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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
My Family Tree | Loma Linda University School of Medicine Student ...
Babienco. Though I proudly claim the US as my home, I?ve often been asked about my surname?s country of origin.? To be honest, it?s not something I had thought about that much, as Babienco is just a surname, something I?ve carried around my whole life. Even though I?ve been told my last name sounds rather Ukrainian, I?ve often joked about it being Italian (while pronouncing my last name with a Super Mario accent). This all changed about two weeks ago, when I made a surprising discovery that lead me to a deeper understanding of my heritage.
The other night, Brianna and I thought it would be fun to ?google? my last name and see if I shared any relation with her dad?s friend from dental school, who shared the same last name as I. Babienco isn?t a common surname like ?Smith? or ?Brown? so we wondered if there could be any connection. I?ve googled my name before, but this time something I had never seen before popped up. We followed a link to a webpage featuring a picture from the Loma Linda University Digital Archive:
The caption read ?Axentie T. Babienco Studying in his Library.? Below was another description that said ?Loma Linda University School of Medicine, class of 1929.? Brianna asked if I had ever heard of an Axentie T. Babienco before, to which I replied I hadn?t.? Our curiosity growing, we sent a message to my dad who promptly replied, ?Axentie is my dad?s dad. He practiced in San Diego where my dad grew up.?
I was shocked! Almost 85 years ago, my great-grandfather had graduated with his MD from the very school I now attend! This whole time, I thought I was the very first in my family to go into medicine.? But in reality, not only do I have a direct ascendant that practiced medicine, but someone who attended Loma Linda University! Without any clue, I have been continuing a journey started by my great-grandfather.
Not only that, but I guess my great-grandmother, Lucille Babienco, continued to live in Loma Linda until she died in 1992.? She was buried in Montecito Memorial Park, only a few minutes from where I currently live.? I?ve been so close this entire time and had no idea!
These discoveries naturally led to other questions about my family history. My dad forwarded me some documents that tell the story of how the name Babienco came to America from Ukraine in the late 1800?s.? I won?t go into too much detail now as I could go on for hours and hours about my great-great-grandfather?s imprisonment and exile for trying to preach Adventism, and how he was smuggled into Romania and then Canada to have the ability to practice more religious freedom. It is quite the story so you should ask me about it sometime!
For now I am just incredibly honored to continue a legacy of Babienco?s at Loma Linda University (turns out Axentie?s younger brother Allorie Babienco also graduated from LLUSM), even though I am just now discovering one even exists! I hope that doesn?t sound elitist or arrogant or anything, but I hope you can imagine the surprised look on my face when I discovered my dream of practicing medicine isn?t as unique as I once thought it was. Pretty cool if you ask me!
Speaking of dreams, my class and I share this common dream of acing a little exam we have coming in less than 60 days? USMLE Step I is just around the corner! I?m not sure if I ever explained the ?joy? that is Step I, so stay tuned for a future blog post that highlights a not-so-little exam every med student must pass on his or her way to earning a degree!
Before I go, here?s some completely unrelated pictures from a random trip Brianna and I took to Arizona the weekend before last. ?She felt bad I would not be getting a real spring break this year (I spent it doing a Step I review course), so she was only the best wife ever and took me to see my favorite baseball team play a spring training game or two:
Go Reds!
Surprise Stadium, AZ
Getting Autographs! Matt Latos Signs My Baseball.
Brianna Waits for Brandon Philips
So Cool!
Great Seats at Goodyear Ballpark
59 days to USMLE Step I!
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Drug maker loses India patent battle
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 29, 2007 file photo, Indian police officers block demonstrators protesting against drug manufacturer Novartis' case against Indian government on drug patents in New Delhi, India. A lawyer for healthcare activists says India's Supreme Court has rejected drug maker Novartis AG' right to patent a new version of a lifesaving cancer drug. The landmark ruling Monday, April 1, 2013 is a victory for India's $26 billion generic drug industry that provides cheap medicines to millions around the world. Novartis has fought a legal battle in India since 2006 for a fresh patent for its cancer drug Glivec. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 29, 2007 file photo, Indian police officers block demonstrators protesting against drug manufacturer Novartis' case against Indian government on drug patents in New Delhi, India. A lawyer for healthcare activists says India's Supreme Court has rejected drug maker Novartis AG' right to patent a new version of a lifesaving cancer drug. The landmark ruling Monday, April 1, 2013 is a victory for India's $26 billion generic drug industry that provides cheap medicines to millions around the world. Novartis has fought a legal battle in India since 2006 for a fresh patent for its cancer drug Glivec. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
NEW DELHI (AP) ? India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent a new version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines.
Novartis had argued that it needed a new patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec, while activists said the company was trying to use loopholes to make more money out of a drug whose patent had expired.
