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Health & Wellness [ealthbe; helps kick smoking 1 VSHINGTON (AP) - Medicare said! ia> it intends to pay for counseling to ] ^of the nation's 4 million older smokers 1 abit. sdicare beneficiaries who smoke and . ng-related diseases or take certain niedk Seffrin will be eligible for Medica covered counseling when proposal takes effect neX year. Medicare chief Ma McClellan said coveiS would begin no later Than j end of March. Medicare would pay for t)? to t< >n i counseling sessions^ 1 thai doesn't suffice, smoke .could get a second rqii "counseling. i ne aeciston nas among health care providers and es. although some groups pushed for i sive coverage, including for nicotine-n l programs and some prescription drugs. Medicare - the government health program f< 3million older and disabled Americans - w er prescription medicines beginning in 20 "Quitting is hard, but counseling is a ins of helping smokers succeed. It's cost e and can double the chances of success," R. Seffrin. chief executive officer of erican Cancer Society. Smoking is the top cause of preventable deatl ' e United States, taking 440.000 lives a j tling to government estimates. Roug > of those deaths occur among people 65 i Tobacco use costs Medicare $14 billion a year. /Over 10 years, about 1X7.000 people would quit ecause of the counseling, according to the Cam "??"i for Tobacco-Free Kids. 'M ; program would cost Medicare just over . lion a year, but savings in reduced health care I would be greater than the cost over 10 years ! anti-smoking group said. :|H hi? ? if^l Donald B. Mack, nationally recognized poisoning expert, died ; Ronald B. Mack, M.D.. professor of pediatrics, emeritus, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical ?(?eriter, and a national expert on poisoning, died Dec. 22. He Was 77. 1 Mack, who joined the faculty in 1975, wrote regular columns on poisoning both for Contemporary Pediatrics, a monthly national medical journal for pediatricians, and for the N.C. Medical Journal. For those columns, he receiv ed the 1987 Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award a gold medal - from the Association of Busi tiest Publishers. He also was editor of Poison Line, the bulletin of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, and associate editor of the accident prevention newsletter of jthe American Academy of Pediatrics. Mack served for six years on the American Academy of Pediatrics com mittee on accident and poisoning prevention. He contin ued editing Poison Line even after he retired. He was highly acclaimed as a teacher at what was then called Bowman Gray School of Medicine, winning the medical students' award for clinical teaching excel lence in 1980, 1984. 1988 and 1995. and a record nine times from the physician assistant students. The medical Students also dedicated the yearbook to him in 1986. Most of his student contacts came as a faculty pre ceptor in pediatrics at Reynolds Health Center, the pred ecessor to Downtown Health Plaza. Mack graduated from Loyola University of Chicago in 1 950 with a bachelor of science degree and in 1 954 from the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola Universi ty with his medical degree. He did an internship at Cook County Hospital in 1954-55 and a residency in pedi atrics at Mercy Hospital in Chicago from 1955-57. He was in private practice in Berwyn. III., from 1957-1972, when he became academic director and chairman of the division of pediatrics at MacNeal Memorial Hospital and clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of lllinois-Chtcagd., He left those posts in 1975 to come to Bowman Gray, i Thompson awarded MAA Distinguished Service Award i, James N. Thompson. M.D.. president and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards in Dallas, Texas, received the Distinguished Ser vice Award from the Wake rorest University School of Medicine Medical Alumni Association on Oct. 7. ; Thompson was previously a member of the Wake Forest Uni versity School of Medicine facul ty from 1979 to 2002. serving as dean of the medical school for seven years and vice president of Wake Forest University Health Sciences for four. Under his lead ership, the school instituted a new Dr. Thompson curriculum,! attained national rankings, achieved a per fect score during a Liaison Committee on Medical Edu cation (LCME) accreditation site visit and became a national model in integrating information technology into the curriculum. Thompson earned his bachelor's degree at DePauw University and his medical degree at Ohio State V niver sity. He completed his internship and residency in oto laryngology at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Distinguished Service Award honors an individ ual who hfls made outstanding contributions to the med ical center. Singing about surviving breast cancer > the 80 members of the Metropolitan Atlanta Breast Cancer Survivors Mass Choir spread their mes sage of hope through songs of inspiration and love. Something to Sing About Choir of breast cancer survivors makes joyful noise SPECIAL TO THK CHRONICLE "Staying free of cancer is cer tainly something worth singing about," said Carol Hagins, a mar ried 56-year-old breast cancer sur vivor and mother of two. A native of New Jersey who now resides in Atlanta. Hagins joins her voice with 80 other breast cancer survivors in the