Just seven weeks after announcing her breast cancer diagnosis on the Today show in October, Giuliana Rancic returned to the morning broadcast to share some sad news: she will have to undergo a double mastectomy.
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I've always enjoyed using the Fanhattan app. It's smart, available on both iPhone and iPad, and just makes getting to what I want to watch easier. Period. But there was one small gripe I had. In fact, it's not even a gripe. It's just how we all feel about anything good: we want more. Fanhattan has this great Smart Browse system that lets you filter down content by genre, rating, release date, service providers, and then choose how you'd like that content to be sorted. The only problem is that the more filters you use, the fewer options you have left to choose from — sometimes, no options at all. But that's about to change, with three new media partners joining the Fanhattan folds: Crackle, Lifetime, and PBS.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HT7PyujgFVU/
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President Barack Obama makes remarks on World AIDS Day , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at George Washington University in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama makes remarks on World AIDS Day , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at George Washington University in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Alicia Keys, center, and Muhtar Kent, the chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, left, applaud as President Barack Obama spoke during a World AIDS Day event, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at George Washington University in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Musicians Bono, right, and Alicia Keys talk during a panel discussion on World AIDS Day, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at George Washington University in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Musicians Bono, right, and Alicia Keys take part in a panel discussion on World AIDS Day, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at George Washington University in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal Thursday for significantly increasing access to life-saving AIDS drugs for people in the U.S. and around the world, as he announced a renewed American commitment to ending a pandemic that has killed 30 million people.
"We can beat this disease," Obama declared during a World AIDS Day event in Washington. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also participated via satellite.
Obama pledged U.S. support to help 6 million people in countries hardest hit by the virus get access to antiretroviral drugs by the end of 2013, increasing the original U.S. goal by 2 million. And he announced plans to boost spending on HIV treatment in the U.S. by $50 million.
"The rate of new infections may be going down elsewhere, but it's not going down here in America," he said. "There are communities in this country being devastated still by this disease. When new infections among young, black, gay men increase by nearly 50 percent in three years, we need to do more to show them that their lives matter."
As part of Obama's new overseas initiatives, the U.S. will also aim to get antiretroviral drugs to 1.5 million HIV-positive pregnant women to prevent them from passing the virus to their children; distribute more than 1 billion condoms in the developing world in the next two years; and fund 4.7 million voluntary medical male circumcisions in eastern and southern Africa over the next two years. Research shows circumcisions reduce the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission by more than 60 percent.
The new global goals build on the work of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which focuses on prevention, treatment and support programs in 15 countries hit hardest by the AIDS pandemic, 12 of them in Africa. Bush launched the $15 billion plan in 2003, and in 2008, Congress tripled the budget to $48 billion over five years.
Obama praised Bush for his leadership on AIDS relief, saying the program will be one of the former president's greatest legacies.
"That program ? more ambitious than even leading advocates thought was possible at the time ? has saved thousands and thousands and thousands of lives, spurred international action, and laid the foundation for a comprehensive global plan that will impact the lives of millions," Obama said. "And we are proud that we have the opportunity to carry that work forward."
Despite Obama's more ambitious goals, the relief program's budget is not expected to increase. Instead officials said the expanded targets would be funded through savings achieved by making the program more efficient and cutting the costs of treatment.
The president urged other wealthy nations to fulfill their financial pledges to a global fund to fight HIV and AIDS, and jabbed those who have not contributed money.
"Countries that haven't made a pledge need to do so," he said. "That includes China and other major economies that are now able to step up as major donors."
Obama also announced new initiatives to combat HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in the U.S. The White House said there are 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, and 50,000 new infections each year. Officials said he would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to increase funding for domestic treatment by $50 million
The bulk of the new funding ? $35 million ? will go to state programs that help people living with HIV and AIDS get access to medicine. There are currently more than 6,500 Americans living with the virus on waiting lists for medication, according to the White House.
The rest of the domestic funds will go to HIV medical clinics across the country, with an emphasis on areas where infections have increased and care and treatment are not readily available. Officials said the additional clinic funding would give 7,500 more patients access to treatment.
The $50 million is already part of the HHS budget, and officials said Obama does not need congressional approval to reallocate the funds.
The HIV virus has infected an estimated 60 million people worldwide since the deadly pandemic began 30 years ago. More than 33 million people are currently living with the virus.
While the failure to find an effective HIV vaccine continues to frustrate the medical community, experts say scientific research in recent years has led to substantial progress in preventing and treating the virus.
Obama ordered his staff to reevaluate both their international and domestic approaches to HIV and AIDS this summer after being briefed on the scientific advancements.
Members of both parties praised the new initiatives and commended Democratic and Republican leaders for coming together.
"Here's what we can do when we work together. We've got leaders of both political parties standing behind something that works," said Gayle Smith, Obama's senior director for development and democracy at the National Security Council.
Tony Fratto, a former Bush spokesman, urged both parties to avoid making the fight against AIDS a political issue.
"The only way to undermine this historic undertaking is if it becomes a partisan issue," he said. "The reasons a Barack Obama and a George W. Bush can support America's leading role in addressing this disease may be very different, but what's important is they've sought the same goal."
