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The Hidden Costs of Medical Testing A patient bursts into the hospital, upset, convinced she has ovarian cancer. She says she has proof: a blood test, ordered by her family doctor, shows elevated amounts of CA125, a protein sometimes found on cancerous cells. But the emergency doctors learn that neither the patient nor her immediate family members have histories of ovarian cancer, which means she should never have undergone the test in the first place: it is not designed for the general population. The patient had heard about the test and asked her own physician to perform it, just in case, setting off a chain of events that led her to the hospital. Raj Waghmare, an emergency-room doctor in Newmarket, Ontario, says he has repeatedly seen situations like this one—patients rushing to the ER after receiving unnecessary lab results. CA125 testing is most often recommended for women who have or are suspected to have ovarian cancer: it can help determine whether a treatment is working or the cancer has reappeared.

How Do You Maintain Dignity for the Dead in a Pandemic? To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Nick Farenga stood amid the body bags in a refrigerated 18-wheel trailer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan. “This is him,” a hospital worker said, pointing to a white body bag among the roughly 40 others lying on wooden platforms that resembled hastily constructed bunk beds.

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration The Times is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here. [Update: Our answers to some of those questions are published here.]

Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Paul Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – c. 7 June 1945) was a German military officer (SS-Oberführer) and war criminal who served as the founder and commander of the Nazi SS penal unit "Dirlewanger" during World War II. Serving in Poland and in Belarus, his name is closely linked to some of the most notorious crimes of the war. He also fought in World War I, the post-World War I conflicts, and the Spanish Civil War. He reportedly died after World War II while in Allied custody. According to Timothy Snyder, "in all the theaters of the Second World War, few could compete in cruelty with Dirlewanger".[1] World War I[edit]

Nation of Immigrants Every country has its mythology. America’s is that we are a “nation of immigrants.” The Statue of Liberty, the country’s most iconic monument, stands tall in New York Harbor, welcoming “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” If the United States had been true to these ideals, its history would have been a simple tale of openness and acceptance. The real story is far more complex. For the first half of its existence, America had virtually open borders. Why taking antioxidants during chemotherapy for breast cancer could be counterproductive Canadians spend an estimated $3 billion a year on over-the-counter vitamin supplements. And while the medical community has long questioned their usefulness in otherwise healthy people, a new study adds to the small body of research that suggests taking supplements during cancer treatment could be counterproductive. Researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, N.Y., followed 1,134 breast cancer patients.

Censored Stories on Covid-19: A Worldwide Media Blackout Threat Even in the heart of Europe, some leaders are using similar rhetoric to tighten their grip on power. In Hungary, for example, President Viktor Orban pushed an emergency law through Congress on March 30. The law grants the government the power to imprison any person who “claim[s] or spread[s] a falsehood or claim[s] or spread[s] a distorted truth in relation to the emergency.” Many saw this as a way to target independent journalists in a country where the freedom of the press is already threatened.

Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties As president, Mr. Trump would have substantial sway over monetary and tax policy, as well as the power to make appointments that would directly affect his own financial empire. He would also wield influence over legislative issues that could have a significant impact on his net worth, and would have official dealings with countries in which he has business interests. Yet The Times’s examination underscored how much of Mr.

Ted Bundy and a Different Kind of Serial Killer Docuseries You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at yet another Ted Bundy project. Just last year, we saw Netflix’s Confessions With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the Zac Efron-starring Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. There have been countless other books, movies and TV series that try to make sense of the serial killer and his horrific crimes. Most tend to dwell on Bundy himself — How could he do such things?? He was so handsome and charismatic! — or the salacious details: Two escapes from jail.

U.S. Immigration Since 1965 - Facts & Summary In reality (and with the benefit of hindsight), the bill signed in 1965 marked a dramatic break with past immigration policy, and would have an immediate and lasting impact. In place of the national-origins quota system, the act provided for preferences to be made according to categories, such as relatives of U.S. citizens or permanent residents, those with skills deemed useful to the United States or refugees of violence or unrest. Though it abolished quotas per se, the system did place caps on per-country and total immigration, as well as caps on each category.

Rx for Doctors: Stop With the Urine Tests Antibiotics affect the human microbiome, wiping out the protective microbes in the gastrointestinal tract and increasing people’s vulnerability to C. difficile, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called an “urgent threat.” In the Michigan hospital study, patients treated for asymptomatic bacteriuria fared no better on a variety of measures than those who weren’t treated. “But they stayed in the hospital a day longer,” said Dr. Lindsay Petty, the study’s lead author and an infectious disease specialist at the University of Michigan. She theorized that their doctors were awaiting urine culture results.

Las Historias de EL PAÍS en Podcast Cookies usage: PRISA uses its own and third-party cookies to improve its services, prepare statistical information and display advertising, content or personalized services through the analysis of its navigation. To accept their use you can click on Accept or continue browsing. Melania Trump like you’ve never seen her before Donald Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady — and here’s the proof. Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread for a now-defunct French men’s magazine, The Post has learned. The leggy, Slovenian-born model — then 25 years old and known by her professional moniker Melania K. — did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995, according to Alé de Basseville, the French photographer who shot the sexy snaps.

The U.S. has already hit 70% of total 2016 early voting. At least 33.0 million have voted nationwide by simontardif Oct 20

Long-term unemployment helped define the Great Recession. Countless networks, relationships and skills that bound employee to employer were ripped apart in the global financial crisis. It took about eight years for the unemployment rate to recover from that brutal dislocation. Now economists fear it’s happening all over again. The devastating surge in unemployment in March and April was supposed to be temporary, as businesses shuttered to avert the greatest public health crisis in more than a century. Most workers reported they expected to be called back soon. But nearly half a year later, many of the jobs that were stuck in purgatory are being lost forever. by rosaliegn Aug 28

cwnote - 3 - Eugene Robinson's WashPo article saying Democrats need to pull from the Trump / GOP playbook to ensure a 2020 win (playbook being Democrats usually use facts & logic & head-based arguments, whereas Republicans / Trump go for the gut). It's worth keeping for Op Purple, largely as a reminder for ME as I'm doing Op Purple not to get too academic -- the forces driving partisanship are strong & powerful, and if I'm too academic I'll miss a lot of oppy. by craigw Jun 5

cwnote - 2016 Washington Post - Most Americans live in Purple America, not Red or Blue America -- -- has different visualizations of the US, beyond the simple (& misleading) red / blue map ... also possibly some references to Purple projects (some political scientists listed here, although not specific groups) by craigw Jun 3

cwnote - 2 - not sure how this category of polls will carry through, but newspapers sometimes run their own(?) polls -- like this Washington Post - Ipsos poll on coronavirus employment issues. This link (page, here if link lost -- shows the overview as well as a PDF of survey questions & responses. Just not sure how to consistently find these polls. by craigw Jun 3

10,000: Coronavirus travel restrictions have left about 10,000 refugees around the world unable to reach countries that agreed to resettle them before the pandemic, according to the International Organization for Migration. The IOM, a UN body responsible for finding refugees new homes, suspended all resettlement on March 17, leaving many ethnic and sexual minorities vulnerable to harassment and persecution as they wait in limbo. by rosaliegn May 29

Many people are still now aware how dangerous this virus is. It's a good sign that influencers have taken action of starting a trend with masks, alerted people to do the right things to stay healthy on a crisis. by giatran Apr 1

Disney plus bring all the old movies and TV show of the 90 and 00, using nostalgia on the millennial. attracting them with the old and new version on the their favorite tv shows like friend by ianmoquin Feb 24