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URMC / Patients & Families / Health Matters / June 2016 / Salt Savvy: What is in Your Food?
If you’re quick to add a dash (or two or three) of salt to your plate, you could be increasing your risk of heart disease. Nine out of 10 people take in more than twice the recommended amount of sodium each day and the Food and Drug Administration is urging restaurants and food manufacturers to gradually reduce the sal...
UR Medicine Cardiologist Dr. John Bisognano, who is also president of the American Society for Hypertension, says these proposed guidelines will be especially helpful for people who choose a high-sodium diet of more than 6 grams per day.
Nobody really knows how much salt is used to prepare our meal at a restaurant; we just know it tastes good. Hopefully the FDA proposal will lead to listing sodium totals, along with calories, on restaurant menus, so we can all be more aware of what we’re eating.
Packaged baked goods, breads and cereals.
When you know more about the salt in your food, you can make better choices. If you decide to have a high-sodium meal for lunch, opt for something with less salt for dinner. It’s important to be vigilant but realistic.
John D. Bisognano, M.D., Ph.D., cares for patients with all types of acute cardiovascular disease, including advanced heart failure as director of the UR Medicine Heart and Vascular Comprehensive Hypertension Center. He is involved in research aimed at finding new treatments for people with cardiovascular disease.
A 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in a south Winnipeg park on July 29 and police are looking for a suspect.
The alleged assault occurred in the area of Killarney Avenue and Dalhousie Drive at around 6 p.m. Police say the woman was approached by an unknown man who began making inappropriate comments. As she was preparing to leave, the woman was sexually assaulted, police say.
The suspect is described as East Indian in appearance, mid 20s, chubby build, light moustache, wearing baggy jeans and a long sleeve black shirt.
Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at (204) 986-6245 or Crime Stoppers at (204) 786-TIPS (8477).
Rivera said he will undergo surgery on the torn ACL in his right knee on June 12.
Mariano Rivera finally has a surgery date. He said that he will undergo surgery on the torn ACL in his right knee on June 12.
The procedure will be performed by Dr. David Altchek now that the blood clot in his leg went away. Rivera said May 9 that he had a blood clot in his leg, but Wednesday said the clotting had gone away last week.
Rivera remains on blood thinning medication so time to worry about his situation has been limited.
He also reiterated that he intends on making a full recovery and comeback next season.
Two days after making pitcher Ty Hensley their top pick, amateur scouting director Damon Oppenheimer spoke about the pitcher, saying his size made him a durable player and that the Yankees don’t envision having any difficulties signing him.
The first-year player draft concluded Wednesday and the two picks that followed Hensley were two-sport high school outfielder Austin Aune and University of Miami (Fla.) catcher Peter O’Brien, who were the 89th and 94th picks respectively.
Aune is from Argyle High School outside of Texas. He led his team with a .447 batting average, hit eight home runs and had 41 RBI.
Aune had a scholarship to Texas Christian University to play football and baseball. He was a high school quarterback, but told the Dallas Morning News he had already signed.
As for O’Brien, he is coming off a broken left wrist that cost him Miami’s final 17 regular season games and the first ACC tournament game. O’Brien did return for the NCAA tournament, but Miami’s season ended with a pair of blowout losses to Stony Brook and Missouri State.
Before getting hurt, he was a first-team All-ACC player that led the team with a .338 batting average, .633 slugging percentage and 10 home runs.
O’Brien is the first Miami player picked by the Yankees in the first 10 rounds since third baseman Mike Pagliarulo was a sixth-round pick in 1981.
“We think it’s a good haul,” Oppenheimer said. “We think we’ve got a good group of guys. We got to work on getting them signed now, but with Hensley and an athletic outfielder that can hit like Aune and you add a catching type guy like Pete O’Brien, who has got big power, the beat goes on with quite a few of these guys...
The draft concluded with the Yankees selecting 21 pitchers, including Jose Mesa’s son. They also picked 11 outfielders, six infielders and three catchers.
