| He trains Ugandans to use acupuncture
IBANDA, Uganda -- At a health center in this tiny rural community in southwestern Uganda, an HIV-positive pregnant woman rests on a thin foam mattress supported by a rusting steel bed frame. Needles 15 inches long protrude from her legs, ears, and chest. Leaning over her, a young Ugandan man in an ironed white shirt and brown dress pants waves a smoldering stick of moxa, a sweet-smelling medicinal herb. The practitioner is not a traditional African healer, and the woman is not undergoing some folk medicine treatment -- at least not a Ugandan one. She is receiving traditional Chinese acupuncture, and the Ugandan nurse administering it is a trainee of the Pan-African Acupuncture Project, an organization based in Brookline. Since 2003, acupuncturists volunteering for the project have traveled to this impoverished nation to teach acupuncture to health professionals who treat patients for many of the complications associated with HIV/AIDS.
Camps, clinics and leagues
Entering grades 5-6, Aug. 20-Oct. 6, Pulaski High School. Practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-7 p.m. Scrimmages on Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. $80. Deadline Wednesday. Dennis Bogacz, 822-6820. Green Bay flag football leagues: 3rd and 4th grades. Games Thursday nights beginning Sept. 6. Deadline Aug. 27. $25 residents, $37.50 non-residents. To register, go to www.green-bay.org, go to Parks, Recreation & Forestry tab, click on "recreation link" then "3rd-4th grade flag football" link, or get form from city office at 100 N. Jefferson St., Room 510. Coaches needed, too. I9 Sports flag football leagues: Ages 6-14. Saturday mornings at Green Isle Park, Allouez. 10-week league begins Sept. 8. $99. www.i9sports.com or Greg, 337-1949. Sports Emporium developmental league: Ages 8-12.
US regulators, stores use Web, media to respond to consumer worry over Chinese imports
U.S. companies and federal regulators appear to be ramping up efforts to address consumer concern about a spate of recalls on imports of everything from toothpaste to pet food. Supermarket operators Supervalu and Safeway are posting signs in stores and giving workers talking points, while Winn-Dixie, also a supermarket chain, has a corporate team at the ready for any emerging tainted products issues. TV ads from Safeway and the maker of Tylenol emphasize quality control and inspection of their products while the Food & Drug Administration updated its Web site and shuffled its PR staff to deal with a crush of questions from the public. The sheer number of products exported by China, which are often cheaper than U.S.-made goods, and a cultural divide on safety requirements makes the situation difficult.
A medical adventure
DANVILLE - Three Averett University students and their professor have been to China and back. Averett students Zana Kepuska of Prishtina, Kosovo; Kayla Craddock of Spencer; and Gretchen Sheperty of Portsmouth, along with Averett biology professor Jim Caldwell, traveled to China from May 15 to June 1 with the International Scholar Laureate Program. "The trip was a mixture of touring medical facilities and learning about the medical and medical education systems, and interacting with the medical people and students," Caldwell said. "There were also a lot of cultural activities - of course, you can't go without seeing the Great Wall." One of the most valuable aspects of the trip, Caldwell said, was the students' interaction with their Chinese peers. Sheperty wrote in an e-mail that her two favorite parts of the trip were meeting so many incredible people and having a chance to see another country's health care system in action.
Male Smokers At Increased Risk Of Erectile Dysfunction
Men who smoke cigarettes run an increased risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction, and the more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk, according to a study by Tulane University researchers published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
A team of researchers led by Jiang He, Professor of Epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, examined the association between cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction in a 2000-2001 study in China involving 7,684 men. The researchers used questionnaires to assess the status of cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction. Those surveyed were men between the ages of 35-74 who did not have vascular disease.
The team found that there was a significant statistical link between the number of cigarettes that men smoked and the likelihood they would experience erectile dysfunction.
MacArthur Foundation Announces 23 Recipients of 'Genius' Awards
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David Cameron: Rwanda speech in full
The full text of David Cameron's speech to the Rwandan parliament. It is a great honour for me to address the parliament of Rwanda. Today my party publishes the report of our policy group on global poverty. And it is fitting for me to mark that occasion here, in a country which so powerfully represents both the tragedy of Africa's past and the hope for its future. Here we see depravity defeated, barbarity vanquished, a society once riven by grievances today brought together by a shared desire to live together, through education, diligence, hard work and trade. You have rebuilt this land and you are rebuilding hope, as one of Africa's brightest good news stories. Economic growth consistently above 6 per cent.
RADIO HIGHLIGHTS
10 a.m. KALW-FM (91.7): West Coast Live with Sedge Thomson. Live at the Port Commission Hearing Room in the Ferry Building. Guests include Michael Chabon, author of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," plus music by Mike Greensill. 10:30 a.m. KUSF-FM (90.3): Saturday at the Opera. "Romeo et Juliette" (Gounod). 11 a.m. KALX-FM (90.7): Women Hold Up Half the Sky. Talk radio and music by and about women. Noon KPFA-FM (94.1): Blues by the Bay. Hosted by Tom Mazzolini. 8 p.m. KQED-FM (88.5): Selected Shorts. Isaiah Sheffer and the Ying Quartet read "Mark Twain: A Mini Drama," by John Duffy; Malachy McCourt reads "Christmas Morning" by Frank O'Connor; Sheffer reads "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by James Thurber; McCourt reads "Icicles" by Robert Pinsky; and Calvin Trillin reads "Christmas in Qatar," also by Trillin.
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