| Pets and parasites
IT IS fairly common for pets to be infected with internal or external parasites at some point in their lives. Parasites can affect animals in many ways, ranging from simple irritations to life-threatening illnesses if left untreated. As with any family member, it is important to keep your pet healthy and parasite free. Parasites are among the simplest and most preventable pet problems. Zoonoses A zoonosis is not a disease that you get from going to the zoo. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. For example, certain worms, such as roundworms, can be transmitted to people from the environment. Fortunately, these parasites can be stopped with monthly parasite control available from your veterinarian.
'American Experience: Roberto Clemente'
I am the proof that you don't have to know much or care deeply about baseball to be thrilled and moved by the story of Roberto Clemente, right fielder, family man, humanitarian, Pittsburgh Pirate, Puerto Rican.
Bernardo Ruiz's lovely and exciting "Roberto Clemente," airing tonight on PBS as part of "American Experience," tells the story of a man who by every account was as effortlessly upright and true as if he were crafted for juvenile fiction, a man who never forgot who he was, where he came from and what mattered. He died young in a plane crash, in 1972 at age 38, delivering medical supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
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Study Finds Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Skin
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the skin of mice can sense low levels of oxygen and regulate the production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates our bodies to produce red blood cells and allows us to adapt to high-altitude, low-oxygen environments.
Their surprising finding, published in the April 18th issue of the journal Cell, contradicts the notion of mammalian skin as an envelope around our bodies with little connection to the respiratory system.
If found to apply to humans, the discovery could radically change the way physicians treat anemia and other diseases that require boosting our bodies' ability to produce red blood cells. It also could be used to improve the performance of endurance athletes competing in this summer's Olympic Games.
Pittfield chef shows her kosher credits
Passover, which begins at sundown Saturday, is the eight-day commemoration of the Jews' successful flight from slavery in Egypt to freedom and the creation of their own nation. It has been celebrated by Jews for thousands of years with special meals (seders), ritual foods and storytelling. There is singing, toasting, ritual eating of matzoh (unleavened bread), greens, bitter herbs and other symbolic foods. Chef Aura Weiss was raised in a large Jewish family. In a few days she is flying off to California to spend Pass-over with them and to meet her newest niece. But before she leaves on Saturday, she will prepare foods for Temple Anshe Amunim's Second Night Passover seder on Sunday. "I do many things for the temple kosher-style or kosher on-premises for different occasions throughout the year," she said.
Two Meatballs is no comic cookbook
Don't be tempted to write off Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen (Artisan, $35) as a joke of a cookbook. It's anything but. This volume by Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman, friends and restaurateurs in Manhattan, is nominated in the international cookbook category for a James Beard Award to be announced in June. They are in heady company, including Anne Willan, who wrote Country Cooking of France, and Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, who penned Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most. The book is an endlessly charming debate between Luongo and Strausman, co-owners of Coco Pazzo but both with other restaurant interests as well. A native of Florence, Italy, Luongo is all about Tuscan cooking. Strausman grew up in Queens with a New York City mix of Eastern European and Italian traditions.
Yes it's politically incorrect but race matters
American Presidential elections have been compared with reality TV series or game shows, in which a gaggle of jumped-up nonentities aspiring to be celebrities are ritually humiliated in public and offered entertaining opportunities to self-destruct, until only one survivor remains. But this time round, a much more elevated analogy is sadly apposite. The 2008 US election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy, in which noble heroes and heroines are forced to follow a course to catastrophe, divinely preordained as punishment for sins and blunders committed by their forefathers in the dim and distant past. In acting out their ineluctable doom, the eloquent protagonists do not just destroy themselves but also their cities, their nations and even their entire civilisations. If this description sounds too grandiose, consider yesterday's results from the Pennsylvania primary.
How Aging Affects Cancer Risk And Outcomes
As our population ages and senior citizens become a larger demographic, cancer researchers are focusing on the links between aging and cancer. Studies presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 12 - 16, highlight the biological aspects of aging that are key to greater risk and poorer prognosis, and surgical outcomes.
Surgical resection and survival in octogenarians and younger age cohorts of patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer: Abstract 5537
Although fewer of them undergo surgery, lung cancer patients in their 80s fare equally well following surgery as their younger counterparts, researchers report. The findings offer doctors potentially valuable guidance in treatment options for elderly patients, according to researchers.
Secretary Chertoff at Stanford Constitutional Law Conference
Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center's Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution Conference Release Date: April 11, 2008 Washington, DC Stanford Constitutional Law Center Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution Conference Secretary Chertoff: Thank you very much for inviting me to address you, and I want to thank Dean Sullivan for hosting the conference and for bringing me here. And also, I see a lot of friends in the crowd. I do have to say, I realized as I walked out here that I hit the trifecta today. I started out speaking at Yale Law School on Monday, I spoke at Georgetown Law School yesterday and today I'm speaking at Stanford Law School. The only law school I'm not speaking at is my own law school.
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