Baton Rouge General Hosts Annual Skin Cancer Screening June 7th

Posted on 01 June 2012.

Baton Rouge General?s Pennington Cancer Center is sponsoring a free skin cancer screening on Thursday, June 7 at Baton Rouge General?s Bluebonnet campus. Physicians will be conducting skin screenings and information on sun safety will also be provided.

More than 2 million people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year, but when detected early, skin cancer has up to a 95 percent cure rate.

The best ways to detect possible areas with skin cancer are to do self-exams. It?s recommended that you do them once per month and look for any abnormal skin growth or any change in the color, shape, size or appearance of a skin growth.

Although most skin cancer can be detected and treated early, it can still be very dangerous.?Sun exposure is the most preventable risk factor for all skin cancers, including melanoma.^1,2

Here are a few sun safety ideas to help protect you and your family from skin cancer from the American Academy of Dermatology:

• Seek shade when appropriate.?Remember that the sun?s rays are strongest between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. If your shadow appears to be shorter than you are, seek shade.
• Wear protective clothing, such as a long-sleeved shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hat, and sunglasses, where possible.
• Generously apply a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen?with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 30 or more to all exposed skin. ?Broad-spectrum? provides protection from both ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) rays. Reapply approximately every two hours, even on cloudy days, and after swimming or sweating.
• Use extra caution near water, snow, and sand?because they reflect and intensify the damaging rays of the sun, which can increase your chances of sunburn.
• Avoid tanning beds.?Ultraviolet light from the sun and tanning beds can cause skin cancer and wrinkling. If you want to look tan, consider using a self-tanning product or spray, but continue to use sunscreen with it.

^1?American Cancer Society.?Cancer Facts and Figures 2011.?
^2?Robinson, JK. Sun Exposure, Sun Protection and Vitamin D.?JAMA?2005; 294: 1541-43.

Registration is required. Please call?(225) 763-4281?for an appointment.? Information about this free event is available online at?www.BRGeneral.org.

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Microsoft updates SkyDrive for iPad with Retina Display support, file-sharing features

Those who like to swing both ways will be glad to know that SkyDrive for the iPad now supports Apple's gorgeous Retina Display. Now, before you ask why the hell pixel density would be of concern for a cloud storage app, remember that SkyDrive also allows users to view photos and documents from within the application -- only now at a properly rendered 264ppi. In addition to the peeper-pleasing improvement, SkyDrive users will also find the ability to upload multiple photos and videos from their iPad to the cloud, new file-sharing options (either via email, or a link that you can copy and paste), along with the ability to open SkyDrive files from within other iOS apps. It's funny how something so out of place can be so right.

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Neglected Diseases ? How Should We Pay for R&D? | Health X Pert ...

Last week, the World Health Assembly ? the decision-making body of the World Health Organization ? debated whether to obligate every country to donate at least .01% of its gross domestic product to R&D to combat these so-called neglected diseases. But the U.S., European Union and Japan opposed the idea. Instead, the assembly agreed to continue discussions and put forth new proposals next year. Why did Washington object? The Health Blog caught up with Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. representative on the WHO?s Executive Board. He presented the U.S. position last week. In short: The U.S. supports the diagnosis, but not the prescription, Daulaire said.

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Med school chair created on sexuality and religion

ATLANTA (AP) ? The Morehouse School of Medicine is creating what is being called the first endowed chair on sexuality and religion at a U.S. medical school.

The Atlanta medical school on Thursday announced it raised $2 million for the endowed chair, and it will begin a one-year national search to hire someone to fill it.

The chairperson will develop ways to train physicians and theologians on a wide range of sexual health issues that include contraception, rape prevention, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

The chair will report to Dr. David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General who issued a controversial report on sexual health in 2001. Satcher is now a Morehouse administrator.

A spokeswoman for the Association of American Medical Colleges said she was not aware of a similar endowed chair anywhere else.

Satcher and others at Morehouse previously coordinated national panel discussions on sexual health that involved organizations ranging from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

The medical school, founded in 1975, has an enrollment of about 300. It is separate from Morehouse College, a historically black university located across the street.

The medical school previously created an endowed chair for mental health issues, which was co-funded by entertainer Bill Cosby and child psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint. Satcher occupies that position.

The new chair is named for two Florida-based benefactors ? the Rev. Marta Weeks, an ordained Episcopal priest, and the Rev. David Richards, a retired Episcopal bishop.

The chair will teach at Morehouse but will also be expected to work with other medical schools and religious academic institutions to help shape curricula elsewhere.

"We really have done something here that's never been done before," said Christian Thrasher, director of the medical school's Center of Excellence for Sexual Health.

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Experiment lets spine-injured rats walk, climb

In this undated photo provided by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, a previously paralyzed rat in a special harness walks voluntarily after several weeks of rehabilitation in a laboratory in Switzerland. In the new experiment reported in the Friday, June 1, 2012 issue of the journal Science, researchers led by Gregoire Courtine, of the University of Zurich and the technical university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus injections of a chemical mix, helping the rodents overcome paralysis to walk and climb stairs. (AP Photo/Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

In this undated photo provided by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, a previously paralyzed rat in a special harness walks voluntarily after several weeks of rehabilitation in a laboratory in Switzerland. In the new experiment reported in the Friday, June 1, 2012 issue of the journal Science, researchers led by Gregoire Courtine, of the University of Zurich and the technical university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus injections of a chemical mix, helping the rodents overcome paralysis to walk and climb stairs. (AP Photo/Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

In this undated photo provided by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, a researcher watches a previously paralyzed rat in a special harness walk voluntarily after several weeks of rehabilitation in a laboratory in Switzerland. In the new experiment reported in the Friday, June 1, 2012 issue of the journal Science, researchers led by Gregoire Courtine, of the University of Zurich and the technical university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus injections of a chemical mix, helping the rodents overcome paralysis to walk and climb stairs. (AP Photo/Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

In this undated photo provided by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, a previously paralyzed rat in a special harness walks voluntarily after several weeks of rehabilitation in a laboratory in Switzerland. In the new experiment reported in the Friday, June 1, 2012 issue of the journal Science, researchers led by Gregoire Courtine, of the University of Zurich and the technical university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus injections of a chemical mix, helping the rodents overcome paralysis to walk and climb stairs. (AP Photo/Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

FILE - This 2010 photo provided by Rob Summers shows Summers, center, receiving intensive physical therapy in Louisville, Ky. Summers was paralyzed below the neck in a 2006 car accident and in 2009, doctors decided to implant an electrical stimulator onto his spinal cord to try waking up his damaged nervous system. Summers is now able to stand and move during therapy sessions with the stimulator turned on. Using a similar approach, researchers in Switzerland have had success with rats in special harnesses injected with special chemicals overcoming paralysis to walk and climb stairs. The results are reported in the Friday, June 1, 2012 issue of the journal Science by a team led by Gregoire Courtine. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Rob Summers)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk. Now there's a striking new demonstration of how one approach might work: Spinal nerve stimulation helped rats in a Swiss lab overcome paralysis to walk and climb stairs.

That may sound impressive, but similar progress has been made in people, too. The difference this time is the particular technique used.

"It's a natural extension of exciting work that's been done by many groups," said Dr. John McDonald, director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. He wasn't involved in the research.

In the new experiment, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science, researchers stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus injections of a chemical mix.

To do the training, the rats were placed in a harness so that only their hind legs reached the ground. Then they were placed on a treadmill, which produced only reflexive stepping, and on stationary ground, where they had to choose to make their legs move if they wanted to reach a piece of chocolate.

They took their first voluntary steps about two to three weeks after the training began, the researchers said. The rats still needed the harness later to keep their balance.

The treatment produced an extensive rewiring in the brain and spinal cord, and the lead researcher said that more than 100 rats have regained walking ability to varying degrees.

"This kind of approach will not cure spinal cord injury" but it might someday help some patients recover more ability to move around, said lead researcher Gregoire Courtine. Only human studies will show how much the technique might help, said Courtine, of the University of Zurich and the technical university EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Last year, other researchers reported that a paralyzed Oregon man was able to stand and move his legs with a surgically implanted electrical stimulator.

McDonald, of the Krieger Institute, said the new paper would spur great interest among spinal cord researchers, in part because the techniques it used could be readily applied to people. The electrical stimulation could be given through the skin rather than from implanted electrodes, he said.

But he and W. Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami, noted that the rats had been given a spinal injury that differs from what is normally seen in people. So more studies are needed involving injuries more typical of human patients, McDonald said.

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Online:

Researcher video: http://youtu.be/ejwEqpV8ak4

Journal Science: http://www.science.com

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Volunteer massage therapists bring soothing touch to seniors

A one hour long, full body massage sounds like a slice of heaven, doesn't it? Imagine the tensions easing out from under the educated hands of the massage therapist.

In the past decade, this profession has enjoyed a rapid growth, due in part to the increased focus on health and fitness and the growing acceptance of therapeutic massage as a valuable treatment in the medical profession.

Many doctors refer patients to massage therapists to relieve pain and tension. Massage is often used in conjunction with physiotherapy and chiropractic treatment.

No longer just a pleasant diversion for the hedonistic and affluent, this therapy is reaching those who need it most.

The students' training was enriched by the participation of the residents. And the school says that patients also benefited:

* A man with cerebral palsy found relief from pain when massage stretched out chronically contracted muscles.

* For a woman with multiple sclerosis, massage reduced spasms and edema, increased circulation, which eased the problem of typically cold hands and feet, and left her with a general feeling of well being.

* In another case, a woman with muscular dystrophy had a cold. Her condition robbed her of a normal coughing mechanism. Pneumonia may have been avoided through massage which helped bring her mucous up.

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Gonzalez hits 3 homers as Rockies rout Astros 13-5

DENVER (AP) ? Carlos Gonzalez's swing appears effortless. The results have been smashing.

Gonzalez extended a power surge by hitting three home runs in his last three at-bats, Michael Cuddyer belted a grand slam and Dexter Fowler also homered, leading the Colorado Rockies past the Houston Astros 13-5 on Wednesday night for their third win in a row.

"All I've been doing is trying to put good swings on the ball," Gonzalez said. "Obviously, I'm not looking for a home run. I'm just looking to hit the ball hard and just make sure it's in the strike zone. I saw three around the strike zone and put a good swing on them. Home runs just happen. I think special nights are just meant to be."

He's been awfully special at the plate lately, going 10 for 16 with five home runs, seven RBIs and six runs scored in his last four games. He has 13 homers on the season.

"His focus at the plate right now, his plate discipline, is as good as I've ever seen it," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "He's stepping to another level, that's how dangerous he is."

The game was not without some concern for the Rockies, however. Star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki left the game in the top of the seventh with what the team said was a strained left groin. Tulowitzki appeared a little gimpy as he returned to the dugout after running out an infield groundout in the bottom of the sixth.

"We don't know anything more than just that. We just have to wait and see to what extent," Tracy said of the injury to Tulowitzki, who was scheduled to be re-evaluated on Thursday.

Gonzalez said he just wants to see Tulowitzki get healthy as soon as he can.

"I just want him to be healthy and get right and we all believe he's going to be even better," Gonzalez said. "He's showing signs that he's going to contribute a lot to this team, and I know he's going to do a lot of damage and help the team when he gets back."

Gonzalez did much of the damage against the Astros, breaking a 5-5 tie with a solo shot leading off the fifth off Lucas Harrell (4-4).

"He is a good hitter. If you leave something out over the plate, he's going to hit it hard," Harrell said.

Gonzalez added a two-run drive off reliever Xavier Cedeno as part of a six-run sixth and then had another solo shot, driving the first offering from David Carpenter into the right field seats in the bottom of the eighth inning.

It was Gonzalez's first career three-homer game. He has had four multihomer games this season and eight in his career.

Cuddyer connected in the first inning on the first pitch he saw from Harrell for his seventh career slam and second this season, but it had to survive a replay review by the umpires after a fan reached over the right field railing to catch the ball. The replay showed the ball had cleared the yellow boundary marker atop the right field scoreboard before being caught.

Fowler, who had a game-ending RBI triple among his team record-tying seven hits in Monday's doubleheader sweep of Houston, doubled and scored in the second inning and had a three-run homer off reliever Rhiner Cruz in the sixth for his career-high eighth home run of the season.

"The home runs were the difference," Astros manager Brad Mills said. "Five home runs with the first being a grand slam. We battled back and had a lot of hits. But they won it. They got the five homers."

Harrell, who outdueled the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw in a 3-1 victory last time out, gave up a career-high nine runs on 10 hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked three.

Christian Friedrich (3-1) allowed five runs on 11 hits in six innings, shaking off a rough third inning in which the Astros scored four runs.

Chris Snyder had a two-run double, Chris Johnson had a sacrifice fly and Justin Maxwell added an RBI single as the Astros pulled into a 5-5 tie. But Houston couldn't sustain the momentum, losing its fifth in a row and its sixth straight to the Rockies at Coors Field.

The Rockies' run total was the highest allowed by the Astros this season, surpassing the previous high of nine, which the Astros had done twice this season, most recently in a 9-7 loss to Colorado in the opener of Monday's doubleheader.

NOTES: Prior to the game, the Rockies designated LHP Jamie Moyer for assignment and recalled pitcher Carlos Torres from Triple-A Colorado Springs. The Rockies have 10 days to trade or release the 49-year-old Moyer, who became the oldest pitcher to win as a starter when he beat the San Diego Padres on April 17. ... The Astros send RHP Bud Norris (5-1) against Colorado's Jeremy Guthrie (2-3) in Thursday's finale of the four-game series. Norris has gone 4-0 with a major-league low 1.17 ERA in five previous starts during May. ... Cuddyer has two of the Rockies' four grand slams this season. He hit his first on May 5 against Atlanta.

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