INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1680','2','\n\n\n	 <p>OLIVIA SIEMENS, in a shiny blue Speedo swimsuit and with goggles pinching her forehead, climbed out of the pool and draped a towel over her shoulders. Before she walked (stiffly) toward the women? locker room at the Koret Center at the University of San Francisco, she complained: ?wimming is just about the only exercise I can do these days. I? a fashion victim ?the fashion of aerobics.?/p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/08/fashion/08fitn.2.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"148\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nFrederick Schjang, above, has osteoarthritis; he taught aerobics for years. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Mrs. Siemens, 54, a jewelry designer in Berkeley, Calif., said she often took as many as six aerobics classes a week in the ?0s when, she said, ?erobics was new and everywhere and my friends and I all did it with a vengeance.?Sipping a drink from Jamba Juice, she added: ? was jogging in place with Jane Fonda. I did my jumping jacks and high knee lifts with Richard Simmons. I twirled my arms and punched the sky while hopping on one foot to the music of Olivia Newton-John. It was supposedly all about staying in shape, but look at me: I can hardly walk.?/p><p>Mrs. Siemens isn? the only possible casualty of the early aerobics craze that took millions of Americans to group exercise classes for the first time. The hordes came, believing that nonstop jumping, kicking and running in place to (bad) throbbing music was the ideal way to raise one? pulse. </p><p>? was on the concrete floors in bad tennis shoes jumping with everyone else,?said Jay Blahnik, a spokesman for the IDEA Health & Fitness Association, a trade group. Mr. Blahnik, 38, now teaches rowing, running and cycling in Orange County, but he spent a dozen years leading aerobics classes. ? lot of people doing aerobics back then can no longer do any jumping whatsoever,?he said. ?hey have problems with their backs, feet and hips.?/p><p>Some of the damage is severe. ?t? not uncommon for us to see acute and overuse injuries from high-impact aerobics,?said Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. ?t? part of the reason that aerobics classes are on the wane.?</p><p>Indeed, if current trends continue, aerobics will be as rare as, for example, those vibrating belts that were supposed to jiggle away fatty hips and gravity boots that were supposed to ?what was it they were supposed to do? For now, the popularity of aerobics is sharply down from when it was ?he mainstay of fitness in America,?said Mike May, a spokesman for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. </p><p>It? why you may have noticed ?if you have shown up at your gym attired in your best leg warmers with a sweatshirt off one shoulder ?the lack of aerobics classes on the menu. Fewer than half of the 300 gyms and health clubs recently surveyed by IDEA offered aerobics classes, a number that is ?ontinuing to decline,?according to the summation of the report. </p><p>At its peak in the mid-?0s, an estimated 17 million to 20 million did aerobics, Mr. May said. But only five million did in 2005, according to a report by the sporting goods association. ?e expect the 2006 numbers to be significantly lower,?Mr. May said. ?erobics are increasingly out of favor.?</p><p>The legacy of injuries is one reason. Many of the original instructors like Mr. Blahnik won? teach aerobics ?because they can?. ?hose hardest hit by all those aerobics were often the teachers, because they were pushing harder than anyone else and doing the classes a dozen times a week,?Dr. Metzl said. ?ur bodies just weren? meant to withstand all that pounding.?/p><p>Another reason for the decline of aerobics is that fitness has become more sophisticated, so some classes are hybrids that work the body and the mind; others offer calorie burn while minimizing wear and tear; still others alternate hard bursts with easy intervals. </p><p>?uch of the decline in aerobics has come as a result of new and innovative classes and techniques,?said Kathie Davis, the executive director of IDEA. </p><p>Dr. Kenneth Cooper, a former Air Force flight surgeon, first coined the term in the title of his 1968 book. But by ?erobics,?Dr. Cooper meant cardiovascular exercise. The name was later appropriated by the aerobics movement popularized by Jane Fonda in the late 1970s and early 1980s. </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('1681','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\">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('1682','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\">Mmm, sweaty! Women aroused by male scent</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Chemical in perspiration boosts female hormone levels, study finds</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\',\'45253614-e199-4862-8ae1-1c06403f1b35\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17046672\',\'Is male sweat a turn-on?\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070208/a_brown_sweaty_070208.300w.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\',\'45253614-e199-4862-8ae1-1c06403f1b35\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17046672\',\'Is male sweat a turn-on?\')\"></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\',\'45253614-e199-4862-8ae1-1c06403f1b35\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17046672\',\'Is male sweat a turn-on?\')\">Is male sweat a turn-on?</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 8: A U.C.-Berkeley study shows women who take a whiff of male sweat experience elevated hormone levels. MSNBC.com\'s Dara Brown tells you more. </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\"><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 - For women, apparently there\'s nothing like the smell of a man\'s sweat.</p><p>Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects.</p><p>They said the study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, represents the first direct evidence that people secrete a scent that influences the hormones of the opposite sex.</p><p>The study focused on androstadienone, considered a male chemical signal. Previous research had established that a whiff of it affected women\'s mood, sexual and physiological arousal and brain activation. Its impact on hormones was less clear.</p><p>A derivative of testosterone, it is found in male sweat as well as in saliva and semen. It smells somewhat musky.</p><p>\"It really tells us that a lot of things can be triggered by smelling sweat,\" Claire Wyart, who led the study, said in an interview Wednesday.</p><p>The researchers measured levels of the hormone cortisol in the saliva of 48 female undergraduates at Berkeley, average age of about 21, after the women took 20 sniffs from a jar of androstadienone. Cortisol is secreted by the body to help maintain proper arousal and sense of well-being, respond to stress and other functions.</p><p>Cortisol levels in the women who smelled androstadienone shot up within roughly 15 minutes and stayed elevated for up to an hour. Consistent with previous research, the women also reported improved mood, higher sexual arousal, and had increased blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.</p><p><b><strong>Cortisol boost<br></strong></b>For comparison\'s sake, women also smelled baking yeast, which did not trigger the same effects.<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td></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=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LoveLustLoyalty/tz300_LoveLust_1p.gif\" height=\"45\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Love, Lust &amp; Loyalty Survey\"></a></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><p class=\"textMed\"><a href=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\">Take the MSNBC.com/iVillage.com Survey</a></p></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>This was the first time that smelling a specific chemical secreted by people was shown to affect hormonal levels, the researchers said. The women had no skin contact with androstadienone.</p><p>The researchers used only heterosexual women in the study out of concern that homosexual women may respond differently to this male chemical.</p><p>Wyart said while this marked the first time a specific component of male sweat was demonstrated to influence women\'s hormones, other components of sweat may do similar things.</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/17046137/\">Survey: Does the smell of sweat turn you on?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/11025380/\">The Body Odd: Do women synchronize their periods?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16547251/\">Sexy people play the symmetry card</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16870812/\">Sexploration: Why 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>The study did not determine whether the increase in cortisol levels triggered mood or arousal changes or whether those changes themselves caused the cortisol elevation.</p><p>The researchers also said their findings suggest a better way to stimulate cortisol levels in patients who need it, such as those with Addison\'s disease. Instead of giving cortisol in pill form, which has side effects such as peptic ulcers, osteoporosis, weight gain and mood disorders, smelling a chemical like androstadienone could be used to affect cortisol levels, they suggested.</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('1683','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\">Opposites attract: Compatibility\'s in the genes</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Sexual chemistry, likelihood to cheat may be in your DNA, study says</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/j/msnbc/Components/Sources/Art/sourceLiveScience.gif,standard.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"><p></p></font><p>Relationship quizzes in magazines are fun, but a test for genetic compatibility might be the better way to go to see if your wife or girlfriend will cheat on you.</p><p>A new study reveals that a cluster of genes, involved in immune function among other things, could predict how sexually attracted a person is to a partner and how likely a woman is be faithful to her mate. Couples in which the individuals had dissimilar versions of so-called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes had the greatest sexual compatibility.?</p><p>\"There\'s this idea of romantic chemistry, but until now we haven\'t been able to pinpoint anything that predicts it,\" said lead researcher Christine Garver-Apgar, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico. </p><p>\"These are some of the first findings that I know of that get at this idea of romantic chemistry and what it is exactly that makes two people just so compatible and attracted to each other,\" said Garver-Apgar, whose husband is related to Virginia Apgar, who developed in 1952 the Apgar score used today in hospitals to rate a newborn\'s health. </p><p>The MHC genes direct the production of certain protein receptors that coat the outer surfaces of cells. The protein receptors signal to the body\'s immune system whether a cell is a native resident or a foreign invader. With more MHC variations, the immune system can recognize a broader range of foreign cells, making associated offspring more fit. </p><p><b><strong>All you need is DNA ...<br></strong></b>Garver-Apgar and her colleagues studied 48 romantically involved couples, ranging from 18 to 35 years old. For genetic material, they scraped cells from the inner cheeks of subjects. </p><p>The couples completed surveys at the start of the study, when the female partner was at the fertile part of her menstrual cycle and during her infertile period. Questions gauged a person\'s overall satisfaction with the current romantic relationship, contentment with in-couple sex, number of sex partners and attitude toward sex in general. </p><p>A measure of female subjects\' luteinizing hormone, which regulates egg production, indicated the stage of menstrual cycle and level of fertility. </p><p>It turned out that opposites did attract, particularly when women were most fertile. \"As the [MHC] similarity increases, women are more turned off toward the guy sexually and more likely to be fantasizing about other men, specifically when she\'s at the fertile point in her cycle,\" said study team member Randy Thornhill, a biologist at the University of New Mexico.</p><p>Not only did they fantasize, but women in similar-MHC relationships reported more sexual encounters outside with other men. </p><p>\"This speaks to the possibility that women do seek sex outside of the relationship for a particular reason and it\'s to possibly obtain genetic benefits, whether those are good genes or compatible genes,\" Garver-Apgar told LiveScience.</p><p>Men showed no discrimination when it came to sexual desire toward their partners. That supports the idea that men don\'t put as much energy into reproduction. They just copulate when the opportunity arises. </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/17049481/\">Vote: Would you have your partner tested?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16894488/\">Love, lust and loyalty: Take the survey</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16870812/\">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><b><strong>Sexual chemistry<br></strong></b>Humans might be able to sniff out a mate\'s genes to discern this immunological compatibility. Past studies have shown that some species of mice, birds, fish and lizards can identify a potential mate\'s MHC type through smell. <table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td></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=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LoveLustLoyalty/tz300_LoveLust_1p.gif\" height=\"45\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Love, Lust &amp; Loyalty Survey\"></a></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><p class=\"textMed\"><a href=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\">Take the MSNBC.com/iVillage.com Survey</a></p></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>Somehow MHC genes could set in motion the formation and release of scent molecules through a person\'s glands on their skin, the researchers suggest in the October issue of the journal Psychological Science. </p><p>Whether an MHC test could truly be more predictive of mate compatibility than magazine quizzes is outside of scientists\' realm. But cheek-scraping for DNA material is simple. </p><p>\"All you need is some DNA,\" Thornhill said, \"because the DNA is going to contain the chemistry of that person\'s genes.\"</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved. </em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1684','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\">Some birth control pills linked to blood clots</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Group seeks ban of newer, low-dose contraceptives </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\',\'f4493e63-c113-4372-9aac-1f2d9225bf22\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17025814\',\'Group claims new birth control pills aren\\u2018t safe\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070207/nc_birthcontrolwarning_070207.300w.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\',\'f4493e63-c113-4372-9aac-1f2d9225bf22\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17025814\',\'Group claims new birth control pills aren\\u2018t safe\')\"></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\',\'f4493e63-c113-4372-9aac-1f2d9225bf22\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17025814\',\'Group claims new birth control pills aren\\u2018t safe\')\">Group claims new birth control pills aren\'t safe</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 7: Do newer birth control pills pose a greater health risk? A public advocacy group claims the answer is yes. NBC\'s Brian Mooar reports.</font><p class=\"credit\">NBC News Channel</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>WASHINGTON - Certain low-dose birth control pills increase a woman\'s risk of a potentially deadly blood clot more than others and should be pulled off the market, a consumer group said Tuesday.</p><p>All contraceptive pills carry a very low risk of blood clots that, even more rarely, can travel to the lungs and kill. It is a side effect of the pills\' hormones, estrogen and progestin.</p><p>But \"third-generation\" oral contraceptives that contain a type of progestin called desogestrel can double that risk, the advocacy group Public Citizen said in a petition filed with the Food and Drug Administration that seeks to stop the sale of just those newer pills.</p><p>That means about 30 blood clots per 100,000 users, compared with 15 blood clots per 100,000 users of older \"second-generation\" birth control pills that are just as effective, Public Citizen said.</p><p>It\'s not a new issue: Labels of desogestrel-containing birth control pills already list that increased risk in fine-print warnings of side effects. And in 1995, Britain\'s drug regulators sparked a pill scare by issuing warnings about the same progestin, which sold overseas for years before hitting the U.S. market.</p><p>But Public Citizen contended that after years of research showing no extra benefit for desogestrel-containing contraceptives, it was time for users to switch to older, safer birth control pills. It was posting a video explaining the petition on YouTube to get that message to younger pill users.</p><p>\"FDA will carefully review the petition,\" said agency spokeswoman Susan Cruzan.</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('1685','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\">Fertility therapies slightly raise odds of defects</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Major Canadian study quantifies small but significant increase in risks</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070208/070208_premie_hmed4p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Preemie\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Mario Tama / Getty Images file</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Fertility treatments are already known to increase the risk of prematurity and other complications.</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 - Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.</p><p>The news comes from a study of more than 61,000 births in Canada, the largest ever done on this in North America.</p><p>\"What\'s important and reassuring is that the absolute risks are still low,\" at less than 3 percent of all births, said one of the study\'s leaders, Dr. Mark Walker of the University of Ottawa.</p><p>Even so, the risks of certain defects were startlingly high for babies born with the help of technology.</p><p>Couples who want to lower the risk should have only one or two embryos implanted at a time, specialists said. The danger of defects from twin, triplet and other multiple births is far greater than any risk posed by the fertility treatments themselves.</p><p>Results of the study were to be reported Friday at a meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in San Francisco.</p><p><b><strong>More than 1 million babies<br></strong></b>More than 1 million babies worldwide have been born through assisted reproductive technology, or ART. This includes induced ovulation, artificial insemination, IVF or in vitro (lab dish) fertilization, and more advanced methods like injecting a single sperm into an egg to create an embryo.</p><p>As many as 1 to 2 percent of births in the United States and Canada are due to such techniques. They already are known to raise the raise the risk of premature birth and other complications.</p><p>But studies have been divided over whether they increase the likelihood of birth defects. A recent scientific review concluded there is some added risk, but that most studies have been too small or flawed to be conclusive.</p><p>The Canadian work is important because it\'s a large study and quantifies the risk of specific birth defects, \"a first as far as I know,\" said Dr. Nancy Green, medical director of the March of Dimes.</p><p>Researchers studied 61,208 births in Ontario during 2005, including 1,394 that resulted from fertility treatments. They looked at rates of birth defects and adjusted estimates of risk to reflect differences in the mothers\' ages, whether they smoked, the gender of the babies, birth complications and other factors.</p><p>Nearly 3 percent of ART babies had a birth defect versus just under 2 percent for babies conceived naturally. That translated to a 58 percent greater risk. The chances of a defect rose as the complexity of reproductive help did - they were highest for IVF and lowest for simply giving medications to spur a woman\'s ovaries to make more eggs.</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/17052138/\">Spring flings lead to earlier births</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17029258/\">Born to be bad? Genetic research says maybe</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/11025380/\">Body Odd podcast: Do women synchronize periods?</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 biggest difference was seen in the rate of gastrointestinal problems, such as defects in the abdominal wall or organs not in the right place. Babies conceived through reproductive technology were nearly nine times more likely to have such problems - one in 200 births versus six per 10,000 for the others.</p><p>However, \"it\'s still pretty uncommon,\" said lead researcher Darine El-Chaar of the University of Ottawa.</p><p>The chance of cardiovascular defects was more than twice as high - 90 per 10,000 babies conceived through ART versus 40 among those conceived naturally. Defects like malformed limbs also were slightly more common, but not facial defects like cleft palate or problems like spina bifida.