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Friday, October 21, 2011
Annual cancer screening tests urged less and less
Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good.
A Pap smear once every three years is the best way to detect cervical cancer, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says. Last week, it recommended against prostate cancer screening with PSA tests, which many men get every year.
Two years ago, it said mammograms to check for breast cancer are only needed every other year starting at age 50, although the American Cancer Society still advises annual tests starting at age 40. Earlier this week, a large study found more false alarms for women getting mammograms every year instead of every other year.
"The more tests that you do, the more likely you are to be faced with a false-positive test" that leads to unnecessary biopsies and possible harm, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, one of the task force leaders and a professor of family and community medicine at the University of Missouri. "We see an emerging consensus that annual Pap tests are not required for us to see the benefits that we have seen" from screening, he said.
Those benefits are substantial. Cervical cancer has declined dramatically in the United States, from nearly 15 cases for every 100,000 women in 1975 to nearly 7 per 100,000 in 2008. About 12,200 new cases and 4,210 deaths from the disease occurred last year, most of them in women who have never been screened or not in the past five years.
The cancer society and other groups say using Pap smears together with tests for HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer, could improve screening. But the task force concluded the evidence is insufficient "to assess the balance of benefits and harms" of that.
Instead, more lives probably could be saved by reaching women who are not being adequately screened now, the task force says.
And despite what many people suspect, cost has nothing to do with the task force's stance, its leaders said.
"We don't look at cost at all. We really are most concerned about harms," said Dr. Evelyn Whitlock of Kaiser Permanente Northwest's Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., who led an evidence review for the task force.
Here are some questions and answers about the cervical cancer guidelines.
Q. At what ages should screening start and end?
A. The task force recommends against screening women under 21 or older than 65. Very few cervical cancer cases occur in women under 21, so the old advice to start screening three years after the age of first intercourse has been changed. HPV tests are only approved for women after age 30 because transient infections that don't pose a cancer risk are more common at younger ages.
"We should not be screening teenagers. It's not helping, it's not finding any more cancers and it's creating way too many harms for them," said Debbie Saslow, the cancer society's director of breast and gynecologic cancer.
Q. Should anyone else not be screened?
A. Women who have had their cervix and uterus removed should not be tested, but check with your doctor ? not all hysterectomies are complete; some leave the cervix.
Q. What does screening cost?
A. Paps cost $15 to $60; HPV tests run $50 to $100.
Q. Will insurance pay for HPV tests since the government panel doesn't endorse them?
A. Probably. They are included in preventive services that other federal advisers say should be covered under the Affordable Care Act, and the government has continued to pay for mammograms for women who want them even if it is sooner or more often than the task force recommends.
Q. What if I've had the HPV vaccine?
A. Doctors don't know how the vaccine will affect HPV test results or how long the vaccine lasts, so women should still be screened for cervical cancer if they are within the recommended screening ages.
Q. How can I comment on the guidelines?
A. The web site below for the task force tells how. Comments are accepted for a month before guidance is adopted.
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Online:
Task force advice: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/
Cervical cancer science review: http://tinyurl.com/6lc2rzg
CDC on HPV tests: http://www.cdc.gov/hpv/Screening.html
American Cancer Society: http://tinyurl.com/44gnadx
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Effects of global warming threaten island nation Maldives (Time.com)
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Les ?chos.
MALDIVES ? At first sight, the Maldives looks like paradise on earth, with its turquoise atolls, sparkling sand, fish in all the colors of the rainbow, and numerous luxury hotels. Maldives is a democracy with a dynamic young population, and its high-end tourism is currently overtaking famous destinations such as Mauritius and the Seychelles as a top destination. In 2011, the number of Chinese tourists caught up with the number of British visitors: the future looks bright.
But put on your scuba fins and you'll discover a slightly less romantic picture. The reality is a seascape of floating bottles and cans, next to diapers washed out from beach landfills ? the inhabitants don't really have a choice. The coral is not in good condition either, as oceanographer Fabien Cousteau was able to see while diving there last week. Over-fishing is partly to blame, as it deprived the reef of its cleansing fish. The coral is also recovering from El Ni?o's last visit in 1998, from a tsunami in 2004, as well as from a general warming of waters.(Read "Is China the Least Happy Nation on Earth?")