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Associated PressLONDON (Reuters) ? British Prime Minister David Cameron has criticized comments made by "Top Gear" television show presenter Jeremy Clarkson after he said the country's striking public sector strikers be "shot in front of their families."
Clarkson, whose mocking personality helped make the Top Gear automobile show a popular broadcast around the world, was speaking Wednesday as state workers like nurses, teachers and civil servants were staging a 24-hour strike against government plans to make them pay more and work longer for their pensions.
"I'd have them all shot," the 51-year-old said on the BBC's prime-time One Show.
"I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families," he added. "I mean how dare they go on strike when they have got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?"
A BBC spokesman noted the One Show had apologized at the end of the show to viewers who may have been offended.
Cameron who is a friend of the presenter, said on the ITV's Good Morning program the comments were a "silly thing to say."
"I'm sure he didn't mean it," he added.
Unison, the public service trade union, said it would consider taking legal action against the presenter over his "appalling" comments.
Dave Prentis UNISON General Secretary said: "Clarkson's comments on the One Show were totally outrageous, and they cannot be tolerated.
"We are seeking urgent legal advice about what further action we can take against him and the BBC, and whether or not his comments should be referred to the police.
"Whilst he is driving round in fast cars for a living, public sector workers are busy holding our society together -- they save others' lives on a daily basis, they care for the sick, the vulnerable, the elderly."
Unions estimated more than 2 million public sector workers in the UK went on strike over changes to their pensions on Wednesday, though polls showed not all Britons supported them.
Critics of the strike say state pensions compare very favorably with those in the private sector and that public workers should share the pain of belt-tightening measures.
The BBC declined to comment on Unison's statement.
Clarkson is known for his outspokenness. He aroused public anger over comments about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's partial blindness and over an article in which he said the Welsh language should be abolished.
In February, he was at the center of a diplomatic row after making offensive remarks about Mexico, suggesting the country didn't have an Olympic team, "because anyone who can run jump or swim is already across the (U.S.) border."
(Editing by Steve Addison)
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While speaking to a group of high school students in New Hampshire on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum defended insurers for denying coverage or charging more to people with pre-existing conditions, using his own family as an example.
"We have a child who has a pre-existing condition and we went out and we said, we like this plan," Santorum said, according to ThinkProgress. "We have to pay more because she has a pre-existing condition. Well, we should pay more. She's going to be very expensive to the insurance company and, you know, that cost is passed along to us... I'm okay with that."
Santorum's three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Isabella has a genetic disorder called Trisomy 18, a condition that often results in death within a year of birth. He recently began opening up about "Bella" on the campaign trail.
Santorum -- who said "we have a broken insurance system" -- offered up more information on his own insurance plan, noting that his candidacy forced him to purchase insurance "on the open market."
"I had insurance under my employer. And when I decided to run for president, I left my job, I lost my insurance, I had to go out and buy insurance," Santorum said.
The Republican candidate even compared health care coverage to auto insurance, saying that "you turn everything in" like one would share information on car repairs with an insurance company.
"Insurance rates shouldn't pay for your general maintenance any more than they should pay for the general maintenance of your car," he said, explaining that he believes insurance should only be used for major health care expenses.
Santorum also addressed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the event, calling the health care legislation "a huge threat to the future of our country." He reiterated that he would repeal the health care law if elected president, and that he would replace the legislation with "something consumer driven," Patch reports.
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Bachmann has cast 12 votes on reproductive rights issues during her four years in the House, and all were anti-abortion. She voted in favor of the Stupak amendment, which would ban the insurance coverage of abortion in the new health system; she co-sponsored two bills that force women to hear state-mandated lectures 24 hours prior to having an abortion; and she vowed to defund Planned Parenthood if she became president. In April, she twisted the words of Steve Trombley, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, who once said that he hopes to make his organization the "LensCrafters of family planning" by expanding access to preventative health and contraceptive services. "As a matter of fact, the executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said they want to become the LensCrafters of big abortion," she told a crowd in Iowa. Bachmann has cast 12 votes on reproductive rights issues during her four years in the House, and all were anti-abortion. She voted in favor of the Stupak amendment, which would ban the insurance coverage of abortion in the new health system; she co-sponsored two bills that force women to hear state-mandated lectures 24 hours prior to having an abortion; and she vowed to defund Planned Parenthood if she became president.In April, she twisted the words of Steve Trombley, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, who once said that he hopes to make his organization the "LensCrafters of family planning" by expanding access to preventative health and contraceptive services.
"As a matter of fact, the executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said they want to become the LensCrafters of big abortion," she told a crowd in Iowa.
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Bachmann has cast 12 votes on reproductive rights issues during her four years in the House, and all were anti-abortion. She voted in favor of the Stupak amendment, which would ban the insurance coverage of abortion in the new health system; she co-sponsored two bills that force women to hear state-mandated lectures 24 hours prior to having an abortion; and she vowed to defund Planned Parenthood if she became president. In April, she twisted the words of Steve Trombley, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, who once said that he hopes to make his organization the "LensCrafters of family planning" by expanding access to preventative health and contraceptive services. "As a matter of fact, the executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said they want to become the LensCrafters of big abortion," she told a crowd in Iowa. '; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/rick-santorum-pre-existing-conditions_n_1126555.html
