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Research and general acceptance
Dyspepsia is gastric upset due to the inability to digest one's food.
Dyspepsia is a word that has been used in English since the early eighteenth century not only for a variety of stomach ailments but also for bad moods or temper outbursts that were thought to be caused by indigestion. The English word comes from two Greek words meaning "hard or difficult' and "digestion.' For many years dyspepsia was a catchall term for any kind of stomach upset characterized by burning, nauseous, or gassy sensations in the upper abdomen. Several phrases that are still used almost interchangeably for the condition are gastric indigestion, nervous dyspepsia, and impaired gastric function.
Dyspepsia was not defined more closely until the mid-1980s, when an international group of gastroen-terologists (doctors who specialize in treating disorders of the digestive system) met in Rome to create a set of criteria for distinguishing dyspepsia from other disorders of the upper digestive tract (known as the Rome criteria); and to distinguish between organic dyspepsia—stomach upset that can be shown to have a physical cause (for example, stomach irritation caused by alcohol consumption), and functional dyspepsia (FD)—dyspepsia that cannot be traced to any specific physical cause. FD accounts for a majority of cases of dyspepsia, as many as 60% in some studies, and for 30–50% of all referrals from primary care doctors to gastroenterologists.
Dyspepsia is considered a difficult condition to treat, even though it is widespread in the general population. An estimated 25–40% of adolescents and.
adults in North America experience dyspepsia each year. Most people with the disorder do not seek medical treatment because it may be intermittent as well as persistent. FD is responsible for high health care costs in terms of prescription as well as over-the-counter medications, diagnostic tests, and time lost from work.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, FD was commonly treated with various forms of dietary therapies. Treatments commonly recommended by doctors in the 1920s included vegetarian diets as well as the use of laxatives and enemas to cure the patient of autointoxication—an imaginary disorder that originated in ancient Egypt and is based on the belief that the contents of the colon are toxic and capable of poisoning other body organs. Folk dietary remedies for dyspepsia included drinking peppermint tea or milk, eating spearmint leaves, or chewing mint-flavored chewing gum, which first became popular in the 1860s.
Although FD is not fully understood, there are several theories regarding its underlying mechanisms or possible causes:
- FD reflects greater than average sensitivity to uncomfortable sensations in the digestive tract. This theory holds that patients with FD perceive sensations in the stomach or intestines as painful that most people experience as ordinary or do not feel at all
- FD is a motility disorder. FD may result from a decreased ability of the digestive system to contract and push food through the system. This, in turn, causes lower than normal stomach emptying
- FD is caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. H. pyloriis a spiral-shaped bacterium that is the only known microorganism that can live in the acidic environment of the stomach. It is now known to be a cause of peptic ulcers, but doctors do not yet agree on its role in functional dyspepsia
The Rome criteria for FD specify that the patient must have had 12 weeks (not necessarily consecutively) of the following symptoms in the previous 12 months:
- Persistent or recurrent pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen
- No evidence of an organic disease (including the findings from an endoscopy of the upper digestive tract) that is likely to explain the symptoms; and
- No evidence that the dyspepsia is relieved exclusively by defecation or associated with the onset of a change in bowel habits
The Rome criteria specify three subtypes of FD based on the most bothersome symptom: ulcer-like dyspepsia (pain in the upper abdomen); dysmotility-like dyspepsia (an unpleasant but nonpainful feeling of bloating, fullness, or nausea); and unspecified dyspepsia (patient's digestive discomfort does not fit either of the first two categories).
FD is widespread in the general population, however, the subtypes identified by the Rome working group appear to show slight gender differences. Ulcer-like dyspepsia appears to be more common in men and dysmotility-like dyspepsia more common in women. FD is equally widespread in all racial and ethnic groups.
Some medications other than aspirin and other over-the-counter pain relievers may cause dyspepsia: alendronate (Fosamax); codeine and aspirin fortified with codeine; iron supplements; metformin (Gluco-phage); oral antibiotics, particularly erythromycin; orlistat (Xenical); corticosteroids, especially predni-sone; and theophylline. Patients should consult their doctors before discontinuing these drugs or changing the dosage.
Patients with FD may also benefit from discontinuing certain herbal remedies that produce symptoms of dyspepsia. These include garlic, gingko, saw palmetto, feverfew, chaste tree berry, and willow bark.
Other treatments
Other treatments for functional dyspepsia include complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies and psychotherapy. CAM treatments include such herbal remedies as peppermint, turmeric, and aloe vera gel taken by mouth, and such non-dietary treatments as yoga, meditation, relaxation techniques, acupuncture, and music therapy. Psychotherapy is most likely to be helpful for patients with a history of abuse or post-traumatic stress as well as functional dyspepsia.