Marine species can't cope with the wastewater, which is hardly being treated among the 300 inhabited Maldivian islands. Financially speaking, the atolls' nebulous political past is responsible for the country's persistent public debt. The small paradise, 1,000 nautical miles away from any other coast, is following the same path as many other territories going through an ecological and financial crisis. The Maldivian government is adopting a more proactive approach, as it is well aware of the consequences that a decaying ecosystem could have on tourism, which accounts for 40% of the island's GPD.
But another threat has the government concerned: just barely above sea level, the islands risk going under rather sooner than later, as ocean water levels rise from the effects of global warming. It was in the face of this threat that President Mohamed Nasheed, back in 2009, made what was a stunning pledge. He vowed to make the Maldives carbon-neutral within a decade, by moving to wind and solar power. His aim was simple. His goal was to raise general awareness and set an example for other small, less energy-integrated countries to follow.(Read "Bavaria's Calendar Girls: Is this How to Save European Agriculture?")
Strategic plan
It has become the core of Mohamed Nasheed's advertised diplomatic speech. In October 2009, a few days before the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Maldivian President organized an underwater cabinet meeting. His commitment even led to a documentary called "The Island President." The film was recently shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Last week, Nasheed's archipelago welcomed a panel of international experts. On Monday, the Maldivian President met with France's minister of foreign affairs, Alain Jupp?, and spoke in favor of an international agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
The first democratic president after more than 20 years of dictatorship, Nasheed knows that this ecological issue is not going to get him reelected. Polls suggest Maldivian voters care little about the environment. So he decided to underline the importance of carbon-neutral economic growth by calling peoples' attention to the fact that more than 30% of the island's GPD is spent on fossil fuels. Tired of not seeing a sign of the money Europe promised to give, Nasheed is now betting on cheap renewable energies for electricity, which has so far been produced by diesel generators that are accountable for half the carbon dioxide emissions. Other emissions, linked to road or water transport, will be neutralized by progressively introducing electric vehicles. As far as the impact of air transport is concerned, buying carbon credits seems to be the only medium-term solution.(Read "Time to Shutter America's 'Coup Academy'?")
Since last year, things have become clearer. A strategic plan was written down. It is now possible to buy green electricity, and a first photovoltaic contract was signed with the Maldivian hotels and resorts owner Kaimoo. The whole movement is catching momentum as Samoa, Costa Rica and Ethiopia have all joined Norway in the club of countries that pledge to go carbon-neutral before 2030.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Testing micro-electronic stimulators for spinal cord injuries
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2011) ? A new wireless device to help victims of spinal cord injury is receiving attention in the research community. Mesut Sahin, PhD, associate professor, in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT, recently has published and presented news of his findings to develop micro-electrical stimulators for individuals with spinal cord injuries.
The work, now in its third year of support from a four-year, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, has resulted in the development and testing of a technology known by its acronym, FLAMES (floating light activated micro-electrical stimulators). The technology, really a tiny semiconductor device, will eventually enable people with spinal cord injuries to restore some of the motor functions that are lost due to injury. Energized by an infrared light beam through an optical fiber located just outside the spinal cord these micro-stimulators will activate the nerves in the spinal cord below the point of injury and thus allow the use of the muscles that were once paralyzed.
This past September, The Journal of Neural Engineering published the first testing in animals. "Our in vivo tests suggest that the FLAMES can be used for intraspinal micro-stimulation even for the deepest implant locations in the rat spinal cord," said Sahin.
"The power required to generate a threshold arm movement was investigated as the laser source was moved away from the micro-stimulator. The results indicate that the photon density does not decrease substantially for horizontal displacements of the source that are in the same order as the beam radius. This gives confidence that the stimulation threshold may not be very sensitive to small displacement of the spinal cord relative to the spine-mounted optical power source." Sahin spoke about this work at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference in Boston, also in September of 2011.
FLAMES is a semiconductor device that is remotely controlled by an optical fiber attached to a low power near-infrared laser. The device is implanted into the spinal cord, and is then allowed to float in the tissue. There are no attached wires. A patient pushes a button on the external unit to activate the laser, the laser then activates the FLAMES device.
"The unique aspect of the project is that the implanted stimulators are very small, in the sub-millimeter range," Sahin said. "A key benefit is that since our device is wireless, the connections can't deteriorate over time plus, the implant causes minimal reaction in the tissue which is a common problem with similar wired devices."
