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Celebrates 25 Years always said, you Anold-fashioned lamp shop (slightly ahead of its time) things for your 410.822.3359 800.729.4988 108 Marlboro Rd. Easton, MD Lamplighter Lamp Shop EASTON Gladys M. Dyott of Easton died on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, at William Hill Manor. She was 89.

Born on July 5, 1920, in Wilmington, she was the daughter of the late John M. and Susie Clark Sullivan. She graduated from P. S. DuPont High School in Wilmington, and in 1938 moved to Easton.

In 1942, she married Ernest Lee Dyott, and they made their home in Easton where Mrs. Dyott was a homemaker and raised her six children. Mr. Dyott died in January of 1995. Mrs.

Dyott loved spending time with her family, reading, and doing crafts. Later, following the death of Mr. Dyott, she enjoyed living in Parkview and sharing good times with her friends there. She attended the Easton Church of God; as well as served with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Easton Church of God. She enjoyed helping on Sunday mornings with the Sunday services at the Genesis Health Care the Pines.

Mrs. Dyott is survived by six children: Patricia (Patsy) Wooters and her husband John, Ernest (Buddy) Dyott and his wife Nancy, Wayne Dyott and his wife Jen, Tyler (Ty) Dyott and his wife Joan, Diana (Dee) Dyott, all of Easton, and Mark Dyott and his wife Connie of Trappe; seven grandchildren, John Wooters Betsy Roe, Michele White, Kimmy Browning, Joey Dyott, Brandy Shawyer and Melody Shortall; and six great-grandchildren, Evan Roe, Tess Dyott, McKenna, Chase, Phoniex and LoLa Browning. A private graveside service will be held at the Maryland Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery, Hurlock, MD. Memorial donations may be made to the Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD 21601 Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton. www.fhnfuneralhome.com Gladys M.

Dyott EASTON Harold Francis Hutchinson Jr. of Easton died at the Memorial Hospital, Easton on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. He was 94. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y.

on July 29, 1915, he was the son of the late Harold F. and Margaret Holmes Hutchinson. After attending school in the Brooklyn area, he enlisted in the R.C.A.F. and later was reassigned to the R.A.F. where he served as a pilot during WWII.

Following his release from active duty, he returned to the U.S. and in 1947 married the former Elizabeth Van Bourgondien. They made their home on Long Island, N.Y., until 1958 when he moved his family to Talbot County. Mr. Hutchinson worked as an insurance salesman as well as on the family farm near Royal Oak.

Later, he began a career as a yacht salesman due to his fondness of being on the water. He retired in the 1970s. For many years, Mr. Hutchinson volunteered at the Maritime Museum in St. Michaels.

In addition to his beloved wife Elizabeth, he is survived by six children, Ron Hutchinson, Caryl Robinson, Douglas Hutchinson, Elizabeth Miller, Ann Neithe- mer and Melissa Matthews; 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a beloved daughter, Pamela Schnell. Services will be held privately at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD 21601. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P.

A. Easton. www.fhnfuneralhome.com Harold F. Hutchinson Jr. EASTON Vera Mae Lane of Easton died on Sept.

10, 2009. She was 85. Born on Sept. 27, 1923, in Trappe, she was the daughter of the late George M. and Viola Jones Greenwood.

During her working years, she was a nursing attendant at The House in the Pines. She was a member of The Easton Church of God. She married George Daffin Lane and he predeceased her after 61 years of marriage. She is survived by five children, Hattie Grubb (Wayne) of New Castle, Esther Bridges (Thomas) of Rhodesdale, Milton (Donna) of Preston, Nancy Baker (Thomas) of Dover, and Linda Whaley (Rev. Laren) of Rochester, N.H.; one brother, Milton Greenwood of Centreville; two sisters, Helen Lam and Shirley Bedford, both of Centreville; 12 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren.

Four brothers, George Greenwood, James Greenwood, Julius Greenwood and John Greenwood, and two sisters, Ellen Lindsay and Virginia Yeatman and two grandchildren, Wanda Grubb and Randy Lane, predeceased her. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the Easton Church of God, where friends may call one hour prior to the service. Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Easton.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Easton Church of God, 1009 N. Washington Easton, MD 21601. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton. Vera Mae Lane OBITUARY POLICY By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Medical Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Researchers delivered a double dose of good news Sunday in the fight against flu: successful tests of what could become the first new flu medicine in a decade, and the strongest evidence yet that such drugs save lives, not just shorten illness. A single intravenous dose of the experimental drug, peramivir, cleared up flu symptoms as well as five days of Tamiflu pills did, a large study in Asia found.

An IV treatment is badly needed because many sick people swallow pills and because illness hinders the ability to absorb oral medicines. Several other studies showed the value of treatment with Tamiflu. In one study of hundreds of people stricken with bird flu around the world, half of those given Tami- flu survived, while nearly 90 percent of those not given flu medicines died. Other research showed Tamiflu improved survival from regular seasonal flu, too. has been an accumulation of evidence over time that the antiviral drugs can save and the new studies confirm that hope, said Nancy Cox, flu chief at the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Results were reported Sunday at an American Society for Microbiology conference in California. It is the first big meeting of infectious disease specialists since the new H1N1 swine flu emerged in April. Treatment options are getting huge attention because it will take a month or more for people to get swine flu vaccine and have time to develop immunity from the shot. In the meantime, reports are streaming in that swine flu is causing havoc in children and young adults.

about a week of schools being back in, seen a tremendous rise in Dr. Jonathan McCullers, an infectious diseases specialist at St. Jude Research Hospital in Memphis, said at the conference. In recent weeks, at least 12 children and teens in his city have needed intensive care, including five with no previously known health problems. Some required breathing machines and other life support.