Metropolitan Atlanta Breast Cancer Survivors Mass Choir to sing a message of inspiration to women with breast cancer. Hagins said: "We've all been through the darkness and pain of breast cancer. We share that. But we also share the glory of healing, of enjoying a new life together. I'm not alone in fighting cancer. We're all surviving and singing about sur viving together." The mission of the choir is to uplift those surviving the disease, remember those lost to the disease, and prove there is life after a cancer diagnosis. Through the choir, these breast cancer survivors - women 32 to 86 years old - have taken their mes sage of hope and survival across the nation. "We're always on the road Ihese days," Hagins said. "For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we were in Orlando. Then we went to Wash ington. D.C., for a fund-raiser for cancer research. From there, we're back home to sing the national anthem at the game between Atlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat and to per form at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. We're already booked to sing here (Atlanta) for the lighting of the Christmas tree." In December, the Metropolitan Atlanta Breast Cancer Survivors Mass Choir will perform in San Antonio. Texas. "With all these performances, we're hoping to let black women and all women know that there's hope today. It's also a message I want to keep sharing with my son and daughter, because telling them I had breast cancer was without a doubt the most painful thing of all," Hagins said. "A diagnosis of breast cancer isn't a sign of death any more. We sing about surviving and about living another day to sing." Avon Foundation is a sponsor of the Metropolitan Atlanta Breast Cancer Survivors Mass Choir In her own words Tips from survivor Carol Hagins: ? Do self-exam of your breasts every month. If you're menstruating, do it immediately after your peri od. If you're menopausal, choose the same day each month. When I had my peri od, I definitely had a rou tine. But, once I became menopausal, it was difficult to remember. So I finally chose one day - the 17th - on which to do my self exam each and every month. ? Beginning at age 40, get a mammography every year. ? Follow up on results of self-exam or mammography. I didn't go back for a follow up when my doctors first told me they saw something suspicious. They had told me that before and I never followed up in the past, so why do it now? That was a big mistake. ? Establish and maintain social connections with fam ily, friends and organiza tions for support. If you tend to forget to do your self exam or to get your mammo gram, ask others to remind you. Remember you don't have to go through it alone. Ask for support. You'll be surprised at how many peo ple will offer it to you. The more support you have, the better. My husband and daughter went with me for my chemotherapy treat ments. My sister was a big support, always there to lift my spirits. And I could hard ly wait for my chemotherapy to end, so that I could go to New Jersey, where 1 grew up. to be with my sister and other family and friends. Their continued support means so much. ? Seek the best treatment Sec Tips on C4 File Pholo Some want to add points to driver ' s license for people who don't buckle up. N.C. is looking for ways to get drivers to buckle up I III ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH - Officials art looking for ways to encourage more people to wear seat "belts as the percentage of motorists buckling up on N.C. roads is leveling off. "It's a tough problem." said Cliff Braam. a state highway safety engineer. "It's getting harder and harder. But it's something we need to figure out." Recent statewide counts this year determined a steady 86 percent of people were wearing their seat belts - reaching a plateau after a consistently upward march from about 70/ percent compliance in 1993. At that time, the state began its "Click It or Ticket" educa tional and enforcement cam paign. Drivers caught not wear ing a seat belt can face fines. "We're really struggling to get that last 12 percent to 15 percent to comply," said Eric Rodgman, a researcher at the Highway Safety Research Cen ter at UNC Chapel Hill. "It's very challenging and. unfortu nately. is very tough to crack." Last year. 554 drivers and passengers were not wearing a seat belt when they were killed in crashes on N.C. highways - accounting, for more than a third of all highway deaths in the state. While it's impossible Sw Seat belts on C4 NCCU nursing professor is elected to NSS board SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE DURHAM - Yvonne Goolsby Spencer, assistant to the chair of the department of nursing at N.C. Central University, was elected to the board of directors of the National Space Society (NSS) and assumed the chair of the education committee on Nov, 17. The six month election process culmi nated in the investiture of Spencer and the other"3 board members at a meeting of the NSS in Huntsville, Ala. Goolsby-Spencer The NSS is an international, citi zen. nonprofit organization that believes the broad range of issues concerning the future exploration and habitation of space should not be left to America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration. With 75 chapters and more than 22.000 mem See Board on C4
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