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Standard Chartered CFO Runs Blindfolded As Seeing Is Believing Becomes Official 2009 Standard Chartered Great City Race Beneficiary
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HIV Rates Increasing In Salt Lake County, Utah
HIV rates have been steadily increasing over the last three years in Salt Lake County, which includes Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, according to the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, the Deseret News reports. Health officials contend that lack of awareness of HIV, personal concern about becoming infected and sexual health discussions - especially among young adults - are driving the increase. Preliminary data indicate that the trend will continue in 2009, according to health officials. Stan Penfold, the executive director of the Utah AIDS Foundation, said, "Rates grow because there is a lack of conversation around HIV and what the risk factors are. It is really easy to compartmentalize because of the stigma associated with HIV, but the average age of infection is getting younger and younger," he said. Lynn Beltran, STD and HIV program manager for the Salt Lake County Health Department, noted that sex education in high schools also is a concern, but added, "Everyone needs to educate themselves and understand how to make healthy decisions about sex" (Norlen, Deseret News, 6/28).
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Obama Nominates Human Genome Veteran To Lead NIH

Dr. Francis S. Collins, the Yale-educated, guitar-strumming physician and geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, was nominated Wednesday to head the National Institutes of Health, the New York Times reports. "Dr. Collins"s selection, which had been rumored for weeks, was praised by top scientists and research advocacy organizations for whom the health institute is a crucial patron," the Times reports. He is expected to sail through Senate confirmation. Collins has, however, earned skepticism in addition to praise. Some in the scientific community object to his religiousness and see his work as a kind of evangelism: "He wrote a book called "The Language of God," and he has given many talks and interviews in which he described his conversion to Christianity as a 27-year-old medical student." Another criticism is that, while managing the Human Genome Project, he over-inflated expectations, and then delivered little return - in terms of practical medical breakthroughs - on the massive investment when unexpected "scientific hurdles" emerged (Harris, 7/8). However, science continues to pursue personalized medicine based on genomics. "[T]he true power of genetics, he told a meeting of scientists in Washington last month, has yet to be realized as researchers eventually learn enough to provide customized predictions of which diseases really threaten an individual, and personalized care to respond," The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal report. "His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease," President Obama said when announcing the nomination (7/8). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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