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Alzheimer's-Causing Amyloid And Bacteria Trigger Same Immune Response In The Brain
In a new study published today in the July issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe, UC Davis researchers report that both amyloid plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer"s patients and structures made by some gut bacteria likely elicit the same response by human immune cells.
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President Obama Needs To Rethink His Call To Defund Current Abstinence Education Programs - National Abstinence Education Association
NAEA calls upon Congress to reject the President"s request to eliminate abstinence education funding from the 2010 budget. NAEA also urges the Administration to retract its overreaching decision to zero out abstinence education funding. Abstinence education programs must continue using the same legislative guidelines as have been applied under the previous administrations of Clinton and Bush.
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NOW Election Highlights Debate Over Strategy For Future Of Feminist Movement
The AP/Kansas City Star on Sunday examined how the upcoming election for the next president of the National Organization for Women has brought to the forefront a debate over how the feminist movement should define itself moving forward. NOW President Kim Gandy is stepping down after eight years in which she led the group in opposition to many of former President George W. Bush"s policies. Running to replace her are Latifa Lyles, a 33-year-old who serves as a vice president to Gandy, and Terry O"Neill, a 56-year-old who served as NOW"s vice president for membership from 2001 to 2005. Lyles, who is black, would be NOW"s youngest president while O"Neill, who is white, would be its oldest to start a term. According to the AP/Star, the election represents "both an unusual clash of generations and an opportunity for activists to confront some of the challenges facing the feminist movement." The election will be held at NOW"s conference in Indianapolis this weekend.The candidates share the goals of ensuring that women"s needs are represented in health care reform and economic recovery efforts, and they both support working to make abortion and birth control more accessible. Lyles said she contrasts with NOW"s current membership, which is mostly white and older than age 40. Lyles believes she could help give the organization a more diverse, younger image and help encourage participation from a broader range of women. "The profile of NOW is just as important as the work we do," she said, adding, "There are a lot of antiquated notions about what feminism is." Gandy, who has endorsed Lyles, said, "It"s hard to ignore the fact there"s been a generational shift in the country, and an organization that doesn"t recognize that is living in the past." She added that Lyles" "youth is not a detriment, but an advantage. ... She"ll take NOW to a different level." Jessica Valenti, a prominent younger feminist and founder of the blog Feministing, said, "This could be the moment where NOW becomes super-relevant to the feminist movement again."O"Neill said she would focus on grassroots organizing and membership recruitment. She said that "even with a friend in the White House and a lot of friends in the Congress, it"s going to take well-organized, grassroots movement to advance our agenda." O"Neill added, "I keep hearing "Terry, I want to see more activism in my community,"" adding, "The press releases, the media exposure, invitations to the White House -- these are excellent things, but they"re not enough. The grass roots are not personally engaged." Former NOW President Patricia Ireland, who supports O"Neill, said, "There is a role that requires us to take unpopular stands and push on our friends. That"s what I think [O"Neill] really gets. She"s the one I believe will be very willing to use a wide array of tactics -- not just traditional letters and e-mails, but also engage in civil disobedience, organize fasts, be at some congressman"s district office" (Crary, AP/Kansas City Star, 6/14).
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Police Search Offices Of Michael Jackson's Doctor For Evidence Of Manslaughter

Police detectives searched the offices of one of Michael Jackson"s doctors for evidence of manslaughter on Wednesday, according to various US media reports. Dr Conrad Murray, who is 51, and was at Jackson"s Los Angeles home when the pop star died on 25 June, has offices in Houston, Texas. In a written statement issued by Murray"s laywer Ed Chernoff on Wednesday and reported by CNN, Houston police officers, accompanied by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department, and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents presented a search warrant that "authorized law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents, they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter". Chernoff said the search finished at about 12.30 pm and the officers took a copy of a computer hard drive and 21 documents. Tammy Kidd, a spokeswoman at Chernoff"s office told CNN that the raid took them by surprise. They had not expected it because "we"ve had open lines of communication this whole time," she said. Gus Villanueva, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told the press that the search warrant "services part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson". According to his lawyer, Murray has been interviewed twice by the police and they are not aware of any plans to interview him again. Chernoff said that based on Murray"s itemized minute by minute description of Jackson"s last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges. He said his client appeared to be attracting all the "fury" over the singer"s death because he was the "last doctor standing" when Jackson died. Murray now has a bodyguard with him day and night, and is very "frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports", said Chernoff. In the meantime, in another investigation into Jackson"s death, the Los Angeles County Coroner is awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. A spokesman for the coroner said results of the autopsy are likely to be released in a week or so. A report in the Los Angeles Times said the coroner"s office has requested another interview with Murray and wants more information from him. None of the information taken during the search at his premises on Wednesday had been requested before, neither by the police nor the LA coroner"s office, said Murray"s lawyer. William Bratton, Chief of Los Angeles Police told CNN they would wait for the coroner to determine cause of death and then consider if they were dealing with a homicide or an accidental overdose. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Murray found Jackson unconscious in the bedroom of his rented Holmby Hills home and performed CPR on him until the paramedics arrived. The paper said police questioned him in the presence of his laywer at UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson later died. Murray said through his lawyer that he did not give Jackson any narcotics or other medications that "should have" caused his death and was puzzled as to what may have caused it. s: CNN, Los Angeles Times. Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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