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Parents with cancer worry about children

Cancer patients with children have the added pressure of worrying about their children, said Dr. Kathryn Weaver of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, author of a new study on how cancer affects parents and their children.

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Students travel to Nicaragua to encourage healthy lifestyles

Students collect plants from La Chureca in Managua (the city dump) to be replanted as part of a beautification project at a local school. Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service. With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.

The perils of financial reform

Congress has largely ignored the underlying reasons for the financial crisis, writes professor Rob Bliss in US Banker. As Congress scrambles to finalize financial-reform legislation before the July 4 holiday, business professor and former Federal Reserve economist Rob Bliss warns that such sweeping reform could have serious unintended consequences.

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