Prokinetic drugs may be prescribed for patients with dysmotility-like FD. These medications speed up or strengthen the contractions of the small intestine. Available medications include metoclopramide (Reglan), cisapride (Propulsid), and domperidone (Motilium). Domperidone is not approved for use in the United States because its adverse effects include abnormalities of heart rhythm. In addition to prokinetic drugs, some doctors prescribe antidepressant medications in order to lower the patient's stress level and awareness of sensations coming from the stomach and intestines, but only a minority of patients with FD benefit from either proki-netics or antidepressants.
Medical management of FD in patients typically begins with either testing and treating the patient for infection with H. pylori or by prescribing medications to lower the level of stomach acid secretions for a trial period of 4–8 weeks. The two classes of medications most commonly prescribed to reduce acid secretion are H2-receptor blockers and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The first group, which is the older of the two, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s and includes such drugs as cimetidine (Tagamet) and rani-tidine (Zantac). The proton pump inhibitors are more powerful than the H2-receptor blockers and have fewer adverse effects. The PPIs include omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid), esomeprazole (Nexium), pantoprazole (Protonix), and rabeprazole (Rabecid). In general, trial therapy with acid-reducing medications is considered more effective for FD than testing for and treating H. pylori infection, because only a small minority of patients with FD report.
improvement in their symptoms after treatment for the infection.
The function of medical and dietary treatment of FD is to manage or relieve the patient's symptoms in order to improve his or her quality of life. Therapeutic fasting is intended to give the digestive system a brief period of rest prior to medication therapy or antibiotics to eradicate H. pylori Since the cause(s) of FD are not yet known for certain, these treatments cannot be considered cures.
The benefits of medical and dietary treatment of FD are improved symptom management and better quality of life, with less time lost from school or work.
Patients who experience dyspepsia for several weeks or longer should consult their physician for an evaluation to rule out more serious disorders; even if the indigestion is intermittent rather than continuous. Patients over age 45 who develop dyspepsia suddenly should see their doctor immediately, particularly if the indigestion is accompanied by black tarry stools, loss of appetite, painful swallowing, bloody vomit, or unintentional weight loss.
Patients who experience indigestion unrelated to eating, or indigestion accompanied by sweating, shortness of breath, or pain radiating to the neck, jaw, or arm should also see a doctor at once, as these symptoms may indicate a heart attack.
Research and general acceptance
A population-based case-control study of adults in Minnesota found that there was no detectable difference in the consumption of frequently suspected culprit foods by patients with FD and the control subjects. There is also no evidence that a strictly vegetarian diet is useful in treating FD. Recent studies carried out in Germany indicate that a brief period of fasting under a doctor's supervision is beneficial to patients with FD.
Research is ongoing to improve the number and effectiveness of treatment options for dyspepsia. In 2006, a new drug called itopride was tested for eight weeks on a group of 523 patients with functional dyspepsia. The drug requires further study, but the results of the initial trial are encouraging. Clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health are recruiting subjects to study medications or other forms of therapy for dyspepsia. They include studies of the effectiveness of acid-reducing therapy or eradication of H. pylori, and evaluation of food hyper-sensitivity in patients with dyspepsia.
In the field of CAM therapies, studies are being conducted of peppermint oil and turmeric as plant- or food-based treatments for dyspepsia. With regard to aloe vera, research indicates that it should not be taken by mouth as a remedy for dyspepsia because it has laxative qualities and can lower the body's absorption of prescription medications. Other CAM approaches for dyspepsia being studied are mind/body approaches like relaxation training, yoga, and hypnosis, and energy therapies like acupuncture and therapeutic touch. European studies indicate that hydrotherapy and massage therapy are beneficial to patients with functional FD.
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Herbs at a Glance: Aloe Vera. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). December 2006. [cited May 5, 2007]. <http://nccam.nih.gov/health/aloevera/>
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International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD). GI Disorders: Adults April 7, 2007. [cited May 5, 2007]. <http://www.iffgd.org/site/gi-disorders/adults/>
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 450, Bethesda, MD 20817. Telephone: (301) 263-9000. Website: <http://www.acg.gi.org>
International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD). P.O. Box 170864, Milwaukee, WI 53217. Telephone: (888) 964-2001 or (414) 964-1799. Website: <http://www.iffdg.org>
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. Telephone: (888) 644-6226. Website: <http://nccam.nih.gov>
National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC). 2 Information Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3570. Telephone: (800) 891-5389. Website: <http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/>
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN). P.O. Box 6, Flourtown, PA 19031. Telephone: (215) 233-0808. Website: <http://www.naspghan.org>
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857-0001. Telephone: (888) INFO-FDA. Website: <http://www.fda.gov/>
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Last month, BlackBerry introduced a new member in its Curve family – the BlackBerry Curve 9360. This handset runs on the latest BlackBerry 7 Operating System. We have a good news for the folks living in India. Research-In-Motion (RIM) has recently launched the new BlackBerry Curve 9360 in India. Airtel subscribers will get additional benefits with the purchase of this handset. If you are planning to buy one, then check out the complete specs below.