One died, and another has developed resistance to Tamiflu, he said. Swine flu now accounts for most flu cases in the United States. More than 1 million Americans have been infected and nearly 600 have died from it, the CDC estimates. Treatment with Tamiflu or a similar drug, Relenza, is recommended for anyone hospitalized with flulike symptoms or at high risk of complications. The drugs should be started within two days of first symptoms, and they shorten illness by about a day.

With the drugs in limited supply, and worries about resistance developing to them, new medicines are desperately needed. Peramivir (purr-AM-uh-veer) was tested in nearly 1,100 people with seasonal flu last winter in Asia. They were given either Tam- iflu pills for five days or a single infusion of 300 or 600 milligrams of peramivir. Symptoms cleared in about 78 hours and 81 hours with lower and higher doses of peramivir, respectively, and in 82 hours with Tamiflu. Adverse drug reactions were less common with peramivir, said study leader Dr.

Shigeru Kohno of Nagasaki University in Japan. The fact peramivir is not a pill like Tamiflu or an inhaled drug like Relenza makes it less convenient yet and valuable medically, Cox said. can get it into the blood, into the lungs, where infection is she explained. Others were cautious. very enthusiastic about peramivir for hospitalized but it was compared in a season when many flu cases were at least somewhat resistant to Tamiflu, said Dr.

Frederick Hayden, a virus expert at the University of Virginia and a World Health Organization flu consultant. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals of Birmingham, is developing peramivir with Japan-based Shionogi Co. The U.S. government gave a major grant for its development, and officials have been discussing stockpiling the drug as part of flu pandemic preparedness plans. Tamiflu, made by Swiss-based Roche Holding AG, and Relenza, made by British- based GlaxoSmithKline, came on the market in 1999.

Most people who get swine flu need them, but these drugs can help save the severely ill, studies sponsored by maker suggest. The first results from a registry of 215 human cases of bird flu around the world show that nearly 90 percent of patients who did not receive Tamiflu or any other antiviral medicine died, compared with only half of those given Tamiflu treatment. earlier it starts, the said study leader Dr. Stephen Toovey, a Roche consultant and former employee now at Royal Free and University College of Medicine in London. as far out as eight days after symptom onset, there is still Others looked at Tamiflu for ordinary seasonal flu: Researchers at six hospitals in Toronto monitored 238 intensive care patients during three recent flu seasons.

Seventy percent were found to have flu, and one-fourth died within 15 days of diagnosis. Patients were nearly three times more likely to survive if treated with Tamiflu, even though very few of them got it soon after symptoms appeared, said Dr. Allison McGeer of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. About half of 760 people with confirmed flu cases at two hospitals in Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008 were started on Tamiflu within two days. Only 4 percent of them died in the hospital versus 6 percent of those not given an antiviral drug, said Dr.

Nelson Lee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Swine flu info: www.flu.gov Medical conference: www.icaac.org Study: New drug fights flu as well as Tamiflu does DALLAS (AP) Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. Borlaug, 95, died Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home, said Kathleen Phillips, a spokesman for Texas University where Borlaug was a distinguished professor. E. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N.

World Food Program. heart was as big as his brilliant mind, but it was his passion and compassion that moved the He was known as the father of the which transformed agriculture through high-yield crop varieties and other innovations, helping to more than double world food production between 1960 and 1990. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives. has probably done more and is known by fewer people than anybody that has done that said Dr. Ed Runge, retired head of Texas Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and a close friend who persuaded Borlaug teach at the school.

made the world a better place a much better Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called Borlaug one of the best. A determined, dedicated, but humble man who believed we had the collective duty and knowledge to eradicate hunger Borlaug began the work that led to his Nobel in Mexico at the end of World War II. There he developed disease- resistant varieties of wheat that produced much more grain than traditional strains. He and others later took those varieties and similarly improved strains of rice and corn to Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled.

His successes in the 1960s came just as experts warned that mass starvation was inevitable as the population boomed. Scientist Norman Borlaug, who saved millions from at 95 (AP) When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein. was looking at arms and hands, thinking, could draw from Dowell said. all part of training he and a select cadre of officers in Idaho and Texas have received in recent months to draw blood from those suspected of drunken or drugged driving.

The federal aim is to determine if blood draws by cops can be an effective tool against drunk drivers and aid in their prosecution. If the results seem promising after a year or two, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will encourage police nationwide to undergo similar training. For years, defense attorneys in Idaho advised clients to always refuse breath tests, Ada County Deputy Prosecutor Christine Starr said. When the state toughened the penalties for refusing the tests a few years ago, the problem lessened, but still the main reason that drunk driving cases go to trial in the Boise region, Starr said. Idaho had a 20 percent breath test refusal rate in 2005, compared with 22 per- cent nationally, according to an NHTSA study.

Starr hopes the new system will cut down on the number of drunken driving trials. Officers hold down a suspect and force them to breath into a tube, she noted, but they can forcefully take blood a practice been upheld by Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. The highest court ruled in 1966 that police could have blood tests forcibly done on a drunk driving suspect without a warrant, as long as the draw was based on a reasonable suspicion that a suspect was intoxicated, that it was done after an arrest and carried out in a medically approved manner. The officer phlebotomists are generally trained under the same program as their hospital or clinical phlebotomists, but they do it under a highly compressed schedule, and some of the curriculum is cut.

because officers need to know how to draw blood from a foot or other difficult sites, or from an infant or medically fragile patient, said Nicole Watson, the College of Western Idaho phlebotomy instructor teaching the Idaho officers. Instead, they are trained on the elbow crease, the forearm and the back of the hand. If none are accessible, take the suspect to the hospital for testing. Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving.