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1. LAW: STATE AND LOCAL : INDUSTRY INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIAL: PHARMACEUTICA
From: David P. Dillard
2. PRIVACY : UNITED STATES: LAW: FEDERAL : INFORMATION: TECHNOLOGY :
From: David P. Dillard
3. BIOLOGY: GENETICS: HUMAN: Common Gene Version Optimizes Thinking --
From: David P. Dillard
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1. LAW: STATE AND LOCAL : INDUSTRY INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIAL: PHARMACEUTICA
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Feb 9, 2007 9:38 am ((PST))
LAW: STATE AND LOCAL : INDUSTRY INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIAL: PHARMACEUTICAL AND
PHARMACY: Texas Republicans Ask Governor to Rescind Vaccine Mandate for
Cervical Cancer Virus
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007
Texas Republicans Ask Governor to Rescind Vaccine Mandate for Cervical
Cancer Virus
By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON Associated Press Writer
Associated Press
Findlaw News
<http://fsnews.findlaw.com/articles/ap/o/
51/02-06-2007/88a6000aaa6a89c9.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
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(AP) - AUSTIN, Texas-Several key Republicans urged Gov. Rick Perry on
Monday to rescind his executive order making Texas the first state to
require girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that
causes cervical cancer.
Lawmakers should have been allowed to hear from doctors, scientists and
patients before the state implemented such a sweeping mandate, said state
Sen. Jane Nelson, chairwoman of the health and human services committee.
"This is not an emergency," said Nelson, adding that she plans to ask
Attorney General Greg Abbott for an opinion on the legality of Perry's
order. "It needs to be discussed and debated."
Three other Republican lawmakers filed bills that would override the
mandate, and several others were working on similar legislation.
Perry defended his decision, saying his fellow conservatives were wrong to
worry that mandating the vaccine will trample parents' rights and promote
premarital sex.
<snip>
Texas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit
objecting to the vaccine on religious or philosophical reasons, but
critics say the order still interferes with parental rights.
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2. PRIVACY : UNITED STATES: LAW: FEDERAL : INFORMATION: TECHNOLOGY :
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Feb 9, 2007 12:48 pm ((PST))
PRIVACY :
UNITED STATES: LAW: FEDERAL :
INFORMATION: TECHNOLOGY :
DATABASES:
U.S. Senate Bill Holds IT Managers Responsible for Privacy Breaches
U.S. Senate Bill Holds IT Managers Responsible for Privacy Breaches
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
February 8, 2007, 8:09 PM
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<http://www.betanews.com/article/US_Senate_Bill_Holds_IT_
Managers_Responsible_for_Privacy_Breaches/1170983371>
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A bill introduced in the US Senate on Tuesday by Judiciary Committee
Chairman Patrick Leahy (D - Vermont), along with one independent and one
Republican backer, aims to strengthen security requirements for all
private databases accessible online that may hold personal information.
Reintroducing language that had been stalled since 2005, if passed, the
bill could hold IT managers accountable and responsible for security
breaches where personal information is pilfered.
"Our bill...requires that companies that have databases with sensitive
personal information on Americans establish and implement data privacy and
security programs," Sen. Leahy stated in a speech on the Senate floor
Tuesday. "In the Information Age, any company that wants to be trusted by
the public must earn that trust by vigilantly protecting the databases
they use and maintain."
One of the most susceptible databases to pilfering of citizens' private
information, Leahy and the bill's co-sponsors concede, belongs to the US
Government itself. The latest version of what's being called the Personal
Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007 (the complete text of which has yet
to emerge from the Government Printing Office) will create new regulations
on government contracts with commercial data brokers.
While it apparently won't ban such contracts altogether, the bill would
require audits to be conducted on a regular basis of such contracts to
periodically determine just who it is the government is dealing with.
In bold language delivered in a speech to Georgetown University last
December, Leahy singled out some prominent Republicans, past and present,
for having contributed to the creation of an environment where individual
privacy is devalued.