</p><p>The bottom line: \"I don\'t think women should worry about it,\" said Dr. Nancy Chescheir, obstetrics chief at Vanderbilt Medical Center, who had no role in the study.</p><p>The higher rates seen in this study are no worse than the 3 percent to 4 percent rates usually seen in the general population; the Canadians may have been healthier in general, she said.</p><p><b><strong>\'Not overpowering\' risks<br></strong></b>Green said the risks are \"not overpowering, but they\'re not insignificant.\"</p><p>The researchers note that people who have trouble conceiving also may have underlying genetic or health factors that could partly account for the higher rates of birth defects.</p><p>\"We think this should become part of counseling couples that are infertile,\" especially that the degree of manipulating egg and sperm may affect the risk of defects, El-Chaar 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('1686','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\">Statins may force retreat in heart disease</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Popular cholesterol drugs reduced plaque in arteries by 5 percent </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 - Statin drugs, used by millions worldwide to cut artery-clogging \"bad\" cholesterol and reduce blood vessel inflammation, may prompt heart disease to retreat, according to a study published on Tuesday.</p><p>But whether that will produce a meaningful reduction in heart attacks and strokes remains to be seen, the Cleveland Clinic study said.</p><p>The report covered 1,455 patients in four studies who were examined by ultrasound diagnostics for plaque deposits on the inner lining of the artery before and after statin treatment.</p><p>The drugs reduce levels of LDL, or so-called bad cholesterol. LDL deposits fat in the arteries while HDL, or good cholesterol, carries it off.</p><p>There was an average LDL reduction of more than 23 percent in the patients studied, said the report published in this week\'s <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em>, and an increase of HDL of more than 7 percent.</p><p>That was accompanied by a plaque reduction of 5 percent or more, a \"substantial ... regression,\" the study 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/16599586/\">DNA strand might predict heart disease</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16712281/\">Cholesterol levels may predict dementia</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>\"Although it remains to be determined whether the (artery plaque) regression associated with changes in lipid levels observed in this study will translate to meaningful reductions in clinical events (such as heart attacks), the findings suggest that modifying the levels of both detrimental and protective lipids should be an important objective in the management of patients with established coronary artery disease,\" the study concluded.</p><p>Pfizer\'s Lipitor, Merck\'s Zocor and AstraZeneca\'s Crestor are among the leading statins. The drugs lower cholesterol by inhibiting an enzyme that controls how much is produced in the body.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/statins/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.statins) { displayApp(statins); }</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('1687','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\">Heart surgery drug hikes death risk for 5 years</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Drug also boosts chance of kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, study says</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>CHICAGO - A drug widely used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart surgery appears to raise the risk of dying in the five years afterward by nearly 50 percent, an international study found.</p><p>The researchers said replacing the drug - aprotinin, sold by Bayer AG under the brand name Trasylol - with other, cheaper medications for a year would prevent 10,000 deaths worldwide over the next five years.</p><p>The findings were more bad news for Trasylol: The same scientists found the drug raised the risk of kidney failure, heart attacks and strokes in a study published last year. Most of the deaths in the new study were related to those problems.</p><p>Bayer said in a statement that the findings are unreliable because Trasylol tends to be used in more complex operations and the researchers\' statistical analysis did not fully account for the complexity of the surgery cases.</p><p>Nevertheless, the drug company said it will \"work with regulatory agencies and external experts in the field to further evaluate the findings.\"</p><p><b><strong>After-market safety concerns</strong></b><br>The study, published in Wednesday\'s <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em>, intensifies questions about how best to track the safety of drugs after they have gone on the market. The Food and Drug Administration approved aprotinin in 1993.</p><p>Last year\'s study and other research led the FDA to review Trasylol\'s safety and order stronger warning labels in December. But that action wasn\'t strong enough, said Dr. Dennis Mangano of the nonprofit Ischemia Research and Education Foundation, lead author of both studies.</p><p>The FDA is already reviewing aprotinin\'s safety. The new study is an important contribution to that review, which could result in additional warnings, said Dr. Dwaine Rieves, deputy director in the FDA\'s Division of Medical Imaging and Hematology Products.</p><p>The drug works by blocking enzymes that dissolve blood clots, and Mangano speculated that clotting problems caused the deaths.</p><p>Mangano advised patients to ask their doctors what drug, if any, they will be given to slow bleeding during heart surgery and about the risks. Past patients should find out if they have been given aprotinin so their doctors can watch for problems, he said.</p><p>\"I believe that for the vast majority of coronary bypass patients the drug should not be used,\" Mangano said. But he said the drug should remain on the market because some very high-risk patients may benefit from it.</p><p>Dr. Brett Sheridan, a heart surgeon with the University of North Carolina Health Care System who was not involved in the study, said several years ago he quit giving aprotinin almost entirely because he had seen more kidney damage in patients who got the drug.</p><p>\"It\'s not a perfect study, but the data are compelling enough that we have to use aprotinin judiciously,\" Sheridan said of the new research.</p><p><b><strong>Risk of death increased by 48 percent</strong></b><br><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/6852335&#xA;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/040519/hearthealth_quiz_TZ.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/6852335\');\"></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/6852335&#xA;\">Heart attacks</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Are you at risk?</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></table>The study followed 3,876 patients who had heart bypass surgery at 62 medical centers in 16 nations. Researchers compared patients who received aprotinin to patients who got other drugs or no anti-bleeding drugs. Over five years, 20.8 percent of the aprotinin patients died, versus 12.7 percent of the patients who received no anti-bleeding drug.</p><p>When researchers adjusted for other factors, they found that patients who got Trasylol ran a 48 percent higher risk of dying in the five years afterward.</p><p>The other drugs, both cheaper generics, did not raise the risk of death significantly.</p><p>Cost varies depending on dosage and length of surgery, but a two-hour bypass surgery might require $792 in Trasylol, compared with $7 to $35 for one of the generics.</p><p>The study was not a randomized trial, meaning that it did not randomly assign patients to get aprotinin or not. In their analysis, the researchers took into account how sick patients were before surgery, but they acknowledged that some factors they did not account for may have contributed to the extra deaths.<b><strong><br></strong></b>Aprotinin joins the painkiller Vioxx, drug-coated stents and other drugs and devices where safety concerns arose after the products were on the market.</p><p>\"We don\'t know enough about what happens with drugs and devices once they go into the public domain,\" said Dr. Bruce Ferguson of East Carolina University, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study. Drug companies will have to help pay for a better system of post-market safety research because the government can\'t afford to do it alone, he said.</p><p>Similarly, Mangano said: \"I would love to see something change as a result of 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/16891347/\">FDA may start issuing drug \'report cards\'</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16776041/\">Antidepressant, not therapy, aids heart patients</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>Last week, FDA officials announced plans to assess safety in the first 18 months a drug is on the market.</p><p>The earlier study prompted at least two lawsuits against Bayer, including one from 78-year-old Tennessee resident Ada Williams, who was given the drug during heart surgery in 2004.</p><p>\"She has to live the rest of her life on dialysis three days a week to keep her alive,\" said her attorney, Craig Niedenthal, one of several lawyers advertising for Trasylol plaintiffs on the Internet.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/d/ip/heartBypass/data.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.heartBypass) { displayApp(heartBypass); }</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('1688','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\">Hairstylists called on to teach stroke symptoms</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Barbers, beauticians spread health knowledge to a captive audience</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070207/070207_strokebeauty_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Image: Dorothea Jones\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Al Behrman / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Dorothea Jones poses inside her beauty salon, DJ\'s Image, in Cincinnati. Jones is one of hundreds of beauticians in two cities, Cincinnati and Atlanta, taught by researchers to recognize stroke warning signs and spread the word. </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>Two women in Cincinnati had better leave big tips the next time they get their hair done.</p><p>They survived strokes thanks to fast action by their beauticians, who were taking part in a novel program to raise stroke awareness as they clipped, straightened and braided their customers\' hair.</p><p>One stylist noticed that a woman\'s speech was slurred, and called for help. Another woman called her hairdresser weeks after having been in the shop, describing symptoms she was having.</p><p>\"The beautician recognized it as signs of a stroke, called 911, walked to the woman\'s apartment and waited with her until an ambulance arrived,\" said Dr. Dawn Kleindorfer, a University of Cincinnati neurologist who led the project and reported results Wednesday at an American Stroke Association conference in San Francisco.</p><p>Beauticians and barbers increasingly are being used like churches to spread the word about stroke, cancer and other diseases. What they can do may be as important as any doctor, drug or diagnostic test.</p><p>That is because the key factor to surviving a stroke and limiting its damage is time. The main treatment - a clot-busting medicine called tPA - must be given within three hours of the start of symptoms to do any good. But fewer than 5 percent of stroke sufferers wind up getting it.</p><p>\"By far the biggest reason is people delay going into the hospital is because they don\'t know the signs or realize it\'s an emergency,\" Kleindorfer said.</p><p>She signed up dozens of stylists in Cincinnati and Atlanta in 2005 for a pilot project to teach customers the warning signs.</p><p><b><strong>A captive audience</strong></b><br><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 valign=\"top\"><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=\"&#xA;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10711800&#xA;&#xA;\"><a href=\"javascript:OpenChildWindow(\'http://www.msnbc.com/news/wld/graphics/strokes.asp\',\'\',\'width=520,height=405\');\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/031107/TEASES/StrokeCauses_TZ152.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></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/10711800\');\"></div></td></tr></table></td><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"551E1B\">?/font><font class=\"textMedBlackBold\"><a href=\"&#xA;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10711800&#xA;&#xA;\">How strokes happen</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">An interactive look at the causes and risk factors</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></table>Why beauty shops?</p><p>\"This is a great captive audience,\" she said. \"African-American hairstyles can take a long time. They\'re there for a long time with someone they know and trust.\"</p><p>Doctors trained the stylists, who then quizzed nearly 400 of their customers on stroke knowledge, talked with them as they did their hair, and sent them home with wallet cards with the stroke warning signs.</p><p>They used a simple memory device - FAST, which stands for face, arm, speech, time. Numbness or weakness of the face or arm, especially on one side, and slurred speech are warning signs. Time refers to the window of opportunity for help.</p><p>Customers were surveyed again at follow-up appointments roughly six weeks and five months later.</p><p>At the start of the program, only 41 percent could name three warning signs. By the end, 51 percent could. The number who knew no stroke symptoms also declined.</p><p>Awareness of the need to immediately call 911 improved. But knowledge of stroke risk factors - high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking - did not.</p><p>The detection of two strokes by stylists was an unexpected benefit. The women involved did not want to be identified or discuss it.</p><p>The Hazel K. Goddess Fund for Stroke Research in Women paid for the program.</p><p><b><strong>\'Not everybody goes to the doctor\'</strong></b><br>\"I felt that it was much needed in an ethnic salon and the black community,\" said Dorothea Jones, owner of DJ\'s Image, a Cincinnati salon that participated.</p><p>\"We come in contact with so many people and they can take it back to their families,\" said Jones, who also was motivated because her nephew suffered a stroke and had to go through rehabilitation.</p><p>\"It\'s very promising,\" said Dr. Michael Sloan, a stroke specialist at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte who had no role in the study.</p><p>\"We\'re trying to find ways to get the word out,\" and targeting beauty shop customers and workers seems ideal, he said. \"They tell them gossip, their personal lives, their secrets. That type of rapport gives an opportunity\" to share health tips, Sloan 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/17010724/\">Heart surgery drug increases death risk</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17005668/\">Loneliness linked to heart disease, dementia</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>Virgil Simons, head of the advocacy group Prostate Net, thought the same thing when he signed up hundreds of barbers to talk to customers about prostate cancer in 2004, to coincide with release of the movie \"Barbershop 2.\" Its maker, MGM, helped finance the campaign.</p><p>\"Not everybody goes to the doctor,\" Simons said in an interview last week. \"The barber is someone they\'ve seen, in many cases, since they were a kid. He\'s a pillar of the community, a business leader, a culturally credible communicator. While he\'s cutting hair, he can say, \'Hey, when is the last time you had your PSA checked?\"\'</p><p>His project reached more than 10,000 men in its first year and now includes more than 800 barbers around the country. Other groups have used beauticians to raise awareness of breast cancer and mammograms.</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('1689','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\">Physical abuse leads to adult depression</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Affected children have increased risk of major psychological problems</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 - Physically abused and neglected children are much more likely to grow into severely depressed adults, a finding that researchers said Monday points to an urgent need to test abused children for depression early on.</p><p>Physically abused children have a 59 percent increased risk of lifetime major depression compared with similar children who were not abused, said the study in this month\'s issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.</p><p>Earlier studies had linked childhood abuse with serious depression but researchers said this study is the first to show that depression is a consequence of the abuse.</p><p>\"These results underscore the need to detect and treat the long-term psychological (effects) of childhood neglect,\" wrote lead researcher Cathy Spatz Widom, who was with the New Jersey Medical School in Newark when she worked on the study.</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/16185848/\">FDA: Antidepressants risky for young adults</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>Researchers compared about 680 children who were abused and neglected before the age of 11 with 520 children of similar age, race, sex, and social status. Both groups were followed into young adulthood, up to an average age of 29.</p><p>Children who were physically abused, neglected or both had as much as a 75 percent higher risk of suffering major depression as adults.</p><p>\"In addition, these findings reveal that onset of depression began in childhood for many of the children,\" the report said.</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('1690','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\">Loneliness linked to heart disease, dementia</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study finds depressed elderly had more hardening of the arteries</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 - Depression, severe mental illness and loneliness are linked to illnesses such as heart disease and dementia, according to several studies published Monday.</p><p>The exact connections between a dysfunctional mind and a malfunctioning body remains an ongoing question, but at least one of three sets of researchers writing in the Archives of General Psychiatry said several factors may be at work.</p><p>Dr. Jesse Stewart, formerly of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, found a correlation between depression and hardening of the arteries in his three-year study of 324 men and women who averaged 60 years old.</p><p>The arteries of those who were most depressed had narrowed twice as much as those who were least depressed, the study found.</p><p>Hardening of the arteries can be a precursor to a heart attack or stroke and may occur because of a malfunctioning nervous system in depressed people, Stewart wrote.</p><p>Depression may also upset the body\'s regulation of glands that release chemicals governing energy level and growth, and alter the functioning of cells responsible for blood clotting.</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/16611042/\">Bilingualism can delay dementia</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16756646/\">Antidepressants linked to broken bones</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/16712281/\">Cholesterol levels may predict dementia</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>Hardening of the arteries leads to an overreaction of the immune system and the resulting inflammation is known to release chemicals that can have effects on behavior, he added. The brain, too, can suffer from the reduced blood flow, reinforcing the depression and the resulting ailments, he wrote.</p><p><b><strong>More \'holistic\' approach</strong></b><br>In the same journal, a British study of 46,136 severely mentally ill people found those who were younger than 50 were more than three times as likely to die from coronary heart disease and stroke than people not suffering from mental illness. Mental illness more than doubled the risk of dying from heart disease for people up to age 75.</p><p>The risk of dying from heart disease was even higher among those taking antipsychotic medication, and study author David P.J. Osborn at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London.</p><p>Osborn urged a more \"holistic\" approach to caring for the mentally ill, with more frequent monitoring of such vital signs as blood pressure and cholesterol and more attention to diet and exercise that often go neglected.</p><p>A third study found that a persistent feeling of loneliness among the elderly doubled their risk of developing Alzheimer\'s-like symptoms compared to those who felt connected to others.</p><p>Autopsies on 90 of the study participants who died - the only sure diagnosis - did not turn up the tell-tale plaques, tangles and brain tissue damage of Alzheimer\'s, however.</p><p>That finding suggested something else to study author Robert Wilson of Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. He wrote that depression from loneliness somehow damaged the brain\'s ability to compensate for the age-related deterioration of the pathways that underlie social behavior and induced dementia.