INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1433','1','<p>PARIS -- About a dozen history and political science students huddled against the blustery cold outside the main entrance to the Sorbonne university, the bastion of Left Bank intellectualism. The topic, as they puffed away: France\'s new law banning smoking in public places such as schools and offices, and an even broader prohibition, set for next year, covering bars, restaurants and cafes.</p><p>\"I\'m in favor of the ban on smoking because when I see people smoking in bars and restaurants next to nonsmokers and children, it\'s a shame,\" said Louise Regent, 20, lighting up. Recounting a visit to Ireland, which recently adopted tough anti-smoking laws, she said, \"It felt very good to go to a bar, and when you got back home, you didn\'t stink of cigarettes.\"</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/2007/01/28/PH2007012801281.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801283&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801283.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/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801283&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801283.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801281.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Tobacco vendors demonstrated in Paris last November against a law to ban smoking in public places, the first phase of which is due to take effect Thursday.\"  height=\"143\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Tobacco vendors demonstrated in Paris last November against a law to ban smoking in public places, the first phase of which is due to take effect Thursday.<span id=\"credit\"> (By Michel Euler  --  Associated Press) </span></div></div>\n<script src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technorati/Technorati.js\"></script><script>\nvar technorati = new Technorati() ;\ntechnorati.setProperty(\'url\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Cutting Back on Smokers\\\' Libert?\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171.html\',\'PARIS -- About a dozen history and political science students huddled against the blustery cold outside the main entrance to the Sorbonne university, the bastion of Left Bank intellectualism. 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The drive is partly in response to medical reports showing that more than 500,000 people a year die from smoking-related diseases in the 27-nation European Union, and more than a million in Europe as a whole.</p><p>Belgium banned smoking in restaurants starting Jan. 1. Denmark will ban smoking in workplaces beginning April 1. England will ban smoking in offices, pubs and restaurants July 1 and will raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 16 to 18 in October. Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland and Norway have also passed tough anti-smoking regulations in recent years.</p><p>\"It\'s a tremendous success story for public health in Europe,\" said Peter Boyle, director of the World Health Organization\'s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon.</p><p>Boyle said Europe\'s anti-smoking advance began in 1985, when leaders launched an aggressive campaign to reduce cancer rates through educational programs and  improved prevention and detection. By 2000, he said, cancer death rates had fallen 9.8 percent.</p><p>Since new laws went into effect in Spain last January, for example, smoking among adults has dropped 2 percent, cigarette sales have shrunk 6 percent and nicotine levels in the workplace have fallen 83 percent, according to the country\'s National Committee for the Prevention of Smoking. The group called the laws \"the best advance in public health in Spain in the last two decades.\"</p><p>But it has not been all success for anti-smoking advocates. In Germany, where about 27 percent of people smoke, the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Dec. 2 that it intended to ban smoking in restaurants, schools and other public buildings  --  though not in bars and pubs  --  then backed away from the proposal 10 days later. Officials said they belatedly discovered that Germany\'s constitution reserved enactment of smoking laws to state governments, but political analysts and public health advocates accused the federal government of caving in to the country\'s powerful tobacco lobby.</p><p>An attempt last year in France to establish tougher smoking laws suffered a similar fate when the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, faced with plummeting public support and widespread student and labor strikes, postponed enacting a smoking ban, even though polls showed it had wide public support.</p><p>According to a survey published last January by the European Commission, 91 percent of French respondents totally or somewhat favored banning smoking in the workplace, and 78 percent favored a ban in restaurants. Even among smokers, 75 percent favored banning smoking in workplaces and 55 percent in restaurants.</p><p>The French government plans to implement its new law in two phases, banning smoking in offices, schools, shopping malls and other public places beginning Feb. 1,  and delaying the ban in restaurants, bars and cafes until Jan. 1. For many in France, granting a year\'s reprieve for the some of the smokiest places is a worrying sign that the government might once again back down.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n<div align=\"right\"><table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td align=\"right\"><font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" color=\"#CC0000\" size=\"-1\"><b>CONTINUED</b></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#CC0000\">1</font> &nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><script>document.write(\'<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171_2.html\">2</a></noscript></font></b> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font face=\"arial, ms sans serif, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><b><script>document.write(\'<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801171_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1434','1','<p>By  the  time she got to her 83rd organ donor, during her fellowship in liver transplant surgery at UCLA, Pauline Chen was so accustomed to the procurement routine that she felt she could perform the operation one-handed or in her sleep.</p><p>There would be the brain-dead donor awaiting her team\'s arrival: heart still pumping, chest still rising and falling, hooked up to life support machinery. Chen and her colleagues would open the donor\'s body as if operating on a patient still fully alive. They would call for the machines to be disconnected only at the last moment, so the organs they were harvesting would be as fresh as possible.</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/2007/01/28/PH2007012801429.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/style/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801431&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801431.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></div><div style=\"float:left;\"><div style=\"padding-left:135px;\"><img src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/images/pictopia1.jpg\" width=\"15\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\"/><span style=\"position:relative;bottom:2px;font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;\"><a href=\"http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp?provider_id=25&ptp_photo_id=xt-mt-25-title_7467566\">Buy This Photo</a></span></div>\n</div><br clear=\"all\"/><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/style/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801431&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801431.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801429.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Medical training taught Pauline Chen to separate her emotional self from her scientific self. In writing \"Final Exam,\" she cut through the detachment.\"  height=\"176\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Medical training taught Pauline Chen to separate her emotional self from her scientific self. In writing \"Final Exam,\" she cut through the detachment.<span id=\"credit\"> (By Michael Williamson  --  The Washington Post) </span></div></div>\n<script src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technorati/Technorati.js\"></script><script>\nvar technorati = new Technorati() ;\ntechnorati.setProperty(\'url\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Cutting to the Core\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html\',\'By  the  time she got to her 83rd organ donor, during her fellowship in liver transplant surgery at UCLA, Pauline Chen was so accustomed to the procurement routine that she felt she could perform the operation one-handed or in her sleep.\',\'Bob Thompson\') ;\n</script><script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_Technorati.js\"></script><script>document.write( technorati.getDisplaySidebar() );</script>\n<link href=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/css/bookmarking.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" media=\"all\"/><div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"right\" border=\"0\" width=\"222\"><tr><td class=\"sb-left\" align=\"left\">Save &amp; Share Article</td><td class=\"sb-right\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/saveandshare.html\">What\'s This?</a></td></tr></table></h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\"><div class=\"bookmark\"><div class=\"generic_bookmark digg_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html%3Freferrer=digg&title=Cutting to the Core&bodytext=By  the  time she got to her 83rd organ donor, during her fellowship in liver transplant surgery at UCLA, Pauline Chen was so accustomed to the procurement routine that she felt she could perform the operation one-handed or in her sleep.\" target=\"new\">Digg</a></div></div><div class=\"generic_bookmark google_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&title=Cutting to the Core&labels=&annotation=By  the  time she got to her 83rd organ donor, during her fellowship in liver transplant surgery at UCLA, Pauline Chen was so accustomed to the procurement routine that she felt she could perform the operation one-handed or in her sleep.&bkmk=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html%3Freferrer=google\" target=\"new\">Google</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/><div class=\"generic_bookmark delicious_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&partner=wpni&noui&jump=close&url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html%3Freferrer=delicious&title=%22Cutting to the Core: Surgeons Are Taught to View Death Coldly; This One Chose to Turn a New Page%22 By Bob Thompson&notes=By  the  time she got to her 83rd organ donor, during her fellowship in liver transplant surgery at UCLA, Pauline Chen was so accustomed to the procurement routine that she felt she could perform the operation one-handed or in her sleep.\" target=\"new\">del.icio.us</a></div></div><div class=\"generic_bookmark yahoo_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html%3Freferrer=yahoo&title=Cutting to the Core&popup=true\" target=\"new\">Yahoo!</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/><div class=\"generic_bookmark reddit_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html%3Freferrer=reddit&title=Cutting to the Core\" target=\"new\">Reddit</a></div></div><div class=\"generic_bookmark facebook_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"void(window.open(\'http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428.html?referrer=facebook\')+\'&t=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'Cutting to the Core\'),\'sharer\',\'toolbar=no,width=642,height=436\'));\">Facebook</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/></div></div></div>\n</td></tr></table>\n<p>Like most doctors, Chen, then 35, had seen a lot of death. Paradoxically, this had only reinforced the illusion of personal immortality that helps medical professionals -- and the rest of us, for that matter -- get through the days and years.</p><p>The 83rd donor shattered that illusion.</p><p>She was a 35-year-old Asian American woman who looked so much like the doctor now operating on her -- as Chen writes in her new book, \"Final Exam: A Surgeon\'s Reflections on Mortality\" -- that opening her body \"felt as if I were pulling apart my own flesh.\"</p><p>Finishing the operation, exhausted and sleep-deprived, Chen found herself assaulted by \"an unbearable, unspeakable grief\" that she didn\'t fully understand.</p><p>Writing about it would help, but she didn\'t know that at the time.</p><p>Chen is over 40 now, though she doesn\'t look it. Slim and dark-haired, she speaks in a soft voice you sometimes have to strain to hear. Over breakfast at a restaurant in Union Station, she talks about how she came to write her book, what it did for her -- and what she hopes it can do for others.</p><p>The early word on \"Final Exam,\" published this month by Knopf, has been favorable. Writing in the New York Times, William Grimes described it as \"a series of thoughtful, moving essays on the troubled relationship between modern medical practice and the emotional events surrounding death\" -- not to mention \"a crash course in the specifics of human mortality.\"</p><p>Chen grew up in Windsor, Conn. Her parents had emigrated from Taiwan, and when she was 7, she traveled there with her mother and sister to be with her grandfather, who had a brain tumor. The family waited together during his operation, and when the surgeon came out and said \"I got it all,\" Chen thought: Being a doctor is something I might want to do.</p><p>She has an even earlier memory, though, of wanting to learn how to write letters and words &quot;because I had these <i>stories</i> that I had to write down.&quot;</p><p>At Harvard, she got hooked on medical anthropology and decided on medical school. During the long years of training that culminated in her UCLA fellowship, she wrote a little fiction and \"some journal-like entries.\" But with time-starved interns and residents needing to grab sleep and food every chance they got -- \"see a doughnut, eat a doughnut,\" they were advised -- writing regularly wasn\'t an option.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n<div align=\"right\"><table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td align=\"right\"><font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" color=\"#CC0000\" size=\"-1\"><b>CONTINUED</b></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#CC0000\">1</font> &nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><script>document.write(\'<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_2.html\">2</a></noscript></font> &nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=\"arial,sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><script>document.write(\'<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_3.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">3</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_3.html\">3</a></noscript></font></b> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font face=\"arial, ms sans serif, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><b><script>document.write(\'<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801428_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1435','1','<p>Because of a shortage of beds at Maryland psychiatric hospitals, a growing number of patients, including many who are involuntarily committed, are spending days in emergency rooms, often in violation of a state law that mandates that they be placed at a comprehensive care facility within 30 hours of commitment, heath-care officials and patient advocates say.</p><p>In some cases, they say, this has forced doctors to release patients regardless of their mental state, sometimes only to have them involuntarily committed again with no guarantee that they will be placed promptly at a psychiatric facility.</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/2007/01/28/PH2007012801377.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/metro/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801380&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801380.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></div><div style=\"float:left;\"><div style=\"padding-left:135px;\"><img src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/images/pictopia1.jpg\" width=\"15\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\"/><span style=\"position:relative;bottom:2px;font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;\"><a href=\"http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp?provider_id=25&ptp_photo_id=xt-mt-25-title_7389002\">Buy This Photo</a></span></div>\n</div><br clear=\"all\"/><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/metro/2007-01-29/index.html?imgId=PH2007012801380&imgUrl=/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801380.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/28/PH2007012801377.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Brian Drayton, 22, spent about two days at Greater Baltimore Medical Center before being placed in Potomac Ridge Behavioral Center in Rockville. The wait of more than 30 hours was in violation of Maryland law.\"  height=\"153\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Brian Drayton, 22, spent about two days at Greater Baltimore Medical Center before being placed in Potomac Ridge Behavioral Center in Rockville. 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They say they are trying to address the issue by quickening the referral process and monitoring patients more closely to make sure they get access to the type of treatment they need.</p><p>\"The number of beds available has not kept up with the demand,\" said Brian Hepburn, the executive director of the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration. \"Anytime you have someone released on a technicality means they\'re not getting their needs met.\"</p><p>Elsewhere in the region, Virginia has no time limit prescribed by state law, but also often faces problems placing involuntarily committed patients into facilities.</p><p>\"We hear anecdotal complaints of people waiting in emergency rooms for extended periods of time,\" said James Reinhard, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services.</p><p>In contrast, the District\'s St. Elizabeths Hospital has 420 beds for psychiatric patients, more than enough to meet demand in the city. \"We\'re not experiencing a crunch,\" said Linda Grant, spokeswoman for the D.C. 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That slow-healing injury weakened the muscular support for my pelvis and, over the ensuing months, precipitated low-back problems: a herniated lumbar disk that produced severe pain down my leg, numbness and tingling in my right foot.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/jobs4/javascript/scripts.js\"></script>\n<link href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/jobs4/css/jobsboxes.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\">\n<!-- ====================================== -->\n<!-- ========= START JOB SEARCH =========== -->\n<!-- ====================================== -->\n<div class=\"jobsearch\">\n<div class=\"jobsbox228\">\n<div class=\"boxpad\">\n<div class=\"titleimg\"><img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/jobs4/images/title-job_search_228.gif\" alt=\"Job Search\" /></div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\">\n<img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/11/27/GR2006112700853.jpg\" style=\"height:72px;width:80px;float:left;margin-right:7px;\"/>\n<div class=\"job_search_header1\">Your Co-Workers Like McSteamy?</div>\n<p class=\"job_search_text\">We can help you find the right work environment with competitive benefits.</p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"job_search_header3\">Nursing, Allied Health:&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/jobs/DC-health-care-jobs.html?nav=apj\" class=\"font3\">Get a New Job</a></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<!-- ====================================== -->\n<!-- =========== END JOB SEARCH =========== -->\n<!-- ====================================== -->\n\n<title></title><div style=\"width:228px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>In Depth</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; 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I had to give up, at least temporarily, activities I love -- whitewater kayaking, certain hard-won yoga positions -- and learn other ways of maintaining strength and flexibility. Although like most doctors I\'m a control freak, I had to surrender part of my autonomy, recognizing that my physical therapist knew more than I did about what forms of exercise were safe for my back. Eager for quick results, I had to learn patience, accepting that herniated disks heal slowly and that setbacks, when they occurred, weren\'t my fault. Above all, I had to strive for a delicate, dynamic balance: brave enough to challenge my body with progressively harder levels of exercise, but mindful enough to back off if a new move triggered pain.Recovering, my therapist warned me, would require a willingness to change my lifestyle permanently -- walking daily, sitting for shorter periods, modifying my work space and driving position, strengthening and maintaining core muscles, and trying out more challenging activities one at a time, like a baby being introduced to new foods.</p><p>I\'ve never been much of an athlete, and my efforts to recover have deepened my respect for what real athletes must endure in coping with repeated injuries that compromise their ability to do what they love. It\'s hardest to handle the uncertainty: I want to peer inside my spinal canal, watch what\'s happening to the disk, objectively measure the impact of the treatments I\'ve tried, such as steroid injections and acupuncture. I want to know whether my back will heal completely and how long that process will take. I\'d welcome a guarantee: total recovery in exchange for following some pre-specified regimen. Instead, like other mortals, I have to give it my best shot without knowing if I will ever be able to return to performing a headstand, sitting through a 12-hour plane flight, or doing the Eskimo roll in my kayak. Unlike thousands of Americans who suffer from the same condition, I\'m fortunate to have been able to find and afford excellent treatment, and to have a job that allows me to adjust my activity level and schedule.</p><p>I may not be back to yoga classes yet, but I\'ve come to see this past year as yoga of another kind. I may have temporarily lost some physical flexibility, but I\'ve gained mental flexibility. I can apply mindfulness techniques learned in the yoga studio to Pilates exercises, weight lifting and even sitting at the computer. I can practice patience, testing my endurance during a brief flat-water paddle and hoping for the day when I can again brave the rapids in my kayak. I can walk on the towpath, enjoying sunlight on the river and savoring the knowledge that walking no longer hurts. And I can remember that listening to my body is a skill that will stand me in good stead as I get older and continue to look for ways to stay active and avoid injuries.</p><p>I won\'t go so far as to say that falling out of triangle pose was a gift. If I could, I\'d go back to that morning and patiently await my turn to use the yoga mat. But the injury taught me that thoughtful preparation and paying attention to my body will help protect me, even if they won\'t always keep me safe and pain-free. I\'ll be back in yoga classes one of these days -- starting over at a lower level, adjusting poses, listening to my back. If I\'m lucky, I\'ll end up not only physically stronger, but with a healthier respect for my body, a deeper understanding of my patients, and a greater appreciation of what it takes to exercise again after an injury.</p><p><i>No online discussion today, but you can send comments and fitness-related questions to move@washpost.com. Join us for the next Moving Crew chat Tuesday, Feb. 6.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1437','1','<p>Lean Plate Club members are a curious lot who frequently e-mail me during the week with questions. Here\'s a roundup of some of their most recent queries and my replies:</p><p><i></i></p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<script src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technorati/Technorati.js\"></script><script>\nvar technorati = new Technorati() ;\ntechnorati.setProperty(\'url\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901375_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Short-Term Losses\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901375.html\',\'Lean Plate Club members are a curious lot who frequently e-mail me during the week with questions. 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I know this is water weight and I fully expect some, or most of it, to come back now that I\'m eating again. But how much?</i></p><p>Sorry to hear that you\'ve been sick. Figure that most of that weight will likely return. Here\'s why: It takes a deficit of 3,500 calories to shed a pound. Let\'s assume that you need the average 2,000 calories per day to maintain your weight. And let\'s say that you didn\'t eat anything at all last week. (Unlikely, I realize.) There will be a large water loss, because you haven\'t had the sodium and other electrolytes that come with food and drink. But the most body weight you can lose -- and this includes fat as well as a little muscle and maybe even some bone -- is about half a pound per day or about 3.5 pounds for the entire week. So most of what you lost is, sadly, probably water, not fat. Hope your recovery continues uneventfully.</p><p></p><p><i>I\'m looking for a calorie- and diet-monitoring program that I can run on my Palm, or at least on my computer. A year or so ago I tried something called BalanceLog by HealtheTech, which has gone out of business.</i></p><p><i></i>There are a growing number of computer programs to track what you eat and how many calories you burn. The good news: Many are free. The bad news: Most won\'t synchronize between your PDA and desktop the way that HealtheTech\'s BalanceLog did.</p><p>Among the free programs for your desktop are Fitday ( <a href=\"http://www.fitday.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.fitday.com</a>), My Food Diary ( <a href=\"http://www.myfooddiary.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.myfooddiary.com</a>), NutritionData ( <a href=\"http://www.nutritiondata.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.nutritiondata.com</a>), Nutridiary ( <a href=\"http://www.nutridiary.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.nutridiary.com</a>) and Sparkpeople ( <a href=\"http://www.sparkpeople.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.sparkpeople.com</a>).</p><p>Diet Organizer will let you track food and activity on your PDA (BlackBerry, Palm or Pocket PC) or your cellphone. None of these will synchronize with the desktop version of Diet Organizer, and the food lists are a fraction of what BalanceLog offered. You can try it for free, but after that you\'ll have to shell out $19.95 for the PDA and cellphone versions, $39.95 for the desktop.</p><p>Another option is Diet Power, which gets high marks from Runner\'s World and Consumer Electronics. There\'s no version for your PDA. Like Diet Organizer, you can try it for free. But after that you\'ll need to buy it for $49.99.</p><p></p><p><i>My fiance and I want to get healthy before our wedding in October.</i> <i>This includes eating better, exercising and hopefully losing some weight</i> <i>. . . . We both have a Lean Cuisine for lunch. . . . Is it okay to do that every day?</i> <i>We like the convenience. . . . But I worry about getting too much sodium.</i></p><p><i></i>Best wishes on your upcoming nuptials! And how great it is that you\'re starting these healthy habits together for your new life! As you\'ve already figured out, processed food can be a major source of sodium. In fact, that -- plus restaurant and fast-food fare -- accounts for an estimated 80 percent of the sodium we consume.</p><p>But the trade-off is convenience and portion control. You can help offset that sodium by being careful about what else you eat during the day. You might also check out the DASH diet, by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which can be used for both weight control and for reducing blood pressure. Even if blood pressure isn\'t a problem for you or your fiance, the DASH diet is a healthy way to eat. It\'s rich in fruit and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy and healthy fat such as nuts.</p><p>A growing number of companies are also lowering the sodium in their food. Bread, soup and bouillon, crackers and frozen and canned food can be quite high in sodium. (A cup of soup can easily have 800 to 1,000 milligrams. Current advice is for African Americans, all people 50 and older, and those with high blood pressure to limit sodium to 1,500 milligrams or less. Other people are advised to eat 2,400 milligrams of sodium or less per day.)</p><p>More low- and reduced-sodium products are hitting the markets. Here\'s a tip from a Lean Plate Club member who discovered that Wyler\'s has a sodium-free bouillon (chicken or beef): She uses it to flavor stews and stir-fried food.</p><p></p><p><i>Sally, our office is moving locations, which means new furniture. Can you tell us where you got your desk with the motor? I\'m hoping to convince the powers that be that we need them, too.</i></p><p><i></i>The Post newsroom is equipped with motorized desks that adjust for standing. They\'re Contrex models, made by Steelcase. Also, see a video of how LPC member Lois Yurow of Westfield, N.J., has equipped her office with a computer and a treadmill at our Web site, <a href=\"http://www.leanplateclub.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.leanplateclub.com</a>, where you can also chat with me today from 1 to 2 p.m. and subscribe to the free LPC e-mail newsletter. ?</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1438','1','<p>The Washington region is one of the nation\'s best metropolitan areas for Hispanic,  Asian and non-Hispanic white children, based on a study of health, housing, economic, crime and education data released last week by the Harvard School of Public Health. For black children, the D.C. area ranks about average on most factors, according to the study, titled \"Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing America\'s Children.\"</p><p>The report, which compares living conditions for children in the country\'s 100 largest metropolitan areas, draws on a broad range of data that the authors spent five years compiling, with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; the data are  available at <a href=\"http://www.diversitydata.org\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.diversitydata.org</a>.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<script src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technorati/Technorati.js\"></script><script>\nvar technorati = new Technorati() ;\ntechnorati.setProperty(\'url\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901392_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'A Very Good Place to Grow Up, for Almost Everyone\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901392.html\',\'The Washington region is one of the nation\\\'s best metropolitan areas for Hispanic,  Asian and non-Hispanic white children, based on a study of health, housing, economic, crime and education data released last week by the Harvard School of Public Health. 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But the disparity between nonwhite children and white children on these measures is less than it is in many other metropolitan areas. In the Chicago area, for example, the rate of teen births was about seven times greater for blacks than non-Hispanic whites; in the Washington area, the ratio was less than 3 to 1.</p><p>\"Here in D.C. we do have a lot of good government jobs and less discriminatory hiring practices than many other cities, but we still have intense racial and economic segregation for African Americans,\" said Barbara Krimgold, one of the report\'s authors and senior project director for the Center for the Advancement of Health, a partner in the Diversitydata.org project.</p><p>In the Washington area, roughly 11 percent of black infants had low birth weights (under 5.5 pounds) in 2001-02, according to the National Center for Health Statistics; according to the report, the Washington area scores better than nearly two-thirds of other metro areas on the standard, with a rank of 36 out of 100, going from best to worst. About 4 percent of non-Hispanic white infants, 5 percent of Hispanic infants and 6 percent of Asian infants in the Washington area also had low birth weights.</p><p>The rate of premature births (before 37 weeks of gestation) for blacks in the Washington area was about 14 percent. That put Washington\'s black population in 28th place, meaning more than two-thirds of other metro areas had a worse (higher) rate. The preterm birth rates for whites was just under 8 percent, for Asians 8.3 percent, and for Hispanics 1.5 percent. In Washington and other metro areas, Hispanic infants tend to be healthier than other minority babies -- nearly matching non-Hispanic white babies in birth weight, for example. But they don\'t maintain this initial health advantage, according to the study.</p><p>Nationwide, the study authors say, the picture for minority children is bleak. On most indicators such as poverty and parents\' unemployment rate, black and Hispanic children were substantially worse off than white children, noted lead author Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, a demographer with the Harvard School of Public Health. Asian children generally fell somewhere in between.</p><p>The authors expected to see at least a segment of African American children and poor white children facing similar conditions, but there was almost no overlap between the two groups. Acevedo-Garcia said white children fared better across all income groups, showing that health and educational differences are more than a function of socioeconomic status.</p><p>\"We are talking about entirely different worlds of opportunity across metro areas,\" she said.</p><p>Nathaniel Beers, medical director of the  general pediatric clinic at Children\'s National Medical Center, said the report\'s inclusion of wealthy Maryland and Virginia suburbs in the Washington area distorts the picture some, raising the average salary, decreasing the poverty rate and increasing homeownership. The metro area\'s overall child poverty rate, for example, is about 9 percent, according to the report, compared with 32 percent for the city alone, according to the 2005 American Community Survey, collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.</p><p>Beers said lack of access to primary care providers, public transportation and even supermarkets limits opportunities for nonwhite children in the city. Gentrification, he said, may help, as long as it doesn\'t simply push minority children out of neighborhoods that are improving.</p><p>Besides government jobs, Beers attributed D.C. minority kids\' relative advantage to such city initiatives as aggressive immunizations, programs aimed at limiting teen pregnancy, comprehensive sex education efforts and health clinics -- such as those run by Children\'s Hospital.</p><p>Policy initiatives that would help disadvantaged children, said the authors, include: early childhood development programs; increased affordable housing in suburbs; programs that help minorities buy homes in better neighborhoods; more-equitable funding of largely minority schools and more school integration. Krimgold offered additional suggestions, including temporary assistance to needy families, tracking of minority women  during pregnancy and universal health insurance.</p><p>\"There are solutions for diluting the intensity of racial and economic segregation in this country,\" Krimgold said. \"It shouldn\'t be that minorities in the U.S. live in different worlds than white children.\" ?</p><p><i>Elizabeth Agnvall is a frequent contributor to the Health section. Comments:<a href=\'mailto:health@washpost.com\'>health@washpost.com</a>.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1439','1','<p>For several months now, Washington area schools have been taking a hard line on hard candy -- as well as the cookies and cream-filled confections that used to seem like harmless splurges in the course of a child\'s day. But many parents and health advocates wish schools would devote as much energy to reforming the quality of lunch fare as they\'ve invested in ridding campuses of sodas and snacks.</p><p>The controversy over contraband foods is the result of a federal law requiring every school system in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs to write a \"wellness policy\" by July of last year. D.C.\'s Board of Education still has not adopted final rules codifying its wellness policy, although officials insist that many of the programs are already taking place in the schools.</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/2007/01/29/PH2007012901419.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/29/PH2007012901421.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></div><div style=\"float:left;\"><div style=\"padding-left:135px;\"><img src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/images/pictopia1.jpg\" width=\"15\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\"/><span style=\"position:relative;bottom:2px;font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;\"><a href=\"http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp?provider_id=25&ptp_photo_id=xt-mt-25-title_7496118\">Buy This Photo</a></span></div>\n</div><br clear=\"all\"/><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/29/PH2007012901421.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/29/PH2007012901419.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"\"  height=\"147\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\"><span id=\"credit\"> (Gerald Martineau - The Washington Post) </span></div></div>\n<script src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technorati/Technorati.js\"></script><script>\nvar technorati = new Technorati() ;\ntechnorati.setProperty(\'url\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901388_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Reviewing the School Cupcake Ban\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901388.html\',\'For several months now, Washington area schools have been taking a hard line on hard candy -- as well as the cookies and cream-filled confections that used to seem like harmless splurges in the course of a child\\\'s day. 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Sixteen percent of children and teens ages 6 to 19 -- roughly 9 million kids -- are considered overweight, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting them at risk of conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. That percentage has more than tripled since 1980.</p><p>It remains to be seen whether school-based wellness initiatives will be an effective weapon against the obesity epidemic -- an explicit goal of the new law. But child health advocates believe schools are in a logical position to model healthy behavior, and the new wellness policies have spurred real change in some schools, which are weeding out junk foods, turning off vending machines and switching to baked versions of fried favorites, such as chicken nuggets and french fries.</p><p>Mandy Bean\'s first-grade class at Glebe Elementary School in Arlington is a long-standing example of how kids can quickly adapt to healthy foods, even if they seem unfamiliar. Long before school policymakers began putting the kibosh on empty calories, Bean was steering kids away from prepackaged, highly processed foods. Each week, on \"Fresh Fruit and Veggie Friday,\" her students take turns bringing in a fresh snack for the class. Kids tend to brave foods they would never sample at home, she notes. One Friday, the class tried edamame, a decidedly \"weird\"-looking soybean, but, she adds, \"they went nuts for that.\"</p><p>Meantime, Spotsylvania County schools have crafted what is perhaps the most comprehensive wellness policy in the region, ranging from curbing what\'s sold in vending machines to providing nutritional counseling. Implementing that detailed action plan keeps Nancy Farrell, the school system\'s full-time \"wellness dietitian,\" on her toes. Instead of teachers having ice cream parties or giving out candy bars or pizza coupons as rewards, for example, Farrell encourages them to hold class outdoors, hand out homework passes or offer verbal praise.</p><p>Farrell, whose new position is partially funded by a grant from Mary Washington Hospital Foundation in Fredericksburg, also helps parents navigate the county\'s new fundraising rules: For the next three years, for example, when food and beverages are sold at a school event, a least 50 percent of the items have to meet the county\'s new nutrition criteria.</p><p>\"I\'m not taking the cupcakes away,\" Farrell insists. \"I\'m just saying if you bring in that cupcake, then bring in some milk or water.\" She also adorns school hallways with posters featuring kids, teachers and principals eating healthy food.</p><p>Those things are all well and good, school health advocates agree, but they remain frustrated by the slow pace of achieving broader school lunch reforms. \"In my neighborhood in Montgomery County, some parents -- who thought wellness policies would solve the problem of fat-rich, vitamin-poor school lunches -- were appalled to see what was served\" immediately after the policy was implemented, says Julia Lear, director of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools at George Washington University. On the first day of the new school year, elementary school kids got a choice: burger and tater tots or French toast sticks and syrup. \"Not a green vegetable or fresh fruit in sight,\" she says.</p><p>Little has changed. \"We know that a lot of school districts really are taking action to improve the vending machines,\" Lear adds. \"But now the tough stuff is getting those cafeteria lines to match our rhetoric.\"</p><p>Aviva Goldfarb, who has two children in Montgomery County public schools, says the wellness policy has not yet produced noticeable changes in lunch menus. A major obstacle: devising meals that use foods donated to schools by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such as  processed cheese and fruit packaged in corn syrup. After her 7-year-old daughter came home complaining that the grilled cheese tasted like \"salty seawater,\" Goldfarb spoke with school food-service workers. She suspects those sandwiches were loaded with low-quality processed cheese, meeting nutrition guidelines but failing her kids\' taste test.</p><p>Tracy Fox, a nutrition policy consultant and a lobbyist for schools and nonprofits, points out that changing menus overnight is unrealistic, especially when schools are trying to please finicky children. \"You put brown rice and tofu out there and they just won\'t eat it,\" she says.</p><p>Wellness policies vary greatly across the area. Some provide vast amounts of detail, down to recommended portion sizes for foods and drinks. Others describe sweeping goals in a page or two. A preliminary analysis by Action for Healthy Kids, a public-private partnership that seeks to foster improved nutrition and increased physical activity in the schools, finds that only 54 percent of school systems nationally have met all of the federal government\'s minimum requirements.</p><p>Locally, the District\'s public schools are phasing in wellness programs despite bureaucratic delays. The school board in December adopted a proposed rule to establish a wellness policy, but the soonest a final rule might be approved would be March. According to Kimberly Perry, vice chair of the Mayor\'s Commission for Food and Nutrition, who helped draft the document, \"It\'s a very high-quality, high-impact wellness policy.\" For example, it bans  junk food and sugary drinks from school vending machines. It also calls for moving toward more whole grains to improve the quality of school meals. But until the policy is approved, nobody is being held accountable.</p><p>In Arlington County, the school board last summer adopted a wellness policy that for the first time established a minimum requirement for playground time. Schools must provide 100 to 125 minutes of recess per week for students in grades 1 through 5; kindergartners get 135 to 150 minutes a week.</p><p>Likewise, educators in Prince William County leveraged the wellness platform to pack more physical education into the school day and are looking for ways to make it safer and easier for kids to walk or bike to school. \"You need to look at the communities in Prince William that don\'t even have sidewalks and kids are forced to walk on streets,\" says Fred Milbert, supervisor of health and physical education for the county\'s schools.</p><p>Schools can\'t overhaul the infrastructure alone; it will take local government and grass-roots leadership, Milbert points out. So, health advocates urge parents, teachers and administrators to stay involved. \"It\'s got to be a community-wide effort,\" asserts Brenda Z. Greene, director of school health programs for the National School Boards Association. \"It\'s like [the] tobacco-free [movement]: moving the community, making a change.\" ?</p><p><i>Comments:<a href=\'mailto:health@washpost.com\'>health@washpost.com</a>.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1440','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of <b>Thomson CenterWatch</b>:</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Diabetes Mellitus Types 1 and 2 </b></span></p><p> One of the most challenging treatment issues in diabetes is keeping a patient\'s blood sugar under control. This research study will test whether an investigational drug helps diabetes patients who are taking metformin (Glucophage) keep their blood sugar under better control.</p><p>The research site is in Billings, Mont. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\" http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat55.html\" target=\"_new\"> http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat55.html</a>.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Endometriosis </b></span></p><p> If you are a female, 18-45 years old, and have been diagnosed with endometriosis, you may qualify for this study of endometriosis pain. Participants may receive study-related medication, lab tests, exams, and compensation for time and travel.</p><p>The research site is in Moorestown, NJ. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat60.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat60.html</a>.</ p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Diabetes - Type 2 </b></span></p><p> This study will assess the effectiveness of adding an investigational drug to metformin for people with type 2 diabetes. Volunteers 18-78 may be included.</p><p>The research site is in Aiken, SC. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat603.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat603.html</a>.< /p> <p>-----</p> <p>Copyright 2007 <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/trials.html\" target=\"_new\">Thomson CenterWatch</a>. All rights reserved.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1441','1','	<p><p>Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of <i>HealthDay:</i></p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>EU Considering Total Ban on Public Smoking</b></span></p> <p>European Union officials may propose a total smoking ban in public places for all 27 member countries.</p> <p>In a policy paper released Tuesday, EU regulators said they favor a ban that does not include any exemptions for establishments, such as bars serving food, <i>Bloomberg</i> news reported.</p> <p>However, the EU is delaying introducing legislation to guarantee a smoke-free environment across the entire bloc because \"the desirable level of EU involvement in promoting smoke-free legislation is an open question.\"</p> <p>So far, 13 EU nations have drafted rules to restrict smoking in public. However, smoking bans have met strong opposition in some countries, including Germany, which is Europe\'s biggest tobacco market, <i>Bloomberg</i> reported.</p> <p>Each year in the EU, secondhand smoke is responsible for the deaths of 79,000 adults, according to the European Commission, the EU\'s executive arm.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Statins More Effective for Male Heart Attack Patients: Study</b></span></p> <p>Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are more effective for men than women in reducing the risk of death after a heart attack, says a study published Tuesday in the <i>Canadian Medical Association Journal</i>.</p> <p>Researchers at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal compared the death rates of more than 14,000 heart attack patients treated with statins and more than 23,000 patients who did not receive statins, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>They found that the use of statins after a heart attack was associated with a lower death risk in men than in women, whether it was cardiac-related death or death from other causes.</p> <p>The researchers suggested that men and women may process statins differently, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>\"If corroborated by independent studies on the effects of statins on serum cholesterol levels, these results would suggest a possible need for reappraisal of target daily doses for statins,\" the researchers wrote. \"Women might require a higher dose to achieve preventive effects similar to those observed in men.\"</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Test May Predict Risk of Bone Marrow Transplant Rejection</b></span></p> <p>A potential method of predicting whether transplants from specific bone marrow donors are likely to be rejected by a recipient has been developed by Canadian researchers.</p> <p>They analyzed 19,000 genes from 50 bone marrow donors and found that the activity of 17 specific genes could help them identify so-called \"dangerous donors\" whose bone marrow was likely to be rejected, the <i>Canadian Press</i> reported.</p> <p>If this approach is confirmed, it would help doctors plan bone marrow transplants and post-transplant treatments in order to reduce recipients\' risk of graft-versus-host disease.</p> <p>It may also be possible for doctors to use this test to determine which recipients are likely to reject different kinds of solid organ transplants (for example, kidneys and livers), the <i>CP</i> reported.</p> <p>The study was published Tuesday in the journal <i>Public Library of Science Medicine</i>.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>YAZ Birth Control Pill Can be Used to Treat Acne: FDA</b></span></p> <p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the oral contraceptive YAZ can also be used by women to control moderate acne, the <i>Associated Press</i> reported..</p> <p>The decision means that YAZ, made by Bayer Schering Pharma AG, is the first oral contraceptive to be approved by the FDA for three distinct uses, the drug maker said in a statement released Monday.</p> <p>Along with birth control and acne treatment, YAZ is also approved in the United States to treat the physical and emotional symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the <i>AP</i> reported.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>McDonald\'s Starting to Use Trans-Fat-Free Oil for Fries</b></span></p> <p>After years of testing, McDonald\'s Corp. has finally chosen a trans-fat-free cooking oil for its french fries, the company said Monday. But the fast-food giant did not say when the new oil would be used in all its 13,700 U.S. restaurants.</p> <p>McDonald\'s spokesman Walt Riker did say the oil is currently being used in more than 1,200 U.S. restaurants and is being phased in around the country, the <i>Associated Press</i> reported.</p> <p>According to the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, McDonald\'s tested 18 varieties of oil in more than 50 blends during the last seven years.</p> <p>McDonald\'s trails fast-food rivals Wendy\'s International Inc. and Yum Brands Inc.\'s KFC and Taco Bell in using oils that are free of artery-clogging trans fats, the <i>AP</i> reported.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Jury Awards Woman $1.5 Million in Prempro Lawsuit</b></span></p> <p>The Prempro menopause drug contributed to an Arkansas woman\'s breast cancer, and drug maker Wyeth should pay her $1.5 million in damages, a state court jury in Philadelphia decided Monday.</p> <p>The jury deliberated for a total of about nine hours over two days before it concluded that Wyeth\'s conduct was \"malicious, wanton, willful or oppressive,\" and awarded punitive damages to plaintiff Mary Daniel, <i>Bloomberg</i> news reported.</p> <p>Wyeth failed to provide proper warnings about Prempro\'s cancer risk, the jury said. The jurors will return Tuesday to consider awarding further damages to Daniel, who took Prempro for about 16 months before she was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2001.</p> <p>This is the second trial loss for Madison, N.J.-based Wyeth, which faces about 5,000 lawsuits over its hormone-replacement drugs, including Prempro and Premarin, <i>Bloomberg</i> reported.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1442','1','	<p><p>TUESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A compound designed to block growth hormone, coupled with a standard chemotherapy drug, successfully treated human breast cancer in mice.</p> <p>In some cases, the tumor was destroyed. </p> <p>\"We inhibited a human cancer line that\'s not only estrogen-independent but also resistant to doxorubicin, which is a major chemotherapeutic agent for cancer treatment,\" said Andrew Schally, distinguished Miller professor of pathology and oncology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. \"Combining a growth hormone antagonist with a more modern chemotherapeutic agent, Taxol, we can virtually eradicate the disease.\" </p> <p>Growth hormone feeds many types of tumors. Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) antagonists effectively block these growth hormones and interfere with a tumor\'s ability to grow.</p> <p>Schally, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1977, was \"chased\" by Hurricane Katrina to Miami from New Orleans. His former employer, Tulane University in New Orleans, has applied for a patent on the specific antagonist cited in this paper. Schally is a co-inventor on that patent.</p> <p>The paper is published in this week\'s issue of the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>. </p> <p>Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women in the Western world and is the second leading cancer-killer. Once the cancer has spread, chances for recovery are slim, especially in women whose tumors are \"estrogen-independent,\" meaning they are not reliant on the hormone estrogen to grow, Schally said.</p> <p>\"The treatment of estrogen-positive or estrogen-dependent breast cancer is relatively easy, because you can use tamoxifen or later compounds,\" he explained. \"But estrogen-independent cancer is a major problem, and many women die from it.\" </p> <p>GHRH is active in promoting many tumor types, including breast tumors. </p> <p>Schally and his colleagues developed a GHRH-antagonist called JMR-132, which binds to specific receptors, preventing GHRH from helping tumor cells grow. The antagonist works locally on the tumor site and is also active against 15 other types of cancer, he said.</p> <p>For this study, the researchers looked at the effectiveness of JMR-132 alone or in combination with the chemotherapy drug Docetaxel in mice that had been specially bred to develop human breast tumors. </p> <p>After three weeks of treatment, the antagonist reduced tumor volume by an average of 63 percent, and Docetaxel reduced volume by 74 percent. But the combination reduced tumor volume by more than 97 percent; in some cases, the tumor was eradicated.</p> <p>The combination of the two had the added advantage of few side effects.</p> <p>\"Chemotherapy is the most commonly used approach for therapy for those cancers that cannot be removed surgically,\" Schally said. \"But chemotherapy has very severe side effects. It\'s toxic, lowers your white blood cells, red blood cells, makes your hair fall out and makes you feel miserable. This would have the major advantage of not having side effects.\"</p> <p>But the question is whether the regimen will work in humans as well as it works in mice. </p> <p>\"It\'s an interesting study, but there\'s no guarantee that this would work in humans,\" said Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La. \"Docetaxel would work in humans, because it\'s the most active drug in breast cancer, but we don\'t know if the antagonist would work. I think this should be followed in a human clinical research trial.\" </p> <p>Dr. Yelena Novik, assistant professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, added, \"It\'s definitely preliminary, because it\'s animal data. The question is whether this will translate into the same response in the clinic. It\'s interesting, because we believe there is a future in combining traditional cancer drugs like chemotherapy drugs and newer drugs which may somehow prevent cancer cells from growing and metastasizing.\" </p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>For more on breast cancer, visit the <a href=\"http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2x.asp?sitearea=&amp;dt=5\" target=\"_new\">American Cancer Society</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1443','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Gingivitis, or inflammation of the gums, is a form of periodontal disease that\'s caused by the long-term effects of plaque deposits.</p> <p>Plaque that isn\'t removed by brushing and other forms of dental care forms a hard deposit called tartar where teeth meet the gum line. Plaque and tartar can cause the gums to become infected, swollen, and tender.</p> <p>The U.S. National Library of Medicine lists these common signs that you may have gingivitis:</p> <ul> <li>Sores in the mouth.</li> <li>Swollen or bleeding gums.</li> <li>Red, purplish or shiny gums.</li> <li>Tenderness when you touch the gums.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1444','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Any time a warm-blooded animal -- including a cat or dog -- bites a person, there is a risk of contracting rabies if the animal is infected.</p> <p>If you don\'t know the animal, or if it is wild or stray, seek medical attention immediately.</p> <p>If you\'re positive that the animal is not infected with rabies, the first thing to do is to wash the area thoroughly, the Rhode Island Department of Health says.</p> <p>Scrub the area firmly with antibacterial soap and warm water. After the wound is clean, apply an antiseptic solution such as iodine. Then apply an antibiotic ointment and cover the wound with a bandage.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1445','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601459 --> <p>TUESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Minimally invasive \"endograft\" repair of a tear in the aorta -- the main artery leading from the heart to the rest of the body -- may save more lives than traditional open chest surgery, Canadian researchers report.</p> <p>Tears to the aorta are the second most common cause of death in people injured in vehicle crashes or falls. Nine out of 10 people who suffer a tear to the aorta bleed to death at the scene, according to background information in a news release.</p> <p>Many patients who do make it to the hospital die, because open-chest surgery to repair a tear in the aorta is extremely risky when patients have other serious injuries. Endograft, which uses a fabric tube supported by a stent to repair aortic tears, is less risky, because it can be done without having to open the patient\'s chest. The endograft is installed via a catheter that\'s inserted through an incision in the groin.</p> <p>This study included 28 patients with blunt thoracic aortic injury who were treated at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. Sixteen of the patients were treated with open chest surgery, and 12 were treated with an endograft.</p> <p>All of the patients who received endograft repair survived, compared with 69 percent of those who had open chest surgery.</p> <p>\"Many of these young and otherwise healthy people die of aorta injuries after reaching the hospital, because their bodies haven\'t stabilized enough to undergo surgery,\" study author Dr. Oren Steinmetz, associate professor at McGill, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>\"Placing an endograft allows us to correct a life-threatening problem sooner and in a far less invasive and less dangerous way. Then, we can also more easily treat the other injuries,\" Steinmetz said.</p> <p>The findings were expected to be presented Monday at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy in Hollywood, Fla.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The Society for Vascular Surgery explains <a href=\"http://www.vascularweb.org/_CONTRIBUTION_PAGES/Patient_Information/N orthPoint/Endovascular_Stent_Graft.html\" target=\"_new\">endovascular stent graft</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1446','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601457 --> <p>MONDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Using drug-coated stents to replace bare metal stents that have become blocked may be the best solution to reopening cardiac arteries and keeping them open, European researchers report.</p> <p>In fact, replacing bare metal stents with drug-coated stents cuts the risk of this re-closure, called restenosis, by 65 percent, compared with either balloon angioplasty or radiation treatment, the scientists added.</p> <p>Drug-eluting stents are coated with medications aimed at keeping restenosis at bay. The devices are considerably more expensive than bare-metal stents, however.</p> <p>But \"patients who develop in-stent restenosis after implantation of bare metal stents carry a high risk for recurrence,\" the authors write in the Feb. 6 issue of the <i>Journal of the American College of Cardiology</i>. \"Use of drug-eluting stents effectively reduces the risk of recurrence.\"</p> <p>In-stent restenosis occurs in up to 50 percent of patients who receive bare mental stents to prop open an artery. There is also clinical evidence that drug-eluting stents produce better results than other treatments for this problem, but they are not yet approved for this use, according to study author Dr. Alban Dibra, a consultant cardiologist at the German Heart Center in Munich.</p> <p>To find out which treatment was better, Dibra\'s team looked at four studies that compared two types of drug-eluting stents vs. balloon angioplasty or vascular brachytherapy (a type of radiation treatment). The stents used in the study were coated with either the drug sirolimus or another drug, paclitaxel.</p> <p>The studies included 1,230 patients whose bare metal stent had undergone restenosis. The researchers evaluated the results at least nine months after the procedure to see if there was restenosis in the stented artery.</p> <p>They found that using drug-eluting stents reduced the risk of further restenosis in the blood vessel by 65 percent, compared with the other procedures.</p> <p>Moreover, the German team found no differences between patients treated with drug-eluting stents and those treated with other techniques in terms of death or heart attack.</p> <p>They conclude that the use of drug-eluting stents in these cases \"is associated with superior results compared with plain balloon angioplasty and vascular brachytherapy. These drug-eluting stents should be recommended as the treatment of choice for patients with restenosis of bare metal stents.\"</p> <p>One expert believes the finding echoes the general consensus among cardiologists.</p> <p>\"This is not particularly new information,\" said Dr. David O. Williams, director of the Cardiovascular Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School in Providence.</p> <p>\"What the study says is what the general cardiology community had believed, and this is confirmatory,\" Williams said. He also noted there are fewer cases of restenosis from bare metal stents because there are fewer of these stents now being used. \"About 94 percent of the stents used are drug-eluting stents,\" he said.</p> <p>Williams noted, however, that new data suggests that people who get any type of stent are at higher risk of having a heart attack or of dying. \"The association might not have to do with the procedure,\" he said.</p> <p>In another study in the same journal issue, Italian researchers looked at drug-eluting stents to see which medication, sirolimus or paclitaxel, worked best.</p> <p>In the study, Dr. Anna Sonia Petronio, from the department of cardiology at the Hospital Cisanello in Pisa, and colleagues looked at the outcomes of 100 patients who had received either type of stent.</p> <p>They found that patients who received the sirolimus-eluting stent had significantly less thickening of the artery wall compared with patients who received the paclitaxel-eluting stent. This wall thickening, called neointimal hyperplasia, can cause the artery to narrow and possibly close.</p> <p>However, Petronio\'s team also found that the differences between the stents in neointimal hyperplasia didn\'t cause higher rates of restenosis, either in the stent itself or in the stented blood vessel.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>There\'s more on stents at the <a href=\"http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4721\" target=\"_new\">American Heart Association</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1447','1','	<p>Older people are able to\ntake bad news more in their stride than their children or\ngrandchildren which can make them more risky gamblers as losses\ndon\'t scare them, according to a U.S. study.<p/>\nResearch funded by the National Institute of Aging has\nfound evidence that older adults process negative information\ndifferently from their younger counterparts and are less\nresponsive to unpleasant information.<p/>\nIn a study led by Dr. Stacey Wood, neuropsychologist and\nassociate professor at California\'s Scripps College, a group of\nolder and younger adults were shown a series of negative\nimages, such as dead animals, and positive images, like bowls\nof ice-cream, and the change in brain activity was recorded.<p/>\n\"As a group, older adults are less likely to be depressed\nand less affected by negative or unpleasant information,\" Wood\ntold Reuters.<p/>\nWood, and her collaborator in the study, Dr. Michael Kisley\nfrom the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, also\nlooked at the effects of gambling losses on younger and older\nadults.<p/>\nThey found older adults were less likely to pay attention\nto negative results.<p/>\n\"Younger adults learn very early to stay clear of the decks\nwith high losses,\" said Wood.<p/>\n\"Older adults are able to tolerate the losses and are more\nwilling to risk future draws in hopes of a high payout. Indeed,\nolder adults tend to do as well as younger adults by the end of\nthe game.\"<p/>\nBut Wood said the fact that older people did not react as\nmuch to negative images as younger people, did not necessarily\nmake them any happier.<p/>\n\"It\'s not necessarily that older adults are becoming\nhappier, but younger adults are very attentive to negative\ninformation,\" she said.\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1448','1','	<p>Recent studies suggest that the\nincidence of kidney stones is increasing, both in the U.S. and\nworldwide, and data compiled by researchers at the Mayo Clinic\nin Rochester, Minnesota, suggest that diabetes may be a\npredisposing factor, particularly for kidney stones composed of\nuric acid.<p/>\nA kidney stone is a solid mass consisting of tiny crystals\nmade of calcium, uric acid or other substances. Pain in the\nback, flank or abdomen is a common feature, along with bloody\nurine, excessive or painful urination, nausea and vomiting, and\nother symptoms.<p/>\nDr. John C. Lieske and his associates identify all Olmsted\nCounty residents diagnosed with kidney stones between 1980 and\n1999. The 3,561 patients were matched by age and gender with an\nequal number of individuals without kidney stones. The\nresearchers also examined patients diagnosed with diabetes,\nhigh blood pressure and obesity.<p/>\nAfter taking into account the effects of age, time of year,\nhigh blood pressure, and obesity, diabetes was significantly\nassociated with a diagnosis of kidney stones, the team reports\nin the American Journal of Kidney Disease.<p/>\nFor closer scrutiny, Lieske\'s group obtained a random\nsample of 269 subjects with confirmed kidney stones and matched\nthem with 260 individuals without kidney stones. The odds of\nhaving diabetes in those with kidney stones was of a similar\nmagnitude, but was no longer statistically significant due to\nthe smaller sample size.<p/>\nHowever, when the researchers analyzed the cases according\nto stone type, the prevalence of diabetes was 40 percent among\nthe 10 individuals with uric acid stones, versus 9 percent\namong the 112 with calcium stones and 7 percent in those\nwithout kidney stones.<p/>\nAfter accounting for the patients\' body mass index (the\nratio between height and weight) patients with uric acid kidney\nstones had five times the risk of diabetes.<p/>\nEven so, the investigators say it\'s unlikely that diabetes\nis the only factor driving the increased incidence of kidney\nstones. It may also be partly attributed to improved diagnostic\ntechniques.<p/>\nSOURCE: American Journal of Kidney Disease, December 2006.\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1449','1','	<p>Kids who carry excess pounds\nmay be doing permanent damage to their feet, a group of foot\nand ankle surgeons warns.<p/>\n\"When there is an increased amount of weight and stress\nbeing placed on the foot, that can cause some significant\nchanges in foot structure,\" Dr. Darryl Haycock, a foot and\nankle surgeon in private practice in Lima, Ohio, told Reuters\nHealth.<p/>\nChildren\'s feet aren\'t fully developed until the age of 14\nor 15 for girls, 15 to 17 for boys, meaning their foot bones\nare \"easily moldable,\" Haycock added.<p/>\nAs few as 15 to 20 extra pounds can contribute to\nflattening of the arches and inflammation of the growth plate\nin the heel, according to Haycock, who says he used to only see\nthis type of foot pain in very active children, but is seeing\nit increasingly in overweight kids.<p/>\nIt\'s difficult to determine whether children are obese\nbecause they have foot problems in the first place, which make\nit painful for them to be active, or whether the obesity is\ncausing the changes in foot structure, Haycock added.<p/>\n\"It\'s the proverbial chicken and the egg thing,\" he said.\nComplicating matters is the fact that many children are born\nwith foot deformities that can reduce their activity levels,\nsuch as flat feet or hammer toes.<p/>\nBut it is clear that foot problems in obese kids can cause\na vicious cycle, with the foot pain making it more difficult\nfor them to be active, which makes it more difficult to trim\ndown, Haycock and his colleagues point out.<p/>\nTreatment of foot problems generally begins with\nconservative therapies such as custom-made shoe inserts, known\nas orthotics, and physical therapy. If such approaches don\'t\nwork, surgery to correct the problem may be recommended.<p/>\nSOURCE: American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1450','1','<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\">Report: Drug firm distorted Paxil test results</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Glaxo antidepressant may be linked to suicide in teenagers</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>LONDON - GlaxoSmithKline Plc was accused on Monday of distorting clinical trial results of its antidepressant Seroxat, or Paxil, and covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.</p><p>The BBC plans to air an episode of the investigative show \"Panorama\" later saying the drug company attempted to show that Seroxat worked for depressed children despite failed clinical trials and that Glaxo-employed ghostwriters influenced \"independent\" academics.