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NVivo for Windows Workshop (2 days)
About this Workshop
Gain the knowledge and practice needed for completing your research project with NVivo in our two-day workshop. The workshop will be done for Windows only. Please note that this is a bring-your-own-laptop course. The workshop language is English.
Day One: Fundamentals of NVivo for Windows
Day 1 is for everyone – whether you use the Pro or Plus edition. This is a hands-on workshop and the objective is to provide you with the information and practice you need to get started with your own project.
Using sample data, you'll create a project in NVivo and will work with textual data (Word documents and PDF files). You will be introduced to principles for effective coding, some basic queries and visualizations. We'll also introduce you to the basics of working with demographic or other variable-type data in NVivo. Time is allocated during the afternoon session to practice with your own project.
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In this second day, we will look at other kinds of sources including survey data (datasets). We explore the three types of mapping tools available and more ways of working with queries, including the matrix coding query, to explore patterns in your data and coding. We will finish with a demonstration of the automated insights and sociogram features available in the Plus edition. We use sample data throughout, and then allocate time during the afternoon session for you to practice with your own data.
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Tucson, Ariz. — It doesn't matter where he is playing, or what competition he is playing in, but LA Galaxy midfielder David Beckham always wants to win.
When the LA Galaxy lock horns with the New York Red Bulls Wednesday night at Kino Stadium (7 p.m. PT, on www.lagalaxy.com/gamedaylive), in the final group stage game of the Desert Diamond Cup, the emotions might not be the same as they were four months ago— when the two clubs faced off in their Western Conference Semifinal Series— but goal certainly remains the same. Win.
Training Update with Arena, Beckham
"Whether it's a friendly match, a World Cup match, or playing in the garden with my kids," Beckham said, "I always want to win. Though I take it easier on my kids, I still want to win."
The Galaxy could enter their game against the Red Bulls needing a win in order to advance to the Desert Diamond Cup championship game.
LA (1-1-0, 3 points) are currently in second place in the standings, tied with Real Salt Lake but possessing a +1 goal difference compared to RSL's -1. Both teams trail the first place New England Revolution, who are a perfect 2-0-0 in the competition, by three points. New England and Salt Lake kick off Wednesday night's doubleheader at 6 p.m. (PT) with the Revs clinching a berth in the final with a win or a draw. With a Revolution win, the Galaxy could then book the second spot in the final with a win or draw with New York or even by losing but maintaining a superior goal difference to the Red Bulls and Real Salt Lake.
If New England and Salt Lake draw, the Galaxy would need a win or tie against the Red Bulls (0-2-0, 0 points) to play in the final. If Salt Lake wins Wednesday's early game, the Galaxy would need to beat the Red Bulls and end up with a greater goal differential than either New England or Salt Lake to play in the final.
"It is an important game, especially as we get closer to the season, which is now only about a week-and-half away, guys are still getting 90 minutes fit. That's kind of our main priority," said Galaxy defender Todd Dunivant. "It's obviously a big game and every time we step onto the field we want to win. We want to win trophies and tournaments, but the most important things for us is to look forward to the Champions League game and get ready for that, so that's kind of our main focus and this game is going to help us do that."
The two teams that don't advance to play in the championship game will take part in the third-place match. Both games will be played on Saturday night at Kino Stadium, with the third-place game kicking off at 5 p.m. (PT) and the championship game at 7 p.m. (PT).


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As I'm counting down to the launch of my next book, PIECES of LOVE, due out in a few weeks, I figured I would do something a little different this time. I finished and posted my book trailer before the book's release. You would think this would be a no brainer, but I've published five novels and haven't managed to do this until now. With good reason, I assure you. I can't tell you how long it takes me and my husband to produce a decent trailer. Don't get me wrong. He is an amazing source of technical support, but he's a super busy guy and can't always work to my time schedule. I also get frustrated in trying to share my creative vision with him in a way that translates to exactly what I want. Yes…I'm afraid I'm a bit picky. So this time, I took it upon myself to learn how to use i-Movie, and created my own book trailer.
I thought I would share the process with you today.
First off, I recommend finding the right music. There are several stock music sites that offer "free" music, but it can take hours of listening to samples to find just the right piece, and the selection of free titles is limited. It's likely you'll pay a nominal fee for what you want. Be sure to read the fine print because you may also only have the music rights for a specifically contracted period of time. The most important thing is to find music that is released under a Creative Commons license, and to give the artist credit when due. Here are a few sites where you can find music suitable for book trailers.
