Today?s L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter:
Not healthy
Re ?Insurance practice unfair to shoppers,? Column, Sept. 6
For all the fears around ?public health insurance,? people have no idea it typically means the public system provides you free access to all the drugs and care options available in case of terminal illnesses ? no questions asked. I love my country ? the U.S. ? but have dual citizenship, French and American. My children have very good health insurance through my employer. But since they also have French citizenship, if they get really sick, I?ll buy tickets to fly to France.
Why does it have to be that way? This is a rich country that has spent plenty on healthcare. What we get as a result should be a measure of success; we?re not doing so well from that perspective.
COLUMBUS, Ohio ? The NCAA has sent questions to Ohio State regarding three Buckeyes football players suspended for accepting $200 for attending a charity event, and the university has responded with some answers.
NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn says in an email response to The Associated Press that Ohio State is still pulling information to answer all of the NCAA's questions.
Cornerback Travis Howard, safety Corey "Pittsburgh" Brown and running back Jordan Hall have sat out the first two games after they admitted breaking NCAA rules by accepting cash for going to a charity event in Cleveland earlier this year ? after several other teammates were suspended for accepting improper benefits from a tattoo-parlor owner.
The 17th-ranked Buckeyes have seven top players suspended heading into Saturday's game at Miami.
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Rusty Miller can be reached at http://twitter.com/rustymillerap
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Researchers uncover genetic link to cattle diseasesPublic release date: 8-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sandra Avant sandra.avant@ars.usda.gov 301-504-1627 United States Department of Agriculture - Research, Education and Economics
This release is available in Spanish.
The origin of three costly cattle diseases is genetically linked, according to findings from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.
Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Neb., have discovered a location on bovine chromosome 20 that is associated with the incidence of the most prevalent bacterial diseases--pinkeye, foot rot and bovine respiratory disease (pneumonia)--that affect feedlot cattle.
ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports USDA's priority of promoting international food security.
Bovine respiratory disease accounts for 75 percent of feedlot illnesses and up to 70 percent of all deaths, with economic losses to cattle producers exceeding $1 billion annually. The estimated costs for pinkeye are $150 million yearly, and losses to dairy producers due to foot rot range from $120 to $350 per animal.
Eduardo Casas, research leader of the Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit at the ARS National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, and a former USMARC geneticist, examined the genetic makeup of cattle for evidence of genes associated with resistance or tolerance to diseases.
Casas and his colleagues combined pinkeye, foot rot and bovine respiratory disease to represent overall pathogenic disease incidence. They developed half-sibling families from crossbreed bulls: a Brahman-Hereford, a Brahman-Angus, a Piedmontese-Angus and a Belgian Blue-MARC III (part Red Poll, Pinzgauer, Hereford and Angus). An analysis of DNA samples from the 240 offspring infected with one or more of the diseases revealed a genetic marker, called a quantitative trait locus (QTL), on chromosome 20. This QTL is associated with the three diseases.
Chromosome 20 is located near genetic markers related to other diseases and may have a significant effect on the overall health of cattle, according to Casas. Identifying genetic markers responsible for disease would provide an opportunity to produce cattle with increased disease tolerance, which also could help reduce economic loss associated with diseases.
Results from the research were published in the Journal of Animal Science.
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Read more about this research in the September 2011 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep11/cattle0911.htm
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
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Researchers uncover genetic link to cattle diseasesPublic release date: 8-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sandra Avant sandra.avant@ars.usda.gov 301-504-1627 United States Department of Agriculture - Research, Education and Economics
This release is available in Spanish.
The origin of three costly cattle diseases is genetically linked, according to findings from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.
Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Neb., have discovered a location on bovine chromosome 20 that is associated with the incidence of the most prevalent bacterial diseases--pinkeye, foot rot and bovine respiratory disease (pneumonia)--that affect feedlot cattle.
ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports USDA's priority of promoting international food security.
Bovine respiratory disease accounts for 75 percent of feedlot illnesses and up to 70 percent of all deaths, with economic losses to cattle producers exceeding $1 billion annually. The estimated costs for pinkeye are $150 million yearly, and losses to dairy producers due to foot rot range from $120 to $350 per animal.
Eduardo Casas, research leader of the Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit at the ARS National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, and a former USMARC geneticist, examined the genetic makeup of cattle for evidence of genes associated with resistance or tolerance to diseases.
Casas and his colleagues combined pinkeye, foot rot and bovine respiratory disease to represent overall pathogenic disease incidence. They developed half-sibling families from crossbreed bulls: a Brahman-Hereford, a Brahman-Angus, a Piedmontese-Angus and a Belgian Blue-MARC III (part Red Poll, Pinzgauer, Hereford and Angus). An analysis of DNA samples from the 240 offspring infected with one or more of the diseases revealed a genetic marker, called a quantitative trait locus (QTL), on chromosome 20. This QTL is associated with the three diseases.
Chromosome 20 is located near genetic markers related to other diseases and may have a significant effect on the overall health of cattle, according to Casas. Identifying genetic markers responsible for disease would provide an opportunity to produce cattle with increased disease tolerance, which also could help reduce economic loss associated with diseases.
Results from the research were published in the Journal of Animal Science.
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Read more about this research in the September 2011 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep11/cattle0911.htm
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
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