The decision has global implications since India's $26 billion generic drug industry supplies much of the cheap medicine used in the developing world.
The ruling sets a precedent that will prevent international pharmaceutical companies from obtaining fresh patents in India on updated versions of existing drugs, said Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, which makes a generic version of Glivec.
The court ruled that a patent could only be given to a new drug, she told reporters outside the court.
"Patents will be given only for genuine inventions, and repetitive patents will not be given for minor tweaks to an existing drug," Singh said.
Novartis did not immediately return calls for comment.
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant has fought a legal battle in India since 2006 for a fresh patent for its leukemia drug Gleevec, known in India and Europe as Glivec.
India's patent office had rejected the company's patent application because it was not a new medicine but an amended version of its earlier product. The patent authority cited a legal provision in India's 2005 patent law aimed at preventing companies from getting fresh patents for making only minor changes to existing medicines ? a practice known as "evergreening."
Novartis appealed, arguing Glivec was a newer, more easily absorbed version of the drug that qualified for a fresh patent.
Anand Grover, a lawyer for the Cancer Patients Aid Association, which has taken the lead in the legal fight against Novartis, said the ruling Monday prevented the watering down of India's patent laws.
"This is a very good day for cancer patients. It's the news we have been waiting for for seven long years," he said.
Aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, have opposed Novartis' case, fearing that a victory for the Swiss drugmaker would limit access to important medicines for millions of poor people around the world.
Gleevec, used in treating chronic myeloid leukemia and some other cancers, costs about $2,600 a month. Its generic version was available in India for around $175 per month.
"The difference in price was huge. The generic version makes it affordable to so many more poor people, not just in India, but across the world," said Y.K. Sapru, of the Mumbai-based cancer patients association.
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UNC-system health insurance to be covered by BlueCross
After student health insurance premiums nearly doubled this year, the UNC system has decided to change providers from Pearce and Pearce Inc. to BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.
Administrators said the new health insurance provider was selected for multiple reasons, including affordability.
BlueCross BlueShield has proposed a plan of $1,290 per year, almost $130 less than this year?s $1,418 premium, said Brian Usischon, the system?s associate vice president for human resources and university benefits officer.
But the final cost is still being negotiated, he said.
?We?re still working on price ? that?s the biggest piece,? he said.
BlueCross BlueShield also offered to place a cap on price increases for the next three years, Usischon said.
BlueCross BlueShield was selected as the next health insurance provider after the system considered input from all 17 campuses, he said. Other bids came from Pearce and Pearce Inc., the system?s current provider, United HealthCare Services Inc. and Aetna Inc.
Usischon said benefits will remain relatively the same for the 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the health insurance plan systemwide.
The copay and deductibles students pay will not change, but the cap on the amount of student health care spending will rise from $100,000 to $500,000 next year, and will be unlimited by 2014-15, Usischon said.
?Essentially, it?s the same design in terms of what benefits exist now,? he said.
Pam Silberman, clinical professor of health policy and management at UNC, said the system?s health care was altered to meet new requirements under the Affordable Care Act, which requires every student attending a college or university to have health insurance coverage.
Those changes included no annual or lifetime maximum on spending by 2014-15 and coverage of preventative services such as contraception, Silberman said.
Usischon said the insurer must continue to meet those requirements.
BlueCross BlueShield?s plan is popular in the state, and will provide additional conveniences to students, he said.
He said a notable aspect of the plan is a mobile application that allows students to complete their health insurance waiver more quickly, with students being notified almost immediately if their waiver is approved.
Wake Forest University, which also uses BlueCross BlueShield as its health insurance provider, has been pleased with the coverage and its cost, said Caitlin Burchette, senior benefits administrator at Wake Forest, in an email.
?What I hear from parents is that the plan is both comprehensive and affordable,? she said.
Contact the desk editor at state@dailytarheel.com.
Source: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/03/health-insurance-to-be-covered-by-bluecross
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Texas community in 'shock' over slaying of DA, wife
Texas district attorney Mike McClelland and his wife Cynthia were found dead, just two months after McClelland's top assistant was also shot dead. Authorities are exploring a link between the two crimes and a possible link to a ?white supremacist group. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
By Erin McClam and John Newland, NBC News
An official in the Texas county where a prosecutor and his wife were shot to death over the weekend said Monday that the ordeal was ?surreal? and that authorities there were on alert.
?We?re still in shock,? Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood told reporters.
District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were gunned down at their home outside Dallas on Saturday two months after another prosecutor there was shot to death.
A white supremacist group has been thought to be planning retaliation after indictments in a racketeering case, and the state has recently warned about Mexican drug cartels.