Since I'd gone this route before and found the process daunting, and I wasn't willing to pay someone big bucks to do a trailer for me, I almost wasn't going to have one this time around. As the fates would have it, my main character in PIECES of LOVE, Lexi, plays guitar, sings, and writes music. In my efforts to help readers connect to the character on a deeper level, I was inspired to write lyrics into the book. Of course, then it dawned on me that I should also try to put music to the words. Not that I've ever written a song or know how to write music, but what can I say…my muse was feeling adventurous. With a step in faith and a little effort on a lunch break, the tune came to me, and I recorded it into my phone (love those apps). Then I took it to my pal, lifelong musician, Ozone Pete, who plays guitar and "knew a guy" who could help with a professional recording. Six months later, we spent a day with Jim Fogarty of Zing studios in Westfield, MA. All in all, it took a total of about fifteen hours over two days and I had a theme song—now available for download on i-Tunes.
It was the perfect choice for the book trailer.
Once I had the music, I was ready to start on the hard part. Being techno-challenged and averse to learning the Mac's operating system, I was prepared to defer the actual trailer production to my husband, but as I said, that wasn't to be if I wanted it done sooner rather than later. I bit the bullet, so to speak, and dove in.
I used parts of the book's blurb and boiled the synopsis down to a paragraph, creating a "story board" with 8-10 slides to "tell" the story. I figured each slide would require about 6-10 seconds—long enough for viewers to read. Adding the transitions and front/back matter, I was able to keep the whole production at about two minutes.
Using stock photos from Big Stock Photos, each costing about $5-10, I chose photos that reflected the blow by blow description of the story. Uploading the music and photos to my husband's Mac and importing it all into i-Movie was a challenge for me (being Mac deficient) but a snap for hubby, so I let him do that part. Once I had all the pieces there to work with, it was a matter of choosing an appropriate segment of the song to match the story board. Two minutes is a bit long for a trailer these days, but I had a certain timing in mind for the slides and the music selection to work together.
Caution: Timing each slide and transition accordingly is an OCD sufferer's nightmare…or dream come true, LOL. I tweaked and cajoled this thing to death, but the final product was worth it, IMO.
Yes, countless hours went into the project, and there were studio costs, but in the end, for a few hundred dollars, I have a product I'm proud of and it's exactly what I envisioned. I can use it to promote my book as well as the song on i-Tunes, and at the same time, offer an entertaining connection for my readers who might find it interesting to hear the author singing the theme song.
As much as I'm not a big Mac fan, I-Movie is a powerful program! Once I figured out how to use all the neat features, the possibilities seemed endless. There are several backgrounds, title fonts, and styles to choose from for each slide, special affects you can apply to pictures and transitions, and many variables you can and can't control. For instance, I wanted to blur a couple of the photos but couldn't do it in i-Movie, so I exported them to Power Point, manipulated the shots there, and then saved them to the i-Movie event I was working on. It was simply a matter of playing with the program and figuring out what worked. Of course, when I ran into trouble, hubby was there as tech support.
Once I had fine-tuned my baby and edited the crap out of it, I published it to You-tube and shared it on all my social media sites. It had over a hundred hits the first day! I'm glad so many people have enjoyed the production and I truly appreciate all the positive feedback.
If the DIY version seems too daunting, save your pennies, because a decent trailer can run you anywhere from $300-$1200. I've seen them for more and I've seen them for less, but you definitely get what you pay for in this case. I once paid $50 to a supposedly reputable person and was less than satisfied, so lesson learned for me. Until I can afford to pay the big bucks, I'll continue to go the DIY route.


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YAM - Yet Another Mailer (#2) - Bad keyboard shortcuts (#63) - Message List
I've done a (very) quick search in SF for this problem, a problem that has been around a long time. I didn't turn up anything.
Keyboard shortcuts when reading messages: they usually work, but sometimes they don't. eg. pressing 'm' to move a message can instead 'd' delete it. It's like YAM/MUI sometimes gets confused and mixes up the shortcuts. If I click outside the reader window then reactivate it, the shortcuts work fine. This happens with both 68K/PPC YAMs.
I did mention this in the ML ages ago, but have heard and seen no mention of this problem since.
Message #280
Please post the exact version of the build you are using and of course also the exact operating system version you are running and MUI version…
Give me some more input, please…Jens MausNov 22, 2004, 5:55:41 PM (15 years ago)
Message #281
I'll dig up the original post I made to the YAM list in the morning and post that and the other details tomorrow.stevebowNov 23, 2004, 3:20:47 PM (15 years ago)
Message #282
Ok, this is the post I made to the YAM ML on 6/4/03 subject "Toolbar.mcc wierdness" - this problem's been around longer that I remembered!
Are there any know problems with Toolbar.mcc V15.8 and keyboard shortcuts?
I use "l" on the keyboard to delete messages as I read through them, and since installing Toolbar.mcc V15.8 I've noted all sorts of wierdness. Sometimes a message will be forwarded or replied or printed whenever I press "l".
