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Breast Cancer: Early Stage Better Treated With Shorter, Higher-Dose Radiation
Breast Cancer: Early Stage Better Treated With Shorter, Higher-Dose Radiation
HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE RECEIVING FASTER RADIATION TREATMENTS
There are two well-known radiation treatments available for those suffering from breast cancer. Conventionally fractionated whole breast irradiation, or CF-WBI, is more common treatment, giving smaller radiation doses over a more prolonged time period. Hypofractionated whole breast irradiation, also known as HF-WBI, is less often used. HF-WBI offered breast cancer patients a higher dose over a shorter period of time, essentially giving the patient the same amount of radiation but in a way that initially sounds riskier. However, a new study published in JAMA Oncology suggests that, for early stage breast cancer, higher doses of radiation in shorter periods of time are actually a better and more efficient treatment option.BETTER RESULTS FROM THOSE WHO UNDERWENT HF-WBI
To get their conclusive results, researchers from the University of Texas studied 287 women that were diagnosed with early breast cancer. These women were then split into two groups – one group received lower radiation in longer periods of time, while the other received higher doses in a shorter time period. The results were quite conclusive: The breast cancer patients who underwent HF-WBI saw 31% less acute toxic effects from the radiation than those who were being treated with CF-WBI. Similarly, breast cancer patients undergoing higher doses of radiation saw 30% fewer dermatitis instances, as well as 19% less breast pain, 8% less fatigue than the CF-WBI patients, and 6% less difficulty with regards to caring for their families. The last statistic is particularly notable; women suffering from breast cancer still have families and jobs to tend to, and anything that can alleviate their ability to do those is of great importance for treating breast cancer.A similar study out of Michigan was also published in JAMA Oncology, and its findings were reproduced by those in Texas. To add onto the positive effects of HF-WBI, the breast cancer patients undergoing CF-WBI had a 20% higher rate of self-reported pain, as well as 14% more swelling.
WHAT THIS STUDY MEANS FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS
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Body Image Study: 30% Of Men Overuse Workout Supplements, May Have Eating Disorders
Body Image Study: 30% Of Men Overuse Workout Supplements, May Have Eating Disorders
A new study suggests that nearly 30 percent of men are consuming more than enough workout supplements and might already be suffering from eating disorders.
The analysis showed that more than 40 percent of the respondents had increased their workout supplement consumption over time, and 22 percent had replaced some of their meals with these products. Disturbingly, 29 percent admitted that they are concerned with their excessive use of the workout supplements, some so much so that eight percent of them were advised by their doctors to stop and three percent had suffered from kidney problems.
"These products have become an almost ubiquitous fixture in the pantries of young men across the country and can seemingly be purchased anywhere and everywhere - from grocery stores to college book stores," Achiro said in a news release. "The marketing efforts, which are tailored to addressing underlying insecurities associated with masculinity, position these products perfectly as a 'solution' by which to fill a void felt by so many men in our culture."
The researchers also found that men with low self-esteem and experiencing gender role conflict are most likely to overuse workout supplements.
Overusing workout supplements is not a new problem and may have overlooked in the past because these men look healthy on the outside. The researchers found that the excessive use of workout supplements also lead to symptoms of eating disorders, such as being concerned of what they eat or restricting their eating.
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New York to clean cooling towers in outbreak area by Sunday: mayor
New York to clean cooling towers in outbreak area by Sunday: mayor
New York officials expect by Sunday to complete a city-ordered cleaning of cooling towers in the South Bronx that were tied to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has killed 10 people, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Saturday.
The outbreak appears to have peaked with no new cases diagnosed over the last four days, but the inspection and cleaning of cooling towers will continue as the city battles the Legionella bacteria, which thrive in warm water, de Blasio said.
Some 108 people were sickened in the outbreak, with 18 still hospitalized, de Blasio said.
"This is literally unchartered territory ... We have never seen an outbreak of Legionnaires' like this in the history of New York City," he told reporters. "We also know that this is an emerging reality not just here in this city but around our state and nation."
New York had not previously attempted to list all of the estimated 2,500 cooling towers within its five boroughs. The towers, common on the rooftops of modern buildings, are used for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
The city turned to a range of technologies from police helicopters to satellite maps available on the Internet to search them out.
Cooling towers in five buildings were identified as the likely origination points for the outbreak, and another 161 buildings in the outbreak area were identified as potentially having cooling towers.
The city is working to have all of the remaining buildings in the area inspected and disinfected within the next 24 hours, de Blasio said.
Citywide, building owners have been ordered to disinfect their cooling towers within 14 days if they have not already done so within the last month. The state is also providing building managers and landlords with free Legionella testing through October.
Officials have stressed that drinking and bathing water are safe to use throughout the city, and using home air conditioning units are also safe.
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Fed's job forecasts defy historical trend
Fed's job forecasts defy historical trend
Unemployment has often fallen past the so-called natural level.
WASHINGTON –
Most Federal Reserve policymakers expect the U.S. jobless rate will
stop plunging and stabilize right around its long-term normal level, a
risky forecast given that this apparently hasn’t happened in at least a
half century.
As
the economy healed after recessions, across decades of economic
records, the rate dipped well below what analysts consider normal, the
so-called natural rate of unemployment.
After
the 2001 recession, unemployment spiked to 6.3 percent in 2003 and then
turned downward. By mid 2005 it was around its long-run normal rate,
estimated at the time to be 5 percent or a little higher. It kept
dropping and by December 2006 had hit 4.4 percent.
Fed
policymakers are betting history will unfold differently this time. If
they get their call wrong and unemployment keeps falling sharply in
coming months, they could face pressure to hike interest rates more
aggressively than they would like, delivering a potential shock to the
economy and financial markets.
“They’re
taking some big risks,” said Jesse Edgerton, a former Fed economist now
at JPMorgan, one of several big banks that see the jobless rate
dropping more than the Fed expects.
The
potential for a misstep hinges on the natural unemployment rate, which
is an estimate of the Goldilocks level at which the labor market is
neither overheating nor underperforming.
The
long-run normal rate cannot be measured directly and economists can
only estimate its level, which they presume shifts over time.
Across
six decades of economic expansions, the jobless rate regularly drove
past leading historical estimates of the natural rate calculated by the
Congressional Budget Office.
It’s
unclear why most Fed policymakers expect this time it will flatten
abruptly and hover close to the natural rate, a path evident in details
of their forecasts made in June.
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Hey, candidates: Social Security is broken
Hey, candidates: Social Security is broken
Social Security is the best and worst of public policies. Its goals are noble – give people retirement income and protection against disability, excessive longevity, premature death, and even divorce.
But Social Security's execution is horrendous. The system is possibly the most complicated and the least user-friendly public institution ever devised by man. It's also incredibly unfair, both within and across generations. (Trust me. I just co-authored a book to help people navigate the system.)
That's the bad news. But here's the really bad news: Social Security is flat broke. The just-released 2015 Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report has a secret little table that apparently the political appointees, euphemistically called "trustees," haven't bothered to view. It's tucked deep inside the report in appendix table VI.F1. It says the system is $25.8 trillion in the red.
That's almost a year and a half of U.S. GDP. Detroit went bankrupt in large part because its pensions were some 20% underfunded. Social Security has that beat. It's 32% underfunded. We need to raise the system's 12.3% payroll tax by almost one third – by 4 cents on every dollar we earn – to pay, through time, all the system's promised benefits. And if we don't hike the system's tax by one third starting today and keep it there forever, we'll need to raise the tax by even more down the road.
Unfortunately, we don't have some other source of net revenue to cover Social Security's shortfall. The overall U.S. fiscal enterprise is, in fact, in worse shape than Social Security. It's not 32%, but 58% underfunded. And its red ink is 12 times GDP — $210 trillion at last count. This is our nation's fiscal gap — the present value difference between everything the government plans to make in expenditures and hopes to collect in taxes.
The hard truth, which not one of today's presidential candidates will admit is this ... our country is bankrupt. It's not bankrupt in 50 years or 30 years or 20 years or 10 years. It's bankrupt today. And the longer we wait to change policy, the more we let ourselves off the hook and the more we put our kids on it. This is the terrible zero-sum arithmetic of generational policy.
Sure, there are red and blue economic hucksters who think we can cut taxes or raise spending and bingo – the economy will grow enough not just to pay for these freebies, but also produce more revenue. You can also find "economists" who think we can just print money to pay our bills. But a who's who of economists realize that fiscal gap accounting is the only way to find our way.
How did we get into such terrible fiscal shape? Simple. Our politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, have spent the last six decades running a massive Ponzi scheme.
I call it "Take As You Go." Uncle Sam takes money from young workers, calls it taxes, and gives it to old people to spend. "But don't worry," Uncle Sam says. "When you're old, I'll pay you back in spades. I'll just hit up your kids. Oh, and if you don't mind, let's keep this to ourselves. I'm not putting these I.O.U.s to you on the books. It would make our official debt explode and we wouldn't want that."
All Ponzi schemes involve fraudulent accounting. Uncle Sam's deficit accounting is the mother of such fraud. And all Ponzi schemes end badly. America's will be no exception.
So on Aug. 14, when Social Security celebrates its 80th birthday, don't look for me at the party. I'll celebrate when Social Security gets fixed right – by adopting the Purple Social Security Plan.
This plan, which I urge all the candidates to endorse, is simple. We freeze the current system and pay off, through time, all benefits owed.
All workers then contribute 8% of their pay to a personal security account. Contributions are shared between spouses. The government makes extra contributions for the poor.
All assets are invested in one way only — in a global market-weighted index of stocks and bonds, with the investment done by a single computer. Wall Street plays no role and earns not a penny.
At retirement age, all accumulated assets are bumped up if they don't exceed what was contributed so investments in the personal security account are protected against loss. Finally, when a cohort reaches retirement age, the account gradually sells off its share of the global portfolio and uses the funds to provide retiring workers inflation-protected pensions.