If you’re not used to the AL East being this close on June 6, then you’re not alone. Entering Wednesday’s games, only three games separate first place from last place.
A year ago on this date, seven games separated the five teams and two years ago, it was a 21-game divide. This year is just the fifth time since the current format was instituted in 1994 that the five teams are separated by less than 10 games.
The last time five AL East teams were within three games of each other through June 5 was under the old seven-team format in 1983. That year, the eventual World Champion Orioles were in a three-way tie with the Blue Jays and Red Sox while the Brewers and Yankees lurked 2 1/2 games out.
The only other instance during the divisional format was during the 1981 strike-shortened season when the Orioles, Yankees, Brewers, Red Sox and Indians were within 2 1/2 games of each other.
Washington--Private businesses should encourage educators to start "cutting-edge" projects that school districts normally do not attempt because of bureaucratic inertia, but they should never attempt to play a major role in the financing or operation of schools, said speakers at a recent meeting convened here by the Co...
Taking what she called the "heretical" position that "the recent talk about business-school cooperation is simply another chapter in tinkering with schools," a Pillsbury Company executive said businesses should get involved with schools only when they can derive a direct benefit.
Terry T. Saario, Pillsbury's vice president for community relations, said corporations devote so few resources to school contributions that businesses should target their contributions to two or three projects and "stick with them."
Ronald K. Speed, director of corporate community responsibility at Honeywell Inc., said interest in business involvement in schools and other government services "took a turn" around 1980 because the public agencies "needed a more strategic approach." That suggests, he said, that businesses should work on projects scho...
Mr. Speed noted that corporate gifts to education were shifting from higher education to the precollegiate sector. Others, however, pointed out that the businesses provide, at the most, only about 2 percent of schools' annual budgets.
Ms. Saario cited the education projects of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), where she held a similar position until three months ago, as a model of the limits that businesses should place on their involvement with schools. All of sohio's projects, she said, serve their own interests as well as those of schools. The cor...
Frank Newman, a presidential fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said businesses should promote projects that "jar [students] out of their boredom" rather than those that support the school's existing routine. An example of the latter, he said, is the establishment of awards for students ...
"What an institution needs is not a blind supporter [of the routines], but someone who will offer intense, constructive [alternatives]," he said.
Mr. Newman also said businesses should develop college-recruitment and hiring practices and internship programs that are consistent with the company's most sophisticated needs. He said schools often offer courses with minimal attention to "critical-thinking skills" because school officials think businesses are interest...
Ms. Saario and other speakers suggested that businesses would encounter resentment from schools if they attempted to get involved in curriculum development or if they led school officials to expect them to play an increasing role in funding of education, a development she suggested was not likely.
Edward F. Truschke, the vice president and executive director of the BankAmerica Foundation, warned, on the other hand, that businesses could "be co-opted into thinking we have a major role" in financing and running schools. Limiting involvement, he said, will require "a difficult, politically sensitive effort" by busi...
The speakers praised the proposals of Theodore Kolderie, a researcher at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, who has criticized businesses that contribute to school programs that "are supportive of the present system." Most business-school initiatives "are coming in ways that are enormously su...
32% of this provider’s 544 patients filled at least one prescription for an antibiotic drug, compared to an average of 5%.
10% of this provider’s 544 patients filled at least one prescription for an opioid, compared to an average of 2%.
$112 was the average price of a prescription from this provider, compared to $87 among peers.
This provider's address and specialty information was last updated on June 29, 2008.
With the release of the iPad worldwide, Amazon's Kindle and Kobo e-readers have gone international too.
With the Apple iPad's international launch on Friday, consumers worldwide gained access to Amazon.com's Kindle app and Kobo's e-reader--apparently ahead of Apple's own iBook store.
Amazon's free Kindle iPad app is now available to all countries where the iPad is offered, Amazon said. The app lets people download and read e-books from Amazon's online bookstore without need for Kindle hardware.
