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Church rallies to help pastor

... Waynesboro Record Herald: Church rallies to help pastor Home Local News Sports Obituaries Classifieds Media Kit / Rates Business Directory About Us Where are They Now Archives Subscriber Services Health Entertainment Town Hall World News Stocks Downloadable Forms Blaze destroys homesSome in county opt to preserve precious landChurch rallies to help pastorCar crashes into Candy KitchenEconomics plays a major role in decision to sellRock denies involvement in challengeSculpture of Christ will be dedicated Thursday at churchFarmers finding it more difficult to make a livingAntrim supervisors back design of I-81 exit Subscribe Refund Policy Serving the Waynesboro and Greencastle areas Friday, March 31, 2006 Local News Church rallies to help pastor By Liz Vargo The Record Herald This year was probably the first time in Pastor Roger Berkey's life that he was eager to file his taxes.That's because the visit to the tax preparer's office was the first time in about two months that Berkey was able to leave his house.

At the end of January, he got some bad news.

Berkey, 51, who hadn't been in a hospital since 1971, had colon cancer.“The doctor called, and at that point, I chose to believe God is the healer,” Berkey said.After two weeks in the hospital and two months at home, the pastor of Antrim Assembly of God said he has a powerful support team.“The Lord, and people who have g...

Learning To Ignore Your Viruses

... It turns out that some forms of Some studies indicate that one mutation in particular is behind 13% of all If one copy of the gene is mutated, a man's chances of getting If both copies are mutated, his chances double.

And yet-as is often the case-other studies on RNASEL failed to make this link.

So the scientists wondered if the mutation was just one ingredient in the recipe for A clue to what that factor may be comes from RNASEL itself.

When it's not crippled by a mutation, the gene produces an enzyme that shreds virus genes (in particular, viruses that carry genes on single-stranded RNA as opposed to double-stranded DNA).

Viruses are known to play a role in many cancers, triggering cells to replicate like mad.

So the scientists wondered if the RNASEL mutation weakened defenses to a particular virus that could contribute to To find out, the scientists embarked on a virus hunt.

They isolated cells from prostate tumors linked to the RNASEL mutation, and split them open.

They placed the contents of the cells on a glass slide studded with 20,000 molecular probes, each tailored to snag a particular fragment of a virus gene.

The probes on this so-called Virochip are based on genes of known viruse...

Liberals challenge private health care

... An additional $12 million will go toward hip and knee surgery.

Laurie Blakeman, the Liberal health critic and MLA for Edmonton Centre, wondered why the government plans to privatize health care if the public system can work so efficiently.

"We have an excellent project that really works and it works in the public system, which is better for cost containment, cuts the waiting lists and we have fewer adverse effects as a result of it," she said.

Blakeman added such successes in public health care should also be protected.

"I would not like to see innovation developed in the public sector sold off to the private sector for some shareholder to make money from," she said.

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