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21 May, 2008 1:11 am
Here is the first post on Richard Siken, with my favorite--Scheherezade. Saying Your Names Chemical names, bird names, names of fire and flight
and snow, baby names, paint names, delicate names like bones in the ... name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of
mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull of a boat that's sinking to the sound of mermaids singing songs of love, and ...
14 Nov, 2006 1:16 pm
... , seeks to compel Philip Morris USA Inc. to provide regular low-dose CAT Scan monitoring for New York State smokers to detect early lung
cancer. On Oct. 26 The New England Journal of Medicine published a new study suggesting that low-dose scans could dramatically increase lung
cancer survival. Wire services and newspapers across the country carried the story. Four days later The New York Times editorialized it. I instinctively saw a ...
21 Aug 2:54 pm
... is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. The ground produces the gas through the normal decay of uranium and radium. As it decays, radon produces new radioactive elements called
radon daughters or decay products which scientists have proven to cause lung cancer. Radon testing should be performed by buyers during the
home inspection process. Elevated levels of radon (above 4.0 picoCuries per liter (pCi/l) can be treated through radon remediation systems. The purchase and sale agreement should ...
24 Jan, 2007 5:42 pm
... smoking being more damaging than the sum of radon and smoking. (For instance, the radon daughters being bound to smoke particles in the lungs.) "The committee selected a
linear-nonthreshold relationship..." means the assessment never proved it, they assumed it. It would appear they ... professor at a top 10 law school, and the National Academy of
Sciences (in the April 2004 version of Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers, A Patent System for the 21st Century ) were
wrong. It is a ...
11 Mar 12:22 pm
... at Holyrood, which will allow victims of asbestos related illnesses to claim compensation from insurers for suffering such conditions as lung scars, which are an indication of exposure to asbestos. The Edinburgh legal firm of Brodies has been called in by several ... engaged two of Scotland's
most formidable advocates to attempt to overturn the law at the Court of Session. Leading will be Richard Keen QC, dean of the Faculty of
Advocates, and he will be assisted by Jane Munro. If successful, the ...
2 Sep 7:28 pm
... made no attempts to speak or gesture. The study was thus abandoned and the intravenous nutrition was continued. Jane underwent the lung
thoracentis in the afternoon. Afterward, the placement of a naso-gastric tube caused profuse bleeding. Jane was "aggressively suctioned" ... with HUS. Still, an illness course as severe
as the one that Jane endured carries risks. We asked nephrologist Richard Johnson, MD to address these risks, both generally and with respect
to Jane. In discussing HUS survival, Dr ...
25 Nov, 2006 3:35 pm
... fills in a tiny gap in our understanding of evolution. The article reports the discovery of the oldest known lung fish fossil - a relative
of the celebrated coelacanth. Experimental DNA evidence from living coelacanths suggested a lineage ... the prediction based upon DNA evidence is confirmed. What better evidence could
there be for evolution? I recommend Richard Dawkins' explanation of this technique in The Blind Watchmaker. Think about it logically for a
second, the theory of evolution, as you ...
25 Nov, 2006 3:35 pm
... fills in a tiny gap in our understanding of evolution. The article reports the discovery of the oldest known lung fish fossil - a relative
of the celebrated coelacanth. Experimental DNA evidence from living coelacanths suggested a lineage ... the prediction based upon DNA evidence is confirmed. What better evidence could
there be for evolution? I recommend Richard Dawkins' explanation of this technique in The Blind Watchmaker. Think about it logically for a
second, the theory of evolution, as you ...
6 Nov, 2008 5:52 pm
... patients to see not only what is different but what they have in common." "Technically, this is a great achievement," added Richard Gibbs,
director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. "This really is ... lags behind." Genome studies are being done for other types of cancer. At
the Baylor center, studies are being done for the brain tumor glioblastoma, lung cancer and pancreatic malignancies. At Washington University,
studies are being done for lung and ...
26 Oct 10:09 am
... with E. coli O157:H7. Below - Linda Rivera and her husband, Richard, in the hospital where Linda has been since May 1, 2009 struggling for
her life ... breathing after some hours, probably from both respiratory fatigue and continued lung disease. She therefore requires mostly
ventilator assisted breathing for now. Impaired ... extremities. Linda is being trialed on a special "talking tracheotomy" tube that allows her to talk. Richard says she is able to speak but apparently only perhaps single words. ...
