INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1256','6','	<p><p>FRIDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks with diabetes tend to have worse control of the disease than whites, a new review of the data shows.</p> <p>The finding could explain why black patients are typically at increased risk for diabetes-linked complications and death, the researchers said.</p> <p>&quot;This confirms what doctors have known,&quot; added Dr. Larry C. Deeb, president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association and a professor of social and behavioral medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine.</p> <p>&quot;What this study does is take all the [published] papers they could find and show that, across the board, the African-Americans have an increased risk,&quot; said Deeb, who was not involved in the research.</p> <p>The findings were published Friday in the journal <i>Diabetes Care</i>.</p> <p>The review is what\'s known as a &quot;meta-analysis.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;We took all these studies [and] combined all the data from each individual study,&quot; explained co-author Ronny A. Bell, associate professor of epidemiology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.</p> <p>The findings confirmed what the individual studies had already found, Bell said. &quot;But a meta-analysis can give you more evidence to say [the finding] with more confidence,&quot; he said.</p> <p>The data included information on more than 42,000 white and 14,000 black patients with diabetes. Most were older than 50 and had type 2 diabetes, the most common, obesity-linked form of the illness. In type 2 disease, the body either does not produce enough insulin or cells don\'t use insulin efficiently. Either way, glucose builds up in the bloodstream.</p> <p>The researchers looked at the results of a blood test called the A1C, also known as glycated hemoglobin or HbA1c. The test provides a &quot;look back,&quot; averaging a person\'s blood sugar control for the previous two to three months. Some doctors compare it to a baseball player\'s seasonal batting average, explaining that it\'s valuable information to have in addition to the daily blood sugar readings.</p> <p>Those with diabetes should aim for an A1C of less than 7 percent, according to the American Diabetes Association.</p> <p>In the study, blacks had an A1C, on average, that was 0.65 percent higher than that of whites, Bell said.</p> <p>While no averages were calculated by the researchers by race, &quot;the range of A1C values across the 11 studies was 7.3 percent to 9.4 percent for whites and 7.6 percent to 11.4 percent for blacks,&quot; he said. &quot;As you can see, there are a lot of people whose A1C is not in good control, but especially so for blacks.&quot;</p> <p>A numbers of reasons may explain the differences, the researchers said, including differences in quality of care, intensity of treatment, or in insurance coverage, such as prescription drug coverage. Genetic differences may explain the gap, too.</p> <p>&quot;The individual person with diabetes has to say to him or herself that diabetes control is critical to long-term health,&quot; Deeb said. A person with diabetes should vow to work with their doctor to bring the test result into normal range, he added.</p> <p>About 20 million American children and adults have diabetes, according to American Diabetes Association estimates.</p> <p>Other researchers involved in the study were from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>To learn more about the A1C test, visit the <a href=\"http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/a1c-test.jsp\" target=\"_new\">American Diabetes Association</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1257','6','	<p><p>TUESDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Adult obesity rates increased in 31 states during the past year, leaving an estimated two-thirds of Americans vulnerable to fatal diseases such as diabetes, stroke and cancer.</p> <p>This, despite federal and state government efforts to curb the overweight epidemic, according to a new report from the Trust for America\'s Health.</p> <p>The report, titled <i>F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing America, 2006</i>, was released Tuesday and is the third in a series of annual reports by the trust detailing state obesity rates as well as the effectiveness of government policies to fight the problem. </p> <p>According to official figures, the adult obesity rate rose from 15 percent in 1980 to 32 percent in 2004. Combine that with the number of Americans who are overweight but not obese, and the figure stands at 64 percent. And the childhood obesity rate more than tripled between 1980 and 2004, from 5 percent to 17 percent. </p> <p>&quot;The most important news in this report is that the obesity epidemic in America is getting worse,&quot; Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America\'s Health, said at a Tuesday morning press conference. &quot;The percentage of obese adults exceeds 25 percent in 13 states. That should sound some serious alarm bells.&quot;</p> <p>At the root of the epidemic is a combination of poor nutrition and lack of physical activity, the report stated. Being either overweight or obese increases the risk for a variety of serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. </p> <p>&quot;What\'s particularly distressing is that we think we understand why this is happening. It\'s happening because the environment is built to promote obesity, and it is so pervasive that in order to make changes, we really need to change everything,&quot; said Cathy Nonas, director of the obesity and diabetes programs at North General Hospital in New York City and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. </p> <p>The new report has Mississippi weighing in as the &quot;largest&quot; state, with 29.5 percent of its adult population considered obese. Alabama and West Virginia are second and third with 28.7 percent and 28.6 percent of the adult population, respectively, in the super-size category. Mississippi also has the highest combined level of obese plus overweight adults -- 67.3 percent.</p> <p>Overall, the South is the &quot;Biggest Belt,&quot; containing nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates. The region is also home to nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of diabetes and hypertension, both of which are associated with obesity. </p> <p>Colorado is the &quot;thinnest&quot; state, with an adult obesity rate of only 16.9 percent. Other &quot;thin&quot; states are in the West and Northeast, including Hawaii (18.2 percent), Massachusetts (18.6 percent), Rhode Island (19.5 percent) and Montana (19.9 percent).</p> <p>Obesity rates remained stable in 18 states plus the District of Columbia.</p> <p>Every single state in the union failed to make enough progress to meet the national goal of reducing adult obesity levels to 15 percent or less by the year 2010, according to the report.</p> <p>&quot;The 2004 and 2005 documents reported that there was no strategic policy to address obesity,&quot; Levi said. &quot;The 2006 report shows little improvement. While there are innovative promising pilot programs under way in some parts of the country, for the most part, federal and state policies are limited in scope, designed for the short term and woefully underfunded.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;It\'s a shared responsibility involving individual and society,&quot; he added.</p> <p>&quot;We believe that all stakeholders must be involved if changes are to take place,&quot; said Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan, vice president for academic affairs at Emory University\'s Woodruff Health Science Center, and chairman of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity.</p> <p>Among the report\'s other findings: </p> <ul> <li>The percentage of adults who are obese or overweight exceeds 60 percent in 28 states.