Meanwhile, Kobo announced Friday that it has expanded the reach of its free iPad app to Canada, the U.K., and Australia. The regional versions offer local content and merchandise, according to Kobo. The Kobo app includes five free e-books, while Kobo's e-book store offers more than two million titles, both free and for...
According to Wired, both Amazon and Kobo beat Apple to the punch. As of Friday, Wired reported, Apple's premium iBook store for the iPad was available only in the U.K. so far.
The iPad made its international debut Friday morning in Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recently labeled a fungus called Candida auris or C auris an “Urgent Threat.” This Nightmare Bacteria is a brutal killer that’s unstoppable and flat-out travels fast.
A British hospital aerosolized hydrogen peroxide in a C auris-infected room for one week solid. Subsequently, only one organism grew back in a Petri dish in the room. It was C auris. The hospital serves wealthy patients from Europe and the Middle East, and it has not made a public announcement of the outbreak.
An outbreak of C auris at a Spanish hospital resulted in 41% deaths of infected patients. The hospital has not made a public announcement of the outbreak.
In the U.S., the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital had a case of C auris with an older man hospitalized for abdominal surgery.
Indeed, Mount Sinai’s public exposure is an exception, as hospitals and governmental agencies keep C auris’s whereabouts secret. Public transparency is shunned. Hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks because of concern about tarnishing reputations and spreading of rumors. Even the Center fo...
In a letter to congressional leaders February 5, 2019 The Pew Charitable Trusts, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Trust for America’s Health, together with U.S. antibiotic developers large and small, called on Congress to move swiftly to enact a package of economic incentives to reinvigorate the stagnant pip...
This article was posted on Saturday, April 13th, 2019 at 1:10am and is filed under Denmark, Health/Medical, Life/Animal Rights, Pharmaceuticals.
Caretaker is stepping down after 50 years caring for the 250-acre lakeside cemetery.
Even after spending every working day as an adult at Lakewood Cemetery, Ron Gjerde still slips through the gates of this peaceful, contemplative place just to drive around the grounds at night.
For nearly 50 years, Gjerde has worked to make Lakewood a worthy final resting place. At the end of the year, he will retire as cemetery president. But his unofficial job at this 250-acre final resting place on the southeast shore of Minneapolis’ Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) has been caretaker of memories.
The truth is, near the end of 1969, the folks who ran cemeteries, including the one at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and 36th Street, weren’t that confident in the appeal of working there. Even for a place as picturesque as Lakewood. So, while the job involved ensuring that gravediggers dug holes in the right pla...
“Immediate opening in small, congenial office w/old established firm near Henn. & Lake for young, neat appearing man for general clerical office duties,” read the classified ad that caught Gjerde’s eye.
Rather than turn around, Gjerde went on in.
Not yet 18, and not yet graduated from Minneapolis West High School, the young man who grew up nearby decided he wanted the job.
After “pestering” for a second interview, he got it.
Tasks included checking grave sites before a burial and guiding funeral processions to their sites. He also had to keep records of every grave occupant on notecards.
Over the years, the jobs would change.
He took classes at the University of Minnesota — accounting, business law and effective letter-writing — and was later promoted to office manager, then executive vice president and, on Dec. 7, 1989, president.
The business, too, has changed.
Lakewood was founded as a “rural” cemetery in 1871, when the population of Minneapolis was 13,000 and the city’s southern boundary was Franklin Avenue. Visitors came by horse and buggy on a dirt road.
While Lakewood has had a crematory since 1908, Gjerde said that when he started in 1969, there were 200 to 300 cremations a year. Now there are 1,400.
As a result, a cemetery that officials once expected would be filled to capacity by now has enough room to double the 180,000 remains interred there.
Notable graves include those for former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, former Gov. Floyd B. Olson, and Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, and their daughter Marcia — all three killed in a 2002 plane crash.
Gjerde, who has for years led free walking tours on Memorial Day, said one of Lakewood’s saddest stories is that of James Alexander Mackenzie. The maker of a harp-piano hybrid is buried in an unmarked grave near a monument to Mackenzie’s wife, Eva, and their two young daughters.
The girls were killed and Eva critically injured when their train derailed near Toledo, Ohio, in 1891.
Upon returning to Minneapolis, Mackenzie learned that a fire had destroyed his studio and all his instruments. Eva died a month later.
Also etched on the stone are the words: “Good night, Papa.” Mackenzie took his own life in 1905. There was no one to pay for a stone.
Gjerde, 66, said the hardest part of retiring will be “not coming to work every day in this beautiful place.” So he plans to hang out a bit longer, working for the next year with the cemetery’s heritage foundation and, maybe, continuing to lead those free tours.
And, yes, when the day comes, Gjerde said he plans to be buried here.
And what would a tour guide say while stopped at the grave of Ron Gjerde?
Maybe he would be remembered as the longest-tenured president in the history of Lakewood.
Or, perhaps it would be said that he was the catalyst behind building the Garden Mausoleum. Or that he helped make Lakewood a more popular place by hosting events that go beyond burial.
What he hopes, he said, is that his love of Lakewood comes through.
Vitaly Kamluk, a malware researcher, recently spotted what appeared to be a camera lens integrated into the seatback inflight entertainment system on a Singapore Airlines flight. It emerged that some recent IFE products indeed feature an integrated camera even though Singapore Airlines and others have denied using them...
Singapore Airlines had said in a statement that the cameras had been intended by manufacturers of the inflight entertainment systems for future feature additions and that the cameras are permanently disabled on its aircraft and can’t be activated on board.
Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley and Republican John Kennedy have written a bipartisan letter to several major airlines with questions about how the seatback inflight entertainment system cameras are used. Even though the airlines have denied using them to monitor passengers, tech experts have concerns about whether or no...
“While Americans have an expectation that they are monitored in airports as a necessary security measure, the notion that in-flight cameras may monitor passengers while they sleep, eat, or have private conversations is troubling,” the letter says. It adds that owing to recent data breaches which impacted major airlines...
The senators have sent their letter to CEOs of Delta, Southwest, United, Frontier, Spirit, American, JetBlue, and Alaska Air. Each airline has been asked to answer questions about seatback cameras. They specifically want to know if each airline uses the cameras to monitor passengers, what circumstances might cause the ...
Ahead of the U.N. Climate Summit at the United Nations this week, most Americans say global warming is having a serious impact now or will in the future, and 54 percent think it is mostly caused by human activity -- the highest percentage in CBS News/New York Times Polls.
Forty-six percent say global warming is a problem that is having a serious impact now, while another 28 percent think it will have a serious impact sometime in the future. About a quarter don't think global warming will have a serious impact at all. These views have changed little in recent years.
On a more personal level, 57 percent of Americans don't think global warming will be a serious threat to them during their lifetime, but four in 10 think it will.
Perhaps because they are likely to have more years ahead of them, 50 percent of Americans under age 30 think global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetime, compared to 40 percent of those who are older - but even younger Americans are divided in their opinions.
There are partisan differences too. Three in four Republicans don't feel global warming will be a threat to them personally, but 56 percent of Democrats disagree.
When asked about the primary cause of global warming, 54 percent of Americans think it is the result of human activity. Another 31 percent think it is due to natural fluctuations in the earth's temperature. One in ten doesn't think global warming exists.
The percentage who believes global warming is caused by human activity has ticked up since the spring and is now the highest it has been since CBS News began asking this question in 2011.
Most Democrats and independents think global warming is mostly caused by human activity, while Republicans are inclined to say it is mainly due to natural patterns in the earth's environment.
When asked directly to choose between the environment and the economy, 58 percent of Americans think protecting the environment should be the priority, even at the risk of curbing economic growth, while 37 percent pick economic growth, even if the environment suffers to some extent.
Younger Americans (those under age 30) are especially likely to prioritize protecting the environment over economic growth.
Conservatives (52 percent) and Republicans (51 percent) place a priority on economic growth, while Democrats (63 percent) and liberals (78 percent) think the protection of the environment is more important.

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