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A better way out for youth gone astray

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

INTHENEXT COUPLEOFMONTHS, if Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has his way, we could be seeing established our very own Drug Treatment Court. The Attorney Generals seeming urgency in setting up this special court is rooted in the belief that it could only bring relief to, or, more importantly, save the lives of young drug-dependent Barbadians who end up before the criminal courts sometimes again and again. The insidious practice of robbery and theft to support drug dependency is not unknown. It is this circumstance that drives Mr Brathwaite to pursue the curtailment of crimes upon the person, but at the same time to offer a lifeline to the perpetrators, who are themselves victims as well. If the root cause of the crime is drug-related, the Attorney General argues, then we need to find out how we can wean more of our young men and women off drugs. Without doubt, Mr Brathwaite will need all the support he can get; and so his call for all to come on board is not unreasonable. But it will take more than a bit of passion from his supporting team. It will require every ounce of commitment. The cause will not be without its challenges, … Continue reading

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My Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll Portfolio

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

By AnnaLisa Kraft - June 21, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, CHD, PFE | 0 Comments AnnaLisa is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited. Sex, drugs and rock and roll are never going away. The baby boomers are certainly playing the stocks that I will cover and the younger demographics are certainly using the products made by these companies. The choices may be obvious but they are also profitable..very profitable and notas risky as this headline would lead you to believe. These stocks put the Fun back in Fundamentals. Good Clean Fun For the sex component my choice is Church & Dwight (NYSE: CHD) a venerable company known for Arm & Hammer baking soda products now comprising toothpastes, kitty litter, detergent, air freshener, deodorant and of course, baking soda and many more household cleaning products. Many investors however may not know that it also manufactures Trojan condoms, home pregnancy and ovulation test kitsand other pleasure enhancing products. There is also a specialty chemicals division. Church & Dwight, founded in 1846, has had this fuddy-duddy image but savvy investors have seen the stock move from $36.78 … Continue reading

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Police: Couple plants drugs on PTA leader

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

Police say Kent and Jill Easter's belief that their son wasn't being properly supervised at school led them to plant drugs on the PTA president. By Louis Casiano, msnbc.com A Californiacouple unhappy with the PTA president at their son'selementaryschool took an unusual approach to rectify their problem, police say. Kent and Jill Easter, both 38 and attorneys, were arrested Tuesday in Irvine after being accused of planting drugs in the car of Plaza VistaSchool PTA president Kelli Peters because they believed she was not properly supervising their son, the Los Angeles Times reported. Both are charged with one felony count of conspiracy to procure false arrest and charging, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to report a false crime. Irvine police said Kent Easter drove to Peters' home inFebruaryand planted a bag of marijuana, along with a pipe andprescriptionpills in the backseat of her unlocked car. He then called police under a false namea little while later and said that the woman had been drivingerratically near their son's school and claimed to see her put the drugs in the car's backseat. Police arrived at the school and saw the drugs inplain viewinside the car, and then contacted Peters, who was inside. Afterconsentingto … Continue reading

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Parents Planted Drugs on Volunteer: Cops

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

Parents who are dissatisfied with some aspect of their child's education often consider setting up a meeting with the child's teacher or make a phone call to the school. But Kent and Jill Easter, both 38 lawyers and parents of an elementary school student in Irvine, Calif., opted to take matters into their own hands, police claim. The couple were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly planting drugs in the car of a volunteer at their child's school, according to the Irvine Police Department because they thought the parent volunteer "was not properly supervising" their son, said Lt. Julia Engen. "It is an absolute, over-the-top, irrational response to what would ordinarily be a minor dispute," Engen said. "It's inexplicable." Kent Easter drove to the home of the school volunteer, whom police are calling "Jane Doe," early on the morning of Feb. 16, 2011, and placed a bag of marijuana, Percocet and Vicodin on the driver's seat of her unlocked car, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office. Later that afternoon, he allegedly called the Irvine Police Department's non-emergency number and, using a false name and phone number, told the dispatcher that he had seen Jane Doe driving erratically and that … Continue reading

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Anson Dorrance Speaks at Carolina Pharmacy LEAD Program – Video

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

20-06-2012 11:36 Anson Dorrance, women's soccer coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the past thirty years, speaks about his experience as a coach at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy's LEAD Program June 19, 2012. His teams have won twenty national championships. He speaks about the differences between coaching men and women, what it takes to compete at the highest levels, and how successful leaders must identify what motivates those they lead. Memorable quotes include, "There is no coasting at Carolina," and "The good news is you will pass out before you die." See the original post here: Anson Dorrance Speaks at Carolina Pharmacy LEAD Program - Video … Continue reading

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Pharmacy owner sees expansion opportunities in move

