Breast cancer used to be a disease of older women. Screening with mammograms is not recommended under age 40. But now the Feb 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports a near doubling in the rate of metastatic breast cancer in women age 25–39 between 1976 and 2009. The rate has been increasing slowly but steadily, and shows no sign of leveling off.
These days, young mothers of small children are facing mutilating surgery, debilitating chemotherapy, and even death. Yet there has been no corresponding increase in older women.
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog group, Yukiya Amano, said today that he was “unable to report any progress” in the organization’s talks with Iran over its atomic program.
America is called America because in 1507 a mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller thought Amerigo Vespucci had discovered the continent now named South America. The name America was indelibly attached to both North and South America even though a revised 1513 map by Waldseemüller had removed the America reference entirely.
Exclusive: As reported on Tulsa Today January 30, J.B. Alexander, Chairman of the Tulsa County Republican Party and now a candidate for Owasso City Council was cited January 23 for criminal assault and battery on a job site while working for the City of Tulsa as a contracted inspector.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and Congressman Markwayne Mulling (R-OK2) today released the following statements regarding sequestration and the looming federal budget cuts.