Adopting the Purple Social Security Plan as well as the other Purple Plans would eliminate our fiscal gap and provide our children with an economic future far different and far better than what they now face.
Commentary by Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of Get What's Yours – the Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits. Follow him on Twitter @kotlikoff.
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Tax-Free Weekend underway
Tax-Free Weekend underway
Shoppers can start taking advantage of the Tax-Free holiday Friday--stocking up on school supplies and saving money at the same time!
Iowa’s Annual Sales Tax Holiday returns for a 15th year today and
Saturday, offering shoppers a deal on select clothing and footwear.
Barry Donovan, general manager of the Westdale Mall JCPenney, said the
tax-free holiday will be the biggest weekend for the store since the end
of the Christmas season.
“Everybody has to work Friday and Saturday, and we are clearing out our stock room and getting it on the floor,” Donovan said.
Donovan said he expects a 30 percent increase in revenue, and expects
customers to be shopping for jeans and tennis shoes. He also said
college students usually purchase Hawkeye merchandise and athletic
apparel for upcoming football games.
The Iowa Department of Revenue expects the tax holiday to cost the state
about $3.6 million in revenue this year, according to department
spokeswoman Victoria Daniels.
Last year, she said the sales tax holiday cost state and local governments about $3.4 million in revenue.
There are a number of restrictions on what is and is not covered under the sales tax holiday, Daniels said.
The sales tax holiday does not apply to jewelry, sports equipment or
clothing or footwear “designed primarily for athletic activity or
protective use and not usually considered appropriate for everyday
wear,” according to the Iowa Department of Revenue.
The tax break also does not apply to items being sold for $100 or more.
The sales tax break is only a holiday in name, Daniels said. It’s
actually a law the Legislature passed in 2000 that requires all
businesses to participate.
“It is something that’s fairly common amongst states,” Daniels said.
The legislation is meant to give Iowa families a little bit of a break
when it comes to back-to-school expenses, said State Rep. Ken Rizer,
R-Marion.
With four children of his own, Rizer said he has taken advantage of the
sales tax holiday in the past and plans to do so this year as well.
While JCPenney expects a major bump, small business owner Mia Suntken
said she doesn’t notice an increase at her store during the sales tax
holiday.
Suntken, who owns Copper Alligator, a vintage clothing and accessory
store in Cedar Rapids, said most of her customers are unaware the sales
tax holiday exists when they shop at her store.
“When they don’t have to pay (sales tax) they are like, ‘Oh, that’s nice,’” Suntken said.
She said larger retail stores have an easier time drawing large numbers
on the weekend due to large advertising budgets, while smaller stores
have to rely on word-of-mouth and social media.
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Gay marriage is required gradually to the United States with the tacit approval of the supreme court
Gay marriage is required gradually to the United States with the tacit approval of the supreme court
Jennifer Hasler and Karina Tittjung were married at the Court of Oklahoma City, 6 October 2014.
Diana Ullius and Rhonda Buckner lost little time. Just hours after the U.S. supreme court decision not to take recourse against the approval of gay marriage in five States, they received in Arlington the recognition by the authorities of Virginia of their union obtained previously in the Canada.
Monday morning October 6, for the resumption of their annual session, Supreme judges have taken short those who expected that they seize this issue, which falls within the jurisdiction of the States, to issue a judgment of general scope. They decided instead not to go back on the decisions of three federal appellate removing the ban on marriage for persons of the same sex.
This validation legalizes de facto marriage in five new States: in addition to Virginia, it's Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah (the first to know...)
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Where is gay marriage permitted in the United States?
Where is gay marriage permitted in the United States?
More than half of Americans now live in States allowing same-sex marriage. Monday, October 6, the supreme Court of the United States High Court refused to comment on calls from five States, where laws prohibiting marriages between persons of the same sex had been declared invalid by federal appellate courts.
Gay couples can now marry in Utah, Indiana and Oklahoma (three very conservative States), as well as in Virginia and Wisconsin. Six other States should logically also be concerned by the decision of the supreme court, because they depend on the same courts as the other five (Colorado, Kansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Wyoming).
In total, 30 States should therefore in fact authorize same-sex marriage. Nothing prevents however the judges of the supreme court to take in the future of this issue, particularly if the Federal Court of appeal in Cincinnati (Ohio) declared valid the prohibition of gay marriage in the States under its jurisdiction.
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Legislative tug-of-war between Airbnb and San Francisco
Legislative tug-of-war between Airbnb and San Francisco
Airbnb is questioned for his role assumed in the shortage of long term accommodation deals.
Tension rises a notch between Airbnb, seasonal rental platform between individuals, and its hometown, San Francisco (California), a few hours of a hearing during which should be presented, Tuesday 7 October, a proposal for a framework for such activities. The board of supervisors (legislative body of the city of San Francisco) will focus on a text presented by local actors, which will list several points to regulate the activity of the site in the Bay Area (Sant Francisco region) and put an end to a conflict that pits the start-up to the local authorities.
The text proposes:
legalization - framed - seasonal rental between individuals, thus recognizing the legality of Airbnb not just platforms offering s services...
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