I have Border Type and and Selection Border both set "Off" and Show Active on Mousehit checked on, so the Toolbar looks and acts like, for eg., Netscape. I haven't tested if this settings combination has anything to do with the problem.
It seems when an icon in the toolbar is "activated" by the pointer and then moving the pointer away, pressing "l" will perform that action instead of delete as expected.
BTW, "Show Active on Mousehit" is a bit misleading (to me anyway) - you don't click or "hit" anything. Perhaps "Show Active on Mouseover" is more logical, along the lines of Javascript.
Oh, I've noticed on occasion "l" does not do anything in the active Read window. You have to click outside then reactivate the window before "l" deletes. I haven't found out why yet.
on 17/4, Bill Eaves wrote:
Which since V15.8 is real screwy. As mentioned in a previous post, often the action performed when I hit "l" (delete) when reading is that of the icon previously hilited with a mouseover ("Mousehit") action. Rather annoying. I have to remember to briefly mouseover-hilite the delete icon before I start to read through a lot of messages.
I find that with 15.8 the use of shortcuts after any mouseover highlight disappears entirely. If my mouse has been over onr of the buttons, I have to click an area of space outside the toolbar before any of the keyboard shortcuts will work.
If I did like you and highlight the delete icon I cannot use any shortcut associated with the toolbar.
There is definitely something gone screwy with toolbar.mcc v15.8 - even more so if it affects different users in different ways. Hopefully things will work in 15.9
This is still affecting my A2000 with latest OS4 modules (not that there's too many of those any more…), YAM 2.5dev 13/11/04, MUI3.9, Toolbar.mcc 15.8.
I haven't checked for this problem on the A1 since ISO 50.10 + daily updates, but the problem definitely was there pre-50.10 with PPC YAM/MUI.stevebowNov 24, 2004, 10:30:03 AM (15 years ago)
Message #283
Hi Jens,
Do you see this problem at all?stevebowDec 7, 2004, 3:08:54 PM (15 years ago)
Message #284
No sorry, never seen that problem on my system at all. But I have to investigate a bit further abotu that in the new year. But thanks for the hint. And please keep on raising such things here in the new forum. I would really like to have this forum get a bit hotter with more important information like this…Jens MausDec 7, 2004, 6:14:19 PM (15 years ago)
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It's easy to reproduce - well, here it is anyway.
Just position the mouse pointer over a toolbar icon such as Move or Forward, then press "l", the shortcut for delete. Instead of deleting, the action the pointer is over is performed instead.
This "wrong action" also does happen when the pointer is away from any toolbar icon, say over the message text, but I can't easily reproduce this .
I would really like to have this forum get a bit hotter with more important information like this…
You really need to encourage people away from freelists then. :wink:stevebowDec 8, 2004, 12:49:12 PM (15 years ago)


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JOB TITLE: Operations Director, Interventional Radiology
LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Hospital
DEPARTMENT: Radiology
WORK SCHEDULE: Days
WORK TYPE: Full Time
Primarily responsible for operational activities of Interventional Radiology across the system. Partnering with the system Physician Director leader of IR. These two are jointly responsible for all aspects of operation performance including but not limited to, patient experience, employee engagement, market growth, financial performance, change management, and equipment management. financial and equipment needs for assigned department modalities with the IR Team Leaders reporting directly to this position. Responsible for developing and initiating improvements in the organization and delivery of high quality, cost effective radiology services. Responsible for all regulatory requirements of assigned area. Provides back-up support in the absence of Team Leaders and Managers.
Demonstrates leadership, strategic planning, and tactical planning skills.
Demonstrates analytical and business acumen skills (i.e. Business Plan Development, Budget Development and Analysis, Market Analysis, etc.).
Demonstrates leadership, facilitation, coaching, and relationship building skills.
Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrates decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrates change management skills.
Bachelor of Science in a business administration, healthcare administration, or relevant discipline required. Minimum of five years of management experience, (healthcare setting preferred)
Master's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration or relevant discipline required.
Minimum of three years management experience (healthcare setting preferred).
Work is typically performed in an office environment, as well in inpatient and outpatient clinical settings throughout the system. Independent travel to other locations required.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
Located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Geisinger is known for its focus on caring and innovative programs including the ProvenCare® best-practice approach to maximize quality, safety and value; ProvenHealth Navigator® advanced medical home; Springboard Health® population health program to improve the health of an entire community; ProvenExperience™ to provide refunds to patients unhappy with their care experience; and Geisinger's MyCode® Community Health Initiative, the largest healthcare system-based precision health project in the world. With more than 215,000 volunteer participants enrolled, MyCode is conducting extensive research and returning medically actionable results to participants. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.
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Almost everyone in California agrees that our legislature is full of fools who can't count well enough to balance the budget.
If our legislature is dumb, what does that make the rest of us?
Because if education is any measure of brains, California's legislators are much smarter than the people they represent.