</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('1691','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\">Autism rate in U.S. higher than thought</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>1 in 150 children affected by little-understood disorder, major study finds</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\">NBC 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\',\'c237a0cf-64b8-4ba8-8b8f-4a8ad578f9f9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17047824\',\'Survey: Autism more common than believed\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070208/n_nod_autism_070208.300w.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\',\'c237a0cf-64b8-4ba8-8b8f-4a8ad578f9f9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17047824\',\'Survey: Autism more common than believed\')\"></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\',\'c237a0cf-64b8-4ba8-8b8f-4a8ad578f9f9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17047824\',\'Survey: Autism more common than believed\')\">Survey: Autism more common than believed</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 8: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that autism is more common in the United States than anyone had estimated. NBC\'s Tom Costello has the details. </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>ATLANTA - The largest U.S. study of childhood autism to date has found that about 1 in 150 have the disorder - a higher prevalence than previous national estimates.</p><p>The autism rate was about 6.6 per 1,000 in the new study based on data from 2002. It was released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, the agency had estimated the rate was about 5.5 in 1,000.</p><p>The research involved an intense review of medical and school records for children in all or part of 14 states and gives the clearest picture yet of how common autism is in some parts of the country, CDC officials said.</p><p>However, those states are not demographically representative of the nation as a whole, so officials cautioned against using the results as a national average.</p><p>Also, the study does not answer whether autism is increasing - a controversial topic, driven in part by the contention by some parents and advocates that autism is linked to a vaccine preservative. The best scientific studies have not borne out that claim.</p><p>\"We can\'t make conclusions about trends yet,\" because the study\'s database is too new, said Catherine Rice, a CDC behavioral scientist who was the study\'s lead author.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"1%\"><tr><td><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070208/AP_DevelopmentalDisorders.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"305\" width=\"182\" 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>Autism is a complex disorder usually not diagnosed in children until after age 3. It is characterized by a range of behaviors, including difficulty in expressing needs and inability to socialize. The cause is not known.</p><p>Scientists have been revising how common they think the disorder is. Past estimates from smaller studies have ranged from 1 out of every 10,000 children to nearly 1 in 100.</p><p>Last year\'s estimate of 5.5 out of every 1,000 U.S. children was based on national surveys of tens of thousands of families with school-age kids. That fit into a prevalence range found in other recent studies.</p><p><b><strong>More accurate count</strong></b><br>The CDC also has been developing an alternate way of measuring autism prevalence, building a network of university and state health departments for ongoing surveillance of autism and developmental disabilities. The study released Thursday is one of the first scientific papers to come out of that effort.</p><p>\"This is a more accurate rate because of the methods they used,\" said Dr. Eric Hollander, an autism expert at New York\'s Mount Sinai School of Medicine.</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/17054737/site/newsweek/\">Newsweek: Experts answers questions on autism stats</a></li><li><a href=\"http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?BoardID=762&amp;ThreadID=190478&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Message Board: Why do you think autism is on the rise?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17051578/\">Surprise hope for Rett syndrome sufferers</a></li></ul><p></p></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"\" bordercolor=\"\" border=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#eeeeee;\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\"><tr><td style=\"\"><font class=\"textSmall\" color=\"#000000\"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><p>The study involved 2002 data from parts or all of 14 states - Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.<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;SPECIAL REPORT</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=\"/id/6844737/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Autism/TZ300_Autism_050222_3.gif\" height=\"80\" width=\"300\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></td></tr><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=\"/id/6844737/\">Special coverage from MSNBC and NBC News</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>Researchers looked specifically at children who were 8 years old that year. They said most children with autism are identified for medical or educational services by that age.</p><p>The researchers checked health records in each area and school records when they were made available, looking for children who met diagnostic criteria for autism. They used those numbers to calculate a prevalence rate for each study area.</p><p>The rates varied from 3.3 per 1,000 in the study site in Alabama, which was made up of the state\'s 32 northernmost counties, to 10.6 in the site in New Jersey, which involved four counties, including metropolitan Newark.</p><p>Researchers say they don\'t know why the rate was so high in New Jersey. They think the Alabama rate was low at least partly because researchers had limited access to special education records there.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/interactives/_prod/Autism_SignsSymptoms/data.js\"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.Autism_SignsSymptoms) { displayApp(Autism_SignsSymptoms); }</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('1692','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\">Get a mental health boost from video games</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>New games aim to improve self-esteem, reduce stress</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>It\'s not all fun and violence in video games, according to makers of a new genre of games which claim to boost players\' mental health and self-esteem.</p><p>A group of developers inspired by the success of Nintendo Co. Ltd.\'s \"Brain Age\" title that gets the gray matter working with math and word puzzles, hopes to harness the power and popularity of video games to boost psychological health.</p><p>Among them is Tokyo-based Dimple Entertainment, which in May will begin selling the unconventional title \"DS Therapy\" in Japan for Nintendo\'s hand-held DS player.</p><p>Answer a few light-hearted questions on topics ranging from love to money and the title promises to deliver a measurement on your mental and emotional health on a daily basis.</p><p>Mark Baldwin, a psychology professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and designer of another new title \"MindHabits Booster,\" is hoping his game will make people feel good about themselves.</p><p>Baldwin and his research team designed the game based on social psychology research after finding that repetitive components from video game play could be used to shape the way people think and how they perceive themselves.</p><p>The game, distributed via <a href=\"http://www.mindhabits.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mindhabits.com</a>, tries to address insecurity and stress by having players repeatedly pick a smiling, approving face from a group of frowning faces, training players to look for acceptance and ignore rejection.</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 border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/ColorBoxes/Styles/ColorBoxImages_GlobalOnlyPlease/interactive_icon.gif\" height=\"14\" width=\"24\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">Test yourself </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=\"/id/3296793/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/031107/Quiz_TZ152.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"150\" 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=\"/id/3296793/\">Are you caught in a cycle of stress</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>\"All it does is change your attention from one thing to another, but that can make a big difference (in self-esteem and lower stress),\" said Baldwin, who is releasing new game study results later this year and hopes to take his game from the lab to stores.</p><p><b><strong>Positive impact<br></strong></b>While most of the headline-grabbing research around video games has tended to probe the link between violent games and aggressive behavior, there is a growing body of research looking at the more positive impact of play.</p><p>A study conducted by West Virginia University and supported by Konami Digital Entertainment claimed that consistent usage of the \"Dance Dance Revolution\" game \"improved the health, attitudes and behaviors of participating children.\"</p><p>Researchers at the University of Rochester recently reported finding that children and adults play video games because they fulfill basic psychological needs such as opportunities for achievement, freedom and a sense of connection to others.</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/17068903/\">Vote: Would you buy this type of video game?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16927148/\">W.Va. to plug in arcade games for weight loss</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17015670/\">WP: Toys with online lives are transforming play</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>Mary Jane Zamora, 50, doesn\'t need an academic to tell her that playing games has helped to boost her well-being.</p><p>Zamora, of Redondo Beach, California, is recovering from a bout with breast cancer and has been rebuilding her strength and agility playing virtual golf, bowling and tennis on Nintendo\'s new Wii console, which has a motion-sensing controller that lets players mimic real-world moves.</p><p>Zamora, who worked in advertising for years, said the games helped her visualize her new life after her \"year of fear.\"</p><p>\"My life is coming back. It\'s not about loss. It\'s about setting aside what I was and evolving into an even better person ... This has been a cornerstone,\" said Zamora.</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('1693','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/28/2007\";</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> (Reuters) -- The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick is suffering from liver damage after contracting the Hepatitis C virus more than 35 years ago, she said on her Web site on Wednesday.</p><p>Roddick, 64, one of Britain\'s best known businesswomen, developed the potentially deadly disease from infected blood given to her during the birth of her youngest daughter, Sam, in 1971.</p><p>&quot;I have Hepatitis C -- it\'s a bit of a bummer but you groan and move on,&quot; she said. &quot;I had no idea that I had this virus. I was having routine blood tests when it showed up.&quot;</p><p>Roddick, who agreed to sell her stake in the beauty retailer to France\'s L\'Oreal last year, said she faces an increased risk of liver cancer.</p><p>&quot;I do have cirrhosis. I could still have a good few years -- even decades -- of life left but it\'s hard to say,&quot; her statement said. &quot;Having Hep C means that I live with a sharp sense of my own mortality.&quot;</p><p>Hepatitis C is a virus that attacks the liver and can be carried in the blood for decades. It can cause liver failure or cancer.</p><p>There are an estimated 200 million people worldwide infected with the disease, according to the British charity, The Hepatitis C Trust.</p><p>There is no vaccine but drug treatments can help between 50 percent and 80 percent of sufferers, the Trust said.</p><p>Roddick has become a patron of the Hepatitis C Trust.</p><p>&quot;I want to blow the whistle on the fact that Hep C must be taken seriously as a public health challenge and must get the attention and resources that it needs,&quot; she said.</p><p>Roddick founded The Body Shop in Brighton in 1976, selling toiletries made from natural ingredients, preferably sourced from the developing world.</p><p>It grew into an empire of more than 2,000 stores, selling everything from seaweed moisturizer to ylang ylang massage oil.</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('1694','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/15/2007\";</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> (AP)  -- The government warned on Tuesday of potentially life-threatening twisting of the intestines in infants vaccinated against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhea.</p><p>The condition, called intussusception, is the same that led to the withdrawal of the first rotavirus vaccine eight years ago.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration said it was unknown whether the recently approved vaccine, called RotaTeq, caused the 28 new cases. The condition also can occur spontaneously. Indeed, the reports don\'t exceed the numbers expected to occur naturally each year -- the so-called background rate, the FDA said.</p><p>&quot;It looks like this is the natural background rate that we are seeing,&quot; said Dr. Michelle Goveia, medical director for pediatric medical affairs at the vaccine\'s manufacturer, Merck &amp; Co. Inc. Goveia suggested heightened concerns about the previous vaccine, made by Wyeth, prompted the FDA to act.</p><p>In Tuesday\'s public health notification, the agency said it wanted in part to encourage reporting of any additional cases of intestinal twisting or blockage to help it assess any risks associated with the three-shot vaccine series. It also said the vaccine\'s label would mention the cases of intussusception.</p><p>Dr. Paul Offit, the vaccine\'s co-inventor, said the 28 reports were well below the hundreds of cases one would expect naturally. He suggested the FDA wanted to &quot;shake the tree&quot; for more reports about the vaccine.</p><p>&quot;I am actually encouraged by those data: 28 cases, when you would have expected at least 500 cases, that is really reassuring,&quot; said Offit, of the Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia. &quot;I don\'t see how those numbers suggest something\'s awry. If anything, they suggest nothing\'s awry.&quot;</p><p>The 28 cases included 16 infants who required intestinal surgery. There have been no reports of deaths.</p><p>RotaTeq received FDA approval in February 2006. At the time, the FDA and Merck said trials of the vaccine involving nearly 70,000 infants indicated it did not increase the risk of intussusception. But Merck and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are conducting follow-up studies of tens of thousands more infants to track any long-term effects of the vaccine. The FDA also is monitoring reports.</p><p>About 3.5 million doses of the Merck vaccine have been distributed in the U.S., though not all have been used, the FDA said.</p><p>The earlier rotavirus vaccine, Wyeth\'s RotaShield, was pulled from the U.S. market in 1999 after it was linked to a small increase in intussusception. It had been on the market a year.</p><p>In the United States, rotavirus sickens about 2.7 million children younger than 5, sends up to 70,000 to the hospital and causes 20 to 70 deaths each year.</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('1695','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; MRI scans show activity in caudate area of the brain at the sight of one\'s beloved<br> &#8226; When you\'re in love, caudate area flooded with dopamine, a pleasure chemical<br> &#8226; Researcher: &quot;Exactly the same system becomes active as when you take cocaine&quot; </div><div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" ><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  Elizabeth Cohen<br> CNN Medical Correspondent</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) -- Close your eyes for a minute and envision all the romantic parts of the human body. </p><p>Her beautiful eyes. His strong shoulders. We\'ll stop there, but you go right ahead and think about all the body parts you want.</p><p>Bet you didn\'t think about the caudate and the ventral tegmental areas, did you? </p><p>These areas of the brain, while little known to most people, are helping scientists explain the physiological reasons behind why we feel what we feel when we fall in love. </p><p>By studying MRI brain scans of people newly in love, scientists are learning a lot about the science of love: Why love is so powerful, and why being rejected is so horribly painful. </p><p>In a group of experiments, Dr. Lucy Brown, a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and her colleagues did MRI brain scans on college students who were in the throes of new love. </p><p>While being scanned, the students looked at a photo of their beloved. The scientists found that the caudate area of the brain -- which is involved in cravings -- became very active. Another area that lit up: the ventral tegmental, which produces dopamine, a powerful neurotransmitter that affects pleasure and motivation. </p><p>Dr. Brown said scientists believe that when you fall in love, the ventral tegmental floods the caudate with dopamine. The caudate then sends signals for more dopamine. </p><p>&quot;The more dopamine you get, the more of a high you feel,&quot; Dr. Brown says. </p><p>Or as her colleague, Dr. Helen Fisher put it: When you fall in love, &quot;exactly the same system becomes active as when you take cocaine. You can feel intense elation when you\'re in love. You can feel intense elation when you\'re high on cocaine.&quot;</p><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv3\"></a><h3>Is it love -- or sex?</h3><p>Scientists then wondered: Does a brain in love look much like a sexually stimulated brain? After all, we associate love and sex and sometimes confuse them. </p><p>The answer is: Brains in love and brains in lust don\'t look too much alike. </p><p>In studies when researchers showed erotic photos to people as they underwent brain scans, they found activity in the hypothalamus and amygdala areas of the brain. The hypothalamus controls drives like hunger and thirst and the amygdala handles arousal, among other things.</p><p>In the studies of people in love, &quot;we didn\'t find activity in either,&quot; according to Dr. Fisher, an anthropologist and author of &quot;Why We Love -- the Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love.&quot; </p><p>&quot;We now have physiological data that suggests there are different brain systems for sex and love,&quot; says Dr. Fisher. </p><p>At some point, the two do become linked. People in love have elevated levels of dopamine. Lots of dopamine, in turn, triggers the production of testosterone, which is responsible for the sex drive in both men and women. </p><p>This helps explain why falling in love can make someone all of a sudden seem sexy. </p><p>&quot;Three weeks ago he was just another nice guy in the office and now everything about him is sexual,&quot; says Dr. Fisher. </p><p>All this research into sex and love got the researchers thinking: Most other mammals don\'t have this drive for romantic love and attachment. Why do humans have it? After all, we could easily propagate the species just with our sexual urges. </p><p>Dr. Fisher thinks it has a lot to do with how difficult it once was to raise children. </p><p>&quot;Go back millions of years to the grasslands of Africa. A woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-pound bowling ball in one arm, and sticks and rocks in another arm to protect herself in this dangerous environment. She needed a partner to help her. She couldn\'t do it alone,&quot; Dr. Fisher says. </p><p>And even today, when we have strollers and the environment isn\'t quite as dangerous, having a mate still helps. &quot;There are women who raise a baby by themselves, but it\'s a lot harder,&quot; she says. </p><a name=\"2\"></a><a name=\"rv2\"></a><h3>Male brain - female brain</h3><p>In their work with the lovestruck, the scientists found brain differences between men and women. </p><p>&quot;The men had quite a bit more activity in the brain region that integrates visual stimuli. This isn\'t surprising considering that men support the porn industry and women spend their lives trying to look good for men,&quot; says Dr. Fisher. </p><p>But she adds there\'s probably a more anthropological reason at work. Simply put: A man\'s evolutionary mission is to spread his seed. That won\'t work if he mates with an 80-year-old grandmother. </p><p>&quot;Men have to be able to size up a woman visually to see if she can bear babies,&quot; says Dr. Fisher. </p><p>The women\'s brain activities were a bit more puzzling. </p><p>The scientists found that women in love had more activity than men in the areas of the brain that govern memories. Dr. Fisher theorizes that this is a &quot;female mechanism for mate choice.&quot; There are no visual clues for whether a man is fertile, but if a woman really studies a man and remembers things about his behavior, she can try to determine whether he\'d make a reliable mate and father. </p><p>Thus, if it sometimes seems like a woman remembers everything -- good and bad -- about a man, &quot;it\'s not just her being picky. It\'s an old Darwinian evolutionary strategy.&quot; </p><a name=\"3\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>What\'s love got to do with it?