to know if you or your children had risk of hereditary cancer, a genetic risk for cardiovascular disease or carried the gene associated with developing Alzheimer’s disease – even if they were risks that wouldn’t be relevant for possibly decades or didn’t have a cure?

Bill Donohue comments on an op-ed by Garry Wills that was published yesterday by the Washington Post:
 
In his 2006 address a t Regensburg University, Pope Benedict XVI described how Islam was perceived as \”evil and inhuman\” by a 14th-century Christian emperor who was under siege by Muslims. The central point of the pope\’s address was to call attention to what happens when faith is uncoupled from reason, and vice versa.

CAMDEN CITY NJ –Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Camden County Police Chief Scott Thomson reported a Camden woman admitted in court Monday to stabbing a New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency employee at an office building in the city last year.

Taisha Edwards, F/31, pleaded guilty to first-degree Criminal Attempted Murder before Superior Court Judge Edward J. McBride, Jr.

Dr. Todd Levin Named Chief of Staff

Voorhees, NJ, March 2015 –Todd P. Levin, D.O., has been elected Chief of Staff of South Jersey-based Kennedy University Hospital.

Henry Schuitema, D.O., has been named Vice Chief of Staff, and Mark Schuster, D.O., has been elected Treasurer. 

All three terms are for two years. The election was held at Kennedy Health’s recent annual Medical Staff meeting.

The Medical Staff Officers represent the interests of Kennedy physicians, and work closely with administration in strategic planning,

quality improvement and other healthcare delivery issues.

GLOUCESTER CITY NJ (CNBNews.net)—Kieran McGirl has made a film about his former
classmate from Gloucester Catholic High School —— Johnny Gaudreau, aka Johnny Hockey. The film, titled The Rise of Johnny Hockey, features interviews with his parents, Guy and Jane, and his brother Matt, who plays hockey for Boston College. Film clips of Johnny as a youngster on skates along with film of him scoring goals when he played for Gloucester Catholic, Boston College are also featured, along with present day video of him playing hockey for the Calvary Flames. 

Newswise — San Diego, CA—Breast cancer survivors are at increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, especially within five years of their breast cancer diagnosis, according to a new analysis of a large national database. The study results will be presented Thursday at the Endocrine Society’s 97th annual meeting in San Diego.

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I asked The Times’s ranking photo editor, Michele McNally, about the photo this morning.

\”There was no crop,\” she said. \”This was the photo as we received it.\”

Picture Via Young Cons

She sent me an email from the photographer, Doug Mills, who has been shooting White House and presidential photographs for many years.

Mr. Mills wrote to photo editors on Sunday to describe his process after The Times received an inquiry from Politico. Mr. Mills wrote that he never sent the photo desk a photograph he took that included the Bushes, and his reasons were technical ones. He wrote:

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