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POSTED: Monday, October 13, 2008

Dead Guard soldier from Saipan

The Hawaii Army National Guard soldier who died after a 6-mile run Thursday in Fort Hood, Texas, has been identified as Sgt. Julian Manglona of Saipan.

Manglona, an Army Reserve soldier from the 100th Battalion, was assigned to the Hawaii Guard's 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

He was taken to Corevell County Emergency Room in Gatesville, Texas, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death was not known, Army Reserve spokesman Brian Melanephy said yesterday.

 

Event to discuss severe injuries

Needs of people who have sustained a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury or stroke will be the focus of the 2008 Neurotrauma Conference this weekend at the Ala Moana Hotel.

The Brain Injury Association of Hawaii is sponsoring the sessions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Speakers will include Dr. Geoffrey Manley, associate professor of neurological surgery, University of California, San Francisco, and chief of neurotrauma, San Francisco General Hospital; Claude Munday, neuropsychologist and director of California's Brain Injury Association; and Mark J. Ashley, founder and president of the Center for NeuroSkills and chairman of the California Brain Injury Association.

Dr. Wade Justice, neuroradiologist from Yakima, Wash., who had a traumatic brain injury after a car accident on the Big Island, and Dr. John Ross-Duggan, left a quadriplegic in a car crash 30 years ago, will discuss their struggles and triumphs of recovery.

Medical-clinical best practices, education and resources also will be covered in the talks. The registration fee is $125.

For more information, call Mary Wilson, 791-6942. To register online, see http://www.regonline.com/nto8.

 

Breast cancer deadlier for men

While men worry about the prostate, cancer could sneak up on them in a place they least suspect: the breast.

About 1 percent to 2 percent of all breast cancers occur in men, says Randy Caine, a cancer researcher and the new dean of Hawaii Pacific University's School of Nursing.

“;Unfortunately, when it is discovered, it's late in the course of the disease,”; said Caine. “;Therefore, mortality is higher in men than in women.”;

She said her research focuses on health care providers and “;encouraging them to do risk assessments and clinical breast exams and have a higher index of suspicion that men also could be at risk.”; Men can also benefit from breast self-exams, she said.

With posters and brochures, Caine and her students plan to canvass Fort Street Mall and other downtown areas Oct. 24 to talk about breast cancer in men.

Caine joined HPU Aug. 1, coming here from California State University, Los Angeles, where she was a professor of nursing and director of graduate and post-baccalaureate programs in nursing. She plans to continue her research while leading the nursing program, which has 1,700 undergraduate students and 30 graduate students, 47 full-time faculty and about 54 adjunct faculty.