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Friday 29 August 2008

SNM Co-Sponsors Radiation Oncology And Cancer Imaging Symposium With American Society For Therapeutic Radiation And Oncology

�SNM and the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO) will cosponsor a symposium this fall examining the encroachment of translational advances on radiation oncology and malignant neoplastic disease imaging. The two-day coming together, which takes place October 17-18, will bring together some of the world's leading experts and thomas Young investigators in the rising field of molecular imaging.

"Collaborative forums, such as this meeting exploring intersections of molecular imaging and oncology, are critical to forward-moving our apprehension of the underlying causes of disease," said SNM President Robert W. Atcher, Ph.D., M.B.A., emerging medical technology team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and UNM/LANL Professor of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico. "Continuing education and opportunities for colleagues to share research ar essential to advancing the practice of molecular imaging - and to helping patients and their charge givers gain the vital information they need in order to effectively treat disease as early as possible."

SNM's financial support of ASTRO's translational symposium is part of the society's broader initiative to partner with other organizations to bring the in style in molecular imaging inquiry to patients. In SNM's initial inter-societal collaboration, SNM and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) developed a joint seminar on optimizing clinical trials, which was presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting, held in early June in Chicago, Ill., as well as at the SNM Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., a few weeks later.

"As organizations whose missions focus on advancing health care, we must work together to meet the continual challenges that patients face in order to bring breakthrough technologies and treatments to the patient," said Chaitanya Divgi, M.D., chief of nuclear medical specialty and prof of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, world Health Organization co-organized this symposium. "Molecular imaging is an built-in step toward achieving the goal of personalized medicine, which promises to render specifically targeted treatments to individuals."

The ASTRO symposium, Translational Advances in Radiation Oncology and Cancer Imaging, will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Va. and will bring medical professionals and scientists together to explore and plowshare research on the uses of molecular imaging in the detective work, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Additional supporters of this coming together include the Radiological Society of North America and Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.

Molecular imaging is an essential component for the early detection and diagnosis of many types of cancer, including ovarian, cervical, lung and prostate cancer. Using state-of-the-art equipment and on the dot targeted tracers, molecular imagery enables physicians to see how disease functions within the body.

Click here to register or learn more information around the get together or submission process.

About SNM - Advancing Molecular Imaging and Therapy

SNM is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to rearing public awareness about what molecular imagination is and how it can aid provide patients with the best health care possible. SNM members specialize in molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and annihilating diseases are understood and treated.

SNM's more than 17,000 members set the standard for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice by creating guidelines, sharing information through journals and meetings and leading advocacy on key issues that affect molecular imaging and therapy research and practice. For more than information, chatter http://www.snm.org/.

Source: Amy Shaw

Society of Nuclear Medicine

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Tuesday 19 August 2008

Conor Oberst Almost Crushes Beer Can to Forehead at Show

Photo: Diana Sabreen

During much of his sold-out Bowery Ballroom set last night, Conor Oberst treated the mike like an adversary, approaching it cautiously and standing near it only when necessary. Instead, he jammed with members of the five-piece Mystic Valley Band, named for an area in Tepoztl�n, Mexico, where they recorded Oberst�s newish, eponymous solo disc. But the boy remains a showman: The silver ring on his hand blurred as he attacked his guitar, which he at times held vertically, and even spun around like a dance partner. And the rollicking �I Don�t Want to Die (in the Hospital)� drew him right out of his shell, as he shouted the lyrics, marched in place, stroked keyboardist Nate Walcott's face and pecked him on the cheek, and finally slammed his half-empty Miller Lite can on the floor, stomped on it, and proclaimed, �I don�t wanna die!� �Vanita Salisbury

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Saturday 9 August 2008

Alias Zone

Artist: Alias Zone

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Lucid Dreams

Year: 2001
Tracks: 7

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Paramount Earns $1 Billion

Paramount received both good and bad news on Monday from its box-office researchers. The bad news was that its latest release, The Love Guru, flopped over the weekend with just $13.92 million. The good news was that the movie nevertheless helped push total revenue for all of the studio's films past the $1-billion mark in domestic ticket sales in record time. Last week the studio said that it had passed that mark overseas.

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Monday 30 June 2008

Keira�s mom slams media for anorexia rumours

Keira Knightley�s screenwriter mother, Sharman MacDonald, has hit out at media rumours suggesting her daughter is suffering from anorexia � comparing the press to �playground bullies.�

Knightley has long been dogged by rumours that her waif-like figure is the result of an eating disorder, but she has always denied this � blaming her genes for her naturally svelte figure.

Last year, the 23-year-old successfully sued a British tabloid newspaper for publishing an article that accused her of being anorexic and setting a bad example to young girls.

And the star�s mother MacDonald can�t understand why the media is so obsessed with her daughter�s weight.

She tells British newspaper The Sunday Times, �She�s always been thin. She�s her daddy�s daughter, with his long body.

�It�s a playground situation that we�re looking at with the press � it�s a form of bullying � but what can we do?�

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Grace Jones readies comeback album

Grace Jones will release her first studio album in nearly two decades this autumn.

Hurricane, her first collection of new material since 1989's Bulletproof Heart LP, will be released on October 27 on indie label Wall of Sound.

The album, produced by Jones and her partner Ivor Guest, features contributions from Brian Eno and Jones's longtime collaborators Sly and Robbie.

Commenting on the album, Jones said: "Grrrrrrr."

Jones released nine studio albums in the 1970s and 1980s, scoring hits with 'Slave To The Rhythm', 'Pull Up To The Bumper' and a cover of The Pretenders' 'Private Life'.

She is also known for her role in Bond movie A View To A Kill and her notorious appearance on The Russell Harty Show in 1981, during which she slapped the chatshow host across his face.

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