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Senate Minority Leader McConnell Says He Will Oppose Sotomayor As Other Republicans Back Nominee
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday announced that he will oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, even as increased Republican support seemed to ensure that she would be confirmed, the New York Times reports. McConnell said that he would not support Sotomayor"s nomination because her "record of written statements suggests an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and, therefore, in my view, an insufficient willingness to abide by the judicial oath." McConnell intends to deliver the remarks to the Senate on Monday. Meanwhile, Republican Sens. Richard Lugar (Ind.), Mel Martinez (Fla.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) said that they would support Sotomayor. The Times reports that the senators" backing of Sotomayor -- combined with her "solid Democratic support" -- shows that she should receive "strong confirmation approval" (Hulse, New York Times, 7/18). Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) would not predict how many Republicans could vote for her confirmation. Sessions said that Republicans are seeking a committee vote on Sotomayor on July 28, one week later than the date sought by committee Democrats. During that week, Republicans hope to review her record, her answers from her confirmation hearings and other responses to questions (AP/Boston Globe, 7/20).
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No Improvement In Detecting Cervical Cancer With Addition Of HPV Test In Cervical Screening Programme In The UK
An article published Online First and in the July edition of The Lancet Oncology reports that the combination of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing with regular liquid-based cytology (LBC) screening does not improve the detection of cervical cancer compared with LBC screening alone.
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New Study Results Verify That PNH Cells Are Found In Majority Of Patients With Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) cells are present in the majority of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), aplastic anemia (AA), and other bone marrow failure syndromes (BMF), according to interim results from 5,285 patients enrolled in the EXPLORE trial. EXPLORE (EXamination of PNH, by Level Of CD59 on REd and white blood cells) is the first large multicenter study to determine the frequency of PNH cells in these patient populations using a central laboratory conducting a high sensitivity test for PNH cells. The findings from EXPLORE will be presented tomorrow at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The EXPLORE trial was sponsored by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALXN).
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Health Service Must Implement Working Time Directives, Says British Medical Association (Northern Ireland)

With the implementation of the 48-hour working week for workers throughout Europe, including doctors, on 1 August 2009, the BMA in Northern Ireland has said that it will insist that the health service must meet its obligations to implement the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). Dr Brian Patterson, Chairman of the BMA"s Northern Ireland Council said: "On the eve of the implementation of EWTD, we understand that approximately 80 per cent of doctors in Northern Ireland are working within the time limit of 48 working hours per week. "While acknowledging the huge challenge that is the change required to comply with the new European Working Time Directive, employers have had ten years to prepare. Doctors are concerned that patient services could be affected in trusts that have not properly prepared for the working time directive". Dr Patterson continued "We continue to have grave concerns because of the gaps in local junior doctor rotas. We will insist on real compliance by employers1. "Solutions rely on hospital managers working with doctors to ensure that doctors" time is best used and all training opportunities are maximised. It will also need a movement to a health service that is more reliant on an expanded consultant workforce, which will benefit patients and the profession as a whole". Notes 1 A recent survey in the Health Service Journal reported that 1 in 10 had been told to lie about working hours British Medical Association Northern Ireland


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