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California, in fact, leads the country in the percentage of its legislators who are college graduates -- nearly 90 percent. The percentage of Californians who are college graduates is a bit above 38 percent. And if you don't think education levels are a good proxy for smarts, remind yourself that college graduates make far more money than non-graduates; our legislators are at least smart enough to do what it takes for a bigger paycheck.
Of course, our lawmakers' respect for higher education hasn't stopped them from imposing big cutbacks to the state's university systems. And the legislature's college degrees haven't helped lawmakers manage the state's famously complex budget system.
Some things are too hard to understand, even if you did well in school.


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शीर्षक से यह लेख "पश्चिम में शीर्ष चार आधुनिक हत्यारों" रॉबिन McKie द्वारा लिखा गया था, for The Observer on Saturday 6th June 2015 23.05 UTC
Where are we
The fight against cancer has proved to be one of the greatest intellectual and practical challenges of modern times. A hundred years ago, surgical interventions backed by early forms of radiation therapy were the only weapons at the disposal of doctors. तब से, a number of key revolutions have changed that.
The first was the introduction of chemotherapy, in the form of drugs that were derived, विडम्बना से, from the mustard gas which was used as a weapon during the first world war. Doctors who carried out autopsies on gas victims noted that it inhibited cell division, and developed versions that helped to stop tumour cells from proliferating. These became routine treatments in the 1950s.
अब क्या?
As genomic research progressed in the 20th century, scientists have used that knowledge to develop new treatments. Recent advances have included targeted therapies. These are more specific in their action against tumours because they act on molecular targets associated with particular cancer cells, whereas most standard chemotherapies act on all rapidly dividing cells, be they normal or cancerous.
उदाहरण के लिए, in about one in five breast cancer patients, tumour cells have too much of a growth-promoting protein known as HER2 on their surface. Breast cancers with too much of this protein are particularly aggressive, scientists found. A number of drugs, such as Herceptin, have been developed to target this protein and block the spread of tumour cells. These targeted therapies are now a mainstay in the battle against cancer.
What are the major problems?
Great progress is being made, but the emerging problem may be financial rather than technical. The new generation of drugs being developed are very expensive, raising questions of affordability.
Take the fledgling technology of immunotherapy. Cancer cells possess a sort of secret handshake that persuades T-cells, a key part of the body's anti-disease defences, not to attack them. 1990 में, scientists discovered a molecule on T-cells that was part of this handshake. It is known as programmed death 1 (PD1) व, since its discovery, researchers have been trying to disrupt its function.
The new drugs unveiled in Chicago last week are the result of this work. Trials on patients with advanced melanoma, which has a high death rate, have already produced encouraging results, but scientists warn that there could be serious side-effects in some patients.
Where are we?
Dementia is not actually a disease. It is the outcome of many different conditions. Alzheimer's disease is the most common of these but others include vascular dementia and frontotemporal dementia. All of these forms share common symptoms, हालांकि. These include memory loss, confusion and personality change.
While dementia is certainly not an inevitable outcome of getting old, the likelihood of developing the condition undoubtedly increases with age. इस प्रकार, as infectious diseases were vanquished in the UK, and mortality rates for cancer and heart conditions forced down, more and more people have been able to live to old age. (Life expectancy in the UK is now 79 for men and 83 for women.)
आज , it is calculated that there are now more than 850,000 people with dementia in the UK.
अब क्या?
द्वारा 2025, the number of cases of dementia in the UK is expected to rise to more than 1 दस लाख. द्वारा 2050, it is projected to exceed 2 दस लाख. इसके साथ - साथ, the condition has been found to be particularly common in women. का 850,000 dementia patients in Britain, 500,000 are female. नतीजतन, women over 60 are now twice as likely to get dementia as breast cancer.
Scientists are now working on ways to use genetic and stem-cell technologies to understand the detailed causes of the various forms of dementia and, in the long run, to develop drugs that could slow down the loss of faculties in those affected by the condition.
Scientists caution that this aspiration remains a long-term goal and warn there is much work that still needs to be done.
What are the problems?
A key problem for those trying to tackle dementia is a lack of resources. There have been major investments in heart disease and cancer research in recent years and these have helped bring down death rates.
But that has not happened with dementia, said Matthew Norton, head of policy for Alzheimer's Research UK. "Just look at the figures,"उन्होंने कहा.
"Total spend in the UK – from charities and the government – on dementia in 2013 was £73.8m. इसके विपरीत करके, for cancer, that figure was £503m." This underfunding means reduced manpower, say campaigners. There are some 3,600 dementia researchers working in the UK –about 19,000 fewer than those working on cancer, even though dementia costs the UK economy more. इसलिए, prospects of finding treatments to slow or halt the loss of faculties associated with dementia will be limited, say researchers.
Where are we?
