Here’s Liz Atwood with this week’s Tween Tuesday:
I was fascinated to read Liz Bowie’s story this week describing how Maryland schools may soon drop the teaching of cursive handwriting. The lessons are not included in the core curriculum the schools will begin following next year and some schools are leaving it up to the principals whether cursive is taught or not.
I’m not sure how I feel about the change. I never had nice penmanship and my handwriting has gotten only worse over the years. The only time I’ve seen my older son, who is in high school, write in cursive is when he signs his name.
My fifth grader is struggling to learn cursive now. He doesn’t have good penmanship, but I haven’t heard any teachers complain. I can und
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Actress Katie Finneran is starring in the new show I Hate My Teenage Daughter and talks about the crazy way her career and family life got a little bit more chaotic with the birth of her son Ty.
“I auditioned for the pilot practically while I was still in the hospital. My baby was 6-weeks-old when we arrived in Los Angeles to rehearse and shoot the pilot. It was so hard. I couldn’t remember my lines.”
Katie says her co-star Jaime Pressly has been a true friend throughout the process:
“Jaime was so wonderful. She helped me through the whole thing. I was sti
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Meant to mimic the function of a real pancreas, the artificial version is a complex device that combines a pager-sized continuous glucose monitor and sensor that tracks blood sugar with a pump that automatically delivers the correct dose of insulin at just the right time.
That technology could make a major difference to the 3 million Americans with the disease who must vigilantly monitor their blood sugar, even at night, and risk deadly consequences if they are slow to notice a dangerous change.
But it is caught up in America’s long-running tug of war between supporters of more rapid medical innovation and those who seek better safety for new devices. A fresh confrontation is about to break open this week as the U.S.
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Linagliptin as add-on hypoglycemic agent to metformin + sulfonylurea is effective and well-tolerated
The class of oral antidiabetic drugs dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP IV) inhibitors offers new therapeutic options for type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The efficacy and tolerability of the novel DPP IV inhibitor linagliptin was investigated in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group study. The patient population consisted of patients (n = 1,058) whose hyperglycemia could not be controlled by standard of care (metformin + sulfonylurea) and were recruited from 100 centers in 11 countries. After 24 weeks of treatment, mean HbA1c change from baseline in the linagliptin group corrected for placebo was –0.62%. T
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An inexpensive drug that treats Type-2 diabetes has been shown to prevent a number of natural and human-made chemicals from stimulating the growth of breast cancer cells, according to a newly published study by a Michigan State University researcher.
The research, led by pediatrics professor James Trosko and colleagues from South Korea’s Seoul National University, provides biological evidence for previously reported epidemiological surveys that long-term use of the drug metformin for Type-2 diabetes reduces the risk of diabetes-associated cancers, such as breast cancers.
The research appears in the current edition of
“People with Type-2 diabetes are known to be at high risk for several diabetes-associated cancers, such as breast, liver and pancreatic cancers,” said Trosko, a professor in the College of Human Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Human Development.
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ST LOUIS KMOV – Health department investigators say they still cannot identify the source of the 33 confirmed E coli cases in the St Louis area Fifty-five food samples have been tested with no positive returns Only about half of CDC investigations into food borne illnesses identify a cause The lab has tested food from two private homes and several Schnucks stores in the area All the tests came back negative Some foods have a short shelf life and are gone by the time the illness incubates, or other organisms take over as the food spoils There is also no common thread among the patients The best defense against getting sick is washing produce and properly cooking meat
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