</p><p><a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/6291773.stm\" target=\"_blank\">A summary of the program</a> was published on the BBC Web site.</p><p>\"We utterly reject the allegations that are being made in their program,\" a Glaxo spokeswoman said.</p><p>She denied the company had improperly withheld any trial information and said results from pediatric studies were documented and submitted to regulators in accordance with requirements, as well as being presented publicly and published.</p><p>Regulators in 2003 recommended against using Seroxat in people under 18 due to an increase in the rate of self-harm and potentially suicidal behaviors in this age group when the drug was prescribed.</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=\"/id/16756646/\">Antidepressants may raise risk of broken bones</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16829300/\">\'Suicide bridge\' hurts employees\' mental health</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>But Glaxo said the increase in suicidal thinking was revealed only when results of separate clinical studies were pooled at the end of its research program, at which point the company brought the findings to the attention of regulatory authorities.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/DepressionSymptoms/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.DepressionSymptoms) { displayApp(DepressionSymptoms); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></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('1451','1','<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\">Yoga causes controversy in public schools</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Some parents say it violates the separation of church and state</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"javascript:window.status=\'iedialog:open=16859469\';\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070128/070128_yoga_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Tara Guber and staff\"></a></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Reed Saxon / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Tara Guber and her staff demonstrate a typical session where she teaches the teachers in her home in Los Angeles. When Guber created a yoga program five years ago for a public elementary school in Colorado, she never fathomed her proposal would provoke a crusade by some who argued that yoga\'s Hindu roots possibly violated the separation of church and state. </font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>SAN FRANCISCO - In Tara Guber\'s ideal world, American children would meditate in the lotus position and chant in Sanskrit before taking stressful standardized tests.</p><p>But when she asked a public elementary school in Aspen, Colo., to teach yoga in 2002, Christian fundamentalists and even some secular parents lobbied the school board. They argued that yoga\'s Hindu roots conflicted with Christian teachings and that using it in school might violate the separation of church and state.</p><p>Portrayed as a New Age nut out to brainwash young minds, Guber crafted a new curriculum that eliminated chanting and translated Sanskrit into kid-friendly English. Yogic panting became \"bunny breathing,\" and \"meditation\" became \"time in.\"</p><p>\"I stripped every piece of anything that anyone could vaguely construe as spiritual or religious out of the program,\" Guber said.</p><p>Now, more than 100 schools in 26 states have adopted Guber\'s \"Yoga Ed.\" program and more than 300 physical education instructors have been trained in it.</p><p>Countless other public and private schools from California to Massachusetts - including the Aspen school where Guber clashed with parents - are teaching yoga.</p><p><b><strong>Helping kids focus<br></strong></b>Teachers say it helps calm students with attention-deficit disorder and may reduce childhood obesity. The federal government gives grants to gym teachers who complete a teacher training course in yoga.</p><p>\"I see a lot fewer discipline problems,\" said Ruth Reynolds, principal of Coleman Elementary School in San Rafael. Her observation of the school\'s six-year-old yoga program is that it helps easily distracted children to focus.</p><p>\"If you have children with ADD and focusing issues, often it\'s easy to go from that into a behavior problem,\" Reynolds said. \"Anything you can do to help children focus will improve their behavior.\"</p><p>In 2003, researchers at California State University, Los Angeles, studied test scores at the Accelerated School, a charter school where Guber sits on the board and where students practice yoga almost every day. Researchers found a correlation between yoga and better behavior and grades, and they said young yogis were more fit than the district average from the California Physical Fitness Test.</p><p>Guber, married to former Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Peter Guber, embraced yoga after moving to California in the 1970s. Their 13-acre Bel-Air estate includes a clifftop garden leading to a Yoga House retreat.</p><p>In 2004, Americans spent almost $3 billion on yoga classes and retreats, books, DVDs, mats, clothing and related items. About 3 million American adults practiced yoga at least twice a week in 2006, more than doubling from 1.3 million in 2001, according to Mediamark Research.</p><p><b><strong>Exercise or religion?<br></strong></b>Despite mainstream acceptance, yoga in public schools remains touchy. Critics say even stripped-down \"yoga lite\" goads young people into exploring other religions and mysticism.</p><p>Dave Hunt, who has traveled to India to study yoga\'s roots and interview gurus, called the practice \"a vital part of the largest missionary program in the world\" for Hinduism. The Bend, Ore., author of \"Yoga and the Body of Christ: What Position Should Christians Hold?\" said that, like other religions, the practice has no place in public schools.</p><p>\"It\'s pretty simple: Yoga is a religious practice in Hinduism. It\'s the way to reach enlightenment. To bring it to the west and bill it as a scientific practice for fitness is dishonest,\" said Hunt, 80.</p><p>\"I\'ve talked to too many people who got hooked on the spiritual deception of yoga. They come to believe in this and become enamored with Hinduism or eastern mysticism,\" he said.</p><p>Concerns about yoga\'s spiritual implications have also fueled a cottage industry of books and videos that offer the purported benefits of yoga - flexibility, strength and weight loss -without mentioning the y-word.</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/thread.aspx?ThreadID=181068\">Discuss: What do you think of yoga being practiced in public schools?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16753305/\">Parents rebel against birthdays gone wild</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>Laurette Willis, 49, wrote an exercise regimen called \"PowerMoves Kids Program for Public Schools.\" The stretching routine includes pauses for children to contemplate character-building quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., Emily Dickinson, Harriet Tubman and William Shakespeare. Willis, who lives near Tahlequah, Okla., also created an exercise regimen called \"PraiseMoves: The Christian Alternative to Yoga.\"</p><p>\"I\'m not here to say that yoga is necessarily bad, but it is counter to what I think the public education system is for: It should have programs without any form of religious overtones whatsoever,\" Willis said.</p><p>The dispute confuses some yogis, particularly Westerners who say they yoga as it\'s practiced in the United States is primarily about fitness and stress relief.</p><p>Baron Baptiste, who owns three studios in the Boston area and practices with his 7-year-old son, loves Guber\'s program. He said his son takes yoga far less seriously than he does.</p><p>\"We adults need to be reminded to lighten up, breathe in the joy and have some fun,\" he said.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i>Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1452','1','<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\">A mother\'s gentle honesty in the face of death</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>One family prepares its young children to cope with a future without Mom</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/slideshow.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">Slide show</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"javascript:SSOpen(\'16836158\',\'0\');\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss_070126_momsgoodbye/ss_070126_momsgoodbye_tease.300w.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:SSOpen(\'16836158\',\'0\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font class=\"textMedBlackBold\"><a href=\"javascript:SSOpen(\'16836158\',\'0\');\">Living while letting go</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">A terminally ill mother helps her children make memories as she prepares them for life without her. </font></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">M. Spencer Green / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">** PLEASE CORRECT SPELLING OF CHILD\'S NAME TO NICHOLAS, NOT Nicoholas, AS SENT ** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 28 ** ONE IN A SERIES OF PHOTOS BY AP PHOTOGRAPHER M. SPENCER GREEN **Aimee Chamernik mixes ingredients for cookies with her son Nicholas, 9, in their home Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 in Grayslake, Ill. Aimee, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig\'s disease in 2004, says she wants to create as many happy moments for her kids to remember before she dies. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>GRAYSLAKE, Ill. - Seven-year-old Nicholas Chamernik had rarely seen his parents cry. So he felt a pang of worry when he looked up one evening to see his father wiping away tears.</p><p>\"Dad, what\'s wrong?\" he asked.</p><p>Jim Chamernik was too choked up to respond. After 18 months of grasping for answers, he and his wife, Aimee, finally had an explanation for symptoms Aimee had been having - slurred speech and weakness in her right arm among them. The diagnosis was Lou Gehrig\'s disease, a degenerative condition of the nervous system, also known as ALS.</p><p>There is no cure. But how could they explain that to their eldest son, the first in the family to notice his mom\'s slurring, when she read him bedtime stories?</p><p>How, they wondered, do you tell a child that his mom is dying?</p><p><b><strong>Gentle honesty</strong></b><br>It would be tempting for a parent to shield a child as long as possible from such a painful reality. But the Chamerniks have chosen a different path - one of gentle honesty. Theirs is the story of two parents doing the best they can to help their children understand and cope with terminal illness.</p><p>The process began that night more than two years ago with a question from their son. It has only led to more questions - and even on their toughest days, the Chamerniks have attempted to answer each one.</p><p>\"Dad, what\'s wrong?\"</p><p>Aimee - seeing that Jim was struggling - took a deep breath and sat down in the family room of their suburban Chicago home. She pulled Nicholas onto her knee and put her arms around him.</p><p>\"You know I\'m having trouble with my muscles, right?\" Aimee began, surprised at her own composure. Her son nodded.</p><p>\"Well,\" she said, slowly, \"Daddy\'s sad because the doctor told me they\'re not going to be able to help me get better.\"</p><p>Nicholas sat there for a moment, thinking about what his mom had said and then responded in his 7-year-old way. \"You know mom, when I grow up, I\'m going to be a paleontologist and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball player and a zoologist and a person who studies plants,\" he said, breathlessly.</p><p>\"Well, I\'m also going to be a doctor,\" he said. \"So if you\'re still alive, I can help them find out how to make you better.\"</p><p>Four words from that conversation still echo in Aimee\'s head - \"if you\'re still alive.\"</p><p>They were the first indication that, at some level, Nicholas understood the gravity of her slow decline. 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The average life expectancy after an ALS diagnosis, they\'ve told her, is two to five years. It\'s been a little more than two so far.</p><p><b><strong>A quiet urgency</strong></b><br>Already, her children - Nicholas, Emily, now 7, and 3-year-old Zachary - have seen her fall several times. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1453','1','<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\">Diet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Weight loss is \'all about the calories,\' but workouts still crucial</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 - Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, U.S. researchers said in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and fitness industry.</p><p>Tests on overweight people show that a calorie is just a calorie, whether lost by dieting or by running, they said.</p><p>They found there is no way to selectively lose belly fat, for instance, or trim thighs. And their carefully controlled study added to evidence that adding muscle mass does not somehow boost metabolism and help dieters take off even more weight.</p><p>\"It\'s all about the calories,\" said Dr. Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, part of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.</p><p>\"So long as the energy deficit is the same, body weight, fat weight and abdominal fat will all decrease in the same way.\"</p><p>Ravussin said the study, published in the <em>Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism</em>, is one of the few done under controlled conditions that can actually demonstrate what happens to a human body while dieting and exercising.</p><p><b><strong>Fewer calories for a longer life?</strong></b><br>Ravussin\'s team has been testing volunteers for another reason - to see if taking in fewer calories helps people live longer. 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All food was provided by the university in carefully measured portions for most of the study.</p><p>The volunteers in both groups lost about 10 percent of their body weight, 24 percent of their fat mass and 27 percent of their abdominal visceral fat. Visceral fat is packed in between the internal organs and is considered the most dangerous type of fat, linked with heart disease and diabetes.</p><p>The distribution of the fat on the body was not altered by either approach - helping prove that there is no such thing as \"spot reducing,\" Ravussin said in a telephone interview.</p><p>This suggests that \"individuals are genetically programmed for fat storage in a particular pattern and that this programming cannot easily be overcome,\" he added.</p><p><b><strong>Exercise is still crucial</strong></b><br>Ravussin has published other studies that also dispute the idea that exercise builds muscle that helps people lose weight.</p><p>\"If anything, highly trained people are highly efficient, so they burn fewer calories at rest,\" Ravussin said.</p><p>Dieting alone also did not appear to cause the volunteers to lose muscle mass along with fat, Ravussin\'s team found.</p><p>\"There is a concept that if you exercise, you are going to lose less of your muscle,\" he said. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1454','1','<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\">\'Hot\' patients setting off dirty-bomb alarms</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Surprise side effect of radioactive medical therapies: being strip-searched</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070129/070129_radioactive_hmed_8a.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Radiation detector\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Carlos Barria / Reuters </font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer?isplays a radiation detector showing a level-nine reading of radiation, as passengers arrive at Miami International airport on Jan. 26. With the rising use of radioisotopes in medicine and the growing use of radiation detectors in a security-conscious nation, patients are triggering alarms in places where they may not even realize they\'re being scanned</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>MIAMI  - When 75,000 football fans pack into Dolphin Stadium in Miami for the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, at least a few may want to carry notes from their doctors explaining why they\'re radioactive enough to set off \"dirty bomb\" alarms.</p><p>With the rising use of radioisotopes in medicine and the growing use of radiation detectors in a security-conscious nation, patients are triggering alarms in places where they may not even realize they\'re being scanned, doctors and security officials say.</p><p>Nearly 60,000 people a day in the United States undergo treatment or tests that leave tiny amounts of radioactive material in their bodies, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine. It is not enough to hurt them or anyone else, but it is enough to trigger radiation alarms for up to three months.</p><p>Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has distributed more than 12,000 hand-held radiation detectors, mainly to Customs and Border Protection agents at airports, seaports and border crossings. Sensors are also used at government buildings and at large public events like the Super Bowl that are considered potential terrorist targets.</p><p>At the annual Christmas tree-lighting party in New York City\'s Rockefeller Center in November, police pulled six people aside in the crowd and asked them why they had tripped sensors.</p><p><b><strong>\'Happens all the time\'<br></strong></b>\"All six had recently had medical treatments with radioisotopes in their bodies,\" Richard Falkenrath, the city\'s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, told a Republican governors\' meeting in Miami recently. \"That happens all the time.\"</p><p>Radioisotopes are commonly used to diagnose and treat certain cancers and thyroid disorders, to analyze heart function, or to scan bones and lungs.</p><p>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission first recommended in 2003 that doctors warn patients they may set off alarms after being injected or implanted with radioisotopes. That came after police stopped a bus that set off a radiation detector in a New York City tunnel. They found one of the passengers had recently undergone thyroid treatment with radioiodine.</p><p>In August, the British Medical Journal described the case of a very embarrassed 46-year-old Briton who set off the sensors at Orlando airport in Florida six weeks after having radioiodine treatment for a thyroid condition.</p><p>He was detained, strip-searched and sniffed by police dogs before eventually being released, the journal said in its \"Lesson of the Week\" section. </p><p><b><strong>\'I\'m hot!\'<br></strong></b>Workers in the nuclear industry have dealt with the problem for years. Ken Clark, a spokesman in Atlanta for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has had a treadmill stress test every two years since undergoing bypass surgery 23 years ago.</p><p>His doctor injects him with a tiny amount of radioactive thallium, makes him run on a treadmill and then uses a gamma ray camera to monitor blood flow in his heart.</p><p>That can leave him slightly radioactive for up to 30 days and Clark knows to carry a note from his doctor during that time, especially if he visits nuclear power plants.</p><p>\"I have in the past had one of the health physicists bring a little hand-held survey meter and hold it up to my chest and lo and behold, I\'m hot!\" Clark said.</p><p>\"You just don\'t let people in and out of places when they\'re emitting some sort of radioactivity,\" he added.</p><p>The length of time patients give off enough radiation to set off alarms varies. For some scans, like the FDG-PET scans often used to screen for cancer, it\'s less than 24 hours. For thyroid treatment with radioiodine, it can be as long as 95 days, the Society of Nuclear Medicine said.</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;More top health news</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=\"/id/16831975/\">Busy roads?amage kids\' lungs, hearts</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16829300/\">\'Suicide bridge\' hurts workers\' mental health</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>Dr. Henry Royal, a past president of the society who practices at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, gives patients who plan to travel cards detailing what radionuclides were used and how much was given.</p><p>The cards have a 24-hour phone number police can call to confirm the treatment, \"so if they\'re stopped, hopefully they can get the problem solved more efficiently,\" Royal said.</p><p>Nobody keeps good data on how often patients get stopped. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Zachary Mann said it\'s relatively infrequent at airports, and that passengers who set off hand-held sensors are typically escorted to a private office for questioning that clears up the matter.</p><p>If there\'s doubt, a more sophisticated device is used to identify the type of radiation, said Mann, who once set off another agent\'s portable detector after a treadmill test.</p><p>There were nearly 20 million nuclear medical procedures performed in the United States in 2005, up 15 percent from four years earlier, so the number of people who could potentially be mistaken for terrorists is enormous.</p><p>\"We hope that people who have radiation detectors are aware of the problem ... and that they treat people with respect,\" Royal said.?</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1455','1','<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\">Born with a taste for salt? </font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study: Low sodium levels in preemies linked to food preferences</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>NEW YORK - Some people with a penchant for salty snacks may have been born with it, a new study suggests.</p><p>In a study of 41 children and teenagers who\'d been born prematurely, researchers found that those who\'d had low sodium levels in their blood at birth had a particular fondness for salty food.</p><p>In tests where the children could choose from salty or sweet snacks, those born with low sodium levels reached for a salty snack more often. They also consumed substantially more sodium each day, based on interviews with children and their parents.</p><p>The study also found that children with the most severe sodium deficiency at birth weighed 30 percent more, on average, than their peers born with the highest sodium levels.</p><p><b><strong>Possible risk of obesity</strong></b><br>High salt intake is considered a marker for the risk of obesity, possibly because it signifies a person\'s consumption of calorie-dense processed foods.</p><p>It\'s too soon, however, to say that sodium deficiency early in life is a risk factor for obesity, according to study co-author Dr. Micah Leshem of the University of Haifa in Israel.</p><p>\"There is insufficient evidence for parents to take a preference for salty food resulting from early sodium loss, of itself, as a predictor of weight gain in their children,\" Leshem told Reuters Health.</p><p>All of the children in the study had been born prematurely, which increases the chances that a newborn will have low blood sodium levels. Low birth weight itself is thought to promote excessive weight gain later in life, Leshem pointed out, and this may offer a \"better explanation\" for the link between early sodium deficiency and childhood weight.</p><p>He and his colleagues report their findings in the <em>American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology</em>.</p><p><b><strong>Sodium deficiency more common in premature babies</strong></b><br>Premature newborns are at greatest risk of sodium deficiency at birth and soon after, although it\'s also sometimes seen in full-term infants - particularly those with risk factors such as kidney dysfunction.</p><p>A number of factors, both before and after birth, can contribute to early sodium loss, Leshem noted.</p><p>Before birth, severe maternal vomiting can deplete fetal sodium, for example; after birth, infant vomiting or diarrhea, and infant formulas lacking electrolytes are among the potential causes.</p><p>This is not the first study to link low sodium levels in early life to a bigger \"salt appetite\" down the road, Leshem said. Other research suggests early sodium loss can affect salt preferences even into adulthood.</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=\"/id/16692785/\">Pittsburgh students bite for \'mystery fat\'</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16299656/\">\'Designer\' babies with made-to-order defects?</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 current findings, Leshem\'s team writes, \"accentuate the importance of monitoring and balancing sodium levels in premature babies.\"</p><p>But they also hint at the mechanisms that influence people\'s salt intake, pointing to a direction for future research, Leshem noted. \"And that,\" he said, \"is relevant to all of us, not just premature babies.\"</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('1456','1','<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\">Stroke treatment helped boost brain function</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Cognitive improvements seen in patients with artery stents, study suggests</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>CHICAGO - A treatment designed to clear blocked carotid arteries and prevent stroke showed signs of improving brain function in a small study, U.S. researchers said Monday.</p><p>Doctors found nearly half of patients who were treated with a carotid stent to prevent a stroke showed statistically significant improvement in brain function, such as memory, judgment and reasoning.</p><p>Carotid stents are tiny wire-mesh tubes that are inserted via a small puncture in the groin and threaded through the blood vessels and into the carotid artery in the neck.</p><p>In a study of 37 patients implanted with the stents, 16 patients or 43 percent showed improved brain function a year after the stent was implanted.</p><p>Doctors noted cognitive improvements at three months and those gains continued when checked at six and 12-month intervals.</p><p>\"Many patients have returned to a level of function they thought they had lost,\" said lead researcher Dr. Rodney Raabe, chief of radiology at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, where the study was conducted.</p><p>James Benenati, an interventional radiologist at Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute in Miami, said the study confirms what he has seen in his own practice.</p><p>\"Many of us anecdotally know this is true. Now it probably is important to do a larger study,\" said Benenati, who was not affiliated with the research.</p><p><b><strong>Highway to the brain<br></strong></b>Located on either side of the neck, carotid arteries are the main blood conduits to the brain. Clogged carotid arteries account for nearly one third of all strokes.</p><p>Most patients with blocked carotid arteries undergo surgery to clear blockages, but recently approved carotid stents offer a less-invasive option for patients who face high risks if they undergo surgery.</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=\"/id/15279713/\">Red wine may help prevent stroke damage</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/15318468/\">Mesh stents could cause strokes</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/3296859/\">Are you at risk?</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>Several medical device makers have U.S. regulatory approval for carotid stents, including Abbott Laboratories Inc., Boston Scientific Corp. and Johnson &amp; Johnson, Ev3 Inc. and C.R. Bard Inc.</p><p>Doctors first inflate a tiny balloon in the artery, smashing fatty deposits against the artery wall. They then deploy a springy stent to provide structure to the diseased vessel and keep blood flowing to the brain.</p><p>A tiny net-like filter traps any fatty deposits dislodged during the procedure that could cause blood clots.</p><p>Currently the risk of stroke with either surgical or less-invasive stenting procedures is in the range of 4 to 10 percent, depending on the patient, Benenati said.</p><p>That risk would prohibit doctors from treating patients to improve brain function unless they were at risk of a stroke.</p><p>With better stents and more refined procedures, however, doctors ultimately could use the procedures to treat impaired brain function brought on by blocked arteries, Benenati said.</p><p>The stent study did not test whether there was a similar brain benefit for patients who undergo surgery to have their carotid arteries cleared.</p><p>Benenati said he assumes the same benefit would apply, but that also would need to be studied.</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('1457','1','<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\">Troops, families can dial for mental health help</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Anonymous phone-in program for sufferers of post-traumatic stress</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>WASHINGTON - U.S. troops who have been reluctant to seek help for mental health problems may soon be able to find it with a phone call.</p><p>A new automated phone-in assessment program is the latest effort by the military to reach out to soldiers and family members who might not otherwise seek help for post-traumatic stress or other psychological issues.</p><p>The program is similar to an anonymous mental health screening effort begun online last year. About 40,000 troops or their family members - roughly 7 percent of them in Iraq - have participated.</p><p>There\'s much concern among those in the military that seeking help will affect someone\'s career, so it\'s good to have more anonymous options, said Dr. Jay Weiss, a former Air Force psychiatrist in private practice in Louisiana who has treated Iraq veterans.</p><p>While seeking help via telephone and Internet is not ideal, it\'s \"certainly better than nothing,\" he said.</p><p>The new efforts are extensions of counseling programs the military has implemented in recent years. Defense officials are hoping that the phone screening will attract National Guard and Reserve troops and families who are far from a military base and may not have easy access to in-person counseling or to the Internet.</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=\"/id/16843652/site/newsweek/\">Newsweek: The toll on military families</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16713999/\">GIs may not get needed mental help</a> </li><li><u>Suicide bridge\' rattles employees </u></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 phone-in program was introduced Monday at the Military Health System annual conference in Washington. It is expected to begin taking calls by Feb. 12. The calls will be conducted in English and Spanish and will operate 24 hours a day.</p><p>\"People respond in different ways. Some people will go to the Internet. Some will talk on the phone. Some people, they need someone ... who is in the same situation, the chaplain. Some people respond to religion, some will not,\" said Lt. Col. Bruce Farrell, full-time support chaplain for the Pennsylvania National Guard.</p><p><b><strong>17 percent suffer PTSD</strong></b><br>Participants in telephone screening are transferred to a counselor if they indicate they might be suicidal or if they wish to speak to a live person. Callers are given an immediate result from their assessment and phone numbers for treatment or educational resources.</p><p>The military already has phone-in counseling resources available, but the new program is the military\'s first to have automated interactive mental health screening.</p><p>Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley testified recently on Capitol Hill that an estimated 17 percent of troops return from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe anxiety or depression. Symptoms of PTSD include hypervigilance, irritability and nightmares.</p><p>Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 96 troops have committed suicide in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Another 15 committed suicide in Afghanistan.</p><p>Those who have participated in the assessments online in the last year have primarily filled out questionnaires on depression and alcohol abuse, said Col. Joyce Adkins, program director for the Defense Department\'s combat and operational stress control program. Those who participate online can print out their assessment and take it with them to see a counselor.</p><p>Although troops who have not deployed are encouraged to participate, about 60 percent who have participated in the online program have indicated they or a family member has been deployed to combat.</p><p>Like the Internet program, the phone-in system is focused on educating people about issues such as depression, alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, Adkins said. She said the programs aim to get the word out that problems like post-traumatic stress disorder are \"not a life sentence.\"</p><p>\"PTSD and other mental health concerns are treatable,\" Adkins said. \"You can get treatment and recover fully.\"</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('1458','1','<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\">McDonald\'s finally picks trans-fat-free oil</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>1,200 restaurants now testing healthier formula for cooking french fries</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\"></font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>CHICAGO - McDonald\'s Corp. has finally selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said Monday.</p><p>While it has developed a healthier new oil, the company is still not saying when it will be used in all 13,700 U.S. restaurants. It already trails competitors in committing to a zero-trans fat oil.</p><p>Spokesman Walt Riker said the oil is currently in more than 1,200 U.S. restaurants after extensive testing, but declined to provide details on timing or locations.</p><p>\"We can confirm that we\'ve got the right oil,\" he said. \"We\'re phasing it in.\"</p><p>The choice of a new oil comes as McDonald\'s and others face a July 1 deadline to begin complying with an ordinance passed by New York City last month making it the first U.S. city to ban all restaurants from using artificial trans fats.</p><p>Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald\'s has said for months it would comply with such a ban, and said it would introduce any new oil nationwide rather than have a separate oil for its New York restaurants. But it had not confirmed that testing was complete.</p><p>Riker said the new oil is canola-based and includes corn and soy oils.</p><p>Addressing long-held concerns that changing the oil could jeopardize the popular taste of its fries, he said: \"We\'re very confident in our test and taste results. ... We\'re very confident in what we\'re hearing back from our customers.\"</p><p>The Chicago Tribune, which first reported McDonald\'s decision on a new oil Sunday, said the company has tested 18 varieties of oil in more than 50 blends during the past seven years.</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/thread.aspx?BoardID=490&amp;ThreadID=181646&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Discuss: Flavor or health -- what\'s more important?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15479858/\">Why are trans fats so bad?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16695792/\">Trans fats may raise infertility risk</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16655614/\">Starbucks moving to hormone-free milk</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>McDonald\'s had been under pressure for moving more slowly than smaller rivals Wendy\'s International Inc. and Yum Brands Inc.\'s KFC and Taco Bell to rid its oil of the artery-clogging trans fats.</p><p>The $22 billion company was especially cautious after reneging within months on a September 2002 pledge to introduce a new oil, citing concerns about changing the taste of its fries.</p><p>\"It\'s just taking a little bit of time because as we move forward we don\'t want to jeopardize the iconic nature of the french fry, which as you know is so very important to our brand,\" CEO Jim Skinner told an investor conference in New York two months ago.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">&nbsp;More news from MSN Health</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#a4abc1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-right:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-bottom:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-left:solid 1px #a4abc1;background-color:#f3f3f6;\" bgcolor=\"#f3f3f6\"><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=\"10\"><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" ID=\"Table1\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/centers/cholesterol/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100153472\" target=\"_blank\">The trans-fat dirty dozen</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100149904\" target=\"_blank\">Can you really get rid of trans fats?</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/centers/cholesterol/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100152054\" target=\"_blank\">Trans fat: A cholesterol double whammy</a></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>The company uses a healthier oil blend in some countries overseas but says regional differences in agricultural production require development of different blends.</p><p>McDonald\'s has not identified the test markets the latest oil was used in. Riker denied that Phoenix was among them, as the Tribune report said.</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('1459','1','<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\">A guy\'s guide to breast-feeding: Don\'t be a boob</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>To look or not to look? How men should act around a nursing mom</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070129/Vlrg_Breastfeeding.jpg\" height=\"362\" width=\"278\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Kim Carney / MSNBC.com</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textMedBlackBold\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">Brian Alexander</div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">MSNBC</div><p></p></font><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"102\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Test-Dev/donna/msnbc10/Launch%20images/byline_msnbc.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"100\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#000000\"></b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#666666\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-top:solid 1px #666666;border-bottom:solid 1px #666666;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=\"0\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/mugs/Health/alexander_brian.thumb.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><font color=\"black\"><b>Brian Alexander</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><hr size=\"1\" width=\"85%\" color=\"#cccccc\" noshade=\"1\" align=\"center\"></td></tr><tr><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font color=\"black\"><script language=\"javascript\">document.write(\'<a href=\"mailto:\'+\'sexploration\'+\'@\'+\'feedback.msnbc.com?Subject=Sexploration\">\')</script>E-mail<script language=\"javascript\">document.write(\'</a>\');</script></font></td></tr></table></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>Like most men, I want no part of the whole breast-feeding controversy. Women can duke this out on their own. </p><p>I\'ve had a good friend of mine, a woman with twin sons who struggled to breast-feed, call pro-breast-feeding campaigners \"La Leche Nazis.\" I have had women I work for, breast-feeding moms, refer to anyone who looks askance at their breast-feeding on commuter buses as \"child haters\" or \"anti-woman.\"</p><p>As a folksy politician might say, we men ain\'t got no dog in this fight. So call us when it\'s over. Really. </p><p>Any man who has managed to make it through high school, and isn\'t a complete moron, knows that a guy reacts to a breast-feeding woman the same way we react to the woman in the gym whose yoga pants are creeping up her butt. We glance, take note, and move on, expressionless as poker champions.</p><p>This isn\'t to say we don\'t have opinions on the matter, but we\'ve learned to keep them to ourselves. But how is a guy supposed to act around a breast-feeding woman? When I discussed this issue with a couple of friends of mine - and our wives - over plates of Mexican food, the women, all of whom had some breast-feeding experience, were full of opinions. They used words like \"discretion\" and \"privacy\" and advice like \"don\'t just flop it out there.\" They volunteered that breast-feeding a 2-year-old sounded a little creepy, that it smacked of trying to make some political point rather than passing along immunity to disease or something. </p><p>The guys at the table, both smart attorneys, simply nodded in silent agreement with their wives. </p><p>See what I mean?</p><p>When I pressed them to actually say something, they agreed that \"it should be a non-event.\"</p><p>\"But,\" I insisted, \"do you have to make a special effort not to look?\"</p><p>\"Yes,\" they admitted.</p><p>\"I\'d deliberately avoid looking in her direction. I wouldn\'t want her to think I was staring at her,\" one said.</p><p>In other words, depending on the situation, breast-feeding can make us uncomfortable, not because we are opposed in any way, but because we feel trapped. If, say, we were sitting at an airport gate waiting area, and the woman sitting across from us began breast-feeding, we wouldn\'t be entirely sure what to do. If we pause for longer than an instant, we risk being accused of voyeurism, even if the sight of mother-baby bonding is simply making us feel warm and fuzzy inside. But if we make a show of NOT looking, we risk being accused of being disapproving.</p><p><b><strong>What\'s a guy to do?<br></strong></b>Cindy Post Senning, of the Emily Post Institute and co-author with Peggy Post of \"Emily Post\'s The Gift of Good Manners: A Parent\'s Guide to Raising Respectful, Kind, Considerate Children,<em>\"</em> doesn\'t think men ought to do much of anything.?</p><p>\"I would not make a point of reacting. Do whatever you would normally do. Work on the laptop, read a magazine, stare into space.\" There\'s no need to talk, either. \"You do not want to make a comment that implies \'Ooh, what\'s going on here?\' Why would you say something?\"</p><p>On the other hand, Senning says, if the nursing mother were sitting next to you, or in some situation where you might normally converse with a person, do what you would do if she were bottle feeding. \"If you are the type who would be inclined to say \'How old is the baby\' or \'What\'s her name\' or whatever, then go ahead. Otherwise let it be.\" </p><p>Mealtime, whether the meal is coming out of a bottle or a breast, Senning believes, is a \"first step in children learning some social graces. We tell parents to turn off the TV, don\'t answer the phone. It should be you and the baby.\"</p><p>So having a guy chatter on, even with good intentions, is not ideal. </p><p>Of course, this also places etiquette responsibilities on the nursing mother. Senning suggests, as our wives did, that it\'s best to find a quiet corner, a \"place where you can be tending to that baby in all aspects and in terms of baby manners. You want to create a climate of respect and consideration for others.\"</p><p><b><strong>Dual-purpose machines <br></strong></b>For men, of course, breasts are complicated. Senning acknowledges that breasts can be sexual and every woman I know who\'s been pregnant says her husband or boyfriend goes just a little giddy over the increase in breast acreage that comes with pregnancy. Because breasts are dual-purpose machines, we men can have some trouble completely severing the link between boobs and sex and replacing it with boobs and nurturing babies. Expecting us to regard them as the teats of a lowland gorilla is like asking a seventh-grade boy not to look at Pamela Anderson.</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=\"/id/16773617/\">Breasts or lightning rods? Nursing opens divide</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16871559/\">Vote: How would you react?</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=180133\">Discuss: Why are we so polarized over breast-feeding?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16326136/\">What\'s the real measure of a \'good mom\'?</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>\"True,\" one of my friends admitted when I pressed and suggested the image of Giselle Bundchen breast-feeding. \"It might be harder to avoid looking if the woman was a real babe.\" The wives rolled their eyes.</p><p><b><strong>Generational, not gender?<br></strong></b>In fact, the husbands and wives at dinner, as well as Senning, agreed that disapproval of breast-feeding is probably more generational than gender-based. None of the people at this particular table were breast-fed. Our mothers simply didn\'t do it. Back then it was considered primitive, reserved for native peoples shown in \"National Geographic.\" So maybe among the senior citizen set, there are more men who tut-tut and stare.? </p><p>In any case, one of my male dinner companions suggested, \"I think people should just lighten up.\"</p><p>Personally, I don\'t get what all the fuss is about, either, but again, I\'m in no position to breast-feed so ignore me. Please.</p><p><em>Brian Alexander is a California-based writer who covers sex, relationships and health. </em><em>Alexander, also a Glamour contributing editor, is traveling around the country to find out how Americans get sexual satisfaction for the MSNBC.com special report <a href=\"/id/14061456/\">\"America Unzipped\"</a> and in an upcoming book for Harmony, an imprint of Crown Publishing.</em></p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1460','1','<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\">Food or lewd? Breast-feeding reveals divide</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Why we get so worked up about how women feed their babies</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070126/070126_breastfeed_hmed_9p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Women breast-feeding\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Don Ryan / AP file</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Marnie Glickman, right, breast-feeds her daughter, Calliope, while Rachel Brusseau breast-feeds her son, James, in front of the Delta Airlines gate at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore. Approximately 35 mothers with children showed up in support of a woman that was removed, along with her family, from a?light in Vermont for breast-feeding her child. </font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textMedBlackBold\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">By By Debbie Cafazzo</div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">MSNBC contributor</div><p></p></font><p>Julie Wheelan was confronted by a Rhode Island shopping mall security guard.</p><p>A restaurant assistant manager in Las Vegas criticized Emilee Holt.</p><p>And a lifeguard at a public pool in Washington state ordered Laurie Waldherr away from the water.</p><p>Their offense? Breast-feeding in public.</p><p>It seems that no matter how many protests breast-feeding moms stage in support of their rights, there\'s always another confrontation right around the corner.</p><p>Even though health authorities have said for decades that breast is best for baby, American attitudes about nursing are still heatedly divided. In some cases, women who don\'t or can\'t breast-feed are made to feel like they\'re bad mothers. And those who do breast-feed - and nurse in public - can be the targets of complaints and outrage. <a href=\"/id/16773635/\">Men often don\'t know what to do in the presence of a nursing mom</a> and other women can be most critical of all. </p><p>Why are we so conflicted?</p><p>\"Our society still doesn\'t recognize the functional use of breasts,\" says Karen Peters, executive director of the Breast Feeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles. \"It only recognizes the sexual aspect.\"</p><p>In a 2003 national survey for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48 percent of 3,976 respondents said they were comfortable with moms nursing in public; 30 percent weren\'t. The rest were undecided.</p><p>\"Our society can\'t accept that the human body isn\'t always a sexual thing,\" says Wheelan. Adds Sher Maloney, a California mother of two who started the Web site <a href=\"http://www.nurseherenow.com/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nurseherenow.com</a> to support nursing in public: \"A cultural taboo is actually affecting decisions about children\'s health.\"</p><p>When nursing moms feel shame or embarrassment, she says, they\'ll be less likely to breast-feed in public. That\'s the kind of feeling that sent Cynthia Thompson fleeing to a restaurant restroom stall the first time she had to nurse in public.</p><p>\"I was really tense about it,\" says the Pennsylvania mother of a 4-month-old. \"I was just scared how other people would react.\"</p><p><b><strong>Going too far?<br></strong></b>While lactivists - the name breast-feeding activists have come up with for themselves - defend their right to nurse publicly, others say the pro-nursing argument can sometimes go too far, making mothers who can\'t or don\'t want to nurse feel guilty. Breast-feeding should be sold on its benefits, they say.</p><p>They argue that mothers won\'t respond to negative messages like the television ad in one federal government-funded campaign that showed a pregnant woman riding a mechanical bull. \"You wouldn\'t take risks before your baby\'s born. Why start after?\" the announcer asked. The conclusion: failure to breast-feed puts babies in danger.</p><p>Alicia Feldman, an Iowa mother, breast-fed all three of her children - including her twins. But she believes women need to be supportive of each other, regardless of how they feed their children.</p><p>\"I have friends who have been successful at breast-feeding, and some who haven\'t,\" she says. \"You don\'t judge each other. Sometimes your body won\'t keep up.\"</p><p><b><strong>Breasts on a plane<br></strong></b>Some confrontations make headlines - like the one that occurred on a Freedom Airlines flight in October.</p><p>Emily Gillette, a 27-year-old mom, said she was asked to leave a Vermont flight after she refused to cover up while breast-feeding her 22-month-old. News of that event spurred public \"nurse-ins\" at airports around the country, and Gillette filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission. </p><p>But nursing mothers say confrontations are going on behind the headlines, too. And they\'re fighting back.</p><p>Wheelan recalls the June day in 2006 at a Providence, R.I., shopping mall when she sat down to nurse her 4-month-old son: \"I was in the food court. I wear nursing tanks. I try to be discreet. I don\'t need people to see my business. I had a security guard come up to me and say, \'People are uncomfortable with you. I\'m going to have to ask you to go into the bathroom.\'\"</p><p>She stood her ground and suggested the guard call the state police to find out that the law protects her. In fact, a Rhode Island state law passed in 1998 excludes breast-feeding mothers from the state\'s disorderly conduct laws, which cover indecent exposure.</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=\"/id/16773635/\">A guy\'s guide to breast-feeding: Don\'t be a boob</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16871559/\">Vote: How would you react?</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=180133\">Discuss: Why are we so polarized over breast-feeding?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16326136/\">What\'s the real measure of a \'good mom\'?</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>Wheelan says she ordinarily doesn\'t look for confrontation. \"But when people choose to interject themselves, they make it an issue,\" she says. \"It\'s part of what spurred me to get in on a nurse-in.\"</p><p>A month later, she was back at the same mall, participating in a nationwide nursing protest at Victoria\'s Secret. The lingerie retailer was targeted by lactivists after two women - one in Wisconsin and one in Massachusetts - said they were denied the right to nurse openly in the stores. The company issued an apology, and said its policy is to allow women to nurse in Victoria\'s Secret stores.</p><p>During the Providence nurse-in, Whelan says, \"I sat right in the window ... next to a mannequin wearing a thong and a push-up bra.\"</p><p><b><strong>\'It\'s offensive\' </strong></b><b><strong><br></strong></b>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">&nbsp;More news from MSN Health</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#a4abc1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-right:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-bottom:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-left:solid 1px #a4abc1;background-color:#f3f3f6;\" bgcolor=\"#f3f3f6\"><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=\"10\"><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" ID=\"Table1\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/kidshealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100151511\" target=\"_blank\">Breast-feeding out and about</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/kidshealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100151192\" target=\"_blank\">Breast-feeding vs. formula feeding</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/kidshealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100151510\" target=\"_blank\">Breast-feeding: Pain and discomfort</a></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>Not everyone who objects to public breast-feeding wants a confrontation. </p><p>Caroline Norris of Federal Way, Wash., believes nursing should be a personal thing between mother and baby.</p><p>\"Nursing mothers need to go somewhere in private to nurse their babies and not sit and flaunt their breasts in public,\" she says. \"It\'s offensive. I don\'t think women should be exposed out there in public.\" </p><p>Still, when she sees a baby nursing, she usually doesn\'t say anything. Instead, she just turns and walks away. </p><p>Others don\'t go so quietly. On the ABC talk show, \"The View,\" Barbara Walters told how uncomfortable she felt sitting near a woman on an airplane flight who was breast-feeding her child. Within minutes, lactivist were online organizing nurse-ins around the country. \n</p><p>Even some new mothers have heated objections. When \"Baby Talk\" magazine, which bears the slogan \"Straight talk for new moms,\" published <a href=\"/id/14065706/\">a photo of a breast-feeding baby on the cover of its August 2006 issue</a>, \na flood of readers objected. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1461','1','<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\">Aussie shrink makes patient wear dog collar</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Psychologist tells court his master-servant therapy was ethical</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>SYDNEY - An Australian psychologist charged with indecently assaulting a patient told a court on Tuesday that forcing his female patient to wear a dog collar and call him master was within a psychologist\'s ethical guidelines.</p><p>Psychologist Bruce Beaton, 64, pleaded not guilty in the Western Australia District Court to four charges of indecently assaulting a 22-year-old woman in 2005, local media reported.</p><p>Beaton was arrested when police, who had been secretly video recording the session with the woman, heard whipping sounds, reported Australian Associated Press from the court.</p><p>Beaton told the court he resorted to master-servant treatment with his bulimic patient because other methods had failed. He said he thought forcing the woman to wear a dog collar and call him master would build a more trusting relationship.</p><p>He said such treatment was allowed by the Australian Psychological Society. \"It is right within the ethical guidelines,\" Beaton told the court.</p><p>\"I am not saying it would be all right if I hit her. I did not hit her,\" he said. The trial continues.</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=\"/id/16885983/\">Teen aids amputees with bubble wrap</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16859368/\">Yoga causes?ontroversy in public schools</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><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('1462','1','<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\">Teen uses bubble wrap to help amputees</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Boy melted ubiquitous plastic sheets into skin covering for prosthetic legs</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/ap/bwrp10201300047.vmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Bubble Wrap Leg Cover\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Grayson Rosenberger poses with his Bubble Wrap-covered prosthetic leg during Bubble WrapAppreciation Day Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, in New York. </font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Grayson Rosenberger often marveled at his parents\' work with prosthetic patients in Africa and wondered how he could contribute to their effort. The 15-year-old from Nashville finally found a way, and it was recognized Monday as the grand prize winner in Sealed Air Corp.\'s inaugural Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors.</p><p>Rosenberger used Bubble Wrap brand packing material to develop a cost-effective cosmetic skin covering for prosthetic limbs. Later this year, he plans to visit Ghana with his parents to fit some patients with his low-cost invention.</p><p>\"I\'m very honored and excited,\" Rosenberger said by telephone Monday a few minutes before taping the \"The Today Show.\" \"It gives me an opportunity to do something with my invention.\"</p><p>Rosenberger was one of about 800 students who entered the contest challenging students in grades 5 through 8 to develop inventions that incorporate Bubble Wrap. Officials said judging was based on originality, creativity, usefulness, benefit to society, marketability and feasibility, as well as overall presentation.</p><p><b><strong>Inexpensive prosthetic cover<br></strong></b>Rosenberger was able to turn a basic artificial leg into a more realistic one using a heat gun to mold Bubble Wrap cushioning around the steel rod of a prosthetic limb to give it muscle-like tone and shape. He said his invention should benefit amputees in Africa who are viewed strangely because they have to \"walk around with an open metal rod\" as a leg.</p><p>\"They\'re looked at freakishly,\" Rosenberger said. \"I hope this will let them walk out their door and feel normal.\"</p><p>Rosenberger\'s invention costs a fraction of the $1,000 patients must pay for other prosthetic covers.</p><p>His father and mother, who lost both her legs in an auto accident when she was a teenager, say they are astounded by what their son has done in winning the grand prize of a $10,000 savings bond.</p><p>\"We\'re just blown away, and very moved,\" said father Peter Rosenberger, whose charitable organization Standing With Hope works with Ghana\'s government to teach them how to build prosthetics in a low-tech environment.</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=\"/id/16859368/\">Yoga causes controversy in public schools</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16753305/\">Parents against birthdays gone wild</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><b><strong>The runners up...<br></strong></b>The second- and third-place winners in the competition were 13-year-old Megan Guerrero of San Angelo, Texas, and 13-year-old Alex Chalcraft of Gilbert, Ariz., respectively.</p><p>Guerrero created a three-dimensional architectural puzzle that presents a fun and educational way to learn about the Empire State Building, and Chalcraft developed a way to motivate children to do chores with a chart that lists a series of weekly tasks and allows children to pop a bubble each time they complete a chore.</p><p>\"Sealed Air has always valued and encouraged innovation,\" said Sealed Air president and CEO William V. Hickey. \"Sealed Air is grateful to have this opportunity to recognize and support the creativity and ingenuity of our three finalists through a competition that celebrates one of our most well-known and trusted brands.\"</p><p>Sealed Air is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of food and protective packaging materials and systems, including Bubble Wrap cushioning, Jiffy protective mailers and Cryovac food packaging products.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i>Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1463','1','<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\">New hip treatment aimed at younger boomers</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Patients don\'t have to wait until 60 for alternative to replacement</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>WASHINGTON - Doctors are beginning to offer a new alternative to hip replacement - one aimed at younger, athletic baby boomers who have worn out their joints too soon. Now they no longer have to wait until they hit their 60s for a fix.</p><p>A baby boomer is someone born in the years after the end of World War II. Many of them, such as President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton, are starting to reach their 60s.</p><p>The new alternative is called hip resurfacing, covering a damaged hip\'s ball and socket with smooth metal rather than cutting away worn bone and replacing it.</p><p>The operation hit the U.S. market last spring with Food and Drug Administration approval of the British-designed Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System. Competitors are in clinical trials here, and expected to get FDA approval later this year.</p><p>It is not the first time orthopedic surgeons have tried resurfacing worn-out hips. But where earlier attempts failed, data from Europe suggest this latest approach uses longer-lasting materials - with the additional promise of a joint that may hold up to the heavy recreation of today\'s 40- and 50-somethings better than traditional hip implants.</p><p>\"I do have people that call me and say, \'My father had hip resurfacing in 1970 and it didn\'t work. Why are we doing that now?\"\' says Dr. Michael J. 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Resurfacing is not for patients with thinning bones - part of the joint could break - or those who have poorly functioning kidneys that can\'t eliminate microscopic metal particles produced when the joint\'s reinforced pieces rub together.</p><p>Moreover, while patients typically recover quickly, resurfacing is harder to perform than a hip replacement, and only a small fraction of U.S. orthopedic surgeons so far are trained to do it.</p><p><b><strong>Growing demand</strong></b><br>But interest is growing, as evidenced by a focus on hip resurfacing at next month\'s annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - and a growing demand for hip repair from ever-younger patients.</p><p>Until now, \"you might have told someone to soldier on for as long as you possibly can,\" because a standard hip replacement before age 60 is itself likely to wear out, explains academy spokesman Dr. Scott Rubinstein, of the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070129/AP_ResurfacingHip.jpg\" align=\"Right\" height=\"344\" width=\"372\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table>With the new resurfacing option, \"people may be a little more aggressive\" in treating younger creaky joints, he adds.</p><p>More than 400,000 total or partial hip replacements are performed each year in the United States, a number growing as the population ages.</p><p>Typically, surgeons replace a hip by cutting off the femoral head, the joint\'s ball, and replacing it with a metal ball mounted on a rod implanted deep in the thigh bone. A plastic socket replaces the original. Those artificial hips can bring tremendous relief to people crippled by hip pain.</p><p>But the metal-on-plastic friction means the implants can begin wearing out in about 15 years, sooner if sports or other activities increase pressure on the joint. For the average 65-year-old, that\'s no problem. A 50-year-old, in contrast, could very well wear out an initial replacement and have little thigh bone left to fit another.</p><p>\"You\'re dealing with Swiss cheese,\" is how hip replacement pioneer Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop describes the remaining bone.</p><p>Enter resurfacing. Surgeons lightly shave the damaged femoral ball and fit a metal ball snugly over it. That ball rolls in a metal cup reinforcing the socket. The idea: Metal-on-metal shouldn\'t wear out as fast, and if patients do need another replacement in 15 or 20 years, the thigh bone is largely intact.</p><p>\"This resurfacing initiative has interest because we\'re sparing bone,\" explains Sheinkop, a Rush University professor and joint replacement director of the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago.</p><p><b><strong>Higher cost<br></strong></b>What is the evidence? The FDA cited studies showing the Birmingham Hip resurfacer lasted at least five years, approving its sale on condition that manufacturer Smith &amp; Nephew Inc. continue tracking its endurance for 10 years.</p><p>Doctors differ on what age is the cutoff for resurfacing, somewhere between 60 and 65, largely dependent on the patient\'s bone strength. Nor do all insurers cover it. The implant costs about 20 percent more than a standard artificial hip, adding to the $35,000 tab.</p><p>Complicating the choice is that surgeons call newer artificial hips - ceramic-on-ceramic balls and sockets, or tougher plastic designs - good options for even the most active person just turning 60.</p><p>So resurfacing is emerging as a niche for the younger sports enthusiast. Dr. Marc Wiener, a Chicago-area internist, chose resurfacing when his own hip degenerated in his 40s, because it came with few restrictions on his activity. Wiener exercised before surgery to be in prime condition for physical therapy afterward - and played 18 holes of golf a month after his resurfacing, hit the basketball court at seven weeks and the tennis courts in three months.</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('1464','1','<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\">Fertility cycle impacts female brain, scans show</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Research may help explain why drugs affect women differently</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 - A woman\'s hormones affect specific parts of the brain called the reward pathway, researchers said Monday in a finding that could offer insight into treating drug abuse and mood disorders.</p><p>A study of women playing an imaginary slot machine game showed their brain responses changed in anticipation of a payout depending on the phases of their menstrual cycles.</p><p>This might help explain other studies that show women get a bigger kick from cocaine and amphetamines during one phase of the fertility cycle - and perhaps why women are less vulnerable to schizophrenia than men are, the researchers said.</p><p>\"This demonstrates for the first time that female ... hormones affect the reward system in very specific ways during particular parts of the cycle,\" said Dr. Karen Berman of the National Institute of Mental Health, who worked on the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</p><p>\"It is interesting to speculate that this may have evolutionary advantages and may affect behaviors that have been shown in other studies to also be affected by cycles.\"</p><p>For instance, not only are women more susceptible to drug abuse at certain points, but they may also find testosterone-type facial traits in men more appealing at certain times in their cycles, Berman said.</p><p>What this does not mean is that women are somehow more emotional or vulnerable to hormones than men are, she stressed.</p><p><b><strong>More going on up there<br></strong></b>\"I think it is important to keep in mind that this isn\'t the only thing that is going on in women\'s brains,\" she said in a telephone interview.</p><p>\"We have very important regulatory areas and homeostatic mechanisms that keep us in line, keep us functioning, keep us focused, keep us productive,\" she added.</p><p>\"I would really hate for this work to be interpreted in a way to make us seem that we are at the call of our hormones because I don\'t think that is the case.\"</p><p>Berman, working with Dr. Jean-Claude Dreher of France\'s national scientific research center CNRS and colleagues, used functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to get real-time images of the brain activity of 15 women.</p><p>The women played a hypothetical slot machine game, with payouts of $10 or $20.</p><p><b><strong>Best time to hit Vegas?<br></strong></b>Different areas of the brain lit up in anticipation of a payout - a reward - depending on the menstrual cycle phase. For instance, during the midfollicular phase, which comes four to eight days after menstrual bleeding starts, the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala of the brain were more active.</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=\"/id/16637583/\">Hospital plans to offer uterus transplant</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16695792/\">Eating trans fats may?aise infertility risk</a><a href=\"/id/16824347/\">\n</a>\n</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>At this phase, estrogen is produced but progesterone levels are low.</p><p>Berman said it is too soon to connect any of the findings with specific behaviors.</p><p>Berman noted that estrogen has been found to protect brain cells, and the findings could also shed light on other studies of why women develop schizophrenia later in life than men and at lower rates.</p><p>She would like to study women past menopause, who produce much lower levels of hormones.</p><p>Hormones also affect the brains of men, but in different ways, Berman said. Her team did not study men for this report.</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('1465','1','<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\">Baby brain bleeding linked to vaginal births</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study authors say surprising findings not an endorsement of C-sections</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 a quarter of babies born in vaginal deliveries had a small amount of bleeding in their brains, while none delivered by Caesarean section did, according to a study published Tuesday.</p><p>But the researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill said it was premature to view their surprising findings as an endorsement of C-sections.</p><p>They said the findings suggest brain bleeding in some newborns has been commonplace in vaginal deliveries throughout history, but is being detected now only because of highly sophisticated imaging technology.</p><p>\"There\'s no evidence that these bleeds are associated with problems in later life in either mental or physical function or ability,\" said Dr. Honor Wolfe, an obstetrician involved in the study published in the journal Radiology.</p><p>Pressure on the baby\'s skull while squeezing through the birth canal probably causes the bleeding, said Dr. John Gilmore, a psychiatry professor involved in the study.</p><p>The study involved a relatively small number of babies.</p><p>The researchers used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging on 88 newborns, with equal numbers of boys and girls, an average of two weeks after birth. Of them, 65 were delivered vaginally and 23 by C-section, in which the baby is surgically delivered through the mother\'s abdomen.</p><p>Seventeen babies delivered vaginally - 26 percent - had bleeding in and around the brain, called intracranial hemorrhages. Most was located in the lower, rear part of the brain. Not one C-section baby had bleeding.</p><p><b><strong>Outcomes unknown<br></strong></b>\"While the vast majority of these are probably normal and go away and don\'t cause any problems, some of them were bigger and, we don\'t know, but may cause problems down the line as well,\" Gilmore said.