Petty Officer Dustin E. Kirby, a trauma medic, fights for those he treats. “When I told you that I do not let people die on me, I meant it,” he said. “I meant it.”
A man's risk of prostate cancer may have far less to do with how much of the protein called PSA he has in his blood than with how fast it is rising. A study released this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that if the PSA level is climbing faster than 0.35 billionths of a gram per milliliter of blood (ng/mL) a year, a biopsy is a good idea–even if the total isn't within sight of the 4 ng/mL level often used as a threshold of concern. "You cannot assure someone with a low PSA that they will never get cancer," stresses lead author H. Ballentine Carter, director of adult urology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Tuition could drop by 60 percent for both in-state and out-of-state students if Pennsylvania legislators adopt a plan introduced by State Sen. Joe Conti, the Daily Collegian reports. The plan would levy taxes on previously exempt items such as water bottles and haircuts-allowing in-state tuition to drop from $12,164 a year to just $4,895, and out-of-state from $22,712 to $9,140, says Conti, who also sits on Penn State's board of trustees.
An Arizona State student group tried to launch a "New Sexual Revolution" yesterday. Their first meeting--during which they explained their opposition to sex before marriage--attracted only eight students, but organizers told the State Press they won't be deterred. After all, these kids know something about patience...
AP - Fearful of damaging his own party in next week's elections, Sen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday to "any service member, family member or American" offended by remarks deemed by Republicans and Democrats to be insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq.
AP - President Bush said Wednesday he wants Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.
AP - Gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and a blind athletic coach, both Sunnis, on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Iraqi forces lifted a blockade on Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.
Sen. John Kerry issued a statement Wednesday apologizing to anyone offended by his comments to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq." He added: "I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues." Senior Republicans had jumped on his statement as insulting to troops. A White House statement said the apology "came late, but it was the right thing to do."
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