German E. coli outbreak is deadly on: authorities

An e. coli outbreak in Germany , that ends health authorities, more than 50 people killed this year said on Tuesday.

The Robert Koch Institute, Germany 's national disease control centre, said that the last new case enterohämorrhagischen E. Coli (EHEC) began three weeks ago the disease incubation periodcovers. "

"Since the RKI holds no new infections associated with this outbreak, which had reported since then, the RKI outbreak over," he said in a statement.

It said monitoring for the tribe would continue highly virulent bacteria, which claimed the lives of 52 people, all but two in Germany, and more than 4,000 people ill.

Outbreak reached end of May.

The European food safety authority slapped a temporary ban on all seeds and beans from Egypt this month after being there after Germany imported a batch of contaminated fenugreek seeds and then spread elsewhere for the infections responsible.

The seeds were later to the salad grow sprouts, which had eaten most of the victims, before he is ill.

German authorities first had error on Spanish cucumbers , Sting one blow the country's agriculture at the height of the season fresh vegetables and strain relations between the two countries pointed out.

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Govt proposes clearer labelling of meat additives

want to know the Agriculture Department consumer when there are less chicken in their chicken.

A proposed rule target, would require food companies to appropriately labelled other raw meat and poultry when they are plumped by additional solutions such as chicken broth, teriyaki sauce, salt and water. The practice of these ingredients add is common, but many consumers do not know how it goes.

According to USDA, about a third of poultry, 15 percent of beef and 90 percent of the pork can have added ingredients - about 40 percent of all raw, whole pieces of meat. The rule does not apply to minced meat, which may have other added of substances.

"Consumers should be able, an informed choice of memory, to make, must we clear, informative labels provide consumers and therefore, that will help the best decisions about feeding their families," said Elisabeth Hagen, head of food safety in the Department. "It is obvious that some raw meat and poultry labels, even those that our current guidelines may not become clear."

Labels now say that the meat does not contain additional solutions or "Advanced", but they can be visible not for consumers or understandable. When the rules are complete, the label would now be part of the title to product. An example of the new labels would be "Chicken breast - 40% water solution and teriyaki sauce added" according to USDA.

Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council says that in the question of the poultry industry is split, as some companies add ingredients their poultry and others do not. He said that for those who add ingredients to poultry, the level of the additives typically 15 to 18 percent of the piece is meat.

Red meat processors immediately the rule. The American Institute meat calling it "wasteful" and "unnecessary" and said it would mean that the prices for the consumer to go.

Among consumer groups have pressure became the Department to take action on the practice for several years: the additional ingredients are unhealthy.

"Who wants to pay $4.99 per pound for the addition of water and salt?", said Michael Jacobson, executive Director of the Advocacy Center for Science in the public interest. "" "In addition to financially was customers, delivers a stealth hit of sodium"improved", meat and poultry."

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Eye anatomy in the camp? Kids get taste of the med-careers

WARREN sound, VA., United States (AP) - again and again 12-year-old Brianna Bowens is the human eyeball carefully. On purpose.

The donated eye is harder than you'd think. It will take to pierce the white part - of sclera a few slices with a sharp scalpel, she learns - and ultimately remove the cornea before.

Sezieren a human eye is not the normal fare of summer camp. It is a part of an unusual program in a small Northern Virginia Hospital, the children already in the middle school on the possibilities of a medical career hook.

It is not for the squeamish. But no one has ever fainted in the eye.

"I have a strong stomach," says Brianna Stafford, VA., Pediatric surgeon would be "or maybe a nurse."

She reveals their excitement when she did, the branch-like optic nerve, lens magnifying glass and carefully created clear cornea. Whipped cream from their cell phone, explains it, "wait, I have to take a picture."

Tom Gaile Old Dominion eye Foundation teaches the crash course in the Fauquier hospital medical camp, with eyes for education, to explain the importance of organ and tissue donation donated.

"This is something that goes to to stay the rest of their lives with them," he says.

Lure programs, budding scientists from building robots for the measurement of air pollution, are part of the ritual summer increasingly. On the side of health it can be difficult to find hospitals, free space and young people give a taste of what learn-staff - early medical students how to suture lines skin, put on a cast to take blood pressure, set an IV, type blood - much less precious handle eyes donated.

But more medical camps are cropping, although no one keeps a count. And if 12 young, sounds good, Virginia in particular targets middle school / inside so that they align enough science courses for the best shot at increasingly competitive college training programs.

"You can't wait til you are senior and decide, 'I want to go into health care,'", says Barbara Brown, Vice President of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association, which helps the camps finance.

It is one of 760 mostly middle school students through medical enter - to five - day camps in 26 hospitals in this summer.

The idea is, a wide range of critical health career of nurse anaesthetists, pharmacist present physiotherapists.

"" No one ever says"I would like to be an organ restoration technicians", says Julie Fainter Fauquier health, which coordinates the medical camp in this town West of Washington, D.C.

Evaluation of questions, the Gaile pepper, is perhaps some. The eye does remove funeral map? No, the lids are closed. People can donate only the cornea or the entire eye, that important, because the sclera in some eye surgery is transplantiert and the rest is used for research. An eye changes color according to the text is? Yes, all IRIS turn after a while Brown.

Marquesia Atwater, 14, came from suburban Atlanta, after her mother a Google search for medical camps Act.

"I decided my whole life, I wanted to be a doctor", she says, cemented a decision of the camp. As it it says the lens of the eye examined: "I know there has never been so much stuff in the eye."

In July and August, 92 children two days in the Fauquier will spend bearings designed for beginner or returning students. Finance most of a $15,000 Hospital Association grant and staff contributions, pay $50 for children to visit.

Eyes are not only practical experience.

How can you learn to a sewing cut, if you practice on people can not? Using pigs feet, but nurse Wendy Greenwood ensures that the children keep things as sterile, as if it were a person.

Gloves on. Swab the wound with iodine. No scratches your nose, Greenwood told a student - and watch where you put the curved needle, so that nobody dies.

Will Merriken, 12, Warrenton, VA., surfaces, seven stitches, each a little faster than he gets more comfortable with careful node. "It is much easier, once you've practiced and got down the movements."

At the hospital lab. If a child goes to get lightheaded, this is where it happens is Fainter chemical smell or the heat necessary for the culturing of bacteria says, perhaps because of the weak. They weapons they ward off with Peppermints to Wooziness.

Inside, voluntary, first stab to his fingers and test his blood type is. He drips blood on a slide and medical technologist Suzie Capron a kind but not yet a lump explains how different antibodies form. He is a B positive.

Down in the emergency room on a quiet Wednesday morning, Dr. Greg Wagner collects a dozen of the students for what a mock code called a revival drill that doctors and nurses perform to optimize their own capabilities.

Paramedics race in a mannequin: a 45-year-old woman in cardiac arrest.

The children each associated with a job he spring into action under direction of Wagner. A pumping air into the "patients' lungs. It adds a tube to open the trachea. Three trade-off CPR. Another is the defibrillator before each of the three call shocks "Yeah!". Others give injections of heart-stimulating drugs.

Ten minutes later, they fall abruptly quietly how Wagner asks how long they are trying to keep should be, to declare before the death. No one volunteer.

"How often crime patients?" 14 Year-old Lark Nash of Warrenton, asks after all.

Probably once in a week, Wagner, replies describe the most difficult part of his work. Nurses the bed, and the students reveal a body bag lining zip it on the mannequin.