16 Nov, 2006 10:00 pm
... they are unaware of the health risk of cigarettes cannot see the tumors growing in their lungs, the obese have no such argument. Irresponsible eating habits and a sedentary
... (2005). [2] Id. [3] Id. [4] Id. [5] See generally, Richard Epstein, Obesity Policy Choices: What (Not) To Do About Obesity, 93 Geo. L. ...
available at: [www.washingtonpost.com] [10] Department of Health and Human Services, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Obesity
Education Initiative, available at: [www.nhlbi.nih.gov] ...
2 May, 2007 3:13 pm
... , State of the Air: 2007 (May 1, 2007) "For the first time since the American Lung Association began issuing its annual air quality report
card, data reveal a ... trend, with F grades nearly doubling in just one year, according to American Lung Association State of the Air:
2007."-Press release. John Blodgett, Deputy Assistant ... replace existing ones that will need to be retired) and help reduce global warming."-Richard N. Haass, Foreword. Government Accountability Project (GAP), Orders to Play Down ...
16 Oct, 2008 3:42 pm
... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the fibers can remain in lung tissue for long periods and that significant exposure
to the material increases the risk of ... less stringent legal standards in effect when she sued should have been applied. Richard Schuster, an
attorney for several Fortune 500 companies and other businesses sued by ... related lawsuits aren't sick. "If you have damage to the lining of your lungs, you are sick," he said.
"The extent to which you're symptomatic is going ...
12 Jan 1:29 am
... lines in Epping, N.H., last month, police found 60-year-old Richard Lapoint dead, hooked to his powerless oxygen machine. The town's rescue
workers ... assist devices. There even are a few remaining users of those body-encasing iron lungs infamous from the polio era; Moore counts 19 in Houston-area homes. Last May,
... the only problem, a huge expense fraught with the risk of medical errors, said Prezant, a lung specialist. When it comes to oxygen, many
home health-care companies "bend over backward" ...
16 Mar 2:08 pm
... the walls of the National Air and Space Museum. According to reporters James Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott, Richard Pullman, an exhibit
worker at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, became aware of the presence of asbestos ... install artifacts in the museum. After learning about the presence of asbestos in museum
walls at a safety briefing, Pullman visited a lung doctor, who diagnosed him with asbestosis, a chronic imflammatory condition that occurs
after heavy, long-term exposure to asbestos ...
21 Apr 11:41 am
... The first memo, contained a cost-benefit analysis of vermiculite products written by defendant Robert Walsh, saying, "…it can be estimated that lung cancer rates will increase from 7 percent to 7.2 percent… which may not show up for 20 years due to ... Grace executives' conversations about one town
doctor who saw a frightening pattern in Libby miners and their families. Dr. Richard Irons wanted Grace to fund a medical study of its workers.
In one memo, Eschenbach wrote, "Irons is turning the screw. ...
10 Dec, 2006 9:51 am
... more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal. Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated
epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s ... of any
link with cancers apart from liver cancer - a conclusion with which the World Health Organisation disagrees. Sir Richard's review was used by
the manufacturers' trade association to defend the chemical for more than a decade. ... Via the ...
8 Oct, 2007 7:06 pm
... is evidence of a cover-up in that the manufacturer of Stand 'n Seal knew well in advance of marketing and selling the spray that the chemical in it could cause lung damage to innocent users. In another example of Corporate America putting profits over people, after becoming aware of numerous complaints about the
product, Richard F. Tripodi, the manufacturer's chief executive, asked a staff member fielding calls at ...
13 Jan 10:42 am
... medical care. These clots are dangerous because they can break loose, travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, and block blood flow in the lungs (pulmonary
embolism). A pulmonary embolism is often life-threatening. This 43 year old father of ... altogether if he had been properly monitored for his condition and prescribed the proper
prophylactic anti-coagulation medication. Richard D. Schuler represented the wife and four children in the trial of this matter and this case
was settled for a ...
11 Mar 1:37 pm
... Next the dog came in front of the victim growling and bearing his teeth and lunging at her. She said all she could think of was to keep him away from her ... little dog and
picked him up, the Doberman turned his attention back to her, lunged at her, hitting her in the chest and biting her in the breast and neck. Finally, ... that the medications
don't really alleviate. The victim in this case sought the assistance of Attorney Richard D. Schuler and after much investigation and hard
work, this case went to ...
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