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UroToday.com - A recent European study demonstrated that 10-year mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer was decreased in a population of 70 to 90 year olds who adhered to a Mediterranean diet, were physically active, had moderate alcohol consumption and did not smoke. There are also reports suggesting an inverse association between physical activity and risk of prostate cancer (CaP). Yet mechanisms linking lifestyle and longevity are not well investigated. This report in The Prostate investigates an animal model for the association between physical activity and development of CaP.
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New Obama Administration Policy To Allow U.S. Asylum For Abused Foreign Women
A recent Obama administration legal filing clears the way for foreign women who have experienced severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the U.S., the New York Times reports. The administration stated its position in an April immigration appeals court filing involving a Mexican woman, identified only by her initials, who is seeking asylum in the U.S. because of fear that her abusive common-law husband would kill her. The Times reports that the woman recently consented to having her confidential case documents disclosed to the newspaper.The filing reverses the government"s stance under former President George W. Bush. According to the Times, lawyers say that the Obama administration "has marked a clear, although narrow, pathway for battered women seeking asylum, ... after 13 years of tangled court arguments." Bush administration lawyers had argued as recently as last year that the Mexican woman and others like her could not meet the standards of U.S. asylum law, the Times reports. Applicants for U.S. asylums or refugee status must show a "well-founded fear of persecution" because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or "membership in a particular social group." The legal debate has been whether women can be included under those terms. According to the Obama administration"s court filing, foreign women who experience abuse would have to prove that their abusers treat them as subordinates and little better than property. They would also have to show that abuse is widely accepted in their country. In addition, they would need to demonstrate that they are unable to find protections from their countries" institutions or by moving somewhere else in their country. The policy does not apply to women fleeing genital mutilation, the Times reports. The Department of Homeland Security has not recommended asylum for the woman. However, DHS senior lawyers wrote in the filing that "it is possible" for her "and other applicants who have experienced domestic violence could qualify for asylum."Under the Clinton administration, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed regulations to clarify the asylum law, but they have never taken effect. DHS lawyers in 2004 raised the possibility of asylum for domestic violence victims, but it was never put into practice in immigration court, according to Karen Musalo, director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. "This really opens the door to the protection of women who have suffered these kinds of violations," Musalo said. DHS officials said they now are returning to the 2004 position of stipulating conditions narrow enough to allow domestic violence victims to gain asylum in only a limited number of cases. Matt Chandler, a DHS spokesperson, said, "Although each case is highly fact-dependent and requires scrutiny of the specific threat an applicant faces, the department continues to view domestic violence as a possible basis for asylum in the United States" (Preston, New York Times, 7/16).
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Today's Selection Of Opinions And Editorials

Actually, Failure Is An Option Congress Daily Here"s a perhaps unpleasant fact about the healthcare debate: Failure is an option, and might even be likely (Dick, 7/31). Parties May Find Compromise Better Than Nothing At All The Wall Street Journal The great health-care debate of 2009 ultimately will come down to this question: Who is prepared to accept half a loaf? Answer: Nobody wants to. But both sides -- especially the Democrats -- have some pretty powerful reasons to settle for one (Seib, 7/31). Health Reform"s Taboo Topic The Washington Post As the nation debates health-care overhaul, not addressing defensive medicine would be a scandal, a willful refusal by Congress to deal with one of the causes of skyrocketing health-care costs (Howard, 7/31). Repealing Erisa -- II The Wall Street Journal The worst thing that can be said about the House health bill is what"s in it. Presumably that explains why Speaker Nancy Pelosi"s office zapped as "false and misleading" one of our recent editorials - on the 1974 federal law known as Erisa that lets large businesses offer insurance with minimal government interference. Among the rebuttals is the "fact" that Democrats will give "all American families more choices of quality, affordable health care" (7/31). Health Care Realities The New York Times It"s not just that many Americans don"t understand what President Obama is proposing; many people don"t understand the way American health care works right now. They don"t understand, in particular, that getting the government involved in health care wouldn"t be a radical step: the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance (Krugman, 7/30). Dishonest Debate Mars Bid To Overhaul Health Care USA Today The details are negotiable, but to let this moment pass without action would be worse than a shame. It would condemn increasing millions to a high-risk, high-cost system that is unworthy of the USA (7/31). Searching For the Cure in Health Care The Desert Sun During the last few weeks, the majority party in Washington has tried to cram through a massive government takeover of our nation"s health care system. This prescription is bad medicine and will do nothing to solve an extremely complex issue that costs the American people billions of dollars each year (Mack, 7/31). 13 in Congress Control Health Care Debate San Francisco Chronicle Here we have a major congressional push to fix a health care system that leaves one-sixth of the country without coverage. Here we have 535 House and Senate delegates elected to give all 300 million of us a voice in the solution. And here we have just 13 of those delegates holding the initiative hostage (Sirota, 7/31). Geography Won"t Help Control Health Costs The Detroit News Applying geographic-specific data to make cuts to particular regions, however, could lead to significant harm to the underserved, critically ill in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities and to the safety-net hospitals that serve them (Stobo and Rosenthal, 7/31). Health Reform and Cancer The Wall Street Journal The danger is that ObamaCare will stifle medical innovations that could save patients like me (Ulfik, 7/30). 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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