</h3><p>In the end, Drs. Fisher and Brown say what they learned from lovers\' brains is that romantic love isn\'t really an emotion -- it\'s a drive that\'s based deep within our brains, right alongside our urges to find food and water. </p><p>&quot;This helps explain why we do crazy things for love,&quot; says Dr. Brown. &quot;Why did Edward VIII give up the throne for Wallis Simpson? The systems that are built into us to find food and water are the things that were also active when he renounced the throne of England.&quot; </p><p>Now their research is centered on the flip side of love. They\'ve recruited college students who\'d just been rejected by their sweethearts. Again, the scientists performed MRI\'s while these students looked at photos of the objects of their affection.</p><p>This time, the results were different, Dr. Brown says. The insular cortex, the part of the brain that experiences physical pain, became very active.</p><p>&quot;People came out of the machine crying,&quot; she said. &quot;We won\'t be doing that experiment again for a long time.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Elizabeth Cohen is a correspondent with CNN Medical News. Producer Amy Burkholder contributed to this report.</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1696','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/28/2007\";</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)  -- As more Americans struggle with growing waistlines, U.S. health officials Wednesday set out their own tips for drugmakers seeking to develop products for people trying to shed pounds.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration\'s draft guidelines -- more than 10 years in the making -- aim to help companies develop and test new drugs and devices for treating obesity.</p><p>About a third of U.S. adults, or more than 60 million people, are obese and another third are overweight, government statistics show. Nearly a fifth of U.S. children weigh too much.</p><p>The FDA proposed that companies should prove their products can help people lose weight and keep it off for at least a year. It also urged them to study people with a body mass index of at least 30 or those with a BMI of at least 27 who have weight-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.</p><p>BMI is calculated using a person\'s weight and height. People with a score of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight, and those at 30 or higher are considered obese.</p><p>&quot;In general, patients should have or be at significant risk for weight-related morbidity and mortality,&quot; the FDA said.</p><p>The proposed guidelines come as more drugmakers look to enter the U.S. weight-loss sector, which some analysts have said remains untapped.</p><p>Overweight individuals are at risk for other, potentially life-threatening problems. In addition to diabetes, high-blood pressure and certain cancers are also possible.</p><p>Drugs usually aim to help people lose weight by curbing their appetite or preventing fat absorption. Some devices, such as Allergan Inc.\'s Lap-Band, are used in surgical procedures to limit stomach size.</p><p>Last week, GlaxoSmithKline Plc won U.S. approval to sell an over-the-counter version of Roche AG\'s prescription obesity drug Xenical, called Alli.</p><p>Sanofi-Aventis is also awaiting the FDA\'s ruling on its Acomplia drug, which the agency earlier this week postponed until July.</p><p>Although the guidelines are non-binding, drugmakers often rely on them when developing products. Companies may take other approaches as long as they meet legal standards, the FDA said.</p><p>They could also help prompt more manufacturers to develop weight-loss solutions.</p><p>&quot;Given the large market opportunity, the health consequences of no therapy, we were shocked that we could only find 17 companies&quot; with products on the market or in advanced development, Susquehanna Financial Group analysts wrote in a recent research note.</p><p>FDA officials first proposed the guidelines in 1996, but they lingered until 2004, when the FDA sought public comments.</p><p>The revised version, now on the FDA\'s Web site, includes advice on products for children as well as those combining two or more drugs. It also offers guidance for products aimed at patients whose extra pounds result from other medications.</p><p>&quot;The use of weight-management products in pediatric patients, as in adults, should be contemplated only after a sufficient trial of lifestyle modification has failed,&quot; the FDA said.</p><p>The proposal calls for studies to include a wide variety of patients from different regions and racial backgrounds.</p><p>The FDA invited public comment on the proposal but gave no deadline. </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('1697','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/28/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Aversion to sibling romance is an instinct, not taught, researchers say <br> &#8226; Key is time an older sibling spends watching mom care for a younger one<br> &#8226; Study contradicts Freud\'s theory of Oedipal urges and conflicts<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)  -- Researchers who wanted to find out why it is not only taboo to kiss your sister, but also disgusting, said Wednesday that they have discovered why in a discovery that challenges some basic tenets of Freudian theory. </p><p>The instinct evolved naturally and cannot be taught, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the University of California Santa Barbara wrote in their report in the journal Nature. </p><p>Spending time in the same household and watching your mother care for your brother or sister is all it takes. This is all subconscious, of course, reported the researchers, who worked with Debra Lieberman of the University of Hawaii. </p><p>&quot;We went in search of a kin-detection system because some of the most important theories in evolutionary biology said such a thing should exist,&quot; Cosmides said in a telephone interview. </p><p>&quot;It should regulate both altruism and incest disgust.&quot; </p><p>Humans have an inbuilt system that does both, they found. </p><p>&quot;This data shows that the degree to which we feel those things is governed by these cues that, for hunter-gatherers, predict whether somebody is a sibling. And it works regardless of your beliefs -- who you are told who your siblings are,&quot; she said. </p><p>Cosmides and her colleagues tested 600 volunteers, asking them all sorts of questions jumbled together so they would not know what was being studied. &quot;We asked them how many favors did you do for this particular sibling in a month. We asked if this sibling needed a kidney, how likely would you be to donate this sibling a kidney.&quot; </p><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>Forbidden fruit</h3><p>And they asked about all sorts of ethical dilemmas, including questions about sexual relationships with siblings. Among the volunteers were people who had never shared a home with their siblings -- for instance, full- or half-siblings born 10 or even 20 years apart.</p><p>What determined incest disgust and altruism was the same -- how much time an older sibling spent watching his or her mother care for a younger one, or how much time the two spent together in the same household.</p><p>&quot;If you co-resided with them for a long time as a child, you\'d treat them as you\'d treat any full sibling. This seems to operate non-consciously,&quot; Cosmides said.</p><p>Especially strong was the effect of watching one\'s mother care for a younger child. &quot;They would be very altrustic towards that baby and they\'d be grossed out at the idea of sex with that baby as an adult,&quot; Cosmides said.</p><p>Women are especially sensitive to this, added Cosmides, a cognitive psychologist. &quot;One whiff of possible siblinghood and that\'s it for you if you are a woman,&quot; she said.</p><p>The study contradicts the teachings of Sigmund Freud, who described Oedipal urges and conflicts, Cosmides said.</p><p>&quot;He thought you are attracted to your relatives and your siblings and parents and it takes the force of culture and society to keep you from committing the incest that is in your heart,&quot; she said.</p><p>Cosmides said Freud had a possible reason for his own feelings -- he had a wet nurse who cuddled and breastfed him: &quot;Who their brain thinks is mom is different from who they consciously believe is mom. For them it is quite reasonable that they have an attraction to their mothers.&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('1698','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"02/28/2007\";</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>SAN DIEGO, California</b> (Reuters)  -- With child athletes becoming increasingly competitive and training more rigorous at younger ages, orthopedic doctors said they are seeing an alarming rise in sports injuries simply from kids overdoing it.</p><p>Doctors at a major orthopedic meeting in San Diego said children as young as 4 years old are suffering overuse injuries such as stress fractures and tendinitis.</p><p>&quot;It\'s becoming more and more apparent in our care of adolescents and even preadolescents, there is a lot of pressure on young children to do more and more in sports,&quot; Thomas Clanton, team doctor for the NBA\'s Houston Rockets, said at the annual American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons meeting.</p><p>&quot;They never get a chance to rest,&quot; said Clanton, who also is a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.</p><p>High-impact sports that include jumping and running -- such as football, basketball, gymnastics and soccer -- are the worst culprits, experts said. Increasing year-round participation by children is wearing on young bones, they said.</p><p>Overuse injuries are becoming more prevalent in part because young bones are not given a chance to recover and as pressure by coaches and parents intensifies, said Mark Myerson, medical director at the Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and president of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society.</p><p>&quot;The pressure from families, school and coaches to perform becomes a massive component in these injuries,&quot; he said.</p><p>Panelists included two former chairs of the society, who agreed. Lack of regulation is a problem that needs to be addressed, panelists said. Few sports have guidelines for time spent practicing for children, although Little League Baseball recently enacted guidelines, including limits on how many games players should pitch in a week, for example.</p><p>&quot;In so many of these sports, there is no limit,&quot; Myerson said. &quot;After (Grade 10) you are competing all year round.&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('1699','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/17/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Outbreak has slowly grown to nearly 300 cases in 39 states since August<br> &#8226; CDC: Outbreak thought to be first in U.S. history linked to peanut butter<br> &#8226; About 20 percent of the 288 infected people have been hospitalized<br> &#8226; FDA: Don\'t eat Peter Pan or Great Value with product code starting &quot;2111&quot; <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>OMAHA, Nebraska </b>(AP)  -- ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.</p><p>Lids of jars with a product code beginning &quot;2111&quot; can be returned to ConAgra for a refund, the company said.</p><p>The salmonella outbreak, which federal health officials said Wednesday has sickened 288 people in 39 states since August, was linked to tainted peanut butter produced by ConAgra at a plant in Sylvester, Georgia. How salmonella got into peanut butter is still under investigation, said Dr. Mike Lynch, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p><p>CDC officials believe the salmonella outbreak to be the nation\'s first stemming from peanut butter. The most cases were reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.</p><p>About 20 percent of all the ill were hospitalized, and there were no deaths, Lynch said. About 85 percent of the infected people said they ate peanut butter, CDC officials said.</p><p>ConAgra officials said it was unsure why the CDC identified peanut butter as the source of the problem. Its own tests of its peanut butter and the plant have been negative, but it shut down the plant so it can investigate, spokesman Chris Kircher said.</p><p>&quot;We\'re trying to understand what else we need to do or should be doing,&quot; he said.</p><p>Kircher called the recall a precaution. &quot;We want to do what\'s right by the consumer,&quot; he said.</p><p>ConAgra officials haven\'t said how much peanut butter is covered in the recall. The Peter Pan brand is sold in 10 varieties, according to ConAgra\'s Web site. The Great Value brand, which is also made by other companies, is a Wal-Mart brand.</p><p>He said the CDC contacted the Food and Drug Administration, which sent investigators to the Georgia plant to review records, collect product samples and conduct tests for salmonella.</p><p>Kircher said ConAgra makes peanut butter only at the Sylvester plant, for distribution nationwide.</p><p>ConAgra randomly tests 60 to 80 jars of peanut butter that come off the line each day for salmonella and other pathogens, he said.</p><p>&quot;We\'ve had no positive hits on that going back for years,&quot; Kircher said.</p><p>The plant itself is also regularly tested, he said, though he didn\'t know how often. He said none of those tests have detected salmonella either.</p><p>The latest outbreak began in August, with no more than two cases reported each day, CDC officials said. Only in the past few days did investigators hone in on peanut butter as a source, Lynch said.</p><p>Other states reporting cases are Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.</p><p>Salmonella infection is known each year to sicken about 40,000 people in the United States, according to the CDC. Salmonellosis, as the infection is known, kills about 600 people annually.</p><p>Symptoms can include diarrhea, fever, dehydration, abdominal pain and vomiting.</p><p>The recall does not affect Great Value peanut butter made by other manufacturers, the FDA said.</p><p>Shares of ConAgra stock rose 13 cents to $25.98 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.</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('1700','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/1/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Study: Nasal spray flu vaccine more effective than shots in older babies, children<br> &#8226; Shots found safer for infants 6 to 12 months, older kids who wheeze <br> &#8226; Study published in New England Journal of Medicine sponsored by vaccine maker </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> (Reuters)  -- A new version of the nasal spray vaccine FluMist is better at preventing influenza than traditional flu shots in older babies and children, according to a study sponsored by its maker, MedImmune.</p><p>The spray also dramatically reduced the risk of flu-related ear and lower respiratory tract infections, said the report published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.</p><p>But for infants age 6 to 12 months, or older children who sometimes wheeze when they breathe, old-fashioned shots are safer, the researchers found.</p><p>Results of the worldwide test on 8,400 preschoolers, conducted during the 2004-2005 flu season, are being released as health officials encourage flu vaccinations for those aged 6 months to 5 years to prevent the spread of the virus.</p><p>But old-fashioned shots, which use killed virus particles, provide less protection to children under 5 than to adults, and may cause more side effects. The spray uses live weakened viruses.</p><p>Robert Belshe of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri and colleagues found both treatments reduced children\'s flu rate, but half as many of those who got nasal spray became ill as those who received flu shots.</p><p>While 8.6 percent of children getting injections developed flu, the rate was 3.9 percent for kids given the spray.</p><p>Regular influenza kills an average of 36,000 Americans every year, and up to 500,000 people globally. While most victims are elderly, more than 100 U.S. children, many of them previously healthy, can die in an average flu season.</p><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>Succeeding by a nose</h3><p>FluMist is squirted up the nose using a special device.</p><p>&quot;The big difference is the induction of antibodies in the nose, which is important because this is where the flu virus usually enters the body. The nasal spray flu vaccine appears to induce a more complete immune response,&quot; Belshe said.</p><p>The study used a new version of FluMist that does not need to be kept frozen, only refrigerated. U.S. regulators approved it last month for healthy children and adults age 5 to 49.</p><p>Researchers also discovered the spray worked against strains that had mutated slightly over time drift.</p><p>&quot;That translates into very high protection even when the circulating strains don\'t precisely match the vaccine strains,&quot; Belshe said in a telephone interview.</p><p>But the spray vaccine may carry special risks for recipients younger than 1. Those babies were more likely to develop wheezing and 2.3 times more likely to be hospitalized for any cause if they received FluMist instead of the shots.</p><p>Youngsters who had a history of wheezing before receiving the shots were excluded from the test.</p><p>So for children less than one year old or older children with a history of wheezing, &quot;the flu shot remains the vaccine of choice because of the safety issues,&quot; Belshe said.</p><p>&quot;For children over 12 months of age who do not have a history of wheezing, and that\'s approximately 80 percent of children, it looks like the intranasal vaccine is the better choice,&quot; he said.</p><p>MedImmune hopes to expand its market by showing that the spray, first licensed in the United States in 2003, is safe and effective for preschoolers, who are particularly vulnerable to flu. A decision from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected by the end of May.</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('1701','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  Robert Barnett<br> Parenting.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>Ask a mom if she\'s happier now that she has a child and she\'ll usually say yes. In fact, around the world, children top the list of the most enjoyable things in life. But psychologists who study happiness -- a new field in the past decade -- often report a different picture. </p><p>Being the mom of a young child (especially one under 3) is rich and rewarding, but also a real strain on your mood. &quot;Moment to moment, you may be exhausted, frustrated, sometimes angry,&quot; says Peter Ubel, M.D., a professor of medicine and psychology at the University of Michigan. &quot;You may be squabbling with your spouse more. You have more negative emotions.&quot; The time you spend taking care of your child may not even be the high point of your day. </p><p>On their list of pleasurable activities, moms rank it lower than eating, exercising, or watching TV, according to a University of Michigan study of 900 women. In fact, kid care rates only slightly higher than housework, working, or commuting! &quot;This finding shocks people,&quot; says Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Harvard University and author of &quot;Stumbling on Happiness.&quot;</p><p> &quot;They think psychologists are saying you don\'t love your children. Of course you love your children beyond measure! And kids do bring joy. They bring transcendent moments in which you feel so happy that it outweighs all the hard work you\'ve done. It\'s just that children do not increase your average daily enjoyment.&quot; (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,1118597,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: &quot;When I\'m a mom, I\'ll never...&quot;</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><a name=\"1\"></a><a name=\"rv1\"></a><h3>The Happiness Paradox</h3><p>One reason for the discrepancy between moms and experts: selective memory. When psychologists ask moms in a general way whether they like spending time with their kids, the overwhelming majority say they do because they\'re thinking of fun activities such as reading a book or playing in the park. When they\'re specifically asked to describe their actual daily routine, they remember the hours they spent struggling to get their child dressed or ready for bed. </p><p>Maybe, though, the cold calculus of psychological science is missing the intensity of joy that time spent with your child can bring. &quot;There are little moments that are grand-slam home runs,&quot; says Gilbert. </p><p>Luckily, those moments can overcome your daily frustrations. &quot;Happiness is more than just that smiley feeling,&quot; says Karen Reivich, Ph.D., a research associate in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. &quot;It\'s also feeling a connection to something larger than yourself. When people are in service to something bigger, they describe their lives as filled with meaning. It\'s not the smiley face, but when it\'s all over, you realize you\'d do it again.&quot; </p><p>And being needed is a rewarding experience as well. &quot;You get back tenfold everything that you put into it,&quot; says Elizabeth Howard, mom of Reilly, 2, in Anaheim, California. &quot;I don\'t think people should have a child just to make them happy, but it\'s opened up a whole part of my heart that I didn\'t even know was there.