</li> <li>West Virginia has the highest rate of type 2 diabetes among adults (10.4 percent) while Alaska has the lowest rate (4.5 percent). </li> <li>Mississippi has the highest rate of adult hypertension (32.7 percent) and Utah the lowest (19.8 percent). </li> <li>Seven states now have body mass index screening requirements in schools. </li> <li>All states except South Dakota have school physical education requirements, while 44 states plus Washington, D.C., have school health education requirements. There is little enforcement capability in either of these cases, however.</li> <li>Seventeen states plus Washington, D.C., have passed taxes on junk food or sodas. </li> </ul> <p>Efforts to combat the obesity epidemic have failed to meet their goals, Nonas said. &quot;I don\'t think they\'re going far enough,&quot; she said. &quot;The perfect example of this is the physical-education and health-education requirements, where states have very little ability to enforce it. It\'s good that people are doing this, but it\'s not enough.&quot;</p> <p>The report also offered a 20-step action plan to address the obesity crisis. Recommendations include improved nutritional labeling on foods; community-driven efforts to increase access to healthy foods in low-income areas; improved nutritional content on foods and beverages served and sold in schools; an improved physical environment with more and better sidewalks, parks and bike paths; better physical fitness curricula in schools; and employer-sponsored programs to increase physical activity and provide better insurance coverage for preventive services. </p> <p>A recent study in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i> found that being obese in midlife dramatically increases your risk of dying early. People who are overweight when they are 50 have a 20 percent to 40 percent increased risk of dying prematurely. For obese people, the risk of premature death is two to three times that of normal-weight people. The primary causes of death in the group studied were heart disease and cancer. </p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>To read the full report, visit <a href=\"http://healthyamericans.org/\" target=\"_new\">Trust for America\'s Health</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1258','6','	<p><p>FRIDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with an approved contrast agent may help scientists track whether transplanted pancreatic islets survive, say Massachusetts General Hospital researchers.</p> <p>Pancreatic islet transplants are currently being investigated as a way to treat or cure people with type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body\'s immune system attacks its own insulin-producing islets.</p> <p>The problem is that a significant amount of the islets are usually lost following transplantation, due to a number of factors, including immune rejection and damage to the islets during transplantation.</p> <p>In a new study, published in the September issue of <i>Diabetes</i>, researchers transplanted islets into the livers of mice. The islets had been marked with Feridex, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved contrast agent.</p> <p>Some of the mice had normal immune systems, and some had an immune deficiency that would practically eliminate the rejection process.</p> <p>The researchers used MRI for 14 days after the transplant procedure to track the labeled islets and find out how many were surviving.</p> <p>For both groups of mice, the number of islets dropped during the first 10 days after the transplant, presumably due to damage during the transplantation procedure. But by day 10, the mice with normal immune function showed a 20 percent greater loss of islets than the immune-deficient mice, most likely due to immune rejection of the islets.</p> <p>&quot;Monitoring islet survival by noninvasive imaging could give us the ability to detect and measure rates of islet loss under a variety of conditions, which could help develop procedures leading to better therapeutic outcomes,&quot; study leader Anna Moore, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse has more about <a href=\"http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/type1and2/\" target=\"_new\">diabetes</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1259','6','	<p><!--Spanish ID:535038--> <p>TUESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Using bar coding in the hospital pharmacy may help prevent dangerous prescription errors, according to a new study.</p> <p>Reporting in the Sept. 19 issue of the <i>Annals of Internal Medicine</i>, researchers at Brigham and Women\'s Hospital in Boston compared the rates of medication dispensing errors before and after bar coding technology was implemented at the hospital pharmacy.</p> <p>With the new technology, every dose of medication was affixed with a bar code, and these codes were scanned in as an additional step to ensure that the right medications were being dispensed. Without the bar coding, the pharmacists relied on visual inspections alone to make sure they were dispensing the right medication.</p> <p>After implementing the bar coding technology, the rate of dispensing errors fell by 85 percent, and the rate of dispensing errors with the potential to harm patients fell by 63 percent.</p> <p>The bar coding technology was most effective when it required the pharmacy staff to scan <i>all</i> doses of medications.</p> <p>&quot;Overall, the use of bar code scanning technology appears to have a significant impact on the rate of dispensing errors that were serious enough to potentially harm patients,&quot; lead author Eric Poon, an associate physician in the hospital\'s department of general medicine, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more about <a href=\" http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/default.htm\" target=\"_new\">medication errors</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1260','6','	<p><!--Spanish ID:535053--> <p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Drug testing in the workplace reduces drug use, but not as much as previously thought, new research suggests.</p> <p>A new study published in the online edition of <i>Health Services Research</i> compiled data on marijuana screening at private, for-profit firms across the country. Marijuana is the drug that turns up most often in failed worker drug tests.</p> <p>The University of California, Irvine, researchers found drug testing was associated with less worker drug use, even after accounting for other workplace drug policies such as &quot;zero tolerance&quot; standards and employee assistance programs.</p> <p>&quot;My results don\'t definitively prove that drug testing directly reduces drug use, but they are the strongest evidence to date,&quot; Christopher Carpenter, a health economist at UC-Irvine\'s Paul Merage School of Business, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>Since previous studies have not accounted for the effects of other policies and workforce characteristics, Carpenter estimates the association has been bloated by as much as 25 percent in the past.</p> <p>This is important information for budget-conscious personnel managers who are deciding whether to implement testing.</p> <p>&quot;If you tell an employer that workplace drug testing will reduce worker drug use by 25 percent less than they expected, this may affect an employer\'s decision to implement drug testing in the first place,&quot; Carpenter said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The National Institute on Drug Abuse has more about <a href=\" http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/testing.html\" target=\"_new\">drug testing.</a></p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1261','8','<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"98%\"><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" valign=\"top\"><tr><td><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"+2\" color=\"551E1B\">Ear tubes don\'t make a difference in learning</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study delivers blow against common childhood procedure</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceAP.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"140\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"><p></p></font><p>Most toddlers with frequent ear infections don\'t need ear tubes to preserve normal learning and behavior through primary school, according to a study challenging one big reason for these common procedures.</p><p>Repeated ear infections - even some colds - can leave a fluid buildup that specialists long feared would dampen hearing and slow language and other learning. However, it now appears the hearing loss is too short-lived and mild to interfere with learning, at least in the vast majority of children.</p><p>\"Children are basically pretty resilient and can withstand ... that little amount of problem,\" said study leader Dr. Jack L. Paradise, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh.</p><p>This was first shown true at age 3 by the same team of Pittsburgh-based researchers in 2001. Their later research found the same thing true into early school age. In 2004, professional groups eased the guidelines that had long dictated quick surgery to clear accumulated fluid.</p><p>Implanting ear tubes in most toddlers with frequent infections will make no difference in their learning or behavior through primary school, according to a study challenging one big reason for these common procedures.</p><p>Repeated ear infections - even some colds - can leave a fluid buildup that specialists long feared would dampen hearing and slow language and other learning. However, it now appears the hearing loss is too short-lived and mild to interfere with learning, at least in the vast majority of children.</p><p>\"Children are basically pretty resilient and can withstand ... that little amount of problem,\" said study leader Dr. Jack L. Paradise, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh.<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070117/AP_EAR_CHILD.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"239\" width=\"343\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table></p><p>This was first shown true at age 3 by the same team of Pittsburgh-based researchers in 2001. Their later research found the same thing true into early school age. In 2004, professional groups eased the guidelines that had long dictated quick surgery to clear accumulated fluid.</p><p>The Pittsburgh group now makes the identical finding for ages 9-11 in a government-funded study of 391 children. The work was being published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.</p><p>\"People were always worried: Are there late effects?\" said Dr. Stephen Berman, a University of Colorado pediatrician who wrote an accompanying editorial. He said this study is \"very, very reassuring\" that there aren\'t.</p><p>The children in the study were tested for skills in hearing sounds, reading, writing, socializing, conduct and intelligence. Children who got ear tubes quickly did no better than those who waited up to nine months to check if the fluid remained - and only then got implants if needed.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"460\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#666666\">&nbsp;Click for related content</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-top:solid 1px #cccccc;border-bottom:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#ffffff;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"headlineList2\"><tr></tr></table></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\"><tr><td style=\"padding:8px;\"><font class=\"bigRedLink\"><ul><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/board.aspx?BoardID=762\">Message Board: Kids &amp; Parenting</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/11497302/\">Baby is born from embryo rescued after Katrina</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16581772/\">Cough, cold remedies might be lethal to infants</a></li></ul></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"\" bordercolor=\"\" border=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#eeeeee;\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><tr><td style=\"\"><font class=\"textSmall\" color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>The plastic tubes - with a diameter the size of a pencil lead - are implanted in the eardrum to ventilate the middle ear, cut down on future fluid, and drain it when infections develop. The surgery has small risks, including those of general anesthesia and possible hearing loss from damage to the eardrum. Ear tubes generally fall out after a year or so.</p><p>There are no reliable current estimates on how many ear tubes are implanted each year. About 550,000 were placed in 1996 - about half in toddlers. It has been the No. 2 surgery in the nation, after circumcision. Today, the surgery can cost $3,000 or more.</p><p>Berman believes tens of thousands of surgeries could now be considered unnecessary each year. However, a minority of children with severe hearing loss will remain candidates for the surgery. Also, many tubes are implanted to cut down on the infections themselves, rather than fluid. They can reduce pain, and that justification remains valid.</p><p>The study was backed by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and drug makers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1262','8','<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"98%\"><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" valign=\"top\"><tr><td><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"+2\" color=\"551E1B\">Graco recalls 100,000 highchairs for repair</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Can collapse if not fully opened and locked, regulator say</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/\"><a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceReuters.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"140\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></a><p></p></font><p>WASHINGTON - About 100,000 Graco highchairs are being recalled for repair because they can collapse if they are not fully opened and locked into place from the storage position, U.S. regulators said Thursday.</p><p>Graco Children\'s Products Inc. is recalling the Graco Contempo Highchairs after receiving 18 reports of the chair collapsing. There was one report of an 18-month-old boy suffering a bruise on his foot, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.</p><p>The highchairs were sold from December 2005 through December 2006 for between $100 and $130 at various retailers nationwide.</p><p>The recalled chairs have model numbers that begin with 3800, 3803, 3804, 3805, 3810 and 3811, followed by a three-letter fashion code.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"460\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#666666\">&nbsp;Click for related content</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-top:solid 1px #cccccc;border-bottom:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#ffffff;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"headlineList2\"><tr></tr></table></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\"><tr><td style=\"padding:8px;\"><font class=\"bigRedLink\"><p><a href=\"/id/16581772/\">Cough syrup can be dangerous for infants</a></p></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"\" bordercolor=\"\" border=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#eeeeee;\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><tr><td style=\"\"><font class=\"textSmall\" color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>The agency said consumers should contact Graco for a free repair kit, and can continue to use the highchair until they receive the kit as long as they make sure it is fully opened first.</p><p>Graco can be contacted at (877) 445-1312 or at <a href=\"http://www.gracobaby.