</p><p>Small bleeds usually heal harmlessly, but larger ones could lead later in life to learning or motor development problems or seizures.</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=\"/id/16773617/\">Food or lewd? Breast-feeding opens divide</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16773635/\">A guy\'s guide to breast-feeding: Don\'t be a boob</a>?/li><li><a href=\"/id/16824347/\">Moderate caffeine OK for pregnant moms</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>Gilmore said the researchers will see the children again at ages 1 and 2 to see if they have any enduring problems.</p><p>Wolfe said no studies have found C-sections offer long-term advantages to children, adding they are less safe for the mother than vaginal deliveries.</p><p>C-sections are favored when doctors think vaginal delivery could cause medical complications, but have become increasingly common for what would be considered normal births. Thirty percent of U.S. births in 2005 were by C-section.</p><p><b><strong>Unrelated to baby\'s size<br></strong></b>The researchers said the bleeding was unrelated to the baby\'s size or head circumference, the length of labor or the use of forceps or vacuum during delivery.</p><p>Bones in a newborn\'s skull are not yet fused, allowing them to shift and overlap as the baby exits the birth canal - a process that can compress the brain or tear blood vessels, causing bleeding, Gilmore said.</p><p>Most were small amounts of bleeding between the brain and the membrane that covers it inside the skull, called subdural hematomas.</p><p>A previous British study found 10 percent of babies in vaginal deliveries had brain bleeding. The sharpness of the imaging in the new study may account for the higher rate, said Dr. Keith Smith, a radiologist in the study.</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('1466','1','<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\">Zumba can help you shimmy off the pounds</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>The dance-aerobics workout incorporates Latin music, footwork with fun</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070130/070130_zumba_hmed_12p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Zumba class\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Skip Peterson / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Doug Jones, right, and his wife, Joan, in foreground, teach a Zumba?lass in Dayton, Ohio. Zumba is a mixture of Latin dance and aerobics.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>DAYTON, Ohio - The security guards at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were more than a little curious. A package-delivery truck sitting on the edge of a base parking lot was shaking violently.</p><p>Warily approaching, the MPs found 35-year-old driver Doug Jones inside - shirtless, sweating and exercising to Latin music pulsing through the vehicle. Jones, on his lunch hour, was practicing Zumba - a brassy, high-octane, Colombian-born dance-aerobics workout that he teaches.</p><p>\"It\'s a party,\" Jones said in trying to describe Zumba (pronounced ZOOM-buh), which is Colombian slang for \"fast.\" \"It emulates being in a nightclub without the drinking, the smoking, the bad pickup lines.\"</p><p><b><strong>Classes are packed</strong></b><br>The exercise gained a toehold in Miami in 1999 and has spread its international rhythms and flamenco footwork around the country. Studios devoted to the craze are now opening.</p><p>In Charlotte, N.C., the classes have become so popular that people are turned away. They have to arrive early and get their hands stamped to assure themselves a spot.</p><p>Jessica Thompson taught Zumba in a studio attached to her apartment in Kansas City, Mo.</p><p>\"I had to actually open the doors and move people into my kitchen so they could dance in there,\" she said. \"It just absolutely exploded.\"</p><p>Nearly 1 million Americans have taken Zumba classes, following the moves of 3,500 instructors, according to Zumba Fitness LLC, which owns the trademark.</p><p>Some think cities such as Kansas City and Dayton are embracing Zumba because it is a novelty in areas with less exposure to the Latin culture. Others credit zealous instructors.</p><p>Until now, Zumba has been taught at dance studios, health clubs and YMCAs. But Zumba Fitness says its first U.S. center was opened Jan. 15 in the Dayton suburb of Vandalia by Jones and his wife, Joan. Studio Zumbas also are scheduled to open in North Miami and Malabar, Fla., in February.</p><p><b><strong>Going international</strong></b><br>Zumba Fitness, based in North Miami, plans to take the exercise to England, Taiwan and Japan and to sailors stationed with the U.S. Navy in Japan. Los Angeles-based Mark Burnett Productions, which has created reality TV shows such as \"Survivor,\" is teaming up with the company on some undisclosed projects.</p><p>Roy Bank, head of corporate operations for Burnett, said the company is interested in Zumba because it appeals to both English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.</p><p>Zumba may be benefiting from slightly increased interest in hard exercise. Fifty-one percent of adult Americans polled in a Gallup survey in November said they exercise vigorously at least once a week. That compares with 47 percent the previous year.</p><p>Enthusiasts say Zumba is popular because people get lost in the music and the dancing, making exercising fun. TV dance shows such as \"Dancing with the Stars\" are also fueling interest.</p><p>\"You can just get out there and move and be silly and not have to worry about it,\" said Rick Carpenter, 50, a television repairman from Brookville, who took up Zumba with his wife after seeing a poster for it. \"It\'s a good stress reliever. You can be having the worst day ... and after you\'ve done an hour of Zumba you just feel great.\"</p><p><b><strong>Torture-free fitness<br></strong></b>The 60-minute program incorporates footwork and body movements from flamenco, salsa and other dances. Participants pump their legs, windmill their arms, gyrate their hips, clap their hands, dip, slide and spin - all to a frenzied beat that leaves them with flushed cheeks and dripping in sweat.</p><p>\"You don\'t have to torture yourself to be fit,\" said Alberto Perlman, chief executive of Zumba Fitness. \"It\'s almost like hiding medicine inside a piece of candy.\"</p><p>Prices vary among instructors. The Joneses charge $8 a session for drop-in students and offer sign-up packages of 10 sessions for $50.</p><p>Exercise experts say Zumba can offer a good cardio workout.</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=\"/id/16791462/\">\'Cardio Tennis\' offers a challenging workout</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16658017/\">Your wacky workout questions answered</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>Cedric Bryant, chief science officer for the American Council on Exercise, which trains fitness professionals, said Zumba is relatively easy on the joints.</p><p>\"For the middle-aged exerciser, it\'s going to be a more comfortable way to challenge the body,\" Bryant said.</p><p>Some dancers say they can burn up to 700 calories or more in one session - an amount that will shed about one-fifth of a pound.</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('1467','1','<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\">Parkinson\'s, MS more common than thought</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>U.S. survey boosts estimates of major neurological diseases</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  - Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson\'s disease and other neurological diseases may be far more common than most people had believed, according to the latest estimates.</p><p>Nearly one out of 1,000 Americans has multiple sclerosis or MS and one out of 100 elderly Americans has Parkinson\'s disease the survey found.</p><p>\"Our estimate of MS prevalence is about 50 percent higher than a comprehensive review from 1982,\" said Dr. Deborah Hirtz of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who led the survey.</p><p>It is not clear whether the disease is actually more common or if it is being diagnosed more accurately, she said.</p><p><b><strong>Alzheimer\'s rate up - and still rising<br></strong></b>The new survey, published in the journal Neurology, also found the rate of Alzheimer\'s disease was up substantially from past estimates, with 67 out of 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 affected.</p><p>Nearly 10 out of 1,000 older Americans have Parkinson\'s disease, and four out of every 100,000 has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called ALS or Lou Gehrig\'s disease, the survey found.</p><p>The survey projects that the number of people with Parkinson\'s will double from about 4.3 million people now to 9 million people worldwide over the next 25 years.</p><p>It corroborated other studies on childhood neurological disorders, finding that nearly six out of every 1,000 children has autism, and two out of every 1,000 children has cerebral palsy.</p><p>Hirtz and colleagues reviewed studies from nearly 500 medical papers published between 1990 and 2005 for their report.</p><p>They found that 101 out of every 100,000 Americans has a traumatic brain injury each year, 50 percent fewer than previous estimates.</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=\"/id/16773416/\">Trouble?ith smell?oints to Alzheimer\'s</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16454843/\">Parkinson\'s drugs riskier than thought?</a> <a href=\"/id/16886002/\">\n</a>\n</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>More than 180 out of every 100,000 people suffer a stroke each year, and close to five out of every 100,000 have a new spinal cord injury each year.</p><p>Steven Albert of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh said the impact of Alzheimer\'s will be substantial as the population ages.</p><p>\"Current projections of AD (Alzheimer\'s disease) suggest that there will be about 10 million cases in the United States in 2050, of which 6 million are expected to have moderate or severe dementia,\" Albert wrote in a commentary in the journal.</p><p>There is currently no cure and treatments only delay the progression of Alzheimer\'s slightly. There is also no cure for MS or for Parkinson\'s, although drugs can also delay their progression.</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('1468','1','<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\">Lasers blast eye \'floaters,\' but few docs on board</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Bits of gunk may be harmless but they drive many patients to distraction</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070130/070130_eye_floaters_vlrg_7a.vlarge.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Floater\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">John Karickhoff / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">In this undated ophthalmic photograph released by Dr. John Karickhoff a ring shaped eye floater is seen in the eye of a musical conductor.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Some people call them floaters. Eye doctors call them \"vitreous opacities.\"</p><p>Emily Flynn called hers \"a little fuzzball,\" and she flew halfway around the world to have it removed.</p><p>After more than 100 pinpoint zaps from a laser beam during a half-hour visit to a northern Virginia office park, the fuzzball was gone, obliterated within the clear, gelatinous goo that fills the eyeball.</p><p>The surgeon, John Karickhoff, has done the same procedure more than 1,400 times over the past 15 years and claims a success rate of better than 90 percent, with minimal risk of complications. Still, many ophthalmologists have never heard of the procedure - and most would recommend against it. The procedure has drawn regulatory scrutiny in Florida.</p><p>Nearly everybody has floaters or will develop them at some point in life, especially older and nearsighted people. Sometimes shaped like specks or snakes, they float through a person\'s field of vision, and are most easily seen when you look against a light background like a blue sky or a white wall.</p><p>They are harmless, usually just bits of membrane that have become dislodged from other parts of the eye. Karickhoff estimated that 95 percent of people who have floaters ought to leave them alone. But for that 5 percent, they can be a legitimate problem.</p><p>\"I\'ve had musicians who couldn\'t read the sheet music quickly enough because the floater would get in the way,\" said Karickhoff, who has tried for years to get the procedure accepted into the medical mainstream. \"It can ruin a patient\'s quality of life.\"</p><p>Only a handful of doctors in the United States - perhaps as few as two - regularly treat floaters with laser surgery.</p><p><b><strong>Unnecessary risk?<br></strong></b>Richard Bensinger, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said most ophthalmologists believe the procedure is unnecessary. He acknowledged the laser treatment is often successful and carries little risk, but most doctors believe any risk is unacceptable for treating a benign condition like floaters.</p><p>If patients insist on treatment, Bensinger said the laser treatment can be a better choice than the more common alternative, a vitrectomy, which involves removing most or all of the eyeball\'s internal fluid.</p><p>Oliver Hill, 60, of Waynesburg, Pa., said many eye doctors are too dismissive of how irritating a floater can be. He compared it to trying to read a book while holding a pencil directly in front of one of your eyes.</p><p>\"It just drove me right up the wall,\" said Hill, who had his left eye treated in June 2005 and returned to Karickhoff in November to treat a floater in his right eye.</p><p>In Flynn\'s case, her optometrist in New Zealand told her that floaters were common and not harmful, and that she should learn to live with it. She learned about Karickhoff from his Web site.</p><p>Karickhoff said he knows firsthand that floaters can be troubling _ he had what he called \"a whopper\" of a floater in his own eye.</p><p>He was skeptical when, on a Florida vacation, he saw a newspaper ad touting laser surgery for floaters. But he sat in on a surgery performed by Fort Myers ophthalmologist Scott Geller and later allowed Geller to operate on his eye. The procedure was a success.</p><p>Not long after, <a href=\"http://www.eyefloaters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Karickhoff</a> began performing the procedure himself. 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But the board dismissed the complaint after hearing testimony from Karickhoff on how the procedure works.</p><p><b><strong>Minor annoyance vs. major distraction<br></strong></b>Karickhoff, who has a clean record with the Virginia medical board, said he can tell by examining the patient\'s eye if the floater is a serious distraction or a minor annoyance. He declines to treat those \"who are making a mountain out of a mole hill\" because such patients will almost never be satisfied.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070130/070130_eye_floaters_bcol_7a.standard.jpg\" align=\"Right\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Karickhoff and Flynn\"></td></tr><tr><td><div class=\"credit\" style=\"text-align:right;margin-bottom:5px;\">Jacquelyn Martin / AP</div><div class=\"credit\">Dr. John Karickhoff answers questions from patient Emily Flynn, of Dunedin, New Zealand, after her procedure to remove eye floaters, in his office in Falls Church, Va., on?riday, Dec. 8, 2006. Between them is the laser used in the eye floater procedure. </div><hr noshade=\"true\" size=\"1\" color=\"#C0C0C0\"></td></tr></table>There is little peer-reviewed literature about the procedure. What does exist shows the procedure to be generally safe, but the results about its effectiveness are mixed.</p><p>Karickhoff said studies have not replicated his success rate because they have not fully emulated his technique, which requires a laser beam of a specific intensity, and because they have not always chosen ideal candidates for surgery.</p><p>Karickhoff said there is a theoretical risk of serious complications, including a detached retina, but that he has never seen it happen. He said his own rate of complications is about a tenth of a percent, usually involving increased pressure within the eye.</p><p>He has written a medical book about the procedure, and said he received mostly positive feedback when he presented his work in November at the national conference of the?<a href=\"http://www.aao.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Academy of Ophthalmology</a>. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1469','1','<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\">Drugmaker wants law to require STD shot</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Girls as young as 11 would have to be immunized against cervical cancer</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>AUSTIN, Texas  - Merck &amp; Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker\'s new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.</p><p>Some conservatives and parents\'-rights groups say such a requirement would encourage premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children, and they say Merck\'s push for such laws is underhanded. But the company said its lobbying efforts have been above-board.</p><p>With at least 18 states debating whether to require Merck\'s Gardasil vaccine for schoolgirls, Merck has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.</p><p>A top official from Merck\'s vaccine division sits on Women in Government\'s business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.</p><p>\"Cervical cancer is of particular interest to our members because it represents the first opportunity that we have to actually eliminate a cancer,\" Women in Government President Susan Crosby said.</p><p><b><strong>Protection against HPV</strong></b><br>Gardasil, approved by the federal government in June, protects girls and women against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. A government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.</p><p>But no state has yet to add Gardasil to the list of vaccinations youngsters must have under law to be enrolled in school.</p><p>Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Crosby also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.</p><p>But Skidmore said: \"We disclosed the fact that we provide funding to this organization. We\'re not in any way trying to obscure that.\"</p><p><b><strong>Laws could mean billions in sales<br></strong></b>The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil - at $360 for the three-shot regimen - were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.</p><p>Cathie Adams, president of the conservative watchdog group Texas Eagle Forum, said the relationship between Merck and Women in Government is too cozy.</p><p>\"What it does is benefit the pharmaceutical companies, and I don\'t want pharmaceutical companies taking precedence over the authorities of parents,\" she said.</p><p>Adams said Merck\'s method of lobbying quietly through groups like Women in Government in addition to meeting directly with legislators are common in state government but still should raise eyebrows. \"It\'s corrupt as far as I\'m concerned,\" she said.</p><p><b><strong>Parents\' rights</strong></b><br>A mandatory vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease could be a tough sell in the Lone Star State and other conservative strongholds, where schools preach abstinence and parents\' rights are sacrosanct.</p><p>But Merck has doubled its spending on lobbyists in Texas this year, to between $150,000 and $250,000, as lawmakers consider the vaccine bill for girls entering the sixth grade.</p><p>Also, the drugmaker has hired one of the state\'s most powerful lobbyists, Mike Toomey, who once served as Republican Gov. Rick Perry\'s chief of staff and can influence conservatives who see him as one of their own.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070130/AP_CERVICAL_CANCER.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"276\" width=\"181\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table>\"What we support are approaches that achieve high immunization rates,\" said Skidmore, the Merck spokeswoman. \"We\'re talking about cervical cancer here, the second-leading cancer among women worldwide.\"</p><p>The legislation already has the enthusiastic support of the conservative governor.</p><p>\"I look at this no different than vaccinating our children for polio,\" Perry said. \"If there are diseases in our society that are going to cost us large amounts of money, it just makes good economic sense, not to mention the health and well being of these individuals to have those vaccines available.\"</p><p>Proposals for mandates have popped up from California to Connecticut since the first piece of legislation was introduced in September in Michigan. Michigan\'s bill was narrowly defeated last month. Lawmakers said the requirement would intrude on families\' privacy, even though, as in most states\' proposals, parents could opt out.</p><p>Even with such opt-out provisions, mandates take away parents\' rights to make medical decisions for their children, said Linda Klepacki of the Colorado-based evangelical organization Focus on the Family. The group contends the vaccine should be available for parents who want it, but not forced on those who don\'t.</p><p>But Texas Rep. Jessica Farrar said her proposal is aimed at protecting children whose parents are less informed about or less interested in preventive care.</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=\"/id/16892278/\">Vote: Should law require girls to get STD shot?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15958573/\">N.H. first state to offer girls free cancer vaccine</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/13206572/\">FDA approves first vaccine for cervical cancer</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=24162\" target=\"_blank\">Message board: Join the ongoing discussion</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>\"Not everybody has equal sets of parents,\" said Farrar, a Houston Democrat who had precancerous cells removed from her cervix several years ago. \"I think this is a public health issue and to not want to eradicate cervical cancer is irresponsible.\"</p><p>Drug-industry analyst Steve Brozak of W.B.B. Securities has projected Gardasil sales of at least $1 billion per year - and billions more if states start requiring the vaccine. \"I could not think of a bigger boost,\" he said.</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('1470','2','<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\">W.Va. turns to Weight Watchers to slim down</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>75,000 residents of one of the country\'s most obese states can join for free</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>CHARLESTON, W.Va.  - Facing more than $100 million in annual costs linked to obesity, the Medicaid program in one of the country\'s most overweight states is turning to a familiar name to help residents slim down.</p><p>Up to 75,000 West Virginians will soon be eligible for free weight loss courses through Weight Watchers, thanks to an effort by the state Medicaid program and the health benefits group UniCare, the largest provider of Medicaid coverage in the state.</p><p>Medicaid clients of Unicare who obtain a physician\'s referral and score within specific ranges on the fat-measuring body mass index will be eligible to take up to 16 weeks of courses for free from Weight Watchers. The group is famous for its regular meetings and system of assigning points to different foods.</p><p>Advocates of the program - including the state\'s first lady, Gayle Manchin - hope the partnership will improve the health of residents in the state and serve as a model for other states that face a similar problem. West Virginia has the third-highest percentage of obese residents in the country, behind Mississippi and Tennessee.</p><p>\"It\'s not just a West Virginia problem, it\'s a national problem,\" said John Monahan, president of state sponsored programs for Indiana-based Wellpoint Inc., of which UniCare is a subsidiary.</p><p><b><strong>Program may expand</strong></b><br>If the program is successful in West Virginia, Wellpoint will look at rolling out similar programs in the 14 states where it provides benefits, Monahan said. Those states are California, Colorado Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.</p><p>Last year, Tennessee\'s Medicaid agency, known as TennCare, completed a pilot program for 1,400 Medicaid recipients who paid nominal fees to participate in Weight Watchers. Over a six-month period, they lost a combined total of more than 8,000 pounds, according to TennCare spokeswoman Marilyn Wilson.</p><p>\"We feel confident that this could really delay the onset of diabetes, heart disease and even stroke,\" she said.</p><p>If such programs can work on a large scale, it could be a boon not only to the health of residents, but to fiscal stability. Medicaid programs are available to low-income residents, who are also more likely to be overweight and obese than higher income residents.</p><p>In West Virginia, Medicaid - at more than $2.1 billion - is the largest single item in the state budget. And in fiscal year 2002, the most recent year for which data is available, the state estimates that it spent nearly $140 million on medical and pharmacy costs related to obesity.</p><p>\"It\'s like smoking was years ago,\" Monahan said, referring to growing prevention efforts. \"I think all states are going to have to start addressing this.\"</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=\"/id/9051178/\">Map:?ee which states weigh the most</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16529807/\">Whittling away those last 5 stubborn pounds</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16158399/\">Testosterone out of whack for obese men, girls</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>Dr. Mary Vernon said states have a vested interest in encouraging weight loss, but isn\'t sure West Virginia is going about it the right way.</p><p>\"The statistics would show people that really need help need a more individual and supervised program under a doctor\'s care,\" said Vernon, president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, an association of physicians who specialize in obesity and weight loss.</p><p><b><strong>\"It\'s not about immediate cost containment\"</strong></b><br>The potential impact of the program also is a relative drop in the bucket considering that about two-thirds of adult West Virginians are overweight or obese and UniCare covers only about 75,000 of the estimated 300,000 to 370,000 residents covered by Medicaid.</p><p>It\'s not clear how much money the state might save from having healthier residents, but state Medicaid spokeswoman Shannon Riley says: \"It\'s not about immediate cost containment. The Medicaid program will see savings down the line, but this is about slowing the growth of lifestyle-induced diseases and disabilities.\"</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\" SRC=\"http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js\"></SCRIPT>\n\n<SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\" SRC=\"http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/overweightInAmerica_wb3/data.js\"></SCRIPT>\n\n<SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\">\n\nif (window.overweightInAmerica_wb3) { \n\n            //CUSTOM SETTINGS\n\ndisplayApp(overweightInAmerica_wb3); \n\n}\n\n</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></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('1471','2','\n\n\n	 <p>Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. </p>      <p>That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I? tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I?l try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won? kill you, though it? better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you?e much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That? what I mean by the recommendation to eat ?ood.?Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you?e concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it? not really food, and food is what you want to eat.</p><p>Uh-oh. Things are suddenly sounding a little more complicated, aren? they? Sorry. But that? how it goes as soon as you try to get to the bottom of the whole vexing question of food and health. Before long, a dense cloud bank of confusion moves in. Sooner or later, everything solid you thought you knew about the links between <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/diet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about diet and nutrition.\">diet</a> and health gets blown away in the gust of the latest study. </p><p>Last winter came the news that a low-fat diet, long believed to protect against <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/breastcancer/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about breast cancer.\">breast cancer</a>, may do no such thing ?this from the monumental, federally financed Women? Health Initiative, which has also found no link between a low-fat diet and rates of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/heartdisease/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about heart disease.\">coronary disease</a>. The year before we learned that dietary fiber might not, as we had been confidently told, help prevent colon <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/cancer/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about cancer.\">cancer</a>. Just last fall two prestigious studies on omega-3 fats published at the same time presented us with strikingly different conclusions. While the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/institute_of_medicine/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Institute of Medicine\">Institute of Medicine</a> stated that ?t is uncertain how much these omega-3s contribute to improving health?(and they might do the opposite if you get them from mercury-contaminated fish), a Harvard study declared that simply by eating a couple of servings of fish each week (or by downing enough fish oil), you could cut your risk of dying from a heart attack by more than a third ?a stunningly hopeful piece of news. It? no wonder that omega-3 fatty acids are poised to become the oat bran of 2007, as food scientists micro-encapsulate fish oil and algae oil and blast them into such formerly all-terrestrial foods as bread and tortillas, milk and yogurt and cheese, all of which will soon, you can be sure, sprout fishy new health claims. (Remember the rule?)</p><p>By now you?e probably registering the cognitive dissonance of the supermarket shopper or science-section reader, as well as some nostalgia for the simplicity and solidity of the first few sentences of this essay. Which I? still prepared to defend against the shifting winds of nutritional science and food-industry marketing. But before I do that, it might be useful to figure out how we arrived at our present state of nutritional confusion and anxiety. </p><p>The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and ?ahem ?journalism, three parties that stand to gain much from widespread confusion surrounding what is, after all, the most elemental question an omnivore confronts. Humans deciding what to eat without expert help ?something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees ?is seriously unprofitable if you?e a food company, distinctly risky if you?e a nutritionist and just plain boring if you?e a newspaper editor or journalist. (Or, for that matter, an eater. Who wants to hear, yet again, ?at more fruits and vegetables?) And so, like a large gray fog, a great Conspiracy of Confusion has gathered around the simplest questions of nutrition ?much to the advantage of everybody involved. Except perhaps the ostensible beneficiary of all this nutritional expertise and advice: us, and our health and happiness as eaters. </p><p>FROM FOODS TO NUTRIENTS</p><p>It was in the 1980s that food began disappearing from the American supermarket, gradually to be replaced by ?utrients,?which are not the same thing. Where once the familiar names of recognizable comestibles ?things like eggs or breakfast cereal or cookies ?claimed pride of place on the brightly colored packages crowding the aisles, now new terms like ?iber?and ?a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/cholesterol/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about cholesterol.\">cholesterol</a>?and ?aturated fat?rose to large-type prominence. More important than mere foods, the presence or absence of these invisible substances was now generally believed to confer health benefits on their eaters. Foods by comparison were coarse, old-fashioned and decidedly unscientific things ?who could say what was in them, really? But nutrients ?those chemical compounds and minerals in foods that nutritionists have deemed important to health ?gleamed with the promise of scientific certainty; eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer and avoid chronic diseases. </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><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum3\');\" title=\"Page 3\" href=\"?pagewanted=3&_r=5\">3</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum4\');\" title=\"Page 4\" href=\"?pagewanted=4&_r=5\">4</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 5\" href=\"?pagewanted=5&_r=5\">5</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 6\" href=\"?pagewanted=6&_r=5\">6</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 7\" href=\"?pagewanted=7&_r=5\">7</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 8\" href=\"?pagewanted=8&_r=5\">8</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 9\" href=\"?pagewanted=9&_r=5\">9</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 10\" href=\"?pagewanted=10&_r=5\">10</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 11\" href=\"?pagewanted=11&_r=5\">11</a> </li><li> <a onClick=\"s_code_linktrack(\'Article-MultiPagePageNum5+\');\" title=\"Page 12\" href=\"?pagewanted=12&_r=5\">12</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_AUTHOR_ID><p id=\"authorId\">Michael Pollan, a contributing writer, is the Knight professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, ?he Omnivore? Dilemma,?was chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 best books of 2006.</p></NYT_AUTHOR_ID><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1472','3','<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\">Migraine meds could treat orgasmic headaches</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Triptans can prevent or reduce the severity of sex-triggered brain pain</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>NEW YORK - A type of migraine drug can be helpful for patients who suffer from orgasmic headaches, researchers report.</p><p>But anyone who experiences a severe headache upon orgasm for the first time must seek medical attention to ensure that it is not due to a type of bleeding on the brain called subarachnoid hemorrhage, Dr. Achim Frese of the University of Munster, Germany, and colleagues advise.</p><p>About 1 percent of people are believed to have headaches associated with sexual activity at some point in their lives. There are two types of sex-associated headaches: pre-orgasmic, dull headaches that increase with sexual excitement, and orgasmic headaches, which are sudden, severe headaches that occur upon orgasm and can last for hours.</p><p>In the journal <em>Cephalalgia</em>, Frese and colleagues report on seven patients with orgasmic headaches. Among four patients who experienced headaches lasting for longer than two hours, two were successfully treated with triptans. Two of three patients used the drugs successfully as a preventive measure.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/MigraineMeds/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.MigraineMeds) { displayApp(MigraineMeds); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table>The standard preventive treatment for orgasmic headaches has been indomethacin taken 30 to 60 minutes before sex, but many patients can\'t tolerate the drug\'s intestinal side effects, Frese and colleagues note. Another drug, propranolol, can be helpful as preventive treatment, they add. One or the other drug is effective in 80 percent of patients.</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/16282622/\">Sex does the body good</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>Based on the experiences of patients in the current report, the authors conclude that triptans can be effective preventive treatment if taken about a half-hour before sex, and can also be used to shorten orgasmic headaches after they have begun, but should be used only if standard treatments aren\'t effective or tolerable.</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('1473','5','<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\">Family of dead Israeli soldier can use his sperm</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Court grants parents the right to impregnate stranger with son\'s sperm</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>JERUSALEM - In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier\'s family can use his sperm to impregnate a woman he never met.</p><p>Keivan Cohen, 20, was shot dead in 2002 by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip. He was single and left no will. But at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since.</p><p>When the family tried to gain access to the sperm, however, the hospital refused, on the ground that only a spouse could make such a request. Arguing that their son yearned to raise a family, his parents challenged that decision in court. And on Jan. 15, after a four-year legal battle, a Tel Aviv court granted the family\'s wish and ruled that the sperm could be injected into a woman selected by Cohen\'s family.</p><p>The ruling also ordered the Ministry of Interior to register any children born as a result of the insemination as children of the deceased.</p><p>\"On the one hand I\'m terribly sad that I don\'t have my boy; it\'s a terrible loss,\" Rachel Cohen said in an interview in Monday\'s Chicago Tribune. \"But I\'m also happy that I succeeded in carrying out my son\'s will.\"</p><p>Cohen did not return phone calls from The Associated Press.</p><p><b><strong>Precedent-setting decision<br></strong></b>Irit Rosenblum, a family rights advocate who represented the Cohen family, said the ruling was significant because it set a precedent for those seeking to continue bloodlines after death.</p><p>At the trial, Rosenblum presented testimony, including video recordings, in which Cohen expressed his desire to have children.</p><p>\"He always said he wanted children,\" she told The Associated Press. \"But there were no regulations in the law that deals with using sperm from dead people.\"</p><p>Rosenblum said soldiers increasingly have been leaving sperm samples, or explicit instructions on post-mortem extraction, before heading to battle.</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;Relate 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://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/18/33735.aspx\">NBC WorldBlog: Dead soldier\'s dream to come true</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16773617/\">Why we get so worked up about breast-feeding</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16869630/\">\'Hot\' patients setting off dirty-bomb alarms</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>She said she knew of more than 100 cases of Israeli soldiers who, before last summer\'s war with Lebanese guerillas, asked to have their sperm saved if they were killed. American soldiers have also begun donating sperm before heading to Iraq, she said.</p><p>\"I think it is a human revolution,\" Rosenblum said. \"Ten years ago, who would believe that a human being can continue after he has died. I think it is great for humanity.\"</p><p>Rosenblum said the woman who is to act as surrogate mother has requested to remain anonymous.</p><p>\"She\'s like family to us,\" Rachel Cohen told the Tribune. \"Cruel and good fate brought us together.\"</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('1474','6','<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\">Man loses memories, wanders for 25 days</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Doctors say the Dallas man suffered from a rare form of amnesia</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070126/070126_amnesia_vmed_2p.vmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Joe and Patricia?ieger\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Tony Gutierrez / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Joe Bieger receives a hug from his wife, Patricia, as they stand in the chapel at The Highlands School where they both work at in Irving, Texas.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>DALLAS - Joe Bieger walked out his front door with his two dogs one morning last fall a beloved husband, father, grandfather and assistant high-school athletic director. Minutes later, all of that - indeed, his very identity - would seemingly be wiped from his brain\'s hard drive.</p><p>For 25 days, he wandered the streets of Dallas and its environs a lost soul, unable to remember his name, what he did for a living or where he lived, until, finally, a contractor who was building a new house for Bieger and his wife happened to recognize him.</p><p>By that point, Bieger had somehow made his way to a suburb about 20 miles from his Dallas home, holes worn in the rubber soles of his canvas shoes. He had lost 25 pounds, and a full white beard covered the normally clean-shaven educator\'s face.</p><p>Bieger, 59, says he was diagnosed afterward as suffering from psychogenic fugue, an extremely rare form of amnesia.</p><p>Now reunited with his family and back at work, Bieger agreed to tell his story to The Associated Press.</p><p>Bieger says he has regained all his memories up to the point he wandered away, and is amazed at the outpouring of support he received from friends, co-workers and the hundreds of volunteers who helped search for him on the streets, at hospitals and in homeless shelters and soup kitchens.</p><p>\"Everyone believes that God brought me back for a reason, otherwise this might have ended differently,\" he says. \"God wants me here to work with these students.\"</p><p>Bieger is under the care of a doctor who specializes in such cases. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1475','6','<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\">\'Suicide bridge\' hurts workers\' mental health</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Employees near Seattle\'s Aurora Bridge see people jump to their deaths</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070126/070126_auroraBridge_vmed_2p.vmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Aurora Bridge suicide-prevention sign\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Ted S. Warren / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">A sign advising of the phone number for a suicide-prevention hotline is shown on the Aurora Bridge. The signs, along with telephone call boxes, were put up in December in effort to reduce the number of people who jump to their deaths from the bridge. Eight people did so in 2006.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>SEATTLE - A bridge over Seattle is becoming hazardous to the mental health of the dot-com employees and other office workers below, who keep seeing people jump to their deaths from the span.</p><p>Thirty-nine people over the past decade have committed suicide off the 155-foot-high Aurora Bridge - eight in 2006 alone - and counselors are regularly brought in to help office workers deal with the shock of seeing the leap or the bloody aftermath.</p><p>At least one woman, Sarah Edwards, drives on the left side of the street near her office ever since a body landed on the hood of a co-worker\'s car.</p><p>City and state officials, meanwhile, are adding suicide-prevention signs and telephones in hopes of reducing the death toll.</p><p><b><strong>Suicides more visible now<br></strong></b><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070126/AP_BridgeSuicide.jpg\" align=\"Right\" height=\"290\" width=\"181\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td><div class=\"credit\" style=\"text-align:right;margin-bottom:5px;\">AP</div><div class=\"credit\"></div><hr noshade=\"true\" size=\"1\" color=\"#C0C0C0\"></td></tr></table>The \"suicide bridge,\" as the half-mile span has been occasionally called since it was built in 1931, carries as many as 45,000 vehicles a day on one of the main north-south highways through Seattle, passing over a narrow channel connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union.</p><p>Some jumpers hit the water; others land on the pavement or other solid ground. Either way, they almost always die. (One person is said to have survived after landing in the water.)</p><p>The neighborhood beneath the bridge used to be docks and warehouses, and the suicides went largely unnoticed. But during the technology boom of the past two decades, it morphed into a trendy area full of office buildings, shops and restaurants, and the bodies began to fall where people could see them.</p><p>\"They end up in our parking lot,\" said Katie Scharer, one of Edwards\' co-workers at Cutter &amp; Buck, a sportswear company based in the Adobe complex. \"Nobody\'s ever totally used to it.\"</p><p>Grief counselors regularly go to Cutter &amp; Buck, paying a visit as recently as a month ago.</p><p><b><strong>Possible solutions sought</strong></b><br>A few weeks ago, officials installed six emergency phones and 18 signs that read, \"Suicidal?\" and give the number of a 24-hour crisis line in bold yellow type.</p><p>\"Any time you can interrupt a suicide thought process, you have a good chance of success, at least temporarily,\" said L.J. Eddy, head of the police hostage negotiation team.</p><p><table></table><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=\"/id/16795195/\">Job stress can affect your children</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16756646/\">Antidepressants may raise risk of broken bones</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16709755/\">Caught daydreaming? Blame your brain\'s settings</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>But as for other possible solutions, transportation officials said installing nets or raising the sides of the bridge could interfere with safety inspections - which are made with a big bucket lowered over the railing - and could catch the wind, making the span dangerously unstable.</p><p>Moreover, any plans would need to go through a special public approval process because the bridge is a national historic landmark.</p><p>Seattle\'s other major bridges - the Ship Canal Bridge that carries Interstate 5 and the West Seattle Bridge - see few suicides because they are closed to pedestrians.</p><p>The city does not even want to talk about preventing people from walking on the Aurora Bridge, which is a pedestrian link between two densely populated hilltops. But the state has considered moving the pedestrian walkway to an enclosed structure below the span.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/DepressionSymptoms/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.DepressionSymptoms) { displayApp(DepressionSymptoms); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></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('1476','7','	<p><!--Spanish ID:534803--> <p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies suggest breast density is nearly as important as age in predicting who is going to develop breast cancer.</p> <p>The information may help better identify women at high risk for the disease, the researchers noted.</p> <p>&quot;After age, it\'s probably the most important factor,&quot; said William E. Barlow, lead author of one of the studies and a senior investigator at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle. &quot;If we wanted to identify women who were really at high risk for chemoprevention efforts or more intense screening surveillance, then any model that incorporates breast density is going to be better at picking out those women.&quot;</p> <p>Both studies are in the Sept. 6 issue of the <i>Journal of the National Cancer Institute</i>.</p> <p>Since the late 1980s, medical professionals have relied on the Gail model to assess breast cancer risk in women undergoing annual mammography. That model uses risk factors known at the time, such as current age, age at first menstrual period, age at birth of first child, number of first-degree relatives with a family history of breast cancer and number of previous breast biopsies. More recently, race and atypical hyperplasia were added to the model.</p> <p>Experts had speculated that adding newly identified risk factors for breast cancer such as breast density and use of hormone therapy might improve the test\'s predictive powers.</p> <p>Barlow and his colleagues looked at 11,638 women who had developed breast cancer, out of a larger group of about 1 million.</p> <p>Among premenopausal women, age, breast density, family history of breast cancer and a previous breast procedure were significant risk factors for developing breast cancer. Having any type of prior breast procedure was associated with about a 50 percent increased risk. Women with extremely dense breasts had about a fourfold greater risk than women whose breasts were not dense.</p> <p>For postmenopausal women, factors included age, breast density, race, ethnicity, family history of breast cancer, a prior breast procedure, body-mass index, natural menopause, hormone therapy and a prior false-positive mammogram.</p> <p>The model may perform better than the Gail model, although the accuracy was far from perfect. This suggests that the major determinants of breast cancer are still unknown.</p> <p>A second study, conducted at the National Cancer Institute, used an updated version of the Gail model to assess the absolute risk of developing breast cancer. This model also included breast density, along with weight, age at first live birth, number of previous benign biopsies and number of first-degree relatives with breast cancer.</p> <p>Again, this model predicted that women with high breast density had an increased risk of breast cancer. </p> <p>It\'s unclear if breast density can be considered a modifiable risk factor.</p> <p>&quot;It may be modifiable, but we don\'t know that for sure,&quot; Barlow said. &quot;It is related to hormone use in women. Their breasts can be denser during the time they\'re on hormone replacement therapy.&quot;</p> <p>It\'s also not clear exactly how this new information will be incorporated into practice. Breast density generally needs to be measured by a radiologist. &quot;It\'s not something that a woman can judge for herself,&quot; Barlow explained. &quot;There really isn\'t a feedback mechanism from the radiologist back to the woman to say what the breast density is.&quot;</p> <p>In the future, however, Barlow envisions mammography facilities becoming more like risk-counseling facilities that incorporate breast density along with other risk factors and past mammogram results. &quot;But that would require an evolution of mammography centers,&quot; he noted.</p> <p>Even in the more immediate present, the findings reinforce the notion of taking steps to prevent breast cancer in high-risk and other women.</p> <p>&quot;We as a medical community still have not accepted the paradigm that we can identify women who are at a high risk for developing breast cancer,&quot; said Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La. &quot;We could intervene with a treatment to reduce their risk.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;We don\'t use the tools we already have to identify women at a high risk for breast cancer and offer them potential treatment to reduce their risk like we do for cholesterol and heart disease,&quot; he continued. &quot;Now, we\'re further defining the model that will predict even better who could potentially benefit from these tools.&quot;</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>For more on breast cancer, visit the <a href=\"http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2x.asp?sitearea=&amp;dt=5\" target=\"_new\">American Cancer Society</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1477','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\">Faithful challenge newborn blood test laws</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Parents argue state-mandated screenings violate religious tenets</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>WAHOO, Neb.  - Ray and Louise Spiering wanted to observe a period of silence after their daughter Melynda\'s birth, but what they got was an uproar.</p><p>To the Spierings, Nebraska\'s requirement that newborn babies undergo blood screening within 48 hours of birth is an infringement on their religious beliefs and their right to decide what\'s best for their four children.</p><p>The couple attend a fundamental Christian church and follow some teachings of the Church of Scientology. Louise Spiering said they wanted \"that balance of our beliefs included into the births of our children.\"</p><p>It\'s taken them and another set of parents to the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Legislature in a drive to make the newborn screening law more flexible.</p><p>The mandatory test, in which a few drops of blood are drawn from a baby\'s heel, screens for dozens of rare congenital diseases, some of which can cause severe mental retardation or death if left undetected.</p><p><b><strong>Test mandatory in four states</strong></b><br>Nebraska is one of four states - along with South Dakota, Michigan and Montana - that don\'t let parents opt out of the testing.</p><p>The Spierings wanted to avoid loud noises after Melynda\'s birth, and also reduce the pain she experienced in order to protect her physical and mental health. The concept comes from the Church of Scientology - minimizing talking around someone who is in pain, said the Rev. Brian Fesler of Minneapolis, a regional representative for the church.</p><p>The church teaches that words spoken during moments of pain and unconsciousness affect physical and mental health later in life, he said. The church encourages silent birth, in which those attending avoid talking.</p><p>But the church doesn\'t discourage parents from having their children tested, Fesler said.</p><p><b><strong>Test opposed on religious grounds</strong></b><br>The Spierings, who apply some tenets of Scientology to their faith, took the silent birth concept a step further. They believe newborns are in pain for at least 3?days, and don\'t want blood drawn - which they believe would cause more pain - for at least that long.</p><p>They asked for seven days to complete the testing to avoid any unforeseen problems, although they would have preferred to skip the test altogether.</p><p>The state insisted, and in September a federal judge upheld the law as constitutional. The judge, however, granted the Spierings an eight-day waiting period while the case was pending, so their daughter was not tested within 48 hours.</p><p>Along with the Spierings, Mary and Josue Anaya of Omaha are also fighting the test, in their case because they believe the Bible instructs against deliberately drawing blood. According to the book of Leviticus, \"the life of the flesh is in the blood,\" and ignoring that directive may shorten a person\'s life, they said.</p><p><b><strong>\'Something precious ... in the sight of God\'</strong></b><br>Children\'s blood is \"something precious in my sight and in the sight of God and not to be tampered with lightly,\" said Mary Anaya, who gave birth to the youngest of her nine children in Iowa to avoid the test.</p><p>In 2003, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled against the Anayas. They turned to state Sen. John Synowiecki of Omaha to introduce a measure for a religious exemption.</p><p>Armed with a petition including about 100 signatures, Mary Anaya and Louise Spiering testified Thursday before the Legislature\'s Health and Human Services committee.</p><p>Health officials testified that the requirement is one of the state\'s most cost-effective public health programs.</p><p>\"Some parents may not comprehend the risks they are taking with their children\'s health,\" said Bruce Rieker of the Nebraska Hospital Association.</p><p><b><strong>Screening may reveal serious defects<br></strong></b>Many of the diseases covered in the bill are deficiencies, and one, phenylketonuria, can result in severe mental retardation without diet restrictions starting at birth.</p><p>One in every 837 babies born last year tested positive for one of the 34 diseases the state tests for, said Julie Miller, manager of Nebraska\'s Newborn Screening Program. But the incidence is much lower for the eight most serious diseases, with one in 112,000 having biotinidase deficiency, which can cause developmental delays.</p><p>The Spierings say changing the law will give parents better options, whatever their opposition to the tests.</p><p>\"We just want to lay the groundwork so that other parents have better choices than we did,\" Ray Spiering said. \"We weren\'t so much against the test. We just wanted a short delay. In a sense, we kind of won\" when the judge granted the eight-day delay.</p><p>But, Louise Spiering said: \"There was a very steep cost in terms of the intrusion on our private lives.\"</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('1478','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/1/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>PEQUANNOCK, New Jersey</b> (AP)  -- Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.</p><p>Pequannock Township High, with about 800 students, said it will begin administering the tests next Monday.</p><p>&quot;This is a major issue for America,&quot; School Superintendent Larrie Reynolds said Tuesday. &quot;There are more kids that die each year in alcohol-related traffic deaths than there are soldiers who have died in Iraq. The numbers are staggering.&quot;</p><p>At least one other New Jersey high school, in Middletown, employs the EtG test, which screens for ethyl glucuronide, a substance produced by the body when it metabolizes alcohol.</p><p>Pequannock teenagers who participate in sports or other extracurricular activities, or drive to school, are already tested for illegal drugs, under a 2005 program prompted by the heroin overdose of a student.</p><p>Students who test positive for alcohol will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities. Instead they will receive counseling and their parents will be notified, Reynolds said.</p><p>&quot;That\'s going to give our kids riding in the back seat of someone\'s car a very powerful reason to say no,&quot; he said.</p><p>Drug tests, similarly, can detect drug use that occurred days earlier.</p><p>The new test worries civil-liberties advocates and others who oppose school drug testing as an invasion of privacy.</p><p>&quot;Medical care and treatment are issues between parents and children,&quot; said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.</p><p>They also say that common household products such as mouthwash can produce a positive test result. Reynolds said that the test has been recalibrated so that for students to test positive, they would generally have to consume one or two drinks.</p><p>The EtG test costs about $20, Reynolds said. The school\'s overall testing program is funded by a three-year, $120,000 federal grant.</p><p>&quot;No one\'s really taking it seriously. If you want to go to a party, you\'re still going to go to a party,&quot; senior Matt Huber said.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1479','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/13/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>WASHINGTON</b> (Reuters)  -- A woman\'s hormones affect specific parts of the brain called the reward pathway, researchers said on Monday in a finding that could offer insight into treating drug abuse and mood disorders.</p><p>A study of women playing an imaginary slot machine game showed their brain responses changed in anticipation of a payout depending on the phases of their menstrual cycles.</p><p>This might help explain other studies that show women get a bigger kick from cocaine and amphetamines during one phase of the fertility cycle -- and perhaps why women are less vulnerable to schizophrenia than men are, the researchers said.</p><p>&quot;This demonstrates for the first time that female ... hormones affect the reward system in very specific ways during particular parts of the cycle,&quot; said Dr. Karen Berman of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, who worked on the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</p><p>&quot;It is interesting to speculate that this may have evolutionary advantages and may affect behaviors that have been shown in other studies to also be affected by cycles.&quot;</p><p>For instance, not only are women more susceptible to drug abuse at certain points, but they may also find testosterone-type facial traits in men more appealing at certain times in their cycles, Berman said.</p><p>What this does not mean is that women are somehow more emotional or vulnerable to hormones than men are, she stressed.</p><p>&quot;I think it is important to keep in mind that this isn\'t the only thing that is going on in women\'s brains,&quot; she said in a telephone interview.</p><p>&quot;We have very important regulatory areas and homeostatic mechanisms that keep us in line, keep us functioning, keep us focused, keep us productive,&quot; she added.</p><p>&quot;I would really hate for this work to be interpreted in a way to make us seem that we are at the call of our hormones because I don\'t think that is the case.&quot;</p><p>Berman, working with Dr. Jean-Claude Dreher of France\'s national scientific research center CNRS and colleagues, used functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to get real-time images of the brain activity of 15 women.</p><p>The women played a hypothetical slot machine game, with payouts of $10 or $20.</p><p>Different areas of the brain lit up in anticipation of a payout -- a reward -- depending on the menstrual cycle phase. For instance, during the midfollicular phase, which comes four to eight days after menstrual bleeding starts, the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala of the brain were more active.</p><p>At this phase, estrogen is produced but progesterone levels are low.</p><p>Berman said it is too soon to connect any of the findings with specific behaviors.</p><p>Berman noted that estrogen has been found to protect brain cells, and the findings could also shed light on other studies of why women develop schizophrenia later in life than men and at lower rates.</p><p>She would like to study women past menopause, who produce much lower levels of hormones.</p><p>Hormones also affect the brains of men, but in different ways, Berman said. Her team did not study men for this report.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1480','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/14/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Can wearing a face mask and regularly cleaning hands stop the spread of deadly bird flu? Students at the University of Michigan started a living experiment this week to find out.</p><p>They are using the peak of influenza season to see if simple cotton masks and little bottles of hand sanitizer will protect them.</p><p>Health experts fear the H5N1 avian influenza virus might mutate any moment and start a pandemic -- a global epidemic that could kill millions. If not H5N1, some other new virus could do the same, world health officials agree. (<a href=\"javascript:CNN_openPopup(\'/SPECIALS/2006/flu/interactive/animation.superflu/frameset.exclude.html\',\'770x576\',\'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=770,height=576\');\">Interactive: How a superflu is born</a>)</p><p>They also agree there is no easy way to stop one. Viruses are very difficult to treat with drugs, unlike bacteria, which can usually be stopped with antibiotics.</p><p>Antivirals exist to treat flu, but are in limited supply. Vaccines take time to make, and there is very limited capacity to produce them. So low-tech measures will be the first line of defense against any rapidly spreading new disease.</p><p>While influenza is hardly new, doctors do not fully understand or agree on how it is spread.</p><p>The virus is carried in droplets that can be coughed or sneezed, and a great deal of evidence shows it can survive in little droplets on surfaces, to be picked up with an errant finger and transferred to nose or mouth. (<a href=\"javascript:CNN_openPopup(\'/SPECIALS/2006/flu/interactive/gallery.flu101/frameset.exclude.html\',\'620x430\',\'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=620,height=430\');\">Explainer: Flu season 101</a>)</p><p>More than 2,000 students living in University of Michigan dormitories will wear masks and use hand sanitizer to see if they develop lower rates of influenza than students not using such protections.</p><p>The dense and intimate living conditions of college life are perfect for such an experiment, says Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor of epidemiology at the university who is leading the study. Students there share sleeping quarters, bathrooms, hallways and dining areas.</p><p>&quot;There is some anecdotal evidence from prior pandemic outbreaks that masks may have helped, but no firm data,&quot; Monto said in a statement.</p><p>Monto\'s team has begun handing out 800 cases of alcohol-based hand sanitizer in small bottles for students to carry, and larger pump bottles for their rooms. They will also distribute cotton masks held on by rubber bands over the ears.</p><p>Students in one group will use hand sanitizer and wear simple cotton surgical masks. Another group will use only the masks and a third group will get no extra protections.</p><p>They will use the products as soon as influenza is detected and reported among students.</p><p>The researchers will simply watch and see if the groups get influenza and related illnesses at different rates. The U.S. flu season generally starts in October and lasts through March, peaking in February.</p><p>&quot;It\'s going to be a group effort, that\'s for sure,&quot; said Allison Aiello, an assistant professor of epidemiology.</p><p>The H5N1 flu remains mainly a disease of birds, but it has infected 270 people since 2003 and killed 164 of them. If it begins to spread as easily from person to person as seasonal flu, there will be no stopping a pandemic, experts say.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1481','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/14/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>BOSTON, Massachusetts</b> (Reuters)  -- At least two people have become intoxicated by drinking hand-sanitizing gels, a potentially deadly habit, doctors reported Wednesday.</p><p>A prison inmate and a hospitalitzed alcoholic both were treated for poisoning from the gels, which contain alcohol -- but not the same kind as found in beverages.</p><p>Evidently people misunderstand the labels that show the gels, foams and liquids contain alcohol, the doctors said in separate letters to the New England Journal of Medicine. Cases of people drinking the hand gels because of their alcohol content have not previously been reported in major medical journals.</p><p>&quot;The Maryland Poison Center was called about a 49-year-old, usually calm prison inmate who was described as being \'red-eyed,\' \'loony,\' \'combative,\' and \'intoxicated, lecturing everyone about life\',&quot; Dr. Suzanne Doyon of the Maryland Poison Center and Dr. Christopher Welsh of the University of Maryland School of Medicine wrote in one letter.</p><p>&quot;Other inmates and staff reported seeing this prisoner drinking from a gallon container of Purell hand sanitizer over the course of the evening. &quot;</p><p>In the second case, a 43-year-old man with alcoholism was treated for mysterious chest pains and other symptoms.</p><p>&quot;Before those results were obtained, the patient was seen in the bathroom drinking the alcohol-based hand wash from its dispenser,&quot; Dr. Ashkan Emadi and Dr. LeAnn Coberly of the University of Cincinnati wrote.</p><p>&quot;When asked why he ingested the hand cleaner, he pointed to the label, which read, \'Active ingredient 63 percent v/v isopropyl alcohol.\' He explained that this percentage is higher than that in vodka,&quot; they added.</p><p>It takes only a small amount of isopropanol to kill, by depressing the heart and central nervous system, they wrote.</p><p>They suggested that makers of the hand gels change the labeling.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1482','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/2/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>BOSTON, Massachusetts</b> (AP)  -- The fine grit in polluted air boosts the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realized, a big federally funded study has found, raising questions of whether U.S. environmental standards are strict enough.</p><p>The Environmental Protection Agency tightened its daily limit for these tiny specks, known as fine particulates, in September. But it left the average annual limit untouched, allowing a concentration of 15 millionths of a gram for every cubic meter of air.</p><p>In this study of 65,893 women, the average exposure was 13 units, with two-thirds of the subjects falling under the national standard. But every increase of 10 units, starting at 0, lifted the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease by about 75 percent. That is several times higher than in a study by the American Cancer Society.</p><p>&quot;There was a lot of evidence previously suggesting that the long-term standard should be lower, and this is adding one more study to that evidence,&quot; said Douglas Dockery, a pollution specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health.</p><p>He wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, which was published in Thursday\'s New England Journal of Medicine. The University of Washington-based researchers worked from data collected for the Women\'s Health Initiative, a well-respected research project that previously showed the heart dangers of hormone supplements.</p><p>It has long been known that particulates can contribute to lung and heart disease, with women perhaps more susceptible than men to heart problems, perhaps because of their smaller blood vessels and other biological differences.</p><p>But the degree of risk for older women was less clear. This study started with women who had gone through menopause and were 50 to 79 years old.</p><p>Unlike earlier studies, it looked not just at deaths, but also at heart attacks, coronary disease, strokes and clogged arteries. These problems were 24 percent more likely with every 10-unit rise in particles. Almost 3 percent of the women suffered some kind of cardiovascular problem.</p><p>The risk varied along with the varying levels of these particles in different neighborhoods within the same city.</p><p>In their calculations, the researchers tried to adjust for lower income and other health problems that have been blamed for the higher rates of disease in past studies.</p><p>&quot;I think the major contribution is answering the critics of the prior studies,&quot; said the paper\'s senior researcher, Dr. Joel Kaufman of the University of Washington. &quot;The effect seems large and important and should be taken seriously.&quot;</p><p>States and other groups demanding a lower annual standard sued the EPA last year, accusing it of disregarding the advice of its own scientists. Some agency scientists are also pushing for tighter rules on ozone, the chemical that creates smog and contributes to asthma and lung disease.</p><p>The EPA is scheduled to take another look at its standard for particulate matter.</p><p>&quot;It\'s too soon to say how much weight any single study will have, but this study will be considered as part of this continuous process,&quot; said EPA spokesman John Millett.</p><p>Dr. Len Horovitz of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, who was familiar with the findings, said they could create &quot;a bit of a firestorm&quot; for the future review.</p><p>The tiny bits of grit are believed to reach deep into the lungs to spur inflammation that promotes heart attack and stroke. They are so small than it would take about 30 to equal the thickness of a human hair.</p><p>These particles -- made of dust, soot and various chemicals -- come from burning fuel in cars, factories, and power plants. While individual particles are too small to see, they can be observed collectively as urban haze.