Monday, June 29, 2015

Variations on slim shady for Hempstead town clerk

Vote for the real Dino, Dino Gino, write in candidate for Hempstead town clerk.

Send Dino g amoroso, not the real Dino, packing.

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See eg pubme.org faustman D clinical trials.gov faustman
I would like to record eg you tube the changes in plaque psoriàsis as Bcg is slot.
The dosing scheme and frequency will be determined by trial and error.

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A German Writer Translates a Puzzling Illness Into a Best-Selling Book

JUNE 19, 2015

“It’s really too bad, because the intestines are totally charming.” —**GIULIA ENDERS**CreditGordon Welters for The New York Times

The Saturday Profile

By JESSE COBURN

MANNHEIM, Germany — IF Giulia Enders had not contracted a mysterious illness as a teenager that left her covered with sores, she, like most of us, might never have thought much about her digestive tract, except when it was out of whack. She might never have enrolled in medical school, either, and she almost certainly would not have written a best-selling book about digestion last year that has captivated Germany, a nation viewed, fairly or not, as exceedingly anal-retentive.

Back in 2007, after a series of mostly ineffective treatments prescribed by doctors, Ms. Enders, then 17, decided to take matters into her own hands. Convinced that the illness was somehow associated with her intestines, she pored over gastroenterological research, consumed probiotic bacterial cultures meant to aid digestion and tried out mineral supplements.

Nybrings back the sport of hunting and killing humans

Armed or not.

Who needs foxes when cuomo has escapees to be murdered?

Did he know mark altschule md of Harvard?

Frederick P. Li was one of the doctors who discovered a genetic condition in which cancer was passed on from generation to generation.CreditDana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Frederick P. Li, who helped prove to a doubting medical establishment that heredity andgenetics play a major role in some forms of cancer, died on June 12 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 75.

His wife, Dr. Elaine Shiang, confirmed his death and said the probable cause was Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Li had dementia for a number of years and retired in 2008 from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he had worked for more than 30 years.

Dr. Li, who was also a professor at Harvard’s medical school and its school of public health, was best known for research that he began in the 1960s at the National Cancer Institute with Dr. Joseph F. Fraumeni. They discovered four families that, Dr. Fraumeni said in an interview, were “loaded with cancer.” Generation after generation, family members were struck down by different forms of the disease, often when they were children or young adults. Some who survived one type of cancer later developed another.

“It was devastating,” Dr. Fraumeni said, adding that in that era “we knew almost nothing about the cause of cancer.”

As the two researchers gathered information, the detailed family trees they drew were dotted with grim, shaded symbols indicating people living with cancer and those who had died of it. The same pattern of disease emerged again and again, suggesting that a dominant gene, passed from parent to child, was predisposing family members to various cancers.

The doctors first described their findings in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine in 1969. The title of their report included the phrase “A Familial Syndrome?” Dr. Li insisted on the question mark, Dr. Fraumeni said, because he did not think they had enough data to state their hypothesis as a fact.

They found more families like the first four, and confirmed their suspicions. The condition they described, which came to be called theLi-Fraumeni syndrome, is rare and dreaded, because people who have it are almost sure to develop cancer.

When the researchers identified the syndrome, they did not know which gene caused it. They stored blood samples from the affected families in the hope that future research would find the answer.

“We thought genetic factors were involved,” Dr. Fraumeni said. “We thought it was an opportunity to search for an underlying mechanism that might apply to a wide variety of cancers.”

Initially, their findings were met with skepticism, Dr. Fraumeni said. Viruses and environmental factors like air pollution, occupational exposures and diet received more attention than genetics as potential causes of cancer.

But the scientific landscape was changing fast.

“In the 1980s, the technology became available to look for susceptibility genes,” Dr. Fraumeni said.

In 1990, researchers collaborating with Dr. Li and Dr. Fraumeni identified the genetic defect responsible for many cases of the syndrome. It was an inherited mutation in a gene called TP53 — a gene that, in its normal state, acts as a “tumor suppressor” and helps to prevent cancer. It is sometimes called the guardian of the genome.

Mutations in the same gene are also involved in many types of cancer that are not part of the Li-Fraumeni syndrome, so studying families that have the syndrome can yield information about cancer biology that may have broad implications, Dr. Fraumeni said.

Dr. Li had great compassion for people with a genetic predisposition to cancer, and worked to find ways to help them prevent the disease or detect it early. He tracked cancer patients carefully to gauge the risk of subsequent tumors. He helped determine that people with the Li-Fraumeni syndrome were particularly sensitive to radiation, and that using it to treat their tumors could increase their risk of developing additional cancers.

“He was also very sensitive to the medical and ethical aspects of how genetic discoveries would impact patients and families,” said Dr. Kenneth Offit, chief of the clinical genetics service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Dr. Li quickly recognized that once a genetic test for Li-Fraumeni syndrome became available, families would face tough questions. Did they want to know? Should children be tested? If they got bad news, what could they do about it? If a health insurer got the results, would the family be denied coverage? The same questions came up when other cancer-related genes were found, like the BRCA mutations that increase the risk of breast cancer.

“Fred Li was a true pioneer in the field of cancer genetics who anticipated most of the challenges we later faced,” Dr. Offit said.

Dr. Li was also a founder of a clinic for immigrants in Boston’s Chinatown, and he sometimes worked there at nights, taking care of patients for no money.

Frederick Pei Li was born in Canton, China, on May 7, 1940. He had three sisters and a brother. His father, Han Hun Li, was a general in the Chinese Army and fought in the second Sino-Japanese War. His mother, Chu Fang Wu, organized schools and orphanages for war widows and children in China. The family immigrated to the United States when Dr. Li was 7, and opened a Chinese restaurant in White Plains.

Besides his wife, Dr. Li is survived by a son Andrew; two daughters, Margaret Li and Irene Li; three sisters, Virginia Li, Angela Li-Scholz and Tina Li; and two grandchildren.

Dr. Li left high school early and enrolled at New York University when he was 16, earning a degree in physics. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, earned a master’s degree in demography from Georgetown University and went to work at the National Cancer Institute in 1967. In the early 1970s, still employed by the institute, he was sent to Dana-Farber as a medical officer in epidemiology.

Dr. David G. Nathan, a former president of Dana-Farber, said Dr. Li had been sent there as part of an effort by the institute to bring more scientific rigor to cancer research.

“We’re all sitting there rather stupidly at Dana-Farber, and in walks Fred Li,” Dr. Nathan said. “And he says: ‘I’m for free. You don’t have to pay me.’ ”

Dr. Li transformed the institute, Dr. Nathan said. He taught doctors how to conduct studies, how to assess risk, how to recognize patterns of disease.

“He had a high gut instinct about what might be,” Dr. Nathan said. “Some people don’t do science very well because they don’t really know what to study. They kind of wander around, but they don’t go to the core. Fred Li liked to go to the core.”

Friday, June 26, 2015

Abraham C. Haygood, Zone Leader

Hempstead South Democratic Committee
PO Box 4181 Hempstead NY 11551 US
Telephone: +1.5165001814
E-mail: Info@AbrahamHaygood.com

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Hempstead South Democratic Committee
PO Box 4181 Hempstead NY 11551 US
Telephone: +1.5165001814
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Nassau Democrats nominate candidates for district attorney, Hempstead supervisor

Updated May 26, 2015 10:10 PM
By ROBERT BRODSKY robert.brodsky@newsday.com

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Nassau County Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas in Mineola on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Photo Credit: Howard Schnapp

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Nassau County Democrats on Tuesday night nominated Madeline Singas to run for Nassau district attorney and backed gun-control activist Rita Kestenbaum for Hempstead Town supervisor.

The party's executive committee nominated 55 candidates for county, town, city and judicial races at its convention in Garden City.

Singas, who became acting district attorney after Democrat Kathleen Rice was elected to Congress last year, faces a potential Democratic primary against former Manhattan prosecutor Michael Scotto. The winner will take on the GOP nominee Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray.

"I know what it takes to be district attorney and I have the experience to do the job," Singas said. She called Murray a "career politician" and an "amateur" who has not practiced law in 17 years.

Murray spokesman Bill Corbett responded that Singas "has to resort to attacks because she has no vision" for the district attorney's office.

All seven Democratic county legislators will seek re-election, including Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck), who was shunned by the party last year after making comments viewed as derogatory toward African-Americans. Democrats called for Birnbaum to resign and barred her from the caucus. Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs said Birnbaum apologized and "has atoned for her mistakes."

Kestenbaum served on the Hempstead Town Board from 1999 to 2000 and earlier this year lost a special election to replace Democrat David Denenberg in the legislature's 19th District.

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"Her enthusiasm, energy and ability to articulate the issues make her a strong candidate," Jacobs said.

Kestenbaum will run against Republican town councilman Anthony Santino. "I've worked inside town hall," said Kestenbaum. "And I know I will do a great job" as supervisor.

Kestenbaum became a gun-control activist after her daughter, Carol, a sophomore at Arizona State University in Tempe, and a friend were murdered in 2007 after returning to their off-campus home from a birthday party. The women were killed by Arizona State student who took his own life.

Malverne Mayor Patricia McDonald and Laura Gillen, who ran unsuccessfully in 2013 for county clerk, both passed on a run for supervisor, Jacobs said.

In North Hempstead, Judi Bosworth will seek a second term as town supervisor.

In Oyster Bay, attorney John Mangelli will challenge Republican John Venditto for supervisor.Following is the list of Democratic candidates in county and town races:

District attorney: Singas

County Legislature

1st District: Kevan Abrahams

2nd District: Siela Bynoe

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3rd District: Carrie Solages

4th District: Keith Leibowitz

5th District: Laura Curran

6th District: Jim Paymar

7th District: Tova Plaut

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8th District: Carl Gerrato

9th District: Mallory Nathan

10th District: Ellen Birnbaum

11th District: Delia DeRiggi-Whitton

12th District: Michael Canzoneri

13th District: Eileen Napolitano

14th District: Sylvia Cabana

15th District: Preeth Dawane

16th District: Judy Jacobs

17th District: Dan Devine

18th District: Dean Hart

19th District: Claudia Borecky

Hempstead Town supervisor: Rita Kestenbaum

Town Council 2nd District: Tammie Williams

3rd District: Carolyn Torres

5th District: Michael Reid

Town clerk: Dino Amoroso

Town receiver of taxes: Gina Arcabascio

Oyster Bay Town supervisor: John Mangelli

Town Council: Robert Freier, Marc Kadushin, Joe Stufano

Town clerk: Anne Rosenbach

Town receiver of taxes: John Capobianco

North Hempstead Town supervisor: Judi Bosworth

Town Council 2nd District: Peter Zuckerman

4th District: Anna Kaplan

6th District: Emily Beys

Town receiver of taxes: Charles Berman

Glen Cove City mayor: Reginald Spinello

City Council: Timothy Tenke, Michael Famiglietti, Robert Machida, Daniel Cox, Eve Lupenko, Michael Zangari

Long Beach City Council: Anthony Eramo, Len Torres, Karen Adamo

Surrogate's Court judge: Angela Iannacci

County Court judge: Tammy Robbins, Steve Jaeger, Scott Banks

2nd District Court judge: Ayesha Brantley

3rd District Court judge: William Hohauseinr

4th District Court judge: Linda Mejias, Michael Siff

CORRECTION: William Hohauser's name was misspelled in a previous version of this story.

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