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gracobaby.com</a>.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1263','8','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Many parents may wonder about how frequently their children need to eat, how to regulate snacks, and what to do if their child simply refuses to eat or won\'t eat very much.</p> <p>Here are some suggestions, courtesy of the University of California San Francisco Children\'s Hospital:</p> <ul> <li>Try to provide meals and snacks at the same time every day.</li> <li>Three regular meals and two or three snacks will provide your youngsters with enough food throughout the day without overwhelming their small stomachs.</li> <li>Keep mealtime separate from playtime. While eating, don\'t allow your child to play a game or watch TV.</li> <li>If your child is not hungry or does not want to eat, don\'t force him. Your child will eat when he\'s hungry, and should learn to regulate his eating according to his appetite.</li> <li>If you offer your child a variety of healthy foods at each meal, he will be more likely to try them and to develop healthy eating habits.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1264','8','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Certain birth defects of the mouth and lip are called oral clefts. Clefts occur when there is not enough tissue to properly form a lip or skin on the roof of the mouth. These conditions, called cleft lip and cleft palate respectively, can occur by themselves, or together.</p> <p>Clefts are common -- affecting one in every 700 to 1,000 children born in the United States. The Nemours Foundation says most of the time these conditions can be corrected with reconstructive surgery between the ages of 12 and 18 months.</p> <p>Boys are more commonly born with a cleft lip only, while girls most often have a cleft palate without a cleft lip. </p> <p>While the causes of cleft lip and cleft palate aren\'t known, it is believed that they can be inherited. Other risk factors may include use of alcohol and tobacco while pregnant, the foundation says.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1265','8','	<p><p>FRIDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A phase I trial to test the safety of stem-cell transplants to treat Batten disease, a rare yet fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is about to get started at Oregon Health &amp; Science University\'s (OHSU) Doernbecher Children\'s Hospital.</p> <p>A phase I trial is designed to determine the safety of a treatment and not necessarily whether it works. In this trial, six children with symptoms of the disease will be given transplants of stem cells at two different doses and followed for a year, the researchers said.</p> <p>In addition to the stem cells, which will be surgically implanted into three areas of the brain, the children will be placed on drugs to help prevent rejection of the cells.</p> <p>Batten disease, known as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Children with the condition suffer seizures, progressive loss of motor skills, sight and mental capacity, eventually becoming blind, bedridden and unable to communicate. Currently, there\'s no treatment to stop or reverse the effects of the disease, which is always fatal, usually by the late teens or early 20s, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.</p> <p>Symptoms typically begin between 6 months and 10 years of age. The age of onset and rate of progression depend on the inherited gene mutation. In the United States, there are approximately 200 to 600 children living with Batten disease.</p> <p>&quot;NCL patients lack an enzyme responsible for breaking down complex fat and protein compounds in the brain,&quot; lead researcher Dr. Robert D. Steiner, vice chairman of pediatric research and head of the Division of Metabolism at Doernbecher Children\'s Hospital, said at a press briefing Friday.</p> <p>&quot;These materials accumulate and interfere with normal cell and tissue function and ultimately cause cells to die,&quot; said Steiner, who\'s also a professor of pediatrics and molecular and medical genetics at Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine.</p> <p>The hope behind the new research is that the stem cells will evolve into cells that start producing the missing or defective lysosomal enzyme that causes the disease, as was the case in animal studies, he said.</p> <p>Children eligible for the study have clinical symptoms of one of two types of NCL -- infantile or late infantile NCL -- and loss-of-function mutations in either the CLN1 or CLN2 gene. The children will be monitored with standardized measures of development, cognition, behavior and language for one year following transplantation, the researchers said.</p> <p>This potential therapy was developed by StemCells Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., which is sponsoring the clinical trial with its proprietary human neural stem cells, called HuCNS-SC. Theses stem cells are isolated from normal fetal brain tissue, purified, expanded and then stored in frozen cell banks until they are transplanted, the researchers said.</p> <p>The trial will begin with one patient receiving the stem cells. Assuming all goes well, a second patient would receive a transplant 30 days later.</p> <p>&quot;We will begin with one patient, but we are not going to continue on with other patients until all of the safety protocols evaluated in the first patient have been met,&quot; Dr. Nathan Selden, the Campagna associate professor of pediatric neurological surgery and head of the Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery at Doernbecher and OHSU School of Medicine, said at the briefing.</p> <p>&quot;It is our hope that this trial will provide insight into a potential treatment option for this tragic disease,&quot; Steiner said. &quot;This trial is just the beginning in a lengthy, ongoing effort to determine a safe and effective means to improve the quality of life of those suffering from NCL,&quot; he said.</p> <p>Embryonic stem-cell research in the United States has been severely restricted since Aug. 9, 2001, when President George Bush placed limits on federal funding of the field. As of that date, federal funds could only be used to study stem cell lines derived from embryos that had been destroyed before the limit was set. This has turned out to be fewer lines than originally thought, and even fewer high-quality lines.</p> <p>And while some state, private and university money, including Stanford and Harvard universities, has emerged to fill the gap, it\'s not enough on its own, many researchers contend.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke can tell you more about <a href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/batten/batten.htm\" target=\"_new\">Batten disease</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1266','8','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Physical therapy is an effective way to strengthen and improve muscles, tendons and ligaments that have been impaired, injured, or surgically repaired.</p> <p>The Children\'s Hospital of Cincinnati suggests the following pediatric problems that may be corrected or improved by physical therapy:</p> <ul> <li>Underdeveloped motor skills and coordination, including crawling, walking, writing, holding objects or eating.</li> <li>Conditions that affect the body\'s tissues, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.</li> <li>Neuromuscular diseases including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and muscular dystrophy.</li> <li>Underdeveloped mobility, strength, endurance, and range of motion of limbs.</li> <li>Recovery from injuries including fractures, breaks, sprains, and burns.</li> <li>Learning disabilities or delayed learning, including reading and writing.