The mutations occur - http://www.purevolume.com/search?keyword=mutations%20occur in a gene called p53. "P53 tumor mutations have for several years been known to be associated with a poor prognosis for breast cancer," said study author Beth A. Jones, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. The report appears in the Aug. 9 online issue of Cancer.

"But this is the first population-based study that shows a clearly significant race difference in p53 tumor mutations, once you adjust for other factors such as tumor stage," Jones added.

Jones and her team evaluated the breast tumors of 145 black women and 177 white women, looking for differences in the p53 gene. Although they found black women were more likely to have p53 gene mutations, they didn't find significant differences by race in any other cancer-related genes.

In the study, 24.5 percent of the black women had a p53 mutation, compared to 7.1 percent of the white women.

"Overall, the rates of breast cancer in African-American women are slightly lower than in white women," Jones said, "but the death rate from breast cancer in African-American women is slightly higher than in white women."

Discoveries of racial differences in genetic alterations such as the p53 gene mutation may explain why.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Lisa A. Newman, 충주출장마사지 - https://www.startopanma.com/%ec%b6%a9%ec%a3%bc%ec%98%a4%ed%94%bc%ea%b1%b... director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan, notes the largest magnitude of difference in outcomes for breast cancer within the United States have been observed between black and white women. For those under the age of 45, the incidence of breast cancer is higher in black women than in white women, Newman wrote.

"Numerous studies, for at least 50 years, have been showing that African-American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white American women, " Newman said.

But researchers, she said, have never been able to sort out conclusively whether that is due to socioeconomic factors, poorer access to screening, diagnosis at an advanced stage or other factors. "Studies like this that look at some of the biological enhancers help us to figure out whether some women are more likely to develop inherently more aggressive tumors," Newman said.

Dr. Denise Johnson, advising dean and associate professor of surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, and a member of the African-American Outreach - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=African-American%20... Committee for the American Cancer Society, praised the study.

"It isn't the first study on the topic, but it is the largest," she said.

Eventually, Johnson said, the finding may provide more tools to determine the outlook for a woman with breast cancer, especially if she has the gene mutation.

Still, Johnson said more study was needed. If the finding holds up, she added, perhaps a recommendation will someday be made to analyze the presence or absence of the p53 gene mutation in all women.

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A deal between Ecuador and China would likely have been quite lucrative for Manafort, who was styling himself as an international power broker during his mid-2017 meeting with Moreno. But Moreno turned the conversation to Assange, who has resided in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012.

"When Mr. Manafort met with President Moreno of Ecuador to discuss the China Development Fund, the president raised with Mr. Manafort his desire to remove Julian Assange from Ecuador's embassy," Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni told CBS News. "Mr. Manafort listened but made no promises as this was ancillary to the purpose of the meeting. There was no mention of Russia at the meeting."

Assange is wanted by both U.S. and 카지노사이트 - http://aroopgroup.com/ British authorities, making his refuge at the London embassy a sticking point between Ecuador and the two world powers. Moreno has in the past indicated that he would like to find a way to resolve the impasse, at the Times reported that he has considered giving him a diplomatic post in Russia. The U.K., however, scuttled that plan, informing Ecuador that Assange would be arrested, should he ever leave the embassy.

Assange and WikiLeaks are also players in the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. President Trump and his allies were regular cheerleaders of WikiLeaks' dissemination of hacked Democratic Party emails. However, U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that the emails were hacked by Russian government officials.

In August, Manafort was found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes and then later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy against the U.S. He agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office in September, but prosecutors said that Manafort broke that agreement by lying to them about "a variety of subject matters." 

Today, many doctors in training are making their first diagnoses — and their first mistakes — on plastic, wires and computer circuits rather than flesh and blood. These virtual patients come in different shapes and sizes, much like the real ones

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"The mannequin is excellent," said Dr. Eric Chang, a second-year surgical resident who has trained in the simulation center at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick. "This kind of buffs you up in terms of encountering certain problems ... You have to react to what's happening" and select the right treatment

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You may already be a fan of Steven Hoggett's work and not even know it. The British director and choreographer has worked on such Broadway productions as Green Day's "American Idiot," "Peter and the Starcatcher" (which won him the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer), and most recently "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," for which he was nominated for a Tony for Best Choreography.

