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The head of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation says the organization is confident the 19 performers are HIV-free. The group tests adult film actors for sexually transmitted diseases.

Several adult performers have tested positive for the virus since an actor apparently acquired it in March while shooting in Brazil. The quarantined actors have refrained from doing sex scenes.

A fifth adult movie performer tested positive for the AIDS virus last week in an outbreak that halted most porn production in the multibillion-dollar industry.

The porn actress had unprotected sex with HIV-positive actor Darren James, officials with the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation said.

A transsexual actor named "Jennifer" was diagnosed HIV-positive on Tuesday. That case was unrelated to the others, the health foundation said, because the actor had last worked in February before the HIV outbreak and 카지노사이트 - https://synup.com/how-to-market/ her partners did not work with anyone on the quarantine list.

The last HIV scare in the porn industry was in 1999 and involved only a single case.

The latest outbreak has prompted an investigation by the state's workplace safety agency and calls for state regulation of the largely self-regulating industry.

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Hospital regulators hope the new rules will finally put an end to growing reports of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgeries.

"These should never happen," says Dr. Dennis O'Leary, who heads the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The agency can revoke the accreditation of hospital or other surgical sites that don't comply with the new safety steps.

This isn't wrong surgery because of a misdiagnosis, but mixups inside the operating room. In one infamous 1995 case a doctor amputated Willie King's wrong foot; indeed, the mixups are thought to be most frequent in orthopedic surgery.

But reports range the gamut from removing the wrong organ to drilling into the wrong side of a patient's skull to a recent case where the wrong patient was given a heart catheterization.

No one knows exactly how many such wrong surgeries occur, because the commission receives only voluntary reports, although they're a small fraction of the nation's 70 million annual surgeries.

Still, despite issuing two warnings to hospitals and surgical centers in recent years, the regulatory agency knows of 275 cases since 1999 - a steady increase each year and a problem it calls undoubtedly undercounted.

Consider the rushed pace of many operating rooms, where it's easy to wheel in the wrong patient from a queue of waiting stretchers, or to position X-rays backward as bustling workers ready dozens of high-tech gadgets.

"People should not underestimate the potential for confusion," O'Leary says. "The fact that you have M.D. or R.N. after your name doesn't keep you from making mistakes."

His regulatory agency is betting that if surgical teams have a mandatory system of double-checks, they can catch mixups before a patient is harmed. Among the rules:

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"Many people believe, 'this could never happen to me, that happens somewhere else,"' laments Bill Duffy, president of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

But there's growing awareness that any health worker can make such a mistake, and more than 40 medical organizations, such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Duffy's nursing group, now have signed on to help the accreditation commission teach the new rules.

O'Leary also has some consumer advice: speak up if you're about to be anesthetized without seeing signs that the surgical team has double-checked your identity and your surgical site.

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Among the requirements: Much as airline pilots go through a safety checklist before takeoff, surgeons and nurses must take what's being dubbed a "time-out" before cutting. It's to double-check that the right patient is on the table, if he's really to lose a kidney and not a gallbladder - and if so, on which side.

Hospital regulators hope the new rules will finally put an end to growing reports of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgeries.

"These should never happen," says Dr. Dennis O'Leary, who heads the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The agency can revoke the accreditation of hospital or other surgical sites that don't comply with the new safety steps.

This isn't wrong surgery because of a misdiagnosis, but mixups inside the operating room. In one infamous 1995 case a doctor amputated Willie King's wrong foot; indeed, the mixups are thought to be most frequent in orthopedic surgery.

But reports range the gamut from removing the wrong organ to drilling into the wrong side of a patient's skull to a recent case where the wrong patient was given a heart catheterization.

No one knows exactly how many such wrong surgeries occur, because the commission receives only voluntary reports, although they're a small fraction of the nation's 70 million annual surgeries.

Still, despite issuing two warnings to hospitals and surgical centers in recent years, the regulatory agency knows of 275 cases since 1999 - a steady increase each year and a problem it calls undoubtedly undercounted.

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"People should not underestimate the potential for confusion," O'Leary says. "The fact that you have M.D. or R.N. after your name doesn't keep you from making mistakes."

His regulatory agency is betting that if surgical teams have a mandatory system of double-checks, they can catch mixups before a patient is harmed. Among the rules:

"My rule was you do not hand a knife to any surgeon until everything's cleared up," says Tom McLaren, surgical services administrator at Florida's Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare.

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"Many people believe, 'this could never happen to me, that happens somewhere else,"' laments Bill Duffy, president of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

But there's growing awareness that any health worker can make such a mistake, and more than 40 medical organizations, such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Duffy's nursing group, now have signed on to help the accreditation commission teach the new rules.

O'Leary also has some consumer advice: speak up if you're about to be anesthetized without seeing signs that the surgical team has double-checked your identity and your surgical site.

By Lauran Neergaard

"Cancer is a moving target, and the oncologist has to know which bullet to put in his gun," said Dr. Jonathan Uhr of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Extra copies of the gene HER-2 occur in 20 percent to 25 percent of breast cancer cases. In these cases the cancer tends to resist chemotherapy and radiation, but the drug Herceptin, which blocks the gene, can help patients.

The primary tumor in breast cancer patients is tested for the HER-2 gene over-activity and those with negative tests don't get Herceptin.