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3. BIOLOGY: GENETICS: HUMAN: Common Gene Version Optimizes Thinking --
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:04 am ((PST))
BIOLOGY: GENETICS: HUMAN:
Common Gene Version Optimizes Thinking -- But with a Possible Downside
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:24:30 -0500
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Common Gene Version Optimizes Thinking -- But with a Possible
Downside
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
<http://www.nimh.nih.gov/>
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COMMON GENE VERSION OPTIMIZES THINKING -- BUT WITH A POSSIBLE DOWNSIDE
Most people inherit a version of a gene that optimizes their brain's
thinking circuitry, yet also appears to increase risk for schizophrenia*,
a severe mental illness marked by impaired thinking, scientists at the
National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) have discovered. The seeming paradox emerged from the first study
to explore the effects of variation in the human gene for a brain master
switch, DARPP-32.
The researchers identified a common version of the gene and showed how it
impacts the way two key brain regions exchange information, affecting a
range of functions from general intelligence to attention.
Three fourths of subjects studied had at least one copy of the version
that results in more efficient filtering of information processed by the
brain's executive hub, the prefrontal cortex. However, the same version
was also more prevalent among people who developed schizophrenia, a severe
mental illness marked by delusions, hallucinations and impaired emotion
that affects one percent of the population.
"We have found that DARPP-32 shapes and controls a circuit coursing
between the human striatum and prefrontal cortex that affects key brain
functions implicated in schizophrenia, such as motivation, working memory
and reward related learning," explained Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D.
"Our results raise the question of whether a gene variant favored by
evolution, that would normally confer advantage, may translate into a
disadvantage if the prefrontal cortex is impaired, as in schizophrenia,"
added Daniel Weinberger, M.D. "Normally, enhanced cortex connectivity with
the striatum would provide increased flexibility, working memory capacity
and executive control. But if other genes and environmental events
conspire to render the cortex incapable of handling such information, it
could backfire -- resulting in the neural equivalent of a superhighway to
a dead-end."
Meyer-Lindenberg, Weinberger and colleagues in the NIMH Genes, Cognition
and Psychosis program report their results in the February 9, 2007 issue
of the "Journal of Clinical Investigation".
Previous studies in animals over two decades, most notably by Nobel
Laureate and NIMH grantee Paul Greengard, M.D., Rockefeller University,
had established that DARPP-32 in the striatum switches streams of
information from multiple brain chemical systems for processing by the
cortex. Both the neurotransmitter that it works through, dopamine, and the
chromosomal site of its gene have been implicated in schizophrenia.
"Although several groups have looked for possible clinical relevance of
DARPP-32, they have not met with great success," noted Greengard. "This
study shows a strong connection between this molecule and human cognition
-- and perhaps with schizophrenia."
"These first glimpses of DARPP-32 at work in the living human brain build
on a quarter century of investigations by Greengard's team that ultimately
linked this pivotal protein to depression and substance abuse as well as
to schizophrenia," added NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D.
To understand DARPP-32's role in the human brain, the NIMH researchers
used genetic, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, and
post-mortem techniques to identify the human gene's variants and their
functional consequences. Seventy five percent of subjects had the most
common version of the gene, which boosted circuit activation, structural
and functional connectivity and performance on thinking tasks, likely by
increasing gene expression. In 257 affected families, people with
schizophrenia were more likely to have this common version of the DARPP-32
gene.
Also participating in the study were: Richard Straub, Barbara Lipska, Beth
Verschinski, Terry Goldberg, Joseph Callicott, Michael Egan, Stephen
Huffaker, Venkata Mattay, Bhaskar Kolachana, Joel Kleinman, NIMH.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) mission is to reduce the
burden of mental and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain,
and behavior. More information is available at the NIMH website
<http://www.nimh.nih.gov>
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research
Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal
agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational
medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures
for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its
programs, visit
<http://www.nih.gov>
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*Schizophrenia information:
<http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/schizophreniamenu.cfm>
"Meyer-Lindenberg A, Straub R, Lipska B, Verchinski, B Goldberg T,
Callicott J, Egan M, Huffaker S, Mattay V, Kolachana B, Kleinman J,
Weinberger D. Genetic evidence implicating DARPP-32 in human
fronto-striatal structure, function and cognition. J.clin.investigation,
2/8/2007".
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This NIH News Release is available online at:
<http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2007/nimh-08.htm>.
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