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THE PROFNET WIRE: HEALTH & MEDICINE: Permits for Foreign Nurses

Posted on: Friday, 17 December 2004, 09:00 CST

Dec. 17, 2004 _________ ROUND-UPS

Work Permits for Foreign Nurses (7 experts) Flu Vaccine (continued, 1 expert) _____ LEADS

1. Fitness: New Year's Resolutions: Exercise with Care 2. Hospitals: Latinos and Health Care Disparities in New York City 3. Medicine: Cardiac Ablation Used to Treat A-Fib 4. Medicine: Cure Migraines Without Medication 5. Medicine: Cutting-Edge Technology Restores Lawyer's Career 6. Medicine: Holiday Hype About Plastic Surgery 7. Medicine: New Verisyse Lens for Nearsightedness 8. Medicine: The New Facelift 9. Mental Health: Coping with Grief During the Holidays 10.Mental Health: Keep Telomeres Young with Exercise 11.Nutrition: Lifestyle Chocolates Open Candy Aisle to Dieters 12.Science: Why Cancer Cells are Immortal

ROUND-UP: WORK PERMITS FOR FOREIGN NURSES

Following are experts who can comment on work permits for foreign nurses:

**1. MATTHEW L. BERNSTEIN, assistant professor at CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, practices and teaches immigration and nationality law with an emphasis on advising corporations, nonprofits and individuals: "Unfortunately, there is no adequate alternative nonimmigrant visa category that is set up to meet the shortage and allow foreign nurses into the U.S. temporarily while waiting for their immigrant visa numbers to become current. Congress should create long- term solutions for the shortage, which includes better pay and working conditions to make nursing attractive to U.S. workers. A realistic policy for temporary and permanent immigration is also a must." News Contact: Gwendolyn E. Osborne, gosborne@kentlaw.edu Phone: +1-312-906-5251 (12/16/04)

**2. MIREILLE KINGMA, consultant for the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES: "The fast-track work permits issue highlights two key characteristics of today's health care industry. Firstly, there continues to be a dependency on foreign nurses to fill widespread vacancies: Of the 2.7 million nurses registered in the U.S., 500,000 of them are not willing to work under current conditions. Secondly, much of the health care industry is dominated by business interests that depend on nurses providing services. The tension between economics, regulation and immigration/security issues fuels the debate." News Contact: Jonathan Hall, jlh98@cornell.edu Phone: +1-607-277-2338 ext. 252 (12/16/04)

**3. DIANE BUTLER, partner at LANE POWELL SPEARS LUBERSKY, LLP, and head of the firm's immigration practice, is a member of the national American Immigration Lawyers Association liaison committee for Customs Border Protection issues and a former member of the Executive Committee of the AILA Washington Chapter. Butler is also a frequent speaker on immigration topics and has worked numerous cases involving many areas of immigration including Temporary, Nonimmigrant Work and Business Status, Employment-Based Permanent Resident Status (green cards) and Company Compliance with Immigration Laws. News Contact: Melissa Maslar, mmaslar@levick.com Phone: +1-202-973-1336 (12/16/04)

**4. LUCILLE JOEL, professor at The College of Nursing at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, is interested in the economics of health care, public policy, and health care delivery and advanced practice nursing. Joel was the first vice president of the International Council of Nurses, Geneva, member of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Schools and representative to UNICEF International Council of Nurses. News Contact: Miguel E. Tersy, miguel@nightingale.rutgers.edu Phone: +1-973-353-5293, ext. 629 (12/16/04)

**5. SHAWN FEINSTEIN, CEO of ABSOLUT GLOBAL HEALTHCARE, an international recruitment agency for domestic U.S. hospitals seeking foreign nurses, was an international nurse recruiter for 15 years prior to founding Absolut in 2002, and is able to speak about work permits for foreign nurses. News Contact: Ria Romano, editor12@adelphia.net Phone: +1-786-290-6413 Web site: http://www.absolutglobalsearch.com/. (12/16/04)

**6. AUSTIN FRAGOMEN, co-managing partner at FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, a business immigration firm, which has offices nationwide and globally, is available to discuss the issue of fast-track work permits. Fragomen also sits on the firm's executive committee and heads the National Foreign Visa practice. News Contact: Marla McCutcheon, mmalkinsynergy@sbcglobal.net Phone: +1-949-759-0383 (12/16/04)

**7. FELISSA R. LASHLEY, RN, Ph.D., ACRN, FAAN, FACMG, dean of the College of Nursing at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, is an expert on genetics, infectious disease and HIV/AIDS care. Lashley is a board-certified Ph.D. medical geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics. She is also the editor of "Emerging Infectious Disease: Trends and Issues," which was lauded as an invaluable resource for health care professionals. Lashley was named a 2002 Book-of-the- Year award winner by the American Journal of Nursing, and is the director of the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases. News Contact: Miguel E. Tersy, miguel@nightingale.rutgers.edu Phone: +1-973-353-5293, ext. 629 (12/16/04)

ROUND-UP: FLU VACCINE (continued)

