| MMH board members announced
Jagiello is currently the director of health promotion and community outreach for Mesa County Health Department. Prior, she was the nurse family partnership supervisor for Mesa County Health Department. She has experience with Rocky Mountain Health Plans and was care center manager at MMH from 1997 to 2002, according to a news release. .
OSI's anti-cancer drug Tarceva launches in Japan next week
The anti-cancer drug Tarceva will be launched and covered under Japan's National Health Insurance starting Tuesday, the Melville-based drug maker OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Friday. The drug is now available in 83 countries, including the United States and European Union.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved Tarceva in October for patients with some forms of lung cancer where chemotherapy has failed. "We are pleased that lung cancer patients in Japan will now have access to Tarceva, which has been proven to offer a survival benefit with a well-described side-effect profile," said Gabriel Leung, president for oncology at OSI.
OSI manufactures and distributes Tarceva through partnerships with Genentech and Roche. The drug will be marketed in Japan by Roche affiliate Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
Puget Sound: the silent crisis
The new state agency created to restore and protect Puget Sound needs your help to return a beloved, complex body of water to robust health. Puget Sound Partnership is holding an opening series of workshops in nine communities to acquaint the public with the current condition of the Sound and identify the greatest threats to it.Information collected will be used to help develop an action agenda to be presented next fall to Gov. Christine Gregoire. A fundamental challenge for David Dicks, executive director of the Partnership, is convincing Puget Sound residents there is a problem. The scenic beauty of the Sound belies deeper, persistent problems. An updated report, State of the Sound 2007, describes the current condition "to be one of decline, with continuing harms to the clean water, abundant habitat and intact natural processes that are the foundations of a healthy environment." All of us have to better understand the problem before we see our own role in helping solve what the report portrays as a "silent crisis." Restoring Puget Sound means rethinking some of how we live, work and play along its shores and near the waterways that feed into it.
Daily Blabber Celebrity Gossip Blog from iVillage Entertainment
They just spent Christmas together in Texas, where they cussed out a cop and Eva, who is Mexican, reportedly made a derogatory comment about the cop being Mexican. Oh, those crazy kids. Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: Tom Cruise, Q-Tip, Lenny Kravitz... Nicole Kidman has eclectic taste in men, right? Well, this year she fell for Australia country singer Keith Urban. (And, yes, there is such thing as an Australian country singer.) In late May, they took a motorcycle trip. By fall, she was visiting him on tour. Thing have gotten serious as of late -- they spent the holidays together with their families. Maybe next year they'll make my Year in Review: Celebrity Weddings list. Orlando Bloom & Kate Bosworth: After taking a break last year, this genetically-blessed twosome reunited in '05.
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June LaValleur, a gynecologist and women's health specialist at the University of Minnesota, remembers walking across campus one day and running into one of the mammogram technicians who gently scolded, You know, you need a mammogram. You're behind. It's tough getting busted when you're one of the pros, but a voluntary screening lurks somewhere near the bottom of the weekly to-do list for anyone who works long hours and still tries to have a life. "It's a big issue for women who work full time when mammogram machines are on an 8-to-5 schedule," LaValleur said. Yet evening office hours aren't necessarily the answer. "People don't want to take time away from being around family." And that goes for both patients and providers. "When you try to make it easy for one person, you're making it difficult for another." Which test when? Just keeping track of which tests we need when can seem daunting.
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