The electrical activation of the central and peripheral nervous system has been investigated for treatment of neural disorders for many decades and a number of devices have already successfully moved into the clinical phase, such as cochlear implants and pain management via spinal cord stimulation. Others are on the way, such as micro stimulation of the spinal cord to restore locomotion, micro stimulation of the cochlear nucleus, midbrain, or auditory cortex to better restore hearing and stimulation of the visual cortex in the blind subject. All of them, however, are wired, unlike FLAMES, which is not.
Selim Unlu, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University, is working with Sahin. "We hope that once FLAMES advances to the clinical stage, patients paralyzed by spinal injury will be able to regain vital functions," Sahin said.
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Apple Q4 earnings fall short of expectations: $28.27 billion in revenue, $6.62 billion net profit
Apple's earnings for Q4 2011 are out, and the company has fallen short of expectations. It still managed to rake in $28.27 billion during the quarter, which is up from $20.3 billion in Q3 2010, but quite a bit short of the $29.69 billion analysts were counting on -- net profits came in at $6.62 billion. The company also announced that 17.07 million iPhones during the quarter (a 21 percent jump from a year ago), along with 11.12 million iPads (a whopping 166 percent increase year-over-year), 4.89 million Macs, and 6.62 million iPods (once again the one area that continues to decline, now down 27 percent from a year ago). Press release is after the break.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
How To Clean Automotive Upholstery
Maintaining or repairing the ?looks-like-new? condition of their automobiles is a eating interest for most car owners. most owners have an interest in preserving their investment, and in enjoying the better use of their vehicle so long as possible. Other entrepreneurs are interested in restoring a vehicle to the best situation possible in order to sell it or get a good trade-in value. still others are attempting to restore a vehicle as a hobby, joining the many proud owners of classic and antique vehicles. these consumers need quality automotive cleaning goods that will enable them to fix up their autos speedily, with as little energy as possible. One particular difficulty, especially with older vehicles, is how to clean automotive upholstery. Is it different from household furniture upholstery? can the particular upholstery be washed in place or must it be removed? Must you use products that are usually uniquely for these indoor automotive fabrics?
Even brand-new vehicles can become dirty. A misplaced cup of coffee, a forgotten and melted waxy blemishes, a wad of nicotine gum tracked into the vehicle on the driver?s shoe, or even a sick puppy can present a daunting cleaning problem. If the problem was neglected in the event it was fresh, or perhaps if it was only somewhat cleaned and then allowed to age with the automobile, it may be extremely difficult to remove. it is always best to deal with stains immediately.
In general, the same product that will clean a leather or even vinyl chair must work on a leather or perhaps vinyl car interior. Automotive carpeting should reply to the same techniques as household carpet, based on the fibers applied. The same can be said pertaining to fabric upholstery. as a result, the first step in washing your car?s interior is to determine what it is manufactured from.
Second, try to evaluate which may have created the blemish. this step may be challenging if the stain has been there for a although or if you have only acquired the car. Poured cola and grease may leave spots that are similar in color, but they would respond best to different types of area removers. it is important to pick the correct automotive cleaning products for the job or spot.
Unusual stains ought to be dealt with first, prior to an attempt is made to neat and refresh the entire inside surface. Gum or other, similar, sticky materials need careful handling. You?ll find products available now that will freeze them in place, changing their chemical substance composition, and thus enabling easy removal simply by scraping them away.
Other interferes, like the above mentioned crayon, also need special handling. Waxy blemishes is wax centered, but also has color. its removal may need two steps as well as entirely different items, depending on how horribly it has melted in the fabric. A product uniquely formulated for crayon elimination is a good first step.
Sugar-based food and drink spills on fabric, even old ones, can be taken off with a good area remover. this step should be followed by a thorough business. If these spots are on the regular sewing of vinyl or leather, they may answer the spot cleaner on your own. Grease-based stains should react to being blotted with a great degreaser, such as Formula 21 years of age Grease Stain Eliminator.
Once all the special stains have been addressed appropriately, give the inside a thorough, all-over cleaning, depending on the upholstery variety. Leather and vinyl can be cleaned with a specially formulated product including Fuller Vinyl and Leather Cleaner. Built-up dust on older seats could also respond to washing with a good degreasing product such as Fulsol All-Purpose Degreaser. Fabric seats and also carpets should be able to manage a thorough steam cleaning. Care should be taken to not necessarily get the fabric too wet. because the furniture and carpet cannot be removed to dried up, work slowly within small areas, simply dampen the surface sufficient to remove the dirt. Leaving the gates and or windows open up for a while following your cleaning is complete may also hasten your trying time. Check with the company before treating as well as steam-cleaning antique fabrics.
With a little pre-planning and care, and with the right automotive detailing products, you can grow to be an expert in how you can clean automotive upholstery.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Battery research: Bionics reduces filling time
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The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physico-chemical effect that also provides for transport in trees. The new process increases the throughput of battery production and reduces investment costs. These and other innovations will be presented by KIT at the eCarTec International Electromobility Fair in Munich (hall A5, stand 323) from October 18 to 20.
The electrodes inside modern batteries are as porous as a sponge. Unlike household sponges, however, pore size is in the micrometer range. As a result, the electrode has a very large surface area and provides much space for the chemical processes during electric charge and discharge. This is necessary for developing batteries for electric vehicles that can cover large distances and be recharged rapidly. "But the pores have to be filled completely with the electro-lyte in order to work optimally," explains Dr. Wilhelm Pfleging from KIT. The liquid electrolyte is the transport medium, in which the charged ions can flow between anode and cathode in the battery. "Without electrolyte, there is no charge equalization inside and no current flow outside." The materials used in electrodes and the elec-trolyte of conventional high-energy batteries for automotive indus-try, however, provide for a bad wetting of the electrode surface by the liquid electrolyte only.
Consequently, much time and expenditure in battery production have been spent so far for making the electrolyte move into the smallest pore, if possible, and for maximizing battery capacity. The liquid is forced to enter the material by expensive and time-consuming storage processes at vacuum or elevated temperatures. "Our new process allows to reduce this time from several hours to a few minutes," confirms Pfleging. To achieve this amazing effect, he relies on nature. By a mechanico-chemical technology, the elec-trodes are modified such that the electrolyte is sucked into the bat-tery as water is sucked into high trees. As a result, the electrolyte spreads very rapidly over the complete material and performance data of batteries based on this principle are much better.
"This novel electrode modification drastically reduces the technical expenditure and production times needed for filling lithium-ion cells with electrolyte," acknowledges Andreas Gutsch. Under the Compe-tence E project, he coordinates the activities of more than 250 scientists at KIT to utilize the large innovation potential of a number of partial improvements and to further develop the entire system. "Now, an interdisciplinary team of physicists, chemists, materials researchers, and process engineers has succeeded in making an important step towards low-cost batteries." A patent has already been applied for. The process is planned to be integrated in the production lines of battery manufacturers as quickly as possible. "We are pushing licensing to close the innovation gap between development and industry as rapidly as possible. Several renowned companies have already asked for license contracts. At KIT, we are conducting excellent research for application, not for the drawer."
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KIT technology significantly reduces production costs of lithium-ion cells
This release is available in German.
The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physico-chemical effect that also provides for transport in trees. The new process increases the throughput of battery production and reduces investment costs. These and other innovations will be presented by KIT at the eCarTec International Electromobility Fair in Munich (hall A5, stand 323) from October 18 to 20.
The electrodes inside modern batteries are as porous as a sponge. Unlike household sponges, however, pore size is in the micrometer range. As a result, the electrode has a very large surface area and provides much space for the chemical processes during electric charge and discharge. This is necessary for developing batteries for electric vehicles that can cover large distances and be recharged rapidly. "But the pores have to be filled completely with the electro-lyte in order to work optimally," explains Dr. Wilhelm Pfleging from KIT. The liquid electrolyte is the transport medium, in which the charged ions can flow between anode and cathode in the battery. "Without electrolyte, there is no charge equalization inside and no current flow outside." The materials used in electrodes and the elec-trolyte of conventional high-energy batteries for automotive indus-try, however, provide for a bad wetting of the electrode surface by the liquid electrolyte only.
Consequently, much time and expenditure in battery production have been spent so far for making the electrolyte move into the smallest pore, if possible, and for maximizing battery capacity. The liquid is forced to enter the material by expensive and time-consuming storage processes at vacuum or elevated temperatures. "Our new process allows to reduce this time from several hours to a few minutes," confirms Pfleging. To achieve this amazing effect, he relies on nature. By a mechanico-chemical technology, the elec-trodes are modified such that the electrolyte is sucked into the bat-tery as water is sucked into high trees. As a result, the electrolyte spreads very rapidly over the complete material and performance data of batteries based on this principle are much better.