&quot; </p><p>The first step to being a happier mom, then, is to value what you do -- to feel that it\'s important. The next step is to find ways to make it more enjoyable. Not only will you be doing the best thing for yourself, but you\'ll also become a more effective mom. </p><p>Say you\'re with your 2-year-old and she wants her juice in the red cup, but the red cup is missing. &quot;If I\'m in a grumpy mood, I may just say, \'Drink it in the blue cup,\'&quot; says Reivich. &quot;But if I\'m feeling more positive, maybe I\'ll take some red construction paper and tape it around the blue cup. I\'ve transformed something that might get ugly into something playful and fun.&quot; The good news for all moms is this: You can learn to focus on the positive -- and learn to make it a daily habit. Here\'s how:</p><p><b>Admit when you\'re stressed</b> </p><p>Ironically, once you stop expecting motherhood to feel warm and fuzzy all the time, life as a mom gets easier. &quot;It really helps to realize that it\'s OK to feel frustrated, angry, tired, or irritable sometimes,&quot; says Dr. Ubel. &quot;You\'re not a bad parent. It\'s not even a bad parenting experience. It\'s just normal.&quot; (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,1537255,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: Get over new mom guilt.</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><b>Get enough sleep</b></p><p>Most of us know that money can\'t buy happiness, but who knew that a good night\'s sleep just might? That\'s a key finding of that University of Michigan study. &quot;Making $60,000 more in annual income has less of an effect on your daily happiness than getting one extra hour of sleep a night,&quot; says study author Norbert Schwarz, Ph.D., a professor of psychology. So how can you sneak in that extra hour or two? </p><p>Misha Sauer, mom of 1-year-old Riley, says her husband is good about taking over on the weekends so she can sleep in or nap. &quot;It absolutely makes a difference in the way I feel,&quot; says the Culver City, California, mom. &quot;And I\'m more willing to do something active, like take my daughter to the park. If I\'m tired, the most I can do is sit there and read to her.&quot;</p><p><b>(Re)consider your priorities</b></p><p> It may sound simplistic, but one key to being in a more positive mood is to structure your day so you do more things you enjoy. &quot;It\'s how you spend your time, not your money, that counts,&quot; says Dr. Ubel. &quot;If you have any financial flexibility that lets you maximize your family time, use it now. For instance, do you really need to be the one to clean the house? How about paying someone to help out? And if that\'s not an option, think about how clean your house really needs to be -- do you need to make the beds, or is bed-making time better spent drawing pictures with your kids?&quot; And if you work outside the home, consider exploring whether you can afford to go part-time rather than full-time.</p><p><b>Go with the flow</b></p><p>Time seems to slow down when you\'re doing what you enjoy, whether it\'s gardening or running laps. People who experience this level of engagement -- which psychologists call &quot;flow&quot; -- are happier than people who rarely do. And you\'re lucky to have a master of it right before you: your child. &quot;To you and me, every leaf and ant is pretty much the same, but not to a two-year-old,&quot; says Reivich. &quot;So try to actively notice things as your child does -- that ant is dragging a big piece of bread, for instance.&quot; </p><p>Bringing more of your best qualities -- your strengths -- to the often mundane tasks of child rearing can also help you feel more engaged. &quot;One of my strengths is humor,&quot; Reivich says. &quot;I was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for my kids one day, and I started talking like it was a cooking show: \'Now I\'m browning the bread, now I\'m applying a thin layer of peanut butter.\' It transformed a mundane task into something all of us could enjoy.&quot; </p><p>One mom she knows loves architecture and got passionate about explaining the history of columns as her 4-year-old made sand castles. Her preschooler may not have gotten all the references, says Reivich, &quot;but it was entertaining for both of them.&quot;</p><p><b>Savor the moment</b> </p><p>One way to nourish positive emotions is to take a moment to appreciate, well, the moment. Just map out two- or three-minute activities that you can do that day to relish that time. </p><p>In the morning, for instance, instead of trying to do ten things, take your cup of coffee to the window and sip it while your child watches a video. Notice what\'s going on. Will it change your life? No, but you\'ll probably feel calmer. </p><p>Gilbert has an even shorter version: &quot;Take ten seconds every hour and look at what you\'re doing from a higher place.&quot; While you\'re at it, appreciate what a wonderful child you have -- those chubby cheeks, the endearing things she says -- and share that joy with someone who\'ll rejoice in it with you. That\'s another way to grab on to the good stuff and prolong your happiness.</p><p><b>Take the long view</b> </p><p>Having a sense of perspective will also improve your attitude. &quot;It gives you more patience, and it certainly awakens you to the preciousness of the moment, which is fleeting,&quot; says M.J. Ryan, author of &quot;The Happiness Makeover&quot; and mom of Anna, 9. She remembers the times when her daughter wanted to sit on her lap and watch SpongeBob. &quot;Yes, I had other things to do. But I said to myself, \'How long will this last?\' I\'m grateful for that time with her.&quot; </p><p>If the drudgery is getting to you, think about life without children. &quot;You\'ve signed on for a hard job -- it\'s not supposed to be fun most of the time,&quot; says Gilbert. &quot;It\'s easy to get caught up in the details, but you need to step back and realize how empty your life would be without these people in it.&quot;</p><p><b>Reconnect with your spouse</b> </p><p>A supportive group of friends and family is one of the cornerstones of a happy life, and for many moms, the center of that social circle is their partner. That\'s why it\'s so important to keep the lines of communication open, especially during the &quot;diaper years&quot; -- from infancy to around age 3 -- that experts say are the most stressful (until your kids become teens, that is!) on a marriage. </p><p>&quot;You can\'t say, \'I\'ll handle the relationship later,\'&quot; says Reivich. &quot;A healthy and realistic goal is to ask, \'What are some small, manageable things we can be doing to keep our connection to each other strong during this rough time?\'&quot; </p><p>For instance, she and her husband try to have a glass of wine together at night once a week, after their four kids (all under age 9) are in bed. &quot;It\'s not a date-- we don\'t need a baby sitter-- it\'s just 15 minutes. But it\'s a change to sit together and unwind, and sometimes a chance to dream.&quot; </p><p>When she works with couples, Reivich helps them figure out what they can do for a couple of hours together that interests both of them. With one couple, one partner was very curious, the other really appreciated beauty, so they spent an afternoon museum hopping. </p><p>&quot;It can be as easy as going food shopping together,&quot; she says. Once you make little steps, it\'s easy to move on to bigger ones, like a night out. Even discussing how stressed you both are can help. &quot;It\'s affected our relationship a lot; we\'ve both noticed it,&quot; says Sauer. &quot;If you can both just say, \'Raising a kid is hard,\' putting it out there diminishes the strain.&quot; She and her husband are working on having more time together-- by themselves. &quot;We just went on our first date since the baby was born,&quot; she says. </p><p>Another way to strengthen your connection is to practice what shrinks call &quot;active constructive responding.&quot; When your spouse comes home and shares some good news, don\'t just say, &quot;That\'s nice.&quot; Ask questions that let him tell you about his day, even for a minute or two. At least for that minute, the two of you will be celebrating what\'s good about your lives.</p><p><b>Say thanks</b> </p><p>Feeling grateful is a mood booster. It can be as simple as saying grace every night or finding new ways to acknowledge others. </p><p>&quot;When our extended family gets together for a birthday, we go around the room and say one thing we appreciate and the one thing we like best about that person,&quot; says Elizabeth Howard. </p><p>Another effective way is to put what you\'re thankful for down on paper: Write the three best things that happened today. It might be something positive that happened to you, your kids, your spouse or friends, or in the world. It might just be something funny that your child said at breakfast. Experts say that if you do that every day for two weeks, your feelings of well-being will increase. </p><p>Of course, even if you do all of these things, you\'ll still have bad days. But at least you\'ll be less likely to think there\'s something wrong with you. And the more you engage in positive thinking, the more you\'ll realize how much happiness is under your control. Not all of it, but perhaps more than you were aware of. </p><p>&quot;When I started to research happiness, I thought it was a feeling, and you had to wait to have it happen to you,&quot; says Ryan. &quot;But feelings follow thoughts -- they don\'t precede them. I think of happiness as three things -- enjoyment, satisfaction, and fulfillment. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1702','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Early on the morning of Dec. 13, police officers responding to a 911 call arrived at a house in Hull, Mass., a seaside town near Boston, and found a 4-year-old girl on the floor of her parents&#8217; bedroom, dead. </p>      <p>She was lying on her side, in a pink diaper, the police said, sprawled across some discarded magazines and a stuffed brown bear. </p><p>Last week, prosecutors in Plymouth County charged the parents, Michael and Carolyn Riley, with deliberately poisoning their daughter Rebecca by giving her overdoses of prescription drugs to sedate her. </p><p>The police said the girl had been taking a potent cocktail of psychiatric drugs since age 2, when she was given a diagnosis of attention deficit disorder and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/bipolardisorder/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about bipolar disorder.\">bipolar disorder</a>, which is characterized by mood swings. </p><p>The parents have pleaded not guilty, with their lawyers questioning whether the child should have been prescribed such powerful drugs. </p><p>The case has  shaken a region known for the excellence of its social and medical services. The director of the state&#8217;s Department of Social Services has had to defend his agency,  which had been investigating the case before the girl&#8217;s death. </p><p>The girl&#8217;s treating psychiatrist has taken a voluntary, paid leave until the case is resolved. And New Englanders are raising questions that are now hotly debated within psychiatry, and which have broad implications for how young children like Rebecca Riley are cared for.</p><p>Tufts-New England Medical Center, where the child was treated, released a statement supporting its doctor and calling the care &#8220;appropriate and within responsible professional standards.&#8221;</p><p>Indeed, the practice of aggressive drug treatment for young children labeled bipolar has become common across the country. In just the last decade, the rate of bipolar diagnosis in children under 13 has increased almost sevenfold, according to a study based on hospital discharge records. And a typical treatment includes multiple medications. </p><p>Rebecca was taking Seroquel, an  antipsychotic drug; Depakote, an equally powerful mood medication; and Clonidine, a <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> drug often prescribed to calm children. </p><p>The rising rates of diagnosis and medication use strike some doctors and advocates for patients as a dangerous fad that exposes ever-younger children to powerful drugs. Antipsychotics like Seroquel or Risperdal, which are commonly prescribed for bipolar  disorder, can cause weight gain and changes in blood sugar &#151; risk factors for <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>.</p><p>Some child psychiatrists say bipolar disorder has become an all-purpose label for aggression.</p><p> &#8220;Bipolar is absolutely being overdiagnosed in children, and the major downside is that people then think they have a solution and are not amenable to listening to alternatives,&#8221; which may not include drugs, said Dr. Gabrielle Carlson, a professor of psychiatry and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/pediatrics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about pediatrics.\">pediatrics</a> at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/state_university_of_new_york_at_stony_brook/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about State University of New York at Stony Brook\">Stony Brook University</a> School of Medicine  on Long Island. </p><p>Paraphrasing H. L. Mencken, Dr. Carlson added, &#8220;Every serious problem has an easy solution that is usually wrong.&#8221;</p><p>Others disagree, insisting that increased awareness of bipolar disorder and use of some medications has benefited many children. </p><p>&#8220;The first thing to say is that the world does not see the kids we see; these are very difficult patients,&#8221; said Dr. John T. Walkup, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/johns_hopkins_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Johns Hopkins University\">Johns Hopkins University</a> School of Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Walkup said that when drug treatment  was done right, it  could turn around the life of a child with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.</p><p>Dr. Jean Frazier, director of child psychopharmacology at Cambridge Health Alliance and an associate professor 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>, said that up to three-quarters of children who exhibit bipolar symptoms become suicidal, and that it is important to treat the problem as early as possible. </p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a serious illness with high morbidity, and mortality,&#8221; Dr. Frazier said,  &#8220;and for some of these children the medications can be life-giving.&#8221; </p><p>Still, most child psychiatrists agree that there are still questions about applying the diagnosis to very young children. Recent research has found that most children who receive the diagnosis are emotionally explosive but do not go on to develop the classic features of the disorder, like euphoria. They are far more likely to become depressed.</p><p>And many therapists have found that some patients referred to them for bipolar disorder are actually suffering from something else. </p><p>&#8220;Most of the patients I see who have been misdiagnosed have been told they have bipolar disorder,&#8221; said Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a professor of psychiatry at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/boston_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Boston University\">Boston University</a> who runs a trauma clinic. </p><p>&#8220;The diagnosis is made with no understanding of the context of their life,&#8221; Dr. van der Kolk said. &#8220;Then they&#8217;re put on these devastating medications and condemned to a life as a psychiatry patient.&#8221;</p><p>Details about what happened to Rebecca are still emerging. A relative of her mother, Carolyn Riley, 32, told the police that Rebecca seemed &#8220;sleepy and drugged&#8221; most days,  according to the charging documents. </p><p>One preschool teacher said that at about 2 p.m. every day the girl came to life, &#8220;as if the medication Rebecca was on was wearing off,&#8221; according to the documents. </p><p>Defense lawyers are also focusing on the question of medication. &#8220;What I want to know,&#8221; said John Darrell, a lawyer for Mr. Riley, &#8220;is how in the world you diagnose a 2-year-old and give her these strong medicines that are not approved for children.&#8221;</p><p>A lawyer for Rebecca&#8217;s psychiatrist, Dr. Kayoko Kifuji of Tufts-New England Medical Center, did not return calls seeking comment.</p><p>Some experts say the temptation to medicate can be powerful.</p><p>&#8220;Parents very often want a quick fix,&#8221; Dr. Carlson said, &#8220;and doctors rarely have much time to spend with them, and the great appeal of prescribing a medication is that it&#8217;s simple. </p><p>&#8220;To me one of the miracle of children&#8217;s brains is that we don&#8217;t see more harm from these treatments.&#8221;</p><NYT_AUTHOR_ID><p id=\"authorId\">Katie Zezima contributed reporting from Boston.</p></NYT_AUTHOR_ID><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1703','1','\n\n\n	 <p>MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 13 ?After canceling a planned romantic dinner, Dan Hajjar and Anne Marie Jarka-Hajjar, who have been married 17 years, spent Valentine? eve in separate beds, tossing and turning amid a tangle of electrode wires and sensors stuck all over their bodies.</p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"enlargeThis\"><a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/14/nyregion/15snore.2.ready.html\', \'15snore_2_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/2007/02/14/nyregion/15snore.2.ready.html\', \'15snore_2_ready\', \'width=720,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/14/nyregion/15snore190.2.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"137\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Aaron Houston for The New York Times</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nCathy Durkin, left, and Kerry Kelley preparing the couple for their study. \n</p>\n</div>\n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>In a last-ditch bid for bedtime bliss, the couple checked into the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/sleep/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about sleep.\">sleep disorder</a> clinic of Morristown Memorial Hospital, hoping its medical staff would deliver a respite from nearly two decades of uninterrupted <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/snoring/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about snoring.\">snoring</a>. </p><p>Mr. Hajjar, 42, an executive at Aon Corporation, has long been plagued by <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>, which can disrupt breathing hundreds of times a night. Then, starting 18 months ago, Ms. Jarka-Hajjar, 41, a college professor and theater producer, turned their bedroom in Convent Station, N.J., into a nighttime chorus. </p><p>?e would have 100 percent pushed this off until another time if he was doing it alone,?said Ms. Jarka-Hajjar, who blames sinus problems for her muffled snores. ?o I? hoping that by me being there and going through the same thing, it? really going to help him, which will help me.?/p><p>As with so many newlyweds, snoring was a source of friction  from the outset. For years, Ms. Jarka-Hajjar said, she dealt with it by taking a sleeping pill ?or by taking her pillow to a couch in the den. </p><p>But a few months ago, Mr. Hajjar? condition took a turn for the worse. ? wake up in a panic like someone is suffocating me,?he said. ?ou?e gasping for air and your adrenaline starts pumping, and it? more and more difficult to get back to sleep.?/p><p>Mr. Hajjar, an executive vice president of human resources at Aon, the insurance brokerage, admitted that his stressful work schedule had tempted him to cancel the appointment at the sleep clinic, but fear for his health won out.</p><p>The couple arrived at the hospital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and settled into the hotel-like wing where the sleep lab is housed (their 5-year-old son spent the night at a relative?). A crew of sleep technicians scurried from room to room, monitoring the placement of the myriad cords and tubes. Two consoles allow sleep experts to watch sleepers from a video feed, listen to their snoring, and check on vital signs they keep track of, including eye movement, muscle tension, heart rate and oxygen level.</p><p>The lab, founded in 1990, was rated the No. 1 sleep center in the nation by Advance for Managers of Respiratory Care, a medical journal, in 2005. It treats more than 2,600 patients a year, including perhaps a dozen couples, tops. More than 12 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a potentially dangerous disease that affects mostly men and overweight people and can increase the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/stroke/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about strokes.\">risk of stroke</a>, heart attack and 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>, according 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>. In most cases, the sleeper? throat muscles relax too much, obstructing the air passage and making breathing difficult.</p><p>Patients like Mr. Hajjar, who is physically fit, are often prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure machine, a masklike device that drives air into the collapsed passage. Mr. Hajjar has used such a machine sporadically since 2004, but he does not like it one bit. ?t? like someone is sticking an air hose up your nose,?he said. ?y son, who is into Star Wars, said, ?ad, you sound like Darth Vader.??/p><p>During his evening at the clinic, Mr. Hajjar wore the awkward contraption, which consists of a tube placed below the nostrils, a strap around the head, and a bedside box that produces a steady whirring sound. The point of the exam was to adjust the machine to give Mr. Hajjar the air he needed to get some rest, and quiet the snoring that bothers his wife.