His newest venture is a collaboration with legendary record producer, songwriter and musician Nile Rodgers, of Chic fame. Multiple Grammy-winner Rodgers has collaborated with some of the biggest stars in music, including Donna Summer, David Bowie, Madonna and Diana Ross.

"We Are Here" is a new show in development that will plunge audiences into the hedonistic world of disco. Hoggett directs and Rodgers has dug deep into his timeless music archives to deliver a new show that experiments with the use of music, video, movement and storytelling within an exciting, high-energy performance environment inside the NYC's famed East Village theater space at La MaMa (dubbed "The GlitterLoft" for the show's short run).

New York City 1970s. Behind the velvet rope, people of every race, class and sexual identity come together, encouraged to wear whatever they want, kiss whoever they want and, of course, dance however they want. "We Are Here" highlights the music bedrock of disco's iconic tracks to explore the rise of a popular movement, and the stunning backlash against it. Forget white suits and mirror balls – this is a celebration of the beat that set the world on fire, and continues to unify generations and cultures at a time when it is needed more than ever.

Hoggett couldn't agree more. "The minute you start to look at disco beyond the immediate sheen of it, it's really fascinating," he said. "It's an incredible part of New York history and the early '70s. And then Nile, really if you just start to list everything he did in those years, but also the minute you step outside that you look at all his production credits and writing credits, yeah you just start to really track this beautiful journey through music.

"I always liked the idea of music having that kind of, just different streams of influence just flying over each other and everywhere else. It's nice to really show what Nile did and thought and said – and what he produced and how he produced it, and how he stayed true but was developing, pioneering at the same time. So, that's been a real joy."

Not to mention having an excuse to "put your headphones on and listen to disco."

Written by Olivier Award-winner Michael Wynne ("The Priory"), "We Are Here" immerses audiences in mind-blowing video images created by projection designer Darrel Maloney, whose Broadway credits include "American Idiot," "The Illusionists," and "On Your Feet," with lighting design by Olivier Award-winner Natasha Chivers ("Sunday in the Park With George"), and sound design by Olivier Award-winner Tom Gibbons. The choreographer is Yasmine Lee, who has worked as Hoggett's associate movement director on "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time," "The Crucible" and "Once." Set and costumes are designed by Tony Award-winner David Zinn, whose Broadway credits include "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Fun Home" and "The Humans."

"We Are Here," which is produced by Spiegelworld and Showcase Performances, runs July 31 through August 4 at The GlitterLoft, New York City.

About one in 500 children worldwide is born with the condition, called familial hypercholesterolemia, which can lead to heart attacks in early adulthood.

Cholesterol levels fell 24 percent in children ages 8 to 18 who were given pravastatin, sold as Pravachol, for two years. And artery-narrowing reversed course with no serious side effects.

Lead author Dr. Albert Wiegman said the researchers were surprised to see reversal after just two years, and said it suggests the children may be less likely to have premature heart attacks in adulthood.

"This is probably the first study that has been able to show that kind of reversibility" in children, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, a heart specialist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center who was not involved in the research.

Similar effects have been seen in adults. Up to now, however, research on statins in children involved shorter-term use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Dr. Gregory Wright of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minneapolis and St. Paul, said the study applies only to the inherited condition and there is no way of knowing whether statins would work as well in children who have high cholesterol because of poor diet and lack of exercise. These youngsters account for the vast majority of children with high cholesterol.

A few statins have been approved in the United States specifically to treat familial hypercholesterolemia in children.

The authors said longer studies are needed to confirm that the drugs are safe in children, but Wiegman called the results a strong argument for using statins in children with the inherited disorder.

"If we don't treat them, I know I can't look them in their eyes in 15 and 20 years because they won't be there anymore, so we have to do something," said Wiegman, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam.

The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

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The JAMA study involved 204 children with familial hypercholesterolemia. Before getting statins, participants spent three months on a low-fat diet yet still had average LDL cholesterol levels of 239 — more than 100 points higher than recommended. LDL is the bad kind of cholesterol that can clog arteries.

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Bonnie Valle often complained about an odd feeling in her chest in the years following a procedure at the Cleveland Clinic, family members said.

"She always said, 'On the left side, it feels like there's something there. It felt like something moved,"' said her daughter, Jeanne Clark.

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When she died in June 2002, a day after her 60th birthday, Valle donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio - http://www.usatoday.com/search/Northeastern%20Ohio/ Universities College of Medicine. During dissection, a faculty member discovered a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel behind her left lung.

Clark filed a lawsuit last week seeking unspecified damages against the clinic and her mother's Canton-based physician, Jeffrey Miller. The lawsuit contends the towel produced costly complications and ultimately caused her mother's death.

"Her body was literally growing around it, trying to isolate it," said Clark's attorney, Mark Okey. "It's a foreign object, and her body was trying to fight it off."

Cleveland Clinic spokesman Cole Hatcher said the hospital had not seen the lawsuit yet and does not comment on pending litigation. Dr. Thomas J. Kirby, who performed the surgery, is no longer with the clinic.

A message left seeking comment from Miller was not immediately returned Friday.

Valle, a former nurse's aide, came to the Cleveland Clinic for lung-reduction surgery in October 1995. Smoking nearly two packs of cigarettes a day since the age of 15 had left her with emphysema and 사천출장마사지 - https://www.anmastar.com/%ec%82%ac%ec%b2%9c%ec%b6%9c%ec%9e%a5%ec%83%b5%c... dependent on a constant supply of oxygen, Clark said.

In a letter to the medical school, Miller wrote that he did not think the towel affected the duration or quality of Valle's life.

"She lived seven years ... which is certainly as well as one would have expected her to survive given her severe emphysema and poor pulmonary function and overall condition," Miller wrote.

Iranian state television broadcast the purported confession of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, on Wednesday night in an apparent attempt to deflect criticism of her case by the U.S., other countries and rights groups. Instead of the adultery charge, it focused on allegations she was involved in murder - something the U.S. and other countries also punish by death.

Human Rights Watch has said Ashtiani, a mother of two, was first convicted in May 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the death of her husband and was sentenced by a court to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death, even though she retracted a confession that she claims was made under duress.

Iran last month lifted the stoning sentence for the time being after international outrage over the brutality of the punishment. Iran says Ashtiani has also been convicted of involvement in the murder of her husband. She could still be executed by hanging.

The outcry over the case is the latest source of friction between Iran and the international community, with the United States, Britain and human rights groups urging Tehran to stay the execution. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Iran this week to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about several specific detainees, including Ashtiani. Brazil, which has friendly relations with Iran, offered her asylum.

In the broadcast, the woman identified as Ashtiani said she unwittingly played a role in her husband's murder. Her face was blurred and a woman who was not seen translated her words into Farsi from Azeri Turkish, which is spoken in parts of Iran.

"I established telephone contacts with a man in 2005," she said. "He deceived me by his language. ... He told me, 'Let's kill your husband.' I could not believe at all that my husband would be killed. I thought he was joking. ... Later I learned that killing was his profession." She said the man, whom she did not identify, brought electrical devices, wire and gloves to her house and electrocuted her husband while she watched.

Malek Ajdar Sharifi, a senior judiciary official, was quoted by state TV as part of the same report as alleging that Ashtiani had given her husband an injection that left him unconscious, then the man attached electrical devices to his neck and killed him.

Sharifi also said Ashtiani sent her children out of the house to clear the way for her husband's murder.

Ashtiani's lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, denied she has ever been charged with murder or brought to trial over her husband's killing in 2005.

"She was tortured to make those confessions," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He came to that conclusion, he said, because she has never before admitted to any role in the murder.

"There is no charge of murder in her file," he said. "She would have been hanged years ago if she had any role in the murder of her husband," he added. "She had absolutely no role in the murder."

The lawyer said the man's killer spent three years in prison and is now free after a pardon from Ashtiani's children.

Rights groups criticized the broadcast of her statement, calling it one of many forced confessions in Iran's justice system.

Rights groups say Iran uses forced confessions in trials against political prisoners, including in the mass trial of more than 100 activists and former government officials accused of taking part in last year's postelection unrest.

"This so-called confession forms part of growing catalog of other forced confessions and self-incriminating statements made by many detainees in the past year," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Kian said he was not allowed to meet with his client since the broadcast confession.

"I was told that my client is barred from receiving people," he said.

In the broadcast, the woman also criticized her previous lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, for publicizing her case.

"Why did he televise the case? Why did he discredit me before my family members and relatives who didn't know I'm in jail?" she said. "Now, I have a complaint against him."

Mostafaei maintained a blog that sparked a worldwide campaign to free his client. In July, Iranian authorities said they would not carry out the stoning sentence for the time being. The lawyer fled to Norway, where he has applied for asylum.

Stoning was widely imposed in the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and even though Iran's judiciary still regularly hands down such sentences, they are often converted to other punishments.

The last known stoning was carried out in 2007, although the government rarely confirms that such punishments have been meted out.

Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her chest with her hands also buried. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.

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When President Obama and other leaders belonging to the NATO coalition meet this week in Newport, Wales, they'll have plenty on their plate to discuss, between Russia's hostility toward Ukraine and the growing threat from ISIS. Before tackling those subjects, however, they'll have to address the unexpectedly complicated situation in Afghanistan.

After 13 years of war in Afghanistan, NATO allies expected that this week's summit would mark the smooth withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan. NATO countries are expected to keep troops there past this year with the mission of training and advising Afghan security forces. Now, however, with the results of Afghanistan's presidential elections unclear, it's unclear what role the U.S. and NATO will play there.

"When the summit was announced a year ago, everyone thought this would be a meeting in which NATO... would celebrate the end of the mission," Ivo Daalder, former U.S. permanent representative to NATO and president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, told reporters Wednesday. "The developments in Afghanistan have put a monkey wrench in that part of the conversation."

The United States and its allies have been waiting for months for Afghan leadership to sign a bilateral security agreement (BSA) that would provide the legal framework for the U.S. to keep troops in Afghanistan past this year -- critically, that would include immunity for troops. However, outgoing President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign the agreement. The two candidates competing to replace Karzai, Ashraf Ghani and 논산출장마사지 - https://www.anmapop.com/%eb%85%bc%ec%82%b0%ec%b6%9c%ec%9e%a5%ec%83%b5%cf... Abdullah Abdullah, have agreed to sign it, but both are contesting the election results.

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Without a signed agreement protecting - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=protecting&gs_l=news U.S. troops, the U.S. would pull all troops out of Afghanistan, and NATO allies would follow.

"I think there's a lot of nervousness... particularly on the military side, in terms of the timelines," Kathleen Hicks, director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) told reporters last week. "If there's not a BSA for the U.S. -- and ergo, not a BSA for NATO with Afghanistan -- that there would have to be a very stressful timeline to pull out troops."

Yet with no political agreement in sight, no head of state from Afghanistan will be present at the NATO summit.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Kabul last week that the Pentagon would let U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan even if the political stalemate is drawn out "a little further than we hoped it would."

Hicks that "we're playing a little bit of a game of chicken here."

"I do think... we are being respectful, perhaps, is the way to put it, to the Afghan political process," she added.

Under all of this uncertainty, the U.S. this week is seeking to secure the financial and troop commitments needed from NATO countries to maintain the advising and training mission in Afghanistan.

"The main effort there is really, number one, the resources, and two, getting the warm bodies ready," Charles Kupchan, senior director for Europe at the National Security Council, told reporters over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the growing threat of Islamic extremists - http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=Islamic%20extremists&sub... in Iraq is expected to loom over the Afghanistan discussions. Extremists gained a foothold in Iraq after the United States withdrew from there in 2011, and already, the Taliban is attempting to exploit the political weaknesses in Afghanistan.

Hicks said it's unclear whether that will "change the calculus with regard to the timeline commitment in Afghanistan."

"The United States and certainly NATO allies, as best we can tell, are holding the line in terms of their decisions to ramp down on a timetable," she said. "But there is also time... for a change of position on that, should the Afghan political process stall."

Now his son, Luis Angel Valdivia, and union representatives are appealing to companies to take the commonsense measures that could have saved his life.

"There isn't much I can do now, but I don't want other workers to go through what I'm going through now," said Valdivia, who watched his 53-year-old father faint among the grapevines in a field outside Bakersfield, and die in his car last Wednesday, as he sped toward the hospital seeking medical help.

California's grape harvest happens in the middle of summer, when temperatures in the state's fertile Central Valley often soar past 100, and lead to frequent complaints of dizziness and nausea among workers- the symptoms of heat stroke, said Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers.

"There is not a whole lot we can do, except put pressure on the growers to give them what they need to take care of their bodies," said Rodriguez. "They just need to use common sense. If it's 100 degrees out, workers need more breaks, and more water, than the minimum required."

The state's Division of Occupational Health and Safety requires employers to give workers two 10-minute breaks in one day, plus a half-hour lunch. Cool water should also be provided. Workers confirmed there was enough water for them last Wednesday.

But there are no additional safety measures required — longer breaks, shade, salt tablets — to help workers stay hydrated when the heat reaches into the 90s and past 100, said Susan Gard, a spokeswoman for the state occupational safety program

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By Juliana Barbassa

WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said Thursday his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file.

WikiLeaks already has published 77,000 classified U.S. military reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010, an extraordinary disclosure which some say could expose human rights abuses across the NATO-led campaign.

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The disclosure also has angered the Pentagon, which has accused WikiLeaks of endangering the lives of soldiers and informants in the field, and demanded that WikiLeaks refrain from publishing any more secret data.

Speaking via videolink to London's Frontline Club, Assange said he had no intention of holding back. He gave no specific timeframe, but he said his organization was about halfway through those 15,000 or so secret files previously held back from publication.

"We're about 7,000 reports in," he said, adding that he would definitely publish them. There was no indication as to whether Assange would give the documents to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel - as he did before - or simply dump them on his website.

Assange said he had "no comment" about his current whereabouts.

Reporters Without Borders has criticized WikiLeaks, saying the group showed ''incredible irresponsibility'' in publishing the secret Afghan war documents.

The international media watchdog said Thursday that while the whistleblower group had often played a useful role, revealing the identity of Afghan informants ''is highly dangerous.''

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Assange is under pressure from U.S. authorities who have thrown the resources of the military and the FBI into investigating the source of his scoop. The Pentagon has a task force of about 100 people reading the leaked documents to assess the damage done and working, for instance, to alert Afghans who might be identified by name and now could be in danger.

The Pentagon says it believes the next document dump by WikiLeaks will be even more damaging to U.S. security and the war effort than the organization's initial release of some 76,000 war files.

Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday that the military believes it has identified the additional 15,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks has vowed to release.

Morrell declined to identify the documents other than to say that their exposure would be ever more damaging than the thousands already published.

Other governments also reportedly - http://www.channel4.com/news/reportedly have been urged to look into Assange and his international network of activists, but it's not clear how aggressive the U.S. has been in pursuing Assange.

Earlier Thursday, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith told The Associated Press that Washington had not approached his government about pursuing possible criminal charges against Assange, an Australian citizen, or about putting restrictions on his travel.

"Quite clearly we're working closely with the United States on these matters," Smith said, citing Australia's Defense Department and the Pentagon as the agencies working together. "These are very serious matters for concern."

Australia, which has some 1,550 troops in Afghanistan, already has launched its own investigation into whether posting classified military documents had compromised the national interest or endangered soldiers.

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"Our task force is reaching out to our counterparts to update them on information that we may be finding that affects them," including information that "may affect their forces," Lapan told reporters Thursday.

"When we're coming across things that involve our allies, we are sharing info with them," he said, adding that he knows of no other form or more general military cooperation with allies on the issue. Lapan didn't name the nations that the task force has contacted.