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1267','8','	<p><p>MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- GlaxoSmithKline\'s epilepsy drug Lamictal (lamotrigine) gained broader U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on Monday to treat &quot;grand mal&quot; seizures, medically called primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures. They are one of the most serious forms of epilepsy, affecting 20 percent of people with the condition, Glaxo said.</p> <p>PGTC seizures usually occur without warning, and people who have them become stiff, lose consciousness, and jerk repetitively. Typically lasting a few minutes, they are followed by a period of drowsiness, confusion, headache, and sleep.</p> <p>In clinical testing, Lamictal reduced PGTC seizures by 66 percent, compared with 34 percent of patients given a non-medicinal placebo, Glaxo said in a statement. Common side effects of Lamictal included dizziness, drowsiness, and nausea.</p> <p>The drug was approved previously for several other types of seizures, and for adults with bipolar 1 disorder.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>To learn more about PGTC seizures, visit the <a href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000695.htm\" target=\"_new\">National Library of Medicine</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1268','8','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Chicken pox eventually affects most children. While symptoms may begin with a stuffy or runny nose, the hallmark of chicken pox is an itchy rash of red bumps or blisters that appears over most of the body.</p> <p>Here are suggestions on how to keep your child from scratching and to prevent scarring, courtesy of the Nemours Foundation:</p> <ul> <li>Keep your child\'s fingernails cut fairly short, so that if he does scratch, he will do less damage to his skin.</li> <li>Since sweating may make itching worse, keep your child cool. You can apply a washcloth soaked in cool water to areas that are irritated.</li> <li>Give your child a lukewarm bath (water that\'s too hot will worsen the itching), and try adding oatmeal to the water to help soothe itchy skin.</li> <li>Apply calamine lotion to the skin, which can help stop itching.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1269','1','\n\n\n	 <p>WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 &#151; President Bush intends to use his State of the Union address Tuesday to tackle the rising cost of health care with a one-two punch: tax breaks to help low-income people buy health insurance and tax increases for some workers whose health plans cost significantly more than the national average.</p>      <p>White House officials say Mr. Bush has decided to forgo the traditional formula for the State of the Union &#151; a laundry list of ideas, many of them dead on arrival &#151; in favor of a more thematic speech that will concentrate on a few issues, like health care, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about immigration.\">immigration</a> and energy, on which he hopes to make gains with the new Democrat-controlled Congress.</p><p>The basic concept is that employer-provided health insurance, now treated as a fringe benefit exempt from taxation, would no longer be entirely tax-free. Workers could be taxed if their coverage exceeded limits set by the government. But the government would also offer a new tax deduction for people buying health insurance on their own.</p><p>&#8220;I will propose a tax reform designed to help make basic private insurance more affordable,&#8221; Mr. Bush said in his weekly radio address on Saturday, &#8220;whether you get it through your job or on your own.&#8221; He did not offer specifics, but an administration official provided details of the plan.</p><p>The  proposed plan is a startling move for a president who has repeatedly vowed not to raise taxes. And it is certain to run into opposition from business groups, labor unions and, most of all, the Democrats who now run Capitol Hill. </p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bad policy,&#8221; Representative <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/charles_b_rangel/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Charles B. Rangel.\">Charles B. Rangel</a>, the New York Democrat who is chairman of the House committee that writes tax legislation, said in an interview Friday night. &#8220;We are trying to bring tax relief to the middle class. The president is trying to increase their tax liability. This proposal is inconsistent with what the majority is seeking in the House and the Senate.&#8221;</p><p>White House officials say the health tax plan would neither increase spending nor reduce tax revenues. Supporters say it would expand coverage to some of the 47 million uninsured. But critics say it would, in effect, tax people with insurance to provide coverage to those without it.</p><p>That would amount to a tectonic shift in the way people get and pay for their health coverage, and historically it has been all but impossible to win Congressional approval for such  changes. When President <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/ronald_wilson_reagan/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Ronald Wilson Reagan.\">Ronald Reagan</a> made a proposal similar to Mr. Bush&#8217;s in 1986, it died in Congress, with Mr. Rangel helping to lead the opposition.</p><p>As he heads into the address, his first delivered to a Congress controlled entirely by Democrats, Mr. Bush faces intense skepticism from lawmakers over his new strategy in Iraq. But while he will not be able to avoid the subject of Iraq in the speech, White House officials hope to use the address to shift the national conversation away from the war and toward the possibility of bipartisan cooperation in Washington. </p><p>&#8220;What they want to accomplish is to have the average American believe that Bush really does want to work across party lines and he&#8217;s going to do it,&#8221; said one Republican strategist close to the White House.</p><p>In his radio address on Saturday, Mr. Bush described his proposal as a way to &#8220;treat health insurance more like home ownership,&#8221; giving people tax deductions for their health insurance in much the same way as they get tax deductions for home mortgage interest. He said the current system &#8220;unwisely encourages workers to choose overly expensive, gold-plated plans,&#8221; driving up the overall cost of coverage and care. </p><p>The federal government does without tens of billions of dollars each year in potential tax revenue by making health coverage tax-free. The idea of limiting such tax-free coverage has circulated in various forms for more than two decades and is &#8220;quite controversial,&#8221; said Dr. <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/mark_b_mcclellan/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Mark B. McClellan\">Mark B. McClellan</a>, a former White House economist and Medicare administrator, who has consulted with Bush officials on the plan.</p><p>&#8220;The conventional wisdom is that there would be too much political opposition to propose&#8221; such limits, Dr. McClellan said.</p><p>In preparation for the president&#8217;s speech, the White House has been shopping the idea around Capitol Hill, trying to sound out lawmakers like Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/charles_e_grassley/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Charles E. Grassley.\">Charles E. Grassley</a> of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/ron_wyden/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Ron Wyden.\">Ron Wyden</a>, Democrat of Oregon. </p><p>The administration official said Mr. Wyden&#8217;s plan contained tax provisions similar to the one proposed by the president. But in an interview, Mr. Wyden was skeptical. He said any tax changes must be coupled with regulations that would encourage private insurance companies to offer affordable coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions.</p><p>&#8220;The market is broken,&#8221; Mr. Wyden said. &#8220;Private insurance companies cherry-pick. They&#8217;re trying to take just healthy people and send fragile people over to government programs more fragile than they are, and I&#8217;m not sure what this does to fix the broken market.