 

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30 Days of hell for U.S. victims of German E. coli

E54J476D8W83 in ATLANTA (AP) - beginning may John Meyer stayed in one at the Lake Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. He attended a business conference. He went sailing. And U.S. was one of the few victims in one of the worst food poisoning -Ausbrüche in the recent history of the world.
Meyer went to the hospital a week later with the, what turned out to be a rare and deadly strain of E. coli bacteria , caused thousands of diseases, especially in Germany. He would work the next month in a Massachusetts hospital, most of the time a delirium, you spend while doctors around the clock to save his life.
Meyer is one of the six U.S. cases in connection with the German outbreak and he is the first to talk about his terrible experience, talk talk, the associated press by telephone from his home in Franklin, Massachusetts.
"It was 30 days of hell," said his wife Loreen.
Meyer was in Hamburg, as this city as the epicenter of a food poisoning disaster incurred was, that would be among the most lethal in memory. More than 4,000 people in Germany and other countries fell ill, since the outbreak was detected in may, including several hundred, developed a serious complication that can lead to kidney failure. At least 53 died.
Outbreak was tracked seeds from Egypt ultimately to a batch fenugreek. The seeds, which tastes a bit like burnt sugar, are sometimes used spice in the kitchen as a. Fenugreek sprouts are used in salads.
Meyer believes that he must have been eating fenugreek while attending a business meeting at the Hotel Hamburg. He thinks that the tainted seed or rungs in the fresh fruit and vegetables in a breakfast bar could have been. There is some irony, though this was the case: it is hard to find good products while rushed business trip Meyer had the opportunity, and eat healthy welcomed.
"In this case it went," he said.
Meyer's lawyer, the AP lab results and Government receive reports about in his illness. Massachusetts state health officials also confirmed that he has been infected with the rare German E. coli strain. His doctor at the access point to speak thus dropped Meyer and he would not agree to be photographed.
Some forms of food poisoning can cause symptoms within one day of rotten food, but Meyer said that he felt any negative effects during a six-day European business trip two days later contained in Hamburg and a brief stop in France. He returned home on 13 may feel well.
However, this unique and dangerous E. coli bug takes a week to announce his presence. Meyer was first aware that something about the May 18 was wrong. He was at his desk at senior aerospace that tomorrow as his stomach to hurt began.
At 52, he is a cyclist who every day eats two Greek yogurt. He says he he never had food poisoning, but on this day went home to pain.
By Midafternoon, he was hit with bloody diarrhea and a dawning sense of alarm. "What was it, it wasn't a small thing," said Meyer. His wife Loreen, biology teacher, was until then home and worried. She took him medical center to the nearby Milford regional.
Doctors there saw him quickly but were unable to diagnose it. She recommended follow up the next day with a gastroenterologist and sent him home for the night. But if he the diarrhea accelerated came home. "Every hour, and then steps on the closer," he recalled.
Loreen took him to the hospital, the night and he was admitted.
Although it happened all less than two months ago, Meyer's memory on fuzzy what happens the next few weeks. He had intense stomach pain and his kidneys stopped working. Doctors put on fluids to it to rehydrate him. She treated with different antibiotics and blood with dialysis and other measures be cleaned.
The infection affected his mind. He pointed out, staring at a clock in his hospital room and unable to tell time. "I thought, ' why they have this strange clock here, and why is it set up differently?'"
Meyer said he grew paranoid, believing that his doctors had written him for dead. Doctors not to him had given up, but were at a loss. A test for the most dangerous form of E. coli familiar Americans came back negative. They sent copies of the additional analysis laboratory of with the Centers for disease control and prevention lab in Atlanta.
June confirmed CDC was the German load it.
Around this time, he began to recover. His kidneys were improving. His consciousness returned. More than three weeks later he was moved from intensive care and on 17 June he sent home.
But he was far from normal. He and his wife said his muscles atrophy had, his red blood cells which had become still on the bottom and the lining his colon a layer of dead tissue, not in a position, absorb nutrients. A man who had been a sporty 6-foot-2 and 185 pound up to 162 pounds and able to walk only short distances with a stick. He was hungry, though. Voracious, breakfast, dinner for two, two lunches and two dinners day.
"He had such great appetite, because he still not in the position to absorb so many nutrients,", his wife said.
Now, he is from up to 170 pounds and working days part of your home. He was in physical therapy and regaining his strength, although he removed months of the kind of vigorous exercise that he is going to do.
Meyer and his wife, contacted a local attorney, say, be concerned about possible problems with the get health insurance pay his hospital bills. That is not be a problem. But the lawyer called the pair Bill Marler, Seattle lawyer that the nation's outstanding the plaintiff's lawyer in food poisoning cases.
Marler is looking for the possibility of a dispute with potential targets, including the company that owns the Hotel Hamburg, where Meyer stayed.
He called the Meyers suffered "horrific" and agreed Meyer woman in itself to ensure that he can suffer long-term problems.
For its part, Meyer happiness feels have survived, credited his doctors for his life and his good health and fitness before the disease for him to get away, it helps save.
He said "Many unfortunate people not survive". "It is really a frightening."

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Measles kill more than 1,000 DRC children since January: UN

A measles epidemic has the UN humanitarian killed since January, 1.145 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo Affairs mission in Kinshasa said Monday.

The epidemic "already affected 115,600 children and killed 1,145" between January and June, the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

This prompted included vaccination of 3.1 million children in five provinces.

The campaign swung into action in may after NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) "the lack of reactivity" by organizations such as the World Health Organisation it regrets referred to as an "uncontrollable" epidemic.

The DRC is also fight against the cholera and polio epidemics.

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Tomorrow, Kemkes Announce Tainted Milk

Shutter Stock Illustration: Ministry of health and the food and drug Supervisory Agency will announce the results of his research to the public about right there whether formulas in ground water contaminated by bacteria Enterobacteri sakazaki and other microbes, Friday (8/7/2011).

The announcement of the results of research related to contaminated infant formula will be attended by the Minister of health, the head of The GAS, and Rector of the Bogor Institute of Agriculture. This research has been eagerly awaited announcement of many parties, especially the wider community, following the research of IPB.

However, as Health Minister expressed Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih in Jakarta, last Tuesday, the result of research that was announced is not a research by IPB had become widespread attention publicly some time ago. The research was conducted by Kemkes since April last year.

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Dairy Researcher Boasts Berbakteri

Shutter Stock Illustration: previously, the results of agricultural research Institur Bogor (IPB) found many children infant formula and baby food containing the bacteria Enterobacter Sakazakii.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — member of IX DPR Riski Sadiq said, the figure of the researcher of the Faculty of veterinary medicine Dr. drh Sri Estuningsih needs to be appreciated for his related. The research title is "the potential Occurrence of neonatal Bacterial Meningitis due to Infection in neonatal EEG Enterobacter sakazakii isolated from baby food and infant Formula".

Even though it raises the chaotic never stop beginning in 2008, said Sadiq, plus side must also be understood in the community. "There is the positive side of his research, which is a standard examination in the international Codex for infant formula. This is our pride. Should he not always dipojokkan, "she recounts in Cikini, Leaves Saturday (7/2/2011).

However, this confirms, politicians are supposed to be the PAN party of IPB regulating traffic information distributing journals be careful in this research through the website, so that it can be accessed easily by people with various backgrounds.

Because it has been deployed, then it should have been announced and the IPB Estu brands of milk contaminated by bacteria-bacteria.

"The verdict of the MA that it's inkracht. So that these institutions are not mocked at it again, then the problematic product brands convey the object to the public with complete explanations. If I worry Kemenkes enggak, POM, and IPB is believed to be sold by the community, "said Sadiq.

Komisoner Consumer Protection Agency Indonesia Indah Sukmaningsih lamented that IPB was memublikasikan the actual research is aimed at academic research as a continuation on the next site that is accessible to the public.

"Tomorrow-tomorrow there should be a distinction to announce research, to research, or for monitoring products on the market. This learning is good for all of us, "he said.

Beautiful not agree if the milk brands into the sample and Albania were contaminated Enterobacter sakazakii announced to the public because no benefits if purely aimed at the interests of consumers.

"But because it was partisan members of Parliament, those ' anyway ', yes brand already had, all asking for the brand. Yes you got it. But right when saying his health aspects are already there enggak (problems) again, "said.

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The Diagnosis Of Hepatitis Must Immediately

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis C virus If not immediately treated. will develop into liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. The Diagnosis of hepatitis C should be immediately done especially for those who belong to a group of high risk or had been exposed to blood of alleged contamination of hepatitis C (HCV).

"Examination of the initial blood screening with anti-HCV and HCV screening follow-up when anti HCV RNA positive with quantitative and genotyping HCV," says Dr. SpPD-Superior Budihusodo, KGEH, Chairman of the Association of Indonesia, Heart Researcher Friday, (24/6/2011).

According to the superior, the diagnostic criteria for HVC infections there were two, namely in acute hepatitis C and hepatitis C chronic. However the problem currently exists in hepatitis C chronic, because to do examination of HCV RNA (charge).

"And when it's found is not necessarily the patients were able to buy medicine," cetusnya.

Superior to speak, of the results of the survey that he has done that, only 20 percent of people diagnosed are able to buy drugs. While 80 percent of treatment not because it cannot afford.

"Why should immediately give medication? Because, if it happens, the only treatment of cirrhosis of advanced transplant only, "said superior.

While Prof. Dr. Ali Sulaiman, PhD, SpPD-KGEH, the Division of Hepatology, Department of internal medicine, Faculty of medicine University of Indonesia, said, for therapy of liver transplantation is the cheapest currently existing in China (USD $ 700 million).

"Whereas in Singapore should be prepared of Rp 3 billion," he said.

Therefore, before getting on a stage that is more severe, Ali revealed the need to recognize the Community signs and symptoms of this disease. Although the infection of Hepatitis C is also often referred to as a covert infection due to early infection often not bergejala so often missed. If anything, the symptoms are generally only mild and similar to the flu, such as a bit limp, nausea, muscle aches and persendiaan, bad taste the regions near the heart.

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Hepatitis A Forerunner Of Cancer!

every kind of illness should never be considered trivial. Such as hepatitis, when indicating a condition of the heart that is experiencing inflammation. Most societies are still lacking care and disease with Justin on this one, because it considers the impact brought about indirectly and it took quite a long time.

"This must be notified that the hepatitis was the forerunner for becoming a cancer may be afraid of a little person," said Prof. Dr. h. Ali Sulaiman, PhD, SpPD-KGEH, the Division of Hepatology, Department of internal medicine, Faculty of medicine University of Indonesia, Thursday (24/6/2011).

According to Ali, according to the Study of chronic hepatitis C prevalence in health care professionals in 2008, approximately 3.4 million population are infected with hepatitis c. Indonesia And about 2 million are infected with the virus genotype 1 (hard diterapi).

"Hepatitis C is genotipnya, so type 1 and 2. Type 1 (one) is the largest and are difficult to treat, "he said.

As for the treatment of genotype 1, Ali spoke, could do with menyuntikan pegasys. However the prices for these drugs is still considered very expensive. Just imagine, once injection Pegasys, ranging between 1-2 million rupiah.

"But to genotip 1 (one) it should be injected 48 times," he said.

Given the still high cost of such treatment, Ali hope with the help of the Government, these drugs could be made generic.

"Perhaps it is our hope in the effort if we want to carry out efforts in the fight against hepatitis B and C," he said.

For control of hepatitis can not if just prioritizing one only, is it hepatitis B or C, as both Ali according to equally important and can be fatal if not treated appropriately.

"Because both are equally so of cancer," he said.

Hepatitis can be caused by various things, such as viral infections, parasites, bacteria, chemical substances, auto immune system, illegal drugs as well as alcohol. Hepatitis B and C can develop into liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, can even cause he needed a liver transplant. The good news is hepatitis B can be prevented through vaccination, and most infections hepatitis C can be cured.

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The POM, Rajinlah Announce Food Quality

end the polemics demands Announces brand milk and baby food contaminated Enterobacter sakazakii must be followed by the Supervisory Board of discipline of the drug and food (The POM) in announcing the quality of food, beverages, and medications every year.

"The POM should announce the condition of food each year to the community," said Commissioner of Consumer Protection Agency's National Scenic Sukmaningsih in Cikini, Leaves Saturday (7/2/2011).

According to the beautiful, The POM is rarely openly memublikasikan the quality of food, beverages, and medications that are ditelitinya to the community. In fact, it takes the community as a shopping guide and safe consumption.

In addition, in order to not appear excessive concern in the community, The POM also must continue to discipline checked directly to factories and manufacturers to ask for proof of the quality of the product. Thus, at most there is no guarantee that the products are released to the market is safe.

Beautifully recorded, during The POM belongs not disciplined in announcing food products, beverages, and medications safely be used by the public, unless there are special requests. As a result, so no word simpang flooded, society is constantly worried.

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Low 'Health literacy' health

FRIDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- If you have low "health literacy," defined as having difficulty understanding medical information, your health may be at risk.

In a review of 96 published studies, researchers concluded that low health literacy is linked with many types of poorer health outcomes and poorer use of health services.

"There are no real surprises here," said study author Nancy Berkman, senior health policy research analyst at RTI International, a North Carolina-based organization that conducts health research.

The report is published July 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and was funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

About 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, the researchers report, and that puts their health at risk.

"If you don't understand what is going on, what is being written, this can have a negative impact on your use of health-care services and your health outcomes," Berkman said. "It's imperative you do what you can to understand the communication from the health-care system."

The review found that low health literacy was consistently linked with a number of poor outcomes. These include more hospitalization, a greater use of the emergency room services, less frequent mammogram screenings, less frequent flu vaccinations and a poor ability to take medicines correctly or understand labels and health messages.

Among older people, low health literacy was linked with overall worse health status and higher mortality rates.

They did not find a firm link between poor health literacy and some other health conditions and outcomes. These include access to care, some health behaviors, taking medicine on schedule, severity of asthma, diabetes or high blood pressure control, among others.

The studies also didn't provide firm evidence about one type of health literacy -- a skill called numeracy, which helps people do such things as measure blood glucose and adhere to medicine regimens and outcomes.

While a person's cognitive skills would play a role in how literate they are, the study did not examine this, Berkman said.

The findings came as no surprise to Rima Rudd, a senor lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health who is the principal investigator for Health Literacy Studies.

While the review is sound, she says, "this offers only half the picture." The problem is not just people's low health literacy, but the inability of some health-care providers to communicate information in a way their patients can understand, Rudd said.

Rudd said patients can demand that health-care provider speak "in every day words." If you don't understand what a health-care provider is telling you, in print or in words, she suggests asking something like this: "I am sorry, but I haven't had your training. Can you use everyday words?"

Ask questions if you don't understand, Berkman added, and don't be shy about asking again and again if necessary. Taking someone with you to the doctor's office can also help, she said.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Cynthia Baur, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the findings reinforce the idea that health communication materials have to be pre-tested with target audiences, among other practices, to be sure they are effective.

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Health highlights: 21 July 2011

Here some of the latest health and medical news are compiled by the editors of HealthDay developments:

Fewer Americans see smoking as risky: survey

Fewer Americans perceived a serious risk from smoking a pack of cigarettes per day in 2008-2009 than in 2007-2008, one nation-wide survey of the US substance abuse and mental health services administration found on Thursday.

The percentage of people who fell from 73.7% to 72.3% among all respondents perceived a serious smoking risk. Teens an even greater drop showed risk 2008-2009 in perceived smoking during the span from 69.3% in 2007-2008 to 67.7%, the survey showed. No State, written in an increase in that said perceived risk of smoking, an agency press release.

The national survey on drug use and health interview more than 137,000 people during 2008-2009. See the report additional findings:

• No State reported an increase in the use of illegal drugs between 2002-2003 and 2008-2009. Among people aged 12 to 17, use of illicit drugs in 17 States fell in the period.


• The ten States and the District of Columbia, the highest rates of use of illicit drugs had during the previous month under 12 and elderly led nation in marijuana use in the same period . In alphabetical order, these locales were: Alaska, Colorado, district of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Iceland and Vermont.


• Between 2007-2008 and 2008 / 2009, 11 countries showed declines of cocaine use among people 12 and older.


• The United States on the number of people age 18 and older with serious mental illnesses (7.2%) led Rhode Iceland, while Hawaii and South Dakota shared the lowest rate (3.5%).

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Heart disease tops of the most costly conditions for women

Heart disease leads list of most expensive diseases and disorders in women in the United States, with spending topping $43.6 billion, according to a report published Thursday by the US Agency for healthcare research and quality.

Published in the Agency regularly to report news and numbers , the results covered 2008, the last year for which statistics were available.

Rounded out the top 10 who were most onerous conditions among women will the list:

• Cancer Mental disorders


• Trauma disorders


• Osteoarthritis


• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma


• High blood pressure


• DiabetesBack problems


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Sales resume frogs associated with salmonella

Sales have resumed the African dwarf frogs in the context of a salmonella outbreak, more than 240 people ill, made from the US Centers for disease control and prevention officials said Wednesday.

Blue lobster farms, based in Madera County, California, voluntarily suspended sales of the frogs after the disease. Most of these were age, that Associated Press reported ill made children, some younger than 5. No one died, although some victims to the hospital was hospitalized.

The CDC said that not happy on the resumption of the sale of the frogs which have a serious health risk could be it.

The Agency warned that young children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems should avoid contact with water frogs and their tanks.

The wire service reports that it could reach not the company for comment.

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Protein can lead to infertility lack sperm.

A protein that coats, swimming, an egg could help normally sperm to infertility if the protein is missing, said California researchers Wednesday.

Approximately 20% of men a mutation gène can you, that in the absence of key protein, University of California, Davis, leads, researchers said. 500 Chinese couples interviewed them, carrying a child, birth rates tried were 30% lower in pairs, you had the mutation gène, in which the male, the Associated Press reported.

The finding could by methods such as implanted with sperm directly into the uterus, a test that screens cause the problem, the wire service said could be resolved.

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Teens face their own battles, if parent is war

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Friday, July 22 HealthDay News) - teenagers who have a parent in the military are binge more likely as the civilian population of children - drink, drugs and perform poorly in school, suggests a new study.

If a parent to war may be more at risk as a girl, reported researchers at the University of Washington School of public health goes, young people most threatened and young.

"There are a lot of research about veterans and active duty soldiers, and how they deal with or fight when they return from a deployment of" study author Sarah C. Reed said in a press release of the University. "These studies suggested that rightly are tip of the iceberg as families and their children do."

In 2007 had almost 2 million children in the United States serve at least one parent in the military. Previous research has found that teenagers' healthy development, including the identification of a sense by itself, may be interrupted during a parent active military service.

Media representations of and the need, additional responsibilities take on their ability to impact can the researchers said.

In carrying out this study published online in the American Journal of public health, researchers survey data on more than 10,000 young people in 8, 10 and 12 types compiled.

They found that risk for depression and suicidal thoughts 8th grade against used girls with parents. In the meantime teenager in all three grades were more likely to have low quality of life, abusing drugs and alcohol and academic fight.

"We need to find out, more of what is going on within families and children and what is going to be helpful to mitigate the difficult things-including risky behaviors of instruments-what happens in families," Reed said.

A way to reach the troubled teens military parents would be to strengthen and streamline support groups for high risk population, the study came to the conclusion.

The researchers said they work at school on a follow-up study combat to investigate weapons possession and gang membership among young people who have provided parents.

--Mary Elizabeth Dallas

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Source: University of Washington, press release, July 21, 2011

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Epidemic of obesity in US kids began in late 90s

THURSDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- The epidemic of excess weight gain and obesity among young Americans began about 15 years ago, a new study finds.

"Our research documents the emergence of the obesity epidemic among adolescents in the later half of the 1990s, and among young adults in 2000," said Hedwig Lee, who led the study while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

"The jury is still out about all the possible causes for the increasing weight gain among adolescents . . . as well as for the entire population," said Lee.

However, she cited a number of possible factors, including a rise in time spent in front of computer or TV screens and longer time spent in post-secondary education, "transitioning" to adulthood. According to Lee, poor diet and couch-potato lifestyles rise when young people leave the parental home and go out on their own, before starting their own families.

The research focused on a measure called the body mass index, or BMI, which calculates a relationship between weight and height.

As BMI grows, so do concerns arise about obesity-related illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, stroke, liver disease, gall bladder disease, osteoarthritis and fertility problems, Lee said.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one-third of Americans are now either overweight or obese, with slightly more women than men affected.

The study of about 100,000 adolescents and young adults used four large national databases tracking the BMIs of 12- to 26-year-olds from 1959 to 2002.

The results showed that BMIs increased "sharply in the adolescent ages beginning in the 1990s, and among young adults around 2000," especially among black females. Overall, BMI increases started earlier and rose faster for females versus males, according to the study, which was published online this month in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

BMI scores of 18.5 to 24.9 fall within a "healthy range," while those between 25 to 29.9 are classified as overweight. A BMI of 30 or more is considered obese.

According to the study, the BMI of the average 18-year-old from 1959 to 1980 stayed relatively stable at 22. However, it had risen to 23 by 1990, and to about 25 by 2000, the researchers found. That would translate into a weight gain from an average of 149 pounds to an average of 166 pounds for a 5-foot 9-inch, 18-year-old male. An average 5-foot 5-inch female's weight increased from 132 to 147 pounds.

Trends were shown only for blacks and whites because racial categories for other ethnic groups were not part of all the data sets. Data for these groups were included as part of the total picture.

According to one expert on nutrition and weight, the study documents how a problem that used to begin in middle-age is now affecting young adults.

"It used to be middle-age creep," said Lona Sandon, assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "It's scary because the earlier weight gains mean earlier onset of chronic illness such as hypertension (or high blood pressure) in the 20s instead of 40s."

While it is unclear why black girls, especially, began gaining more weight more quickly, Sandon noted that black female adults are also heavier, on average, than other women. Poor access to health care may be a bigger issue for black women, she said.

"If you don't have access to health care, you're not going to focus on your health," she said.

Intervention is important before weight gain become entrenched, Sandon stressed. She believes that educational efforts need to focus on younger children. Schools also can change the types of food and drinks they serve, she added.

For adults, workplaces need to become "exercise friendly" because that's where adults spend most of their time, Sandon explained. "We need to remove the barriers" that keep people from exercising and eating healthy foods, she said.

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Vital signs: hazards: tobacco smoke can affect hearing

The long list of the harmful effects of tobacco smoke to add yet another element: hearing loss in teens.

Researchers, writing in the July issue of the archives of Otolaryngology - Head and neck surgery, an indicator of exposure to tobacco smoke and cotinine more than 2,000 young people tested. After the removal of smokers from the trial, they remained the cotinine levels 799 non smoking exposure to tobacco smoke, with 754 display that were exposed to not smoke.

Of control many variables they, found that the higher the cotinine level in the blood of the person the greater the likelihood that it was some type of hearing loss. More than 17% in the, highest quartile for cotinine levels had hearing loss at low frequencies.

It is not clear, just as exposure to tobacco smoke could cause the damage, but tobacco is known that the smallest blood vessels affect blood flow, the type depends on the inner ear

"Most of the children, about 85 percent, their hearing loss, were not aware," said Dr. Anil k. Lalwani, the main author of the study. "You can rely on self reports."

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Vital signs: exercise: frontiers in the heart of screenings for young people

Screening young athletes with Electrocardiograms for the prevention of sudden cardiac death ineffective, may be a new study has found. It turns out, also Pediatric cardiologists often not the tests correctly interpret.

Researchers at Stanford University selected underlying 18 ECG, 8 anomalies of patients with normal heart and 10 patients with one of the six different, the often sudden cardiac death. The scientists showed the ECG to 53 experienced paediatric cardiologists, whether she could make the right diagnosis properly restrict or allow sports activity and order appropriate follow-up audits. The correct diagnosis and recommendations based on the report by two Electrophysiologists, cardiologists specialized in the interpretation of the ECG.

Properly, only 68 percent of really abnormal cases identified the cardiologist - 32 per cent of young people with abnormal ECG were never found. And the cases that identify doctors as abnormal, 30 percent were in fact normal.

"One of the most remarkable discoveries was the inability of the cardiologists give correct sport," said Dr. Anne M. Dubin, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University and author of the new study lead. Should be 26 percent of patients who were allowed to exercise were not, and 19 percent of patients who should have restricted were not, she noticed.

The report appeared of Pediatrics online on Thursday in the journal. Dr. Dubin received scholarship support from Medtronic Inc., a manufacturer of medical equipment.

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For research on human proposed rule changes

The Government proposes changes in the rules for research involving human sweeping, officials say an effort that would strengthen protective measures, and at the same time may interfere with the bureaucracy, the studies.

Officials said that the changes are necessary, deal with a heavily modified research climate, its new features include genomics studies with patients DNA samples, the use of the Internet and a growing dependence on studies that take place in many locations at once.

"Which are the first significant changes that have been taken to the rules on human subjects in decades, so this is really quite a historic moment," said Kathy Hudson, Deputy Director of national institutes of health in a press conference on Friday.

Rules that issues such as the consent, the respondents must provide cover and the institutional review boards would be the changes in the, to oversee the research at universities and hospitals. First by the Department of health and human services in the 1970s and 1980s, the system was adopted by the 14 other federal agencies and departments in 1991 and became known as the general rule.

But some experts said that it had become too cumbersome.

"It is done, for getting good research a terrible drag," said Dr. Robert j. Levine, Professor of medicine and biological Ethikerin at Yale University, who directed the University institutional review board for 31 years. He said Sunday, while lengthy proposal by the Government had not thoroughly checking, he was encouraged by, what he had seen.

The process is still at an early stage. The Government has described possible changes and asked for public comment on the next 60 days; Specific rules are formulated and again sent out for comment.

The Government said its proposal in January call for agencies, weed out with President Obama executive order was compatible unnecessary provisions. But some of the proposed changes would add regulation.

A change would increase the rules cover all studies of facilities, to get the money, which have adopted the joint rule of each of the 15 federal agencies. If a University by the national institutes of health, then also a study on the financing rules the University of Heidelberg, of a plant would be covered such as through the paid.

While the more medical research would include, was not clear whether studies funded by pharmaceutical companies and individual physicians performed would be covered offices.

Another proposed change would enable to oversee a single institutional review board of studies taking place at several locations.

Needs right now, the institutional review board at each site generally support a trial which may result in long delays. Federal officials said that in addition to eliminating redundancy and delays, with actual supervision could strengthen a single editor who is really responsible for their decisions.

Other proposed changes would aim, so that it less cumbersome, surveys or other social science research, in which usually are the risks for the participants to do less than for medical studies.

Carl e. Wieman, Associate Director for Science at the White House Swiss Federal Office of science and technology policy, said it was now difficult to observe teachers and students in classrooms, to determine what makes a good teacher all required approval given. He said "You not here do anything except just people".

Another possible change would be required, donors of blood, DNA or tissue samples that would consent to give before these examples in subsequent research could be used. Now, if the identity of the donor cannot be determined, samples can be used often for further research without permission. But Dr. Hudson, who said Health Institute, that with modern DNA sequencing, are biological samples "inherently identifiable." so that the proposal would you vote required.

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Marijuana can be examined for battle error

DENVER - for years some veterans groups and marijuana have argued supporters that the therapeutic benefits of the drug can help to calm the psychological wounds of the battle. But with only individual reports for support, their demands have still widespread acceptance in medical circles.

Now, however, researchers to the Federal Republic are approval for what that probably, first study will look at the effects of marijuana on veterans with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.

The proposal that multidisciplinary Association for psychedelic studies in Santa Cruz, California, and researchers to which would University of Arizona College of medicine, by examining the potential benefits of cannabis who suffer from 50 combat veterans, on the condition and have not responding, look at other treatment.

"With so many veterans from the wars in the Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a widely recognized need for a new treatment of PTSD," said Rick Doblin, founder and CEO of psychedelic studies group. "These are people, the we in danger, and we have a moral obligation to help them."

In April, the food and Drug Administration said it content was security worried about the trial of Mr Doblin and Dr. Sue Sisley, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and internal medicine at the Arizona, had provided fixed according to a letter from Mr Doblin drug management.

But the letter pointed out that the project could go forward not, until the researchers found, where she would receive their marijuana. And this can not happen, Mr Doblin said, until the project of a scientific assessment of Department of health and human is approved services, agencies belong to the representatives from a range of federal health.

If the proposal is approved, said Mr Doblin, the researchers are grown on drug abuse marijuana use by the University of Mississippi under a contract with the National Institute. May the only marijuana, used in State-approved studies.

A health and human said services spokeswoman the proposal still in the year under review. "The production and distribution of marijuana for clinical research is carefully restricted under a series of federal laws and international obligations," said the spokeswoman, Tara Broido, in an E-mail. "Proposals are for scientific quality, and the likelihood that they are providing data to meaningful benefits study, be reviewed."

An institutional review Board also the study as well as the drug enforcement Administration must approve Mr Doblin said.

Getting final approval from the Federal Government could be difficult, Mr Doblin and Dr. Sisley conceded. They said it was far more challenging to get permission, which examines the benefits of an illegal drugs than their risks for a study.

"We really believe that science should replace politics,", said Dr. Sisley. "This disease must be treated in a multidisciplinary way." Drugs such as zoloft and paxil have proven completely inadequate. "And it is individual reports by veterinarians that cannabis entlastend systematic."

Medical marijuana is in 16 States and the District of Columbia. But only New Mexico and Delaware especially post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition for treatment according to the marijuana policy project, a Washington-based group, the legal regulation of the drug supports.

Currently nearly a third of 4,982 people approved for medical marijuana in New Mexico suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, more than any other condition according to the State Health Department. It is unclear how many veterans are.

A recent Army veteran from Texas, who in 2006, fought in the Iraq said for 18 months from the year that he used marijuana three times a day he was prescribed instead of the painkillers and antidepressants, after the return. He asked that his name not be used because Texas does not allow medical marijuana.

The veteran, who said he already shot in the leg and marijuana suffered numerous injuries from explosions his physical and mental pain helped quiet, while not caused due to its prescription medications said weight loss and sleep deprivation, while provided as a gunner humvee.

He said "I it have seen with my own eyes". "It works for the boys come home to many."

If the study is approved, would veterans who participate on the basis of the patient more than three months to comply with Mr Doblin said. During two four-week increments it would causes up to 1.8 grams to treat marijuana per day, anxiety, depression, nightmares and other symptoms by PTSD. Researchers also veterans for periods would watch if they are not allowed to use marijuana.

In addition to a placebo of Explorer four marijuana strains in the study, different levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a major component of the drug to use. One of the varieties contains Cannabidiol (CBD), another ingredient accepted, that anti-anxiety effect.

Mr Doblin said that the veterans would be allowed, the marijuana use in its sole discretion. Half will be asked to smoke the drug, while the other half is to inhale it through a vaporizer.

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Scientific advances in contraceptive for men

Steve Owens getting birth control had left to his wife, who took the pill. After all, male vasectomy, which he did not, and methods condoms, were the it as: "Well, condoms are condoms."

Then Mr Owens said voluntary to test for potential methods, which reduced his sperm count so much, that "I not degree of interoperability in the ability to produce a child", he. His count recovered weeks after the end of each method, and he had a daughter between research studies.

"I would do male a type of long-term contraceptives, in any case", said Mr Owens, 39-year-old school social worker from Seattle.

Male contraceptives are growing interest pulls from scientists, who believe, that they hold promise as a safe, effective and, as important, reversible.

"We have a number of iron in the fire," said Diana L. Blythe, program director for contraceptive development for the National Institute of child health and human development. "I think that men actually want to do this."

During the male contraception studies been before meets the strict no way safety and effectiveness criteria, to do the female methods. It was also not clear whether men would use.

Now, scientific advances producing approaches that could be passed to pattern. Asked by women's organizations, global health groups and surveys are that men are receptive, Federal agencies research funding. At a Conference of October by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored some methods are presented.

"Male contraception is a critical region", said Jenny Sorensen, a foundation spokeswoman. "It makes sense not everyone in the discussion included."

The most studied approach in the United States used testosterone and progestin hormones that produce to stop the body signals send sperm. While effective and safe for most men, they have worked not for everyone and remain questions about side effects.

Scientists are also other ways of the interruption of sperm production, ageing or mobility test.

A potential male birth control pill, Gamendazole, derived from a cancer drug sperm maturation interrupts, so that "You are not functional sperm," said Gregory S. head, associated Vice Chancellor for research administration at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The Center has tested administration of the drug, discussions with the food and drug in rats and monkeys started.

Dr. John k. Amory, reproductive scientist at the University of Washington, examine a drug which was developed for worm infections, and later men attempted, because it causes infertility. Rabbit, Dr. Amory said he discovered the drug production blocks of the Retinoic acid, important for sperm production.

Unfortunately, the drug acts as one for the control of alcoholism, so drink, if you make it people makes sick. Dr. Amory is working to make this cocktail compatible.

"The joke," he said, "no one is if it were not for alcohol, contraception must."

Debra j. Wolgemuth, a geneticist at the Columbia University Medical Center, tests a different treatment that inhibits the Retinoic acid without alcohol interactions in mice. Bristol-Meyers Squibb for skin diseases developed, but thought it was "a testicular toxin."

At Harvard University, Dr. David Clapham, neurobiologist, discovered that sperm tails calcium ion channels with electrically charged atoms "Turbo-download the sperm" contain to obtain eggs, he said. He developed a drug that disable the channel.

"You simply turn the engine, instead of old people in a car," he said.

Elaine Lissner, Director of the male contraception information project, created a foundation to develop other approaches. A "reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance", or Risug, includes to gel in the scrotum inactivate sperm injection. Another includes just heating the testicles with ultrasound, which can stop sperm production for months, she said.

"I imagine a world where you take your car in every six months, to get your oil changed, and go can get next door and your ultrasound for 50 dollars," she said.

US scientists remain skeptical, if research shows that Risug switchable or ultrasound is effective.

There are one to two drugs, an antihypertensive and an antipsychotic, to prevent that men ejaculate during orgasm found. The drugs have to changes not to high blood pressure or mood to influence.

Of course, women can have confidence that their partner, birth control use as men now do. But at least one method, hormone implants, visible from a man's bicep bulbous. "It like guys because they can show it," said Dr. Amory. "Prove that the male is contracepting."

Pharmaceutical companies have not yet a process, embraced waiting how female methods and risk-free enough healthy men give something as effective.

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MCLA Science Center is a go

Friday, Oct 09

NORTH ADAMS--Centre for science and innovation is always a Realität-after three years of persistent lobbying of State legislators and other key government officials, the MCLA-the $50 million building is located in the governor's capital five-year plan, released late Wednesday afternoon.

In addition to the plan are included, the College receives $500,000 of earmarked funds for a design and engineering study in the next few months.

"It is good news for us, when you consider that Governor Deval Patrick removed $1.1 billion in projects from the original invoice,", said State Republic Daniel E. Bosley, D - North Adams, on Thursday. "State Senator Benjamin Downing and I worked very hard, to ensure that the building was included." For us it's not just through the College, it also involves the training of people for the jobs of the future. A transformative effect on our economy is this science building. "We can get quickly enough built not them."

After the completion that are built the Science Center the first academic building on the College campus in 30 years.

"We are excited about this - it is a huge investment in Berkshire County," said James Stakenas, the College Vice President of administration and finance. "If we our campus master plan three years ago completed, it showed the need for a new science facility." The need was underlined by a team of experts who attended college and stressed by

the enthusiasm of our teachers. "The registration in our science majors is also up to 20 percent."

Six science, a building

Original plans require the building the College houses biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics, psychology, mathematics and computer science departments in a single place.

"These six departments are currently distributed in three buildings", Stakenas said. "All these departments have similar requirements for computer lab space, talk space and presentation rooms." "It enables appropriate faculty offices, where these divisions see each other on a daily basis and conversations that really happen on the three buildings do not have."

The building will have also space for the local educators.

