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Severe blunt liver injury often best treated nonoperatively.
TUCSON, ARIZ. -- Nonoperative management of severe blunt liver injuries appears to be the best strategy of caring for hemodynamically stable patients, according to findings from a retrospective review of 561 patients. Choosing between nonoperative and operative treatment schemes seems to make a difference, however, only in...

Allergies to ladybugs increasing in some regions.
MIAMI BEACH -- When allergies crop up in cooler weather, ladybugs may be the culprit. The Asian lady bird beetle (Harmonia axyridis) appears to be an increasing source of indoor allergens during times of infestation--usually the fall, winter, and spring, when thousands of the beetles can invade...

Church/State at Dartmouth.
THE whole business of whether public schools can permit "intelligent design" to be acknowledged as an alternative to Darwinian evolution in explanation of human life will begin democratic exercises in a courtroom in Pennsylvania this week. There are regular flashpoints on this matter of the separation of church and...

Presbyterians cut 75 national staff jobs.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced this month that 75 national staff jobs will be cut at its Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters, along with 55 positions in its overseas missionary force. The reductions amount to "the most radical restructuring" of the mainline Protestant denomination's mission program since 1993, Presbyterian...

Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic: The Foundational Logics of Western Historical Thinking.
0820463981 Continuity, quantum, continuum, and dialectic; the foundational logics of western historical thinking. Blum, Mark E. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2006 497 pages $93.95 Hardcover D16 As a contribution to the...

Laparoscopic bypass helps the "super-super obese".
Louisville, Ky. -- "Super-super obese" patients obtain nearly the same benefits from laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass as do less obese patients without incurring unwarranted risks, Dr. Jon C. Gould reported at the annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association. Surgeons have taken several different approaches in treating...

The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology.
The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology. Edited by Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier. (InterVarsity Press, 291 pp., $23.00.) Emerging from a 2004 Wheaton College conference by the same name, this collection of essays by leading evangelical scholars criticizes the inadequacies (and often the absence) of...

High risk of burns in elderly sparks need for prevention.
Louisville, KY. -- The high rate of serious burns among adults older than 65 years suggests a need for greater patient education and prevention programs for this age group, Dr. Palmer Q. Bessey reported at the annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association. Physicians and parents are...

Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslims Studying the Bible and the Qur'an Together.
Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslims Studying the Bible and the Qur'an Together. Edited by Michael Ipgrave. (Church Publishing, 154 pp., $20.00 paperback.) Bearing the Word: Prophecy in the Biblical and Qur'anic Perspective. Edited by Michael Ipgrave. (Church Publishing, 130 pp., $19.00 paperback.) These are the two latest volumes...