&#8221;</p><div id=\"pageLinks\"><ul id=\"pageNumbers\"><li> 1 </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum2\');\" title=\"Page 2\" href=\"?pagewanted=2&_r=5\">2</a> </li></ul><a class=\"next\" onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPage-Next\');\" \n             title=\"Next Page\"\n             href=\"?pagewanted=2&_r=5\">Next Page &#x00bb;</a></div><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1270','1','<p>President Bush will propose a deep tax break for Americans who purchase their own medical insurance and would finance it with an unprecedented tax on a portion of high-priced health-care plans that workers receive from their employers, according to the White House.</p><p>The initiative, which the president briefly previewed in his radio address yesterday, has a dual purpose: It would create a financial incentive for the estimated 46 million to 48 million Americans who lack health insurance to buy it. And it would rein in the soaring cost of health insurance by encouraging workers in high-priced plans to seek more modest coverage.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"media_photo\"><!--link rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/20/PH2007012001301.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-01-21/index.html?imgId=PH2007012001303&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/20/PH2007012001303.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/largerPhoto/images/enlarge_tab.gif\" width=\"103\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\"></a><br/><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-01-21/index.html?imgId=PH2007012001303&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/20/PH2007012001303.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/20/PH2007012001301.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"President Bush prepares to fly to Camp David. 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The result is that insurance premiums rise and many Americans cannot afford the coverage they need.&quot;</p><p>The proposal, which Bush plans to fully unveil in Tuesday\'s State of the Union address, marks a sharp departure for a president who has been criticized for advocating tax cuts that disproportionately benefit higher-income Americans.</p><p>Administration officials familiar with the plan say it reflects the new political order in Washington, where Democrats now control both chambers of Congress. They refuse to characterize the plan as a tax increase because it raises no new money for the federal government. Instead, it would add a new tax on employer-provided health-care plans worth more than $15,000 to subsidize those who buy modestly priced plans out of their pockets.</p><p>In addition, they say, the plan is consistent with the president\'s idea of increasing access to health insurance through the private market while encouraging people to be more cost-conscious as they purchase medical-care coverage.</p><p>In his speech Tuesday night, the president will also propose increasing the federal assistance to states that make private health-care plans available to low-income or chronically unhealthy people who are uninsured. The administration hopes to provide waivers under Medicaid -- the government health insurance program for the poor that is jointly funded by the federal government and the states -- to allow states to redirect money from hospitals and nursing homes to individuals to help them buy health insurance.</p><p>Some states are already moving to offer health-care coverage to the uninsured. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) recently announced a plan to provide coverage to about 6.5 million people, including many recent immigrants, who are uninsured. If the plan is approved by the state legislature, California would become the fourth state -- along with Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine -- to offer near-universal health insurance.</p><p>Taken together, Bush\'s proposals are his most ambitious attempt to address the health-care crisis. In the past, Bush had pushed for limited tax breaks to help people buy health insurance, but those initiatives never gained traction. He has also advocated health savings accounts, consumer-driven plans with higher deductibles and lower premiums than those in traditional insurance.</p><p>The new tax measure would attempt to roughly equalize the benefits of people who have health insurance, whether they buy it or receive it from employers.</p><p>The estimated 150 million people covered by employer-provided health insurance are not taxed on the value of their health insurance, regardless of how much it is worth. The average employer-provided family health insurance plan costs $11,500 a year, administration officials said -- three times what it cost 19 years ago.</p><p>Under the president\'s proposal, workers who receive employer-provided health insurance would have to pay a tax on the cost of their benefit above $15,000, the threshold proposed by Bush for the tax break. For instance, if a person\'s health insurance costs $16,000, he would pay a tax on the $1,000 difference.</p><p>People with families who buy low-cost policies, meanwhile, would have their taxable income reduced by $15,000, regardless of the cost of the plans and whether they itemize deductions on their tax returns. The deduction would be $7,500 for single individuals. The deduction, to be indexed to account for inflation, would also be extended to those with employer-provided plans, to be offset by the cost of their coverage.</p><p>&quot;This is a huge incentive for the uninsured to get coverage, but, also, the vast majority of people with employer-provided coverage will benefit as well,&quot; a senior administration official said. &quot;This is essentially a standard deduction for health care, and the size of the deduction will be significantly higher than the cost of an average policy.&quot;</p><p>The Bush administration estimates that 80 percent of people with employer-provided plans would see their tax liability fall because the deduction would be larger than the value of their insurance plans.</p><p>The idea of ending the taxpayer subsidy for what some in the health industry call &quot;Cadillac health insurance&quot; policies and using the savings to subsidize insurance for those who do not have it has been around for at least two decades, experts said. Underlying the idea is the belief that the current tax structure essentially adds to the inflationary pressure on health care by subsidizing expensive health-care plans, making coverage even more unaffordable for those who do not have it.</p><p>But now may be an interesting moment to resurrect the idea because the new Democratic Congress has vowed not to initiate any new programs that cannot pay for themselves. Additionally, the idea of imposing a tax on those with generous coverage to help those without it has a progressive cast that could appeal to Democrats. &quot;It is being proposed by a Republican, but it\'s kind of a Democrat idea,&quot; said Robert Laszewski, a health policy consultant. &quot;It should be something that will interest a lot of Democrats.&quot;</p><p>Still, some leading Democrats are skeptical of the plan. &quot;It is good that the president is finally talking about health care,&quot; said <a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000105/\" target=\"\">Sen. Edward M. Kennedy</a> (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health-care matters. &quot;I question, however, why the president thinks the way to solve this problem is through the tax code.&quot;</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1271','1','	<p>In the dining hall of the U.S. Olympic Complex, instantly recognizable speedskating champion Apolo Anton Ohno sat at a large, round table, talking to some unrecognizable young men who had gathered to meet him after the dinner rush ended. But on this night, it turns out Ohno was the ordinary guy.