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It's been nearly four months since Amanda Knox returned to the U.S. after spending four years in an Italian jail. Now she may be going back to the country.
Why return to a place where she was jailed for so long?
Not to see the sights, although her lawyer says she still loves the country and would even consider returning as a tourist one day. But in the more immediate future, Amanda may testify on behalf of her parents, who face criminal charges of slander.
Curt Knox and Edda Mellas, who are divorced, are charged with slandering the Perugia police based on statements they made to London's Sunday Times.
In the interview, they repeated Amanda Knox's claims that she had been physically abused and verbally threatened by police during an interrogation.
How living at home in Washington State, Amanda Knox, 24, is expected to be called as a defense witness at their trial, which is set to begin on March 30.
Knox's murder conviction was overturned last October, but she also faces slander charges for statements regarding police conduct she made during her trial.
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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/01/amanda-knox-parents-face-slander-charges-in-italy/
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Flint? A financial plan from Flint's state-appointed emergency manager says city employee union contracts are currently under review for possible renegotiation.
The Flint Journal reports that the plan includes Michael Brown's suggestions for reducing the city's projected $11.3 million deficit. A copy of the plan was released to the public Tuesday.
According to the plan, Brown wants to cut costs through "negotiated union contracts, consolidation and shared services." His next steps include restructuring collective bargaining agreements and reorganizing departments.
Flint Mayor Dayne Walling said in a statement that the proposals "highlight the need for greater cooperation."
Brown was appointed last year. He has broad authority to make changes in the financially troubled city, including the power to oversee city government and toss out union contracts in some situations.
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When we first got our French Bulldog, Luna, I was adamant that she would sleep in her own bed. For one thing she was so small I was worried I would roll over her and smother her, and for another, I thought she would make the bed dirty.
Now that she is no longer tiny and she is savvy enough that she is more likely to slowly push me out of the way rather than the other way around, I have been worn down over time and she now has full reign of the human bed.
I often see photos of pets lounging on furniture, but do you let your pet sleep in bed with you?
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"Relatively large" increases in the prevalence of liver and thyroid cancer, two less common forms of the disease, have been reported by Statistics Canada.
The agency released its report, Canadian Trends in Cancer Prevalence, on Tuesday, calling it the first such detailed report of the trends in the country.
Prevalence rates for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in Canada, rose substantially, mainly because of the aging of the population over the study period 1997 to 2008, according to the report.
Increases in the prevalence of breast cancer, the second most common cancer and the most common in women, were "more moderate."
Prevalence is defined as all cancers diagnosed within a given period among people alive on a specified date. In contrast, "incidence" refers to newly occurring cases.
The five-year prevalence rate for cancer overall rose 2.1 per cent a year between 1997 and 2008.
Larry Ellison and Kathryn Wilkins of the agency?s health statistics division said both the incidence and observed survival rose over the study period, with only about 20 per cent of the increase in prevalence due to aging of the population.
Various explanations for rising liver incidence have been suggested, they said, including:
- Increases in immigrants from countries where hepatitis B and C virus infections and exposure to aflatoxins that can lead to liver cancer are more common.
- Rising incidence of hepatitis C infection linked to intravenous drug use and sharing of needles.
- Growing rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
Many countries have also reported increases in thyroid cancer incidence rates, especially among young and middle-age women. Advances in diagnostic techniques are thought to be a factor, though a recent U.S. study suggested more detection alone can?t explain the increase in that country, the authors said.
Rates declined for cancers of the larynx and a type of uterine cancer.
The biggest disparity between the sexes was for lung cancer. The five-year prevalence proportion fell slightly among men but rose among women ? a difference that was attributed to sharper decreases in smoking prevalence among men since the mid-1960s.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/18/liver-and-thyroid-cancer-_n_1212967.html
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Many Burmese refugee children bound for the U.S. may have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, a new government study finds.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of 642 U.S.-bound Burmese children, 90 percent had some amount of lead in their blood. Overall, 5 percent had lead poisoning -- including nearly 15 percent of children younger than 2.
High lead exposure is especially dangerous for young children, since it can permanently damage their developing brains.
In the U.S. and other developed countries, children's lead exposure dropped substantially after the heavy metal was removed from gasoline, house paints and other products. But studies have found that lead poisoning is still fairly common among refugee children who come from countries where lead exposure is a bigger problem.
For the new study, CDC researchers focused on Burmese children who were living in one of three Thailand refugee camps before coming to the U.S.
In 2008, there had been reports of high lead poisoning rates among children who were resettled in the U.S. after living in those camps -- suggesting that at least some of their lead exposure happened in the camps.
The CDC researchers found that of 642 refugee-camp children tested over two months in 2009, nearly all had some detectable lead in their blood. And the number with lead poisoning was several times higher than what's seen in U.S. children.
Of children younger than 6 -- the most at-risk age group -- about 7 percent had lead poisoning. In the U.S., it's estimated that 1 percent of kids in that age range suffer lead poisoning.
What's more, refugee children younger than 2 had a lead poisoning rate of 14.5 percent.
Children were considered to have lead poisoning if their levels were at least 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. That's the CDC's current threshold.
A federal advisory panel, however, just recommended that the threshold be lowered to 5 micrograms. It has long been known that even lead exposures lower than 10 micrograms per deciliter are linked to lower IQ in children.
The CDC already recommends that all refugee children have their lead levels checked within three months of arriving in the U.S.
CAR BATTERIES, REMEDIES, ANEMIA AT FAULT?
The current study is the first to test children's lead concentrations before they come to the U.S., according to the CDC researchers, led by Dr. Tarissa Mitchell.
And the findings point to some factors that put children at particular risk while they're still in refugee camps.
Many children with lead poisoning were exposed to car batteries in their homes, which families used to generate power for electronic items. Children younger than 2 were particularly likely to have touched or "mouthed" the batteries.
Young children who'd been given traditional remedies at the camps were also at increased risk of lead poisoning, the researchers found.
Past studies have found that some traditional medicines are contaminated with lead. When Mitchell's team tested seven remedies sold at the Thai refugee camps, they found that one -- a "multipurpose infant remedy" called Gaw Mo Dah -- had lead levels far above what's considered acceptable in foods in the U.S.
But the biggest factor seemed to be anemia, which is most often caused by iron deficiency. Anemia is known to make children more vulnerable to lead poisoning.
The CDC recommends that when refugee children in the U.S. are tested for lead levels, they also be screened for anemia and have a "nutritional assessment."
But the current findings also show that efforts are needed in the refugee camps themselves, according to Mitchell's team.
The Thai camps, they say, have already started educational campaigns to warn families about the dangers of lead exposure.
Once children are in the U.S., the CDC researchers say, families should be placed in "lead-safe" housing. And after their first lead test, children younger than 6 should be re-tested within six months of settling into permanent housing.
Burma, also known as Myanmar, was under military rule until last year, when a civilian government was installed following elections. Each year since 2007, up to 15,000 Burmese refugees have resettled in the U.S. from camps in Thailand.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/zNNv7x Pediatrics, online January 16, 2012.
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