ProfNet Wire: Health & Living: Treating Lung Cancer
ROUNDUP
Stem Cell Research (continued, 1 expert)
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1. Health: Treating Lung Cancer Patients with Interventional Pulmonology
2. Parenting: Entertaining Kids During Summer Vacation
3. Relationships: Technology Hinders Relationships More Than it Helps
ROUNDUP: STEM CELL RESEARCH (continued)
We've added the following to items previously posted at http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?beat=BEAT_MEDIA&view=LATEST&reso urceid=3505399&packageid=1004072:
**1. STEPHEN LIVESEY, professor and chief executive officer of the AUSTRALIAN STEM CELL CENTRE: "It is both myopic and incompatible with their responsibility as public servants, that governments should seek to ban embryonic stem cell research. Thankfully, Australia is one of the few countries in which the federal government provides considerable funding support and have enacted permissive nationally consistent legislation allowing embryonic stem cell research and cloning technology. The day will come when governments around the world, who have banned embryonic stem cell research, will need to decide if they will allow their countrymen and women access to new treatments that have been developed from this research. The initial decision to prevent this research in their country will not be the last, nor the hardest, facing these legislators." News Contact: Sarah Duckett, sarah@datelinemedia.com Phone: +61 (0)3 9271 1115 (7/13/07)
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**1. HEALTH: TREATING LUNG CANCER PATIENTS WITH INTERVENTIONAL PULMONOLOGY. DR. ARTHUR SUNG, M.D., director of Interventional Pulmonology at NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL: "Although lung cancer prognosis is often bleak -- six in 10 patients die within a year of diagnosis -- an emerging field of lung care offers patients hope for better diagnostics, a wider range of treatment options and improved quality of life. Interventional pulmonology combines technologies and techniques that enable doctors to use non-invasive and minimally invasive options at each step of the way in treating lung cancer patients. Using interventional techniques, doctors can now stage lung cancers more accurately with ultrasound, and identify lung cancer in its earliest and most curable stages using advanced imaging techniques." News Contact: Melissa Chefec, mchefec@optonline.net Phone: +1-203-968-6625 (7/13/07)
**2. PARENTING: ENTERTAINING KIDS DURING SUMMER VACATION. LAURA ROE STEVENS, parenting editor for DIVINECAROLINE.COM, has unique ideas to keep kids entertained during the summer months: "It's summertime and the kids are out of school -- what do you do with them now? If you're a busy mom with three kids home for the summer, you want to make sure your kids stay productive, active and healthy. But it's difficult to plan something for your kids that is more beneficial than handing them the latest video game." News Contact: Amanda Diaz, adiaz@allisonpr.com Phone: +1-310-496-4454 (7/13/07)
**3. RELATIONSHIPS: TECHNOLOGY HINDERS RELATIONSHIPS MORE THAN IT HELPS. DR. KAREN GAIL LEWIS, relationship expert and author of "With or Without A Man: Single Women Taking Control of Their Lives," can discuss how technology hinders relationships more than it helps: "Long-distance relationships aren't what they used to be. Today, you can enjoy one in your very own home with your live-in partner. Technology has allowed for what I call 'pseudo-intimacy.' Couples can say they talk several times a day (a dozen times a day), but what is the quality of these talks? Are they snuck in while racing from one meeting to another? while driving in rush-hour traffic? while working at your desk? How much attention is actually paid to your lover when you text or chat on your cell phone while doing something else? The couple may feel they are really close because they talk often, yet there may be little genuine conversation, genuine intimacy. I'd say toss your cell phones out the window and have a heart-to-heart, not a headset-to-headset, conversation." News Contact: Michelle Tennant, michelle@tennant.org Phone: +1-828-749-3200 (7/13/07)