"This novel electrode modification drastically reduces the technical expenditure and production times needed for filling lithium-ion cells with electrolyte," acknowledges Andreas Gutsch. Under the Compe-tence E project, he coordinates the activities of more than 250 scientists at KIT to utilize the large innovation potential of a number of partial improvements and to further develop the entire system. "Now, an interdisciplinary team of physicists, chemists, materials researchers, and process engineers has succeeded in making an important step towards low-cost batteries." A patent has already been applied for. The process is planned to be integrated in the production lines of battery manufacturers as quickly as possible. "We are pushing licensing to close the innovation gap between development and industry as rapidly as possible. Several renowned companies have already asked for license contracts. At KIT, we are conducting excellent research for application, not for the drawer."
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public corporation according to the legislation of the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. It fulfills the mission of a university and the mission of a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT focuses on a knowledge triangle that links the tasks of research, teaching, and innovation.
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High school football player dies after game in NY
HOMER, N.Y. (AP) ? A high school football player in upstate New York died Friday night after he suffered a head injury during a game.
The fatal injury comes at a time when the safety risks of youth sports are under intense scrutiny, due to questions about whether enough is being done to protect players' heads. It occurred during the third quarter of a varsity game in Homer, south of Syracuse. A lineman on the visiting team from Phoenix High School was hit hard and lay face down after the play.
"The coaches and trainers went over. He was talking. He rolled on his back by himself," said Phoenix School District Superintendent Judy Belfield. The boy was able to sit up after the play, but he complained of a very bad headache and collapsed when he tried to stand, she said.
An ambulance took him to a hospital, and he was being transferred to a larger medical center in Syracuse when his condition deteriorated, Belfield said. The ambulance turned around, but doctors were unable to save the student's life.
The teen's name wasn't immediately released out of concern that not all of his relatives had been notified of the death.
Team coaches didn't learn until after the game that the player's injuries were severe, Belfield said. She said the school community was distraught, and that officials would open the high school Saturday to students or staff who wanted to talk about what had happened.
"It just one of those freak things," she said. "The Homer players have to be feeling just as much sadness."
The Homer Central School District posted a message on its website Saturday morning saying the community had been "deeply saddened and shares in the grief of the Phoenix School Community."
Head injuries in football have been a concern across the country in recent years, with some medical evidence emerging to suggest that the equipment players use may not be enough to protect them from serious, long-term injuries.
A handful of high school students suffer fatal on-field injuries every fall, according to the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. A player at Frostburg State University, in Maryland, died after suffering a head injury in a practice in August.
Belfield said the Phoenix school district sends its football helmets out to be reconditioned every year, and that each has to pass a safety inspection before the season begins.
"Over the course of the past few years, they have really tried to improve the protection of the head. But there is always a risk of injury or of death," she said. She added that an investigation would be conducted to try to determine what went wrong.
In New York, a law signed this summer will require school coaches to bench student athletes who have symptoms of a concussion, a mild traumatic brain injury with symptoms such as dizziness or headaches. Students can play again only after they are symptom-free for 24 hours and cleared in writing by a doctor.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Larry Hagman of 'Dallas' diagnosed with cancer
FILE - In this March 3, 2011 file photo, U.S. actor Larry Hagman, known for his roles on "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Dallas," poses at the Opera ball in Vienna, Austria. Hagman has been diagnosed with cancer. He declined to specify what kind of cancer he's contracted, but said it's ?a very common and treatable form.? He plans to continue to work on a new reboot of ?Dallas? for TNT, which begins production Monday. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)
FILE - In this March 3, 2011 file photo, U.S. actor Larry Hagman, known for his roles on "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Dallas," poses at the Opera ball in Vienna, Austria. Hagman has been diagnosed with cancer. He declined to specify what kind of cancer he's contracted, but said it's ?a very common and treatable form.? He plans to continue to work on a new reboot of ?Dallas? for TNT, which begins production Monday. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Larry Hagman has been diagnosed with cancer.
The 80-year-old actor is famous for playing J.R. Ewing on "Dallas." In a statement Friday, he said: "As J.R. I could get away with anything ? bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer."
Hagman declined to specify what kind of cancer he's contracted, but said it's "a very common and treatable form." He plans to continue working on a new reboot of "Dallas" for TNT, which begins production Monday.
The new "Dallas" focuses on the Ewing offspring as they clash over the future of the family dynasty. The original prime-time soap opera aired on CBS from 1978 to 1991. Hagman underwent a liver transplant in the mid-1990s.
Said Hagman: "As we all know, you can't keep J.R. down!"
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