But authorities have not said the killings of the two prosecutors are linked and have not announced any leads in the McLellands? deaths.
?We are very much on alert,? said Wood, whose title is the equivalent of a county administrator or commissioner. ?We have some folks out there that intend to do harm to public officials.?
He said that the county was open for business.
McLelland had vowed to catch the killer of the other prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was gunned down near the county courthouse on his way to work Jan. 31.
McLelland told reporters that day: ?I hope the people that did this are watching. Because we're very confident that we're going to find you, pull you out of whatever hole you're in, bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.?
Gov. Rick Perry on Monday urged law enforcement officers to be careful.
Investigative Crime Reporter Michelle Sigona and Tanya Eiserer from the "Dallas Morning News" join Tamron Hall to discuss the murder of Texas prosecutor, Mike Mclelland and wife Cynthia.
?This I think is a clear concern to individuals who are in public life, particularly those who deal with some very mean and vicious individuals, whether they?re white supremacy groups or whether they're the drug cartels that we have,? he said.
Mayor Darren Rozell of Forney, which is in Kaufman County, told NBC News after McLelland?s killing that it appeared to be targeted and that civilians probably were not at risk.
Asked about suggestions that a white supremacist group may have been involved, Rozell said he had seen media reports to that effect but ?really couldn?t comment.?
On the day Hasse was killed, the Justice Department announced that the Kaufman County DA?s office was among investigative bodies involved in a racketeering case against the white supremacist group Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
A district attorney and his wife were found shot dead in their Texas home on Saturday, a chilling crime that has become a murder mystery. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
The hate group was suspected of ?actively planning retaliation? against police and prosecutors who helped gain indictments in Houston against dozens of its members, the Dallas Morning News reported in February.
Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican and former Texas prosecutor, told CNN that his suspicions in the McLelland killing centered on the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacy group, but he did not say where he was getting his information.
In February, the state's Department of Public Safety issued a report highlighting the threat of Mexican drug cartels operating in Texas.
The FBI and the Texas Rangers were leading the investigations, which at one point examined possible ties to the March 19 shooting death of Colorado prisons director Tom Clements, Reuters reported, adding that no connection had been found.
The McLellands were ?deeply in love,? Tonya Ratcliff, the county tax assessor and a longtime friend of the couple, told NBCDFW.com.
?You would never hear one of them say an ugly word about the other one,? she said. "They were just a wonderful couple, and it was a pleasure to be around them ? and I will miss them.?
A tip line has been set up for the investigation. Anyone with information to share with investigators is asked to call 1-877-847-7522.
On Monday evening, the Kaufman County Sheriff's office announced that Brandi Fernandez, First Assistant District Attorney, will fill the position of interim DA for a period of 21 days.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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This story was originally published on Mon Apr 1, 2013 5:52 AM EDT
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Leadership fight divides Occidental shareholders - report
(Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum Corp chairman and former chief executive Ray Irani is pushing to replace the oil company's current CEO, Stephen Chazen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing "investors and people familiar with the company's operations."
However, several big investors who support Chazen have considered the possibility of trying to vote some directors, including Irani, off the board, the newspaper said, citing "people familiar with their plans."
The debate over the leadership of the fourth-largest U.S. oil company has divided major shareholders ahead of the company's annual meeting on May 3, the newspaper said.
The boardroom drama comes as shares of Occidental have fallen 18 percent in the past year, compared with an 11 percent rise for California rival Chevron Corp and a 4 percent rise for giant Exxon Mobil Corp.
Occidental, in a brief press release on February 14, announced that it was searching for someone to succeed Chazen, 66, after less than two years in the top job.
Yet, earlier this month at an industry event in New Orleans, Chazen told a group of investors that he did not volunteer to leave, the newspaper said.
Chazen is only the third CEO at Occidental in half a century. Irani was named CEO in 1990 by Armand Hammer, a flamboyant tycoon who spent three decades building the company up from a small firm of just three employees.
Chazen and Irani found both themselves targeted over their high compensation, until a shareholder effort to take board seats sparked reform in 2010. Chazen ended up earning compensation worth $31.7 million (20.8 million pounds) in 2011, down from $38.1 million the year before, while Irani made $49.8 million in 2011, down from $76.1 million.
The 78-year-old Irani, who is scheduled to retire at the end of 2014, owns a substantial amount of Occidental stock, the Journal said.
Occidental's lead director, Aziz Syriani, said in a statement that the company's independent directors, and not Irani, were making decisions about Chazen's eventual successor.
"Any suggestion otherwise, or insinuation that Dr. Irani is guiding the process, is completely and flatly wrong," Syriani said in the statement, which Occidental provided to Reuters.
An Occidental spokeswoman had no additional comment.
(Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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