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Obama Starts Interviewing Supreme Court Candidates
President Obama on Tuesday started interviewing potential Supreme Court nominees, the Wall Street Journal reports. Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Tuesday said that the administration is looking for a candidate who will give the powerless and disenfranchised people "a fair shake." Conservatives have said that the nominee will inevitably be a "judicial activist" because Obama has said that he wants to nominate a candidate who can use past experience and empathy for the underrepresented populations to help guide court decisions.Obama has started calling Republican senators in an effort to prevent the "bruising battles" past Supreme Court nominations have encountered during the confirmation process, the Journal reports. Obama called Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday, which Cornyn said was a "nice gesture." Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) spoke to Obama last week. Coburn said, "I don"t know that it"s going to be contentious," adding, "A prudent man would say, "I"m going to have a couple of Supreme Court nominees. Maybe I want to defuse the thing, the first one, so I can do what I want to do (with) the second one."" Axelrod said that Obama has spoken to 15 senators from both parties (Weisman/Bendavid, Wall Street Journal, 5/20).
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Study Reveals A Reprogrammed Role For The Androgen Receptor In Adndrogen-independent Prostate Cancer
The androgen receptor a protein ignition switch for prostate cancer cell growth and division is a master of adaptability. When drug therapy deprives the receptor of androgen hormones, thereby halting cell proliferation, the receptor manages to find an alternate growth route. A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ohio State University scientists demonstrates how.
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Study: Benefit To Women Not Enough To Sway Men To Get HPV Vaccine
Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest in getting the vaccine, according to a new Florida State University study.
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Pakistan Receives Grants To Fight TB, Infant, Maternal Mortality, Health Minister Says

Pakistan has obtained international support for its efforts to fight tuberculosis and lower infant and maternal mortality rates, Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, the health minister, said recently after returning from the 62nd World Health Assembly (WHA), the International News reports. Britain"s Department for International Development will release 45 million pounds, almost $74 million, over the next three years in order to help Pakistan reduce "alarmingly high infant and maternal mortality rates," according to the International News. In addition, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will provide grants worth $27 million, while the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization will give $120 million to support Pakistan"s TB control efforts and immunization programs. Jakhrani said that health ministers at the WHA called on the world community to provide sustained assistance and technical support to Pakistan "at a time when it has competing development and security requirements," according to the International News. Health ministers also made a special appeal to international donors to cater the immediate needs of internally displaced people (IDP) in Pakistan (Maqbool, International News, 5/30). IDP Situation Could Exacerbate Polio In related news, Dawn.com examines the health effects of dealing with the more than three million IDPs. "If immediate action is not taken, Pakistan would be plagued with a polio epidemic," Dawn.com reports. The country has reported 12 cases of polio this year and the number is expected to rise "as Swatis fleeing the military operation in their valley spill across the country," according to Dawn.com. Global Polio Eradication Initiative health workers have established themselves at nine transit points and as of mid-May, had immunized 17,850 children with the trivalent oral polio vaccine. In addition, mobile health teams have gone tent-to-tent in 26 IDP camps and immunized almost 7,000 children last month. Vaccination campaigns have been held in other parts of the country, but according to Dawn.com, "have not been comprehensive." For example, in April 2009, 217,000 children did not receive polio vaccines in Karachi. The latest confirmed case of polio occurred in one of the most populous districts in the country (Yusuf, Dawn.com, 6/1). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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