A study out of LSU Health Shreveport finds more radiation is being overused in elderly women with breast cancer. Emelie Gunn has more on the discovery…
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Commissioner of administration Jay Dardenne says to avoid deep budget cuts to government services, the state will need to raise revenue. Michelle Southern has more…
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LSU researchers are studying body shapes to try to get a better idea of what types of clothing sizes would best fit individual consumers, especially those losing weight. Michelle Southern reports…:
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A study out of LSU Health Shreveport finds radiation is being over used to treat elderly woman with breast cancer. Lead researcher Dr. Quyen (Quinn) Chu says woman 70 and older with stage 1 breast cancer shouldn’t be treated with radiation and should talk with doctors about taking another treatment route…
Chu says their research shows that 2/3 of women in this category are still receiving radiation. He says radiation treatment can cause many different complications in patients.
Chu hopes that by releasing this study, more doctors will start following what the guidelines call for. He says the reason radiation is still being used is likely because doctors are set in their ways of treating patients.
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Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says new revenues, possibly from an additional one-cent increase to the state sales tax, are needed to stave off big cuts to public colleges and health care services. Dardenne says they are being honest with the public when they say, just cutting the budget will not solve this fiscal year’s 750-million dollar shortfall
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Dardenne says they are proposing to use some one-time money, rainy day funds and there are some proposed budget cuts to help with the budget crisis for this fiscal year. But he says additional revenue is also needed to avoid big cuts…
Governor John Bel Edwards will call a three-week long special session later this month and at that time, he’ll ask lawmakers to raise taxes. It’s unclear if the republican-controlled legislature is willing to go along with the governor’s revenue raising plans. Dardenne says they’ve been communicating with G-O-P legislators
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The Attorney General’s Office has announced six more arrests of people involved in the Lafayette D.A. bribery scandal. A-G Jeff Landry says the corrupt practices that were being dismissed in this office were ignored by the previous Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell. He says it’s disturbing that action wasn’t taken earlier.
Landry says it’s a collaborative effort to clean up corruption in the state in working with the federal authorities. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has already sentenced and convicted 5 others in connection with this case. He says the six people arrested here are some of the ones that have been prosecuted in the federal investigation and are now facing a variety of charges from the state.
Landry says none of those arrested are currently working in the D.A.’s office. He says the Attorney General’s Office is tired of public corruption.
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LSU researchers are studying body shapes to try to get a better idea of what types of clothing sizes would best fit individual consumers, especially those losing weight. Casey Stannard, an assistant professor at LSU Ag’s Department of Textiles, Apparel Design and Merchandising, says there are a lot of misconceptions in the industry about the human form in general…:
They are looking for men and women who are losing weight to participate in this study and receive a 3D body scan with each 10 pounds of loss. Stannard says the hope is use this information to move towards a system where a consumer could get a body scan, and then purchase clothing based on the results…:
Stannard says they are using body scanning technology to learn about ways better-fitting clothing could be developed. She says right now a lot of companies work off of an hour glass, ideal shape — and so few people in the population actually have that shape…: