In the New York Times article that I read this week, it had to deal with Court debating a strip search of a middle school student on Tuesday. Justice Stephen Beyer, says that for instance students will hide pills in their underwear. A lawyer, Adam Wolfe calls this the 'ick factor'. Back in 2003 Wolfe's client, a 13 year old girl went under a strip search by school officials and was only in the 8th grade! Wolfe continues to say that this iciness has to deal with not only underpants but as well as checking females bras as well. As though, bras are not as bad. Kids are feeling the need to hide ibuprofen, a pain killer in their underwear.
This case did make it to trial and lots of laughter filled the court room which would be hard not to find some amusement but did go on to state that school officials are NOT trained to undergo strip searches unless more so needed.
I feel that in this situation it would be difficult to have a say in what to do. Even though I would not want my kid be sent to school knowing that there are other kids in that school system with percription or non percription drugs I would not want my kid to be around those kids. Nor would I want my child to be stripped down to his undies unless I was informed first. So, here is my question is this such a big problem that the government is going to have to step in and make a 'law' or rule to say a 'strip search' will be held on certain days that you or I will not know about? This to me is getting a little out of hand. Is suspending not working?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Genes Show Limited Value in Predicting Diseases (for week 12-17th)
This week I read an article on certain Diseases from the New York Times by Nicholas Wade.
I found this article to be quite interesting because it had to deal with diseases and theories that people thought about genetics and how diseases were spread throughout families. The era of personal genomic medicine may have to wait. The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected. In 2003, the genome method was decoded. Since then researchers have been developing a powerful method for comparing the genomes of patients and healthy people verses the hope of pinpointing the DNA changes responsible for common diseases. Another article that was linked to this one was about more medicines that may help with these diseases that may occur in your family. Not only does that website give medicine reports, it gives information about calories, cool ways to lose weight the healthy way, info about digital health data and much more. I found alot of information on this website that could be very helpful if this was a situation with one or in ones family.
I consider this to be relevant because I can tie in health with government by the national standards of the US Nutrition goal. To look more into that, that would be another episode.
I found this article to be quite interesting because it had to deal with diseases and theories that people thought about genetics and how diseases were spread throughout families. The era of personal genomic medicine may have to wait. The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected. In 2003, the genome method was decoded. Since then researchers have been developing a powerful method for comparing the genomes of patients and healthy people verses the hope of pinpointing the DNA changes responsible for common diseases. Another article that was linked to this one was about more medicines that may help with these diseases that may occur in your family. Not only does that website give medicine reports, it gives information about calories, cool ways to lose weight the healthy way, info about digital health data and much more. I found alot of information on this website that could be very helpful if this was a situation with one or in ones family.
I consider this to be relevant because I can tie in health with government by the national standards of the US Nutrition goal. To look more into that, that would be another episode.
Should She Keep her Day Job? (for week 6-11)
This week I decided to read an article about Sarah Palin, Alaska's governor. I kind of debated on whether to write about this or not because of some of our restrictions for this class which are limited but still taking into consideration. At last, I figured it would be ok to write about because this article has to do with politics and it is in the today's lifestyle. This article says that Palin has hard a time getting back into her normal routine of governing in Alaska. It appears that she has not been pushing any laws nor have the lawmakers had any choice about it. There is at least one bill that has been passed and that is because of the rush of oil revenues that helped Palin press for big ticket projects in the past has been replaced by a budget deficit that will require taking at least $1 billion out of state savings.
The biggest policy fight has been over how much federal stimulus money the state should accept. The governor held a news conference at first to say that she would accept only 55% of the $930 million available. She soon signaled her willingness to accept more, though not enough for lawmakers.
To end this conversation, just asking out of curiousisty, will Palin run for govenor in 2010? and then President?
The biggest policy fight has been over how much federal stimulus money the state should accept. The governor held a news conference at first to say that she would accept only 55% of the $930 million available. She soon signaled her willingness to accept more, though not enough for lawmakers.
To end this conversation, just asking out of curiousisty, will Palin run for govenor in 2010? and then President?
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