</p><p>It will take a week or so before doctors fully analyze the results of the couple? sleep test, but Neil Friedman, a registered nurse who runs the clinic, said Mr. Hajjar suffers from sleep apnea and will probably be invited back for training on how to manage the problem, including simple tips like sleeping on his side instead of his back. </p><p>Because each partner? snoring, shifting and occasional kicking would interrupt the other? test, Mr. Hajjar and Ms. Jarka-Hajjar were asked, after initial testing, to retire to different rooms. </p><p>?e do let them stay together until the very end,?said Mr. Friedman, the center? coordinator. ?nd they can actually kiss good night.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1704','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Last winter, as the deadly <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.\">bird-flu</a> virus marched out of Asia, across Europe and down into Africa, public health experts warned of the potential for a catastrophic pandemic like the Spanish <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> of 1918. </p>      <p>This year, by contrast, bird flu seems all but forgotten, mentioned occasionally when it claims another life or when it causes a major outbreak in, say, a British turkey farm. With flu season reaching its peak, the question for many Americans now is whether the threat they are facing is not Spanish flu but swine flu ?another widely advertised menace that never materialized. </p><p>But that is premature, scientists say, cautioning that the virus is as dangerous and unpredictable as ever. It killed more people in 2006 than it did in 2005 or 2004, they point out, and its fatality rate is rising ?61 percent now, up from 43 percent in 2005.</p><p> More worrisome, they say, is that the disease is out of control in birds in more places than ever, including the Nile delta in Egypt and Nigeria, where public health mechanisms are weak. </p><p> ??e gotten at least 10 media calls in the last few months asking me to deliver the death sentence for avian flu,?said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at 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>. ?ut at any conference, if you get a group of virologists at the bar, after the fourth beer, they let their hair down and admit it ?they don? know what is happening. They?e been incredibly humbled by this virus.?</p><p>Since viruses with very high fatality rates, like Ebola, tend to burn themselves out by killing victims faster than those who are infected can pass it on, the increasing fatality rate ?still unexplained ?may be a silver lining. But the virus has plenty of mutational wiggle room ?the 1918 virus had a 2 percent fatality rate and yet still killed 50 million to 100 million because it was so transmissible.</p><p> That is why health experts remain cautious, warning that the pandemic could begin at any time and noting that February is a particularly risky month. The Year of the Pig begins on Feb. 18, and New Year? celebrations in China and Vietnam have become associated with flu outbreaks because so much poultry for family feasts is on the move.</p><p>Dr. Robert G. Webster, an internationally renowned virologist at St. Jude Children? Research Hospital in Memphis, ended a recent talk with a slide of three animals in a reference to Asia. ?e?e survived the Year of the Chicken and the Year of the Dog,?he said. ?ill we survive the Year of the Pig??</p><p> ?y take-home message,?Dr. Webster added, ?s don? become complacent. Don? trust this one.?/p><p>Recent flu outbreaks among poultry in Britain and Hungary are not particularly worrying, 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> Food and Agriculture Organization said, because those countries are proficient at eliminating veterinary diseases. </p><p> The British are very proficient at eliminating veterinary diseases by killing and incinerating animals, officials said, noting that more than 160,000 birds were swiftly killed to contain the British outbreak. The Hungarians are believed capable of the same sort of response.</p><p> But the virus is out of control in poultry in three countries ?Indonesia, Nigeria and Egypt ?with combined populations of 447 million people. A year ago, it was out of control only in Indonesia, and Thailand and Vietnam had stifled outbreaks, though the virus returned later. China remains a mystery; despite official denials, there is evidence that it is circulating there, too.</p><p>Most alarming to the experts, though it got relatively less attention, was the death in January  of a 22-year-old Nigerian woman, an accountant who lived in the crowded financial capital, Lagos. Officially, only one death of the H5N1 strain was confirmed, but Nigerian newspapers said the woman? mother died with similar symptoms two weeks earlier, and a female relative was sick but recovered.</p><p> If true, that suggests a cluster of cases with possible human-to-human transmission. Tests on them were negative, but human H5N1 tests are best done on fresh samples from deep in the lungs, which are hard to obtain, and false negatives are common. </p><p>In Nigeria, despite the culling of 700,000 birds, avian flu has been found in birds in 19 of the country? 36 states, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Dr. Oyedele Oyediji, president of the Animal Science Association of Nigeria, told local papers that bans on poultry movement and culling orders were simply not being enforced. </p><p>?f you go to the markets in Lagos now,?he said, ?ou would notice that poultry products like guinea fowl, ducks, turkey and chicken from the northern part of the country are still available.?</p><p>Nigerian farmers have complained that government cullers pay them only $2 for chickens that cost them $5 to $7 to raise. But payments, supported by the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_bank/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about World Bank\">World Bank</a>, seem to be made fairly promptly through local police stations.</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('1705','1','\n\n\n	 <p>FluMist vaccine ?a live virus in a nasal spray ?is much more effective than <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> shots in protecting young children against the disease, a study has found.</p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n    \n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h3 class=\"promo\">Web Link</h3><h2><a href=\"http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/356/7/685\" target=\"_blank\">Live Attenuated Versus Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Infants and Young Children</a> (NEJM) Abstract Only</h2>\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/356/7/729\" target=\"_blank\">Inactivated and Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccines in Young Children ?How Do They Compare?</a> (NEJM) Extract Only</h2>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>The study, published in today? 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> and conducted by researchers from medical schools in St. Louis, Tennessee, California and Finland, found that children from 6 months to 5 years old had 55 percent fewer cases of flu when they were protected by the nasal spray vaccine rather than shots. </p><p>FluMist is not licensed by the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/food_and_drug_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the U.S. Food And Drug Administration.\">Food and Drug Administration</a> for children under 5, but the data could lead to major changes in the way they are protected. Medimmune, the company that makes FluMist, says it is hoping for F.D.A. approval for younger children in time for the next flu season.</p><p>Like a shot, FluMist would be administered annually. Children get the flu twice as often as adults and are the disease? chief vectors, bringing it home from school and day care. They also often infect babies and elderly relatives, the two groups most likely to die of flu complications. </p><p>?his is important news,?said Dr. Samuel L. Katz, a <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/pediatrics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about pediatrics.\">pediatrics</a> professor at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/duke_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Duke University.\">Duke University</a> and chairman of the National Network for <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.\">Immunization</a> Information, who has no connection to the study. ?his is a darn good study, and they?e making the case for licensing it.?/p><p>Two flu experts from 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> wrote an editorial in the journal concluding that FluMist ?ay offer significant advantages for children.?</p><p>But the study and the editorial contained an important caution: Among children younger than 1 year, there were slightly more hospitalizations and episodes of wheezing in the FluMist group. As a result, Medimmune said it was seeking F.D.A. approval only for use in children 1 year or older with no history of <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> or wheezing.</p><p>About 20 percent of the 7,852 children in the study had such histories.</p><p>Dr. Edward M. Connor, Medimmune? chief medical officer, said a study of FluMist in asthmatic children ages 6 and older found no increase in asthma attacks. If the vaccine is approved for children, doctors will have to weigh the risk of asthma attacks against the risk of influenza, especially in years with serious flu outbreaks, Dr. Katz said. </p><p>Dr. Paul A. Offit, a vaccine expert at Children? Hospital in Philadelphia with no connection to the study, said that in balancing the threat of asthma and flu against each other, ?? warn people that it was a risk, but I? recommend the vaccine.?</p><p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommend that flu shots be given annually starting at 6 months of age. Younger infants can be protected only by vaccinating everyone else in their household.</p><p>Seasonal flu shots do not produce good protection in young children, said Dr. Carolyn Buxton Bridges, a flu expert at the disease centers and an author of the editorial.</p><p>?heir immune systems are just too na?e,?Dr. Bridges said, and the first time they have a shot, it may actually take two shots to produce as many protective antibodies as those produced by a 9-year-old or an adult. </p><p>Flu shots use ?illed?vaccine viruses that are injected into the muscle, while FluMist uses live viruses made by attaching the outer spikes of the current year? circulating viruses to a backbone of a weakened flu virus created decades ago. Killed viruses can make only some proteins that the immune system reacts to in the blood. The weakened live virus replicates in the nose, where flu viruses enter, but not in the lungs, where pneumonia develops. And it produces whole viruses that the immune system learns to attack. </p><p>As a result, said Dr. Robert B. Belshe, a vaccine researcher at St. Louis University? medical school and the lead author of the study, children immunized with FluMist were better at fighting off even strains that differed somewhat from those  they had been vaccinated with. </p><p>Genetic matches are never perfect because the vaccine strains are chosen in February in time to let shots be produced and shipped by October, and viruses mutate in the meantime.</p><p>The study also found that children vaccinated with FluMist had fewer ear infections, Dr. Belshe said. </p><p>?lus, the moms like it,?he added. ?ou don? have to restrain the kids the way you have to with shots. You just have to find the nose, and squirt. And the kids don? leave the office crying.?/p><p>Nasal sprays could be ? significant improvement in public health,?Dr. Belshe said. ?ou don? have to have someone trained to give injections, so you could do mass vaccinations at schools. As far as I? concerned, you should dispense these in machines ?you put in your $10 or $20, out it comes, and you squirt your own nose. But the C.D.C. and the F.D.A. don? like it when I say things like that.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1706','1','\n\n\n	 <p><span class=\"bold\">THE FACTS</span> It? one of the most well-known medical bromides around: starve a cold, feed a fever. Or is it feed a cold, starve a fever? </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/2007/02/12/health/13really_ready.html\', \'13really_ready\', \'width=508,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/2007/02/12/health/13really_ready.html\', \'13really_ready\', \'width=508,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/really.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Leif Parsons</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\n  \n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Either way, it may not matter. Scientists have found little evidence for either one. </p><p>How these claims came about is unclear. One popular but unproven theory is that fasting during a fever helps lower body temperature, while eating plenty of food helps raise it, thus helping to fight off a cold. </p><p>Perhaps the only study suggesting that either claim had any validity was published in the journal Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology in 2002 by a team of Dutch scientists. They found that eating a meal increases a type of immune response that fights off the viruses responsible for <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/colds/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about colds.\">colds</a>, while fasting seemed to stimulate an immune response that could help fight off the infections associated with most <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/fever/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about fever.\">fevers</a>. </p><p>But other scientists have said those findings have little merit because the study involved a small number of subjects and has not been replicated. Most doctors, and years of research on cold and <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> sufferers, say there is only one tried-and-true treatment: plenty of rest and fluids. It helps to know that once a person has contracted a cold or the flu, it  will run its course in  5 to 10 days.  </p><p><span class=\"bold\">THE BOTTOM LINE</span> There is little scientific evidence behind the notion of starving a cold and feeding a fever, or vice versa.</p><NYT_TAGLINE>\n<p><i><a href=\"mailto:scitimes@nytimes.com\">scitimes@nytimes.com</a></i></p>\n</NYT_TAGLINE><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1707','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Midway through a delightful school outing on the local ice-skating rink, my daughter-in-law, a good skater, suddenly fell backward, hitting her head so hard she was knocked out. After she was wheeled into the first aid room, she asked: ?here am I? How did I get here??/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/2007/02/12/health/13brody_ready.html\', \'13brody_ready\', \'width=384,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/2007/02/12/health/13brody_ready.html\', \'13brody_ready\', \'width=384,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/brody.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"272\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Stuart Bradford</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\n  \n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/sports/football/02concussions.html\" >Dark Days Follow Hard-Hitting Career in N.F.L.</a>\n\n(February 2, 2007)\n</h2>\n<h3 class=\"promo\">Web Link</h3>\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/356/2/166\" target=\"_blank\">Extract of Concussion Article from NEJM</a></h2>\n</div>\n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Though her sons, who are novice skaters, were wearing helmets, my daughter-in-law, like the other adults on the ice, was not. And she had suffered a concussion. The external bump on her head was of no consequence, but the internal ?hiplash?of her brain had caused an intense headache, nausea and amnesia about the event. </p><p>An ambulance took her to a trauma center, where a CT scan and X-rays showed no fractures or internal bleeding. After a few hours of observation she was sent home under 24-hour surveillance and told to return immediately if she became disoriented, confused or extremely fatigued, if her headache worsened or if she started vomiting. She was also told that it was normal for the headache, nausea and neck pain to continue for several days. What she was not told, however, was how important it was to rest and minimize stress to give her brain a chance to heal. Taking a week or so off from work might have been a good idea. </p><p>Nor was she told that even a mild concussion may leave ?nvisible?but disturbing symptoms: fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating, memory problems and sometimes depression. These are indicators of a postconcussive syndrome that months later could result in impulsive behavior, easy frustration, impaired social judgment and unpleasant personality changes.</p><p>The syndrome typically occurs in its most severe form after a series of concussions that deprive the brain of a chance to heal before the next injury occurs. This is most likely what has disabled Ted Johnson, a middle linebacker who helped the New England Patriots win three Super Bowls before he retired in 2005. </p><p>At 34, Mr. Johnson, who sustained repeated concussions on the field, is showing signs of dementia and has become addicted to amphetamines, which he started taking to relieve the previously unrecognized and untreated symptoms of postconcussive syndrome. The damage to his brain is now thought to be permanent, his neurologist told The New York Times.</p><p>Mr. Johnson told his story after reading about  Andre Waters, a hard-hitting defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles 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> at age 44. An autopsy revealed brain damage similar to that of an 85-year-old with beginning <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.</p><p><span class=\"bold\">Moving Parts</span></p><p> Each year about 50 of every 100,000 people in the United States suffer a concussion, which is defined as an immediate and short-lived loss of consciousness accompanied by a brief period of amnesia after a blow to the head. </p><p> But you do not have to be knocked out to have a concussion. Dr. Allan H. Ropper and Dr. Kenneth C. Gorson, neurologists at St. Elizabeth? Medical Center in Boston, <a href=\"http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/356/2/166\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read the Abstract\">reviewed</a> the clinical aspects of concussion 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> last month and wrote that people who are dazed after a head injury but who do not lose consciousness may have sustained the mildest form of concussion.</p><p>In an interview, Dr. Ropper explained that a concussion typically happens when the head and body are moving and the head is suddenly propelled into a fixed object. The brain, which resides in a jacket of water inside the rigid skull, keeps moving, and rotates forward and backward on the fulcrum of the brain stem. This swirling motion of the brain disrupts an area of nerve cells that maintains alertness. A cascade of chemical reactions follows, all of which need time to recede to allow brain function to return to normal. Just as an injured muscle needs time and rest to heal, so does the injured brain. </p><p>Concussions occur most often in young children. Sports and bicycle accidents account for most cases that afflict those ages 5 to 14. Car crashes and falls are the most common causes among adults. In winter, when sidewalks and roadways are often icy, even an agile adult can end up with a concussion from a bad fall.</p><p>Parents of young soccer players often worry about the risks involved in heading the ball. But experts say this kind of impact is not usually enough to cause a brain injury. Ice hockey is another story, as <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/eric_lindros/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Eric Lindros.\">Eric Lindros</a> of the Dallas Stars has found. He has suffered at least eight concussions in his career with the National Hockey League, prompting doctors to suggest  he retire. </p><p>The postconcussion syndrome is real. The Boston doctors described it this way: ? constellation of sometimes disabling symptoms, mainly headache, dizziness and trouble concentrating in the days and weeks following concussion. Once established for more than a few weeks, symptoms often persist for months and tend to resist treatment, although they eventually lessen.?They added that some patients ?ave vertigo, or experience motion of the environment while walking or driving.?/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('1708','1','	<p><p>THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Levels of coronary heart disease, heart attack and angina vary widely across U.S. states and territories, a new, first-of-its-kind federal study found.</p> <p>Coronary heart disease is a narrowing of arteries that supply blood to the heart. Angina is chest pain that occurs when the heart doesn\'t receive enough blood. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.</p> <p>Rates of any of the three conditions ranged from 3.5 percent in the U.S. Virgin Islands to 10.4 percent in West Virginia. For heart attack alone, rates ranged from 2.1 percent in the U.S. Virgin Islands to 6.1 percent in West Virginia.</p> <p>The findings were based on an analysis of 2005 data collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System -- a random phone survey of adults conducted by state and territorial health departments.</p> <p>Overall, about 6.5 percent of respondents said that a health-care professional had told them they had one or more of the three heart conditions. Four percent said they had had a heart attack, and 4.4 percent said they had angina or coronary heart disease.</p> <p>Areas with the lowest levels of these three heart problems were: Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Wisconsin and Wyoming.