In some cases, however, cancer cells circulating in the blood can develop this gene overactivity as the disease progresses, according to the study by a research team Uhr led.

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While the study is small and further research is needed, the findings call into question the assumption that test results on the primary tumor should be used to make treatment decisions at a later date, the researchers say.

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The dogma has been that what is in the primary tumor is the same as what is in the cancer that spreads to other areas, Geradts said, but the new study indicates that may not be the case.

Dr. Stephen B. Edge, medical director of the breast center at Roswell Park, called the study "a small step ... but intriguing."

Angela H. Brodie, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said that while the paper is preliminary, "what is interesting is they're showing that patients can actually get (gene) amplification as the tumor progresses. It would serve as a marker for further treatment, different treatment."

Uhr's team developed a sensitive blood test for overactivity of the HER-2 gene, allowing for tests of the circulating cancer cells. Even when the primary cancer is negative for HER-2 activity, some cancer cells may have the extra gene. Over time those could become dominant in the blood as chemotherapy and radiation destroy other cancer cells.

Of the nine patients in Uhr's study who showed HER-2 activity in circulating cells, one had complete remission and two had partial remission when treated with Herceptin and chemotherapy.

For the blood test to be considered worthwhile, researchers said, they also must show that therapy with Herceptin alone or with chemotherapy can cause remissions in a significant number of patients.

The research was funded by the Nasher Cancer Research Program, the Cancer Immunobiology Center and the Komen Breast Cancer Center.

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Dan Smoot, chief detective - http://www.ajaxtime.com/?s=chief%20detective for an anti-drug task force in eastern Kentucky, said undercover narcotics investigators began purchasing the generic drug from street-level dealers earlier this week. Investigators suspect a shipment of the drug was stolen from a storage building in eastern Kentucky.

"When we first got the pills, we didn't know what they were," Smoot said. "They look nothing like the OxyContin we were familiar with."

OxyContin is a long-lasting version of oxycodone, a narcotic considered important therapy for many patients suffering chronic, moderate to severe pain from illnesses such as cancer. The tablet, when swallowed whole, provides 12 hours of pain relief.

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The Food and Drug Administration has given approval for Teva Pharmaceuticals of North Wales, Pa., and Endo Pharmaceuticals of Chadds Ford, Pa., to sell generic versions of the drug.

Law enforcement officials were dreading the release of the generic version, saying it could increase availability and reduce prices of the drug on the black market.

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"We actually had to call the poison control center to have them identify the substance for us," she said.

The generic drugs circulating in the mountain region may have been a stolen shipment intended for pharmacies in the region, Smoot said.

Kentucky State Police Detective Eddie Crum said a generic drug shipment was taken during an April 29 break-in at a storage facility in Pikeville. He said he was surprised that the generic drugs, which usually are transported in armored cars, were being stored so carelessly.

"We knew when the FDA approved generic OxyContin that it would end up in the region," Engle said. "But we didn't think it would be here before the pharmacies got it."

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Four new dramas and five comedies were announced Wednesday for the 2013-14 season by Fox, which got a jump on network presentations to advertisers set for next week in New York.

The Abrams-produced drama, with the working title "Almost Human,'' was described by Fox as an "action-packed'' police series set 35 years in the future, when officers are teamed with human-like androids. The cast will include Karl Urban, Michael Ealy and Lili Taylor.

Greg Kinnear will take on his first continuing broadcast series role in "Rake,'' a legal drama based on a hit Australian series of the same name, Fox said. The actor, whose movie credits include "Little Miss Sunshine'' and "Baby Mama,'' starred in the cable miniseries "The Kennedys.'' Sam Raimi (''Oz the Great and Powerful'' and the "Spider-Man'' franchise) directed and was an executive producer on the "Rake'' pilot.

"Gang Related,'' about a gang task force in Los Angeles confronting the city's most dangerous criminals, stars Terry O'Quinn (''Lost'') as the task force's leader, and rapper-producer RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Ramon Rodriguez as members. Brian Grazer of "24'' and the film "A Beautiful Mind'' is an executive producer.

"Sleepy Hollow,'' the fourth drama announced by Fox, is described as an action-adventure retelling of Washington Irving's classic 19th-century tale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'' Timid schoolmaster Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected 250 years in the future and discovers he must save the world from destruction, with a police officer (Nicole Beharie) as his partner.

The Samberg comedy, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine,'' which also stars Andre Braugher ("Homicide: Life on the Street,'' "Men of a Certain Age'') is about a freewheeling detective who gets a by-the-book boss who's intent on making him into an adult, Fox said.

Other new sitcoms set for Fox's coming season:

"Dads,'' from Seth McFarlane (''Family Guy,'' the movie "Ted'' and a recent stint as Oscar host), stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as best friends whose lives are disrupted by their new roommates, their dads (Martin Mull, Peter Riegert).

"Enlisted,'' described by Fox as an "irreverent and heartfelt'' comedy set on a Florida Army base, is about three brothers getting to know each other and the misfits around them on the base.

"Us & Them,'' based on the British hit "Gavin and Stacey,'' stars Jason Ritter (''Parenthood'') and Alexis Bledel (''The Gilmore Girls'') as a young couple who find their relationship complicated by family and friends.

"Surviving Jack,'' based on Justin Halpern's semi-autobiographical book, is set in 1990s Southern California and stars Christopher Meloni (''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'') in a coming-of-age story involving a man and his son.