Over the past 50 वर्षों, there has been an impressive improvement in mortality rates from cardiovascular disease in Britain. This point was precisely summed up by Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation. "The foundation was established in 1961, when heart disease was ravaging the country. It caused nearly half of all deaths in the UK in that year."
With hindsight, it is not hard to see why. Smoking levels were four times higher than today, while eating foods high in saturated fats – whole milk, butter and red meat – was the norm.
आज , those foods have been replaced by lower-fat options, vegetable oils, skimmed milk and poultry. We have medicines to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and it is possible to open blocked or narrowed arteries without major surgery.
अब क्या?
Devising drugs to treat damaged hearts suffers from a key problem: they are difficult to test. "We cannot keep cutting patients open to remove heart-tissue samples. That is just not practical or ethical," said Chris Denning of Nottingham University.
A solution for scientists in recent years has been to turn to the use of stem cells. At Nottingham University researchers have taken cells from patients' skin and bathed them in nutrients in order to transform them into stem cells, a type of cell that can be turned into any tissue. These cells are then developed into heart cells, which are kept in Petri dishes for testing purposes.
"That means they are ideal for trying new drugs on. It is an incredibly important development," added Denning.
Other scientists believe that it may be possible to use stem cells to directly repair, damaged hearts in the near future.
What are the problems?
Although medical procedures continue to improve prospects for saving the lives of those who suffer from cardiovascular disease, there are a host of epidemiological issues that threaten to offset these benefits.
उदाहरण के लिए, the rate of smoking declined sharply between 1972 व 1994 but the fall-off has since slowed down. And the prevalence of heavy drinking has not changed substantially since the 1970s. इससे भी बदतर, childhood obesity has been increasing in both boys and girls since the mid-1980s, while adult obesity rates are also continuing to rise – as is the incidence of diabetes in the UK. All these factors increase the risk that heart disease mortality rates could rise again in the near future.
Weissberg has warned that these factors "threaten to derail the decreasing trends in heart disease and death rates that we are now experiencing".
Where are we?
Defeating the scourge of infectious disease in the western world is generally attributed to the development of vaccine programmes and antibiotics, although improved sanitation and health education have also been key factors.
"In fact, death rates from tuberculosis, a pernicious killer, had begun to drop by the mid-19th century," said Carsten Timmermann of Manchester University. "In 1838, there were around 4,000 deaths per million as a result of TB, but this had dropped to around 1,000 द्वारा 1900. Vaccines and antibiotics had nothing to do with that. दरअसल, it is not clear why the decline occurred at all. But it is also evident that programmes such as the BCG vaccine project had really stopped tuberculosis being a serious killer by the middle of the 20th century."
अब क्या?
In the west, most infectious diseases are now kept at bay. हालांकि, the balance is an uneasy one. "In the 1960s, a US surgeon-general was alleged to have claimed that infectious diseases had been completely defeated," said Jeremy Farrar, who is head of the UK Wellcome Trust.
"The story may be apocryphal but it certainly sums up attitudes at the time. फिर, a couple of decades later, we had the arrival of HIV in the west and a very clear lesson about the ever-present danger of infectious diseases, कौन कौन से can spread very quickly from other parts of the world."
इसके साथ - साथ, the rise of antibiotic resistance – a result, in part, of overuse – has led to growing fears that one of the west's key defences against infectious disease may be lost in the near future, unless pharmaceutical companies speed up the development of new versions.
What are the problems?
In an increasingly connected world, it's more and more difficult to contain infectious diseases. Changes in weather patterns and increased migrations from areas affected by rising sea levels or spreading deserts will also intensify the risk of new diseases or new strains of existing conditions arriving in the west.
"In developing nations, we have replaced the problems of infectious disease with health issues such as diabetes and obesity," said Farrar. "But in developing nations, they still have major problems with infectious diseases – malaria, TB and HIV, उदाहरण के लिए – but are also being affected by obesity and diabetes. Countries such as these – Vietnam is a good example – need considerable help from global agencies such as the World Health Organisation. हालांकि, these agencies are not getting the support they need from the west any more."
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Where: Big Bear, California
Big Bear Lake, Calif. – Today the first-ever etnies GvR Snow went down at Bear Mountain, California and the Regulars stomped the Goofies taking home the win!
The event started off with blue skies, and despite the change of conditions, with heavy snow fall during the Regular Team's final runs, Juuso Lavisto sent it and earned both first place and MVP!
The team-based format of etnies GvR Snow put Transworld Snowboarding's Regular Footed riders against FUEL TV's Goofy Footed riders, with each team appointing a team captain. The final score left the Regular footers victorious with 2747 points over Goofy's 2345.
FUEL TV's Director, John Stouffer, came out to lead the Goofy Team to take the win, with Nick Dirks, Louie Vito, Ryan Thompson, Simon Chamberlain and Chris Bradshaw as the starting five going into the finals. Kurt Hoy, captain of the Regular Team, appointed Austin Smith, Joe Sexton, JP Walker, Markku Koski and Robbie Walker as his starting five going into the finals.