<p/>\nAround him were men who, leaning to one side, wearing baggy shirts, sitting quietly with their hands in their laps, only looked ordinary.<p/>\nOne of Bill Wright\'s legs is mangled, but at least he has both of them. Anthony Smith\'s right arm is missing and he doesn\'t have much of a hip anymore, just a mass of bone-hard scar tissue. Luke Murphy\'s one leg, if you can still call it a leg, is burned and shriveled and held together by a dozen screws and a series of rings that look like scaffolding.<p/>\nThey are not Olympians, or hopefuls, or even athletes just yet. They are soldiers, or at least they were once.<p/>\n\"We trained hard, too, but we didn\'t win a gold medal,\" Murphy, 25, an army sergeant, told Ohno.<p/>\nThe meeting, during which they talked about their hometowns and classic cars, seemed to earn the skater\'s awe.<p/>\n\"It was an honor for me,\" he said.<p/>\nAfter Ohno left, Murphy explained, \"I just wanted to meet a gold medalist.\"<p/>\nThe occasion for the meeting was the Paralympic Military Summit, an expenses-paid sports clinic for wounded veterans, most of them still patients at Brooke Army Medical Center near San Antonio, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., or the James A. Haley Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tampa, Fla.<p/>\nThe summit is a taste of the life of an Olympian, a chance to sleep and eat like one, to get instruction in the same facilities, to compete in an event or two, to test-drive their new $30,000 prosthetics, to tease and cheer and make small talk, to feel, for a few days, like life hasn\'t changed all that much.<p/>\nMurphy described the purpose of the weekend as the vague but important need to \"get stuff straight in my head.\"<p/>\n\"It\'s weird to see people back home doing the same things they were doing before the war,\" Murphy said. \"You know, going to bars, getting drunk, stupid stuff. Nothing\'s different. Life is so fragile. That\'s why it\'s good to be able to come here.\"<p/>\nSince the start of the <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/paralympic_military_summit/21649897/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Iraq%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Iraq</a></span> war, almost 20,000 soldiers have been injured. More than 500 are amputees, owing mostly to insurgents\' roadside bombs.<p/>\n\"During Desert Storm, we saw injuries related to tanks flipping over, or driving a Humvee too fast, or friendly fire,\" said Cathy Williams, a physical therapist at the Tampa VA.<p/>\n\"We\'re seeing a lot more amputations because of the kind of ballistics used,\" said Robert d\'Angelo, a physician\'s assistant in the Amputee Center at Brooke.<p/>\nYet, more soldiers than ever, about 90 percent compared to about 70 percent during the Vietnam War era, are surviving their wounds thanks to better armor, advances in field medicine and the swiftness with which the wounded are transported to hospitals.<p/>\nSome of these survivors are candidates for the U.S. Paralympic team.<p/>\nThe first Paralympic Games (short for Parallel Olympics) were held in 1960, and the first winter games followed in 1976. They are held at the same time and in the same place as the regular <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/paralympic_military_summit/21649897/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Olympic%20Games%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Olympic Games</a></span>.<p/>\nOften confused with the <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/paralympic_military_summit/21649897/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Special%20Olympics%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Special Olympics</a></span>, the Paralympics began in 1948 as a sports competition for wounded British veterans, held on the lawn of a hospital in southern England. Although the games started as a vehicle for soldiers, the vast majority of Paralympic athletes today are accident victims, cancer survivors, or those with birth defects.<p/>\nThe Paralympics are governed the same way as the regular games. There are 22 summer sports, 4 winter sports. Each sport has different categories to accommodate the range of disabilities. Swimming alone has 12 categories. The competition is fierce and top-notch.<p/>\nFor the U.S. Olympic Committee (of which paralympics are a division), the purpose of the military summits ? several are held during the year ? is to stir interest and cultivate a potentially important pipeline of athletes.<p/>\n\"You can already feel the difference\" made by the casualties of the war, said Beth Bourgeois, spokeswoman for the U.S. Paralympics.<p/>\nBut for the veterans, the purpose is something much more basic.<p/>\n\"Right now they\'re having to ask themselves some difficult questions,\" said John Register, himself a former world-class athlete, a veteran of Desert Storm, and an amputee, who helped run the summit. \"They\'re asking, \'Who am I now? Am I still a father? Am I still a husband or wife?\' Sports help put answers to some of those questions.\"<p/>\nRegister, 41, lost his leg 12 years ago as the result of a freak accident unrelated to the war; he suffered a severe hyperextension of his knee while running hurdles and severed a major artery.<p/>\n\"Sports helps you test what\'s inside,\" Register said. \"Hopefully they\'ll eventually see they are not that much different than before. This will help speed up that process. Family, religion, friendships, it all gets tested\"<p/>\nAdvocates for the disabled predict Iraq veterans could account for 10 percent of the 500-member Paralympic team in 2012 in London.<p/>\nThus, the bonding and rigors of the Paralympic Military Summit ? which range from having a piece of red velvet cake in the Olympic complex cafeteria with Apolo Ohno to a competitive game of sitting volleyball or even a crash on the first turn of a wheelchair relay race.<p/>\nThat is what happened to Josh Stein that weekend a few weeks ago on an indoor track at the Air Force Academy. He narrowly avoided taking down another contestant. But he survived the spill just fine, discovering he is more durable than he thought after losing both legs above the knees in bomb blast.<p/>\nIn the group at the summit, there are many types ? quiet but cheerful, sober and wary, and then there is Stein, a running tap of jokes.<p/>\n\"If you\'re dull, nobody\'s going to like you,\" said the 23-year-old, who drew a face at the end of his thigh where the rest of his leg was taken. He also severely injured one arm.<p/>\nPfc. Stein, an Army brat who grew up on the Pacific island of Saipan, enlisted right after Sept. 11, 2001. He was driving an armored Bradley Fighting vehicle when it triggered an improvised explosive. The lower half of his body was shredded by darts of molten copper. He managed, somehow, to steer the vehicle about 100 yards to the safety of an embankment.<p/>\n\"There was a flash,\" he said. \"I hit my head. I smelled something burning. That was me.\"<p/>\nHis goal is not so much the Paralympics or even to compete in a sport.<p/>\n\"I want to ride my dirt bike,\" he said. \"You can\'t stop me.\"<p/>\nThese are not men out of touch with their limits. Ask Stein and Patrick Myers, 23, who also ran the wheelchair sprint, what has bedeviled them the most about their injuries and they\'ll say (in coarser terms), going to the bathroom.<p/>\n\"It\'s the simplest things you used to take for granted,\" Stein said.<p/>\nAn athlete in high school, James Stuck, 22, is sure he will someday savor a Paralympic moment.<p/>\nHe ran the 100 in less than 14 seconds at the summit, eight months after his right leg was amputated below the knee. The Paralympic standard is just shy of 11 seconds.<p/>\n\"With my size and my athletic ability, I figure I have a pretty good chance,\" he said.<p/>\nStuck, who learned to snowboard after his injury, counts himself as very lucky. The location of his amputation, leaving a healthy knee joint, was crucial to his mobility.