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5,000 to 8,000 schools were affected by the earthquake in Haiti. In Port-Au-Prince, 90 to 97% of the schools were destroyed, as most of the schools were built with cement blocks to withstand hurricanes, not using anti-seismic systems in the case of an earthquake. The entire national school system — already among the poorest in the world — had been shut down, although schools in much of the country were not directly affected.
In attempt to restore some type of order to children’s lives, schools opened yesterday for the first time since the quake, even though it could be a month or longer before pupils in the quake zone resume their studies. Due to this reopening, many classrooms were fuller than usual because of children relocating.
Clinics run by Doctors without Borders report that the psychological impact of the disaster is becoming more apparent- especially in the symptoms of children, which could be helped by restoring a familiar type of order into the children’s lives and giving them something other than the devastation to think about.
The country is still in need of almost every form of aid- including food, clean water, cash, and even lightweight trucks.
A new targeted cancer drug has been shown to shrink tumors in women with metastatic breast cancer after an average of seven other drugs, including Herceptin, failed.The new drug, called T-DM1, combines Herceptin with a potent chemotherapy drug. It’s a Trojan horse approach, where Herceptin homes in on cancer cells and delivers the cancer-killing agent directly to its target.
Tumors shrank in one-third of women with metastatic breast cancer given T-DM1, says Ian Krop, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. In another 12%, tumors stopped growing for at least six months.
The women remained cancer-free for an average of seven months — results unheard of in patients this sick, he says.
All the women, who had breast tumors for an average of three years, had cancer that had metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body. They had been treated with an average of seven different therapies, including Herceptin, Tykerb, and Xeloda, and each had failed.
Read more about this Breast Cancer treatment here
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Has anybody heard of the new bill introduced to allow tax deductions for pet care?
If passed, it could cover up to $3,500 of tax deductions for costs such as veterinary care for legally owned, domestic animals.
It was drafted in order to encourage responsible pet care and reduce pet abandonment cases, especially in the current economic downturn. It also mentions the positive effects of a human-animal bond on emotional and physical well being.
Some, however, worry that this might encourage people to get an animal simply for the tax break. What do you think?
When animal trainer Joel Slaven first got asked to train dogs for the upcoming 101 Dalmatians musical, he refused, remembering the frenzy of people running out to buy a dalmatian following the release of the Disney movie, and the ensuing flood of dalmatians showing up in shelters. However, after talking to the producers about the sponsor, Purina Puppy Chow’s, desire to use rescue dogs, he changed his mind.
“We realized it was an opportunity to turn this thing around, and instead of promoting people going out and buying dalmatians for pets, we could actually educate the public on what they need to do if they’re going to get any dog for a pet,” says Slaven. (A note slipped into each Playbill distributed to audience members will explain the health-related issues, as well as the time, expense and space required to care for a dalmatian.)
Slaven and his team travelled the country visiting shelters to find the 15 perfect dogs to rescue and train to take stage at the end of Act 1 as well as during the show’s finale.
It seems like a neat production! All human characters on stage will be walking on 15 inch stilts and the set is designed to look like life would from a dog’s perspective.
Source: PeoplePets.com
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