We've added the following to items posted previously at http://www.profnet.com/organik/orbital/thewire/lst_leads.jsp?iLRTopicID=1752

**1. DR. ORN ADALSTEINNSON, director of INB Biotechnologies, is involved in researching the use of plants as production vehicles for vaccines. Building on the relatively new scientific plant science called transgenic gene expression, Adalsteinnson is leading research on how proteins can be developed by changing the RNA components of plants to produce proteins to be used in vaccines. His company expects to develop a flu vaccine based on the spinach plant within twelve months and will test an anthrax vaccine derived from petunias within the year. News Contact: Brian Kennedy Phone: +1-212- 691-8087 (12/16/04)

_____ LEADS

**1. FITNESS. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: EXERCISE WITH CARE. DR. JASON THEOSADAKIS, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M., assistant clinical professor at the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA College of Medicine, physician at CANYON RANCH MEDICAL DEPARTMENT and author of "The Arthritis Cure," can offer safe tips for the millions of people planning new diet and exercise regimens to kick off 2005: "Exercise is necessary for so many reasons, but people have to be careful that they do the right kind and amount of exercise to prevent damage to their joints. Maintaining strength through proper exercises, diet and even supplementation can help your body stay in shape and not be prone to weakness and injury." News Contact: Carol Soudah, carols@carryonpr.com Phone: +1-323- 988-4711 (12/16/04)

**2. HOSPITALS: LATINOS AND HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES IN NEW YORK CITY. CESAR PERALES, president and general counsel of the PUERTO RICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, says that a new report shows that New York City's private hospitals do not hire enough Latinos in decision-making roles: "New York City's private hospital sector should be held accountable to the communities that they serve. Only then will New York City see improved equal access and quality of health care for Latinos. While these hospitals espouse concern about the need for culturally competent care, they exclude the people who can address these problems from decision-making roles." News Contact: Kendra Beach, kendra@spitfirestrategies.com Phone: +1-202-293-6200 ext. 212 Web site: http://www.prldef.org/lib/Condition_Critical.pdf. (12/16/04)

**3. MEDICINE: CARDIAC ABLATION USED TO TREAT A-FIB. DR. J. MICHAEL MANGRUM, assistant professor of internal medicine at the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA School of Medicine: "As a new curative treatment vs. traditional drug therapy, the University of Virginia Health System's Atrial Fibrillation Center now offers cardiac ablation (electrical burning of heart muscle to control arrhythmia) for atrial fibrillation (or A-Fib), the most common heart rhythm in the U.S., with approximately 160,000 new cases each year, and now affecting approximately 2.2 million people. Patients who are treated for A-Fib with UVA's team-based, individualized strategy can dramatically improve their lives, and lower their risk for sudden death, stroke and heart failure." News Contact: Lorelei Harloe, lh@lhprmc.com Phone: +1-703-362-2774 (12/16/04)

**4. MEDICINE: CURE MIGRAINES WITHOUT MEDICATION. DR. MARC FRIEDMAN, D.D.S., of the WESTCHESTER HEAD AND NECK PAIN CENTER in New York: "Treatment is based on the discovery that headache patients have an inflamed tender area above the upper molar teeth. Unrelated to the teeth or gums, this local inflammation creates a swelling, which puts pressure against the adjacent maxillary nerve - - causing the headache. This is contrary to current theories that describe a migraine as caused by an inflammation in the outer covering of the brain." Friedman demonstrated this link in a multi-hospital study by comparing the tenderness and temperature of the upper molar area in patients during one- sided migraine or tension headaches. He showed that with these patients, the temperature and tenderness were consistently greater on the symptomatic side, and these are signs of inflammation. Friedman says that his Intraoral Vasoconstriction device, held by the patients during treatment, works by chilling the inflamed area to eliminate the swelling and reduces pressure against the nerve for headache relief. News Contact: Meghan Berger, meghan@kmrcommunications.com Phone: +1-212-213-6444 (12/16/04)

**5. MEDICINE: CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY RESTORES LAWYER'S CAREER. NANCY IVARINEN, attorney at the WASHINGTON BAR ASSOCIATION, says her hearing loss seriously affected the most essential aspects of her work. Struggling with conductive hearing loss, she found it increasingly difficult to observe courtroom nuances: "Imagine being a lawyer and not being able to hear a judge's questions or a client's comments. Outside of court, I was out of touch with the richness of the sounds of life." Ivarinen discovered a state-of-the- art prosthetic device that restores hearing with a sophisticated technology. It not only saved her career, but also inspired her to help the thousands of others with conductive hearing loss. News Contact: Stephen Krupin, skrupin@apcoworldwide.com Phone: +1-202-659-7911 (12/16/04)

**6. MEDICINE: HOLIDAY HYPE ABOUT PLASTIC SURGERY. ROBERT R. HUMMEL, M.D., plastic surgeon at THE PLASTIC SURGERY GROUP, says the holidays are here and many plastic surgeons are now offering special financing deals and discounts. Hummel says that before patients get caught up in the marketing promotions, there are some critical things they should know: "Plastic surgery isn't a commodity like a car or furniture with a financing package or a one-time special discount. It is major surgery with risks and benefits instead of a decision made during a special deal during the holidays or at other times of the year." News Contact: Susan McDonald, smcdonald@jypublicrelations.com Phone: +1-513-388-4706 (12/16/04)

**7. MEDICINE: NEW VERISYSE LENS FOR NEARSIGHTEDNESS. DR. SHERI ROWEN, director of The Eye and Cosmetic Surgery Center at MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, is among the first in Baltimore to perform surgery using the new Verisyse Phakic Intraocular lens for nearsightedness: "While LASIK is an excellent procedure for people with lower levels of nearsightedness, it is not for everyone. The Verisyse Phakic IOL design has been used successfully in Europe for nearly 20 years. Clinical studies on the lens began in the U.S. in 1997, with the Verisyse receiving FDA approval in 2004, offering many people freedom from thick glasses and contact lenses." News Contact: Dan Collins, dcollins@mercymed.com Phone: +1-410-894-7452 Web site: http://www.mdmercy.com/. (12/16/04)

**8. MEDICINE: THE NEW FACELIFT. DR. ZACHARY GERUT, M.D, F.A.C.S., at THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, says The Gerut Lift is a complete and long-lasting facelift procedure. Gerut says he has combined many innovations and established techniques including a very striking departure from the usual: The facelift is done with the patient totally awake yet totally comfortable: "Anesthetic drugs cause major physiologic changes that increase bruising and swelling. Without anesthesia and with these innovations, the recovery is significantly, and even amazingly, faster -- so much less swelling and bruising that most patients are exceptionally well healed in as quickly as one, two or three days." News Contact: Meghan Berger, meghan@kmrcommunications.com Phone: +1-212-213-6444 (12/16/04)

**9. MENTAL HEALTH: COPING WITH GRIEF DURING THE HOLIDAYS. DR. KEN DOKA, professor of gerontology at THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE and a nationally recognized expert on grief, says that for many people, the six weeks from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day can be an emotional powder keg: "There's no reason to let depression or grief dampen our holidays. We can make the healing process much healthier by creating new rituals and reaching out to people." News Contact: Barbara Eng, beng@cnr.edu Phone: +1-914-654-5285 Web site: http://www.cnr.edu/. (12/16/04)

**10. MENTAL HEALTH: KEEP TELOMERES YOUNG WITH EXERCISE. JAY WINNER, M.D., physician and stress management educator at SANSUM SANTA BARBARA MEDICAL FOUNDATION CLINIC and author of "Stress Management Made Simple: Effective Ways to Beat Stress for Better Health," says we all know that stress isn't good for us and can contribute to a variety of serious medical problems. Winner says a November 29 finding in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed one way chronic stress can take years off of one's life: "Basically, it's all about your chromosomes. When you experience stress day after day, year after year, something's got to give -- and in this case, it's your telomeres, which are caps located on the ends of your chromosomes. Your telomeres shorten naturally, but stress accelerates the shortening and that's why we absolutely have to reduce stress as much as possible. It's a matter of your health and of changing your thought processes." News Contact: Jay Winner, M.D., jwinner@stressremedy.com Phone: +1-805-898-3090 (12/16/04)

**11. NUTRITION: LIFESTYLE CHOCOLATES OPEN CANDY AISLE TO DIETERS. TOM WARD, CEO of RUSSELL STOVER: "When the low-carb and South Beach diets reached the peak of their popularity, sales of traditionally high-carb foods dropped. However, chocolate sales are actually up due to the dramatic jump in the variety of diet or 'lifestyle' chocolates on the market. Russell Stover plans to launch 160 sugar-free or low-sugar products in 2005. With 'lifestyle' chocolates including Sugar-Free Candy, NetCarb, CalorieSmart and DiabetX, Russell Stover has opened the candy aisle to millions of people who couldn't go down it." News Contact: Ryan Gerding, rgerding@inkincpr.com Phone: +1-816- 753-6222 (12/16/04)

**12. SCIENCE: WHY CANCER CELLS ARE IMMORTAL. SHEILA STEWART, assistant professor at the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine in St. Louis, and recent recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research: "New research is underway, which could lead to understanding why cancer cells don't seem to have the same 'internal clock' as normal human cells that tell them when to die or stop reproducing. Cancer cells don't seem to know how old they are. Therefore, they continue to divide, creating new cancer cells resulting in disease. The answer may lie in the telomere, a tiny bit of DNA located at the tip of every chromosome in every cell in our body (much like the plastic tip on your shoelace). As a normal cell ages, its telomere shortens -- not so with cancer cells. With a grant from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, scientists are studying telomeres to see if it's possible to communicate with them using proteins to cause them to 'age' and, thus, stop dividing. If we can modify the telomeres in cancer cells we may be able to kill cancer cells before they become a tumor as well as tell healthy cells to continue reproducing." News Contact: Risa B. Hoag, risah@theprcollective.com Phone: +1-845-627-3000 (12/16/04)

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