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Opposition To Abortion Rights Declining Among Black Voters, Opinion Pieces States
"In recent years, conservative political strategists have painted African Americans as being more opposed to abortion than the white population," but experts believe that there actually "is a declining black support for conservative social policies like abortion," Tracie Powell, a former congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association, writes in a CQ Politics opinion piece. According to Powell, a recent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey found that 49% of black U.S. residents -- who generally are considered more religious than the entire U.S. population -- are in favor of keeping abortion legal in most or all cases.Powell continues that experts vary in their explanations of the declining opposition to abortion rights among blacks. She writes that Christopher Metzler, an associate dean at Georgetown University, said that economic concerns, such as the high unemployment rate for black workers, have become more important than abortion for the group. According to Powell, Metzler said that black U.S. residents also have started questioning the antiabortion-rights agenda because they received little support from conservatives in return.Powell writes that some experts believe the feelings of black U.S. residents regarding abortion might go "deeper than current economic and social realities." Powell adds that Salamishah Tillet, founder of the organization A Long Walk Home, said that reproductive injustice for black women dates to times of slavery, when they had no reproductive rights. According to Tillet, black women face reproductive injustice in modern times through underfunding of family planning programs, lack of access to contraception and legislation like the Hyde Amendment, which restricts access to abortion for low-income women, who are disproportionately black and Hispanic.Powell writes, "I doubt most Americans, including those who are black, consider abortion a civil rights issue, and I"m not arguing that it should be." However, "I do know that while black Americans remain one of the most religious demographics in the country, this isn"t the 1960s and African Americans no longer march lock-step behind the church," she writes (Powell, CQ Politics, 6/10).
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30% drop in heart disease deaths in Canada over a decade
A new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reports that the rates of death and hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease declined thirty percent over a ten year period in Canada. The findings draw attention to successful efforts to prevent heart disease, the leading cause of death globally. But, for the first time, there is indication that more women than men are dying of cardiovascular causes.
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Head Of Urologic Oncology At The Cancer Institute Of New Jersey Marks 500th Robotic Prostatectomy

Marking a unique milestone in prostate cancer surgery, the director of urologic oncology at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) has completed his 500th robotic prostatectomy at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), the Flagship Hospital of CINJ, which is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Isaac Kim, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, performed the operation this week on a patient from Ocean County with early stage prostate cancer. Robotic prostatectomy allows a surgeon to control a set of robotic arms that hold the surgical instruments used to remove the patient"s cancer. Unlike traditional prostate surgery that results in a six-inch scar, patients that undergo this precise and minimally invasive surgical technique are left with incisions smaller than a quarter. Dr. Kim notes the procedure allows for additional precision, reduced blood loss, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery for the patient. "During this four-year stretch leading up to the 500 mark, none of the patients received blood transfusions and the average hospital stay was 1.2 days," he says. "Patients are clearly having positive outcomes." Patient Daniel Iadonisi"s cancer was found during a routine check-up, when his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level had increased from the previous year. A biopsy confirmed his doctor"s suspicion. The 53-year-old Brick resident had most of his left lung removed ten years ago from an inflammatory disease known as sarcoidosis. The surgical method he chose then, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS), was extremely advanced for its time. Mr. Iadonisi notes he chose Kim and a robotic prostatectomy for many of the same reasons he chose the VATS procedure: "It is minimally invasive, has a faster recovery time and is performed by a top surgeon." He adds that since he tries to run five miles every day and spend quality time with his wife and four children when not traveling for work, the robotic prostatectomy just made sense. "Because of my active lifestyle, it is important for me to get back to a normal regimen as soon as possible. The robotic procedure will allow me to do that." Fewer than 20 hospitals across New Jersey offer the procedure, and RWJUH is one of only two hospitals in the state designated to teach other surgeons how to use the robotic system. According to experts, 75 percent of prostate cancer surgeries nationwide are being done via this method. Kim says those figures are sure to increase in the coming years. "As technology continues to improve, we are on our way to seeing this procedure done through the body"s natural orifices with no breaks in the skin at all," he says. "But certainly the current method is leaps and bounds over the traditional surgery." Kim"s achievement also includes surgeries done via a new, enhanced technique known as Athermal Intrafascial Robotic (AIR) prostatectomy, which he developed. In the AIR procedure, the nerve that controls a man"s ability to have an erection is better preserved by sparing over 90 percent of the tissues that surrounds the prostate as compared to 40 to 50 percent in the conventional open or robotic radical prostatectomy. Kim says by undergoing the AIR prostatectomy, patients are able to regain sexual function and bladder control more quickly. It also reduces incontinence. According to the American Cancer Society, one in six men is diagnosed with prostate cancer. It is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, other than skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Last year, 183,000 new cases of the disease were diagnosed nationwide, with the illness affecting more African-American men than those of Asian or Caucasian descent. In New Jersey, there were 5,000 new cases in 2008 with 800 deaths. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey


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