| amfAR Appoints New Leadership as AIDS Research Organization Extends ...
Food and Drug Administration hearings on AIDS-related drug treatments. He has published in numerous journals including The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of AIDS (JAIDS), Journal of Infectious Diseases, and The AIDS Reader. "amfAR's 25 years of experience fighting AIDS obligates us to do all we can in our efforts to end this pandemic," Mr. Frost said. "And while the needs are great, amfAR is well positioned to continue to make major contributions to HIV research, prevention, treatment, and advocacy in the coming years. I'm honored by this appointment and I look forward to working with my colleagues at amfAR to take on the complex challenges that lie ahead." Since becoming chairman of amfAR's Campaign for AIDS Research in 1995, Sharon Stone has traveled nationally and internationally on the Foundation's behalf.
Part 6: One woman’s story: Contemplating chemotherapy
Editor's note: The Montana Standard has asked health and fitness correspondent, Paula J. McGarvey who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2007 to share her own story. This is a continuation of stories Paula has shared with our readers over the last several months. The other stories have also been reposted online and are available at http://www.mtstandard.com/healthfitness/.By Paula J. McGarvey for The Montana Standard Jan. 17, 2008 Today I received the last of eight scheduled chemotherapy treatments. Since early October I have gone to the local cancer center religiously every two weeks. There, I would be hooked up to an IV and infused with toxic drugs, whose mission was to seek out and destroy any rogue cancer cells that dared to linger in my body after surgery.I haven't felt such a sense of accomplishment and relief since giving birth to my first child after 17 hours of labor one summer evening back in 1993.
Juno and the Culture Wars
Over dinner recently my ninth-grader revealed with a groan that his math teacher, who has the kids meditate before quizzes, had shared some tension-management wisdom from Sean Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens with the class. "Well," my sixth-grader said, "in homeroom we read an article from People called 'Learning to Chill,' and it was all about having 'family time.' " My husband and I looked at each other: Had we somehow failed to note that it was "Stress Awareness" week in America? For two decades, concern about the "hurried child"—the title of a best seller in 1981 by the psychologist David Elkind—has run high in America, especially among those parents and experts who are anything but laid-back. But the crisis of the "over-programmed" child, hustled from one organized activity to the next, has taken a new turn: Grown-ups are no longer talking just among themselves about the problem.
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