<p/>\nHe has no memory of the explosive that injured him near Kirkuk. But he wants to remember it.<p/>\n\"I got all my X-rays in a portfolio. It\'s part of my life... I\'m lucky to be alive, that\'s what I really believe. You never get used to it, but I accept what happened. I knew the consequences going in. I can\'t go back in time. I can\'t grow a new leg. This is what it\'s going to be.\"<p/>\nTawan Williamson, 30, who lost his leg, is another veteran with promise. From a seated position, he threw a discus 92 feet his first try.<p/>\n\"I\'d like to see how far this can take me, maybe Beijing,\" where the Olympics will be held in 2008, said Williamson. \"This has let me know the extent of what I can do.\"<p/>\nSome of the soldiers at the summit did not initially choose to come.<p/>\nThe first time Anthony Smith attended, a year ago, it was on orders from his doctor. Once he arrived, he didn\'t want to leave his room.<p/>\n\"I told them if you don\'t come and get me, I\'m not going,\" said Smith, a quartermaster in the Arkansas National Guard. \"They kept coming to get me.\"<p/>\nHe was angry back then and let it show. In his mind, it was a lucky shot. And besides he was in Baghdad\'s fortified Green Zone, safe, he thought, ready for a game of cards and a workout.<p/>\nHe took a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade. The missile went through his hip and stomach before it exploded, throwing him against a brick wall. Shrapnel took his arm. The enemy fired several rounds at his maimed body. He was put in a body bag before a nurse noticed air bubbles oozing through the blood.<p/>\nHe was in a coma for 44 days and only recently regained most of his memory. He can walk with crutches. He has undergone dozens of surgeries and learned to write and throw a ball to his child with his left hand.<p/>\n\"People who are able-bodied, the pastor, the psychologist, the doctor, the therapist, I felt like they didn\'t understand,\" said Smith, who volunteered to attend two more summits. \"When I\'m here, I know I\'m not the only one. This is our own little world.\"<p/>\nIt\'s a world in which the relative term known as happiness takes on remarkable dimensions. Take Daniel Robles, 35, once \"big, bad drill Sgt. Robles, now bilateral amputee Robles,\" as he puts it.<p/>\nHe was five years from retirement when he was deployed to Iraq. He was on his way to investigate a weapons cache south of Baghdad when his convoy hit a roadside bomb. He lost one leg instantly. What remained of the other barely dangled. He tied his own tourniquet so hard it broke off.<p/>\n\"Most people put on their pants in the morning,\" he said. \"I put on my legs. I don\'t have anything to complain about. Any day walking is a good day. I get a chance to watch my daughter (who is 5) grow up.\"<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('2063','7','<div id=\"result_box\" dir=\"ltr\">If TB is the 19th century, then the cancer is the 20th century belongs to the disease. May never be a stand-alone therapy, a drug that can make all the cancer patients have recovered. Part of the reason is every kind of cancer, from brain cancer, breast cancer of the colon cancer are different. However, the next decade, doctors will use various methods to make a lot of early diagnosis of cancer. In some cases, the cancer cells are not very strong, but also not deteriorated when suppressed. Reasonably expected in 25 years, the emergence of a new drug. If not all of the treatment of cancer, the cancer will be most effective, the major change is due to a large number of drugs under development, its large number of clinical research so that almost no ability to cope with. The sudden cancer drug fly progress, to this century\'s most important scientific insights one : Cancer is not like people ever imagined as depression, or air pollution caused by abstinence, but the wrong genes. Any tumor only at the beginning of an errant cells, which unfortunately have at least two or several gene mutation, These variations stimulate cell mass reproduction, it can be seen that the new tissue growth process of gene usually maintain control. This new perspective stirred up the technological innovation, will enable us to grasp the growth gene, prevent it have hurt a lot of people. &quot;We will diagnosis and treatment to truly change the prediction and prevention.&quot; California surgeon and &quot;Susan &bull; Love Breast doctors perish, &quot;a book\'s author Susan Love said. Indeed, if the current clinical trials proceed smoothly, with a higher risk of women with breast cancer may soon be using a device, from the nipple to do sampling tests. If there is any cancer cells showing early variation, the doctor may recommend using it Tamoxifen, This is an effective inhibition of early cancer drugs can reduce the incidence of cancer. Can prevent cancer occurrence of side effects of drugs already under development. Within five years, can also be a lot of early diagnosis of cancer. On a stool sample of colorectal cancer cells can be developed into cancer diagnosis, New Drug COX-2 inhibitors is to improve the potency of drugs to prevent the growth of cancer cells early. The next century, doctors can use a simple blood test notice more of the cancer early. The late period of cancer therapy is still Liaoning Liaoning life. Cancer doctors must take more effective measures to deal with tumor metastasis. Because the tumor is a different gene mutation consisting of a mixture of cells, each cell will have a different variation of the chaos. Some variation of rapid cell growth, while others stimulate the growth of blood vessels near the new capillaries. Other makes cancer cells into the blood circulation and generate new tumor. Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of John Whitehead Germany &bull; cancer biologist Robert Weinberg predicted : &quot;within a decade. We will be able to analyze the genetic variability, Then the tumor-specific develop specialized treatment programs. &quot;Eventually, there will be such a drug, It can have a malignant cells at any stage, the error occurred. For example, lung cancer patients will be able to do gene therapy, inhalation not lead to the transmission of genetic changes in gene frozen virus, these viruses is like a full p53 gene micro vehicles like. A copy of this gene in many types of cancer have good variation will force some cancer cells to death. P53 can also work together with antibodies to play a greater role, they attached to the cancer cell surface, weakened cancer cells to promote the breeding of special protein to replace capacity. If a tumor can be developed for the transfer of variation, the future doctors can use a new type of oral medication. Suppression of tumor to use enzymes to break through and penetrated surrounding tissue cells. This is all from a cell or part of the cancer cells made of vaccines, can enhance human immunity, and promote the mutant cells identify and kill them. The so-called anti-Lymphokines is just around the corner, this is a relatively non-toxic compounds can prevent the growth of new capillaries. Such drugs based on the lack of growth of the blood supply system, tumor grow to thousands of children as big pepper. Research staff and patients have been waiting for-Lymphokines results of clinical trials, this drug may be used in conjunction with chemotherapy. for the treatment of tumors and prevent any subsequent survival of tumor growth and lead to further injury. Some cancer patients may need in their lives long-term treatment. That would be unthinkable. However, cancer will remain under the control of the state and the treatment of hypertension and diabetes is not much distinction. Cancer survival of the United States National Federation executive director Ellen Stovall &bull; : &quot;Our goal is to help people to live better and longer lasting.&quot; ment of the century, We may not cure all the cancer, but the good we can coexist with them. </div>');
