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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 20-23, 2008 The Park Record B-12 Adults urged to get influenza vaccination State Epidemiologist. "We know people are less likely to get vaccinated after the holidays, so we must Salt Lake City, UT - According do a better job of educating Utahns to a recent Rand Corporation sur- about the seriousness of influenza vey, by mid-November'2008, on!y and the value of vaccine for prethree in ten adults aged 18 years venting it." and older had been vaccinated Public health officials, say the against influenza. Only one in five influenza season so far has been adults said they intended to receive fairly mild with only 16 reported the vaccine during the remainder of cases of influenza-associated hospithe season. The survey also talizations, but that is no prediction revealed that health care workers, for the rest of the season. "The holcaregivers, and those with asthma iday season brings large crowd setlag behind other groups for getting tings and close living conditions vaccinated that make it- easy for the influenza This survey is a first of its kind virus to spread. Vaccination is one that shows mid-season data for of the best defenses against getting influenza vaccination use by U.S. sick," adds Rolfs. adults. Vaccination rates were comThe Utah Department of Health parable among all sections of the (UDOH) and the Utah Aduit country, ranging from 28 percent in Immunization Coalition (UAIC) the West to 32 percent in the say there is still plenty of influenza Northeast. The primary reason vaccine available and encourage all mentioned for not getting vaccinat- persons to consider vaccination- ed was lack of a perceived need, especially those at high risk for seriwhile 40 percent of those surveyed ous complications. It takes about who still plan to get vaccinated two weeks after vaccination to cited a lack of time as a reason for develop protection. delaying it. Vaccination should continue "This information is disturbing, throughout the influenza season, but we can use it to identify strate- from October until May. Typically, gies for improving vaccination cov- influenza vaccination falls off after erage," says Robert Rolfs, MD, Thanksgiving, but the virus doesn't Submitted by Utah Department of Health large Selection of ReadyMade Framei Faiy Parking Convenient Loeattoii Originolty a ski bum, Jim Delonry moved To Park City in 1972 from Fullertw,Co.lnl976he stoned framing for The Famiry jBweb, discovering he hod o talent for color and design. In 1984 Jim struck out on his own and opened Right Angle Picture Framing in the old "Stw Meets* location at 517 Main Street. "The entire shop was in the meat locker portion of the building" reenfc Jim. In 1994 Right Angle moved to its present location at 1240 lion Horse Drive where there wos plenty of roomtogrow and plenty of perking to go along with it. RIGHT ANGLE PICTURE FRAMING 1240 Iron tiont Privf • Park Citv • ' 648-56+0 Complications such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and sinus and ear infections can occur. Influenza can make chronic health problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have influenza, and people with chronic congestive heart failure may have worsening of this condition that is triggered by influenza. If you think you have influenza, contact your physician within 24 hours. Although the influenza vaccine is the best way to prevent influenza, prescription antiviral drugs, if taken early on, can help reduce the seventy and duration of illness. If you get influenza, you should restT drink plenty of liquids, avoid using alcohol and tobacco, and take medication to relieve the symptoms. You should also stay home from work and other activities to prevent spreading the virus to others. For more information on influenza or where to find the vaccine, call your health care provider, public health department, or the Immunization Hotline at 1-800275-0659. An influenza clinic locator is also available al www.immunize-utah.org. tend to peak until January or February. Vaccination after the holidays still provides protection for those peak periods. This year's influenza vaccine contains three new virus strains (A/Brisbane/59/2007 (HlNl)-like, A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2)-like, and B/F!orida/4/2006-!ike). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), -there is a good match between the vaccine and the most common influenza viruses that are circulating. Influenza is a very contagious viral infection of the respiratory system. Every year in the U.S., on average, five to 20 percent of the population gets influenza; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from complications, and about 36,000 people die from influenza. Symptoms of influenza include fever, muscle aches, headache, congestion, runny nose, cough, sore throat, and general weakness. These symptoms usually appear one to three days after a person has been exposed to the virus. The influenza virus is spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes and sprays droplets that can be inhaled by others. New test aims to predict breast cancer risk Women and doctors have long wished for a simple test that could reveal risk beyond the two SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A BRCA genes, which tend to cause new test to predict an average cancer at early ages but account woman's odds of getting breast can- for only a few percent of all cases. cer works better than a method In the last year, four companies doctors have relied on for decades, started selling broader multi-gene tests, but their value is widely disresearchers reported Friday. The test is the first to combine puted. Women thought to be at high dozens of genes and personal factors like age and childbearing to risk can get more frequent mamgauge risk in women who don't mograms or MRI scans to check for have a strong family history of the breast cancer, or consider hordisease. They account for three- mone-blocking drugs like tamoxifen. But even some advocates for fourths of all cases. In a California study to check its better prevention approaches don't validity, the test correctly classified think gene tests are a good idea 50 percent more women with breast until more is known about the best cancer as high risk than the current treatment options. method did. and properly scored "Are we going to give everyone others lower. Results were given at chemotherapy or chop off everya cancer conference in Texas. one's breasts?" asked Barbara But cancer specialists said that Brenner, head of the advocacy even though this test and several group Breast Cancer Action. others claiming to predict risk are "It's terrifying people" to allow available, more research is needed these tests to be sold without more to prove their worth. information, she said. "The market is being flooded The company that makes the with all these tests making all these new OncoVue test - Oklahoma claims," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, City-based InterGenetics Inc. - deputy chief medical officer for the aims to duck criticism by offering it American Cancer Society. only through doctors rather than "There's no 'Consumer Reports' directly to consumers, and validatof genetic testing" to rate their ing it in population studies like the one reported Friday. accuracy and usefulness, he said. BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Medical Writer Tis the Season to Recycle! Park City Lacrosse Organization Annual Fundraiser Avoid the hassle and mess at the end of the Holiday Season! Let us pick up your holiday tree in o u r t r u c k s and haul it to local recycling areas. Pick Up Dates: Saturday, December 27, 2008 Saturday, January 3, Or Saturday, January 10,2009 Cost: $20.00 per tree Payment: Cash or Check payable to PCLO (a non-profit organization) To place an order: Call (43 5-649-TREE) 8733 or email at pickupmytree@yahoo.com Please have tree outside in visible location by 9:00am With all decorations & lights off tree. Thank you for you support! gene tests and is considering guidelines for doing so. In the meantime, it has allowed many to be sold under existing rules that govern lab testing. Some insurers cover some tests under certain circumstances. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research and two universities. Other tests on th'e market: . • Myriad Genetics Inc., based in Salt Lake City, sells the only tests for BRCA genes. Women with a faulty version have a three to seven times greater risk of developing breast cancer. Cost: $3,000. • Iceland-based deCode Genetics Inc. offers through doctors a multi-gene test specifically for breast cancer, besides the whole-genome test it markets directly to the pubiic. Cost $1,625 . • Navigenics Inc. of Redwood Shores, California, sells a whole genome test that includes about 1 million gene variations including six for breast cancer. Sold directly to consumers. Cost: $2,500. • 23andMe Inc., of Mountain View, California, also sells a wholegenome scan to the public. Only two of the nearly 600,000 gene variants in its test are specifically for breast cancer^'Cost: $399. The $397 test looks for 22 singleletter variations in 19 genes that have been linked to breast cancer. The test is offered through 33 sites around America, said Eldon Jupe, a geneticist and co-founder of the company. Women fill out a medical questionnaire and use a mouthwash that releases cheek cells that are spit into a test tube and analyzed. A computer model weighs these factors to score cancer risk. The test incorporates parts of the risk assessment tool that scientists and doctors use now - the Gail model, named after the National Cancer Institute biostatistician who developed it 20 years ago. Dr. Mitchell Gail. The factors include age, how many close relatives have had breast cancer, and when a woman started having periods or first gave birth. It's a fairly crude model and studies have shown its many limitations, yet doctors and researchers rely on it so heavily that the Internet site for it is accessed 25,000 times a month, said Dr. Lynn Hartmann of the. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "Better risk prediction is a huge need," she said. •The Food " a l 1 ' ' 1 Drug Administration has not approved i I 20% OFF ALL STOCK MODI COMPLETE SPAS FROM Thursday, December 25th 4:00-1 l:OOp.m 2 s * V//,. Merry Christmas! My name is Sarah Barber, I am 4 1/2 years old and I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy. 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