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16-Year-Old Ecuadorian Boy in Dire Need of Dialysis Treatments Thanks ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridge of Life-DaVita Medical Missions program is being recognized as life-saving by 16 year-old Juan Carlos and his family living in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Juan was in dire need of dialysis treatments for survival and was just days away from dying. This past December, DaVita -- one of the nation's leading providers of dialysis care -- helped establish a dialysis clinic in Ecuador's Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Children's Hospital. A high rate of Ecuadorian children suffer from kidney disease -- and the number only continues to climb. If a patient or family doesn't have money to pay for dialysis care in advance, then life-saving dialysis treatments are generally not available in Ecuador.

This dialysis clinic is one of three DaVita has opened outside the United States in underserved communities to help care for those suffering from kidney disease and kidney failure.

Dollar fear sparks rush to oil and gold

Crude oil prices briefly hit the $100-a-barrel mark and gold prices jumped to an all-time high as investors poured money into commodities on Wednesday amid deepening fears about the weakness of the US dollar.

New Data Examines the Effect of Adding a Statin to Optimized Treatment ...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New data from the CORONA study presented today at the American Heart Association 2007 Scientific Sessions showed that adding a statin to optimized heart failure treatment did not significantly improve the prognosis for patients with advanced heart failure because it could not reverse or prevent the deterioration of a failing heart.

Patients taking AstraZeneca's CRESTOR(R) (rosuvastatin calcium) 10 mg experienced an 8 percent reduction in the combined primary endpoint of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction or stroke, which was not statistically significant (p=0.12). This reduction was primarily driven by a decrease in atherosclerotic events, i.e. stroke and myocardial infarctions (post hoc analysis, nominal p=0.05), where statins have been proven to have benefit.

When Camelot comes to Canberra

Well, maybe the summit will come up with something.

Rudds use of the phrase 'best and brightest' should make anyone with a sense of history nervous to say the least. It was made famous by the legendary American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam who used it, ironically, to describe the men who sat at the heart of JFKs Camelot (though it may originally have come from a poem by Shelley).

Kennedy, a generalist himself, wanted to be surrounded by men of unsurpassed expertise.

One of the 'best and brightest' recruited by Kennedy was Robert McNamara, a brilliant young manager from the Ford motor company. He was so good that he became the first President of the company from outside the Ford family. He was skilled at systems analysis and championed an approach to government policy which placed analysis and rationality above other considerations, like political ideals.

Brian Kagoro transcript for BTH

Guma: Ok, but a lot of people are suspicious Mr Kagoro mainly from the fact that Mr Makoni had a private meeting with Mr Mugabe two weeks ago in fact and no-one is privy to what was discussed during that meeting and a lot of people are throwing accusations that Makoni is a spoiler and is there to take away the urban vote.

Kagoro: There is a huge assumption that that urban vote would go to somewhere. The reality with this election, those of us who are trying to monitor it scientifically, is that many urban voters are not happy with the ruling party, they are unhappy with the opposition, if you just look at the e-mail trail of the responses to the failure by the two factions of the MDC to unite…there was no guarantee that that urban vote will go to the MDC. So this approach to the elections in a very unscientific and speculative way is worrisome.

The Forgotten

First, just after Canada Day, there was Joshua, George Ratliff's marvelously creepy thriller about a New York family being torn apart by mysterious and disturbing accidents following the birth of their second child; the studio didn't know how to market it, selling the film as a horror movie in the tradition of Rosemary's Baby and The Omen – a comparison that's only superficially appropriate – and failing to give it the kind of promotional push necessary for a small film to distinguish itself amidst the summertime competition. Not that it was ever going to be Little Miss Sunshine, but still. .