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1483','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/2/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; National survey finds binge eating more common than anorexia and bulimia<br> &#8226; Survey finds that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men are affected<br> &#8226; Study author says binge eaters face severe risk of obesity and related diseases </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>BOSTON, Massachusetts (</b>AP)  -- Frequent binge eating is America\'s most common eating disorder, far outpacing the better-known diet problems of anorexia and bulimia, according to a national survey.</p><p>Psychiatric researchers at Harvard University Medical School and its affiliate, McLean Psychiatric Hospital, have billed the study as the first national census of eating disorders. The results were published Thursday in the medical journal Biological Psychiatry.</p><p>The survey found that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men suffer from binge eating, defined as bouts of uncontrolled eating, well past the point of being full, that occur at least twice a week.</p><p>The doctors diagnosed anorexia, a disorder where an exaggerated fear of weight gain causes undereating and malnourishment, in  fewer than 1 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men. The study determined that 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men had bulimia, characterized by the &quot;binge-purge&quot; syndrome of overeating followed by vomiting.</p><p>McLean Hospital\'s Dr. Harrison Pope, an author of the study, said binge eaters face severe risk of obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers.</p><p>A binge eater, for instance, might eat a full dinner, then a quart of ice cream for dessert, followed by a bag of chips, without being able to stop, Pope said.</p><p>&quot;It\'s a little bit analogous to something you hear from an alcoholic, when they might say, \'Well, I wanted to have one drink,\' and they\'ve had 12 drinks and they\'re passed out on the floor,&quot; he said in a conference call with reporters. &quot;Even though they feel full, even though they feel disgusting and guilty, they can\'t stop.&quot;</p><p>Dr. James I. Hudson, the study\'s lead author and a Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor, said binge eating deserves more recognition from health professionals.</p><p>&quot;These results argue that binge eating is common. It\'s more common than both the other eating disorders combined and it\'s strongly associated with obesity,&quot; he said. &quot;Taken together, these findings suggest that this is an eating disorder and should be treated as such.&quot;</p><p>Funding for the study came from several sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Eli Lilly &amp; Co. and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. </p><p>Hudson said the research team interviewed more than 9,000 people nationwide from 2001 to 2003 about their eating habits and psychological backgrounds. The study probably underestimates the actual number of those with eating disorders, he said, because people are often ashamed to acknowledge their abnormal eating habits.</p><p>The survey also found that people struggle longer with binge eating -- symptoms persist for an average of about eight years compared to less than two years for anorexic patients, who are often young and may recover as they mature. Bulimics suffer without cure for an average of roughly eight years, according to the study.</p><p>Men and women between the ages of 18 and 29 were most likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder, while people older than 60 had the lowest rates of eating problems. The doctors said all three illnesses usually coincided with mood disorders like depression and anxiety.</p><p>A combination of the &quot;cultural barrage&quot; of images of rail-thin movie stars, ubiquitous fast-food advertising and genetic predisposition is usually the root of eating disorders, the study said.</p><p>Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, director of the eating disorders research unit at the New York State Psychiatric Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center, said the study confirms a widespread belief that the population of binge eaters is growing. He said if binge eating is a cause of obesity, psychiatrists could give more effective treatment to many overweight people.</p><p>&quot;Everyone has a sense, whether from a casual inspection of people on Broadway or an empirical study, that there are a lot of problems with binge eating and overeating,&quot; he said. &quot;The question is, is it a cause or a symptom?&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1484','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/3/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; CDC issues guidelines to help states plan for the next flu pandemic<br> &#8226; Plan would rank flu severity much as hurricanes are categorized<br> &#8226; Plan doesn\'t tell states what infection-control steps to take<br>  </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>WASHINGTON (</b>AP)  -- The government will predict the severity of the next flu pandemic just as forecasters predict hurricane strength -- using a ranking system unveiled Thursday to help states determine when they should take increasingly strong steps to combat flu\'s spread.</p><p>At issue are old-fashioned infection-control measures that may help slow the spread of the next worldwide outbreak of a super-flu until vaccines become available, steps that range from home quarantine to closing schools and postponing sporting events.</p><p>But those measures can increase a pandemic\'s economic fallout and even have unintended consequences. Closing schools, for example, can keep adults home from work to care for children. And it doesn\'t help if older kids go sneeze on one another at the mall.</p><p>The new guidelines, from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, don\'t tell states what infection-control steps to take -- and make clear that rushing to implement them could do more harm than good.</p><p>Instead, the new &quot;pandemic severity index&quot; suggests when a super-flu\'s threat becomes great enough to justify gradually escalating those strategies.</p><p>The top example: Just as coastal communities don\'t evacuate for a Category 1 hurricane, schools shouldn\'t close for a Category 1 flu pandemic. But if the next pandemic appears to be a super-lethal Category 5, the guidelines recommend states close schools for up to three months.</p><p>It is advice that states, grappling with exactly how drastic their pandemic preparations should be, have been awaiting anxiously, said Dr. Robert Stroube, Virginia\'s health commissioner and president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.</p><p>&quot;You kind of plan for the worst, but the odds are it won\'t be,&quot; Stroube said.</p><p>Even adjoining states often have been unable to agree on best policies.</p><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>Consistent policy for all</h3><p>With the guidelines, &quot;we\'re coming out with consensus so we don\'t have to reinvent it in every state throughout the country,&quot; he added.</p><p>Influenza pandemics can strike when the easy-to-mutate flu virus shifts to a strain that people never have experienced. Scientists cannot predict when the next pandemic will arrive, although concern is rising that the Asian bird flu might trigger one if it starts spreading easily from person to person.</p><p>Most planning until now has focused on the worst-case scenario of an outbreak as severe as in 1918, when 50 million people worldwide died. But the 20th century\'s other two pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, were far less severe, claiming 2 million and 1 million lives, respectively.</p><p>There\'s no way to tell how bad the next one will be until it begins. But once the next pandemic strain begins circulating, gene testing and how fast it spreads will let scientists predict its lethality fairly quickly, said Dr. Pascal James Imperato, a former New York City health commissioner who now directs public health at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center.</p><p>Federal officials are &quot;concerned about pulling the trigger too fast&quot; on drastic infection-control measures, added Jeff Levi of the Trust for America\'s Health.</p><p>That\'s where the CDC\'s new hurricane-style ranking system comes in.</p><p>If the CDC decides a new flu strain will be the least severe, with the potential of killing no more than 90,000 people, states would be urged to just isolate the sick, mostly at home, minimizing visitors who might catch the virus.</p><p>With a more moderate 1957- or 1968-like strain -- 90,000 to 450,000 potential deaths -- states might consider closing schools, but CDC doesn\'t recommend it and says any closures should be less than a month.</p><p>If more than 900,000 deaths are predicted, a Category 4 or 1918-like Category 5 pandemic, then CDC does recommend closing schools, from one month to three months, depending on each community\'s level of illness. Other steps are recommended too, including avoiding crowded gatherings and encouraging people to work from home.</p><p>States also should consider having everyone in the household of a sick patient voluntarily stay home for seven days, in case they are silently incubating the virus, in all but the least severe pandemics. And if states have enough anti-flu medication, they should consider giving family members doses during quarantine to ward off infection.</p><p>But with the rankings come stern warnings. In a recent Harvard study, one in four adults said there was no one to care for them at home if they got sick, another one in four couldn\'t afford to miss work for even a week, and one in five said their bosses would insist they come to work even if they were sick and contagious.</p><p>The guidelines lay out that kind of fallout, and urge communities to figure out ways to minimize it.</p><p>&quot;This is the start of that discussion, not the end,&quot; cautioned Levi, the public health advocate.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1485','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/3/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>WASHINGTON</b> (AP)  -- President Bush said Thursday that childhood obesity is a costly problem for the country and puts stress on American families.</p><p>&quot;One way for this nation to cope with the issue of obesity is to get people outside -- whether it be through sports or hiking or conservation,&quot; Bush said while meeting with business leaders working to encourage exercise and healthy food choices through advertising.</p><p>He said first lady Laura Bush was on her way to New York to kick off Friday\'s &quot;Wear Red Day&quot; for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute\'s Red Dress Project to increase awareness that women are at risk for heart disease. Bush signed a proclamation making February American Heart Month.</p><p>&quot;Mothers are the ones, a lot of times, who make choices for their children,&quot; the first lady said. &quot;They make their choices on the foods they eat. They\'re the ones at home, many times, who encourage their children to exercise.&quot;</p><p>Earlier, the president and Mrs. Bush attended the 55th national prayer breakfast at a Washington hotel where he prayed for the safety of U.S. troops, saying: &quot;During this time of war, we thank God that we are part of a nation that produces courageous men and women who volunteer to defend us.&quot;</p><p>In the Roosevelt Room, the president and Mrs. Bush met with executives from the food, beverage and entertainment industries to talk about improving healthy food offerings and encouraging physical fitness in their marketing and advertising campaigns.</p><p>More than 10 million school-age children in the United States _ about 18 percent -- are now considered overweight. The percentage of overweight children tripled among adolescents during the past 25 years, and nearly doubled for children ages 6 to 12. This increases their risk for adult heart disease and diabetes, lowers life expectancy and creates additional health care costs.</p><p>Following the meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt was to work with Roger Enrico, chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG, and Peggy Conlon, president and chief executive officer of The Advertising Council, to launch a public awareness campaign to help prevent childhood obesity. The campaign will include ads featuring characters from the Shrek animated movies encouraging children to &quot;Be a Player&quot; and get up and play for an hour a day.</p><p>Representatives from General Mills, Coca-Cola North America, Univision Communications Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., Kellogg Co., PepsiCo Inc., Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, McDonalds USA and Nickelodeon Television also were at the meeting.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1486','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  Maureen Callahan, M.S., R.D. <br> CookingLight.com</div><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p>Many of us worry about overeating when we sit down for a meal. But what, beyond overindulgence, makes people feel full -- and how can we leverage foods\' filling powers to help control portions?</p><p>&quot;It\'s a complex sequence of events that starts with the eyes, the mouth, the stomach, and the gut,&quot; says Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., professor of nutritional sciences at Pennsylvania State University and author of &quot;The Volumetrics Eating Plan.&quot; &quot;But hunger and satiety, the scientific term for that full feeling that comes after eating, are also influenced by our environment.&quot;</p><p>Armed with insight about the environmental cues that compel you to eat and the foods that offer the most satisfaction, you can make smart choices that will fill you up, and not out. (<a href=\"/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/31/cl.satisfaction.tips/index.html\">How not to pig out at that Super Bowl party.</a> )</p><p><b>Mind over matter</b> </p><p>&quot;People are not like gas tanks. Our bodies do not tell us, \'Stop now, you\'ve eaten 375 calories,\' &quot; says Janet Polivy, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, who studies the connections between food and feeling. &quot;Eating is much less determined by biology than by psychology.&quot; The size of the portions you eat and whom you eat them with have a direct effect on your intake. (<a href=\"/cookinglight/hl/nutrition/article/0,13803,1094736,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Learn the top habits of the world\'s healthiest countries.</a><img src=\"http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.3/misc/icon.offsite.gif\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"12\" height=\"9\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnOffsite\"> )</p><p>When you\'re served larger portions, you\'ll most likely finish them and then some, according to University of Illinois researchers, who invited subjects to eat soup from bowls equipped with hidden refilling devices that kept the amount of soup in each bowl constant. Subjects who supped from these bowls consumed 73 percent more soup than those who used ordinary bowls; however, they didn\'t rate their feelings of satiety any higher than those who consumed less.</p><p>The presentation of portions can also influence the amount of food you eat. Most of us are likely to eat considerably more than usual from a buffet-style table. One study showed that just increasing the variety of foods available increased intake by 60 percent. In other words, you really do eat with your eyes.</p><p>Eat with friends or coworkers, and chances are you\'ll model the amount you eat based on their plates. &quot;As long as you have a big eater in the room, our research suggests people then feel free to eat a little less than whoever sets the pace,&quot; Polivy says. She and her colleagues tested the hypothesis on people who had been deprived of food for 24 hours and found that subjects regulated their food intake by keeping an eye on their colleagues\' plates, eating more when in the presence of someone who ate heartily.</p><p><b>Inflation rates</b> </p><p>The flexible physiology of the stomach helps place us at the mercy of environmental stimuli. Although ordinarily about the size of a closed fist, the stomach expands as food enters. &quot;Our stomachs can hold about three pints of food,&quot; explains Julie Schwartz, M.S., R.D., coordinator of nutrition services at Emory Bariatric Center in Atlanta, Georgia. &quot;That\'s about the size of a football.&quot; While useful in the event of food scarcities that plagued our ancestors, the stomach\'s ability to expand can undermine our best sensible-eating intentions.</p><p>Fill the stomach too quickly, and your body won\'t have time to recognize messages from the hormones that help regulate appetite. Insulin, leptin, cortisol, and ghrelin are some of the chemical messengers that send signals between the stomach and the brain, inducing hunger and registering satiety. &quot;We don\'t have immediate feedback from our bodies telling us we\'ve eaten enough,&quot; Polivy says. &quot;It takes about 20 minutes for food to be digested enough that glucose gets into the bloodstream and the hormones start working.&quot; If you have already consumed most of a meal in 20 minutes\' time, your brain will receive satiety signals too late to slow your eating.</p><p><b>How nutrients help</b> </p><p>Although environment is a powerful factor that drives people to eat, certain nutrients -- most notably protein, fiber, and water -- can help tilt our internal scales toward &quot;full&quot; before we reach the red line. (<a href=\"/cookinglight/cs/allabout/package/0,14343,1020726,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Experts pick their perfect food</a><img src=\"http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.3/misc/icon.offsite.gif\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"12\" height=\"9\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnOffsite\"> )</p><p>Protein is the most satiating nutrient, says former Harvard University researcher Thomas Halton, Ph.D., who recently co-wrote review of 50 satiety studies in The Journal of the American College of Nutrition. Something about protein tells our bodies to stop eating it after a while. Researchers aren\'t quite sure of the mechanism but believe that part of protein\'s advantage may come from its thermic effect, the rate at which calories are consumed simply by the act of digesting food. &quot;The digestion and absorption of protein takes more work than the digestion and absorption of fat and carbohydrates,&quot; Halton says. About 25 to 35 percent of protein calories are used as the body converts protein to energy; only five to 15 percent are used when carbohydrates are converted.</p><p>Carbohydrates are the next most satiating foods. &quot;The type of carbohydrate plays a role,&quot; Halton says. &quot;Whole grains are more satiating than refined sugars and refined white flour.&quot; Whole grains, along with fruits and vegetables, tend to be filling because they contain higher levels of fiber. Unlike other food substances, fiber is not digested. It adds bulk to foods, which helps fill the stomach, slowing the rate at which food is digested. The result: You notice feelings of fullness sooner.</p><p>Fruits, vegetables, and grains also have another satiety-related benefit: Because these foods contain high percentages of water, they generally have a lower energy density, the number of calories per gram, than meats, dairy foods, and confections. That means you can eat more of them without the consequences that high-calorie foods can bring. A number of studies coordinated by Rolls show that eating salads and other low-calorie foods can help people eat less without feeling deprived. In one study, Rolls found that eating a salad with low energy density before a meal enhanced satiety enough that subjects consumed 12 percent less food from the meal.</p><p>While fat\'s palatability certainly provides satisfaction, it isn\'t technically &quot;satiating,&quot; according to Dana Gerstein, M.P.H., R.D., specialist at the University of California at Berkeley\'s Center for Weight and Health. &quot;I think of \'satisfying\' as fulfilling a desire,&quot; Gerstein says. &quot;Fat fulfills desire but is not satiating. Satiation is a physiological process.&quot;</p><p>All of this information yields a plate containing a small amount of fat, a lean source of protein, and a variety of fiber-rich fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. &quot;This is pretty much what we know we should be eating anyway, but it also helps with satiety,&quot; Rolls says. &quot;It\'s a new way to encourage people to practice good nutrition.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Maureen Callahan, M.S., R.D., is an award-winning food journalist and recipe developer. She lives in Colorado.</p><br clear=\"all\"><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\"><a href=\"/linkto/cooklight.sub.html\">Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Cooking Light - CLICK HERE!</a></p> <!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
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Prescription drugs would be prescribed liberally as preventive medicines in households where someone was sick. A government-woven safety net would probably provide food, personal care, and financial assistance to people who couldn\'t cope on their own.</p><p>One possible preventive tool -- face masks -- isn\'t addressed in the \"Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation\" booklet. That\'s because CDC planners are still doing research -- both experimental and historical -- to determine how useful they would be. They expect to provide guidance on masks in a month or so.</p><p>To help states, cities and towns decide when to invoke various measures, the new document outlines a five-category system for grading pandemic severity that is analogous to the one used for hurricanes. Wind speed is the key variable in hurricanes; for pandemics it is \"case fatality ratio.\"</p><p>Case fatality ratio is the fraction of ill people who die. In the epochal \"Spanish influenza\" of 1918, which killed at least 50 million people worldwide, the ratio in the United States was about 2.2 percent. (It was 10 times higher in some other parts of the world). Without a good mitigation strategy, a 1918-type pandemic today would kill 1.8 million Americans. It would be a Category 5.</p><p>The case fatality ratio was less than 0.5 percent in 1957 and 1968, the two most recent pandemics. In the current sputtering outbreak of H5N1 \"bird flu\" in Southeast Asia, the ratio is above 50 percent. But that virus doesn\'t have the ability to spread easily from person to person -- the essential feature of a pandemic strain.</p><p>The new guidance is informed in part by a closer look -- still underway -- of how American cities fared during the Spanish flu.</p><p>Schools are the densest environments in society -- in square feet per person, eight-times denser than offices and 10 times denser than single-family homes. In 1918, closing schools was the most effective tool for slowing the virus. Some cities experienced a roller-coaster ride of infection as schools were closed, opened, and closed again.</p><p>New research is also helping to build the strategy. A study published in 2003 found that children in day care centers with six or more children were 2.2 times more likely to get upper respiratory infections than children cared for at home. Consequently, the new document suggests it might be safe for small groups of children to come together in a rolling child-care arrangements that two or three families might arrange with each other.</p><p>Cetron warned that ignoring the possibility of a severe flu pandemic will not make the threat disappear, nor will it prevent the disruptive events a community could usefully start planning for. Schools, he said, will all eventually close if an outbreak is severe enough, either because of staff shortages or because parents simply keep their children at home. At the same time, both parents and teachers are going to try to continue children\'s education if the disruption lasts for months -- and will find a way, one way or another.</p><p>\"It\'s not like those things are going to go away; we\'re just going to face them unprepared in a Category 5 event,\" he said. He added, invoking the memory of Hurricane Katrina: \"And we all know what happens when we aren\'t prepared for a Category 5 event.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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The steps were announced in response to a report last year by the congressionally chartered Institute of Medicine (IOM) that called for an overhaul of the FDA\'s culture and structure following safety controversies over drugs such as the painkiller Vioxx.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div style=\"width:228px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>What Readers Are Saying</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarbox\" style=\"color: #333;\">\n <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\"><strong>Your Comments On...</strong></span><br> <h1 style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 153);\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901431.html\" target=\"_blank\">Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds</a></h1></p> <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> \"It would be interesting to know if factors such as stress, or sleep disorders etc. were taken into account. 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They also pledged a renewed commitment to good science as the best way to counter critics who say the agency is too cozy with drug companies.</p><p>\"We will fight back against those perceptions and that cynicism,\" said Steven Galson, head of the agency\'s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the division that evaluates new drugs and that has been at the center of the maelstrom.</p><p>A member of the Institute of Medicine panel said the FDA had taken steps in the right direction but had fallen short.</p><p>\"In a number of cases, the FDA does not go as far as the IOM recommendations, but they are first steps and in the right direction,\" said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.</p><p>A central contention of the IOM report was that the agency did not focus enough on monitoring drugs once they were approved. Most approvals are based on clinical trials involving a few hundred or a few thousand patients, and many uncommon side effects do not emerge until a drug is being used by millions.</p><p>The IOM report said FDA officials who monitor drug safety were being ignored, because top officials were focused on approving new medications rather than monitoring those already on the market.</p><p>\"There was an asymmetry in esteem and funding between these two groups,\" Charo said. While the changes the FDA announced yesterday to integrate drug safety experts in the process were a start, she said, the agency\'s drug safety specialists still lacked power.</p><p>When FDA safety officials see a problem with a drug, Charo said, the agency is required to discuss proposed warnings, labeling changes or limits on distribution with the manufacturer. What FDA safety officials need, she said, is the power to impose fines and restrictions on companies that do not voluntarily follow the FDA\'s directives.</p><p>Agency officials said some of the changes proposed in the IOM report require congressional action, because they call for new powers. But officials also said they are starting  a pilot program to produce report cards on some new drugs 12 to 18 months after their approval -- a process that would bring problems to light.</p><p>FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and other senior officials said they were largely in agreement with the institute but called its report useful advice, not a blueprint. The agency is taking steps to break down internal walls and strengthen the role of safety specialists on advisory panels, they said.</p><p>Referring to the IOM\'s concern about a \"lack of respect\" between agency staff who approve new drugs and those who monitor drug safety, Galson said, \"We need to improve the way scientific disagreements are handled and resolved.\"</p><p>Besides the \"cultural\" issues within the agency, officials outlined a number of initiatives to better understand which patients may be susceptible to particular types of side effects, and which patients may be most likely to benefit from a particular drug. \"This new science of safety will help us make products safer from the get-go,\" said Janet Woodcock, the FDA\'s deputy commissioner for operations.</p><p>The agency also said it is seeking alliances with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services and private insurers to gather better information about problems with using drugs and the challenges that physicians and patients encounter in the everyday use of medications.</p><p>Officials also promised greater transparency in how they select experts to serve on influential panels that assess new drugs and devices, as well as policy issues facing the agency. Some of these panel members have come under criticism for having ties to the drug industry.</p><p>While greater transparency is a good thing, Charo said, the FDA also ought to limit the overall number of panel members who have conflicts of interest.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1489','1','<p>A bill that would have required middle school girls in Maryland to be vaccinated against the virus that can cause cervical cancer is being shelved by its lead sponsor.</p><p>Sen. Delores G. 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The requirement would have gone into effect in September 2008.</p><p>Similar measures requiring the vaccination for girls as young as 11 and 12 are being considered in the District, Virginia, New Jersey and California.</p><p>Maryland\'s bill offers an exemption for religious, medical or philosophical reasons.</p><p>Kelley\'s bill had widespread support in the Senate, with nearly half of the senators signing on to the legislation. It had yet to be introduced in the House.</p><p>Yesterday, some of the co-sponsors said they were surprised to learn that Kelley was pulling the measure, even though, they said, they could understand her decision.</p><p>\"There has been growing controversy about the vaccine,\" said Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt (D-Prince George\'s), one of 21 senators who signed on to the measures. \"Not about what it will accomplish, but the timeliness of it and the understanding of it being a mandate.\"</p><p>Britt said she received a couple of calls from parents and organizations criticizing the legislation, raising concerns that the vaccine might encourage promiscuity.</p><p>Cervical cancer afflicts almost 10,000 women a year in the United States and more than a third of them die from the disease. HPV affects 20 million Americans ages 15 to 49, but most people fight it off without knowing they had it.</p><p>Britt said she thinks there needs to be more public awareness about the vaccine.</p><p>\"It did have support,\" Britt said of the number of lawmakers who co-sponsored the legislation. \"But I think the [negative] reaction came unexpectedly. 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Many workers who can afford insurance but choose not to pay for it would have to buy it or face penalties.</p><p>\"Maryland holds out much promise,\" said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, an advocacy group pushing for affordable, universal health care. The state \"may well jump to near the head of the line.\"</p><p>Maryland would join Massachusetts, California, Vermont and a handful of other states that are mapping a path toward universal coverage in the absence of action by Congress or the Bush administration. Instead of the dramatic national overhaul contemplated more than a decade ago, the states are working within the health system, tapping businesses, hospitals, insurers and workers to pay for expanded health care.</p><p>The medical repercussions of a lack of health insurance are prodding many states to act.</p><p>\"Generally, the uninsured get about half the care that the insured get,\" said Arthur Garson Jr., dean of the University of Virginia\'s medical school, who has been an outspoken participant in the state and national discussions. And the ultimate consequence? \"The uninsured have a 20 percent higher mortality rate than the insured.\"</p><p>Massachusetts is putting in place a plan that would cover 515,000 people. Maryland\'s approach is more limited: The most ambitious proposal -- a bill to be filed this week by Del. Peter A. Hammen (D-Baltimore), the health committee chairman -- would affect about a third of the state\'s uninsured but leave a half-million people without coverage.</p><p>O\'Malley and lawmakers say they are balancing the political will to expand health coverage with the looming state budget shortfall they will tackle next year.</p><p>\"The administration is interested in working with Delegate Hammen to make health care more accessible in Maryland,\" Joseph C. Bryce, O\'Malley\'s senior policy and legislative adviser, said yesterday. \"But we have some concerns about how some provisions in the bill would be funded.\"</p><p>The governor opposes a tobacco tax increase, and even if lawmakers approve it, there is some sentiment to use the revenue to cover other needs. And despite the momentum in the Democrat-controlled legislature, initiatives of this magnitude often take more than a single session to sell.</p><p>Hammen, with strong backing from House Speaker Michael E. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1491','1','\n\n\n	 <p>MIAMI, Jan. 31 ?Bob Brudzinski turned 52 on Jan. 1, and he considers himself lucky for a man who played 13 seasons as a linebacker with the Los Angeles Rams and the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/miamidolphins/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Miami Dolphins.\">Miami Dolphins</a>. Sometimes, his memory fails him. But he sees former teammates the same age in far worse shape.</p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/01/sports/01disability.1.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Bob Galbraith/Associated Press</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nReggie White, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman, died at 43 after having cardiac arrhythmia. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n<div class=\"doubleRule\"></div><h3 class=\"promo\">Blog</h3>\r\n<div class=\"story\"><p class=\"summary\"><a href=\"http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/\"><IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/blogs/fifthdown/fifthdown190.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"callout span\"></a>Times staffers cover the road to the Super Bowl.</p>\r\n<a href=\"http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/\" class=\"more\">Go to Blog ?/a>\r\n</div>\r\n<div 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I don? think they had information back then. If they did, I think they wanted to keep it away from us.</p><p>? can? say the owners and coaches didn? care. They wanted to see how tough you are. Anybody can play not injured. They wanted to see if you can play injured. There were a lot of injections and stuff like that. </p><p>?nd the other thing is, you didn? want to sit out a game, because there? always somebody behind you who can take your spot. I never thought about concussions, never thought about blowing my knee out. The one thing I really wish is that I could remember more. We used our head too much, in the wrong way.?/p><p>As concern grows among former N.F.L. players about the impact of football on health, the medical community is working to gather more information. The Living Heart Foundation, the National Football League Players Association and the Baptist Hospital of Miami are sponsoring the third annual Super Bowl Health Screening Program, to examine current and retired players for cardiovascular disease and obstructive <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/sleepapnea/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about sleep apnea.\">sleep apnea</a>. Dozens of former N.F.L. players filed through the office of Dr. Arthur Agatston on Wednesday, being checked for sleep apnea, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/diabetes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about diabetes.\">diabetes</a>, high <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/cholesterol/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about cholesterol.\">cholesterol</a>, high <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/bloodpressure/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about blood pressure.\">blood pressure</a> and other ailments.</p><p>Retired players have reason to be concerned about their long-term health. A neuropathologist  recently determined that Andre Waters, a former <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/philadelphiaeagles/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Philadelphia Eagles.\">Eagles</a> safety who committed <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/suicidesandsuicideattempts/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about suicide.\">suicide</a> in November at age 44, sustained brain damage from playing football that led to his depression and  death. Last month, a United States Court of Appeals upheld a 2005 trial court ruling that the Hall of Fame center Mike Webster sustained brain damage from playing professional football, mostly for the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/pittsburghsteelers/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Pittsburgh Steelers.\">Steelers</a>.</p><p>According to a 2003 study published in The <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_england_journal_of_medicine/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about New England Journal of Medicine\">New England Journal of Medicine</a>, 14 percent of N.F.L. players had obstructive sleep apnea, a disease that impairs breathing and is known to affect large, muscular individuals like football linemen more often than people of average size. Reggie White, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman, died at 43 in 2004 after having cardiac arrhythmia, but he also had sleep apnea, which may have contributed to his death.</p><p> With more football linemen weighing much more than  300 pounds, doctors said they expected sleep apnea to become more prevalent .</p><p> ?he primary treatment for sleep apnea is to lose weight, and they can?,?said Dr. Allan Levy, an associate team physician with the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/newyorkgiants/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the New York Giants.\">Giants</a>, who is assisting with this week? screening. ?here? no such thing as a 225-pound offensive lineman. We try to make certain that they understand that they?e got to come down in weight when they retire. All of my offensive lineman from the Giants?two Super Bowl wins have all lost at least 50 pounds. They?e all in excellent health. You see some of the other guys, and they?e just huge. They?e got all kinds of problems.</p><p> ?he problem with sleep apnea is in the neck. A 17?inch neck is usually where the problem begins. When they sleep, the muscles relax in the body. Now the weight of their neck clasps down on their airway. They stop breathing. They momentarily wake up, then the cycle starts over again, and they never get into deep sleep. They develop <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/heartdisease/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about heart disease.\">heart disease</a> and hypertension. Sleep apnea is a killer. One of the kids that played for us, we did a sleep study on, had 440 awakenings during the night.?/p><p> The most common treatment for sleep apnea involves wearing a mask that supplies a stream of air through the nose during sleep. But some retired players have ailments that are far more debilitating. Tom Nowatzke, the president of the N.F.L. Alumni Detroit chapter, said more should be done by the league and the players union to help retired players with disabilities related to football.</p><p> ? get $843 a month, but some guys are only getting $300, $400 a month because of when they played,?said Nowatzke, a 64-year-old former running back who scored a touchdown for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.</p><p> ?our hundred dollars a month won? pay for a car payment these days, not to mention doctor bills and medicine, and stuff that? not covered. I? very fortunate to be as healthy as I am at my age. I? going to see people this weekend who have trouble walking, and they?e eight or nine years younger than I am.?/p><p> Nowatzke said he hoped that more players  would stop to think how they may feel when they turn 60 and consider the health of players who have come before them. </p><p> ?ot many do,?Nowatzke said. ?uys who played in the ?0s, ?0s, ?0s probably died before they turned 70. Now guys are living to be 75 or 80. So it becomes a bigger problem.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1492','1','\n\n\n	 <p>BOSTON, Jan. 31 (AP) &#151; The fine grit in polluted air increases the risk of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/heartdisease/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about heart disease.\">heart disease</a> in older women much more sharply than scientists realized, a federally financed study has found, raising questions of whether environmental standards are strict enough.</p>      <p>The <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/environmental_protection_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the Environmental Protection Agency.\">Environmental Protection Agency</a> tightened its daily limit for the tiny specks, or fine particulates, in September. </p><p>But the new standard left the average annual limit untouched, allowing a concentration of 15 millionths of a gram for every cubic meter of air.</p><p>In this study of 65,893 women, the average exposure was 13 millionths, with two-thirds of the subjects falling under the national standard. </p><p>But every increase of 10 millionths, starting at zero, increased the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease by about 75 percent. That is several times higher than in a study by the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_cancer_society/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about American Cancer Society\">American Cancer Society</a>.</p><p>&#8220;There was a lot of evidence previously suggesting that the long-term standard should be lower, and this is adding one more study to that evidence,&#8221; said Douglas Dockery, a pollution specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health.</p><p>Dr. Dockery wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, which is in  the Thursday issue of The <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_england_journal_of_medicine/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about New England Journal of Medicine\">New England Journal of Medicine</a>. </p><p>The researchers, based at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_washington/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about University of Washington\">University of Washington</a>, worked from data collected for the Women&#8217;s Health Initiative, a research project that previously showed the heart dangers of hormone supplements.</p><p>It has long been known that particulates can contribute to lung and heart disease, with women perhaps more susceptible than men to heart problems, perhaps because of their smaller blood vessels and other biological differences.</p><p>But the degree of risk for older women was less clear. This study started with women who had gone through <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/menopause/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about menopause.\">menopause</a> and were 50 to 79 years old.</p><p>Unlike earlier studies, it looked not just at deaths, but also at heart attacks, coronary disease, strokes and clogged arteries. </p><p>Those problems were 24 percent more likely with every 10-unit  increase in particles. Almost 3 percent of the women had some kind of cardiovascular problem.</p><p>The risk varied along with the varying levels of these particles in different neighborhoods in the same city.</p><p>In their calculations, the researchers tried to adjust for lower income and other health problems that have been blamed for the higher rates of disease in past studies.</p><p>&#8220;I think the major contribution is answering the critics of the prior studies,&#8221; said the paper&#8217;s senior researcher, Dr. Joel Kaufman of the University of Washington. </p><p>&#8220;The effect,&#8221; Dr. Kaufman said, &#8220;seems large and important and should be taken seriously.&#8221;</p><p>States and other groups demanding a lower annual standard sued the E.P.A. last year, accusing it of disregarding the advice of its own scientists. Some agency scientists are also pushing for tighter rules on ozone, the chemical that creates smog and contributes to <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/asthma/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about asthma.\">asthma</a> and lung disease. The E.P.A. is scheduled to take another look at its standard for particulate matter and finish it by 2011.</p><p>The grit is thought to reach deep into the lungs to spur inflammation that leads to heart attack and stroke. It would take about 30 particles to equal the thickness of a human hair.</p><p>The particles, made of dust, soot and various chemicals, come from burning fuel in cars, factories  and power plants. While individual particles are too small to see, they can be observed collectively as urban haze.</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1493','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Efforts to develop a topical microbicide to prevent <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/aids/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about AIDS/HIV.\">H.I.V.</a> infection during sex suffered a surprising setback yesterday when researchers announced that they had stopped two full-scale trials for safety reasons.</p>      <p>The trials, in Africa and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" title=\"More news and information about India.\">India</a>, involved a chemical, cellulose sulfate or Ushercell, and were the second failure of a potential microbicide in a full-scale trial in recent years. In one of the latest trials, a standard check by an independent scientific committee found an increased risk of H.I.V. infection among women who used cellulose sulfate compared with those who used a placebo gel. </p><p>In 2000, a large full-scale trial showed that the only other microbicide candidate, nonoxynol-9, was unsafe when it had been expected to be effective. Subjects in that trial developed a higher incidence of H.I.V. infection, presumably through <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/ulcers/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about ulcers.\">ulcers</a> caused by chemical irritation. </p><p>Yesterday, AIDS researchers at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_health_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about World Health Organization\">World Health Organization</a>, the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\">United Nations</a> AIDS program and other organizations expressed hope that at least one of three other potential microbicides undergoing full-scale testing would prove to be safe and effective. The others are Pro 2000 by Indevus Pharmaceuticals, BufferGel by ReProtect and Carraguard, whose trademark is held by the Population Council. </p><p>&#8220;While the closing of these trials is a profound disappointment for the microbicide field, we cannot let it paralyze us,&#8221; said Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, chief executive of the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides in Silver Spring, Md. </p><p>In the absence of an AIDS vaccine, specialists say development of a microbicide is a public health priority, mainly to protect the many women in poor countries whose partners refuse to use condoms. Such protection could take the form of a gel, cream, film, tablet or sponge that could be inserted into the vagina or rectum.</p><p>The study that led to stopping the trials involved 1,333 participants in Benin, South Africa and Uganda. Conrad, a health research organization in Arlington, Va., conducted the study.</p><p>Conrad said the independent committee found more new H.I.V. infections among those who used cellulose sulfate than among those who used an inactive gel, but did not report any numbers. Final numbers are expected in March, a spokeswoman for Conrad said.</p><p>Family Health International of Research Triangle Park, N.C., conducted the second trial involving 1,700 participants in Nigeria. The study found neither a benefit in preventing H.I.V. infection nor an increased risk of developing it.</p><p>So, given the adverse findings in the Conrad trial, &#8220;the responsible course of action was to halt our study&#8221; also, said Dr. Vera Halpern, the principal investigator of the Family Health International trial.</p><p>An ideal microbicide would work in three ways. First, it would kill H.I.V. in the vagina and cervix. Second, the microbicide would prevent any virus that escaped from attaching to a woman&#8217;s cells, the way the virus starts to infect. Third, for any virus that did enter cells, the microbicide would block an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, that the virus needs to replicate.</p><p>The <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/gates_bill_and_melinda_foundation/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</a> and the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/agency_for_international_development/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Agency for International Development\">Agency for International Development</a> paid $20 million for the two latest studies.</p><p>In speaking at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August,  Bill and Melinda Gates were enthusiastic about the prospects of developing a microbicide.</p><p>Yesterday, Dr. Nicholas Hellmann, acting director of the foundation&#8217;s H.I.V. and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/tuberculosis/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about tuberculosis.\">tuberculosis</a> program, affirmed the optimism. </p><p>&#8220;We remain hopeful that a safe and effective microbicide will be developed,&#8221; Dr. Hellmann said, adding that the foundation was still committed to supporting research on microbicides and other prevention methods.</p><p>The new findings were surprising, researchers said, because 11 smaller trials of more than 500 women conducted since 1999 showed that cellulose sulfate was safe. The chemical, which was developed as Ushercell by Polydex  Pharmaceuticals in Toronto,  was active against H.I.V. in laboratory tests.</p><p>Dr. Peter Piot, the executive director of Unaids in Geneva, said the new findings were puzzling because there appeared to be no biological explanation for the failure of cellulose sulfate, as there was in the case of nonoxynol-9 and the ulcers associated with its use.</p><p>Finding new drugs like a microbicide often can be a process of trial and error, and requires scientifically rigorous trials, Dr. Piot said.</p><p>He speculated that one of the antiretroviral drugs used to treat AIDS might be needed for an effective microbicide. The world needs a microbicide because &#8220;the stakes are so high,&#8221; Dr. Piot said. </p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1494','1','\n\n\n	 <p> ATLANTA, Feb. 1 ? Cities should close schools for up to three months in the event of a severe <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/influenza/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about influenza.\">flu</a> outbreak, ball games and movies should be canceled and working hours staggered so subways and buses are less crowded, the federal government advised today in issuing new pandemic flu guidelines to states and cities.</p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n    \n<div id=\"inlineMultimedia\">\n<h4>Multimedia</h4>\n<div class=\"story first\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2007/01/31/health/20070201_FLU2_AUDIO.html\', \'600_475\', \'width=600,height=475,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/01/31/health/cdc1902.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"190\" alt=\"This Is Only a Drill\" border=\"0\"><span class=\"mediaType audio\">Audio</span>\n</a>\n\n\n<h2>\n\n<a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2007/01/31/health/20070201_FLU2_AUDIO.html\', \'600_475\', \'width=600,height=475,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\" >This Is Only a Drill</a>\n\n</h2>\n<div class=\"clear\"></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/health/01flu.html\" >In a Daylong Drill, an Agency Tries to Prepare for a Real Outbreak of Avian Flu</a>\n\n(February 1, 2007)\n</h2>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p> Health officials acknowledged that such measures would hugely disrupt public life, but they argued that these measure  would buy the time needed to produce vaccines and would save lives because flu viruses attack in waves lasting about two months.</p><p> ?e have to be prepared for a Category 5 pandemic,?said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/centers_for_disease_control_and_prevention/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, in releasing the guidelines. ?t? not easy. The only thing that? harder is facing the consequences. That will be intolerable.?/p><p> In an innovation, the new guidelines are modeled on the five levels of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about hurricanes.\">hurricanes</a>, but ranked by lethality instead of wind speed. Category 1, which assumes 90,000 Americans would die, is equivalent to a bad year for seasonal flu, Glen Nowak, a C.D.C. spokesman, said. (About 36,000 Americans die of flu in an average year.) Category 5, which assumes 1.8 million dead, is the equivalent of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. (That flu killed about 2 percent of those infected; the H5N1 flu now circulating in Asia has killed more than 50 percent but is not easily transmitted.)</p><p> The new guidelines also advocate having sick people and all their families even apparently healthy members stay home for 7 to 10 days.</p><p> They advise against closing state borders or airports because crucial deliveries, including food, would stop. They did not offer guidance on wearing masks, but Dr. Cetron said the C.D.C. would issue advice on this  soon.</p><p> The guidelines are only advisory, since authority for measures like closing schools rests with state and city officials; but many local officials had asked for guidance, Dr. Cetron said.</p><p> The federal government has taken primary responsibility for developing and stockpiling vaccines and antiviral drugs, as well as masks and some other supplies.</p><p> Today? guidelines are partly based on a recent study of how 44 cities fared in the 1918 epidemic conducted jointly by the C.D.C. and the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_michigan/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the University of Michigan.\">University of Michigan</a>? medical school. Historians and epidemiologists pored over hospital records and newspaper clippings, trying to determine what factors partly spared some cities and doomed others.</p><p> While a few tiny towns escaped the epidemic entirely by cutting off all contact with outside, most cities took less drastic measures. These included isolating the sick and quarantining homes and rooming houses, closing schools, churches, bars and other gathering places, canceling parades, ball games, theaters and other public events, staggering factory hours, barring door-to-door sales, discouraging the use of public transport and encouraging the use of face masks.</p><p>The   most effective measure seemed to be moving early and quickly. For example, said Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian and one of the study? leaders, Philadelphia, the worst-hit city, had nearly three times as many sick and dead per capita as St. Louis, which had was hit weeks later by the virus moving inland from the Eastern Seaboard and had time to react as soon as flu cases rose above averages.</p><p> ?o matter how you set up the model,?Dr. Markel said, ?he cities that acted earlier and with more layered protective measures fared better.?/p><p> Any pandemic is expected to move faster than a new vaccine can be produced; current experimental vaccines against H5N1 <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/avianinfluenza/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about avian influenza.\">avian flu</a>  are in short supply and based on strains isolated in 2004 or 2005. Although the government is creating a $4 billion stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, it is only useful when taken within the first 48 hours, and Tamiflu-resistant flu strains have already been found in Vietnam and Egypt.</p><p> ?o one? arguing that by closing all the schools, you?e going to prevent the spread,?Dr. Markel added. ?ut if you can cut cases by 10 or 20 or 30 percent and it? your family that? spared, that? a big deal.?/p><p> School closures can be very controversial, and picking the right moment is hard, because it must be done before cases soar.</p><p> Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America? Health, a health policy organization, noted that in poor city neighborhoods, 30 to 60 percent of all children get breakfasts or lunches crucial to their <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/diet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about diet and nutrition.\">nutrition</a> at school.</p><p> ?hat are you going to do about that??he asked.</p><p> Dr. Markel said it might be possible to keep the cafeterias open and transport food to points where parents could pick it up, a move that  would also keep cafeteria workers and bus drivers employed.</p><p> Several public health experts praised the C.D.C. guidelines, although there were some quibbles with aspects of them.</p><p> Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_minnesota/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about University of Minnesota\">University of Minnesota</a>? Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said he saw no point in fretting over exactly when to close schools, because his experience in meningitis outbreaks convinced him that terrified parents would keep their children at home anyway.</p><p> ? don? think we?l have to pull that trigger,?he said. ?he hard part is going to be unpulling it. How do the principals know when schools should open again??/p><p> Other experts pointed out that children out of school often behave in ways that are nearly as contagious. Youngsters are sent to day care centers, and teenagers gather in malls or at each others?houses.</p><p> ?e?l be facing the same problem, but without the teaching,?said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/columbia_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Columbia University.\">Columbia University</a>? Mailman School of Public Health. ?hey might as well be in class.?/p><p> Also, he noted,  many employed people  cannot afford to stay at home and the financial stress from not working could increase domestic violence. And he said most states and cities lacked the money to carry out the suggested guidelines or to stage drills of them.</p><p> Dr. Cetron argued that caring for children in groups of six or fewer cut transmission risks. He also argued that parents would keep many children from gathering.</p><p> ?y kids aren? going to be going to the mall,?he said.</p><p>  The historian John Barry, author of ?he Great Influenza,?a history of the 1918 flu,  questioned an idea underpinning the study? conclusions. There is evidence, he said, that some cities with low sickness and death rates in 1918, including St. Louis and Cincinnati, were hit by a milder spring wave of the virus. That would have, in effect, inoculated their citizens against the more severe fall wave and might have been more important than their public health measures.</p><p> The guidelines did not suggest using the military to enforce quarantines, as President Bush said he might do when he first mentioned avian flu in 2005.</p><p>  Dr. Levi said that using the National Guard to set up temporary clinics or move pharmaceutical supplies might make sense.</p><p> ?ut they?e not there,?he said. ?he people who know how to run field hospitals are in Iraq.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1495','1','	<p><p>THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Since the early 1900s, there has been a decline in overall cancer death rates among black Americans but they\'re still higher than the rates for whites, says an American Cancer Society report released Thursday. </p> <p>In 2003, black men had a 35 percent higher cancer death rate than white men, and black women had an 18 percent higher rate than white women, according to the report, Cancer Facts &amp; Figures for African Americans 2007-2008.</p> <p>But cancer death rates among blacks decreased by an average of 1.7 percent a year from 1995 to 2003, compared to 1.0 percent a year among whites from 1992 to 2003.</p> <p>Of the 1.4 million cases of invasive cancer that will be diagnosed in the United States in 2007, 153,000 will be among blacks. And blacks will account for about 63,000 of the estimated 560,000 cancer deaths in the United States this year, the report said.</p> <p>Prostate, lung and bronchus, colon and rectum are the most common kinds of cancers diagnosed in black men, while the most common kinds of cancers in black women are breast, lung and bronchus, colon and rectum.</p> <p>Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both black women and men, followed by breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.</p> <p>The report also said:</p><ul> <li>Blacks had the highest death rate of any racial and ethnic group for all cancer combined and for most major cancers.</li> <li>Death rates for blacks with prostate cancer are 2.4 times higher than for whites, and death rates for black breast cancer patients are 1.4 times higher than for whites.</li> <li>Blacks are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer when it\'s at a more advanced stage when there are fewer and less effective treatment options.</li> <li>In general, blacks are less likely to survive five years after being diagnosed with a major cancer.</li></ul> <p>\"Access to insurance and health care, as well as health education, play an important role in one\'s health, but a lot of African Americans do not have access to these tools,\" Dr. Durado Brooks, the American Cancer Society\'s director of prostate and colorectal cancers, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>This report highlights the \"need for more focus on improving socioeconomic factors and providing educational opportunities that can help further lessen cancer\'s unequal burden on African Americans,\" Brooks said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. Office of Minority Health has more about <a href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/omh/AMH/factsheets/cancer.htm\" target=\"_new\">cancer and racial disparities</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1496','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601551 --> <p>THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- While youth soccer is generally considered a safe sport, more than 1.6 million U.S. children ended up in the emergency room during a 13-year period due to soccer-related injuries, new research shows.</p> <p>The study, which appears in the February issue of <i>The American Journal of Sports Medicine</i>, included injuries that occurred during both organized and non-organized soccer play. Researchers found that nearly 60 percent of the injuries were sustained by boys and about half occurred in children between the ages of 10 and 14.</p> <p>\"Soccer is a relatively safe sport, especially compared to other sports. We want kids to play, but we also want them to be as safe as possible,\" said study author Christy Collins, a research associate at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, part of the Children\'s Research Institute at Columbus Children\'s Hospital, Ohio.</p> <p>During the study period -- 1990 to 2003 -- the number of high schoolers playing soccer more than doubled from 305,102 to 658,817, the researchers noted. Collins said accurate estimates of how many younger children are playing are harder to come by, because there\'s no national database of soccer organizations. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that 11.4 percent of youngsters were involved in youth soccer in 1990, and that that number rose to 21.8 percent by 2003, according to background information in the study.</p> <p>For the study, Collins and her colleagues examined data from the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission\'s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which is made up of 100 nationally representative hospital emergency departments.</p> <p>They found that just under 1.6 million children between the ages of 2 and 18 sustained soccer injuries serious enough to require an emergency room visit during the study period.</p> <p>Boys were the most likely to be injured, with 58.6 percent of the injuries occurring in males. Youngsters between the ages of 10 and 14 had the highest rates of injuries, sustaining 49 percent of all injuries.</p> <p>While boys sustained the majority of the injuries, the rate of injuries rose faster among girls. The researchers suspect that this may be because more girls are now playing soccer.</p> <p>The most common injuries were to the hand, wrist or fingers, followed by ankle injuries and knee injuries. Girls were more likely to sustain ankle and knee injuries and to have sprains or strains than boys.</p> <p>In older players -- those aged 15 to 18-- concussion was the most common injury and often occurred due to collisions with other players or from falling to the ground.</p> <p>Even the littlest players weren\'t immune to injuries. Kids aged 2 to 4 sustained more injuries to the face, head and neck than older players. And the youngest players were most likely to be hospitalized for their injuries. Collins said this may be because doctors may be extra cautious with head injuries sustained by these young children.</p> <p>\"This study is interesting, but it misses a whole group of kids -- those that go see a physician rather than head to the hospital for their injuries. As a sports medicine provider, I see a ton of injuries,\" said Dr. Cynthia LaBella, director of the Knee Injury Prevention Program and medical director of the Institute for Sports Medicine at Children\'s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. </p> <p>The bottom line, said Collins, is that injuries will happen when kids play sports. But, many of these injuries can be prevented. Both Collins and LaBella said that kids should wear appropriate protective equipment, depending on the sport. Playing fields should also be even and well-maintained to prevent falls.</p> <p>Children should be on teams that are not only age-appropriate but size-appropriate. The majority of injuries occurred in the 10- to 14-year-old age group, a time when there is a great variation in children\'s sizes. Both experts suggested that parents talk with the coach and make sure their approach matches your child\'s -- for example, whether your child is competitive or just out for some recreational fun.</p> <p>LaBella stressed that children should never play through pain.</p> <p>\"Kids aren\'t little adults. They need to give their body time to recover. Kids shouldn\'t push through pain. Pain is a sign of overuse or an injury,\" she said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>To learn more about preventing soccer injuries, visit the <a href=\" http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=195&amp;topcategory=Sports%20%2F%20Exercise\" target=\"_new\">American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1497','1','	<p><p>THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- More than 750,000 kids across America are eligible for free dental services Friday, Feb. 2, as part of the fifth annual Give Kids A Smile program, offered by the American Dental Association (ADA).</p> <p>The one-day event -- designed to focus national attention on untreated oral disease among disadvantaged children -- provides free preventive and restorative dental services to children from low-income families.</p> <p>This year, more than 51,000 dental professionals will volunteer their time to offer their services at more than 2,150 sites across the nation.</p> <p>\"Give Kids A Smile is our national initiative to focus attention on the untreated oral disease among disadvantaged children. However, this one-day event is not a cure-all, but a wake-up call that our children need a better ongoing health care system that addresses their dental health needs,\" ADA President Dr. Kathleen Roth said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>Many children in the United States do not have access to dental care, which is critical to good oral health. One goal of Give Kids A Smile is to increase public awareness of what the U.S. Surgeon General has called a silent epidemic of dental disease and to encourage parents, politicians, health professionals and others to tackle this issue in their communities, the ADA said.</p> <p>The association recommends that children see a dentist no later than their first birthday, but only 3 out of 5 U.S. children have seen a dentist before kindergarten. By then, 52 percent of 6- to 8-year-olds have tooth decay, according to the Healthy People 2000 oral health update.</p> <p>Untreated dental disease can harm a child\'s self-esteem and cause pain that makes it difficult for a child to eat, sleep and pay attention in school, the ADA said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>Here\'s where you can find the nearest <a href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/ada/26563\" target=\"_new\">Give Kids A Smile site</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1498','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of <b>Thomson CenterWatch</b>:</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Healthy Women Studies </b></span></p><p> This study will include women ages 35-70 who are in a stable, monogamous relationship who are willing to complete a questionnaire about their sexual health. Participants must be postmenopausal, sexually active in a heterosexual relationship for at least one year, and not taking anti-depressant or testosterone medications.</p><p>The research site is in Lincoln, Neb. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat438.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat438.html</a>.< /p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Osteoarthritis </b></span></p><p> This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Kadian NT when taken for chronic pain over 22 weeks. Participants must be 21 or older, have a primary diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the hip or knee, and have required treatment for hip or knee pain within the last 90 days. All study related office visits, medical evaluations, and study medication will be provided to qualified participants at no cost.</p><p>The research site is in La Jolla, Calif. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat109.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat109.html</a>.< /p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Alzheimer\'s Disease </b></span></p><p> This study will evaluate a medication for adults who have both memory loss associated with dementia or Alzheimer\'s disease, as well as difficulty sleeping. The study may last up to 2 1/2 months, and participants may continue taking their current medications.</p><p> The research site is in Glendale, Calif. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat11.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat11.html</a>.</ p> <p>-----</p> <p>Copyright 2007 <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/trials.html\" target=\"_new\">Thomson CenterWatch</a>. All rights reserved.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1499','1','	<p><p>Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of <i>HealthDay:</i></p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Drug Makers Lag on Promised Studies of Products: FDA</b></span></p> <p> Drug makers have failed to begin more than 70 percent of promised studies on products already approved for market, according to U.S. government numbers released Thursday, and a watchdog group is sick of it. </p> <p> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration report shows that 899 -- or 71 percent -- of the 1,259 post-market studies committed to by drug makers had not been started as of Sept. 30, 2006. That\'s a 5 percent increase over last year, when the agency reported 65 percent of 1,231 promised studies were still pending, <i>Bloomberg News</i> reported Thursday. The report also found that only 185 -- or 15 percent --of studies were ongoing, 31 were delayed, and 144 were submitted. </p> <p> \"How can the FDA claim it is committed to improving drug safety when it can\'t even get drug makers to do the studies they promise?\" said Bill Vaughan, senior policy analyst with Consumers Union. \"Should consumers really feel safe when two out of three studies aren\'t being done, and the FDA doesn\'t even have the authority to get them done?\" </p> <p> While the FDA has no authority under law to require those studies be performed, it approves some drugs with outstanding safety concerns on the promise that the maker will conduct post-market studies to determine if the medication causes any side effects. </p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>\'Neglected\' Diseases Need More World Focus: WHO Chief </b></span></p> <p>The international community must pay more attention to \"neglected\" diseases that affect a billion people in the developing world and cause more suffering and death than high-profile health threats such as bird flu, says Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization.</p> <p>These diseases don\'t receive much attention because they don\'t pose a threat to international health and security, Chan told a health conference in Bangkok, Thailand, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>\"They do not flare up in outbreaks with high mortality. They do not grab media headlines. They do not travel abroad or threaten international security,\" Chan said.</p> <p>She also noted that these diseases affect populations with low literacy and little political voice, <i>CBC News</i> reported. Pharmaceutical companies have little financial incentive to develop drugs and vaccines for these diseases and poor health care systems hinder the delivery of available drugs, she added.</p> <p>These \"neglected\" or \"silent\" diseases include:</p><ul> <li>Lymphatic filariasis -- a parasitic disease that causes swelling in limbs</li> <li>Schistosomiasis (snail fever) -- a parasitic disease that leaves people too weak to work</li> <li>Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) -- a parasitic disease that overwhelms the immune system.</li></ul> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Case Studies Raise Concerns About Abuse of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers</b></span></p> <p>Concerns about the abuse of alcohol-based hand sanitizers are highlighted in case studies published in Thursday\'s <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>. The alcohol in these products is not the same as the type found in drinks.</p> <p>One letter to the journal describes the case of a 49-year-old U.S. prison inmate who became intoxicated by drinking alcohol-based hand sanitizer. The letter said the inmate was described as becoming \"red-eyed, loony and combative,\" after he was seen to drink from a gallon container of Purell hand sanitizer, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>A second letter describes a 43-year-old alcoholic with mysterious chest pains who drank hand wash that had isopropyl alcohol from a dispenser in a U.S. hospital washroom.</p> <p>The authors of the second letter noted that ingesting about 200 milliliters of isopropanol can prove fatal because it depresses the central nervous system and the heart, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>It may be a good idea to change the labels on alcohol-based hand sanitizers, the authors concluded.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Scientists Reverse Prion Disease Symptoms in Mice</b></span></p> <p>U.K. researchers say they\'ve found a way to reverse symptoms of prion diseases, such as the human form of mad cow disease (vCJD), in mice.</p> <p>By halting production of proteins corrupted by such diseases, the Medical Research Council scientists were able to reverse memory and behavior problems in the mice, <i>BBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>The study was published in the journal <i>Neuron</i>.</p> <p>The results suggest that it may be possible to treat people with prion disease before the brain is permanently damaged, the researchers said. However, that would depend on having a test to detect vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) at the early stages, the study authors added.</p> <p>\"This is potentially very important work because it shows something which we didn\'t expect and which could be extremely significant,\" Roger Morris, a professor of molecular biology at King\'s College London, told <i>BBC News</i>. He was not involved in the study.</p> <p>\"It means that the prospect of being able to do something for people may be much better than we thought. We may be able to reverse the behavioral effects,\" of prion disease, Morris added.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Japan Confirms 4th Bird Flu Outbreak This Year</b></span></p> <p>Japanese officials said Thursday they\'ve confirmed the country\'s fourth outbreak of bird flu in poultry this year. Tests are still being conducted to determine if it\'s the deadly H5N1 virus or a less dangerous H5N2 virus.</p> <p>In this latest outbreak, more than 80 chickens died at a poultry farm in the town of Shintomicho in Miyazaki prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. In response, officials ordered the slaughter of 93,000 chickens, <i>Agence France Presse</i> reported.</p> <p>In January, there were two cases of H5N1 in Miyazaki prefecture and another outbreak of bird flu in Okayama prefecture on the island of Honshu.</p> <p>In related news, officials have been conducting door-to-door checks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to enforce a ban on domestic poultry. The ban is meant to help fight bird flu, which has killed six people in the country so far this year and 63 people since June 2005, <i>AFP</i> reported.</p> <p>As of Thursday, more than 100,000 birds collected from the capital had been slaughtered, but it\'s estimated there are more than one million birds still in Jakarta, officials said.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1500','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601552 --> <p>THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Binge eating tops the list of eating disorders affecting Americans, with the first-ever national survey on eating disorders finding it much more prevalent than either anorexia or bulimia.</p> <p>Binge eating -- a condition where people undergo frequent, uncontrolled eating binges without purging -- affects 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men during their lifetime. The condition is strongly linked to obesity.</p> <p>There have been previous studies that looked at the prevalence of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa in the population, \"but for binge eating, there had been no previous studies,\" said lead researcher Dr. James I. Hudson, director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.</p> <p>\"These are really the first hard numbers for the prevalence of this disorder,\" he said during a teleconference to announce the findings on Wednesday.</p> <p>According to the new survey, binge eating is more common than either anorexia nervosa, which strikes 0.9 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men, or bulimia nervosa, which affects 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men.</p> <p>Binge eating \"is associated with severe obesity and all the complications of obesity,\" Hudson said. \"And, it\'s often chronic.\"</p> <p>That said, the rates of <i>all</i> eating disorders have been increasing, according to Hudson. \"In addition, eating disorders are related to mood disorders, anxiety disorders, impulse control disorders and substance use disorders,\" he noted.</p> <p>More troubling is the fact that less than half of those with a history of an eating disorder said they had ever received treatment, Hudson said.</p> <p>In the survey, Hudson\'s team collected data on almost 9,300 people from across the United States who participated in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Among those interviewed, 3,000 answered questions about eating disorders. The report is published in the February issue of <i>Biological Psychiatry</i>.</p> <p>The researchers found that the average duration of anorexia was 1.7 years, compared with 8.3 years for bulimia and 8.1 years for binge eating disorder.</p> <p>\"Binge eating is a true eating disorder. It is a major public health problem,\" Hudson said. \"There is a strong genetic component to binge eating disorder and, because of this, we might be able to treat or prevent binge eating and thereby prevent many cases of obesity.\"</p> <p>One expert believes the survey will bring more attention to eating disorders, prompting the U.S. government to spend more dollars in research on the causes and treatment of these conditions.</p> <p>\"These results back up things that groups like ours have been saying for the past several years,\" said Marc Lerro, executive director of the Eating Disorders Coalition. \"There has been relatively little definitive research done on eating disorders.\"</p> <p>Lerro is happy to see that these conditions are getting more recognition. \"People with eating disorders are compromised in how they interact in school, in the workplace,\" Lerro said. \"For some, it\'s really a disabling condition that sometimes leads to death.\"</p> <p>That binge eating is the major problem did not surprise Lerro. \"The stereotype that [people with] eating disorders are just pencil-thin girls is really not comprehensive,\" he said.</p> <p>Lerro believes the federal government should be keeping track of the number of people in the United States who suffer from eating disorders. This year, the U.S. government is spending only $21 million on research into treatments for eating disorders, he said.</p> <p>\"This survey is really a wakeup call for the federal government to do more, like counting the number of people who die each year due to an eating disorder, counting the number of people who are struggling with eating disorders, and funding research to determine what is effective in treating eating disorders,\" Lerro said.</p> <p>Another expert believes that eating disorders are even more common than the survey suggests.</p> <p>\"Eating disorders are more common than many people realize, and the prevalence is increasing,\" said Dr. Ellen Rome, head of the section on adolescent medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. \"If you look at all of mental health, the spectrum of eating disorders is among the most commonly found health challenges that individuals face.\"</p> <p>Moreover, people with eating disorders also have many social problems related their condition, \"from shame, guilt, denial, the egocentricity of the illness that doesn\'t let them see how it\'s affecting their lives,\" Rome said.</p> <p>Binge eating is closely tied in with the U.S. obesity epidemic, Rome added. \"We see any form of disorder eating as a maladaptive coping strategy,\" she said. \"Eighty percent of obesity is genetic. So, genetics loads the gun. And the prevalence of binge eating goes hand-in-hand with obesity as one contributing factor. Many people use binge eating to fill up an empty space.\"</p> <p>Rome also believes that more funding is needed to study the causes and treatments of eating disorders, including the genetic and social components of the problem and what treatments work best.</p> <p>\"We are just scratching the surface,\" she said. \"We need better treatments across the whole spectrum from under-eating to obesity. There is just so much more we need to know.\"</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>There\'s more on eating disorders at the <a href=\"http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/ken98-0047/defau lt.asp\" target=\"_new\">U.S. National Mental Health Information Center</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1501','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601582 --> <p>THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have for the first time identified stem cells linked to pancreatic cancer. </p> <p>The study, by scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, could help in the development of new treatments for this deadly form of cancer, which has the worst survival rate of any major malignancy. Only about three percent of patients survive five years after their diagnosis.</p> <p>\"Over the last one to two decades, we have not had a significant improvement in the long-term survival rates with pancreatic cancer. I believe that if we can target cancer stem cells within pancreatic cancer, we may have an avenue to really make a breakthrough in therapy for this awful disease,\" study lead author Dr. Diane Simeone, director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program at the center, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>Cancer stem cells, which account for only a small percentage of cancer cells, drive tumor growth. Current cancer treatments sometimes fail because they don\'t kill cancer stem cells. Being able to identify cancer stem cells can help scientists develop drugs to target and destroy these cells.</p> <p>In this study, tissue samples from 10 pancreatic cancer patients were implanted into mice to grow new tumors. The researchers then examined certain markers on the surface of the tumor cells and identified a small number of cells that were able to rapidly produce new tumors. These are likely pancreatic cancer stem cells.</p> <p>The findings are published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal <i>Cancer Research</i>.</p> <p>Stem cells have been identified in several other kinds of cancers, including brain, breast, central nervous system, colon, and leukemia.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The American Medical Association has more about <a href=\"http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/3/330\" target=\"_new\">pancreatic cancer</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1502','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- If you want to lose weight, feel better or simply eat healthier, adjusting your diet is the best place to start.</p> <p>Try these suggestions for healthier eating, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians:</p> <ul> <li>Don\'t skip breakfast, and make lunch your largest meal of the day.</li> <li>Begin each meal with a low-fat starter such as salad, soup, broth or just a glass of water.</li> <li>Replace soda or sugary drinks with natural fruit juice, skim milk or water.</li> <li>Replace some dietary sugar with no-calorie sweeteners.</li> <li>Reduce the amount of alcohol that you drink.</li> <li>Stick to healthy serving sizes.</li> <li>Include more fruits, vegetables and whole grains in every meal.</li> <li>Eat slowly, and you\'ll be less likely to eat more than you need.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1503','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- A bone marrow transplant can be a lifesaver for someone with leukemia or other diseases of the blood.</p> <p>According to the National Marrow Donor Program, the donor is anesthetized, and a needle is inserted into the pelvic bone to withdraw the liquid bone marrow. Then, many donors receive a transfusion of their own previously donated blood. Within about six weeks, the donor\'s body has completely replenished the marrow that was donated.</p> <p>Once the marrow is harvested, it is injected into the bloodstream of the recipient, to replace marrow that has been damaged by disease. Soon, the donor marrow cells begin to multiply and create new, healthy marrow in the recipient.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1504','1','	<p><span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bush_childhood_obesity/21787905/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22President%20Bush%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">President Bush</a></span> said Thursday that childhood obesity is a costly problem for the country and puts stress on American families.<p/>\n\"One way for this nation to cope with the issue of obesity is to get people outside ? whether it be through sports or hiking or conservation,\" Bush said while meeting with business leaders working to encourage exercise and healthy food choices through advertising.<p/>\nHe said first lady <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bush_childhood_obesity/21787905/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Laura%20Bush%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Laura Bush</a></span> was on her way to New York to kick off Friday\'s \"Wear Red Day\" for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute\'s Red Dress Project to increase awareness that women are at risk for heart disease. Bush signed a proclamation making February American Heart Month.<p/>\n\"Mothers are the ones, a lot of times, who make choices for their children,\" the first lady said. \"They make their choices on the foods they eat. They\'re the ones at home, many times, who encourage their children to exercise.\"<p/>\nEarlier, the president and Mrs. Bush attended the 55th national prayer breakfast at a Washington hotel where he prayed for the safety of U.S. troops, saying: \"During this time of war, we thank God that we are part of a nation that produces courageous men and women who volunteer to defend us.\"<p/>\nIn the Roosevelt Room, the president and Mrs. Bush met with executives from the food, beverage and entertainment industries to talk about improving healthy food offerings and encouraging physical fitness in their marketing and advertising campaigns.<p/>\nMore than 10 million school-age children in the United States ? about 18 percent ? are now considered overweight. The percentage of overweight children tripled among adolescents during the past 25 years, and nearly doubled for children ages 6 to 12. This increases their risk for adult heart disease and diabetes, lowers life expectancy and creates additional health care costs.<p/>\nFollowing the meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bush_childhood_obesity/21787905/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Mike%20Leavitt%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Mike Leavitt</a></span> was to work with Roger Enrico, chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG, and Peggy Conlon, president and chief executive officer of The Advertising Council, to launch a public awareness campaign to help prevent childhood obesity. The campaign will include ads featuring characters from the Shrek animated movies encouraging children to \"Be a Player\" and get up and play for an hour a day.<p/>\nRepresentatives from General Mills Inc., Coca-Cola North America, Univision Communications Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., Kellogg Co., PepsiCo Inc., Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, McDonald\'s USA and Nickelodeon Television also were at the meeting.<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1505','1','<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\">Grape juice might protect the heart</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>May have similar effect as red wine, researchers said</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>LONDON - Grape juice seems to have the same protective effect against heart disease as red wine, French scientists said on Wednesday.</p><p>Researchers at the Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg were examining the effect on the heart of Concord grape juice.</p><p>\"Grape juice can have a similar effect (against heart disease) as red wine but without the alcohol. That is a very important message,\" said Dr Valerie Schini-Kerth, lead author of the study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research.</p><p>Red wine and certain types of grape juice have high levels of polyphenols, which block the production of a protein linked to cardiovascular disease - the number one killer in many Western countries.</p><p>Heart and vascular problems develop when endothelial cells that make up blood vessels do not work properly.</p><p>Schini-Kerth and her team found that polyphenols in Concord grape juice activate endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide which helps to protect against cardiovascular disease and to maintain healthy blood vessels and blood pressure.</p><p><b><strong>Type of grape</strong></b><br>Polyphenols work the same way in red wine and in grape juice.</p><p>\"But not every grape juice has the beneficial effect. It has to have a high level of polyphenols,\" Schini-Kerth said.</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=\"/id/15967818/\">New clue to red wine\'s heart protection</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/15719986/\">Daily chocolate cuts heart attack risk</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16542018/\">Test may pinpoint heart attack, stroke risk</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 amount of polyphenols in grape juice, as in red wine, depends on the type of grape used and how it is processed.</p><p>\"We have information on more than 100 different kinds of wine and the amount of polyphenols. What we know is that the most protective ones have the highest levels of polyphenols. That is established,\" she said.</p><p>But Schini-Kerth, whose research was partly funded by Welch Foods Inc. which is a leading producer of grape juice, said little information is available on the levels of polyphenols in grape juice.</p><p>The scientists were studying cells from pigs, which provide a good model for studying human cells.</p><p>They were looking at healthy blood vessels and are planning a further study to see whether grape juice has a similar impact on blood vessels that show signs of cardiovascular disease.</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('1506','1','<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\">Burger King plans to dump trans fats by 2008</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>National chain has been testing oils without artery-clogging substance</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>MIAMI - Burger King Holdings Inc. has begun testing cooking oils without trans fats in its fast food restaurants with plans for a national rollout by late next year.</p><p>The world\'s second-largest burger chain said Wednesday it has been working for more than two years to identify oils without the artery-clogging substance for eventual use in its 7,500 restaurants in the United States and Canada.</p><p>\"We have done rigorous consumer testing and have narrowed our testing to a few oils that we\'re very pleased with,\" said John Schaufelberger, vice president of product marketing and innovation. \"Our move to in-restaurant testing is a significant milestone for the Burger King system.\"</p><p>Trans fats are listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. They can raise bad cholesterol and lower healthy cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease, doctors say.</p><p>Burger King disclosed its plan two days after McDonald\'s Corp. announced that it has selected a new trans-fat free oil for cooking, although it did not say when the oil would be introduced in restaurants.</p><p>While the national rollout is expected in late 2008, Burger King said it will meet New York City\'s new trans fat-free requirements that take effect this year. New York City has set a July 1 deadline for food providers to begin complying with an ordinance passed making it the first U.S. city to ban all restaurants from using artificial trans fats.</p><p>Among other fast-food chains, Wendy\'s International Inc. introduced a zero-trans fat oil in August, and Yum Brands Inc.\'s KFC and Taco Bell said they also will cut the trans fats from many of their foods. Coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. recently announced it was halfway through a plan to purge trans fats from its U.S. food menu.</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/thread.aspx?BoardID=490&amp;ThreadID=181646&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Discuss: Flavor or health -- what\'s more important?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16873869/\">McDonald\'s finally picks trans-fat-free-oil</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15479858/\">Why are trans fats so bad?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16695792/\">Trans fats may raise infertility risk</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16655614/\">Starbucks moving to hormone-free milk</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>Florida is one of at least 11 states that have proposed bills in 2007 to ban or restrict the use of trans fats in restaurants or school cafeterias, said Amy Winterfeld of the National Conference of State Legislatures.</p><p>Other cities, such as Los Angeles, are also considering a ban on trans fats.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration has required since January 2006 that trans-fat content be listed on all packaged foods.</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('1507','1','<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\">The French may soon be sleeping on the job</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Health minister seeks to improve work performance with daytime naps</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>PARIS - The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.</p><p>France launched plans this week to spend $9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About one in three French people suffer from them, the ministry says.</p><p>Fifty-six percent of French complain that a poor night\'s sleep has affected their job performance, according to the ministry.</p><p>\"Why not a nap at work? It can\'t be a taboo subject,\" Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said Monday. He called for further studies and said he would promote on-the-job naps if they prove useful.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"120\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/interactive.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">INTERACTIVE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4514725\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Health/MiscHealth/zFlashAssets/Stages_of_sleep2_TZ150.vsmall.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location.replace(\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4514725\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font class=\"textMedBlackBold\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4514725\">Stages of sleep</a></font><br></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>France\'s state-run health insurance provider will send letters explaining the importance of good sleep. The Health Ministry\'s Web site offers tips on how best to get a good night\'s rest.</p><p>The ministry\'s online \"Passport to Sleep\" recommends cutting down on coffee, tea, colas and athletic activity after 8 p.m., shunning TV time or working late in the evening, and listening better to the body\'s own sleep signals, such as yawning.</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=\"/id/11405023/\">Quiz: Are you getting enough sleep?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16859291/\">Narcolepsy may hold key to solving insomnia</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>Bertrand said sleepiness causes 20 percent to 30 percent of highway accidents across France each year.</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('1508','1','<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\">Four suspected bird flu deaths in Nigeria</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>22-year-old woman victim of H5N1 strain; tests on three others inconclusive</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>LAGOS, Nigeria - Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.</p><p>Abdulsalam Nasidi, a bird flu expert at the health ministry, said the three inconclusive cases were the mother of the confirmed case in Lagos, a poultry worker in northeastern Taraba state and one person in far northeastern Borno state.</p><p>The woman from Nigeria\'s commercial capital Lagos is the first confirmed human victim of bird flu in sub-Saharan Africa, after the deadly disease was first found in poultry in Nigeria a year ago.</p><p>\"Last night our team of 13 scientists were able to conclusively identify the case of avian influenza in a 22-year-old female who died in Lagos,\" Nweke told a news conference.</p><p>The woman was one of 14 people, three of whom died, from whom samples were taken for tests that were concluded on Tuesday. Samples are now being sent to foreign laboratories for confirmation.</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/16751876/\">End to bird flu is years away</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>Nigeria is one of three countries regarded by experts as the weakest areas in the global attempt to stem the spread of the virus.</p><p>In Japan dozens of chickens at a western poultry farm died of the H5N1 strain, agriculture officials said Wednesday, fueling concerns about a series of recent cases in the country\'s poultry industry.</p><p>The bird flu outbreak in Okayama prefecture was Japan\'s third this year involving the H5N1 strain.</p><p>Two earlier outbreaks in southern Miyazaki prefecture prompted the slaughter of thousands of chickens. Officials are still trying to determine whether another Miyazaki outbreak also involved H5N1.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/interactive.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">INTERACTIVE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Health/Bird%20Flu/zFlashAssets/BIRDFLU_TIMELINE_TZ300.gif\" height=\"81\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location.replace(\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>Authorities already began slaughtering chickens at the Okayama farm after the bird flu virus there was confirmed Tuesday to involve a virus from the H5 family, said Agriculture Ministry official Yasushi Yamaguchi.</p><p>The H5N1 virus has prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and caused the deaths of at least 163 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.</p><p>Japan has confirmed only one human H5N1 infection, and no human deaths.</p><p>Bird flu has killed at least 164 people around the globe since it reemerged in Asia in 2003, according to the most recent figures from the World Health Organization. The death toll includes 11 fatalities in Egypt.</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('1509','1','<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\">AIDS prevention gel studies halted</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Medication may actually increase risk of infection</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>Researchers have halted two studies of a vaginal microbicide in Africa and India that doctors had hoped would prevent HIV infection after results suggested the gel might raise rather than lower that risk.</p><p>The results are \"a disappointing and unexpected setback\" to efforts to get a simple tool that women could use to lower their risk of getting the AIDS virus from sex, said a statement from the World Health Organization.</p><p>The large, final-stage experiments were in parts of Africa and India. More than half of all new infections with the AIDS virus in Africa involve women and girls, and scientists have long sought a method they could use, even without their partners\' knowledge, to reduce risk because many men refuse to use condoms.</p><p>The studies were testing Ushercell, a gel containing cellulose sulfate, a cotton-based compound developed by Polydex Pharmaceuticals, based in Toronto.</p><p>One study involving 1,500 women in South Africa, Benin, Uganda and India was stopped this week after an independent safety monitoring board saw more HIV infections among women using the gel than those given a dummy medication. The study was led by CONRAD, a Virginia-based health research group, and paid for by USAID and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.</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=\"/id/16352949/\">Poor record keeping plagues Bush AIDS effort</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16891832/\">Drugmaker wants law to require STD shot</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 second study of Ushercell, by Family Health International, involving 1,700 women in Nigeria, was stopped as a precaution although no increased risk of infection has been seen.</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('1510','1','<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\">The cancer was gone - so was my confidence</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Crippling loss of certainty an unexpected side effect of prostate battle</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070118/070118_tire_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: On the road\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Kelly J. Phanco </font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">A?isit to Death Valley? and a flat tire? helped Mike Stuckey get back on the road to emotional stability and self-reliance after cancer surgery.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textStoryTag\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">Part 8</div><div class=\"textMedBlackBold\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">By <script>document.write(\"<a href=\'&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;:\"+\"mikestuckey\"+\"&#64;\"+\"msnbc.com\'>\");</script>Mike Stuckey<script>document.write(\'</a>\');</script></div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">Senior news editor</div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">MSNBC</div><p></p></font><p>I get off the plane at Washington\'s Reagan National Airport on a September evening with a damp diaper in my pants and a message blinking on my cell phone. All I want to do is find the nearest men\'s room and deal with the first issue. But a sixth sense tells me to check the message immediately.</p><p>When I return the call, I am stunned to hear that my two interviews with a U.S. senator, for which I have just flown across most of the country with an MSNBC colleague in tow, have been summarily canceled. The senator\'s staffers have decided they don\'t like a previous story I wrote that involved the senator.</p><p>Trying to not think about how I will explain to my boss a 3,000-mile trip come to naught, I plead with the press secretary. I do everything but beg. Just leave the door open until you meet us. Please. Pretty please. No dice. She hangs up.</p><p>It is the beginning of a long, dark autumn. On the surface, most things appear fine. Even great. After all, it has been a few months since my cancerous prostate was efficiently removed by a robot under the direction of some of Seattle\'s finest surgeons. While I am still struggling with side effects of the surgery, such as the need for that diaper, there has been progress. I am physically as active as I care to be and my post-op PSA (prostate specific antigen) level is zero. The news generally doesn\'t get much better at this stage for a guy who has been through what I have. I should be pinching myself.</p><p>But over the next several months, I feel like I am running in quicksand. I am indecisive over the smallest things. I have nagging visions of spectacular failures at work and in life. I bore people around me almost daily with these insecurities. My main source of comfort is adding up how much money I could raise if I sold all my belongings and reassuring myself that it would be enough to eke out my days in a small trailer in some remote place.<br><br>There\'s no accounting for how cancer changes us. Some of us work less, play more, try to make up for lost time, \"live like you were dying,\" as the country hit says. Others work more, get our ducks in a row, seek distraction from the obvious consequences of the disease. Some of us pull friends and family closer; some push them away.</p><p><b><strong>Dripping with doubts</strong></b><br>Starting with that phone call in Washington, I underwent a bizarre but nearly complete loss of confidence in my ability to do the things I have done with ease for decades. Sometimes it washed over me as a general sense of dread, an inexplicable feeling that I wouldn\'t be able to finish what I had started, even if it was just a pile of laundry that needed folding. Other times, it surfaced in very conscious feelings of inadequacy, like the sudden dark spot on my jeans while reporting election results in a small crowded room in Mississippi.<br><br>At first, it puzzled me because I often saw no connection between cancer and this newfound shakiness. On a daily basis, except when I needed to find a bathroom in a hurry, I rarely thought about my medical situation. </p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">&nbsp;MESSAGE BOARDS</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#a4abc1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-right:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-bottom:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-left:solid 1px #a4abc1;background-color:#f3f3f6;\" bgcolor=\"#f3f3f6\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><a href=\"http://boards.live.com/MSNBCboards/board.aspx?BoardID=702\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LowBlow_ProstateCancer/TZ320_LowBlowBoards_a.gif\" height=\"38\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"15\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><b><a href=\"http://boards.live.com/MSNBCboards/board.aspx?BoardID=702\">Tell your own story, share advice and learn from others.</a></b></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>But my girlfriend saw the link. \"You\'ve been through a lot,\" she said. \"I\'m not surprised.\" Even after I accepted her theory, little changed. Intellectually, like some folks who want to quit smoking or drinking, I could now see the problem clearly, but that did little to help me overcome it. I stumbled along, went through the motions, waited for the fog to lift.<br><br>And, suddenly, it did, although not quite as quickly as it had come. Interestingly, when it was gone, so were the diapers. </p><p>On a pre-Thanksgiving vacation to the California desert, things began turning around. Sixteen miles beyond the pavement in Death Valley, in one of my favorite places in the world, I drove a mesquite branch deep into a tire on my truck. For some reason, the sickening hiss of escaping air and the knowledge that I had not checked the spare in years didn\'t panic me. </p><p>We pitched the tent in the dark, cooked up a big pot of pasta and watched jet fighters run maneuvers amid the crisp stars so high above us that we could not hear their engines. For two days, we hiked the surrounding canyons, took dozens of photographs and lay in the sun. While I knew that we might end up hiking for help or limping into Stovepipe Wells on a rim and a prayer, I also knew there would be no disaster. Indeed, the spare had enough air to get us to a tire store in Vegas. </p><p><b><strong>Confidence to spare<br></strong></b>A few days later, in a motel in Idaho on the way back home, I drifted off to sleep without putting in my nightly \"adult undergarment.\" When I awoke the next morning without having sprung a leak in the night, I was inclined to treat it as random luck and install a new pad. For some reason, I didn\'t. I haven\'t used one since. Within a few days of quitting them, it was like the whole incontinence issue had never happened. While my bladder capacity isn\'t what it was pre-surgery, I have no other issues. I don\'t leak a drop, even during strenuous activity.</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=\"/id/13154507/\">Low Blow: Read the complete series<br></a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16668688/\">Cancer deaths drop for 2nd straight year</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>As predictably Freudian as this sounds, that bit of physical security brought back emotional stability in spades. At home and work, things are clicking a lot more like the old days. Stories are coming together much more efficiently. I\'m choosing paint and bathroom fixtures for the house I\'m remodeling with the certitude of Martha Stewart. There\'s still way too much to do and too little time to do it, but no sense of impending doom about it. Even though it has been just six months now since my prostate surgery, and two \"undetectable\" PSA tests now, it seems like a distant memory. I still don\'t think much about having cancer or worry that it will come storming back. </p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"120\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/interactive.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">INTERACTIVE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13301486&#xA;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LowBlow_ProstateCancer/TZ152_Prostate.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"148\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location.replace(\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13301486\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font class=\"textMedBlackBold\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13301486&#xA;\">Prostate cancer: What you need to know</a></font><br></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>At times, when I hear in e-mail or at speaking engagements from men who have not had it so good, I have twinges of guilt. But none of us really knows what\'s around the next bend, be it a car wreck or a cancer recurrence, and an almost universal outcome of this disease is a more mindful approach to the time we do have left. I put one foot in front of the other every day fully conscious of each step that I choose to take and knowing that changing any of them is only up to me.</p><p>One remaining source of loss and frustration involves, as I always feared it would, sex. While Viagra works for me, and there are even some unassisted stirrings, I think I was overly optimistic about the benefits. The drugmakers\' soft-focus \"erectile dysfunction\" commercials aside, no pill has so far been able to induce the nuances of sexual arousal as nature intended. But given what happened with the pee problem, I am trying not to dwell on this; indeed, my doctor says that I am already ahead of schedule here and I have an entire year left to expect improvement.</p><p>So I\'m two for three as I head toward the one-year anniversary of my diagnosis on April 28. No cancer, no diapers, but no natural boners.<br><br></p><p>I think, for now, that is a pretty good order of business.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1511','1','<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\">CDC\'s guide tells how to respond to super-flu</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>\'Self quarantine\' part of plan designed to help states deal with outbreak </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>WASHINGTON - States should plan for a flu pandemic much as coastal areas gear up for hurricanes: You act differently when a weak Category 1 storm\'s heading in than when a powerhouse Category 5 is offshore. The message is central to guidelines being released Thursday to help states prepare for the next worldwide outbreak of a super-flu.</p><p>Old-fashioned infection control - nondrug measures such as voluntary quarantine or closing schools - is a cornerstone of those preparations, which are attempts to slow a pandemic\'s spread until vaccines become available.</p><p>But it is far from clear how well those measures would work or if some could cause more harm than good.</p><p>An Associated Press look in December at the nation\'s preparations found little agreement on best policies, even among neighboring states.</p><p>The new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not tell states what infection-control steps to take. But officials familiar with the document say it urges a tiered response that ratchets up depending on how bad the new flu is in each community - and reserves the most drastic actions for the worst outbreak.</p><p>Most preparations until now have focused on the worst-case scenario of a pandemic as severe as in 1918, when 50 million people worldwide died. But states should not race to close schools, for example, if the next pandemic is much less severe, like the one in 1968 that killed 1 million people.</p><p>\"You kind of plan for the worst, but the odds are it won\'t be,\" said Dr. Robert Stroube, Virginia\'s health commissioner and president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. \"We\'re coming out with consensus so we don\'t have to reinvent it in every state throughout the country.\"</p><p>Federal health officials would not discuss important parts of the guidelines before their release Thursday.</p><p>But public health specialists cited one: During all but the least severe pandemic, when someone gets the new flu, everyone in that household voluntarily should stay home for seven days, That would help avoid spreading the virus before they realized that they, too, are sick.</p><p><b><strong>\'Self quarantine\'<br></strong></b>This approach is called \"voluntary self quarantine.\" Questions about who should hole up and for how long have been debated hotly. With the official definition, communities should determine how they would deliver food and other necessities to such families, said Jeff Levi of the Trust for America\'s Health.</p><p>It also should spur state discussions about stockpiling extra doses of anti-flu medications for family members to take during that week of quarantine in hopes of warding off infection, Levi added.</p><p>Pandemics can strike when the easy-to-mutate flu virus shifts to a strain that people never have experienced. Scientists cannot predict when the next pandemic will arrive, although concern is rising that the Asian bird flu might trigger one if it starts spreading easily from person to person.</p><p><b><strong>Diminishing pandemic\'s fallout<br></strong></b>Keeping society functioning normally as long as possible diminishes a pandemic\'s economic fallout, and minimizes unintended consequences of infection-control steps. Closing schools means adults lose work to care for children and does not help if older kids sneeze on each other at the mall.</p><p>\"The challenge to this (taking such steps) is finding the sweet spot of when to turn this on and turning this off,\" Dr. Martin Cetron, head of CDC\'s quarantine division, said Wednesday in Atlanta as agency scientists conducted a drill to practice how they would respond to a bird-flu outbreak.</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=\"/id/16524928/\">Official: Pandemic toll could be \'scary\'</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16670768/\">New tests reveal why 1918 flu was so deadly?/a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16194268/\">Quarantine unit ready to isolate infection</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 question is how well CDC will be able to judge the severity of a newly brewing pandemic - and then whether states and a worried public believe predictions that it will not be too severe, Levi said.</p><p>Federal officials are \"concerned about pulling the trigger too fast\" on these measures, he said.</p><p>Some states were developing similar tiered approaches, said Dr. Pascal James Imperato, a former New York City health commissioner who now directs public health at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center.</p><p>Thursday\'s document \"elevates to a national level guidelines that can be used everywhere in the country,\" he said.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i>Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1512','1','<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\">Pollution puts women\'s hearts at risk</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Grit in the air drastically raises odds of fatal attacks, study says</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/video.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">FREE VIDEO</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"javascript:msnvDwd(\'00\',\'9d95f8ec-2e0d-42c9-82f2-92075e1bd4d0\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'16924094\',\'Air pollution and heart disease\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070201/a_brown_heart_070201.300w.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:msnvDwd(\'00\',\'9d95f8ec-2e0d-42c9-82f2-92075e1bd4d0\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'16924094\',\'Air pollution and heart disease\')\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font class=\"textMedBlackBold\"><a href=\"javascript:msnvDwd(\'00\',\'9d95f8ec-2e0d-42c9-82f2-92075e1bd4d0\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'16924094\',\'Air pollution and heart disease\')\">Air pollution and heart disease</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 1: A new study shows fine grit in polluted air boosts the risk of heart disease in women. MSNBC.com\'s Dara Brown reports.</font><p class=\"credit\">MSNBC.com</p></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\"></font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>BOSTON - The fine grit in polluted air boosts the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realized, a big federally funded study has found, raising questions of whether U.S. environmental standards are strict enough.</p><p>The Environmental Protection Agency tightened its daily limit for these tiny specks, known as fine particulates, in September. But it left the average annual limit untouched, allowing a concentration of 15 millionths of a gram for every cubic meter of air.</p><p>In this study of 65,893 women, the average exposure was 13 units, with two-thirds of the subjects falling under the national standard. But every increase of 10 units, starting at 0, lifted the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease by about 75 percent. That is several times higher than in a study by the American Cancer Society.</p><p>\"There was a lot of evidence previously suggesting that the long-term standard should be lower, and this is adding one more study to that evidence,\" said Douglas Dockery, a pollution specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">&nbsp;\'TODAY\' SPECIAL SERIES: HEART SMARTS</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#a4abc1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-right:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-bottom:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-left:solid 1px #a4abc1;background-color:#f3f3f6;\" bgcolor=\"#f3f3f6\"><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=\"0\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" ID=\"Table1\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/11044374/\">Food for a healthy heart</a> </font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/11010827/\">Future of treatment</a> | <a href=\"javascript:msnvDwd(\'00\',\'4b872ef0-8e12-41e3-8702-2696b34098f2\',\'us\',\'Source_Today Show\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'11019172\',\'What\\u2018s on the treatment horizon?\')\">Video</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/11023208/\">Dying of a broken heart?</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"javascript:msnvDwd(\'00\',\'8cb99021-3dac-4e71-ba17-8d3a9395b0aa\',\'us\',\'Source_Today Show\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'10988211\',\'Are you at risk for heart disease?\')\">NBC video: Are you at risk?</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/11005842/\">Symptoms may differ in females</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/10803202/\">Anatomy of a heart attack</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/10711800/\">Interactive: Stroke causes</a></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></font></td><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/040112/TZ152_HeartAttacks.thumb.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Heart attack\"></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>He wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, which was published in Thursday\'s <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>. The University of Washington-based researchers worked from data collected for the Women\'s Health Initiative, a well-respected research project that previously showed the heart dangers of hormone supplements.</p><p><b><strong>Women more susceptible</strong></b><br>It has long been known that particulates can contribute to lung and heart disease, with women perhaps more susceptible than men to heart problems, perhaps because of their smaller blood vessels and other biological differences.</p><p>But the degree of risk for older women was less clear. This study started with women who had gone through menopause and were 50 to 79 years old.</p><p>Unlike earlier studies, it looked not just at deaths, but also at heart attacks, coronary disease, strokes and clogged arteries. These problems were 24 percent more likely with every 10-unit rise in particles. Almost 3 percent of the women suffered some kind of cardiovascular problem.</p><p>The risk varied along with the varying levels of these particles in different neighborhoods within the same city.</p><p>In their calculations, the researchers tried to adjust for lower income and other health problems that have been blamed for the higher rates of disease in past studies.<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/POLITICS/070205/AP_AIR_PARTICLES.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"352\" width=\"344\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table></p><p>\"I think the major contribution is answering the critics of the prior studies,\" said the paper\'s senior researcher, Dr. Joel Kaufman of the University of Washington. \"The effect seems large and important and should be taken seriously.\"</p><p><b><strong>The push for tighter rules on ozone</strong></b><br>States and other groups demanding a lower annual standard sued the EPA last year, accusing it of disregarding the advice of its own scientists. Some agency scientists are also pushing for tighter rules on ozone, the chemical that creates smog and contributes to asthma and lung disease.</p><p>The EPA is scheduled to take another look at its standard for particulate matter and complete it by 2001.</p><p>\"It\'s too soon to say how much weight any single study will have, but this study will be considered as part of this continuous process,\" said EPA spokesman John Millett.</p><p>Dr. Len Horovitz of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, who was familiar with the findings, said they could create \"a bit of a firestorm\" for the future review.</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=\"/id/6852335/\">Quiz: Are you at risk for a heart attack?</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=183787\">Discuss: Are you concerned about pollution\'s health effects??/a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16891301/\">EPA scientists urge tougher smog rules</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16885913/\">Fertility cycle impacts female brain</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 tiny bits of grit are believed to reach deep into the lungs to spur inflammation that promotes heart attack and stroke. They are so small than it would take about 30 to equal the thickness of a human hair.</p><p>These particles - made of dust, soot and various chemicals - come from burning fuel in cars, factories, and power plants. While individual particles are too small to see, they can be observed collectively as urban haze.</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('1513','1','<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\">Oils in bath products may enlarge boys\' breasts</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Researchers suspect lavender, tea tree oil disrupt hormonal balance</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070131/070131_lavender_vmed_3p.vmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Essential oils\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Corbis stock</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Essential oils such as tea tree oil and lavender are often found in soaps, shampoos and lotions. Researchers suspect the oils may promote temporary breast development in boys.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>BOSTON - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests.</p><p>While advising parents to consider the possible risk, several hormone experts emphasized that the problem appears to happen infrequently and clears up when the oils are no longer used. None of those interviewed called for a ban on sales.</p><p>The study reported on the condition, gynecomastia, in three boys ages 4, 7 and 10. They all went back to normal when they stopped using skin lotions, hair gel, shampoo or soap with the natural oils.</p><p>It\'s unclear how often this problem might crop up in other young children.</p><p><b><strong>Oils found in many health-care products</strong></b><br>These plant oils, sometimes called \"essential oils,\" are added to many health-care products, usually for their scent. The oils are sometimes found in other household products or sold in purer forms. Tea tree oil is sometimes used in shampoos for head lice.</p><p>The suspected effect in this study is blamed on some chemical within the oils that the body processes like estrogen, the female hormone that promotes breast growth.</p><p>The findings were being reported Thursday in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>. The federally funded study came out of the University of Colorado and the environmental health branch of the National Institutes of Health. The findings were first released last year at a science meeting.</p><p>The three boys were brought to their doctors with overdeveloped breasts that looked like those of girls in early puberty. They were sore in one case. For each boy, doctors could tie the problem only to their use over several months of the natural-oil products.</p><p>The researchers suspected that the oils might be upsetting the boys\' hormonal balance. So they did a series of laboratory tests to check how these oils work within human cells. The oils appeared to mimic estrogen and block the male hormone androgen.</p><p>On product labels, the oils sometimes are listed by their scientific names: Lavandula angustifolia (lavender oil) and Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree oil). Such products do not require government approval to be sold unless they make specific health claims.</p><p>Marijuana and soy products also have been linked to gynecomastia.</p><p><b><strong>\"Be cautious\"</strong></b><br>Dr. Clifford Bloch, a hormone specialist in Greenwood Village, Colo., who treated the three boys, recommended that parents \"be cautious\" with such products, especially for prolonged use. \"I would not give these products to my children,\" he said in an interview.</p><p>Bloch said he also suspects the oil played a role in a handful of young girls he saw for a similar condition, including a 17-month-old whose parents were washing her bottles with a lavender-scented soap.</p><p>Others sounded less worried. \"It takes very little estrogen to cause gynecomastia in a young child,\" said Dr. Richard Auchus, a University of Texas hormone expert who knew of the study findings. \"If they\'re getting it for a brief period of time, that really shouldn\'t cause long-term problems.\"</p><p>Also, the research did not pinpoint any specific estrogen-like compounds in the oils or look for them in a range of products. Chemist Steven Dentali, at the industry group American Herbal Products Association, said that warning people to avoid such oils \"is premature without the additional basic research needed to bolster the case that the issue here is both real and significant.\"</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=\"/id/16908487/\">Vote: Are you worried about the effects of essential oils on boys\' bodies?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16891331/\">Only 1 in 4 kids cured after sleep apnea surgery</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>Gynecomastia is very common in boys during the hormonal changes of puberty. But it also occurs as a rare condition in younger boys men, and girls before puberty.</p><p>Bloch, the study doctor, said it\'s unknown if such oils could hurt women with estrogen-fed breast tumors.</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('1514','1','<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\">Are models, celebrities too thin?</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>81 percent object to super-skinny images, online poll finds</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>LONDON - Female fashion models and many celebrities are \"too thin\", say four in every five consumers from around the world, a new survey showed on Thursday.</p><p>A week before the start of the annual fashion season, trend tracker The Nielsen Company revealed what 25,000 people in 45 countries said about the body size of women strutting the world\'s catwalks and red carpets.</p><p>\"An overwhelming 81 percent of online consumers agree that female fashion models and celebrities are too thin,\" ACNielsen Europe\'s President Patrick Dodd said in a news release.</p><p>The findings follow a worldwide outcry over the fashion industry\'s promotion of the stick-thin images which critics say contribute to eating disorders in young women.</p><p>As a result of the death of two Latin American models, czars from the powerful fashion capitals of New York, London, Milan and Paris pledged last week to address the controversial issue of bringing more weight to the catwalks.</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=\"/id/16925405/\">Vote: Are models, celebs too thin?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16876142/\">Healthier models expected on catwalks</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16370676/\">Brazilians transfixed by model\'s death</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>Nielsen found Latin American consumers were strongly against super-skinny models, with 91 percent of Argentinians and 89 percent of Brazilians supporting the notion that fashion models are too thin.</p><p><b><strong>Quality of life </strong></b><br>The online survey also found a link between perceptions of thinness among women and a country\'s quality of life.</p><p>Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia were the fiercest critics of the fashion industry with as many as 94 percent of those polled believing models are too thin.</p><p>Those countries also consistently top global rankings for having the best quality of life. Australia and New Zealand also boast top models Elle Macpherson and Rachel Hunter who are famous for their healthy physiques.</p><p>\"These countries believe in the healthy concept of beauty and culturally also reject the super-skinny model type that follows fashion trends,\" Dodd said.</p><p>The annual women\'s wear fashion season kicks off next week in New York, followed by London, Milan and Paris and the shows are expected to be dogged by the ultra-thin model debate.</p><p>As many as 89 percent of U.S., British and French consumers were against ultra-thin models, the survey showed.</p><p>That concern was least shared in Asia, where fewest people - though still a majority - objected to the images portrayed by the fashion and celebrity industry.</p><p>Just 59 percent of Vietnamese consumers thought models were too thin, followed by 64 percent of Indians and 63 percent of Japanese.</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('1515','1','<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\">Don\'t blame him if she can\'t get no satisfaction</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>A new book says many women often sabotage their own sex lives</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070131/noSatisfaction.hlarge.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Getty Images file</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textMedBlackBold\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">Brian Alexander</div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">MSNBC contributor</div><p></p></font><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"102\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Test-Dev/donna/msnbc10/Launch%20images/byline_msnbc.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"100\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#000000\"></b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#666666\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-top:solid 1px #666666;border-bottom:solid 1px #666666;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=\"0\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/mugs/Health/alexander_brian.thumb.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><font color=\"black\"><b>Brian Alexander</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><hr size=\"1\" width=\"85%\" color=\"#cccccc\" noshade=\"1\" align=\"center\"></td></tr><tr><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font color=\"black\"><script language=\"javascript\">document.write(\'<a href=\"mailto:\'+\'sexploration\'+\'@\'+\'feedback.msnbc.com?Subject=Sexploration\">\')</script>E-mail<script language=\"javascript\">document.write(\'</a>\');</script></font></td></tr></table></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>Right off the bat, Dr. Anita H. Clayton wants to make it clear that \"this is not about men.\" </p><p>Well it is a little, at least for heterosexual women, but Clayton exaggerates in the interest of reassuring me. She has a theory that many women are dissatisfied with their sex lives and I\'m expecting the usual indictment of insensitive male fumbling, with the words \"beer,\" \"ba-da-bing,\" \"foreplay,\" \"seventh-inning stretch\" and \"torn sweatpants\" figuring prominently.</p><p>Instead, she says, \"We women need to examine ourselves and the types of sexual beings we are.\"</p><p>Hmmm. Interesting.</p><p>It also raises a question I\'ve been wondering about for some time now. Clayton, president of the International Society for the Study of Women\'s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System, has a new book, \"Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy,\" with writer Robin Cantor-Cooke. In it Clayton argues that too often women unwittingly sabotage their own sex lives. She also gives some possible explanations and solutions. The book joins a rapidly expanding list of such books, and lots of discussions at meetings like those held by ISSWSH and other organizations about women and sex and satisfaction.</p><p>Yet it has been 34 years since Erica Jong\'s \"Fear of Flying\"<em> </em>and 30 years since Shere Hite\'s \"Hite Report\"<em> </em>on female sexuality. Women and desire and how to have good sex have been floating around pop culture for decades. At first glance, these issues would hardly seem to be the secrets Clayton says they are. So why this boom in women\'s how-to sexual info? </p><p>Partly, suggests sex guru Lou Paget, it\'s because science has marched on. Paget, based in Los Angeles, writes books of her own, like \"Hot Mommas: The Ultimate Guide to Staying Sexy Throughout Your Pregnancy and the Months Beyond,\" and gives sex seminars to groups of women. They ask her, for example, what happens when women have babies. \"Your estrogen plummets, your prolactin shoots up, and you get a surge of oxytocin to help you bond with the baby, not your lover.\" All that kills desire. </p><p>Today, there are explanations for lack of female sexual desire. \"It\'s not, \'Well, I\'m strange,\'\" Paget says. \"People want to figure things out. Being in therapy is normal now. Ten or 15 years ago it wasn\'t as common. Women say, \'I have something and I want to deal with it.\'\"?? </p><p>Men have an advantage because we exist in a binary 1 and 0 world when it comes to sex. If we\'re worked up, it shows. If we\'re not, it doesn\'t. We\'re also, from a very early age, penis autodidacts, geniuses who know what makes the things work and what runs around inside our brains when they do. And now, if they\'re not working, we head to the doctor\'s office for a pill.</p><p><b><strong>As good as it gets?<br></strong></b>Women on the other hand, are often stumped. \"I see couples in their 30s, many of whom have had sex with only few other partners, and the women know very little about their own responses and capacity for pleasure,\" reports New York sex therapist Joy Davidson, author of \"Fearless Sex.\" It\'s not so much that they are completely dissatisfied, she says, but that they are only \"marginally satisfied.\"</p><p>\"They are experiencing very little in the way of satisfaction because they don\'t even know what level to reach for,\" says Davidson.</p><p>This is one of Clayton\'s main arguments. When sex researchers try to study female sexual response, or to treat female sexual dysfunction, she says, subjects \"don\'t even know their own baseline functioning, even lubrication. They don\'t know. You have to be taught what to look for, and we don\'t teach this. We don\'t tell women about sex very much and [response] is all internal,\" so women can\'t see it. </p><p>But the problem isn\'t just physical. Women find themselves frustrated by media, Clayton says. (If it isn\'t men\'s fault, you can count on it having something to do with the media.) </p><p>In our celebrity-obsessed culture, in which beauty and an overt sexiness is prized above, oh, talent, many women assume that celeb babes get to live on some higher plane of sexual existence that is closed to other women. Sex in entertainment culture is often portrayed as extraordinary, explosive, exciting. So women come to expect this from their own lives, setting themselves up for disappointment. </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 coverage</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=\"/id/16910568/\">Vote: Do you point fingers when sex isn\'t satisfying?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14061456/\">MSNBC.com Special Report: America Unzipped</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/3035461/\">Read more?exploration columns</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>Davidson places less blame on media. The romance and sex in movies and on TV are, as part of entertainment, \"peak experiences.\" Everybody can have very similar peak experiences, she argues. Either way, peak experiences or frustrating fantasy, the market for advice on having better sex gets stoked.?</p><p>Whatever the source of dissatisfaction, women are too often reluctant to talk about sex with other women, with their lovers, even their doctors. \"We are afraid to speak up,\" Davidson says, \"and so we stay in patterns.\"</p><p>\"If men have a bad experience, it\'s a crisis,\" Clayton says, referring to a bout of impotence. \"They run to the doctor. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1516','1','<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\">Bush urges parents to get kids outdoors</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>President encourages business execs to push exercise, healthy eating</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070201/070201_bushchild_hmed_9a.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Francis Collins, Emanuel Cleaver, Diane Cleaver\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Gerald Herbert / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">President and Mrs. Bush, along with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., and his wife Diane, listen as Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, sings and plays guitar during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday that childhood obesity is a costly problem for the country and puts stress on American families.</p><p>\"One way for this nation to cope with the issue of obesity is to get people outside - whether it be through sports or hiking or conservation,\" Bush said while meeting with business leaders working to encourage exercise and healthy food choices through advertising.</p><p>He said first lady Laura Bush was on her way to New York to kick off Friday\'s \"Wear Red Day\" for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute\'s Red Dress Project to increase awareness that women are at risk for heart disease. Bush signed a proclamation making February American Heart Month.</p><p>\"Mothers are the ones, a lot of times, who make choices for their children,\" the first lady said. \"They make their choices on the foods they eat. They\'re the ones at home, many times, who encourage their children to exercise.\"</p><p>Earlier, the president and Mrs. Bush attended the 55th national prayer breakfast at a Washington hotel where he prayed for the safety of U.S. troops, saying: \"During this time of war, we thank God that we are part of a nation that produces courageous men and women who volunteer to defend us.\"</p><p>In the Roosevelt Room, the president and Mrs. Bush met with executives from the food, beverage and entertainment industries to talk about improving healthy food offerings and encouraging physical fitness in their marketing and advertising campaigns.</p><p>More than 10 million school-age children in the United States - about 18 percent - are now considered overweight. The percentage of overweight children tripled among adolescents during the past 25 years, and nearly doubled for children ages 6 to 12. This increases their risk for adult heart disease and diabetes, lowers life expectancy and creates additional health care costs.</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=\"/id/16909706/\">Binge eating is a common problem in the U.S.</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16859368/\">Yoga causes controversy in public schools</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>Following the meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt was to work with Roger Enrico, chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG, and Peggy Conlon, president and chief executive officer of The Advertising Council, to launch a public awareness campaign to help prevent childhood obesity. The campaign will include ads featuring characters from the \"Shrek\" animated movies encouraging children to \"Be a Player\" and get up and play for an hour a day.</p><p>Representatives from General Mills, Coca-Cola North America, Univision Communications Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., Kellogg Co., PepsiCo Inc., Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, McDonalds USA and Nickelodeon Television also were at the meeting.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\" SRC=\"http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js\"></SCRIPT>\n\n<SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\" SRC=\"http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/overweightInAmerica_wb3/data.js\"></SCRIPT>\n\n<SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\">\n\nif (window.overweightInAmerica_wb3) { \n\n            //CUSTOM SETTINGS\n\ndisplayApp(overweightInAmerica_wb3); \n\n}\n\n</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 The Associated Press. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1517','1','<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\">W.Va. to plug in arcade game for weight loss</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>State plans to put \'Dance Dance Revolution\' in schools to fight obesity</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>West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami Corp.\'s \"Dance Dance Revolution\" to battle the bulge in its schools.</p><p>The state, which plans to put the popular dancing video game in every one of its public schools, said on Wednesday research suggested that it helped put a halt to weight gain.</p><p>Preliminary results from a 24-week study of 50 overweight or obese children, aged 7 to 12, showed that those who played the game at home for at least 30 minutes five days per week maintained their weight and saw a reduction in some risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.</p><p>The study\'s control group included a dozen children who did not play the game for the first 12 weeks, then did so for remainder of the study period. Those children piled on an average of 6 pounds during the first portion of the study but saw their weight stabilize in the second half.</p><p>The West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency sponsored the research project, which primarily involved children of its policy holders.</p><p>Food intake was not monitored as part of the study, said Emily Murphy, a pediatric exercise physiologist from the West Virginia University School of Medicine\'s pediatrics department, who was part of the research team.</p><p>Murphy said that, prior to the study, most of the children reported feeling awkward about participating in gym and physical activity at school.</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=\"/id/16831905/\">W.Va. turns to Weight Watchers to slim down</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16906552/\">Oils in bath products may enlarge boys\' breasts</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>Following the study, children from the group reported feeling more confident and willing to try other exercises, she said.</p><p>Murphy noted that West Virginia plans to develop after-school clubs for playing the game.</p><p>\"It\'s going to allow kids to be active in an after-school activity that\'s not sports,\" she said.</p><p>Obesity has been rising fast around the globe, prompting health experts to warn that lifestyle-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes may cut average life expectancy for generations of youth.</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('1518','1','<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\">1918 flu gives clues to stopping next pandemic</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Two small tweaks keeps virus from spreading, researchers say</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>WASHINGTON - Making a small change in the outer coating of the lethal 1918 flu virus was enough to stop it from spreading - a discovery that may help scientists monitor today\'s bird flu and other influenza strains for signs of the next pandemic.</p><p>The 1918 pandemic was triggered by a bird virus that mutated into one that could attack humans, going on to kill a staggering 50 million people worldwide in a matter of months.</p><p>To learn what caused that catastrophic bird-to-human transformation, scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turned back the clock: They worked with recreated batches of the actual H1N1 flu strain that spawned the 1918 pandemic, but they altered two spots in a key protein to make that virus a little more birdlike again.</p><p>Then the researchers dripped the altered virus into the noses of ferrets, who catch and spread influenza like humans do.</p><p>The infected ferrets still sickened and died as the flu ravaged their lungs. But remarkably, they didn\'t infect healthy ferrets caged right next to them, the CDC team reports in Friday\'s edition of the journal <em>Science</em>.</p><p>Why not? Most flu spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes out droplets of virus. Ferrets infected with the altered 1918 virus didn\'t sneeze at all.</p><p><b><strong>Virus must prefer nose and windpipe</strong></b><br>The research suggests that for a new flu strain to become a pandemic threat, a protein called hemagglutinin that coats the virus\' surface must prefer attaching to cells found mostly in the human nose and windpipe, where it can be sneezed easily.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/interactive.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">INTERACTIVE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Health/Bird%20Flu/zFlashAssets/BIRDFLU_TIMELINE_TZ300.gif\" height=\"81\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location.replace(\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>That\'s good news when it comes to the notorious Asian bird flu that scientists are watching anxiously today. That strain known as H5N1 bears hemagglutinin - the H in its name - that still prefers cells mostly found in the gastrointestinal tracts of birds. While it has killed at least 164 people worldwide and killed or prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, the H5N1 virus can\'t yet spread easily from person to person.</p><p>\"This is very, very elegant work,\" said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University who advises the federal government on flu issues.</p><p>\"It may not be exactly the same mutations that would change an H5 virus,\" Schaffner cautioned. Still, he said, \"We appear to be narrowing down our understanding of the kinds of mutations it might take to change a bird-specific virus to one that could be transmitted readily among humans.\"</p><p>The CDC\'s next step, in fact, is to study these same changes in hemagglutinin amino acids, the protein\'s building blocks, in H5N1.</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=\"/id/6880869/\">Comparing bird flu to the common flu</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16751876/\">End to bird flu is years away, WHO official says</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16910543/\">CDC offers plan for fighting super-flu</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>But it will almost certainly take additional genetic changes to turn the H5N1 bird flu into a major human killer, changes that probably involve other proteins than just hemagglutinin, contends lead researcher Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a CDC microbiologist.</p><p>\"I think that researchers may discover that the combination of genes needed is maybe unlikely to occur in nature,\" he said.</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('1519','1','<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\">Doctors warn of hand gel poisoning</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Drinking alcohol-based sanitizers can intoxicate and kill, journal reports</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>BOSTON - At least two people have become intoxicated by drinking hand-sanitizing gels, a potentially deadly habit, doctors reported Wednesday.</p><p>A prison inmate and a hospitalitzed alcoholic both were treated for poisoning from the gels, which contain alcohol - but not the same kind as found in beverages.</p><p>Evidently people misunderstand the labels that show the gels, foams and liquids contain alcohol, the doctors said in separate letters to the New England Journal of Medicine. Cases of people drinking the hand gels because of their alcohol content have not previously been reported in major medical journals.</p><p>\"The Maryland Poison Center was called about a 49-year-old, usually calm prison inmate who was described as being \'red-eyed,\' \'loony,\' \'combative,\' and \'intoxicated, lecturing everyone about life\',\" Dr. Suzanne Doyon of the Maryland Poison Center and Dr. Christopher Welsh of the University of Maryland School of Medicine wrote in one letter.</p><p>\"Other inmates and staff reported seeing this prisoner drinking from a gallon container of Purell hand sanitizer over the course of the evening.\"</p><p>In the second case, a 43-year-old man with alcoholism was treated for mysterious chest pains and other symptoms.</p><p>\"Before those results were obtained, the patient was seen in the bathroom drinking the alcohol-based hand wash from its dispenser,\" Dr. Ashkan Emadi and Dr. LeAnn Coberly of the University of Cincinnati wrote.</p><p>\"When asked why he ingested the hand cleaner, he pointed to the label, which read, \'Active ingredient 63 percent v/v isopropyl alcohol.\' He explained that this percentage is higher than that in vodka,\" they added.</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=\"/id/16751949/\">Bee sting treatments buzzing in modern China</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15609784/\">More Brits drinking themselves to death</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>It only takes a small amount of isopropanol to kill, by depressing the heart and central nervous system, they wrote.</p><p>They suggested that makers of the hand gels change the labeling.</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('1520','1','<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\">Flu pandemics will be forecast like hurricanes</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Taking cue from weather trackers, U.S. will assign rankings to outbreaks</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>WASHINGTON  - The government will predict the severity of the next flu pandemic just like forecasters predict hurricane strength - using a ranking system unveiled Thursday to help states determine when they should take increasingly strong steps to combat flu\'s spread.</p><p>At issue are old-fashioned infection-control measures that may help slow the spread of the next worldwide outbreak of a super-flu until vaccines become available, steps that range from home quarantine to closing schools and postponing sporting events.</p><p>But those measures can increase a pandemic\'s economic fallout, and even have unintended consequences. Closing schools, for example, can keep adults home from work to care for children. And it doesn\'t help if older kids go sneeze on each other at the mall.</p><p>The new guidelines, from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, don\'t tell states what infection-control steps to take - and make clear that rushing to implement them could do more harm than good.</p><p>Instead, the new \"pandemic severity index\" suggests when a super-flu\'s threat becomes great enough to justify gradually escalating those strategies.</p><p><b><strong>Categories 1-5<br></strong></b>The top example: Just as coastal communities don\'t evacuate for a Category 1 hurricane, schools shouldn\'t close for a Category 1 flu pandemic. But if the next pandemic appears to be a super-lethal Category 5, the guidelines recommend states close schools for up to three months.</p><p>\"Not all pandemics are equally severe,\" Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC\'s director, said Thursday in unveiling the new guidelines.</p><p>The CDC deliberately copied the nation\'s hurricane ranking system to help the general public immediately recognize what to expect once a pandemic strikes, and thus help communities make what Gerberding called \"real tough decisions\" about when and how to curtail normal activities.</p><p>\"Everyone knows what a Category 1 hurricane is, everyone knows what a Category 4 or 5 hurricane is and ... the different harm that could come from these kinds of different scenarios,\" she explained.</p><p>It is advice that states, grappling with exactly how drastic their pandemic preparations should be, have been awaiting anxiously, said Dr. Robert Stroube, Virginia\'s health commissioner and president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.</p><p>\"You kind of plan for the worst, but the odds are it won\'t be,\" Stroube said.<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img src=\"/images/icons/interactive.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#ffffff\">INTERACTIVE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#cccccc\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:solid 1px #cccccc;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url(\'/images/backgrounds/component_grey.gif\');\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><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=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" background=\"/images/backgrounds/component_dkgrey.gif\" width=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Health/Bird%20Flu/zFlashAssets/BIRDFLU_TIMELINE_TZ300.gif\" height=\"81\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td align=\"middle\"><div class=\"scalAd\"><input type=\"button\" class=\"mbox w77\" value=\"Launch\" title=\"Launch\" onmouseover=\"swapbtn(this, 1)\" onmouseout=\"swapbtn(this, 0)\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location.replace(\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12375868\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>Even adjoining states often have been unable to agree on best policies.</p><p>With the guidelines, \"we\'re coming out with consensus so we don\'t have to reinvent it in every state throughout the country,\" he added.</p><p>Influenza pandemics can strike when the easy-to-mutate flu virus shifts to a strain that people never have experienced. Scientists cannot predict when the next pandemic will arrive, although concern is rising that the Asian bird flu might trigger one if it starts spreading easily from person to person.</p><p>Most planning until now has focused on the worst-case scenario of an outbreak as severe as in 1918, when 50 million people worldwide died. But the 20th century\'s other two pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, were far less severe, claiming 2 million and 1 million lives, respectively.</p><p>There\'s no way to tell how bad the next one will be until it begins. But once the next pandemic strain begins circulating, gene testing and how fast it spreads will let scientists predict its lethality fairly quickly, said Dr. Pascal James Imperato, a former New York City health commissioner who now directs public health at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center.</p><p>Federal officials are \"concerned about pulling the trigger too fast\" on drastic infection-control measures, added Jeff Levi of the Trust for America\'s Health.</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=\"/id/16925672/\">1918 flu\'s clues may end pandemics</a> </li><li><a href=\"http://www.pandemicflu.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal pandemic info</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>That\'s where the CDC\'s new hurricane-style ranking system comes in.</p><p>If the CDC decides a new flu strain will be the least severe, with the potential of killing no more than 90,000 people, states would be urged to just isolate the sick, mostly at home, minimizing visitors who might catch the virus.</p><p>With a more moderate 1957- or 1968-like strain - 90,000 to 450,000 potential deaths - states might consider closing schools, but CDC doesn\'t recommend it and says any closures should be less than a month.</p><p><b><strong>Close schools up to 3 months<br></strong></b>If more than 900,000 deaths are predicted, a Category 4 or 1918-like Category 5 pandemic, then CDC does recommend closing schools, from one month to three months, depending on each community\'s level of illness. Other steps are recommended too, including avoiding crowded gatherings and encouraging people to work from home.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070201/AP_FLU_PANDEMIC.gif\" align=\"Left\" height=\"240\" width=\"351\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table>States also should consider having everyone in the household of a sick patient voluntarily stay home for seven days, in case they are silently incubating the virus, in all but the least severe pandemics. And if states have enough anti-flu medication, they should consider giving family members doses during quarantine to ward off infection.</p><p>But with the rankings come stern warnings. In a recent Harvard study, one in four adults said there was no one to care for them at home if they got sick, another one in four couldn\'t afford to miss work for even a week, and one in five said their bosses would insist they come to work even if they were sick and contagious.</p><p>The guidelines lay out that kind of fallout, and urge communities to figure out ways to minimize it.</p><p>\"This is the start of that discussion, not the end,\" cautioned Levi, the public health advocate.</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('1521','1','<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\">Binge eating a common problem in U.S.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>More prevalent disorder than anorexia and bulimia, Harvard survey finds</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>BOSTON - Frequent binge eating is the country\'s most common eating disorder, far outpacing the better-known diet problems of anorexia and bulimia, according to a national survey.</p><p>Psychiatric researchers at Harvard University Medical School and its affiliate, McLean Psychiatric Hospital, have billed the study as the first national census of eating disorders. The results were published Thursday in the medical journal Biological Psychiatry.</p><p>The survey found that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men suffer from binge eating, defined as bouts of uncontrolled eating, well past the point of being full, that occur at least twice a week.</p><p>The doctors diagnosed fewer than 1 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men with anorexia, a disorder where an exaggerated fear of weight gain causes undereating and malnourishment. The study determined that 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men had bulimia, characterized by the \"binge-purge\" syndrome of overeating followed by vomiting.</p><p>McLean Hospital\'s Dr. Harrison Pope, an author of the study, said binge eaters face severe risk of obesity and related diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers.</p><p>A binge eater, for instance, might eat a full dinner, then a quart of ice cream for dessert, followed by a bag of chips, without being able to stop, Pope said.</p><p>\"It\'s a little bit analogous to something you hear from an alcoholic, when they might say, \'Well, I wanted to have one drink,\' and they\'ve had 12 drinks and they\'re passed out on the floor,\" he said in a conference call with reporters. \"Even though they feel full, even though they feel disgusting and guilty, they can\'t stop.\"</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/thread.aspx?BoardID=490&amp;ThreadID=184308&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Discuss: Do you ever binge eat? Why?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14802078/\">5 most common diet mistakes</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16037008/\">Age no protection against anorexia</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>Dr. James I. Hudson, the study\'s lead author and a Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor, said binge eating deserves more recognition from health professionals.</p><p>\"These results argue that binge eating is common. It\'s more common than both the other eating disorders combined and it\'s strongly associated with obesity,\" he said. \"Taken together, these findings suggest that this is an eating disorder and should be treated as such.\"</p><p><b><strong>\'Cause or symptom?\'</strong></b><br>Funding for the study came from several sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Eli Lilly &amp; Co. and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hudson said the research team interviewed more than 9,000 people nationwide from 2001 to 2003 about their eating habits and psychological backgrounds. The study probably underestimates the actual number of those with eating disorders, he said, because people are often ashamed to acknowledge their abnormal eating habits.</p><p>The survey also found that people struggle longer with binge eating - symptoms persist for an average of about eight years compared to less than two years for anorexic patients, who are often young and may recover as they mature. Bulimics suffer without cure for an average of roughly eight years, according to the study.</p><p>Men and women between the ages of 18 and 29 were most likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder, while people older than 60 had the lowest rates of eating problems. The doctors said all three illnesses usually coincided with mood disorders like depression and anxiety.</p><p>A combination of the \"cultural barrage\" of images of rail-thin movie stars, ubiquitous fast-food advertising and genetic predisposition is usually the root of eating disorders, the study said.</p><p>Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, director of the eating disorders research unit at the New York State Psychiatric Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center, said the study confirms a widespread belief that the population of binge eaters is growing. He said if binge eating is a cause of obesity, psychiatrists could give more effective treatment to many overweight people.</p><p>\"Everyone has a sense, whether from a casual inspection of people on Broadway or an empirical study, that there are a lot of problems with binge eating and overeating,\" he said. \"The question is, is it a cause or a symptom?\"</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('1522','2','<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\">Cannabis drug may help stop the munchies</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Drug company to test treatment as possible appetite suppressant</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>LONDON - Britain\'s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said on Tuesday it planned to start human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis.</p><p>Cannabis is commonly associated with stimulating hunger and several other companies, like Sanofi-Aventis with Acomplia, are working on new drugs that try to switch off the brain circuits that make people hungry whem they smoke it.</p><p>GW Pharma, however, says it had derived a treatment from cannabis itself that could help suppress hunger.</p><p>\"The cannabis plant has 70 different cannabinoids in it and each has a different affect on the body,\" GW Managing Director Justin Gover told Reuters.</p><p>\"Some can stimulate your appetite, and some in the same plant can suppress your appetite. It is amazing both scientifically and commercially,\" he said in a telephone interview.</p><p>GW said it planned to start clinical trials of the new drug in the second half of this year. Medicines have to pass three stages of tests in humans before being assessed by regulators in a process that takes many years.</p><p>Sanofi-Aventis\' Acomplia, which it believes can achieve $3 billion in annual sales, is already on sale in Europe and it is waiting for a U.S. regulatory decision in April.</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=\"/id/16637630/\">Nutty hemp a hot food trend</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16287766/\">Nasal spray may help weight loss</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><b><strong>Secret location</strong></b><br>Several other big drug companies also already have similar products to Acomplia in clinical trials.</p><p>GW is best known for developing Sativex, a treatment derived from cannabis that fights spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients. Sativex, an under-the-tongue spray, has been approved in Canada, but has hit delays with regulators in Britain.</p><p>GW submitted Sativex for assessment by several European regulators in September, and hopes to secure approval for the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands in the second half of this year at the earliest, the company said on Tuesday.</p><p>GW\'s marijuana plants are grown indoors in a secret location in Southern England.</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('1523','2','\n\n\n	 <p>NAVY Seals are legendary for their tiptop physical condition, but have you ever wondered how they stay fighting fit out in the field?</p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n<div id=\"inlineReadersOpinion\">\n<h4>Readers&#8217; Opinions</h4>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<h2>\n<a href=\"http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/stylegarden/fashionstyle/index.html?page=recent\">Forum: Fashion and Style</a>\n</h2>\n<p class=\"summary\"></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/01/31/style/01fitness.2.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"286\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Darcy Padilla for The New York Times</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nKurt Dasbach, the creator of Inkaflexx straps, with Kathy Lee Bickham at Equinox in Darien, Conn. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Aaron Baldwin, 43, who retired in December as a master chief in the Seals, used to make barbells out of nothing more than plastic milk jugs, fresh concrete and a sturdy tree branch. </p><p>?e? make one weight and use it until we had to move and start over,?Mr. Baldwin said. </p><p>Things changed in 2002, when a Navy Seal turned entrepreneur sent Mr. Baldwin a test model of the TRX system, a suspension gadget made of a pair of straps with handles joined by a metal clasp ring. To set it up, he only had to wrap the straps around a freestanding pole or over a thick branch. Strength training became as simple as placing his feet in stirrups to suspend them off the ground, then performing dozens of exercises like knee tucks or pushups.</p><p>After 45 minutes of so-called suspension training, Mr. Baldwin exhausted his body from shoulders to calves using just the 170 pounds of his weight. Better yet, the two-pound straps rolled up to the size of a military bag lunch.</p><p>In the last year suspension training has entered the mainstream after two kinds of straps landed on the market: TRX and Inkaflexx. They have attracted the attention of personal trainers and group fitness directors as strengthening tools that also improve balance and flexibility. Suspension workouts consist of either hanging the legs or leaning back while gripping the straps and then performing a variety of moves. </p><p>The beauty of suspension training, its advocates say, is that you can? help engaging your core to steady yourself. On the other hand, critics warn that the instability of suspension straps can result in injury, especially if you have a history of joint or back injuries, or inadequate core strength.</p><p>Personal trainers use TRX equipment at over 1,000 gyms nationwide, according to Fitness Anywhere, its maker. Roughly 10,000 $150 sets of straps have been shipped. </p><p>Group classes for suspension devotees have begun to crop up nationwide. At Crunch, a class called BodyWeb With TRX is in full swing at two San Francisco outposts, and so is a pilot class featuring Inkaflexx equipment at Equinox in Darien, Conn. By mid-March, Equinox plans to offer TRX or Inkaflexx classes in Boston, Los Angeles and a new Manhattan club on Park Avenue. This summer, Life Time Fitness will add suspension training classes at a handful of its 60 locations in 16 states. </p><p>?t? like yoga on ropes because it takes a lot of balance,?said Mark Undercoffler, 32, a public relations executive in San Francisco, who has attended the Crunch BodyWeb class for three months. ?he TRX works every part of your body in 50 minutes, especially your core. It? the quickest way to get a cardio and muscle workout in less than an hour. I sweat as much in BodyWeb as I do in spin class.?/p><p>The BodyWeb With TRX class ?which involves lunges, chest presses and one-legged squats to high-energy dance music ?is so fast paced that some say it amounts to a cardiovascular workout. At Equinox a   mellower class called  Inka    focuses more on flexibility. To Andean flute music, participants are led through a series of stretches and a handful of strength-training moves.</p><p>Suspension training is having a moment partly because some trainers and clients are bored with the ubiquitous balance equipment like stability balls. Interest in suspension straps is also high because a theory called functional training has been making slow but steady inroads in the fitness business. It advocates strengthening muscles synergistically, rather than in isolation. </p><p>?ith so much emphasis put on core and functional training, the timing is right?for suspension training, said Kathie Davis, the executive director of IDEA Health and Fitness Association, a trade group. ?t has staying power because it has good education and programming behind it. Usually the trends that come and go are the ones that don? have good educators putting together interesting programs to go with the equipment.?</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('1524','3','	<p><p>TUESDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new study questions one of the basic tenets of HIV management -- that the amount of virus in the blood can accurately predict how quickly someone will progress to full-blown AIDS. </p> <p>Reporting in the Sept. 27 issue of the <i>Journal of the American Medical Association</i>, researchers explain that HIV levels in the blood aren\'t a good indicator of how fast important immune system cells called CD4 T-cells will decline. A drop in CD4 cells indicates that HIV is progressing to AIDS. HIV levels have also been used as a major factor in deciding when treatment should begin, and this study suggests that viral load levels shouldn\'t be used as a deciding factor in initiating treatment. </p> <p>&quot;The dogma has been that if you know how much virus is in the blood, you can know how quickly CD4 levels will go down. If someone had a high viral load, you would assume that person will progress more rapidly to AIDS,&quot; said the study\'s lead author, Dr. Benigno Rodriguez, an infectious disease specialist at Case Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.</p> <p>And, he said, in large-scale population studies, that assumption is generally correct. But, Rodriguez said, the researchers wanted to know if the same held true on a patient-by-patient basis. </p> <p>&quot;When we asked that specific question, based on viral load, how much patient-to-patient variability in progression can we explain? The answer was very little -- 6 percent at most,&quot; he said. </p> <p>To explain how doctors used to think of the interplay between HIV levels and the decline of CD4 T-cells, Dr. W. Keith Henry suggested thinking about a train speeding toward a collapsed bridge. He said the distance to the bridge was the number of CD4 T-cells, and that the speed of the train was the level of HIV in the blood. </p> <p>&quot;In this analogy, the HIV level is <i>the</i> major factor for cell loss in an individual patient,&quot; he explained. But, he said, the results of the new study suggest that the HIV levels only account for about 4 percent to 6 percent of the variability of CD4 cell loss in any individual. </p> <p>&quot;That means there\'s a lot more going on than meets the eye,&quot; said Henry, who added that these findings should spur new areas of research and may lead to better therapies as well as better diagnostics to help with the decision of when to start antiretroviral therapy. </p> <p>Henry was one of the authors of an accompanying editorial in the same issue of the journal and director of HIV clinical research at the Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota. </p> <p>For the new study, Rodriguez and his colleagues examined two large groups of people infected with HIV -- about 1,500 people in each group -- over a 20-year period. The study participants had not initiated therapy with antiretroviral medications. </p> <p>The researchers found that &quot;the viral load for the individual has very little predictive value in terms of how rapidly a person is going to progress to AIDS,&quot; said Rodriguez. </p> <p>In fact, he added, &quot;In our study, we had about 10 percent of patients with low viral loads that had extra rapid disease progression, so people should know that having a low load doesn\'t mean you\'re OK.&quot; </p> <p>Both Rodriguez and Henry said the measurement of HIV blood levels is still useful as a tool for mentoring the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy. </p> <p>Since viral load isn\'t a good gauge for when to begin treatment, Rodriguez said that anyone with a CD4 cell count below 200 definitely needs to start antiretroviral therapy. And those with a CD4 count above 350 can probably wait to start the therapy, which can have side effects. For those with counts between 200 and 350, Rodriguez said the decision of whether or not to start therapy is less clear. He said an analysis of how the immune system is functioning, perhaps by testing the body\'s response to a vaccination, can help physicians decide if it\'s time to start treatment.</p> <p>&quot;One simple number is not sufficient to tell a person where they are in terms of HIV status,&quot; Rodriguez said. &quot;There are so many elements involved in the decision to start therapy, and all of these types of judgment calls cannot be made unless you are under the care of an experienced HIV clinician.&quot;</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>For more information about HIV, go to the <a href=\"http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/hivinf.htm\" target=\"_new\">National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1525','3','<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\">Drugmaker wants law to require STD shot</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Girls as young as 11 would have to be immunized against cervical cancer</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>AUSTIN, Texas  - Merck &amp; Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker\'s new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.</p><p>Some conservatives and parents\'-rights groups say such a requirement would encourage premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children, and they say Merck\'s push for such laws is underhanded. But the company said its lobbying efforts have been above-board.</p><p>With at least 18 states debating whether to require Merck\'s Gardasil vaccine for schoolgirls, Merck has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.</p><p>A top official from Merck\'s vaccine division sits on Women in Government\'s business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.</p><p>\"Cervical cancer is of particular interest to our members because it represents the first opportunity that we have to actually eliminate a cancer,\" Women in Government President Susan Crosby said.</p><p><b><strong>Protection against HPV</strong></b><br>Gardasil, approved by the federal government in June, protects girls and women against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. A government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.</p><p>But no state has yet to add Gardasil to the list of vaccinations youngsters must have under law to be enrolled in school.</p><p>Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Crosby also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.</p><p>But Skidmore said: \"We disclosed the fact that we provide funding to this organization. We\'re not in any way trying to obscure that.\"</p><p><b><strong>Laws could mean billions in sales<br></strong></b>The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil - at $360 for the three-shot regimen - were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.</p><p>Cathie Adams, president of the conservative watchdog group Texas Eagle Forum, said the relationship between Merck and Women in Government is too cozy.</p><p>\"What it does is benefit the pharmaceutical companies, and I don\'t want pharmaceutical companies taking precedence over the authorities of parents,\" she said.</p><p>Adams said Merck\'s method of lobbying quietly through groups like Women in Government in addition to meeting directly with legislators are common in state government but still should raise eyebrows. \"It\'s corrupt as far as I\'m concerned,\" she said.</p><p><b><strong>Parents\' rights</strong></b><br>A mandatory vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease could be a tough sell in the Lone Star State and other conservative strongholds, where schools preach abstinence and parents\' rights are sacrosanct.</p><p>But Merck has doubled its spending on lobbyists in Texas this year, to between $150,000 and $250,000, as lawmakers consider the vaccine bill for girls entering the sixth grade.</p><p>Also, the drugmaker has hired one of the state\'s most powerful lobbyists, Mike Toomey, who once served as Republican Gov. Rick Perry\'s chief of staff and can influence conservatives who see him as one of their own.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070130/AP_CERVICAL_CANCER.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"276\" width=\"181\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table>\"What we support are approaches that achieve high immunization rates,\" said Skidmore, the Merck spokeswoman. \"We\'re talking about cervical cancer here, the second-leading cancer among women worldwide.\"</p><p>The legislation already has the enthusiastic support of the conservative governor.</p><p>\"I look at this no different than vaccinating our children for polio,\" Perry said. \"If there are diseases in our society that are going to cost us large amounts of money, it just makes good economic sense, not to mention the health and well being of these individuals to have those vaccines available.\"</p><p>Proposals for mandates have popped up from California to Connecticut since the first piece of legislation was introduced in September in Michigan. Michigan\'s bill was narrowly defeated last month. Lawmakers said the requirement would intrude on families\' privacy, even though, as in most states\' proposals, parents could opt out.</p><p>Even with such opt-out provisions, mandates take away parents\' rights to make medical decisions for their children, said Linda Klepacki of the Colorado-based evangelical organization Focus on the Family. The group contends the vaccine should be available for parents who want it, but not forced on those who don\'t.</p><p>But Texas Rep. Jessica Farrar said her proposal is aimed at protecting children whose parents are less informed about or less interested in preventive care.</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=\"/id/16892278/\">Vote: Should law require girls to get STD shot?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15958573/\">N.H. first state to offer girls free cancer vaccine</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/13206572/\">FDA approves first vaccine for cervical cancer</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?ThreadID=24162\" target=\"_blank\">Message board: Join the ongoing discussion</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>\"Not everybody has equal sets of parents,\" said Farrar, a Houston Democrat who had precancerous cells removed from her cervix several years ago. \"I think this is a public health issue and to not want to eradicate cervical cancer is irresponsible.\"</p><p>Drug-industry analyst Steve Brozak of W.B.B. Securities has projected Gardasil sales of at least $1 billion per year - and billions more if states start requiring the vaccine. \"I could not think of a bigger boost,\" he said.</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('1526','4','<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\">Why some women can\'t control their bladders</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Aging affects causes such as weight gain, prior pregnancies and diabetes</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>NEW YORK - A range of health and lifestyle factors can predispose middle-aged women to bladder-control problems, though the causes tend to shift with age, according to a new study.</p><p>Urinary incontinence is a common problem, particularly among women. But compared with older women, little has been known about the risk factors that contribute to incontinence in middle-aged women.</p><p>The new study included 3,300 U.S. women with an average age of 46 years. The researchers found that past pregnancies, diabetes, poor overall health and being overweight all seemed to raise the risk of incontinence.</p><p>However, each factor became more or less important over time, researchers report in the <em>American Journal of Epidemiology</em>. Past pregnancies, for example, were a risk factor for bladder-control problems at the start of the study, but not for cases that developed over the next five years.</p><p>On the other hand, excess weight was not a risk factor at the study\'s outset, but became more important over time, according to the study authors, led by Dr. L. Elaine Waetjen of the University of California, Davis.</p><p><b><strong>The study</strong></b><br>The women, between the ages of 42 and 52 years old, were participants in an earlier study in which they were followed for five years and questioned each year about their health, lifestyle and quality of life.</p><p>At the beginning of the study, nearly half of the women said they had urinary incontinence at least once a month. The increased risk at this time included having children, diabetes or benign growths in the uterus called uterine fibroids. Women who reported little support from family and friends - a source of psychological stress - were also at risk.</p><p>However, the risk factors were different for women who developed incontinence later in the study period, Waetjen and her colleagues report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.</p><p>For them, excess weight increased the risk of bladder-control problems, as did poor overall health and a tendency to be sensitive to bodily sensations, like cold and heat.</p><p>Throughout the study period, the women most often reported \"stress\" incontinence, in which urine leaks when the bladder is under pressure - from exercise, coughing or laughing, for example.</p><p>However, \"urge\" incontinence grew more common as the women aged; with this form of the disorder, people feel an overwhelming need to urinate, often before they can reach a bathroom.</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=\"/id/16790891/\">Less invasive fibroid treatment can be fine</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16814978/\">Fewer women are getting mammograms</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>African American women were particularly likely to develop urge continence during the five-year study period. Although African Americans had one of the lowest rates of incontinence at the outset, their rate of new cases during the follow-up was one of the highest.</p><p>This may, according to Waetjen\'s team, have to do with the higher rate of uterine fibroids among black women or their generally greater body weight.</p><p>The researchers conclude that risk factors for incontinence appear to change as women move through middle-age. That knowledge, they note, may help in treating the condition.</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('1527','6','	<p><!--Spanish ID:535220--> <p>THURSDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Better-educated patients with arthritis who are open to having surgery are most likely to have hip and knee joint replacement, Canadian researchers find.</p> <p>Income or gender were not decisive factors, according to the study, which appears in the October issue of the journal <i>Arthritis &amp; Rheumatism</i>.</p> <p>The researchers believe their findings underline the need for community-based education about arthritis treatments, including total joint arthroplasty (TJA).</p> <p>The study included over 2,100 people, ages 55 and older, with disabling osteoarthritis. At the start of the study, 48 percent of the patients had seen a doctor in the previous year for hip and/or knee problems, and 20 percent said they were willing to have TJA.</p> <p>After seven years, nearly 24 percent of the patients had undergone at least one TJA procedure. The rates of TJA were nearly the same for both rural (11.8 percent) and urban (12.1 percent) patients.</p> <p>The study found a significant correlation between higher education and TJA, however. It also found that among patients with similar levels of arthritis severity, TJA was nearly four times more common among those willing to consider the benefits of surgery compared with patients who were unwilling or unsure about the surgery.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has more about <a href=\"http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/arthritis/jointrep.htm\" target=\"_new\">joint replacement surgery</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1528','7','<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\">Subset of stem cells drives pancreatic cancer</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Findings opens new path for treating deadly disease</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>Researchers have discovered a small population of stem cells in pancreatic cancer that appear to drive tumor growth, opening the door for a potential new approach for treating this particularly deadly disease.</p><p>Writing in the journal Cancer Research Thursday, University of Michigan scientists said finding cancer stem cells in pancreatic tumors could lead to the development of drugs intended to target and kill these cells.</p><p>Scientists have toiled with little success to find better ways to treat cancer of the pancreas, which has the lowest survival rate of any major form of cancer.</p><p>It kills 97 percent of people diagnosed with it within five years - half within six months of diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer spreads quickly and is rarely is detected at an early stage. In the United States alone, it kills 33,000 people a year.</p><p>The pancreas is a gland located behind the stomach that secretes a digestive fluid and the hormone insulin.</p><p>\"The clinical implications of this work are significant,\" Dr. Diane Simeone, director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead author of the study, said in an interview.</p><p><b><strong>Potential for a cure<br></strong></b>\"We\'ve made baby steps in improving the survival in these patients - on the order of a few months (longer to live) - over the past decade or so. But we really haven\'t had a major breakthrough in coming up with something that has the potential to provide a cure,\" she said.</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=\"/id/16655715/\">Drug slows return of pancreatic cancer</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16657516/\">Unhealthy gums may hike risk of cancer</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16668688/\">Cancer deaths drop for 2nd straight year</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>Simeone said there is emerging evidence that within cancers, there is a small subset of cells that are responsible for the growth and propagation of tumors. The idea is that these cells with stem-cell characteristics - the ability to self-renew and differentiate into other cell types - are the ones fueling tumor formation.</p><p><b><strong>Yanking out by the root<br></strong></b>Killing these cancer stem cells is akin to yanking out the root of a weed, Simeone said.</p><p>Stem cells have been detected in other cancers, including leukemia and breast, brain, central nervous system and colon cancers.</p><p>Simeone\'s team took tissue samples from 10 pancreatic cancer patients. The samples then were divided and implanted into mice to grow new tumors to produce a bigger amount to be examined.</p><p>The researchers sorted millions of cancer cells to find those with one or more of three specific characteristics on their cell surface. It turned out that less than 1 percent fell into this category - the ones thought to be pancreatic cancer stem cells.</p><p>The researchers then demonstrated these cells aggressively drove tumor formation by injecting them into mice.</p><p>Some cancer experts believe the key to beating cancer is to target these stem cells. That would represent a different approach from the current one of shrinking tumors by killing as many cells as possible. The current approach may be flawed, these experts think, because cancer stem cells may resist standard therapies.</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('1529','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\">Only 1 in 4 kids cured after sleep apnea surgery</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Many may require additional treatments, such as an airway pressure mask</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>NEW YORK - Only about one quarter of children who have their tonsils and adenoids removed to relieve obstructive sleep apnea syndrome have a complete response, according to researchers.</p><p>\"We should not assume that all children undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy for obstructive sleep apnea will be cured,\" senior investigator Dr. David Gozal told Reuters Health. \"Only a small percentage will.\"</p><p>Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is when person wakes up repeatedly during the night because airways become blocked for brief periods and breathing stops, also referred to as apnea. The condition can lead to daytime sleepiness and impaired concentration.</p><p>In the Journal of Pediatrics, Gozal and colleagues at the University of Louisville, Kentucky describe their study of 110 children who were evaluated using a polysomnograph, a tool to detect sleep disorders, before and after the surgery was performed.</p><p>Following surgery, only 25 percent of the children had one or no episodes of breathing interruption per hour of sleep, 46 percent had as many as four episodes per hour; and 29 percent had five or more episodes per hour of sleep.</p><p>Five or more apnea episodes per hour were significantly more common in obese children than in non-obese children (36.4 percent versus 17.6 percent), and significantly fewer obese than non-obese children had one or no episodes per hour.</p><p>Overall, 25 percent of the children had complete normalization of sleep after surgery.</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 more children\'s health news</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=\"/id/16813053/\">FDA panel backs 5-in-1 childhood vaccine</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16581772/\">Cold remedies may 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>Given the relatively low response rate, Gozal said, \"it is important, and particularly so in more severe cases or in the presence of obesity, to repeat the sleep study after surgery to identify those children who may need additional interventions.\"</p><p>He suggests these might include treatment to reduce inflammation or continuous positive airway pressure, a procedure in which a face mask fitted over the nose is worn at bedtime to supply air pressure in the throat so the airways don\'t collapse when the patient inhales during sleep.</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('1530','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/3/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>LONDON, England</b> (AP)  -- Doctors shouldn\'t shy away from asking patients about their sex lives, a new research paper advises.</p><p>Researchers say problems in the bedroom can translate into serious medical conditions, and ignoring sexual dysfunction may mean missing early indicators for heart failure, depression or other ailments, according to a paper published in Friday\'s issue of The Lancet.</p><p>&quot;Sex is a legitimate part of medicine, but it has largely been kept separate from the rest of medicine,&quot; said Dr. Rosemary Basson, the paper\'s lead author. Basson is based at the British Columbia Centre for Sexual Medicine in Vancouver.</p><p>Basson and her co-author, Dr. Willibrord Weijmar Schultz of the University Medical Centre in Groningen, the Netherlands, examined numerous medical databases looking for sexual dysfunctions in combination with diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, depression, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson\'s. Many sexual problems were identified as possible red flags of underlying or imminent medical conditions.</p><p>&quot;If a man comes in with erectile dysfunction, it can be the tip of the iceberg,&quot; said Dr. Andrew McCullough, a sexual health expert at New York University Medical Center who was not connected to the paper.</p><p>Doctors are being increasingly advised to take the initiative to ask patients about their sex lives, including basic questions about who they have sex with, how frequently and if they engage in potentially risky behavior.</p><p>&quot;People aren\'t going to volunteer that kind of information unless they\'re specifically asked,&quot; said Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, chief of the infectious diseases division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, who was not involved with the research.</p><p>What patients often fail to realize, physicians say, is that sexual dysfunctions are often a symptom of something more serious.</p><p>For instance, men with erectile dysfunction, the most common sexual disorder in older men, are often at increased risk of heart disease. In one study of 132 men who had heart surgery, nearly half had a history of erectile dysfunction. That diagnosis preceded the heart surgery in nearly 60 percent of the men.</p><p>In women, picking up on sex clues is more difficult. &quot;Women don\'t have as obvious a physical signal for sexual problems as men,&quot; said Basson. But a woman\'s lack of sexual desire reveals an underlying depression in up to 26 percent of cases. Taken together with other symptoms, sexual abnormalities in women could point to hormone conditions, kidney failure, diabetes, or other chronic diseases.</p><p>By using sexual problems as early indicators of medical complications, doctors can capitalize on valuable lead time to treat their patients. &quot;The first manifestation of early diabetes could be erectile dysfunction,&quot; said Zenilman. &quot;It may not be what men want to hear, but if it\'s caught early enough, you can still do something about it.&quot;</p><p>In the case of depression, patients often go for years without being treated. If astute clinicians were able to make the connection between lack of sexual desire with psychiatric conditions such as depression or post-traumatic stress syndrome, patients could be offered treatment earlier, according to Zenilman.</p><p>Yet while sexual problems can be an indicator of poor health, the prospect of better sex may persuade people to lead healthier lives.</p><p>&quot;Sex can be used as a great carrot for people,&quot; said McCullough. &quot;People will be more willing to make lifestyle modifications to improve their health if they think they\'ll also get improved sex.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1531','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/15/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Cancer death rate for black people still much higher than whites, new report says<br> &#8226; Death rate 35 percent higher in black men,18 percent higher in black women <br> &#8226; Black people expected to be 63,000 of the 560,000 cancer deaths this year <br>  </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>WASHINGTON</b> (Reuters)  -- Black people still have a much higher death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the American Cancer Society said Thursday.</p><p>It said the cancer death rate in 2003 was 35 percent higher in black men and 18 percent higher in black women than in white men and women.</p><p>The report estimates that 153,000 of the 1.4 million people in whom cancer is diagnosed  in the United States in 2007 will be black, and 63,000 of the estimated 560,000 people who will die of the disease this year will be black.</p><p>&quot;Although African Americans have experienced high mortality rates from cancer for many years, the situation is improving (especially in men),&quot; the cancer society said in a statement.</p><p>&quot;The death rate from all cancers combined has decreased an average of 1.7 percent per year from 1995 to 2003 among African Americans, compared to 1 percent per year among whites from 1992 to 2003.&quot;</p><p>Yet black people have the highest death rate of any racial and ethnic group for all cancers combined and for most major cancers. Death rates from prostate cancer are 2.4 times higher in black men compared with white men, and breast cancer death rates are 1.4 times higher among black women.</p><p>&quot;African Americans are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage when there are fewer and less effective treatment options,&quot; the cancer society said.</p><p>&quot;Access to insurance and health care as well as health education play an important role in one\'s health, but a lot of African Americans do not have access to these tools,&quot; said Dr. Durado Brooks, the American Cancer Society\'s director of prostate and colorectal cancers.</p><p>Obesity, a lack of exercise and poor diet can raise a person\'s risk of cancer. Seventy-six percent of black adults are considered overweight and 45 percent are considered obese. In comparison, 60 percent of the general population is overweight.</p><p>The American Cancer Society reported this month that about 3,000 fewer people died from cancer from 2003 to 2004, showing a sustained decline in cancer deaths.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1532','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/15/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>WASHINGTON</b> (Reuters)  -- There\'s more bad news for those pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees -- and this time it really hits them where it hurts.</p><p>A study published Thursday found that about 18 percent of U.S. men age 20 and up suffer from erectile dysfunction -- and the condition is strongly linked to a sedentary lifestyle of little physical exercise, poor diet and lots of television.</p><p>Not surprisingly, the condition was most common in older men. But there was a strikingly high prevalence in men with diabetes and high blood pressure.</p><p>&quot;This really means that staying active -- moving more and eating less -- and staying healthy, in addition to being good for your cardiovascular health may also be good for your sexual health,&quot; said epidemiologist Elizabeth Selvin of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the study, in an interview.</p><p>&quot;It\'s just another reason to get off the couch and exercise,&quot; Selvin added.</p><p>The study in the American Journal of Medicine sought to get a sense of the prevalence of erectile dysfunction, formerly called impotence, in what Selvin called &quot;the post-Viagra era.&quot;</p><p>The U.S. government approved Pfizer Inc.\'s Viagra in 1998 as the first pill for erectile dysfunction -- the inability to attain an adequate penile erection for satisfactory sexual activity.</p><p>The arrival of Viagra not only provided a treatment option, but boosted awareness of the formerly taboo subject and made it more acceptable to discuss.</p><p>The study estimated that 18.4 percent of U.S. men age 20 and older -- about 18 million -- have the condition. Among those ages 20-39, 5.1 percent had it; ages 40-59, 14.8 percent; ages 60-69, 43.8 percent; and age 70 and older 70.2 percent.</p><p>Half of the men in the study who had diabetes also had erectile dysfunction. Nearly 90 percent of men with erectile dysfunction had risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including diabetes, high blood pressure, poor cholesterol levels or smoking, the study found.</p><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>TV watching</h3><p>Men who watched three or more hours of TV per day were much more likely to have erectile dysfunction than men who watched less than an hour per day. And men with erectile dysfunction were less likely to have done vigorous physical activity in the previous 30 days than other men.</p><p>Selvin said there are two clear messages from the findings. One is that lifestyle changes -- losing weight, exercising more and eating healthier foods -- may be very effective in warding off erectile dysfunction rather than merely relying on a pill.</p><p>&quot;By making lifestyle changes now, you can prevent this decline in sexual function,&quot; Selvin said.</p><p>The other message, she said, is for doctors to be more aggressive in screening and managing their middle-aged and older patients for this common quality-of-life issue.</p><p>Selvin and colleagues Arthur Burnett and Elizabeth Platz based their findings on data from 2,126 men who took part in a broad national health and nutrition survey whose participants were representative of the general U.S. population.</p><p>Men who said they were &quot;never able&quot; or &quot;sometimes able&quot; to maintain an erection were listed as having erectile dysfunction. Those who said they were &quot;always or almost always able&quot; or &quot;usually able&quot; were not.</p><p>The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1533','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/16/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Braces may fix your teeth, but probably not your self-esteem, study says<br> &#8226; British researchers followed more than 300 kids for 20 years, into adulthood<br> &#8226; Adult self-esteem far more dependent on quality of life than on orthodontics<br>  </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>NEW YORK</b> (Reuters)  -- Braces may straighten crooked teeth, but they\'re unlikely to alter your self-esteem and satisfaction with life, according to researchers.</p><p>In a 20-year study that followed more than 300 British children into adulthood, researchers found that those who\'d had their imperfect smiles corrected with braces were not happier or psychologically healthier than their peers who went without braces.</p><p>Self-esteem in adulthood, the study found, was far more dependent on quality of life and similar factors than on orthodontics.</p><p>&quot;This runs contrary to the widespread belief among dentists that orthodontic treatment improves psychological well-being, for which there is very little evidence,&quot; study co-author Dr. William C. Shaw, an orthodontist at the University Dental Hospital of Manchester, England, said in a statement.</p><p>He and his colleagues report their findings in the British Journal of Health Psychology.</p><p>In 1981, the study enrolled 1,018 children between 11 and 12 years old who had their dental health and psychological well-being evaluated. The children\'s teeth were examined, but the researchers made no recommendations on whether they should get braces.</p><p>Twenty years later, the researchers were able to re-evaluate 337 of the original participants.</p><p>They found that the subjects who needed braces as children, and eventually got them, did not appear to be enjoying greater mental health. There was also no evidence that children who failed to have their teeth fixed suffered any long-term psychological damage.</p><p>When it came to self-esteem, Shaw\'s team found, study participants\' teeth made little difference. General satisfaction with life, emotional well-being and levels of depression and anxiety were much more important to their self-esteem, according to the researchers.</p><p>Braces can improve a person\'s smile, and that may make a difference in teenagers\' feelings of self-worth in the short-term, the study authors note.</p><p>However, they conclude, &quot;by adulthood other psychological and social factors are of greater significance for the maintenance of general health and psychological well-being.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#Reuters\">Reuters</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1534','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  Elizabeth Cohen<br> CNN</div><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p>(CNN) -- When Jean Horgan complained of heart palpitations, her doctor told her it was just nerves. </p><p>&quot;I was told, \'Go home and take tranquilizers. You\'ll be fine, you\'re under stress.\' &quot; </p><p>Much later, another doctor -- one specializing in women\'s health -- ordered an echocardiogram, an ultrasound test of her heart. The EKG showed Horgan had a heart condition, and she needed medication. </p><p>When Phyllis Cruz went to the emergency room, she told the nurse she felt as if she was having a heart attack. She said the nurse didn\'t believe her. </p><p>&quot;I said to her, \'But I have pain, chest pain. I can\'t breathe.\' She said, \'Well, there\'s a lot of people here. Sit down.\' &quot; </p><p>Six hours later, Cruz also was given an EKG. It turned out she did have a heart attack. </p><p>Eventually Cruz turned to Nieca Goldberg, a New York cardiologist who specializes in women. Her patients\' biggest complaint is that their doctors haven\'t taken them seriously. </p><p>&quot;And you know what? Most of the time they\'re right,&quot; said Goldberg, author of &quot;The Women\'s Healthy Heart Program.&quot; </p><p>Statistics bear Goldberg out. &quot;Research shows that women may not be diagnosed or treated as aggressively as men,&quot; says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p><p>For example, even though more women than men die of heart disease each year, women receive 33 percent of all angioplasties, stents and bypass surgeries; 28 percent of implantable defibrillators; and 36 percent of open-heart surgeries, according to the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.</p><p>These figures may help explain why 75 percent of men survive a first heart attack, while only 62 percent of women do, according to the American Heart Association. </p><p>The National Institutes of Health and other groups aim to change these statistics by raising awareness with events such as Friday\'s National Wear Red Day.</p><p>They\'ll be calling for more research on women and heart disease, since  about 25 percent of subjects in cardiac studies are female. And according to a new report from the Mayo Clinic, most of these studies don\'t segregate statistics by gender, so it\'s hard to learn much about women and heart disease. That\'s a key factor because the disease acts differently in men from the way it does in women.</p><p>First lady Laura Bush, an ambassador for the National Institutes of Health\'s heart awareness program, is scheduled to take part Friday in the fifth annual Red Dress Collection fashion show in New York. A part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the event brings out celebrity models in red dresses from American designers. </p><p>Much of National Wear Red Day\'s purpose is to change attitudes. The event seems to be making some inroads. According to a 2005 survey, 55 percent of American women were aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women, up from 34 percent in 2000. </p><p>But the question remains: Are doctors changing? </p><p>Goldberg recalled that when she was in medical school, &quot;They showed us a picture of the typical patient with heart disease, and it was a middle-aged businessman, clutching his chest.&quot; </p><p>Perhaps now medical students will see a photo of a woman in a red dress.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1535','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/4/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Doctors nationwide refusing to stock new cervical cancer vaccine <br> &#8226; Price, lack of insurance reimbursement cited as key obstacles<br> &#8226; Texas governor orders all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated<br>  </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><!--startclickprintexclude--><div id=\"cnnSCFontLabel\">Adjust font size:</div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontMinusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'default\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.minus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Decrease font\" title=\"Decrease font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div>\n<div id=\"cnnSCFontPlusBtn\" onclick=\"setActiveStyleSheet(\'LargeFont\'); return false;\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnIncreaseFont\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/icon.plus.dim.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"18\" alt=\"Enlarge font\" title=\"Enlarge font\" class=\"cnnDecreaseFont\"></div><!--endclickprintexclude--></div><p><b>TRENTON, New Jersey</b> (AP)  -- Girls jumping rope chant &quot;one less, one less,&quot; in TV commercials for the new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, vowing they will be one less cancer patient.</p><p>But in the real world, Gardasil is getting used less than doctors would like. Pediatricians and gynecologists from Arizona to New York are refusing to stock Gardasil because of its $360 price for the three doses required and &quot;totally inadequate&quot; reimbursement from most insurers.</p><p>Pediatricians, in particular, are rebelling, fed up after years of declining insurance reimbursement for vaccines, an explosion of new vaccines and fast-escalating vaccine prices. (<a href=\"/2007/HEALTH/conditions/02/02/tx.cervical.cancer.ap/index.html\">Texas governor orders girls to be vaccinated.</a> )</p><p>Many practices must tie up $50,000 or more in vaccine inventory, run multiple refrigerators, insure the vaccines and spend lots of time on inventory management. They also must absorb the cost of broken or wasted vials and say that\'s not possible with most insurers reimbursing at just $2 to $15 over the $120 per dose charged by Gardasil\'s developer, Merck &amp; Co. of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.</p><p>&quot;Doctors are drawing a line in the sand on this. They\'re either not giving it or requiring a surcharge,&quot; said Dr. Daniel Schwartz of Broadway Pediatrics Associates in Westport, New Jersey, which charges patients a $25 surcharge per shot.</p><p>Dr. Jill Stoller of Chestnut Ridge Pediatric Associates in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, said the inadequate insurance reimbursement for Gardasil is keeping &quot;a wonderful new vaccine&quot; from many patients.</p><p>&quot;It really is a shame,&quot; said Stoller, who also assesses a surcharge.</p><p>Pediatricians and gynecologists at solo and large group private practices contacted by The Associated Press said they would, at best, break even if they stocked the vaccine. Most will give patients a prescription to get filled and bring back, but that could cost patients far more.</p><p>&quot;I don\'t know where to turn,&quot; said Julie Falco, a Marlboro, New York, elementary school teacher trying to get her 13- and 15-year-old daughters vaccinated.</p><p>Her pediatrician, Dr. Herschel Lessin told her his 20-doctor Children\'s Medical Group in Poughkeepsie, New York, can\'t afford to stock Gardasil.</p><p>Lessin said insurers paying their executives millions won\'t give him $25 to cover his costs, but will spend tens of thousands if a patient develops cervical cancer.</p><p>His practice will provide prescriptions but warned Falco her insurer might not reimburse her and pharmacies might mark each dose up to $200. Falco then tried her gynecologist, who sent her back to the pediatrician.</p><p>&quot;I still don\'t have the shot and now I have to decide whether I want to make a $1,200 investment to get them vaccinated,&quot; she said. &quot;I really don\'t want to deny them what I think is right.&quot;</p><p>Dr. Michael Blum, senior partner in a big pediatric practice in suburban Kansas City, said it only provides Gardasil to patients who pay $450 up front, then tries to get insurance reimbursement for them. Only a half-dozen patients have done so.</p><p>Dr. Kathleen Moore of AppleTree Pediatrics in Tyler, Texas, said as a solo practitioner she not only can\'t stock Gardasil but can\'t afford it for her own 12- and 13-year-old daughters. When she explains the situation to patients, &quot;they all say \'We\'ll be happy to wait,\' because they can\'t afford to pay for it either.&quot;</p><p>Girls should get the vaccine before they are sexually active, say medical groups representing pediatricians, gynecologists and cancer specialists. That\'s because Gardasil, launched last June, prevents cervical cancer by blocking infection from the two strains of human papilloma virus -- a common sexually transmitted disease _ that cause most cervical cancer. It also protects against genital warts.</p><p>Experts recommend routinely vaccinating 11- and 12-year-old girls, who get other shots then, and say Gardasil can be given to girls as young as 9 and as a catch-up for those 13 to 18.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration has approved it for females up to age 26. Merck is conducting tests on older women and boys.</p><p>Some pediatricians say many gynecologists just don\'t want to deal with Gardasil.</p><p>Dr. Joseph Piacente of Mesa Pediatrics in Arizona said his practice hopes to be able to afford to start stocking Gardasil by summer, but two gynecology practices nearby tell him they won\'t handle it.</p><p>With many 18- to 26-year-old women uninsured, gynecologist Dr. Rhoda Sperling at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York said only about half her patients who are not in long-term monogamous relationships are getting Gardasil.</p><p>Only a few of Planned Parenthood\'s 860-plus U.S. health centers offer Gardasil so far, but the federal Vaccines for Children program recently sent just over 1.3 million doses to states for girls covered by Medicaid or state-subsidized children\'s health insurance.</p><p>Doctors say manufacturer Merck should do more to help, given that Gardasil is the most expensive vaccine ever. They say it gives them a couple months to pay but not the customary discount for ordering multiple vaccines.</p><p>Merck, which notes Gardasil is covered by 96 percent of insurance plans, recently added Gardasil and its other adult vaccines to its patient assistance program, but only about 800 doses total were given away in the last three months of 2006.</p><p>The American Academy of Pediatrics says insurers should be paying at least 17 percent over a vaccine\'s price to cover all costs, and it is talking with insurers to win higher reimbursements.</p><p>Two have agreed.</p><p>Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, New Jersey\'s biggest insurer, now gives $150 per dose plus a $21.50 administration fee -- for staff time and office overhead, plus supplies and syringe disposal.</p><p>Cigna HealthCare said it raised reimbursement &quot;significantly&quot; on Jan. 15 in most markets but would not disclose any figures. Doctors said it had been paying only $120 per dose.</p><p>A spokesman for the trade group America\'s Health Insurance Plans said patients whose doctors aren\'t stocking Gardasil should check with their insurer to see if there\'s another way to get it.</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2007 The <a href=\"/interactive_legal.html#AP\">Associated Press</a>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1536','1','\n\n\n	 <p>CONNIE ARAPS, 57, of Delray Beach, Fla., thought that her father, Tom Araps, 87, was managing just fine on his own. But when he came to stay with her for a few months in 2005, she found that he was skipping meals, sleeping all morning and not taking daily walks. </p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n<h3 class=\"promo\">Multimedia</h3><div class=\"story\">\r\n<div class=\"callout\">\r\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html\"><IMG\r\nsrc=\"http://herald.em.nytimes.com/design/podcast-video/flat/weekendbusiness75.jpg\"></a>\r\n</div>\r\n<h5>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html\">\r\nPodcast:\r\nWeekend Business\r\n</a>\r\n</h5>\r\n<p class=\"summary\">\r\nReporters and editors from The Times\'s Sunday Business section offer\r\nperspective on the week in business and beyond.\r\n</p>\r\n<ul class=\"refer\">\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html#instructions\">How\r\nto Subscribe</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/04/business/04elder.2.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"149\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\"></div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nAn iCare device is meant to help prevent a crisis by recording answers to questions. The answers can be viewed online. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>To satisfy her father? desire to live alone, but to ease her mind about his safety, Ms. Araps found an apartment for him less than a mile from her home and had it equipped with QuietCare, a home health alarm system provided by ADT Security Services. </p><p>She drops by his apartment often, and logs into a Web site several times a day to check on him. Motion sensors track how often Mr. Araps opens the refrigerator, when he gets out of bed and how long he stays in the bathroom. If his normal patterns vary, the alarm company alerts her.</p><p> One day, the company called her to say that no one had entered or left the apartment all day. It turned out that a home health aide had failed to show up, and her father had not received his <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/diabetes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about diabetes.\">diabetes</a> medication. Ms. Araps rushed over and made sure that her father took his pills. </p><p>?e are so pleased with all the technology,?she said. ? don? think we would have let him live alone without it.?On the market since August, the QuietCare system costs $199 to install, and monitoring starts at $79.95 a month. In addition to the QuietCare system, Ms. Araps had the alarm company install video cameras showing the floors and the foot of her father? bed, so she could see if he had fallen. </p><p>About 19 million Americans, aside from paid providers, are caring for someone over the age of 75, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving. With the number of older Americans growing rapidly, products and services to help adult children care for their parents are on the rise.</p><p> Some products, like QuietCare, use existing alarm technology. Other systems collect health information like <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/bloodpressure/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about blood pressure.\">blood pressure</a>, weight and medication use and transmit it to adult children or other care providers via the Web. In addition, the emerging profession of geriatric care management is making it possible for family members to delegate various care duties. </p><p>Nursing homes have been using health alarm systems like QuietCare for several years, and a few allow family members to view data remotely. ? have a button on my browser that says, ?here? Pop,??said Barry Jacobson, 61, whose 83-year-old father has <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/alzheimers/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about Alzheimer\'s.\">Alzheimer?</a> disease and lives at Oatfield Estates, a retirement community in Milwaukie, Ore. </p><p>Mr. Jacobson, who lives 300 miles away on San Juan Island off the coast of Washington, can log on at any time to see his father? whereabouts. Because all residents and staff wear badges that emit a digital signal, he can tell exactly where his father is and who else is in the room. </p><p>?y sister in San Diego logged on at midnight one night and saw he was in the kitchen,?he said. ?e always was a big ice cream eater.?Elite Care, the company that owns Oatfield Estates, plans to introduce a home version of its technology this year. </p><p>Mr. Jacobson knows that a staff of care providers is monitoring his father? data, ready to respond instantly to problems. The level of responsiveness varies, however, with home-based monitoring systems.</p><p> Potential buyers ?eed to do their due diligence on companies to make sure they have the capacity on the other end to respond to the information,?said Robyn I. Stone, executive director of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services, the research arm of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. </p><p>QuietCare uses a 24-hour call center staffed with operators trained to help the elderly in emergencies. Family care providers define emergency situations ?a parent staying in the bathroom for more than an hour, for example, or not opening the medicine cabinet all day. They instruct the system when and whom to call, or to send a text or e-mail message.</p><p> Another system, SeniorSafe@Home, to be introduced in the fall, will staff its call center with nurses who will monitor data from a combination of motion sensors, electronic medication dispensers and fall detectors. </p><p>A system called iCare Health Monitoring uses a very different model. It is not meant to serve as an emergency alarm system. Instead, it tries to prevent emergencies by allowing care providers, family members and older people themselves keep track of specific health data, like blood pressure, weight or medications use. Nurses monitor the system, but not around the clock. </p><p>Using a small electronic device with a text screen and four input buttons, the system asks a series of daily multiple-choice questions about an older person? health. Family members or other care providers can view the answers online and look for any telltale changes in health. Available through <a href=\"http://www.cvs.com\" target=\"_\">www.cvs.com</a> and some <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=CVS\" title=\"CVS\">CVS</a> pharmacy stores since July, the system costs $99 to install and $49.95 a month for monitoring. </p><p>Alberta Jackson, 78, of Aurora, Colo., who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, uses iCare to track her lung function every day. She spends about eight minutes a day answering questions. Once when she responded that she was not feeling well, a nurse called within minutes to check on her. </p><p>?t makes me feel like there? somebody on my shoulder, making sure I? 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1537','1','\n\n\n	 <p>WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 ?More and more Medicare beneficiaries would have to pay higher premiums for coverage of prescription drugs and doctors?services under President Bush? 2008 budget, to be unveiled on Monday.</p>      <p>Single people with annual incomes over $80,000 and married couples with incomes over $160,000 already have to pay higher premiums for the part of Medicare that covers doctors?services. The income thresholds rise with inflation.</p><p>Budget documents show that Mr. Bush will propose a similar surcharge on premiums for Medicare? new prescription drug benefit. In addition, the president will ask Congress to ?liminate annual indexing of income thresholds,?so that more people would eventually have to pay the higher premiums.</p><p>The proposal, expected to raise $10 billion over the next five years, is one of many advanced by Mr. Bush in a $2.8 trillion budget that aims to eliminate the deficit by 2012.</p><p>In his budget request, Mr. Bush expresses alarm about what he calls ?he unsustainable growth of federal entitlement programs,?and he proposes savings in Medicare and Medicaid that far surpass what he or any other president has sought.</p><p>The president contends that he can make the rule changes without any action by Congress. But Congress could try to block some or all of the changes.</p><p>Democrats immediately denounced the proposals. ?his is exactly the wrong approach,?said Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton.\">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a> of New York, who cited the proposals as evidence of what she called ?he president? misplaced priorities.?/p><p>Many <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Republican Party\">Republicans</a> like the idea of an ?ncome-related premium,?saying affluent beneficiaries can afford to pay a larger share of Medicare? costs. Democrats are divided. Some see it as a progressive way to finance the program. But others say it is fundamentally at odds with the idea of social insurance, and they fear that it could prompt some wealthy people to leave Medicare.</p><p>Administration officials said earlier this week that Mr. Bush would ask Congress to squeeze more than $70 billion from Medicare and Medicaid over five years. But the budget documents show that the actual figure is much larger: $101.5 billion of savings over five years.</p><p>The president? budget includes legislative proposals that would save $78.6 billion over the next five years ?$65.6 billion in Medicare and $13 billion in Medicaid.</p><p>In addition, the budget documents say that Mr. Bush will propose changes in federal regulations to save $22.9 billion more over the next five years: $10.2 billion in Medicare and $12.7 billion in Medicaid. </p><p>Lobbyists for hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers plan a huge campaign to kill the president? proposals, which they say will ultimately harm beneficiaries.</p><p>Mr. Bush said his proposals would just slow the programs?growth. ?ur budget reduces Medicare? average annual growth rate over five years to 5.6 percent, from 6.5 percent,?Mr. Bush said, while Medicaid would grow 7.1 percent a year, instead of 7.3 percent.</p><p>In the past, Mr. Bush has proposed trimming Medicare payments to health care providers for a few years, but now he proposes to make the cutbacks permanent, so that hospitals and nursing homes would never receive a full update for inflation. </p><p>For the Children? Health Insurance Program, Mr. Bush requests $5.4 billion in 2008, a reduction of $223 million, or 4 percent, from this year? level. Beyond the current levels of spending, the White House is seeking an ?dditional allotment?of $5 billion over the next five years, which is less than half of what would be needed to maintain coverage for children currently enrolled.</p><p>Mr. Bush said he wanted to return the program to its ?riginal objective?of covering children with family incomes less than twice the poverty level. Budget documents note that 16 states cover children above that level, and ?ne state, New Jersey, covers children up to 350 percent of the federal poverty level.?A family of four is considered poor if its annual income is less than $20,650. </p><p>In a visit to the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_institutes_of_health/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about National Institutes of Health, U.S.\">National Institutes of Health</a> last month, Mr. Bush said, ?he N.I.H. is one of America? greatest assets, and it needs to be nourished,?adding, ?t makes sense to spend taxpayers?money on <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/cancer/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about cancer.\">cancer</a> research.?/p><p>But the president? budget for biomedical research is basically flat. He is requesting $28.9 billion for the health institutes in 2008, an increase of $232 million, or less than 1 percent. For the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_cancer_institute/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about National Cancer Institute\">National Cancer Institute</a>, Mr. Bush is requesting $4.8 billion, which is $9 million less than this year? level.</p><p>To fight childhood <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/obesity/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about obesity.\">obesity</a>, Mr. Bush asks Congress to set aside $17 million for a new program to promote ?ealthy behavior?among adolescents. But at the same time, he asks Congress to eliminate the preventive health services block grant, which provides $99 million a year to help states prevent obesity and other chronic conditions.</p><p>Mr. Bush proposes an 18 percent cut in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides $2.2 billion to help people pay heating bills this year. At a time of high fuel prices, many lawmakers are likely to resist the cut.</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1538','1','\n\n\n	 <p>The beautiful and deeply religious Madame de Tourvel is so distraught after cheating on her husband in the 1782 novel ?es Liaisons Dangereuses?that she blacks out the betrayal altogether, arriving at a convent with no idea of what had brought her there. Soon the horror of the infidelity rushes back, in all its incriminating force. </p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"enlargeThis\"><a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA0.ready.html\', \'03memo_CA0_ready\', \'width=423,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">Enlarge This Image</a></div>\n<a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA0.ready.html\', \'03memo_CA0_ready\', \'width=423,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA0.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"243\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Art Resource</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nAn 1849 painting of King Lear. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n  \n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"enlargeThis\"><a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA1.ready.html\', \'03memo_CA1_ready\', \'width=720,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">Enlarge This Image</a></div>\n<a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA1.ready.html\', \'03memo_CA1_ready\', \'width=720,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/03/arts/03memo_CA1.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"117\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Photofest</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nMichelle Pfeiffer as Madame de Tourvel in the 1988 film &#147;Dangerous Liaisons,&#148; with John Malkovich. \n</p>\n</div>\n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>More than two centuries later, she has become part of a longstanding debate about whether the brain can block access to painful memories, like betrayals and childhood sexual abuse, and suddenly release them later on. </p><p>In a paper posted online in the current issue of the journal Psychological Medicine, a team of psychiatrists and literary scholars reports that it could not find a single account of repressed memory, fictional or not, before the year 1800. </p><p>The researchers offered a $1,000 reward last March to anyone who could document such a case in a healthy, lucid person. They posted the challenge in newspapers and on 30 Web sites where the topic might be discussed. None of the responses were convincing, the authors wrote, suggesting that repressed memory is a ?ulture-bound syndrome?and not a natural process of human memory. </p><p>Madame de Tourvel ?s the closest we got to a winner,?said Dr. Harrison Pope, a professor of psychiatry at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/harvard_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Harvard University.\">Harvard</a> and the lead author of the paper. But her amnesia, he said, was too brief to qualify. </p><p>The researchers hypothesized that if a natural ability to repress memories were hard-wired into the human brain, then such a thing would surely have occurred in medical or fictional literature before the 19th century, when novelists began using it as a plot device. </p><p> ?his is such a graphic phenomenon that you would expect to find many allusions to it, and not merely oblique ones,?Dr. Pope said.</p><p>The finding, while adding a literary dimension to a mostly scientific debate, may only inflame both sides. Dr. Pope and a co-author, Dr. James I. Hudson of Harvard, have long been skeptical of repressed memory, while others argue that it is real, at least in some cases. </p><p>?t looks to me like they had an answer in mind before they did the study and found what they were looking for,?said Dr. David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/stanford_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Stanford University\">Stanford University</a> School of Medicine. Dr. Spiegel has submitted a rebuttal to the journal, citing links between trauma and forgetfulness in Greek literature.</p><p>The so-called memory wars peaked in the 1980s, when some patients in therapy described long-lost scenes of abuse, often at the hands of their parents. Books and news articles dramatized the experience, and some charges turned into high- profile court cases. The debate died down in the 1990s, after experts raised questions about many claims, but it has revived in recent years, largely because of the sexual abuse scandal in the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the Roman Catholic Church.\">Roman Catholic Church</a>. </p><p>The authors of the new paper report that they received ?ore than 100?responses to their challenge. Euripides?Heracles, in a fit of madness, murders his wife and children, but forgets the incident after suffering an injury. In Shakespeare, King Lear at first does not recognize his daughter Cordelia when he awakens disoriented in the French camp. In some versions of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, the immortal monkey Hanuman forgets that he possesses supernatural powers. </p><p>But none of these adventures fit the authors?strict criteria: a healthy person blacks out a specific traumatic event, only to retrieve it a year or more later. Madame de Tourvel? experience ?submitted by Richard J. McNally, a Harvard psychologist and a repressed-memory skeptic ?may offer ?he first glimmering of a concept?that arose during the Romantic era in the 1800s, later took hold in the writings of Freud and eventually provided a staple in Hollywood movies, Dr. Pope said. </p><p>David Bromwich, a professor of English at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/y/yale_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Yale University.\">Yale</a> and author of ?isowned by Memory: Wordsworth? Poetry in the 1790s?(University of Chicago Press), disavowed any special expertise on the memory debate. But he said the Romantic period ?as full of poets and others saying that the mind works by a combination of invention and re-creation of material from half-forgotten memories.?</p><p>The scientific dispute is over what constitutes normal forgetting. Studies show that healthy people usually remember frightening or dangerous incidents more vividly than other experiences: the brain preserves these impressions because they are important for survival. But those who believe in the brain? ability actively to repress say this system may break down if the memory is too upsetting. </p><p>?r. Pope is famous for saying trauma is memorable, but when he is presented with cases of forgetting trauma ?as in the 101 cases in my Web site ?his answer is that they are normal forgetting,?Ross E. Cheit, a political scientist at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brown_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Brown University\">Brown University</a> who runs the site <a href=\"http://recoveredmemory.org\" target=\"_\">recoveredmemory.org</a>, said in an e-mail message. </p><p>Dr. McNally replied that even if a once vivid memory has not surfaced in years, that does not mean it has been actively repressed. </p><p>For example, he said, a child might initially be more confused than upset upon receiving sexual advances from a relative. The brain stores the memory, stuffed into a neural drawer with a thousand other mysteries of childhood, until years later, when the repulsiveness of the act suddenly hits the person, now an adult. </p><p>?t? not repression; it? just that the person hasn? thought about it in many years, hasn? appreciated how reprehensible it was,?Dr. McNally said. The notion of repressed memory, he went on, is a ?ulturally provided narrative to account for the fact that the memory is now retrospectively reappraised as traumatic.?/p><p>The researchers said they were still fielding suggestions at <a href=\"http://biopsychlab.com\" target=\"_\">biopsychlab.com</a>.</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1539','1','\n\n\n	 <p>In 1796, an English country doctor named Edward Jenner successfully immunized a child against <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/smallpox/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about smallpox.\">smallpox</a>, the world? deadliest infectious disease. His experiment, ?n Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae?(or ?mallpox of the cow? added the word ?a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/vaccinationandimmunization/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about vaccination and immunization.\">vaccination</a>?to our vocabulary. News of Jenner? stunning achievement led millions throughout Europe to roll up their sleeves. Napoleon, Britain? mortal enemy, had his troops vaccinated before taking the field. ?h, Jenner,?he supposedly said after freeing two English prisoners at the doctor? request, ? can withhold nothing from that man.?/p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n<div id=\"sectionPromo\">\n<NYT_PF_INLINE>\n<div class=\"story\"><h4>\r\nVACCINE\r\n</h4>\r\n<h5>\r\nThe Controversial Story of Medicine? Greatest Lifesaver.\r\n</h5>\r\n<p class=\"summary\">\r\nBy Arthur Allen.\r\n</p>\r\n<p class=\"summary\">\r\nIllustrated. 523 pp. W. W. Norton. $27.95.\r\n</p></div>\r\n\n</NYT_PF_INLINE>\n</div>\n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/opinion/25allen.html\" >Op-Ed Contributor: For the Good of the Herd</a>\n\n(January 25, 2007)\n</h2>\n</div>\n<div id=\"inlineReadersOpinion\">\n<h4>Readers&#8217; Opinions</h4>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<h2>\n<a href=\"http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/books/booknewsandreviews/index.html?page=recent\">Forum: Book News and Reviews</a>\n</h2>\n<p class=\"summary\"></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n    \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Yet, as Arthur Allen makes clear in ?accine,?a timely, fair-minded and crisply written account of ?edicine? greatest lifesaver,?not everyone welcomed Jenner? feat. Criticism came quickly, often in apocalyptic terms. The economist Thomas Malthus wrote that vaccination might lead to dangerous population increases. Ministers warned against interfering with the Lord? grand design. Others, meanwhile, objected to a process that injected foreign, perhaps poisonous, matter into the body. What possible good could come from polluting the bloodstream of a child?</p><p>For vaccine supporters, the answer was simple. Vaccination saved lives by stimulating the immune system to create protective antibodies against disease. The process wasn? foolproof, they agreed, and the hazards were real. Vaccines could be contaminated with deadly bacteria; some were too weak to be effective, others so strong they could kill. Yet in a world where millions were dying needlessly from smallpox, this seemed a small price to pay. Vaccination, like other great discoveries, involved risk and reward. </p><p>Antivaccine sentiment found fertile soil in the United States, where the ethos of individual responsibility often clashed with public health programs based on collective norms. As Allen notes, Americans remained suspicious of calls for mandatory vaccination. Indeed, one of the potent symbols of the early antivaccine movement was the limp ?aggedy Ann?doll, created in 1915 by a man whose daughter had died shortly after being vaccinated at school without parental consent. Authorities blamed a heart defect; her parents blamed the shot. </p><p>What kept vaccine opponents on the defensive, however, were the rapid breakthroughs in medicine and public health. Jenner? triumph was followed by a procession of other vaccines, for rabies, tetanus, yellow fever, diphtheria and more. A healthier diet, advances in sanitation and surgery, the development of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/antibiotics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about antibiotics.\">antibiotics</a> and DDT ?all combined to increase the average American life expectancy to 70 years from 47 between 1900 and 1955. </p><p>Allen sees two events in these years as crucial to the growing public acceptance of vaccines. When America went to war in 1941 following Pearl Harbor, the health of the troops became a primary concern. Determined to prevent the medical casualties of World War I, where the number of American soldiers killed by <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/influenza/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about influenza.\">influenza</a> (44,000) almost matched the number lost in battle (50,000), military officials made vaccination mandatory. ?es, the shots hurt and even caused illness sometimes, but the soldier survived,?Allen writes. ?eturning from the war he wanted his children to have the same protection.?/p><p>World War II made vaccination fashionable. <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/poliomyelitis/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about polio.\">Polio</a> turned it into a national crusade. No disease drew as much attention in postwar America, or created as much fear. Primarily striking children, polio killed some of its victims and paralyzed others, leaving behind vivid reminders for all to see: wheelchairs, leg braces, iron lungs, deformed limbs. The quest for a means of prevention led to the largest public health experiment in American history, involving nearly two million school-age volunteers. When Jonas Salk? killed-virus polio vaccine was declared ?afe, effective and potent?in 1955, the nation celebrated as if a war had ended ?and, indeed, one had. At a White House ceremony, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/dwight_david_eisenhower/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Dwight David Eisenhower.\">President Eisenhower</a> choked back tears as he told the young researcher: ? have no words to thank you. I am very, very happy.?/p><p>The polio vaccines of Salk and Albert Sabin marked a special moment in medical history. As late as the 1950s, parents had been encouraged to expose their children to diseases like <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/measles/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about measles.\">measles</a>, mumps and chicken pox in order to get them over with before adulthood, when the dangers increased. Now, there were vaccines for all these illnesses, and more were on the way. Some researchers spoke openly of a future without infectious disease. ?ill such a world exist??a scientist asked. ?e believe so.?/p><p>In our current age of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/aids/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about AIDS/HIV.\">AIDS</a>, Ebola and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/avianinfluenza/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about avian influenza.\">avian flu</a>, one marvels at the arrogance of these words. Nature remains a full step ahead. For Allen, growing fears of vaccination in the decades after Salk? triumph are partly a function of these heightened expectations. But more important, he thinks, was the general fallout from catastrophes like Watergate and Vietnam, which undermined institutional authority across the board. By 1980, the days of deferring to the expertise of doctors and researchers, pharmaceutical companies and federal bureaucrats, were long gone in the United States ?and unlikely to return. The public? portrait of a medical researcher had turned from the selfless and independent Salk working on behalf of children to that of a lab-coated lackey from a drug giant conspiring to hide the dangers of products that are slickly marketed and wildly overpriced.</p><p>In terms of vaccination, the Watergate moment occurred in 1982, when a television station in Washington, D.C., broadcast an ominous documentary about the dangers of D.T.P., a standard childhood shot for diphtheria, tetanus and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/whoopingcough/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about whooping cough.\">pertussis</a> (whooping cough). Titled ?accine Roulette,?it was, Allen notes, a story ?aiting to be told.?The pertussis component had proved extremely effective against a wretched, life-threatening disease. But side effects, including convulsions and brain damage, were reported in a tiny percentage of those who received it. By playing up the perils of D.T.P., while minimizing the seriousness of pertussis, the documentary ignited a grass-roots movement of alarmed parents ?some suspecting that their children had been damaged by D.T.P., others concerned by the ever growing number of vaccines being recommended by their pediatricians. For Allen, this was a signal opportunity ?a chance to educate the public about the process of vaccination. But little positive came of it, beyond a national compensation program in 1986 that allowed families claiming vaccine-injury to file for government payments.</p><p>Allen is sympathetic to parental fears regarding the dangers of various vaccines, though he remains skeptical that scientific studies of these dangers, no matter how rigorous, will open many minds. At this point, he writes, much of the ?ntivaccinist?leadership is composed of countercultural types who view life through the prism of conspiracy theory: the government lies, the drug companies are evil, the medical profession is corrupt; trust the Internet instead. A fair number oppose traditional medicine in favor of homeopathy, believing that vaccines weaken the immune system and that sickness is a natural part of life. ?e treat our children like machines that are never supposed to slow down or let us miss a day of work,?a mother told Allen. ?e never allow them the soulfulness of being ill.?/p><p>To a large extent, says Allen, this antivaccination impulse is fueled by an ignorance of the past. Vaccines have done their job so well that most parents today are blissfully unaware of the diseases their children are being inoculated against. The end result is a culture that has become increasingly risk-averse regarding vaccination because people have greater trouble grasping the reward. </p><p>The problem appears to be growing. As more children go unvaccinated in the United States, there has been a rise in vaccine-preventable diseases. Meanwhile, fewer pharmaceutical companies are now producing vaccines, citing the high cost of testing, diminishing markets and a fear of litigation. For Allen, a reversal of these trends will require something long overdue: a frank national discussion about the risks and benefits of vaccination. His splendid book is a smart place to begin.</p><NYT_AUTHOR_ID><p id=\"authorId\">David Oshinsky holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book, ?olio: An American Story,?won the Pulitzer Prize for history.</p></NYT_AUTHOR_ID><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1540','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601605 --> <p>FRIDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- With more than half of American teenage girls and nearly a third of boys using unhealthy behaviors to control their weight, experts at the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) offer 10 tips to catch the warning signs of anorexia or bulimia: </p><ul> <li>Dramatic loss of weight.</li> <li>Preoccupation with calorie-counting.</li> <li>Frequent use of a weight scale.</li> <li>Obsession with exercise.</li> <li>Binge eating and/or purging.</li> <li>Food \"rituals\" -- taking tiny bites, ignoring certain food groups, rearranging food on the plate.</li> <li>Eating alone, or avoiding meals altogether.</li> <li>Use of laxatives/diuretics.</li> <li>Smoking aimed at suppressing appetite.</li> <li>Frequent criticism of self as \"fat,\" which increases despite weight loss.</li></ul> <p>NEDA experts note that the median onset of anorexia for girls is between the ages of 11 and 13, but the disease has been noted even in elementary school children.</p> <p> And even though anorexia and bulimia carry the highest death rates of any psychiatric illness, a report issued Thursday by Harvard University researchers found that fewer than half of those with a history of an eating disorder said they had ever received treatment.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1541','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 601606 --> <p>FRIDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- As the U.S. fashion season kicks off Friday in New York City, the headline-grabbing controversy over dangerously thin models will link arms with haute couture on the runway.</p> <p>The furor began in earnest last year with the deaths of two young models from anorexia nervosa and has since escalated, prompting fashion-show bosses in Europe to ban girls under a certain body mass index from working the shows.</p> <p>In mid-January, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) issued its own \"Health Initiative,\" stressing voluntary measures to \"create an atmosphere that supports the well-being of these young women.\"</p> <p>But that may not be enough to protect models -- and the millions of girls and women who emulate them, critics charge.</p> <p>Too often, \"guidelines are things that people just hang on a wall,\" said Lynn Grefe, chief executive officer of the National Eating Disorders Association.</p> <p>While she\'s pleased that the CFDA has \"opened a dialogue\" on the issue, Grefe said she\'s waiting to see how these voluntary rules get implemented.</p> <p>\"Right now, I\'m not sure how they are going to handle it if they have an anorexic girl in the shows,\" Grefe said. Given that most eating-disorder sufferers hide the problem, \"How are designers going to know about it? And who\'s going to tell the girl?\" she said.</p> <p>The issue gained renewed prominence with the eating-disorders deaths in 2006 of two young models -- Luisel Ramos, of Uruguay, and Ana Carolina Reston, of Brazil, who was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 88 pounds when she died. Reston reportedly lived on a diet of apples and tomatoes in the weeks before her death.</p> <p>The outcry over these deaths led to a move in September by government officials in Madrid to ban models with a body-mass index (BMI) of less than 18 from performing in city-sponsored fashion shows.</p> <p>Milan followed suit, with a similar ordinance passed by government officials last month to restrict runway models to BMIs of 18.5 or more. (For reference, a 5-foot-9 woman with a BMI of 18.5 would weigh 125 pounds). Italian designers have also agreed to demand that all models submit medical proof that they don\'t suffer from an eating disorder as a condition to work.</p> <p>The CFDA, which recently appointed designer Diane von Furstenberg as its president, hasn\'t gone that far. Instead, the group is asking the fashion industry to get better educated about the signs of eating disorders, to have models who are \"identified\" as having a disorder seek medical help, to ban models under the age of 16 from all runway shows, and to have healthy snacks available backstage at all times.</p> <p>The council does not advocate any BMI cutoff for runway models. According to its Jan. 12 statement, the group\'s initiative \"is about awareness and education, not policing. Therefore, the [CFDA] committee is not recommending that models get a doctor\'s physical examination to assess their health or body mass index to be permitted to work.\"</p> <p>A representative of the CFDA said the group isn\'t offering further comment on the issue until after a public meeting in New York City on the problem, scheduled for Feb. 5.</p> <p>But, BMI-linked policing of future New York shows may still come. On Jan. 31, a Democratic New York state assemblyman, Jose Rivera, said he would propose that a state advisory board be formed to craft guidelines to prevent eating disorders among models and performers under the age of 18. The measure may get support from the state Senate\'s majority leader, Republican Joseph Bruno, who last year revealed that his granddaughter suffers from anorexia nervosa.</p> <p>New York City councilwoman Gale Brewer has also said that she plans to introduce a resolution on Friday to keep models with BMIs under 18.5 off the runways. \"Women are encouraged to mutilate their bodies in the industry,\" Brewer told the <i>New York Sun</i> on Thursday.</p> <p><b>Health experts fault new guidelines</b></p> <p>Experts on eating disorders say tougher measures by the fashion industry are desperately needed.</p> <p>\"I feel the new [CFDA] guidelines really fell short,\" said Dr. Harry Brandt, director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Towson, Md. His clinic sees more than 800 inpatients a year and treats thousands more for anorexia and bulimia on an outpatient basis.</p> <p>\"I believe that within the industry there has been an implicit encouragement of dramatic measures to maintain a certain body weight for models,\" he said. \"The fashion industry needs to take steps to ensure the health of their employees and, in a broader societal context, to take appropriate measures to see to it that we are providing realistic images to girls.\"</p> <p>Images in fashion and gossip magazines of ultra-thin models and celebrities <i>do</i> have an impact on girls\' self-image, Brandt said. \"We see it in our work with patients on a daily basis,\" he said. \"Patients describe the intense pressure they feel to be thin, to be considered successful and attractive in our culture.\"</p> <p>According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), more than 10 million American girls and women may be affected by eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, which carry the highest death risk of any psychiatric illness. And a 2000 British study drew a strong link between women viewing rail-thin models in magazines and an increased tendency for eating disorders. </p> <p>One fashion industry insider agrees these images can do harm.</p> <p>\"The majority of women look at magazines, and they do <i>not</i> see themselves reflected,\" said Emme, a plus-size supermodel who made fashion history in the 1990s as the first full-figured model ever awarded a major cosmetics contract (Revlon). She\'s also a long-time NEDA ambassador, calling for more industry action on eating disorders.</p> <p>The New York-based model said much more needs to be done to empower young models to retain control of their own bodies. \"They are so impressionable, and you don\'t know where these pressures are coming from,\" Emme said. While she does not support a BMI cutoff, she does support stronger industry self-regulation. \"I want us to say, \'That is too thin, and, no, you will not walk in my show,\' \" she said.</p> <p>Emme said she was shocked recently by photos sent to her of especially emaciated models appearing in a glossy fashion layout. \"I was horrified to look at these pictures,\" she said, describing the models as \"bags of bones dressed in haute couture.\"</p> <p>\"I was astonished, too, that these girls were booked, that there were obviously people around to see them, that they had to be fitted for the clothes. So, all of this had to be <i>approved</i>,\" Emme said. \"And these girls are skeletal.\"</p> <p><b>Some skinny models born that way, editor says</b></p> <p>Of course, not every model has an eating disorder, and the fashion world does have its defenders. Memsor Kamarake, a former stylist and modeling agency executive, is now fashion director at <i>Vibe</i> magazine. Speaking from the Paris runway shows this week, he said he\'s against any BMI threshold for models.</p> <p>\"At the end of the day, just making sure that models are healthy should be the first priority,\" Kamarake said. \"I think that when we get into this territory of \'this certain body type is right, this isn\'t,\' that it opens the door to something a bit scary.\"</p> <p>He also believes that many super-thin models are genetically geared to stay skinny and healthy. He cited the example of a model used in a recent <i>Vibe</i> photo shoot, a willowy 16-year-old named Chanel Iman.</p> <p>\"I saw her on the set, and she had a plate of food and ate all day,\" Kamarake said. \"We actually were teasing her about it, but she said, \'I eat like this all the time.\' \"</p> <p>So, Kamarake added, \"if [a model] has accomplished something, why should we not include her? Because her body type makes people uncomfortable?\"</p> <p>But the Center for Eating Disorders\' Brandt called that argument \"a cop-out.\"</p> <p>\"Yes, there are exceedingly thin people who are perfectly healthy and normal -- I\'m the first to acknowledge that weight falls on a bell curve of distribution,\" Brandt said. \"But the reality is that, in the modeling industry, there are case examples of very famous models who\'ve come forward only later to say, \'I had to starve myself to maintain my appearance.\' \"</p> <p>That\'s why the CFDA\'s pledge to help models who are \"identified\" as having a problem won\'t work, Brandt said. \"Nobody goes to their employer and says, \'Oh, by the way, I have a significant health problem, and I probably shouldn\'t be doing this job.\' That\'s just not the way it works.\"</p> <p>Brandt believes models below a certain BMI should undergo mandatory medical reviews to check for eating disorders -- a relatively easy diagnosis, he said.</p> <p>All of this means that models, rather than clothes, could face the toughest scrutiny during the New York shows, which conclude Feb. 9.</p> <p>\"I really hope that this is not just a case of \'let\'s satisfy the public by saying we are going to educate people,\' \" Emme said. \"I want to know what else they are going to do. We are going to find out next week where we are with designers really self-regulating.\"</p> <p>But Kamarake appeared dubious about industry-wide change.</p> <p>\"I can\'t imagine a designer who\'s doing shows now who isn\'t thinking about the controversy,\" he said. But other heated issues have also come and gone, he noted.</p> <p>\"Remember the whole controversy about fur use? I\'m sure designers <i>think</i> about it, but there\'s still a lot of lynx around. There\'s still a lot of chinchilla out there.\"</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>For more on eating disorders, visit the <a href=\"http://www.edap.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=294\" target=\"_new\">National Eating Disorders Association</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1542','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Heat exhaustion occurs when the body becomes overheated because of exposure to high temperatures or overexertion during physical activity.</p> <p>The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says to seek immediate medical attention if you or someone else has these symptoms:</p> <ul> <li>Weakness or dizziness with nausea or headache.</li> <li>Cool, clammy skin and/or excessive sweating.</li> <li>Ashen color.</li> <li>Extreme thirst, loss of appetite and dry mouth.</li> <li>Weak or tired muscles that may cause collapse or cramping.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1543','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Assuming your doctor approves, exercise can help keep you healthy and feeling good during pregnancy.</p> <p>While you should avoid strenuous activity, light exercise can offer many benefits during pregnancy.</p> <p>The Nemours Foundation offers this partial list:</p> <ul> <li>Feeling better, having more energy, and getting better sleep at night.</li> <li>Reduced back pain and improved posture from stronger back, thigh and buttock muscles.</li> <li>Reduced stress and anxiety.</li> <li>Reduced risk of constipation.</li> <li>Less weight gain during pregnancy, and a quicker return to your pre-pregnancy weight.</li> </ul> <p>Your body should tell you if it\'s had enough. Stop exercising immediately if you have any of the following symptoms:</p> <ul> <li>Fatigue.</li> <li>Dizziness.</li> <li>Heart palpitations.</li> <li>Shortness of breath.</li> <li>Pain in your back or pelvis.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1544','1','	<p>Japanese authorities on Saturday confirmed the country\'s fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country\'s south.<p/>\nAbout two dozen chickens were found dead at the farm in Shintomi, southwestern Miyazaki state, last month. The birds had been infected with the H5N1 strain deadly to humans, the Agricultural Ministry said Saturday.<p/>\nThe case marks Japan\'s fourth H5N1 outbreak incident this year and the third to hit poultry farms in Miyazaki, Japan\'s largest chicken-producing region.<p/>\nOfficials began slaughtering the approximately 93,000 chickens at the Shintomi farm earlier this week.<p/>\nThe farm also has been quarantined, and chicken ranchers within a six-mile radius are banned from transporting poultry or eggs out of the area while officials check that the infection has not spread.<p/>\nThe H5N1 virus has killed or prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and caused the deaths of at least 164 people worldwide, according to the <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/japan_bird_flu/21804003/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22World%20Health%20Organization%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">World Health Organization</a></span>.<p/>\nJapan has confirmed only one human H5N1 infection, and no human deaths.<p/>\n<span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/japan_bird_flu/21804003/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Bird%20flu%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Bird flu</a></span> remains hard for humans to catch, but international experts fear it may mutate into a form that could spread easily between humans and potentially kill millions around the world.<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1545','1','	<p>Some conservatives and parents\' rights groups worry that requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children.<p/>\nBy using an executive order that bypassed the Legislature, Republican Gov. Rick Perry ? himself a conservative ? on Friday avoided such opposition, making Texas the first state to mandate that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the virus.<p/>\nBeginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade will have to receive Gardasil, Merck &amp; Co.\'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.<p/>\nPerry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines. In addition, he ordered that Medicaid offer Gardasil to women ages 19 to 21.<p/>\nPerry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base. But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio.<p/>\n\"The HPV vaccine provides us with an incredible opportunity to effectively target and prevent cervical cancer,\" he said.<p/>\nOpponents say Perry should have let the Legislature decide whether to impose a mandate.<p/>\n\"He\'s circumventing the will of the people,\" said Dawn Richardson, president of Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education, a citizens group that fought for the right to opt out of other vaccine requirements. \"There are bills filed. There\'s no emergency except in the boardrooms of Merck, where this is failing to gain the support that they had expected.\"<p/>\nTexas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit objecting to the vaccine on religious or philosophical reasons. Conservative groups say such provisions still interfere with parents\' rights to make medical decisions for their children.<p/>\nThe executive order is effective until Perry or a successor changes it, and the Legislature has no authority to repeal it, said Perry spokeswoman Krista Moody. Moody said the Texas Constitution permits the governor, as head of the executive branch, to order other members of the executive branch to adopt rules like this one.<p/>\nThe federal government approved Gardasil in June, and a government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.<p/>\nMerck could generate billions in sales if Gardasil ? at $360 for the three-shot regimen ? were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.<p/>\nThe New Jersey-based drug company is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.<p/>\nPerry has ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company\'s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry\'s former chief of staff. His current chief of staff\'s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.<p/>\nThe governor also received $6,000 from Merck\'s political action committee during his re-election campaign.<p/>\nA top official from Merck\'s vaccine division sits on Women in Government\'s business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.<p/>\nMerck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group\'s president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1546','1','	<p>Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm ? Britain\'s first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia\'s poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.<p/>\nThe virus strain that killed about 2,500 turkeys on the British poultry farm was identified as the highly pathogenic Asian strain, similar to a virus found in Hungary in January, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.<p/>\nIt was the first time the deadly H5N1 strain was found on a British farm.<p/>\nAlso on Saturday, the World Heath Organization confirmed Nigeria\'s first human death from the strain. Nigerian health officials on Wednesday said several people had apparently contracted the virus, including a young woman who later died.<p/>\nLast month Hungarian officials killed thousands of geese after H5N1 was detected in the southeast of the country ? the first known case of the strain within the <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu/21808913/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22European%20Union%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">European Union</a></span> since August 2006.<p/>\nBritain\'s deputy chief veterinary officer, Fred Landeg, said all 159,000 turkeys on the affected farm in eastern England would be slaughtered. He said the virus was found in only one of 22 turkey sheds on the farm, owned by Bernard Matthews PLC, Europe\'s largest turkey producer.<p/>\n<span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu/21808913/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Bird%20flu%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Bird flu</a></span> has killed or prompted the slaughter of millions of birds worldwide since late 2003. It has killed at least 164 people worldwide, but remains difficult for humans to catch.<p/>\nExperts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. So far, most human cases have been traced to contact with sick birds.<p/>\nThe English outbreak near Holton in Suffolk county, about 130 miles northeast of London, represented the first known instance of H5N1 in Britain since an infected wild swan was found in Scotland in March. Turkeys and chickens are more susceptible to H5N1 than wild birds, who can carry the virus over long distances without showing symptoms.<p/>\nTelevision news footage showed piles of slaughtered birds being funneled into an open tractor-trailer before being taken away for incineration.<p/>\nU.N. flu coordinator Dr. David Nabarro said experts had anticipated commercial flocks in Europe and elsewhere could be infected by migrating wild birds during the northern winter months.<p/>\n\"This virus is going to be in bird populations for years to come, and the way in which we\'ll deal with it is by implementing the well-rehearsed plan to stamp it out at source,\" he told British Broadcasting Corp. television. \"We have to learn to accept that and not see it as a serious problem and just get on with normal poultry rearing and consumption.\"<p/>\nExperts stressed the situation did not pose a public health threat, and that eating well-cooked poultry products posed no risk. However, close contact with sick birds, such as in slaughtering or plucking, could lead to the disease being transmitted.<p/>\n\"There is no need for immediate concern, but we do need to identify the source of the virus,\" said Colin Butter, a bird flu expert with the Institute of Animal Health. \"If the virus has come from the wild bird population, we need to know which birds and how much of the population has been affected.\"<p/>\nLast year, the H5N1 virus was discovered in countries in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe.<p/>\nLab tests conducted by the <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/ap/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu/21808913/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22World%20Health%20Organization%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">World Health Organization</a></span> in London confirmed that a 22-year-old woman was infected with H5N1 when she died on Jan. 17, Information Minister Frank Nweke Jr. said.<p/>\n\"It bears restating, therefore, that H5N1 is widespread and continuing in the poultry population in Nigeria,\" Nweke said.<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1547','1','	<p><p>Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of <i>HealthDay:</i></p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Bird Flu Outbreaks Reported on Poultry Farms in England, Japan</b></span></p> <p> Avian flu eruptions among the world\'s poultry population continue unabated.</p> <p>Two outbreaks of bird flu during the past two days in countries half a world apart indicate the resiliency of this strain, which scientists continue to monitor in hopes that it doesn\'t mutate into a type that could be transmitted between humans</p> <p>More than 2,600 turkeys died on a farm in the Suffolk County region of England, according to <i>United Press International</i>, and health officials confirm that the flu virus was the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza. Because of the outbreak, <i>U.P.I.</i> reports, another 159,000 will be slaughtered to try and bring it under control.</p> <p>No human cases of avian flu were reported in England, the wire service said. Worldwide, 270 incidents of humans contracting the disease have been reported, and 164 were fatal, according to the World Health Organization. However, scientists say there has been no evidence that any of the human cases were caused by person-to-person contact.</p> <p>Meanwhile, a fourth outbreak of bird flu in the past week has occurred in Japan, according to the <i>Associated Press</i>. About two dozen chickens were affected in the same poultry farm area south of Tokyo that has already prompted the destruction of hundreds of thousands of birds.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Drug Addiction Medicine May Offer New Crohn\'s Disease Treatment</b></span></p> <p>Another possible use has been found for naltrexone, a medication already used to relieve symptoms of alcohol and drug addiction and also being tested as an appetite suppressant.</p> <p>A news release from the Penn State College of Medicine says that a low dose of naltrexone may help relieve symptoms of Crohn\'s disease, an inflammation of the intestine. Researchers found in a pilot study that 89 percent of the participants showed an improvement -- easing of inflammation -- with naltrexone and therapy, and 67 actually had their Crohn\'s go into remission.</p> <p>The findings, published in a early on edition of the <i>American Journal of Gastroenterology</i>, caused researchers to become hopeful about alternative treatments for Crohn\'s, which affects about 500,000 Americans. The disease has been typically treated with immune-suppressing steroids or corticosteroids, and this can cause dangerous side effects.</p> <p>\"This is a novel approach to treating a common disease, and it\'s simple, it\'s safe, and it costs far less than current standards of treatment,\" the news release quotes lead research Dr. Jill P. Smith as saying. \"We don\'t yet know the exact mechanisms involved in how it works, but we\'re working on that, as well.\"</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Texas 1st State to Mandate That Girls Get Cervical Cancer Vaccine</b></span></p> <p>Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday signed an executive order making his state the first to require that schoolgirls receive the Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer.</p> <p>\"If there are diseases in our society that are going to cost us large amounts of money, it just makes good economic sense, not to mention the health and well-being of these individuals, to have those vaccines available,\" he told the <i>Associated Press</i>.</p> <p>The vaccine -- which was approved for use by the federal government in June -- has proven highly protective against the most common strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), the cause of most cases of cervical cancers.</p> <p>Beginning in September of 2008, all Texan girls entering the sixth grade (at about 11-12 years old) will receive the three shots of Gardasil needed to confer immunity, the <i>AP</i> reported.</p> <p>Issuing an executive order allowed Perry, a Republican, to circumvent potential opposition in the state legislature from conservative groups who have voiced concern that routine HPV vaccination of young girls promotes premarital sex and interferes with parents\' rights.</p> <p>Perry has said, however, that he sees little difference between the cervical cancer vaccine and immunization against diseases such as polio.</p> <p>The Texas move has gotten the backing of Gardasil\'s maker, Merck, which the <i>AP</i> says has doubled its lobbying budget in the state. According to the news agency, Merck could realize billions in sales if vaccination with Gardasil, which costs $360 for the three-shot regimen, is made mandatory for girls across the US.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Bush Wants Major Medicare and Medicaid Spending Cuts</b></span></p> <p>In his budget next week, it\'s expected that U.S. President George W. Bush will ask for more than $70 billion in spending cuts from Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years.</p> <p>The proposals, part of the White House plan to balance the budget by 2012, are expected to spark a fight with the Democrat-controlled Congress, <i>The New York Times</i> reported.</p> <p>\"There is a large area for potential compromise and agreement, but with these latest Medicare proposals, the president is just asking for controversy. He still acts as if Republicans were in complete control and Democrats had lost the election,\" said Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D., N.Y.), who heads the House Ways and Means Committee.</p> <p>It\'s also expected that Bush will propose changes to the Children\'s Health Insurance Program that could reduce federal payments to states that provide coverage for children with family incomes that are more than twice the poverty level, the <i>Times</i> reported.</p> <p>In contrast, Democrats want major expansions of the children\'s health program.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Protein Alterations Prevent Flu Virus From Spreading</b></span></p> <p>Making changes to a protein on the surface of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic prevents the virus from spreading among animals, says a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published Friday in the journal <i>Science</i>.</p> <p>The scientists said this kind of research may help them better prepare for the next pandemic, <i>CBC News</i> reported.</p> <p>For the study, the CDC team recreated batches of the 1918 virus and then made two changes to a protein on its surface. The modified virus was then put in the noses of lab ferrets. The infected animals developed flu and died but did not transmit it to uninfected neighboring ferrets.</p> <p>The alterations made by the CDC scientists to the 1918 flu virus made it similar to the H5N1 bird flu virus, <i>CBC News</i> reported. Currently, H5N1 is not easily transmitted among humans, but experts fear that H5N1 could mutate and cause a pandemic.</p> <p>\"Though we still don\'t know what changes might be necessary for H5N1 to transmit easily among people, it\'s likely that changes in more than one virus protein would be required for the H5N1 virus to be transmitted among humans,\" study lead author Dr. Terrence Tumpey said.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Fewer U.S. Women Dying of Heart Disease</b></span></p> <p>The number of American women who died from heart disease decreased from one in three in 2003 to one in four in 2004, a drop of nearly 17,000 deaths, the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) said Thursday.</p> <p>The institute also noted that heart disease deaths in women steadily declined from 2000 to 2004, a type of steady annual decline that had not occurred before. The findings were released to mark National Wear Red Day, part of The Heart Truth program to raise women\'s awareness about heart disease and encourage them to take action to reduce their risk factors.</p> <p>\"To see such a significant reduction in deaths underscores that the efforts of many individuals and organizations to raise awareness, improve treatment and access, and inspire women to take action are truly saving lives,\" Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, NHLBI director, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>She said significant progress has been made in increasing women\'s awareness that heart disease is their leading killer. In 2005, 55 percent of women were aware of that fact, compared to 34 percent in 2000, according to survey findings.</p> <p>\"More women are aware that heart disease is their leading killer, and research shows that this heightened awareness is leading them to take action to reduce their risk. They are more likely to step up their physical activity, eat healthier, and lose weight,\" Nabel said.</p> <p>-----</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1548','1','	<p><p>SATURDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Pumping iron may pump up your response to a flu shot, British research suggests.</p> <p>A study of 60 college students concluded that a brief muscle-building session before a flu shot can enhance the immune system\'s response to the vaccine. However, men and women had different responses.</p> <p>In the study, the students either rested quietly or did upper arm exercises for about 25 minutes. Six hours later, all the students received a flu shot.</p> <p>Over the next five months, blood samples were taken from the students in order to measure cellular immune response and longer-lasting development of antibodies to the viruses in the flu vaccine.</p> <p>The cell-mediated response remained unchanged in women who exercised, while it increased in males. Antibody response was higher in women who exercised but was lower in men.</p> <p>\"We\'re trying to find something that could be very simple to do, which would benefit your vaccine response,\" study lead author Kate Edwards, of the University of Birmingham, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>The findings from this study help confirm earlier research by Edwards\' team that found that the acute stress of exercise can enhance antibody production in humans.</p> <p>The findings are published in the February issue of the journal <i>Brains, Behavior and Immunity</i>.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers these <a href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/preventing.htm\" target=\"_new\">flu prevention tips</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1549','1','<p>You don\'t have to look at a calendar to know that it\'s cold season. Just listen to the hacking coughs, sneezes and the hoarse, husky voices that have dropped an octave in recent weeks as upper-respiratory infections take a toll in offices, schools and homes.</p><p>The common cold is the most frequent illness known to man. But for sufferers, it can feel uncommonly bad to have blocked nasal passages, watery eyes and head-snapping sneezes.</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/2007/01/30/PH2007013000054.jpg\"/--><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/30/PH2007013000054.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Anatomy of a Sneeze\"  height=\"286\" width=\"228\" align=\"bottom\"><div id=\"caption\"><span id=\"credit\"> (James Smallwood - The Washington Post) </span></div></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Winter Chills</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/01/29/GR2007012901289.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"80\" height=\"72\"><p>It\'s that time of year: the season for sneezin\'. Is there really a way to battle the effects of the common cold?</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/cold/\">Graphic: Anatomy of a Cough/Sneeze</a> &nbsp;\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2007/01/30/CU2007013000662.html\" >Chart: Do They Work?</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901261.html\" >Must You Be Such a Drip?</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901336.html\" >Sick? 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Just listen to the hacking coughs, sneezes and the hoarse, husky voices that have dropped an octave in recent weeks as upper-respiratory infections take a toll in offices, schools and homes.\" target=\"new\">del.icio.us</a></div></div><div class=\"generic_bookmark yahoo_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901261.html%3Freferrer=yahoo&title=Must You Be Such a Drip?&popup=true\" target=\"new\">Yahoo!</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/><div class=\"generic_bookmark reddit_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901261.html%3Freferrer=reddit&title=Must You Be Such a Drip?\" target=\"new\">Reddit</a></div></div><div class=\"generic_bookmark facebook_bookmark\"><div class=\"pad_bookmark\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"void(window.open(\'http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901261.html?referrer=facebook\')+\'&t=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'Must You Be Such a Drip?\'),\'sharer\',\'toolbar=no,width=642,height=436\'));\">Facebook</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/></div></div></div>\n</td></tr></table>\n<p>And in an era of heart transplants, in vitro fertilization and human genome mapping, there\'s still no treatment for this malady, which accounts for approximately 500 million infections annually in the United States.</p><p>And the costs? An estimated $40 billion each year, according to a 2003 economic analysis by the University of Michigan for both direct and indirect costs for medical treatment and lost work time. As the researchers noted, that\'s a higher economic burden than some more-serious conditions impose.</p><p>Colds are the annoying ailment that won\'t kill you but may make you want to cut off your nose to breathe again. They often make adults feel like sniffly children, yearning for their mother\'s comfort.</p><p>No wonder we shell out an estimated $250 million annually for \"remedies\" that don\'t actually kill the viruses that cause colds and often don\'t relieve symptoms any better than a placebo.</p><p>This eagerness to be rid of cold symptoms can sometimes exact a human toll: Earlier this month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked infant deaths to overuse of cold remedies and advised parents and caregivers not to give children 2 and younger cold medicines without a doctor\'s approval.</p><p>Colds remain wrapped in lore that seems to leave people as foggy as if they had taken a swig of antihistamines. \"Feed a cold, starve a fever\" is the age-old advice (with no basis in science). For more on remedies, see Page F4.</p><p>Many still mistakenly think that antibiotics, which kill bacteria but not viruses, can cure colds. And they are often annoyed when their doctors won\'t prescribe them.</p><p>Cold sufferers complain that their flu shots didn\'t protect them against the common cold. (The shots are not intended for that purpose. Influenza is caused by different viruses.)</p><p>Nor can most people tell the difference between the flu and a cold. Both cause respiratory symptoms, but influenza is a far more severe infection that comes with a fever, headache and muscle aches as well as a gut-wrenching cough. And unlike the common cold, influenza can be treated with antiviral medicines, provided they are started shortly after symptoms appear.</p><p>\"Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?\" asked the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, like many today, was a bit confused about how colds are spread. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1550','1','<p>ATLANTA, Feb. 1 -- Two small mutations are enough to turn off the ability of the highly lethal, wildly contagious \"Spanish influenza\" virus to pass from person to person, a new study suggests.</p><p>The experiments, done in a high-security lab here using a reconstructed version of the microbe that killed about 50 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919, show that small changes may have huge consequences in flu virus evolution.</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/2007/02/01/PH2007020102005.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020102007&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102007.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/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020102007&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102007.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102005.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Terrence Tumpey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines specimens of the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu virus that was reconstructed in hopes of combating a future flu pandemic.\"  height=\"173\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Terrence Tumpey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines specimens of the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu virus that was reconstructed in hopes of combating a future flu pandemic.<span id=\"credit\"> (Photos By Cynthia Goldsmith  --  Centers For Disease Control And Prevention  Via Science Magazine And Associated Press) </span></div></div>\n<div style=\"width:228px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>What Readers Are Saying</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarbox\" style=\"color: #333;\">\n <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\"><strong>Your Comments On...</strong></span><br> <h1 style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 153);\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901431.html\" target=\"_blank\">Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds</a></h1></p> <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> \"It would be interesting to know if factors such as stress, or sleep disorders etc. were taken into account. 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But it may help researchers know what to look for as they monitor the evolution of flu viruses in hundreds of bird and mammal species.</p><p>Genetic fingerprinting of the Spanish flu virus -- taken from the frozen body of an Inuit woman in Alaska and autopsy tissue from two American soldiers -- has revealed that it was a bird virus in the years before it entered the human population, probably someplace in the Midwest in the winter of 1917-1918.</p><p>It presumably acquired several mutations that allowed it to make that leap. The new research suggests that one or two were essential -- but probably not sufficient -- to bring about the fateful changes in the virus\'s behavior.</p><p>In the experiment, Terrence M. Tumpey, a virologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, constructed a Spanish flu virus from scratch. He then made changes to the hemagglutinin (H) protein, a key part of the virus\'s outer shell that binds to cells before invading them, and tested the results on ferrets.</p><p>Ferrets are used as stand-ins for people in influenza experiments because they can be infected with the same strain of flu viruses and suffer similar symptoms, including fever, sneezing and runny noses. Researchers test the transmissibility of the virus by putting two ferret cages next to each other, one containing an infected animal and the other an uninfected one.</p><p>When Tumpey and his colleagues made two changes in the H protein (at \"letters\" No. 190 and 225 in a protein that is 566 letters long), the virus killed the infected ferrets rapidly, but it did not pass through the air and infect the animals in the neighboring cages. Curiously, the animals infected with that mutant strain did not sneeze -- unlike the animals that were infected with unaltered Spanish flu virus.</p><p>The changes Tumpey made turned the 1918 microbe into one that attached much more readily to bird cells than to human cells. When he made only one change (in letter 225), the virus showed mixed behavior, attaching to both human and bird cells, but not very well to either.</p><p>One of the Spanish flu viruses found in the autopsy specimens from 1918 had that mixed form of H protein. That suggests that even though it was not as fully adapted to human hosts as the viruses in the other specimens (which showed both changes), it was presumably still being passed from person to person -- and was lethal.</p><p>It is likely that influenza viruses must undergo many changes, and some changes must occur before others, in order for a strain to make the evolutionary journey from bird microbe to human microbe with pandemic potential.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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Many experts believe the H5N1 strain of bird flu could cause such an outbreak.\"  height=\"190\" width=\"219\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Mitchell Cohen confer during a large-scale exercise in Atlanta to see how well the agency would react to pandemic flu. 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The reason -- ironically, but perhaps not surprisingly -- was concern about public safety. CDC did not want a hundred of its most valuable employees rushing on Thursday morning over ice-slick roads to a mock disaster.</p><p>A real pandemic, which is considered inevitable, won\'t be stopped by weather, which in this case turned out to be mostly rain. In fact, it probably won\'t be stopped by anything. But public health experts believe it could be made less disastrous with practice and preparation.</p><p>For that reason, CDC\'s director, Julie L. Gerberding, who spent Wednesday facing nail-biting pseudo-decisions -- and made the real one to call things off -- was happy with half a pandemic.</p><p>\"The long-frame view is that this was a tremendous success. We exercised, we learned and we are definitely committed to this process,\" she said when it was over.</p><p>The federal government is hard at work trying to ready the country for a global outbreak of a new, highly transmissible strain of influenza -- a pandemic. Such events occur at unpredictable intervals. There were three in the last century, in 1918-19, 1957 and 1968.</p><p>The H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, has killed millions of birds and 164 people, mostly in Asia, since 2003. It does not pass from person to person efficiently. But it is highly lethal and still evolving; many experts believe it has the potential to cause a pandemic.</p><p>Last week\'s exercise was conducted by MPRI, an Alexandria-based consultant with a $7 million contract to help CDC plan for pandemic flu. Founded in 1987 as Military Professionals Resources Inc., the company is run principally by retired officers.</p><p>Horace G. \"Pete\" Taylor, a retired Army lieutenant general, led a team of 24 people who wrote the outbreak scenario, \"injected\" new information as the exercise ran, played the roles of non-CDC decision makers, and are now helping the agency analyze its performance. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1552','1','<p>LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.</p><p>Officials said the disease had killed 2,600 turkeys on the Bernard Matthews company turkey farm in Suffolk county, northeast of London. All 159,000 turkeys at Bernard Matthews, one of Europe\'s leading producers, were being slaughtered as a precaution, and television footage showed thousands of carcasses being dumped into trucks.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<!--link rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/08/29/PH2006082901347.jpg\"/-->\n<a href=\"javascript:void(window.open(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/10/13/GA2005101302277_metaRefresher.htm?startat=1\',\'cwgallery_win\',\'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,copyhistory=no,width=730,height=670,left=0,top=0,screenX=0,screenY=0\'))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/08/29/PH2006082901347.jpg\" alt=\"Health experts fear that the virus might develop into a strain that passes easily from human to human, the genesis of the 1918 epidemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide, as new research has shown.\"  border=\"0\" width=\"228\" height=\"150\"></a><div><span id=\"caption\"><span style=\"color:#CC0000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:11px;\"><span class=\"contentType\">\nPhotos</span><br/></span><a href=\"javascript:void(window.open(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/10/13/GA2005101302277_metaRefresher.htm?startat=1\',\'cwgallery_win\',\'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,copyhistory=no,width=730,height=670,left=0,top=0,screenX=0,screenY=0\'))\" target=\"\">Tracking the Deadly Bird Flu</a><br/>Health experts fear that the virus might develop into a strain that passes easily from human to human, the genesis of the 1918 epidemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide, as new research has shown.<br/></span></div>\n<link href=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/css/sidebars.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" media=\"all\" />\n<div style=\"width:228px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>Special Report</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; 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While transmission of the disease from birds to humans is rare,  the World Health Organization says 271 people have been infected with H5N1  since 2003, mainly in Asia. There have been no reported cases of human infection in Europe or the United States.</p><p>British health officials said the immediate risk to humans from the Suffolk case was \"extremely low.\" The Health Protection Agency said transmission of avian influenza from birds to humans occurs \"very rarely and with difficulty\" and requires \"extremely close contact\" with infected birds. Health officials advised that properly cooked poultry and eggs were safe to eat.</p><p>\"In parts of the world where widespread infection in poultry has been reported, transmission of the virus to humans has occurred very infrequently,\" Maria Zambon, an influenza specialist at the health agency, said in a statement. \"To date there is no evidence that avian influenza H5N1 has adapted to spread easily between humans.\"</p><p>David Nabarro, bird flu coordinator for the United Nations, told the BBC that it was \"exceedingly unlikely\" that the outbreak in Britain would lead to human infections. \"The numbers of human cases are very, very small indeed, even though the virus has been moving through poultry in at least 50 countries in the last year,\" he said. \"This is really not a human disease; it is a poultry disease.\"</p><p>The cause of the current outbreak is not yet known, but the disease was most likely carried to the turkey farm by a wild bird, said a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). She said that all of the turkeys  were raised from eggs produced at a hatchery that is being monitored for signs of bird flu. So far, none have been found, she said.</p><p>Bernard Matthews officials issued a statement Saturday confirming the outbreak but noting that \"none of the affected birds have entered the food chain and there is no risk to consumers.\" A company spokesman referred further inquiries to government officials.</p><p>The company\'s Web site says Bernard Matthews is the biggest turkey producer in Europe, raising  8 million birds a year on 54 farms in Britain. The company does about $800 million a year in business and employs more than 6,000 people, according to the Web site.</p><p>Fred Landeg, Defra\'s deputy chief veterinary officer, said that only one of the 22 turkey houses at the Bernard Matthews farm appeared to have been affected but that all turkeys on the farm were being killed as a precaution. Officials have imposed severe restrictions on poultry owners within a six-mile radius of the infected farm, requiring that all poultry be kept inside. Poultry owners in a larger \"restricted zone\" covering 1,300 square miles of eastern England are being advised to keep domestic birds isolated from wild birds.</p><p>Landeg said further tests showed the disease is \"the highly pathogenic Asian strain\" of the virus. Indonesia, the country hit hardest, had 46 human deaths from bird flu last year and five already this year. Health officials around the world  have been closely monitoring the potential spread of infected birds, and some have warned of the potential for a deadly pandemic.</p><p>Defra officials said the H5N1 strain has been confirmed in birds in at least 45 countries. It first appeared in the European Union last year and has been confirmed in wild birds in at least 13 E.U. countries, officials said. Britain is the seventh E.U. country where H5N1 has been found in domestic poultry, following France, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Romania and Hungary.</p><p>A strain less dangerous to humans, H7, was found in chickens at a farm in Norfolk, England, last April, leading to the slaughter of more than 30,000 birds.</p><p>Peter Bradnock of the British Poultry Council said the outbreak could have an economic impact on the poultry industry.</p><p>\"I think people understand this is first and foremost a problem for poultry, not for people,\" he said. \"I am hoping we will not see any particular change in buying habits.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1553','1','<p>The not-for-profit company that runs the Prince George\'s County hospital system agreed yesterday to accept the possibility of greater county control over its board of directors in exchange for a $5 million county payment, temporarily staving off a shutdown crisis.</p><p>The agreement will keep the hospital from immediately planning for closure, but it is only a temporary solution, hospital executives said yesterday. 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Martin O\'Malley (D) might offer state money to keep the institution running.</p><p>G.T. Dunlop Ecker, Dimensions\' president and chief executive, said yesterday that the board\'s only options were to accept the conditions or initiate a closure of the system, which serves 180,000 people, many of whom are poor and uninsured.</p><p>\"The board feels keenly its fiduciary responsibility to keep providing these services to the community,\" Ecker said. \"It did not make good sense to not accept the $5 million and shut down, when the council and the executive indicated they were willing to provide the money.\"</p><p>The board also agreed to two other conditions. It will allow Corbett Price, a New York-based hospital management consultant, access to all hospital facilities and financial records, in addition to agreeing to receive no additional county money without devising a cost-saving plan that meets with county approval.</p><p>\"We\'re pleased,\" County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) said of the agreement. \"It\'s our intent to work with the board to move the process along.\"</p><p>Dimensions, which has operated county-owned hospitals in Cheverly and four other locations for two decades, has been losing money for years and has required regular infusions of government cash, including $50 million in county payments over the past four years.</p><p>County Council member Samuel H. Dean (D-Mitchellville), who has been involved in the solution process, said he hoped Price\'s analysis could help county leaders figure out what should be done next for the system in providing more oversight of taxpayer expenditures.</p><p>\"It\'s really going to get a handle around the management of the system,\" Dean said.</p><p>Johnson has said he is in negotiations with a private company that could buy the hospital system from Dimensions. He said yesterday that he hoped an agreement could be reached within weeks to replace Dimensions by July.</p><p>A more immediate hurdle will be the $9 million that Dimensions leaders predict will be needed to run the hospital from April through June. Johnson said state officials have offered $5 million toward the figure.</p><p>John M. Colmers, O\'Malley\'s nominee for secretary of health and mental hygiene, confirmed that state officials would be willing to offer \"significant resources\" if convinced that all parties were working together to find a final resolution. He would not say how much they would be willing to spend, however.</p><p>\"We\'re relieved that an immediate crisis has been averted, and we\'re committed to a longer-term solution,\" he said.</p><p>Meanwhile, Johnson has said he believes the hospital might be able to relieve some of its financial problems by declaring bankruptcy and restructuring.</p><p>Ecker and the Dimensions board chairman, Calvin Brown, have voiced skepticism, however, suggesting that the system does not have enough cash to survive a bankruptcy without a shutdown.</p><p>If the county were to gain more seats on the board, it would give Johnson and the County Council greater control over the hospital system\'s fate.</p><p>In Annapolis, legislators said they aim to keep working on the problem. Del. Doyle L. Niemann (D-Prince George\'s) said the Dimensions board is \"buying time.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1554','1','<p>ATLANTA, Feb. 1 -- States should be prepared to keep children out of school for three months, businesses should be prepared to operate with skeleton workforces, children should be prepared to play mostly with their siblings, and parents should be prepared to lose income as they skip work and cobble together rickety child-care arrangements.</p><p>That was the picture sketched Thursday by federal officials in a guidance for communities on how to fight pandemic influenza in the months before a vaccine becomes available -- if one ever does.</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/2007/02/01/PH2007020102001.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020102003&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102003.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/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020102003&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102003.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020102001.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Arie Manangan of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses a map to track a mock flu outbreak during an exercise to see how well the CDC would react.\"  height=\"155\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Arie Manangan of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses a map to track a mock flu outbreak during an exercise to see how well the CDC would react.<span id=\"credit\"> (By John Bazemore  --  Associated Press) </span></div></div>\n<!-- Commented out until duplication is fixed in templates.  -->\n<script>\n\nimgUrl     = \"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/ssi/articles/testing/horiz_sample.jpg\" ;\nimgWidth   = 145 ;\nimgHeight  = 100 ;\nimgCaption = \"Nikita Floyd, left, owner of Green Forever, explains a client\'s sidewalk preferences to foreman Santos Medrano, center, so he can translate the instructions for Juan Salvador.\" ;\nimgCredit  = \"Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post\" ;\n\npopupUrl  =\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/\" ;\np_width = 785 ;\np_height = 645 ;\npopupAd    = false\nif ( typeof thisNode == \"undefined\" )\n  thisNode = \"\" ;\ncaptionWidth = 228 -2*1 -5 -2*8 -imgWidth ; 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Its authors believe that if a pandemic\'s effects can be blunted or spread out over time, the essential functions of the economy may be able to continue largely unchanged.</p><p>Nevertheless, without a vaccine, it will be a scary and dangerous time.</p><p>\"We don\'t expect we would be able to protect everybody,\" the CDC\'s director, Julie L. Gerberding, said at a news conference here.</p><p>Pandemic America would be an old-fashioned place. People would spend most of their time with close relatives and a few neighbors. They wouldn\'t go to the movies, run to the supermarket on a whim, or hug people they barely know. The sick would be cared for at home unless they were near death. Everyone would shun the houses of the ill.</p><p>At the same time, many of today\'s habits and capabilities would remain.</p><p>Many adults would telecommute to work in a season of near-endless \"snow days.\" Children would probably turn in homework over the Internet. Prescription drugs would be prescribed liberally as preventive medicines. A government-woven safety net would probably provide food, personal care and financial assistance to people who couldn\'t cope on their own.</p><p>The use of face masks -- popular during the epochal \"Spanish influenza\" of 1918 -- wasn\'t addressed in the \"Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation\" booklet. CDC planners are still doing research -- both experimental and historical -- to figure out how useful masks might be. They will provide guidance on their use later.</p><p>To help states, cities and towns decide when to invoke various measures, the new document outlines a five-category system for estimating a pandemic\'s danger. The gauge is analogous to the one used for hurricanes, although \"case fatality ratio,\" not wind speed, is the key variable.</p><p>Case fatality ratio is the fraction of ill people who die. In the Spanish flu, which killed about 50 million people worldwide, the ratio in the United States was about 2.2 percent. (It was 10 times as high in some other parts of the world.) Spanish flu in modern America would kill about 1.8 million people; it is Category 5.</p><p>The case fatality ratio was less than 0.5 percent in 1957 and 1968, the two most recent pandemics, which rank as Category 2. In the current sputtering outbreak of H5N1 \"bird flu\" in Southeast Asia, the ratio is above 50 percent. But that virus doesn\'t have the ability to spread easily among people -- the essential feature of a pandemic strain.</p><p>Schools are society\'s most densely populated environments -- in square feet per person, eight times as dense as offices and more than 10 times as dense as single-family homes. In 1918, closing schools was the most effective tool for slowing the virus. Some cities experienced a roller-coaster ride of infection as schools were closed, opened and closed again.</p><p>A 2003 study found that children in day-care centers were 2.2 times as likely to get upper respiratory infections as children cared for at home. Day-care centers would be among the first institutions to close. But arrangements in which five or fewer children were cared for by a couple of families might still be safe, the study found.</p><p>Cetron warned that ignoring a pandemic\'s potential for societal disruption is futile. In 1918, schools eventually closed in most American cities, but it was too late in many to blunt the epidemic\'s mortality.</p><p>\"It\'s not like those things are going to go away; we\'re just going to face them unprepared in a Category 5 event,\" he said. He added, invoking the memory of Hurricane Katrina, \"And we all know what happens when we aren\'t prepared for a Category 5 event.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1555','1','<p>A George Mason University chemistry professor has won a $1 million engineering prize for developing a simple and inexpensive means of filtering arsenic from well water, an advance that is already preventing serious health problems in hundreds of thousands of people in his native Bangladesh and could help millions of others around the world.</p><p>The 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability, administered by the National Academy of Engineering, will go to Abul Hussam of Centreville, academy officials announced yesterday.</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/2007/02/01/PH2007020101994.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/metro/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020101996&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020101996.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/metro/2007-02-02/index.html?imgId=PH2007020101996&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020101996.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/01/PH2007020101994.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Abul Hussam will receive $1 million for developing a system to filter arsenic out of well water.\"  height=\"158\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Abul Hussam will receive $1 million for developing a system to filter arsenic out of well water.<span id=\"credit\"> (Courtesy Abul Hussam - Courtesy Abul Hussam) </span></div></div>\n<div style=\"width:228px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>What Readers Are Saying</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarbox\" style=\"color: #333;\">\n <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\"><strong>Your Comments On...</strong></span><br> <h1 style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 153);\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901431.html\" target=\"_blank\">Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds</a></h1></p> <p style=\"margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;\"> \"It would be interesting to know if factors such as stress, or sleep disorders etc. were taken into account. 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He earned his citizenship, received a doctorate in analytical chemistry and then devoted much of his career to finding a simple solution to a massive problem inadvertently caused by international aid agencies.</p><p>For decades, institutions had funded a huge campaign to dig simple wells in Eastern India and Bangladesh, bringing fresh groundwater to millions of subsistence farmers and others who had been drinking from ponds and mudholes that teemed with disease-causing bacteria and viruses.</p><p>What those agencies did not know was that groundwater in that region has some of the world\'s highest naturally occurring concentrations of arsenic, a potent poison. So although the new wells produced a steep decline in infectious diseases, they also gave rise to an epidemic of arsenic-induced skin ailments and, over time, fatal cancers of the lungs, bladder and kidneys.</p><p>\"I myself and all my brothers were drinking this water,\" said Hussam, whose family had two of the now infamous shallow \"tube wells\" in the agricultural district of Kushtia, where he grew up -- one in the kitchen and the other in the yard, both operated by hand pumps.</p><p>His family members remained healthy, Hussam said, perhaps because they had a nutritious diet, which can help stem the ill effects that typically accumulate over a decade or more of arsenic ingestion. But when the problem gained wide recognition in the 1990s, he decided to attack it with his knowledge of chemistry.</p><p>The first challenge, Hussam said, was to figure out how to get accurate measurements of arsenic in water, a technically difficult task. His success in doing so brought louder calls for help.</p><p>\"People said, \'Yes, but give us a solution! What is the solution?\' \" Hussam recalled.</p><p>That led to more years of work and the testing of hundreds of prototype filtration systems. The first consisted of three perforated plastic buckets stacked atop one another, containing layers of sand, charcoal and other absorbent substances.</p><p>His final creation -- an easy-to-make, maintenance-free, two-tiered system that uses sand, charcoal, bits of brick and shards of a widely available kind of cast iron -- removes virtually every trace of arsenic from well water. It wowed an independent panel of engineering academy judges who, under the rules of the prize, were looking for an affordable, reliable, socially acceptable and environmentally friendly solution to the arsenic problem that did not require electricity.</p><p>Prize rules also required that the product be proven in field conditions, not just in a lab. Some of the filters have been used in Bangladesh for five years now, Hussam said, and they have neither clogged nor lost their cleansing ability.</p><p>Each filter contains 20 pounds of porous iron, which forms a strong chemical bond with arsenic and is key to the system\'s success. Even if the resulting, coffee-ground-like substance is eventually dumped on the ground, he said, the arsenic will not be released as long as there is oxygen around.</p><p>Allan Smith, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Berkeley, said arsenic poisoning is a \"public health emergency\" affecting millions of people around the world, including in South America and the Southwestern United States. Part of the difficulty has been convincing people that their seemingly pristine water is toxic.</p><p>\"You can\'t see it or taste or smell it,\" Smith said. \"The idea that crystal-clear drinking water would end up causing lung disease in 20 or 30 years is a little weird. It\'s unbelievable to people.\"</p><p>The filtration systems are being assembled at the rate of about 200 a week in Kushtia for $35 to $40 each, Hussam said. More than 30,000 have been distributed, bringing clean water to about 400,000 people. About 1,000 have been distributed to elementary schools in Bangladesh.</p><p>Hussam said he will use 70 percent of his winnings to distribute his SONO filters to needy communities with the help of nongovernmental organizations, including one he created with his brother, a doctor in Bangladesh. He said 25 percent will go toward further research and development, and 5 percent will be donated to GMU.</p><p>The 2007 sustainability prize is the first in a series to be funded by the Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Ill., created in 1949 by an electrical engineer. A panel of experts decided two years ago that the first contest would be focused on the arsenic problem. In addition to Hussam, two other winners will be awarded prizes of $200,000 and $100,000. The awards will be presented Feb. 20 at Union Station in Washington.</p><p>The topic of the foundation\'s next challenge contest has not been announced.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1556','1','<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\">Scientists craft embryonic stem cell ethics rules</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>New international guidelines don\'t settle issue of payment</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 - New international guidelines on human embryonic stem cell research called for close scrutiny of scientists and clear consent from people donating cells, but did not settle the issue of paying women who donate eggs.</p><p>The International Society for Stem Cell Research, the principal scientific group for stem cell scientists, said its 15 pages of rules released Thursday were meant to establish ground rules for a field stung by a fraud scandal and opposition by some people on moral grounds.</p><p>Crafted by researchers, ethicists and legal experts from 14 countries, they are intended to encourage uniform research practices worldwide, but would not be binding.</p><p>Advocates call such research the best hope for potential cures for conditions like Alzheimer\'s disease, diabetes, Parkinson\'s disease and spinal cord injuries. Since such research requires destruction of days-old embryos, opponents call it immoral.</p><p>Critics condemned the new guidelines, published in the journal Science and on the Internet at <a href=\"http://www.isscr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.isscr.org/</a>.</p><p>The guidelines call for special scrutiny by institutions where research takes place, but do not specify a precise form of such oversight. They also require explicit consent from anyone donating cells for such research.</p><p><b><strong>No consensus on money<br></strong></b>The society failed to reach consensus on whether paying even a modest amount of money to women who donate their eggs for research should be allowed.</p><p>The scientific community is still shaken by the revelation that landmark studies on human embryonic stem cells in 2004 and 2005 led by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk were faked.</p><p>\"We certainly hope that having guidelines like this in place will act to minimize the possibility that such a debacle will occur in the future,\" the society\'s president-elect, Dr. George Daley of Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard University, said in a telephone interview.</p><p>The society said the rules embraced \"core values\" of guidelines recommended in 2005 by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, while differing in some ways.</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=\"/id/16691307/\">FDA warns doctor over stem cell implants</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16209096/\">\'Virgin birth\' process produces stem cells</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>Stem cells are a kind of master cell for the body, capable of transforming into various tissue and cell types. Those taken from days-old embryos are especially malleable but \"adult\" stem cells found in babies and adults also have shown promise.</p><p>Many scientists hope to exploit the unique qualities of those cells to repair tissue damaged by disease or injury.</p><p><b><strong>Critics unswayed<br></strong></b>Critics remained unswayed.</p><p>\"This is worthless as an ethical guide because it is issued by scientists and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their careers to destructive human cloning and human embryo research and who will profit from the expansion of these abuses,\" said Richard Doerflinger, an official with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.</p><p>\"It is a recipe guide for how to prepare the chicken, written by the foxes.\"</p><p>Some U.S. lawmakers are seeking to lift limits on federal funding for such research imposed by President Bush, who argues U.S. taxpayers should not pay for studies involving intentional destruction of human embryos.</p><p>The guidelines prohibit \"reproductive cloning\" aimed at producing cloned human babies.</p><p>The rules permit the possibility of experiments creating types of chimeras -- animals seeded with human cells -- if they are approved by an institution\'s stem cell research oversight mechanism.</p><p>Daley said the society was mindful the research was controversial. \"We wanted to give a sense of transparency, that there were serious ethical discussions going on, that scientists were willing and eager to do the science under a rigorous set of ethically acceptable guidelines,\" Daley said.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 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NBC\'s Helen Chickering reports.</font><p class=\"credit\">MSNBC</p></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\"></font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Before the echocardiogram or the prostate exam, before blood was drawn or body fat measured, the patients had a simple task: Sign the football.</p><p>The biceps drifting into this South Beach medical office this week are bigger, the attire perhaps a bit sportier and the fingers far more likely to be wearing a Super Bowl ring. The doctor is collecting autographs on more than just insurance forms; all of the patients played in the NFL.</p><p>While Peyton Manning, Brian Urlacher and the big names of today will match up this week, the stars of the past are feeling the effects of tackle-filled, turbocharged careers - and players\' advocates and the medical community are trying to help.</p><p>\"It\'s a given that by the time you leave the game you have a very thick medical file,\" said Dick Anderson, a 60-year-old NFL retiree who played in three Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins. \"You can\'t play the game and not come away with problems.\"</p><p>Anderson was among about 60 former players expected at medical screenings here sponsored by the Living Heart Foundation, a Little Silver, N.J.-based organization that is studying health risks facing professional football players. The foundation has screened about 1,000 players - mostly retired - and is compiling the most in-depth study of NFL athletes\' health.</p><p>That study continues, but data from about 550 players was analyzed and presented at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy, which was held through this week a little north in Hollywood.</p><p><b><strong>Lineman at biggest risk<br></strong></b>It found the game\'s biggest players - linemen - are most at risk, with more than a third having enlarged hearts, as many as 75 percent suffering from obstructive sleep apnea and more than half with metabolic syndrome, which puts them at greater risk for heart disease. Those rates are far greater than the general population.</p><p>\"There\'s no question that the large body size of retired NFL players is the most significant single health problem that many of them face,\" said Dr. Arthur Roberts, a former NFL quarterback who founded and heads the Living Heart Foundation. \"If they\'re former lineman and they\'re weighing 300 pounds or more, from the doctor\'s perspective I would say you\'re clearly at the increased risk for a bad outcome.\"</p><p>The trouble is, while weight-loss might alleviate current or future problems, players\' size is often key to their on-field success.</p><p>\"In my career, losing weight is not really an option,\" said New York Giants center Shaun O\'Hara, who carries 300 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame and has sleep apnea.</p><p>This is the third year Roberts and his team have held screenings where the Super Bowl is being played and more than a dozen others have been held in cities with NFL teams.</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=\"/id/16927056/\">Sex troubles?an point to?iseases</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16909706/\">Binge eating common disorder in U.S.</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 number of players participating, observers say, is a sign of a new level of health consciousness in the NFL partly fueled by the proliferation of life-curtailing injuries and the early deaths of big stars such as Reggie White.</p><p>\"The old-timers sat in the locker room and smoked and drank beer at halftime,\" said Dr. Allan Levy, a longtime team physician for the Giants. \"The players are very different now from what they were.\"</p><p><b><strong>Jarring adjustment<br></strong></b>Still, doctors say there is a jarring adjustment to post-athlete life. Players often see their movement limited by injuries and must learn to adjust their eating to a more sedentary lifestyle.</p><p>\"I didn\'t used to have this right here,\" said Frank Marion, a 55-year-old retired Giant, as he pointed to his ample midsection. \"I became one of the worst eaters because I\'m not competing anymore. Once you\'re not playing you don\'t have to maintain that weight.\"</p><p>Football players\' health first got a formal look with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health\'s 1994 release of a mortality study of 6,848 players. It defied conventional wisdom, showing NFL players overall had a death rate 46 percent lower than the general population of men of similar age and race. But it also found those on the offensive and defensive lines had a 52 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than the general population.<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">&nbsp;Super Bowl XLI</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#a4abc1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-right:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-bottom:solid 1px #a4abc1;border-left:solid 1px #a4abc1;background-color:#f3f3f6;\" bgcolor=\"#f3f3f6\"><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=\"10\"><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><b>Colts 29, Bears 17</b></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" ID=\"Table1\"><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16979094/\">It\'s not Super, but Colts prevail</a> | <a href=\"javascript:SSOpen(\'16979364\',\'0\');\">Images</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16985256/\">Borges: Dungy leads way</a> | <a href=\"/id/16982673/\">Tops his prot??/a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16982925/\">Manning named MVP</a> | <a href=\"/id/4131430/\">Vote: Do you agree?</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16990346/\">Celizic: Manning now among all-time greats</a> </font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16982712/\">Opinion: Peyton ditches curse</a> | <a href=\"/id/16984131/\">Legacy?</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16989828/\">Manning, Dungy look forward to next season</a>\n</font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16982946/\">Colts\' tag-team of backs runs down Bears</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16982828/\">Grossman fails</a> | <a href=\"/id/16990433/\">Buzz: Who\'s \'ignorant\' now?</a> </font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16984602/\">Celizic: Bears lick wounds; future bright</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16978837/\">Super diary: Minute-by-minute commentary </a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16982066/\">South Beach\'s fab parties</a> | <a href=\"/id/16982057/\">TV crew super</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"/id/16958996/\">Opinion: Chargers next year?</a> | <a href=\"/id/11194873/\">Your vote</a></font></td></tr><tr valign=\"top\"><td><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font></td><td><font color=\"black\"><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/board.aspx?BoardID=694\">Discuss the game</a> | <a href=\"/id/6840160/\">MORE COVERAGE</a></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>The NFL Players Association has funded health efforts and is trying to educate members through its newsletter and in meetings.</p><p>\"We want to get to these guys early,\" said Andre Collins, who heads outreach to retired players for the NFLPA. \"We want to educate them, we want them to lose weight, we don\'t want their hearts to work so hard.\"</p><p>Those desires are clear as players weave through the hallways of \"The South Beach Diet\" author Dr. Arthur Agatston, who loaned his exam rooms for the screenings.</p><p>The patients endure blood tests and urine analysis, sleep apnea screening and lung evaluations, not to mention measures to predict heart disease and stroke risk.</p><p>The mood is congenial. Athletes are armed with lists of the maladies for which their football careers could be blamed, but there are no regrets.</p><p>\"I think if you polled everyone here today,\" said Keith Sims, who played the offensive line for the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins, \"we\'d all go back.\"</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('1558','1','<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\">In outbreak drill, CDC readies for the \'Big One\'</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Fake flu pandemic reveals missteps in national response</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070201/070201_flu_hmed5p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Fake flu\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">John Bazemore / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee Arie Manangan uses a map to track a mock flu outbreak during a large scale exercise to see how well the CDC would react to a flu pandemic, in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br></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>ATLANTA  - This was the Big One - a deadly flu epidemic. But fortunately it was a fake.</p><p>So when U.S. health officials made some missteps in their largest-ever drill to prepare for a national outbreak of a deadly new flu, no one died.</p><p>Some information was wrong because people misstated facts as they passed them on - like a game of telephone gone slightly awry. Some information was classified, so some key public health experts didn\'t have all the facts.</p><p>And there was an ice storm - for real - that hit the Atlanta area and caused the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to stop the exercise early so employees wouldn\'t be caught in the weather.</p><p>Disaster planning has become a common concept in government, but it\'s relatively new at the CDC. \"We haven\'t had a tradition in public health\" of doing such drills, said Glen Nowak, a CDC spokesman.</p><p>The drill involved close to 300 CDC employees and was designed to run over a 24-hour period, from Wednesday to Thursday. Most of the action was at CDC\'s emergency operations center - the agency\'s equivalent to NASA\'s Mission Control in Houston.</p><p>An Associated Press reporter and three other journalists were allowed to observe - an unusual step for the CDC, but an effort to better work with the media and improve communication should a real pandemic occur.</p><p>The drill was designed and run by MPRI, an Atlanta consulting company led by retired military officers. The CDC is paying the company $7 million for its work on the drill, future exercises and some planning work.</p><p><b><strong>Fake scenario<br></strong></b>It started with CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding and her top infectious disease staff meeting Wednesday morning to confront the hypothetical disaster - we repeat, this is a fake scenario:</p><ul><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">A 22-year-old Georgetown University student who visited his family in Indonesia returned to the United States. He became seriously ill the next day and went to a Washington, D.C. hospital. Lab tests confirmed he had the bird flu that\'s been killing people in Asia</li></ul><p>In reality, this kind of influenza - scientists call it H5N1 - has not been spread efficiently from person to person. But in the drill, CDC officials got information that it spread among the student\'s family back in Indonesia and might be a contagion threat here.</p><p>More bad news...</p><ul><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">The student lived in a dormitory, and some of his housemates were reporting flu-like illness.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">He was a member of the Georgetown swim team and may have infected several members before they went to New York for a swim meet.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">He was on three different flights on his way from Jakarta to Washington, exposing hundreds of other passengers who scattered to at least 16 U.S. cities. One was a 55-year-old man who had since died in Chicago from a respiratory illness that might be bird-flu related.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">The student died. Later that day, it became clear that eight people had cases of H5N1, including the Chicago man, and tests on others were pending.</li></ul><p>At the time the exercise was cut short, the government was facing some big decisions. One was whether to start shipping from federal stockpiles more than 21 million doses of Tamiflu, and antiviral medication. Should it all go out at once, or just to states that had confirmed cases?</p><p>Another was whether to send all flights from Indonesian airports with sick patients only to certain U.S. airports - a measure that could jack up public concern and cause serious economic fallout.</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=\"/id/16927628/\">Forecasting flu like hurricanes</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16925672/\">1918 flu\'s clues may end pandemics</a> <br></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>Throughout the day, there were moments of miscommunication. In a late-morning briefing with a consulting company staffer playing the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Gerberding repeatedly said the student was in Baltimore (not Washington, D.C.). CDC officials at various times said they had passenger manifestos from two of the flights the student had been on, then they seemed to say they had the information on all, then they seemed to backtrack.</p><p><b><strong>Slips expected<br></strong></b>Slips were expected in a novel experience like this, but it\'s important to note that the facts of the case were straight at the crucial points. \"We actually had all the correct information at the time decisions were made,\" said Dr. Stephen Redd, the CDC official who was the flu pandemic expert advising the exercise\'s incident commander.</p><p>A pretend press conference held by Gerberding in the afternoon, in which CDC staffer played reporters, caused the real reporters to mutter among themselves that the outcome probably would have lead to a confusing variety of reports about whether there was a pandemic or not.</p><p>\"This is really hard. This is a really hard communication,\" Gerberding said.</p><p>More disturbing to CDC employees was how much information Gerberding and some other key officials held back, because not everyone in the room had the necessary security clearance. At one briefing, it became clear that some of the agency\'s top viral experts were in the dark about some potentially important details.</p><p>\"What we learned from this is we have to practice,\" said Dr. Richard Besser, director of the CDC\'s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.</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('1559','1','<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\">Sex troubles can point to serious health issues</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Frank questions can help doctors diagnose heart disease, diabetes early</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>LONDON - Doctors shouldn\'t shy away from asking patients about their sex lives, a new research paper advises.</p><p>Researchers say problems in the bedroom can translate into serious medical conditions, and ignoring sexual dysfunction may mean missing early indicators for heart failure, depression or other ailments, according to a paper published in Friday\'s issue of <em>The Lancet</em>.</p><p>\"Sex is a legitimate part of medicine, but it has largely been kept separate from the rest of medicine,\" said Dr. Rosemary Basson, the paper\'s lead author. Basson is based at the British Columbia Centre for Sexual Medicine in Vancouver.</p><p><b><strong>Red flags<br></strong></b>Basson and her co-author, Dr. Willibrord Weijmar Schultz of the University Medical Centre in Groningen, the Netherlands, examined numerous medical databases looking for sexual dysfunctions in combination with diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, depression, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson\'s. Many sexual problems were identified as possible red flags of underlying or imminent medical conditions.</p><p>\"If a man comes in with erectile dysfunction, it can be the tip of the iceberg,\" said Dr. Andrew McCullough, a sexual health expert at New York University Medical Center who was not connected to the paper.</p><p>Doctors are being increasingly advised to take the initiative to ask patients about their sex lives, including basic questions about who they have sex with, how frequently and if they engage in potentially risky behavior.</p><p>\"People aren\'t going to volunteer that kind of information unless they\'re specifically asked,\" said Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, chief of the infectious diseases division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, who was not involved with the research.</p><p><b><strong>Secret symptoms<br></strong></b>What patients often fail to realize, physicians say, is that sexual dysfunctions are often a symptom of something more serious.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/SexAging/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.SexAging) { displayApp(SexAging); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table>For instance, men with erectile dysfunction, the most common sexual disorder in older men, are often at increased risk of heart disease. In one study of 132 men who had heart surgery, nearly half had a history of erectile dysfunction. That diagnosis preceded the heart surgery in nearly 60 percent of the men.</p><p>In women, picking up on sex clues is more difficult. \"Women don\'t have as obvious a physical signal for sexual problems as men,\" said Basson. But a woman\'s lack of sexual desire reveals an underlying depression in up to 26 percent of cases. Taken together with other symptoms, sexual abnormalities in women could point to hormone conditions, kidney failure, diabetes, or other chronic diseases.</p><p>By using sexual problems as early indicators of medical complications, doctors can capitalize on valuable lead time to treat their patients. \"The first manifestation of early diabetes could be erectile dysfunction,\" said Zenilman. \"It may not be what men want to hear, but if it\'s caught early enough, you can still do something about it.\"</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=\"/id/16931462/\">Vote: Do you talk about sex with your doctor?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16870812/\">Sexploration: Don\'t blame him if she can\'t get no satisfaction</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>In the case of depression, patients often go for years without being treated. If astute clinicians were able to make the connection between lack of sexual desire with psychiatric conditions such as depression or post-traumatic stress syndrome, patients could be offered treatment earlier, according to Zenilman.</p><p>Yet while sexual problems can be an indicator of poor health, the prospect of better sex may persuade people to lead healthier lives.</p><p>\"Sex can be used as a great carrot for people,\" said McCullough. \"People will be more willing to make lifestyle modifications to improve their health if they think they\'ll also get improved sex.\"</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('1560','1','<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\">Bird flu can infect via upper respiratory airway</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Scientists: Virus need not penetrate deep in the lungs, but no need to panic</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>HONG KONG - Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection.</p><p>A study by scientists based in the United States in 2006 suggested that H5N1 could not infect people easily because it had to first lodge itself deep inside the lungs, where it binds more easily to certain receptors called the alpha 2-3.</p><p>But in an article published in the January issue of the journal Nature Medicine, scientists from the University of Hong Kong found that the virus could infect the nasopharynx, an area behind the nose and above the soft palate, and the throat.</p><p>\"On the earlier hypothesis, the virus has to go deep into the lungs to infect anybody but our research suggests that is not the case. The virus can get a foothold in the upper respiratory tract, it doesn\'t have to get deep down into the lungs,\" microbiology professor Malik Peiris told Reuters late on Friday.</p><p><b><strong>No need to panic</strong></b><br>Using discarded human tissues, Malik found both upper and lower human respiratory tracts could be infected by the virus.</p><p>\"Even in the upper respiratory tract (where) the alpha 2-3 receptor seems to be lacking, the H5N1 can still infect the cells ... so it raises the question of whether there may be other receptors the virus is using and highlights the point that further study is 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=\"/id/16925672/\">1918 flu gives clues to stopping next pandemic</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16927628/\">Forecasting flu outbreaks like hurricanes</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16932209/\">CDC practices for?he \'Big One\'</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>However, he said there was no reason to panic.</p><p>\"It is still not able in most cases to establish infection and has not been able to transmit human to human (efficiently). It doesn\'t change that situation as such,\" said Peiris, who has studied the H5N1 since 1997, when it made its first known jump to humans in Hong Kong, killing six people.</p><p>The virus re-emerged in late 2003 and has become endemic in several places in Asia. It has since infected 270 people around the world, killing 164 of them, according to latest figures from the World Health Organisation.</p><p>It has flared up again in recent months, spreading through poultry flocks in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand, killing six people in Indonesia and claiming its first human life in Nigeria.</p><p>Although it remains a bird disease, experts still fear it could kill millions once it learns how to pass efficiently among people.</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('1561','1','<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\">Readers speak up about public breast-feeding</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Some admit to being squeamish, others scoff at the debate</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textMedBlack\">MSNBC</div><p></p></font><p>Health experts have said time and again that breast milk is best for babies, but mothers who?breast-feed in public have found themselves targets of complaints. Why the outrage?</p><p>Holly from San Louis Obispo, Calif., noted that \"any hint of \'forbidden flesh\' is immediately sexualized, gawked at and fantasized over. Mothers, do you really want every man around you to be thinking lewd thoughts while you are feeding your child?\"</p><p>On the other hand, George from Orange, N.J., believes that \"breast-feeding is the most natural event in the world. All mammals feed their young in this way. .?It should be thought of as something we just do!\"</p><p>Others wondered why women can\'t just cover up. Read on for more reader responses:</p><p><em>I would rather see a woman breast-feeding than hear a hungry baby cry any day!<br></em><b><strong>- Caroline, Murrieta, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>Breast-feeding is the best thing you can do for your child, but a breast is a breast. Just because a child is attached to it doesn\'t make it any less of a \"private\" area of your body. ...?I think there are many alternatives that would help everyone to maintain their modesty and comfort. Since when is being considerate of those around you such a bad thing?</em> <br><b><strong>- Anonymous</strong></b></p><p><em>I live in Las Vegas. There are topless women, billboards, ads, flyers and other opportunities to see naked breasts. No one cares. That\'s because it\'s for sex. Feed a baby (what the breast was made for) and they protest. What is wrong with people?</em><br><b><strong>- George, Las Vegas</strong></b></p><p><em>I was once at a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., when a woman\'s 3-year-old child pulled up her shirt and started breast-feeding. The woman didn\'t even pay attention to the child. When a batter hit a home run, the child was distracted ... [and] held the mother\'s shirt up, exposing her breast to everyone for nearly a full minute. I think this is an example of what people don\'t want in public. It\'s the blatant exposure of a woman\'s breast in public, not the act of breast-feeding.</em><br><b><strong>- Lee, Stockton, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>I breast-fed both of my children, and I think people should show a little respect for others around. I did feed my kids whenever and where ever they were hungry. If someone around was not comfortable I would cover, and I feel women should think of others, not just themselves.<br></em><b><strong>- Jess, Ky.</strong></b></p><p><em>Yikes! I know it\'s natural, but lots of things are natural. We don\'t do them all in public. Why do women need to \'bond\' every time they feed their kid? I know there are methods available to pump milk and put it in a bottle. . It is very unappetizing to be in a restaurant and look over to see someone\'s business hanging out. ... I hear a lot of assertion of the \'rights\' of these women, but what about the \'right\' of the rest of us to not see it?</em><br><b><strong>- Anonymous</strong></b></p><p><em>I can honestly say that when I would see my aunt breast-feeding my cousins in public, I would get uncomfortable but I don\'t object to it . I know it\'s best for the baby. I feel the mother should have a blanket or something covering up and not have her breast hanging out for the world to see, but I don\'t feel that they should have to hide because we feel uncomfortable.</em> <br><b><strong>- Natali, Trumbull, Conn.</strong></b></p><p><em>I have never breast-fed. My two children are very smart and very good looking. They are very healthy and right on target. I am offended when women show their nipples and breasts in public. What is the difference when a man pees in public?</em><br><b><strong>- Jamie, Grand Rapids, Mich.</strong></b></p><p><em>Learning to nurse your first child can be challenging. When my first son was 2 months old, I was trying to nurse him in a restaurant with my in-laws. I had a blanket over him but we were both struggling a bit to get him started nursing. My mother-in-law told me to go feed him in the bathroom. I was insulted and told her to go eat her dinner on a toilet.</em><br><b><strong>- Christina, Redlands, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>Women have the right to choose when to have children. They certainly should have the right to breast-feed, as Mother Nature intended, whenever necessary, covered or not. Warmly cuddling a baby while bottle-feeding is no less important. In both cases, the child receives unmitigated love. People need to let go of their Puritan hang-ups about sex. A breast- or bottle-feeding woman is not a sexual statement. She\'s giving a child sustenance and love, period.</em><br><b><strong>- Dwight, Saratoga, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>Part of the reason this is so controversial is because in the U.S. there is really no place to go to nurse your baby. I live in Japan, and there are nursing rooms everywhere - airports, shopping malls, department stores, etc. .. Maybe the U.S. should make public facilities more nursing friendly. Then it might not be such an issue.</em> <br><b><strong>-Anne, Kitakyushu, Japan</strong></b></p><p><em>There is a time and place to take care of your baby\'s needs. We do not live in the Stone Age. They make products that you can use to alleviate a situation such as this. I say, if you are going out with your newborn, store some breast milk in bottles and use when needed. I don\'t care to see a grown woman in public, breast-feeding.</em><br><b><strong>- Tom, Toledo, Ohio</strong></b></p><p><em>No one will criminalize a mother breast-feeding a baby in Darfur. ... So it\'s insane to criminalize something when it\'s a necessity to life and it\'s natural. Is this really and issue? I am surprised if it is.</em><br><b><strong>- Aman, Malaysia</strong></b></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=\"/id/16773617/\">Food or lewd? Breast-feeding reveals divide</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16773635/\">A guy\'s guide to breast-feeding: Don\'t be a boob</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16710688/\">Breast-feeding moms need more calcium</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><em>I breast-fed until my now 5-year-old was 6 months old. It wasn\'t uncommon for me to be seen walking through Wal-Mart or the mall while breast-feeding. And when you have a colicky baby, you don\'t always have time to go someplace private. I did, however, always cover my breast with a receiving blanket while in public. My husband and I were both uncomfortable with some of the stares men gave me, even when I was covered. Some men, and some women too, seemed to be ogling my breast and my baby.</em> <br><b><strong>- Jessica, Odessa, Texas</strong></b></p><p><em>I have received a few negative looks while breast-feeding in public but no confrontations. I expect them, though, so I am prepared to tell anyone who does confront me that if they don\'t like it, don\'t look. If our teens can get away with short shirts, skirts, shorts and low-rise jeans where their pubic bones are nearly showing, then I should be able to breast-feed in public. Breasts are first and foremost meant for nursing, not sexual pleasure.</em> <br><b><strong>- Melissa, Portsmouth, Va.</strong></b></p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1562','1','<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\">Ward off cancer with bad breath</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Powerful antioxidants in onions and garlic may offer protection</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><div class=\"textMedBlackBold\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\">Karen Collins, R.D.</div><div class=\"textMedBlack\">Special to MSNBC.com</div><p></p></font><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"102\"><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><tr height=\"20\"><td width=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Test-Dev/donna/msnbc10/Launch%20images/byline_msnbc.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"100\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#000000\"></b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#666666\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-top:solid 1px #666666;border-bottom:solid 1px #666666;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=\"0\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/mugs/MSNBC%20Interactive/msnbc_collins_karen.thumb.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><font color=\"black\"><b>Karen Collins, R.D.</b></font></td></tr></table></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>In laboratory studies, certain natural compounds in onions and garlic have demonstrated cancer protection. Now population studies published in recent months provide further evidence of the link between onions and garlic and a lower risk of cancer.</p><p>However, scientists are still learning how these vegetables can promote health.</p><p>In one study, about 25,000 people from Italy and Switzerland were grouped according to how much onion and garlic they routinely ate. Some of these people had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and some formed a healthy comparison group.</p><p>Researchers controlled for known cancer risks, including BMI and calorie intake. People who used the most onion or garlic about a half-cup of chopped onion daily and a self-assessed \"high\" garlic consumption?were from 10 percent to 88 percent less likely to have various types of cancer than those who said they used little or none. </p><p>Cancers compared included cancers of the esophagus, mouth and throat, colon, breast, ovary, prostate and kidney. High onion intake, for example, was associated with a 56 percent lower risk of colon cancer and a 25 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared to no onion intake.</p><p><b><strong>Protection against colon, stomach cancer</strong></b><br>Colon cancer is one cancer research has associated with protection from onion and garlic consumption, but how much protection is unclear. In a study among more than 35,000 women in Iowa, participants who ate one clove of garlic a week had a 32 percent lower colon cancer risk than those who ate garlic once a month or less. An analysis of several studies worldwide linked a 31 percent lower risk of colon cancer with consumption of about four to five cloves of garlic weekly.</p><p>Stomach cancer is another of the cancers that research suggests may be reduced by onions and garlic, although the evidence for this association is less clear. In a study of more than 521,000 Europeans, about one tablespoon of chopped onion or three cloves of garlic eaten daily was linked six-and-a-half years later with a 30 percent lower chance of cancer developing in the lowest part of the stomach. Due to the relatively few cases of stomach cancer the participants developed, researchers couldn\'t determine whether the link is due to onion and garlic or might have occurred by chance. </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=\"/id/16911399/\">Guide to foods that heal</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16678580/\">Apples pack a big antioxidant punch</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16668688/\">Cancer deaths decline for 2nd straight year</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>A wide variation in protection seen may reflect differences between onion and garlic, in how they were prepared, or in individuals\' sensitivity to their compounds. Other studies, often from China where stomach cancer is relatively common, show that people averaging five cloves of garlic a week have about half the stomach cancer as non-garlic eaters.</p><p><b><strong>The power of antioxidants</strong></b><br>Like many vegetables, onions and garlic contain antioxidants that can block highly reactive free radicals from damaging cell DNA and starting the cancer process. Laboratory studies have shown that onion and garlic compounds can increase enzymes that deactivate carcinogens in the body, enhancing our ability to eliminate carcinogens before they do any damage. Furthermore, in the laboratory onion and garlic compounds slow the growth and stimulate the self-destruction of cancer cells that form. Given this protective potential, the challenge now is to identify amounts that will provide optimal effects.</p><p>Some research hints garlic and onion\'s protective compounds may work more effectively when combined with other compounds that work through different pathways. For example, animal studies show even greater reduction in cancer development from garlic and tomato than from either alone.</p><p>The protective effects of onion and garlic seem related to wherever cancer cells grow in the body and not to any specific tissue, such as breast or thyroid. That leads many scientists to say that although research offers more proof of onion and garlic\'s impact on some cancers than others, they are likely to offer protection against a wide range of cancers.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/tables/DiseaseFightingFoods/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.displayApp) { displayApp(DiseaseFightingFoods); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