He said that the inclusion of the building in the capital recognizes plan not only a necessity at the University, but also for the larger population and economy.

"We are very grateful to the Governor for his support," said Stakenas. "Dan Bosley and our entire legislative delegation were behind us from the outset and at every turn." "From my desktop President Mary grant was nothing work less than notable in always this wonderful resource in the capital plan."

Over the past three years, State and federal officials often found the grant, they never say an opportunity to promote the need for a Science Center at the College, who missed the dedication.

Bosley said the building included in the multi-year capital plan the College ensures that funds for the building is preserved.

He said "We are locked". "Now that the plan is certified, we need to address, whether the money will be there." "We are assured it will be there next year, and we can get started on this."

Next step: design team

The next step for the College is to bring a design team on board.

"We expect to be contacted by the Department of capital asset management in the next few weeks," said Stakenas. "The Department will put State Designer selection board a request in the next two to three months to submit proposals by the."

The design team is assembled a study that identified the building size, location and budget, he said.

Jennifer Huberdeau to achieve:
jhuberdeau@thetranscript.com.

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Poor turned away from cancer screenings

Sunday, Dec. 13

ALBANY, New York (AP) - as the economy in the device and more people go without health insurance, women in at least 20 States are Lowincome is turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society cancer action network.

The organisation, that State budget strains force to reject some programs people, which otherwise free mammography might be considered and Pap smears found in the unofficial overview of programs for July 2008 to April 2009. Turned away just as many are not known; in some cases, women are screened by other programs or in accordance with various providers.

"Called I am and I panicked," said Erin LaBarge, 47. This would have been their third time a free mammogram of the screening program in St. Lawrence County. The resident of Norwood, n.y., but was told that she could get their free mammogram this year because there isn't enough not old money and she is enough.

New York used to screen women of all ages, but this year the budget crunch it has forced women under 50 are that at the highest risk and exclude.

"It's a scary thought." It really is, "said LaBarge, who fear that it is a higher risk, because her grandmother died of breast cancer."

The Cancer Society has an estimate for how much percent of breast cancer diagnoses coming of mammography screenings, but says that women have a 98 percent survival rate for breast cancer

Cancer is early during phase I caught. It shrinks II and III, and 27 percent to stage IV - to 84 per cent during the periods when cancer has reached its most advanced point.

"I know already, there are women who die, we are with mammography whose lives and could have saved other discoveries,", said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the company.

In New York City provider in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens says the Cancer Society Western and 15,000 less free mammograms will perform in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester County project, which they almost for the financial year end of April 2010, as compared to the previous year.

The Cancer Society has no way to include, how many women are to be averted, and many providers do not have as many are denied screening, or whether the women find another alternative. The cost of screening vary, but average mammography is about $100, while a PAP screen ranging from $75 to $200, may according to the society.

Project renewal van scan, which gives mammograms around New York City, in the rule targets has 6,000 women a year but cut back to 3,100 this year Director Mary Solomon said.

Each State handles differently free demonstrations. Some use State funds to federal grants, get to complement each other while other private support of Susan G. Komen for the cure Foundation and other groups.

At least 14 countries cut budgets for free cancer screenings this year: Colorado, Montana, Illinois, Alabama, Minnesota, Connecticut, South Carolina, Utah, Missouri, Washington, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas.

Some States have reduced their budgets still found opportunities services; some States, which have reduced their budgets do not still find women turn away, because enough money not to need to.

"This medical care by offering [demonstrations] only in the first half of the fiscal year or by rationing back is to the programs," said Brawley. "It is, people are dying results in rationing."

New York, who has fought for two years with deficits in the billions, used women of all ages to screen for breast cancer, but after $3.5 million in the budget this year cuts women under 50 - such as LaBarge - are no longer entitled, if they know cancer seriously weighing the breast cancer gene or a family history. Despite the LaBarge family history she refused, screening due to their age and lack of funding.

"We easily, do not do this", says Claudia Hutton, spokeswoman for the Agency. "This is not a cut, we would have made if the State had the money, but the State don't have the money simply."

The question of women, if mammography should get broke into controversy last month when the US preventive services task force recommended that the tests are routinely women 50 and then every two years does not propagate.

She broke with the Cancer Society long standing position that women should start getting mammograms at the age of 40, and every year thereafter; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists mammography is recommended every one to two years for women in their 40s and annually after the age of 50 years.

The American Cancer Society opposes the Federal task force recommendations.

"I believe they here made a mistake," said Brawley.

In 2009 estimates the cancer society, 34,600 women between 40 and 49 be found will have nationwide breast cancer; in this age group, 4,300 breast cancer deaths are this year projected.

Oregon, with 57,000 eligible women now free screenings to 6,000 a year limited, Amy said Manchester Harris, Executive Director of breast and cervical cancer program. Many States, including Oregon, nor screen women with symptoms, such as a breast lump.

"It's pretty painful," women, to make, said Shari House, owner of the health center Pearl in Portland.

"they annoying, they get depressed, get hopelessly," she said. "It's like with a door in your face slapped."

Sarah Gudz, who directs the Ohio Department of health breast and cervical cancer project, said the pool of women who search has increased after free screening higher unemployment and more people without insurance.

Ohio assigned to$ 2.5 million for 2008 / 09; State funding fell to $700,000 for 2009 / 10. Almost 17,000 women served in Ohio last year, but the State is expected to finance to 14,000 screenings 2009 / 10.

The Federal of centers for disease control and prevention estimates that since 1991, the free screening program has provided more than 8 million tests for more than 3.4 million women, recognition of more than 39,000 breast cancers, 2,400 invasive cervical cancers and 126,000 pre maligne cervical lesions.

The American Cancer Society cancer action network says that the economy has forced cuts in the demonstrations at a time when more people are not insured.

The company respondents programs for July 2008 to April 2009 and found that State budget strains force to reject some programs people, could be considered otherwise free mammography and Pap smears.

In some cases, women are protected by other programs or in accordance with various providers.

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Restaurants, to make healthier children's meals

Monday 18 July 2011

Parents who start healthier restaurant meals for their children on chicken nuggets and Macaroni and cheese to look.

Said at least 19 restaurant chains - including Burger King, Chili's, IHOP and friendly's - last week, that they will contain healthier options menus on their children. At least 15,000 restaurant locations is focused to increase servings of fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, grains, and low-fat milk. The elements have less fat, sugar and sodium.

Less healthy foods such as burgers and French fries are the restaurants say continue to but in the menu, that she will do more promotion of healthier options.

Chili, will highlight their children on the menu, for example, a chicken sandwich with a side of pineapple or mandarins. Burger King has formulated new children chicken nuggets recently so that they contain less sodium, and employee orders will ask questions, if customers healthier Apple fries instead of just the standard "fries with that?"

The effort is part of a new national restaurant connection initiative, children give more healthy options in restaurants and parents find these options make it easier. Some points are already on the menu, but restaurants are stronger to advertise and to order healthier menu items easier to identify.

To part of the programme, restaurants 600 calories must have at least a children menu item, which is or less and other nutritional requirements are met. A

Supplement amounting to less than 200 calories must also be included.

"This could provide a big push in the direction of healthier offerings in restaurants,", said Robert post, the Department of agriculture officials in the development of the Department of nutrition policy, which came earlier this year. The invited Americans eating less salt.

"We hope that this is a trend to new items and voluntary new formulations is," said post.

