| Prostate Cancer Treatment Centre Receives Funding for Clinical Trials
TORONTO, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A Canadian study on High Intensity Focused Ultrasound therapy with the Sonablate(R) 500 - a Health Canada approved treatment for localized prostate cancer - is underway at Can-Am HIFU. Through funding from AstraZeneca Canada Inc, Can-Am HIFU, a prostate cancer treatment centre, will conduct an REB/Health Canada approved clinical trial. The objective of the study is to supplement current research findings on safety and efficacy of HIFU therapy in the treatment of localized prostate cancer. The trial will measure both the biochemical (PSA) cure rates and the Biopsy-proven cure rates at one year. "AstraZeneca is committed to promoting excellence in Canadian health science research and to supporting the growth of Canada's scientific community," says Marc Zarenda, Scientific Director - Oncology at AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
PA school language plan may cost too much
The findings were presented for discussion and required no board vote, but will be included in long-term Strategic Plan discussion in the spring, board members said. The committee of parents, teachers, principals and district staff was formed following a board promise last winter to examine languages for all students in the wake of debate about the Mandarin-immersion program starting this August. The group's findings came after months of studying educational research and programs used in districts deemed similar to Palo Alto by a benchmarking study, Associate Superintendent Marilyn Cook said. The group decided aiming for proficiency in languages was preferable to mere exposure because exposure programs lack concrete expectations for student achievement, she said.
It’s Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt
Like many of us, after having watched helplessly as the Bush administration trampled the Constitution and made a mockery of checks and balances over the course of five bitter years, I was hopeful when the American people elected a Democratic Congress in November of 2006. Finally, I imagined, we would have a whiff of legality and the hint of a restoration of the rule of law in the land. Perhaps we would even have congressional committees to oversee the administration's subversions of the rule of law and investigate the wide range of abuses that it had perpetrated since 2001. There has been a bit of movement — which is why the thousands of Americans I have met who are appalled at these abuses but feel powerless to raise their voices effectively should take heart, but not stop their fight.
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