</p> <p>Rates were highest in: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.</p> <p>The study also found that men had higher rates of coronary heart disease and non-fatal heart attack and angina than women (8.2 percent vs. 5 percent). Asians had the lowest rates of heart disease (4.7 percent), while American Indians/Alaska Natives had the highest rates (11.2 percent).</p> <p>Heart disease rates were similar among whites (6.9 percent), blacks (6.2 percent) and Hispanics (6.2 percent). People with fewer than 12 years of education had higher rates of heart disease than college graduates (9.8 percent vs. 5 percent).</p> <p>The results are published in the Feb. 16 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\'s <i>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report</i>.</p> <p>\"These findings show the importance of preventing and controlling known risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure, tobacco use, physical inactivity, type 2 diabetes, and obesity,\" study lead author Jonathan Neyer, an epidemiologist in CDC\'s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>\"We hope this report will help states and U.S. territories better tailor their heart disease prevention efforts,\" he said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The American Medical Association details <a href=\"http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZJO7ZO0 7C&amp;sub_cat=271\" target=\"_new\">lifestyle changes that can help prevent heart disease</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1709','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of <b>Thomson CenterWatch</b>:</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Chronic Back Pain </b></span></p><p> This trial is evaluating patients with low back or buttock pain due to degenerative lumbar disc disease. Volunteers 18-55 may qualify who have back or buttock pain attributed to degenerative lumbar disc disease, have pain that has lasted at least six weeks that has not improved after conservative treatment, and who can adequately communicate location and intensity of his/her pain.</p><p>The research sites are located across the United States. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\" http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat19.html\" target=\"_new\"> http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat19.html</a>.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Alzheimer\'s Disease or Insomnia </b></span></p><p> This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a study medication to reduce sleeplessness in adults with memory loss. Participants will receive study related physical examinations and laboratory work at no cost, and will be asked to wear a monitor similar to a wrist watch during sleep. Those who qualify may receive compensation for time and travel.</p><p>The research sites are located across the United States. </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> or <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat189.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat189.html</a>.< /p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Psoriasis and Psoriatic Disorders </b></span></p><p> This study will evaluate a topical treatment for body psoriasis in adolescents. Candidates 12-17 who have psoriasis (10-35% BSA) on the arms, legs, chest, or back and are in good general health without vitamin D deficiency may be eligible. Adolescents who have scalp psoriasis but not body psoriasis are not eligible.</p><p>The research site is in Miami, Fla. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat126.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat126.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('1710','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>Prescription Drug Abuse by U.S. Teens a Growing Problem</b></span></p> <p>American teens are cutting back on their use of marijuana, but their abuse of prescription drugs in recent years has stayed the same or increased, according to a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters.</p> <p>From 2002 to 2005, rates of marijuana use declined from 30.1 percent to 25.8 percent. Over that same period, the use of the painkiller OxyContin increased from 2.7 percent to 3.5 percent and the use of Vicodin, another painkiller, increased from 6 percent to 6.3 percent, the <i>Associated Press</i> reported.</p> <p>Teens are also abusing anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax and stimulants like Adderall, Walters said. Overall, 2.1 million American teens abused prescription drugs in 2005.</p> <p>Teens are abusing prescription drugs because they believe they\'re safer than street drugs and they\'re also easier to obtain, according to Walters. He said many teens get prescription drugs over the Internet, from friends, or steal them from household medicine cabinets, the <i>AP</i> reported.</p> <p>Adults need to keep track of prescription drugs and dispose of them properly when the drugs expire, Walters said.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Office Desks Teem with Bacteria</b></span></p> <p>The average office desk has about 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat in a workplace restroom, according to a new study.</p> <p>And the study also found that female office workers tend to have three to four times the amount of bacteria in, on and around their desks, drawers, keyboards, computers, phones and personal items than their male colleagues, the <i>Associated Press</i> reported.</p> <p>\"I thought for sure men would be germier. But women have more interactions with small children and keep food in their desks. The other problem is makeup,\" study author Charles Gerba, a professor of soil, water and environmental sciences at the University of Arizona, told the <i>AP</i>.</p> <p>For this study, commissioned by the Clorox Co., Gerba tested more than 100 offices across the country.</p> <p>Using a disinfectant on office surfaces can help reduce the amount of bacteria in offices, Gerba added.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Circulatory Diseases Major Cause of Hospitalization in U.S.</b></span></p> <p>In 2004, heart disease, stroke, deep vein thrombosis and other circulatory system conditions accounted for nearly 7 million -- one of every six -- hospital stays in the United States, says the latest News and Numbers report released Wednesday by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.</p> <p>Only pregnancy and childbirth accounted for more hospital stays.</p> <p>The report said:</p><ul> <li>The five most common circulatory diseases that led to hospitalization were: hardening of the arteries (1.2 million stays); congestive heart failure (1.1 million); nonspecific chest pain (846,000); heart attack (695,000), and irregular heart beat (694,000).</li> <li>Cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation was the deadliest condition, with 52 percent of patients dying in the hospital, followed by: stroke (11 percent); aneurysms (9 percent); heart attack (7 percent); and embolism or thrombosis (5 percent).</li> <li>In terms of average cost per hospital stay, the five most expensive conditions were: heart valve disorders ($31,300); cardiac and circulatory birth defects ($29,600); aneurysms ($24,700); cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation ($16,700); and heart attack ($16,200).</li></ul> <p>Overall, it cost hospitals $71.2 billion in 2004 to treat patients with circulatory diseases, the report said.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>U.S. and Britain at Bottom of U.N. Ranking of Child Well-Being</b></span></p> <p>The United States and Great Britain were ranked second to last and last, respectively, in a UNICEF report released Wednesday that looked at the well-being of children in 21 industrialized countries, the <i>Associated Press</i> reported.</p> <p>Countries at the top of the list were European nations with strong social welfare systems -- the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.</p> <p>The rankings were based on six measures: material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviors and risks, and youngsters\' own subjective sense of well-being, the <i>AP</i> reported.</p> <p>In the health and safety category, the United States came last. That category looks at rates of infant death, low birth weight, immunization, and deaths from accidents and injuries.</p> <p>The fact that the United States and Britain were ranked below countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary shows that a nation\'s overall wealth alone does not guarantee a child\'s well-being, the report authors said.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Leprosy Cases Increase in Indonesia</b></span></p> <p>Indonesia is the only country in the world where cases of leprosy are on the rise, says the World Health Organization.</p> <p>In 2005, there were 19,695 new cases of leprosy in Indonesia, compared with 16,549 new cases in 2004. However, the WHO said the prevalence of the disfiguring disease in Indonesia is less than one case per 10,000 population, which means leprosy is effectively eliminated in that country, <i>Agence France Presse</i> reported.</p> <p>The disease has also been effectively eliminated in most other parts of Asia. Two exceptions are East Timor and Nepal. Both countries have repeatedly missed target dates to eliminate leprosy.</p> <p>The WHO released the information after a meeting about eliminating leprosy and other tropical diseases. The meeting with donor agencies was held in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, <i>AFP</i> reported.</p> <p>\"We hope that this meeting will increase political commitment from the governments of the member states and result in the intensification of efforts towards elimination of the disease,\" which is associated with poverty, Jai Narain, WHO director of communicable diseases, told reporters.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1711','1','	<p><p>THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- In young children with sporadic, recurring asthma attacks, treatment with the drug montelukast (Singulair) reduces the number of unscheduled medical visits, absences from school or child care, and the number of days parents need to take off work to care for a child.</p> <p>So concluded researchers at the Royal Children\'s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, who tracked the health of 202 asthmatic children, aged 2 to 14.</p> <p>The study was funded by the Australian branch of pharmaceutical company Merck, which makes Singulair.</p> <p>For one year, parents gave their children either montelukast or a placebo when needed.</p> <p>The group of children who received montelukast had a total of 163 unscheduled medical visits during that year, compared to 228 for the group that received the placebo.</p> <p>In children given montelukast, \"symptoms were reduced by 14 percent, nights awakened by 8.6 percent, days off from school or child care by 37 percent and parent time off from work by 33 percent,\" study author Dr. Colin F. Robertson, of the department of respiratory medicine, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>There were no significant reductions in specialist care, hospitalizations, duration of asthma episodes, or the use of beta-agonist drugs or prednisolone.</p> <p>The study is in the latest issue of the <i>American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine</i>, published by the American Thoracic Society.</p> <p>Intermittent asthma accounts for 75 percent of attacks in children with asthma, according to the researchers.</p> <p>\"Acute episodes of asthma in young children place a significant burden on health-care resources,\" Robertson said. \"Admission to the hospital for asthma in children aged 0 to 4 years is five times more common, and for those aged 5 to 14 years, twice as common as for adults who have asthma.\"</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The American Lung Association has more about <a href=\"http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&amp;b=22782\" target=\"_new\">childhood asthma</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1712','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Rheumatoid arthritis causes pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints. There is no cure, and most treatments focus on slowing joint damage and treating pain. </p> <p>In addition to pain medication, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has these suggestions to help reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis:</p> <ul> <li>Get plenty of rest, especially when you have severe symptoms.</li> <li>Get regular exercise -- more when symptoms have eased, and less when symptoms are severe.</li> <li>Protect joints, such as wrists and ankles, with splints.</li> <li>Reduce stress using relaxation techniques, exercising and joining a support group.</li> <li>Maintain a healthy diet, including restricted alcohol consumption.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1713','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Hodgkin\'s disease is a type of lymphoma, a cancer affecting the lymphatic system, which defends the body against infection and disease.</p> <p>The cause of Hodgkin\'s disease is unknown, but people who have had the Epstein-Barr virus that causes infectious mononucleosis may be slightly more likely to develop the disease, the Nemours Foundation says.</p> <p>Symptoms of Hodgkin\'s include swollen glands, muscle aches, fevers, excessive sweating, shortness of breath and unexplained weight loss. Many people with the disease have swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck or groin.</p> <p>If Hodgkin\'s disease is suspected, your doctor may order imaging tests that can help evaluate the health of your lymph nodes and spleen, the foundation says.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1714','1','	<p><p>THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers are launching a major population-based study to examine the genetic and environmental factors that may cause many diseases, including asthma, Alzheimer\'s, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease and reproductive problems, among others.</p> <p>This is the first such study in the United States since the Framingham Heart Study began in 1948 with some 5,000 men and women. Data from that project has helped determine the risk factors and best treatments for heart disease ever since.</p> <p>\"That study continues to provide information that has radically changed the way cardiovascular disease is prevented and managed,\" Dr. Robert Pearl, executive director and chief executive officer of The Permanente Medical Group in California, which will sponsor the new research, said during a Wednesday teleconference.</p> <p>The goal of the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health is to discover which genes and environmental factors are linked to specific diseases, he said.</p> <p>\"This research will benefit people in the future, because it uses what we have learned in the mapping of the human genome and builds on that, so we can better understand the environmental and genetic factors that effect human disease and how diseases can be treated,\" Dr. David Kessler, dean of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said during the teleconference.</p> <p>To get started, Kaiser is spending $7 million and mailing requests to its almost 2 million adult HMO members in northern California, asking them to take part in the study. Kaiser is hoping to recruit 500,000 participants. The initial survey will ask questions about their background, health history, lifestyle and habits, and family medical history.</p> <p>Later, those who enroll in the study and give written consent will be asked to provide blood or saliva samples that can be used to obtain genetic information.</p> <p>Pearl expects this study to be as significant in the 21st century as Framingham was in the 20th century. \"This study will allow us to understand how the individual genetic makeup of patients interacts with the environment -- the air they breathe, the water they drink and their lifestyle -- to either cause or prevent the development of various ailments,\" he said.</p> <p>The study will also allow researchers to see the effect of new drugs as they are used by thousands of people.</p> <p>One of the unique aspects of the Kaiser study is that researchers will be able to tie population-based data directly with patient\'s medical records. \"The program will eventually link survey responses with clinical data and ultimately with genetic information,\" Dr. Joe Selby, the director of Kaiser Permanente\'s Division of Research, said during the briefing.</p> <p>Kaiser expects to seek additional funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other sources. And as the study progresses over the years, Kaiser plans to share the data with other researchers and institutions.</p> <p>One expert applauds Kaiser\'s effort.</p> <p>\"It\'s been increasingly difficult to fund and enroll people in these kinds of studies in the United States,\" said Eugenia E. Calle, managing director of analytic epidemiology at the American Cancer Society. \"There is a new cohort that is being formed in the United Kingdom called the UK Biobank, which will also link survey data with medical records and include 500,000 people,\" she noted.</p> <p>One of the important aspects of the new U.S. study is that the participants can be followed for 20 to 30 years, Calle said. \"You can query them over the years. New drugs come on the market, new hypotheses develop, and you are in a position to ask new questions and continue to follow them,\" she said.</p> <p>Calle noted that the American Cancer Society is also starting a new population-based study. \"We are enrolling nationwide and our goal is 500,000 people,\" she said. \"If we don\'t start these new studies, we literally lose the ability to study our times,\" she said.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>To learn more about the new study, visit <a href=\"http://www.dor.kaiser.org/studies/rpgeh/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Kaiser Permanente</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1715','1','	<p>Medical device makers hawking new hip\nrepair products using more of a patient\'s bone said they will\nlikely go straight to consumers in advertising products in\n2007, as the U.S. market is seen heating up.<p/>\n\"I am unabashedly not shy about\" direct-to-consumer\nadvertising, Gary Henley, chief executive of Wright Medical\nGroup Inc. said on the sidelines of the American Academy of\nOrthopedic Surgeons annual meeting in San Diego. \"I think it\nhas a place.\"<p/>\nMedical device makers have recently stepped up a strategy\nfirst used by pharmaceutical companies, which have seen product\nsales increase exponentially with so-called direct-to-consumer\nads on television, in newspapers and in magazines.<p/>\nCritics say the ads often lead doctors to make treatment\nchoices based on patient demands, driving up health care costs.<p/>\nWright is awaiting U.S. <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/hl_nm/hips_advertising_dc/21951067/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Food and Drug Administration</a></span>\napproval for its new so-called hip resurfacing product, called\nConserve Plus. The company recently launched a series of ads\nwith former tennis star Jimmy Connors, who has a traditional\nhip replacement made by the company.<p/>\nIn the newer technique, surgeons cut away a tiny amount of\nthe top of femur, conserving bone compared with a traditional\ntotal hip replacement. Supporters say the newer surgery has the\npotential to last longer and reduce post-operative risk of\ndislocation, though some doctors are still skeptical.<p/>\nBritain\'s Smith &amp; Nephew Plc is the only maker so far with\napproval in the United States. But the field is likely to get\nmore crowded soon as a device from British rival Corin Group\nPlc is the subject of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration\nadvisory panel meeting next week. Corin\'s U.S. partner is\nStryker Corp..<p/>\n\"We see our role to build patient awareness. We know for\nevery one joint that gets done for (patients aged) 65 years old\nand younger, probably at least two or more could benefit,\" said\nTodd Duriak, marketing vice president for Smith &amp; Nephew.<p/>\nSmith &amp; Nephew officials noted that cyclist Floyd Landis,\nthe disputed winner of the Tour de France who is now fighting\nallegations of doping during the race, got his injured hip\nresurfaced and has met with its sales force.<p/>\n\"I think if Floyd Landis gets cleared, maybe we will use\nhim\" in a marketing campaign, Dave Illingworth, chief operating\nofficer, said.<p/>\nThe resurfacing technique got a cautious reception at the\nsurgeons\' meeting. Some doctors\' skepticism stems from\npotential downsides of the new procedure, including increased\nblood loss, higher cost and the need for a larger incision,\naccording to Harry Rubash, a surgeon at Massachusetts General\nHospital.<p/>\nA primary group of patients deemed unsuitable for the\nprocedure are those with low bone density, which explains why\nwomen are less likely to get one.<p/>\nSmith &amp; Nephew said it will emphasize its 10 years of\nexperience on the market outside the United States in\npositioning the product against competitors.<p/>\nThe annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic\nSurgeons is taking place this week in San Diego.\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1716','1','	<p>Advances in treatment of horrific\nbattlefield injuries in <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/hl_nm/medicine_war_dc/21951120/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Iraq%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Iraq</a></span> and <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/hl_nm/medicine_war_dc/21951120/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Afghanistan%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Afghanistan</a></span> that have saved\nthe lives of many U.S. soldiers who would have died in previous\nwars may yield valuable techniques for treating civilian trauma\nvictims, military doctors said.