The rider that was definitely killing it that day was the little Finn Juuso Laivisto, who came out, qualified for the finals and pulled some stylish backside 7's, frontside 7's and a 50-50 to 360-out on the rail to win it for his regulars team.
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Review: Apple's fifth-generation iPod nano (2009)The glossy-finished new fifth-gen iPod nano builds upon last year's tall and slim form factor by adding video recording, FM radio with iPod tagging and Live Pause, VoiceOver navigation, a built-in Nike+ step counter, and a slightly larger and improved 2.2" display, all packed into the same thin aluminum tube.
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The tall orientation of the revised nano might be the ideal design for delivering its biggest new feature, but it's a bit puzzling that Apple put the new video camera at the base of the unit. Unlike the iPhone, which places its camera at the top corner of its back, the new nano fits its camera at the bottom, opposite the click wheel used to start and stop the recording.
As a result, while it's easy to get your hand in the way of an iPhone shot, it's hard to position the nano for recording without having your fingers in the shot. The most natural way to hold the nano completely obscures the camera lens with your hand. Fortunately, there are two approaches that work. The first is to hold the device with the tips of your fingers (below left) rather than cradling it in your hand. This allows for precise aiming with one hand in both the landscape and portrait orientations. The alternative is to hold the device by its edges while recording (below right), something that might require both hands if you lack dexterity.
The only discernible upside to putting the camera in such a location is that it signals when it is being used for recording. You don't have to wonder if somebody is secretly filming you with their iPod nano in the gym unless they're holding it in contorted, awkward way that indicates they probably are. Apart from that, there's no other explanation.
Recording quality
As a video camera, the new nano is remarkably good. It's also extremely simple to operate, takes decent quality video at VGA resolution (640x480) at a fluid 30 frames per second rate. The total bit rate of its movies is around 2,500 to 3,000, making the output files portable and compact, and well-suited for online use.
Video shot by the nano compares favorably with video shot with the iPhone 3GS. An example taken with the nano's camera in landscape mode actually looks better than video taken simultaneously with the iPhone 3GS in portrait mode. Both devices create video output files in VGA (0.3 megapixel) resolution, although the nano has a wider angle, fixed focus lens on a camera mechanism that likely has a much lower native resolution than the 3.0 megapixel camera in the iPhone 3GS. In both cases, the camera's raw video is compressed in software as it is recorded.
Even so, our iPhone 3GS video consumed a higher bit rate (3,700 vs 2,800 kbit/sec on the nano capture) yet delivered muddier video, perhaps indicating that the iPhone can dramatically improve its video capture via optimized software. Uploaded to YouTube, the video is compressed even further, but still good (below).
Also important in creating usable video is the nano's integrated mic, which captures pretty good quality audio. Few things are as disappointing as capturing video with badly garbled audio or blank silence. The nano picks up inside voices quite clearly using the mic next to the camera lens. Video playback on the nano is also readily audible using its tiny internal speaker.
The audio recording quality is even better when you record video using the mic integrated into a pair of iPhone-style headphones. Note that the nano only ships with standard headphones lacking an integrated mic, however. Even using the nano's built-in mic, audio is decent and very usable for the casual applications one can expect of it.
You probably won't want to use the iPod nano's tiny speaker as a boom box for listening to music, as it isn't capable of producing very high fidelity music, but it can serve a functional way to share videos with friends without using headphones.
Moving pictures only
The camera doesn't take photos, although you can of course snap a still video shot and export a frame of the video as a picture. With the camera held still, you can make out pretty good details, although any motion renders still shots quite blurred. The choice to make the nano's camera video-only wasn't just arbitrary, but based on the fact that it uses a simpler camera mechanism to fit its thin body. The fancy autofocus camera in the iPhone 3GS is twice as thick as the nano's.
Below is a picture of a parking ticket that's been laying around, snapped with the nano's video camera and the iPhone 3GS in both still and movie modes. They're all easily readable, but the iPhone photo visibly sharper, while the nano's video still suffers from noisy smearing.
While the new nano makes a pretty decent video camera for casual captures of your friends, the type of photographs it could take, given the tiny amount of room available for the camera, would not make it competitive with even the low end of standalone toy cameras or cell phone cams. On the other hand, its video features make it suitable for replacing a separate digital video recorder unit on outings or at parties.
Like any tiny CCD camera, it takes the best shots in good lighting. Inside in dim lighting, shots get noisy quick and motion blur is a lot more evident. The video-capable nano isn't going to put Flip out of business, but it will dramatically expand the number of recording eyes out there in the hands of millions of iPod users. Given that the nano's video recording feature doesn't cost any premium over the previous generation, Apple is effectively dumping millions of free video recorders into the market, something that will impact the emerging market for standalone video recorders.
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