Health official promotes breastfeeding in Green Valley
Mercer County Health Center WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator Elizabeth Simmerman urges breastfeeding as preventive care. She notes benefits for infants and long term health reductions in infections and chronic diseases. A World Breastfeeding Week reception for mothers and pregnant plans is set at noon in the health center auditorium with Connie Neuner as keynote speaker.
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Mercer County Health Center
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Elizabeth Simmerman
West Virginia
Simmerman
Connie Neuner
Antibiotic resistance faces new weapon
Yale researchers led by Nobel laureate Sidney Altman report a method to switch off bacterial resistance genes by inserting artificial genes, making germs highly sensitive to chloramphenicol and ampicillin. Tested in E coli, the approach could restore drug effectiveness, but delivery to specific human cells remains unsolved and years of work lie ahead.
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Sidney Altman
Yale University
Altman
National Academy of Sciences
Stephen Heyse
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Heyse
Mitchell Cohen
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Cohen
Yale
Government embraces crash language to curb accidents
Federal and state officials push to stop using the word accident in auto incidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration leads the shift with the slogan Crashes Aren't Accidents while urging accountability. Wisconsin and Chicago agencies also drop accident terms though some observers resist the change.
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AAA
Rehbeck
Scott Wolfe
U.S. Transportation Department
Tim Hurd
Milwaukee
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
United States
NHTSA
Howard Lieber
Chicago
Wisconsin Transportation Department
Jan Steinbergs
Terry Witkowski
Milwaukee Police Department
Witkowski
FDA approves deep brain implant to curb tremors in tremor patients
The FDA sanctioned Medtronic Activa deep brain stimulator for essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. In a trial of 196 patients tremor reduction was high with improved daily tasks for essential tremor but modest for Parkinson’s. The $25,000 implant places an electrode in the thalamus and a pulse generator under the skin.
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Washington
Howard Zirkle
Food and Drug Administration
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Ohio
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