Signature for the initiative of large and small chain restaurants are Bon au pain, Bonefish Grill, Burger King, Burgerville, bus Baghdad Italian Grill, Chevys, Chili's, corner bakery cafe, Cracker Barrel, Denny's, El Pollo Loco, friendly's, IHOP, Joe's Crab Shack, Outback Steakhouse, silver Diner, Sizzler, T - bone great American local and Zpizza.

Joe Taylor of chiles said that the company has responded to the needs of consumers healthier foods. While guests looking for a Gesünder essen used, the request substitutions, they have more opportunities.

"We have seen our guests to customize their meals to a greater degree, if they look to hold the Mayo or add the broccoli", Taylor said.

Patrick Lenow of IHOP said that the restaurant will add two new children menu items, due to the efforts, including pancakes with fruit and scrambled eggs with fruits. The company had already limited everything on their children's menu, to less than 600 calories and fruit a default page instead of fries - a change that has dramatically increased fruit consumption in restaurants, Lenow said.

He have to not yet committed to the effort several restaurant chains. Maggiano, Brinker International, chillies property is not part of the programme. Neither is the world's largest Burger chain McDonald's.

Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association, said that the Group of hopes the efforts in the coming months to other restaurants.

First Lady Michelle Obama last year attended a National Restaurant Association in Washington and pleaded with them take a little butter or cream from their dishes, use low-fat milk and Apple slices or carrots provide as a default page. She said that the Americans eat a third of their meals in restaurants that long by many as the worst offenders on diet have seen.

Many restaurant companies start to reformulate menu items and add new healthier sections of their menus, however, as consumers have shown an increased interest in nutrition.

John Dillon by Denny who said that the company has ago recent photos of French fries from their menus.

"Where before we worried not with French fries in the picture on our menu have been, we now, that find has really helped our business", he said.

Nutrition advocates Margo Wootan of advocacy group Center for Science in the public interest says that the effort is a good first step, but that restaurants need to do even more.

"It is not enough, a healthy option in a minefield of high calories have high fat and high salt," she said.

She says, make the best ways for restaurants, a difference, by default Court to leave a healthy page as IHOP has with fruit, and to Diners at the reorder encourage healthier options such as Burger King with his Apple fries.

The Federal Government will soon require restaurants calories on their menu items.

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Home births on rise

Monday 11 July 2011

NEW YORK

A mother chose home birth, because it is cheaper than go was in a hospital. Another gave birth at home, because she has multiple sclerosis and dreaded medical intervention. And you choose some home births after the Caesarean sections with their first baby.

What whatever their motivation, all belong to a distinctive trend: home births increased 20 percent from 2004 to 2008, accounting for 28,357 by 4.2 million U.S. births, according to a study by the Centers for disease control and prevention published in May.

The drive with 1 in 98 with babies at home led white women in 2008, compared to 1 in 357 black women and 1 in 500 Hispanics.

Sherry Hopkins, midwife, Las Vegas said the women, whose home births they attended, is an emergency room doctor, a pediatrician, and nurses. "We see well-trained and marketability of people who want to give birth at home, in any case," she said.

Robbie Davis-Floyd, a medical anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin and researchers on global trends in the birth, obstetrics and Gynecology, said "first in the 1970's, a hippie countercultural, was largely what to give birth outside the hospital." "Over the years as earlier, 'Lay' have become midwives far more complex, its clientele has so."

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which confirmed OB GYNs, warns that home births insecure, especially when the mother has a conditions if a birth can be

Attendant is poorly trained, and if there is no nearby hospital emergency. Also question whether a "feminist Machoism" want to play, to give birth at home is some doctors.

But at home, Birthers say that they wish to be free from drugs, fetal monitors, IVs, and print their work at the behest of doctors and hospitals hurry. They prefer working in tubs of water or on hands and knees, run around the living room or comfort in their own beds, surrounded by love, how they hear music or hypnosis recordings with the support of midwives and doulas. Some even go, without midwives and rely on husbands or other non-professionals for support.

Some home of Birthers cite concerns about Caesarean sections. Approximately up to 60 percent in the fast 32 percent in some areas the U.S. rate which is C sections in hospitals. In some cases, a "too posh to push" mentality of the planned is inductions for convenience sake (Victoria Beckham three had).

Gina Crosley-Corcoran, a Chicago blogger and preparatory student had to abandon their first child and chronological nightmarish pressure of nurses and doctors, a vaginal birth with their second with a c section.

It followed with a third child was born at home in April.

"I think it happened a backlash against in hospitals," she said. "Women find that the hospital experience was not good."

In Portland, Oregon/United States, acupuncturist Becca Seitz gave birth, both were their children at home, the first time in 2007, because she and her husband without insurance.

"It never was on my radar until we otherwise could not afford," she said. "I am cereals, but not that Granola." "It costs us $3300, in contrast to more than $10,000 in a hospital."

Their midwife was prepared with the drug Pitocin, oxygen and other medical equipment.

"they both were, born on the toilet," she said. "It was a beautiful location." "There is a possibility that we are accustomed, slide."

Dr. Joel Evans, the rare Boardcertified whether GYN, which supports home birth, said that the medical establishment has become "resistant against change, resistant to dialogue, resistant to flexibility."

"Women now look for alternatives where protocols, but good what birth and increasing stress and anxiety to delivery, have the effect of medicalizing match as individuals, as opposed to forced to be treated", said Evans, founder and Director of the Center for women's health in Stamford, Connecticut, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of medicine in New York City.

By some accounts, took place in the year 1900, 95 percent of U.S. births at home. She slipped to half of 1938 and less than 1 per cent from 1955.

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Invisibility Cloak one step closer to reality

Friday March 19, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - from Grimm's fairy tales, Harry Potter, who played an important role in fiction cloak of invisibility. Scientists now took a small but important new step in the direction of this reality.

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of technology report Germany, they were able, a little bump in a layer of gold, mask prevent detection at almost visible infrared frequencies.

Their cloaking device also worked in three dimensions, while previously developed cloaks in two dimensions worked, said lead researcher Tolga Ergin.

The mantle is a structure of crystals with air spaces in between, art as a woodpile, which hide the bump in the gold later reported turn among researchers in the online issue of the journal Science Thursday light.

In this case the bump was small, only 0.00004 inches tall and 0.0005 inches above, so that a magnifying glass lens was required to see it.

"In principle the construction of the coat is fully scalable;" There is no limit on it, "said Ergin." But, he added: development cloak hide something takes a long time, "so cloaking larger parts with that technology is not really possible."

"Other fabrication techniques, but to larger capes could result," he added in an interview by E-mail.

The value of establishing Ergin said, "is that we have more information about the concepts of transformation optics and we have made a first step in the production of 3-d structures in this area."

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Capes a beautiful and fascinating benchmark are look for area of the transformation, and it is very rare that a predictions can arising which practical applications of a field of basic research, "he added."

In earlier research, a team developed a way to cloak objects in two dimensions by microwave under the direction of David Schurig at Duke University. Such as light and radar waves bounce off microwaves typically objects, so that they for instruments visible and create a shadow can be detected.

The new study led by Ergin uses infrared waves, the proximity to the spectrum of visible light.

To cite to in cloaking, special materials, radar, light or other waves a as water, flowing around a smooth rock in a stream. It differs from the stealth technology, which makes an aircraft not invisible, but reduces the cross-section for radar, so that it is difficult to follow.

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