Posted: Published on June 22nd, 2012

Bruce Lefkowitz sits in a tiny office where his black chair smacks the back of his accountant's seat. There's no air conditioning, no windows - and no complaints. Lefkowitz, the owner of Harrold's Pharmacy, swears he prefers it this way. Even cubicles offer more breathing room, but there's history here. His grandfather sat in this office and his father sat in this office. Now he's at the helm. But the space problems at Harrold's Pharmacy aren't limited to Lefkowitz's office - there is limited parking, a small sales floor and an inefficient setup - and he knows it's time to move, even if it is just two blocks down Old River Road, to a venue more than twice the size. "We've been at the same location for 65 years, so I didn't intend on moving," Lefkowitz said Wednesday. "But when I saw the steady growth we were going through, and that property became available, we thought maybe it was time." Lefkowitz bought the Old River Road Bakery property in March for $50,000 and the sale was finalized Monday. Lefkowitz's expansion goal hit a major milestone Wednesday. Wilkes-Barre's planning commission voted 4-0 to approve four variances with the property - such … Continue reading

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Phrixus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces $623,000 in NIH Funding for Its Program in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Posted: Published on June 21st, 2012

ANN ARBOR, MI--(Marketwire -06/21/12)- Phrixus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage, specialty pharmaceutical company focused on innovative therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and heart failure, today announced that it has received an SBIR Phase 1 award for $623,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its grant application titled "Treatment of Muscular Dystrophy-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy with P-188." "This funding constitutes validation for the potential utility of Carmeseal in DMD. We expect that it will allow us to extend administration of Carmeseal to a new, clinically relevant route of administration, subcutaneous delivery," said Thomas A. Collet, president and CEO. "Completion of the work funded by this grant will significantly advance our knowledge of how to best turn Carmeseal into a chronic therapy suitable for daily administration," adds Dr. Bruce Markham, Vice President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer. DMD is the most devastating of the muscular dystrophies. No drug is approved for its treatment. It is a genetic disease that affects about one out of every 3,500 boys. Approximately 20,000 boys and young men live with this disease in the United States. The hallmarks of DMD are skeletal muscle weakness, respiratory distress, and cardiomyopathy. It is a degenerative disease that leads … Continue reading

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Nationwide Children's CEO to Co-Chair Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Event

Posted: Published on June 21st, 2012

Newswise Nationwide Childrens Hospital CEO Steve Allen, MD, will serve as co-chair of the first Transforming Duchenne Care workshop to be held June 27 and 28, 2012, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The national symposium, held by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, will gather leadership from top medical institutions, neuromuscular experts and patient representatives with the ultimate goal of establishing a network of centers of excellence for the care and treatment of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In addition to Dr. Allen, Nationwide Childrens will be represented by Jerry Mendell, MD; Kevin Flanigan, MD; and Linda H. Cripe, MDthree prominent pediatric specialists in the Neuromuscular Disorders program. Dr. Mendell is an attending neurologist, Director of the Center for Gene Therapy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens and Director of the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center. He is also Co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic at Nationwide Childrens and serves as Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, Pathology, and Physiology and Cell Biology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Flanigan, also a neurologist at Nationwide Childrens, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy in The Research Institute and Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio … Continue reading

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Epilepsy Organizations Award Funding for New Devices to Treat, Detect and Monitor Epilepsy Conditions

Posted: Published on June 21st, 2012

Announce Fall Grant Application Cycle is Now Open WASHINGTON, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Epilepsy Therapy Project (ETP) and the Epilepsy Foundation (EF) today announced the latest grant recipients of their New Therapy Grants Program, a unique joint venture of the two non-profit epilepsy organizations to advance clinical development and commercialization of promising epilepsy therapies.The grant awards will support the development of four important new technologies: "We are continuing to support new technologies to detect, monitor and treat epilepsy through the New Therapy Grants award program," said Warren Lammert, Chairman of the Epilepsy Therapy Project. "In this grant cycle, we have selected four projects that may prove critical to managing and treating epilepsy and to accelerating the development of future new therapies. With these grants and the support and guidance our organizations can offer, we are advancing important new products to market and so to people with epilepsy." For a comprehensive list of all epilepsy therapies in development including past projects supported by the New Therapy Grants program, please visit http://www.epilepsy.com/etp/pipeline_new_therapies.The epilepsy pipeline identifies the most promising products from early-stage development to commercial-stage, and whether a product is currently available in the US or internationally. "The mission of this … Continue reading

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Study Uncovers New Tools for Targeting Genes Linked to Autism

Posted: Published on June 21st, 2012

Newswise UCLA researchers have combined two tools gene expression and the use of peripheral blood -- to expand scientists arsenal of methods for pinpointing genes that play a role in autism. Published in the June 21 online edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics, the findings could help scientists zero in on genes that offer future therapeutic targets for the disorder. Technological advances now allow us to rapidly sequence the genome and uncover dozens of rare mutations, explained principal investigator Dr. Daniel Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and a professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. But just because a particular genetic mutation is rare doesnt mean its actually causing disease. We used a new approach to tease out potential precursors of autism from the occasional genetic glitch. Geschwind and his colleagues studied DNA contained in blood samples from 244 families with one healthy child and one child on the autism spectrum. The team used a hybrid method that blended tests that read the order of DNA bases with those that analyze gene expression, the process by which genes make cellular proteins. Monitoring gene expression provides us with … Continue reading

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