<p/>\nSurvival rates have improved to 90 percent in this war from\nabout 75 percent during the Vietnam War, even though today\'s\nweapons are more lethal.<p/>\n\"People are surviving more mutilating injuries,\" Dr. Dana\nCovey, a Navy captain and chairman of the Department of\nOrthopedic Surgery at the San Diego Naval Medical Center, said\nin an interview.<p/>\nAccording to the U.S. government, nearly 24,000 soldiers\nhave been injured in the conflict so far. Critics argue that\nthe estimate doubles when military accidents sustained away\nfrom combat, brain injuries that can turn up later or other\ndiseases like pneumonia are included.<p/>\nCovey, who has spent a total of 10 months in Iraq, said\nbetter armor has resulted in fewer injuries to the torso, and\nmore injuries to the extremities, especially the arms.<p/>\nDespite the improved armor, throughout the Iraq war the\nU.S. military has struggled to maintain sufficient armor to\nprotect its troops, including armored vehicles and personal\narmor.<p/>\nDoctors said new techniques and the practice of saving\nskin, muscles and injured tissue have reduced the number of\namputations.<p/>\n\"What we\'re learning about and getting a lot better at is\nsaving limbs,\" said Dr. Arnold Scheller, a Boston-based surgeon\nwho served as an emergency doctor in Iraq and Afghanistan.<p/>\n\"We\'re doing vascular and nerve repairs and we\'re salvaging\nlimbs when we wouldn\'t have before. We would have amputated,\"\nhe said.<p/>\nCIVILIAN INJURIES<p/>\nThese techniques, he added, can be applied to civilian\nblast injuries and high-speed motor accidents.<p/>\nThere already have been dramatic improvements in\nprosthetics using lighter-weight material for comfort and\nmicroprocessors for better function.<p/>\n\"Prosthetics was a sleepy specialty that has turned into an\nexciting area and this war has been a stimulus to that,\" Dr.\nMichael Mazurek, a Navy commander from the San Diego Naval\nMedical Center, said.<p/>\nBattlefield traumas in Vietnam yielded medical advances\nsuch as the development of trauma centers that employed a\nconcentration of specialists.<p/>\nApplying wartime medical techniques and technology to\ncivilian care happens in every conflict, said Commander Michael\nMazurek M.D. \"That history is still being written.\"<p/>\nIncreasingly, academia and the industry are working with\nthe military more closely to fulfill needs of the injured.<p/>\nCovey said he began working closely with a small company\ncalled SurModics Inc. a year ago after he met executives at the\nannual orthopedics meeting last year in Chicago. SurModics\nmakes coatings for cardiac stents.<p/>\n\"It was very fortuitous because it\'s not even an\northopedics company,\" Covey said.<p/>\n\"I was just there at the meeting at a hot dog stand and I\nwas in uniform. One of the corporate reps stopped by and said\nhi and told me that he had been in the Navy and they started\nasking me what we need,\" Covey recalled.<p/>\nCovey asked if SurModics could make beads, strung like a\npearl necklace, coated with one or more types of time-released\nantibiotics.<p/>\n\"I had just returned from Iraq and I thought it would be\nnice if I had something I could put in a wound before I shipped\nthem off to the helicopter,\" Covey said.<p/>\nSurModics Chief Financial Officer Phil Ankeny said the\nantibiotic beads are in the late stages of development. He\ndeclined to say when it expected to file an approval\napplication to the U.S. <span class=\"keyword\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/hl_nm/medicine_war_dc/21951120/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&amp;p=%22Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration%22&amp;c=&amp;n=20&amp;yn=c&amp;c=news&amp;cs=nw\">Food and Drug Administration</a></span>.<p/>\n\"As unfortunate as war is, many medical advances are made\nduring war time,\" Covey said.<p/>\n(Additional reporting by Kim Dixon)\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1717','1','	<p>New evidence shows that the human\nbrain can manufacture fresh brain cells, researchers said on\nThursday in a study that may lead to better ways to treat brain\ndamage and disease.<p/>\nScientists had known that other animals, such as rats and\nmice, make new brain cells throughout their lives and there had\nbeen indirect evidence that humans being can, too.<p/>\nUsing magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans and\nelectron microscope images of tissue donated from the brains of\npeople who died, Maurice Curtis of the University of Auckland\nin New Zealand and Peter Eriksson of Sahlgrenska Academy in\nGoteborg, Sweden, and colleagues found the elusive cells.<p/>\nJust as in mice and rats, these cells are born in one part\nof the brain and then migrate to the olfactory bulb, where\nsmells are processed. They mature into neurons on the way.<p/>\nIn animals, they said, brain damage prompts the birth of\nnew cells. \"Our study provides the foundation for this\npossibility in the adult human brain,\" they wrote in their\nreport, published in the journal Science.<p/>\nHumans have far more developed brains, so searching for\nthese cells has been harder than it was in rodents.<p/>\nIn mice and rats it has been clear these cells are born in\nthe forebrain and then migrate to the smell center. There, they\ncan help the animals learn and adapt to new smells.<p/>\nSmell is less important for humans, but it is still\nimportant for sensing dangers from smoke, for instance, or\nrotten food.<p/>\nAnd studies show that the loss of smell may be an early\nsign of brain-destroying illnesses such as Parkinson\'s, the\nresearchers said -- a hint that these cells may be important.<p/>\n\"This study is exciting because it reveals a group of brain\ncells in the adult human brain that are continuously\nregenerating,\" said Dr. Mark Baxter of Britain\'s Oxford\nUniversity.<p/>\n\"Animal studies have pointed to the existence of such\ngroups of cells, but it has been difficult to determine whether\nthey exist in the human brain as well,\" Baxter, who was not\ninvolved in the research, said in a statement.<p/>\n\"This opens another direction by which we may discover ways\nto repair human brains that are damaged from injury or\ndiseases, and underscores the importance of animal research in\nguiding biomedical research in humans,\" Baxter said.<p/>\nAnother expert, Sebastian Brandner, head of the Division of\nNeuropathology at the Institute of Neurology at University\nCollege London, agreed.<p/>\n\"These findings are important for several reasons:\nUnderstanding stem cell biology is essential to study brain\nrepair in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\'s and it\nis even possible that stem cells are the source of some brain\ntumors,\" Brandner said in a statement.\n<p/>\n</p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1718','1','<p>I was humming along on the gym treadmill when a sight almost cost me my footing. (Note to self: For safer gawking, set machine to \"manual.\") A woman was lumbering noisily toward an elliptical trainer wearing what can only be described as a garbage bag, except that it had elasticized arms and legs and a hole for her head. It wasn\'t the dainty white bathroom-variety bag. It was the heavy-duty, three-ply, 30-gallon, lawn-and-leaf workhorse. With reflective stripes.</p><p>What would possess someone to clad herself in yards (ha!) of heavyweight vinyl and go out in public? As soon as I got home, I put the question to GoFit.net, an online fitness store, which sells its own brand of the garment. GoFit called it a \"thermal suit,\" designed, it said, to increase perspiration while keeping muscles warm and relaxed.</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/2007/02/12/PH2007021201147.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201149.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_7629616\">Buy This Photo</a></span></div>\n</div><br clear=\"all\"/><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201149.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201147.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"\"  height=\"190\" width=\"152\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\"><span id=\"credit\"> (By Erica Luske For 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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201146_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Gear to Make You Sweat: Bag That Idea\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201146.html\',\'I was humming along on the gym treadmill when a sight almost cost me my footing. 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Then I talked to Timothy McGann, 24, a personal trainer from Arlington, who as a collegiate wrestler wore just such a suit to help him drop weight. \"I dropped five pounds in 45 minutes,\" he told me.</p><p>\"Go on,\" I said, increasingly happy with my purchase.</p><p>\"It\'s great for releasing toxins from your body,\" McGann said. \"The key is to replenish. You might lose three pounds after wearing the suit, and you\'ll put it back on with the water you drink, but it\'ll be a healthy three pounds.\"</p><p>\"But how were your workouts?\" I asked.</p><p>\"Miserable,\" he said.</p><p>Still. Five pounds in 45 minutes? Perhaps the thermal suit\'s ugliness kept people from realizing its mystical qualities. I began envisioning it as a <i>magical</i> garbage bag -- after your workout, you remove the suit, tie it up with a twist-tie and throw your fat away!</p><p>I asked Lori Eig, a personal trainer and physical therapist from Clarksburg, what she thought about my new suit. \"It\'s often mistaken as a weight-loss solution,\" she said. \"The suit\'s goal is to burn more calories, increase metabolism through perspiration and raise body temperature. But any decrease in weight is based on water, not fat.\"</p><p>I wasn\'t sure I cared what the weight was based on, as long as it went away.</p><p>And she had a warning: \"When exercising in a thermal suit, sweat can\'t evaporate and cool the body. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1719','1','<p>The strong desire for food and drink is undisputed. Just ask anyone who has experienced a heartfelt craving for a juicy burger, pizza or ice cream.</p><p>But what about the other side of the coin: Can certain foods and beverages increase your physical desire for other people?</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/2007/02/12/PH2007021201151.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201153.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-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201153.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201151.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"There\'s nothing subtle in the advertising at Faidley\'s raw bar in Baltimore.\"  height=\"162\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">There\'s nothing subtle in the advertising at Faidley\'s raw bar in Baltimore.<span id=\"credit\"> (By Robert A. 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Look at the Bible and you\'ll find aphrodisiacs mentioned in the Song of Solomon as well as in ancient Arab, Chinese and Indian writings. Shakespeare described them. So did the Marquis de Sade. And in more recent culture, movies from \"Tom Jones\" -- based on Henry Fielding\'s 1917 novel -- to \"Practical Magic\" with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witches, have featured aphrodisiacs.</p><p>But it turns out that there isn\'t much science behind this outpouring of art.</p><p>\"The idea behind an aphrodisiac is that there is a compound that would make people feel instantly amorous or attracted to another person,\" notes Marcia Pelchat, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.</p><p>Scientists think that if such compounds exist they are likely to be pheromones -- substances that are smelled rather than eaten. Pheromones are inhaled through the nose, where they can rapidly affect the nervous system through the olfactory nerves. By contrast, compounds that are eaten or drunk must survive hostile stomach acids, be transported through the gastrointestinal tract and then move through the blood to the brain. Not only is this process more time-consuming, but it offers the body the chance to dilute or block the substance from ever reaching its target.</p><p>What intrigues researchers is that none of the purported aphrodisiacs works on a statistically significant percentage of those who take them -- a standard way to show the merit of a drug. There are also wide cultural differences in alleged aphrodisiacs, suggesting that the context in which they are taken is key. So while chocolate may be considered an emblem of love in Western cultures, stuffed snails are more likely to light personal fires in China, as Pelchat and her research assistant learned from a visiting Chinese scientist. \"It didn\'t strike us as much of an aphrodisiac,\" she says with a laugh.</p><p>Part of what seems to play a role in the many purported aphrodisiacs is the well-known placebo effect. That is, if you believe it will work, it may. \"It goes back to the idea of the mind being the sexiest organ,\" says Martha K. McClintock, head of the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago.</p><p>To date, only one food has shown evidence of increasing sexual desire -- and it\'s not likely to be on the menu of a romantic dinner.</p><p>That ingredient? Mother\'s milk. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1720','1','<p>It\'s nearly showtime, the set is ready, and the crew and host of \"Village in Motion\" are going through their morning drill. As they prepare for the taping, the director asks for a few last-minute changes.</p><p>\"Before you go to [Camera] 3, can you move the candle by Eck\'s head?\" asks Diane Gatis Havinga, speaking from the control room through her headset. \"Not the one up above, the one by the shelf where the books are.\"</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Aging Well</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<p> </p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html\" >Pulling Against Time</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201138.html\" >My Time: At Any Age, You Need Somebody to Love</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201143.html\" >On This Video Set, Seniors Run the Show</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html\" >Resuming the Job Hunt: Bracing for Job Re-entry</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201145.html\" >Knee Osteoarthritis: Exercise Won\'t Make It Worse</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201155.html\" >M E D I A   S C A N: Brain Power</a>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></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. They can be quite memory inhibiting and are more likely to be present in the control group, as a lack of mental stimulation can increase self doubt, decrease confidence and cause a form of panic. 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As they prepare for the taping, the director asks for a few last-minute changes.&bkmk=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201143.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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201143.html%3Freferrer=delicious&title=%22On This Video Set, Seniors Run the Show: TV Production Tests Skills, Experience of Erickson Retirement Community Residents%22 By Meghan Collins Sullivan&notes=It\'s nearly showtime, the set is ready, and the crew and host of \'Village in Motion\' are going through their morning drill. 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With topics as varied as local history, politics, travel and fine wine, the show is part of a growing effort to attract retirees to the properties run by Erickson Retirement Communities.</p><p>Each of the company\'s locations across the country will eventually house a TV studio, says John Erickson, 63, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Erickson Retirement Communities and Retirement Living TV. As of late 2006, full studios were operating in nine of Erickson\'s 18 communities, which offer their 19,000 residents everything from assisted living to nursing-home-type services.</p><p>Erickson is basing his business model on the conviction that the growing market of aging baby boomers expects to remain engaged in their communities long after they retire. And that conviction is resonating among current residents. \"Us old folks have to have something else to do besides reading,\" says Eck Muessig, 82, a host of \"Village in Motion.\"</p><p>Like all the resident contributors to Erickson\'s community TV project, Muessig is a volunteer, and he had had no TV-related experience when he moved to Greenspring three years ago. Before he retired, he was a labor arbitrator for cases involving railroads and airlines.</p><p>The guest for the day\'s show is another resident and frequent contributor, history buff Jasper Vink. While last-minute preparations are underway, the station runs a pre-taped Jazzercise session for retirees looking to stay in shape.</p><p>The shows offer opportunities to hone old skills or to learn new, often technical ones -- or even to become critics. Aldon Nielsen, 85, who runs Camera 1, spent much of his life working for the federal government; he discovered an interest in video and photography after he retired.</p><p>\"John Erickson\'s whole idea was to have seniors doing this, the way I understand it,\" Nielsen says. \"He believes in this stuff.\"</p><p>Nielsen is among several Erickson seniors who have paid a small fee to take digital training courses, including lessons on shooting and editing videotape. Some will move on to work on a digital storytelling project linking Erickson with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.</p><p>How is the programming received? \"They get immediate feedback, and [other residents] will tell them if they don\'t like it,\" said Havinga, a former professor in the electronic media program at George Washington University and one of three paid staffers at the Green-spring station. \"At this age, they aren\'t afraid to tell you it stunk.\"</p><p>The in-house stations  operate independently now. But Erickson hopes that eventually some of the content will end up on Retirement Living TV, a national venture he launched last year that now has about 130 employees. Erickson says he envisions the community stations producing content for one another as well as for the national network.</p><p>Based in Columbia, Retirement Living TV started appearing on some Comcast cable systems in September. It has since been picked up by DirecTV, a satellite service, and expanded its hours to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and its reach to 25 million homes. Its mission, as Erickson sees it, is to bring useful information about health, travel and politics, among other topics, to the exploding demographic of people 55 and older.</p><p>One of its key programs, \"Healthline,\" is taped at Charlestown, the Erickson community in Catonsville, outside Baltimore. \"It\'s a weird place to have a TV studio,\" says Ray Farkus, a \"Healthline\" guest. Farkus, a freelance television producer who once worked for \"America\'s Most Wanted,\" is preparing to discuss on air the brain surgery he underwent as part of his treatment for Parkinson\'s disease.</p><p>As the  crew prepares to tape the show, some Charlestown residents  peer in from the other side of a pane of glass.</p><p>Mary Frances Bell, 89, claims she used to live in the room where \"Healthline\" guests now await their turn on camera. \"It\'s wonderful,\" Bell says of the station. \"I think other people should know how we\'re living.\"</p><p>\"This fills in the whole scene of things to show the older people as they get older,\" adds Gilbert Rhodes, 84, leaning on his walker.</p><p>\"Healthline,\" one of six shows regularly running on Retirement Living TV, is the only one produced at a retirement community. \"It\'s exciting to be involved in this,\" Erickson says. \"A real deficit [Americans] have is that we don\'t have a real communication system for people this age. I see them as a group that wants more information.\"</p><p>According to Erickson, 17 million people watch TV between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day. And 15 million of those viewers are seniors. \"For advertisers, 90 percent of the audience are the people you want to talk to,\" says Erickson, who invested $50 million to start the network.</p><p>In the first quarter of 2007, the network plans to launch six more shows. One will be a travel program and another a talk show with older celebrities familiar to the target audience who will weigh in about their own life choices. By 2009, Erickson plans to expand to round-the-clock programming.</p><p>Despite the connections that Charlestown has to Erickson\'s national TV network, for most of the retirees there, the biggest draw remains the community\'s closed-circuit TV channel, which runs 24 hours a day. Many residents use it to make plans as announcements scroll through the day\'s menus, prayer service times and other events.</p><p>For Rhodes and his wife, who have lived at Charlestown for 12 years, the internal community channel also provides an outlet for their interests and creativity.</p><p>&quot;We\'ve been on the local station demonstrating origami and building a bonfire,&quot; Rhodes says. &quot;We talked about camping for seniors.&quot; ? <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('1721','1','<p>Tucked among the Super Bowl ads that featured two auto mechanics who find themselves gnawing on the same candy bar and a fur-coated Kevin Federline hawking insurance was an unlikely spot with a rare public health message: Do something about your high blood pressure.</p><p>The 60-second ad, aimed at the millions sprawled on their sofas stuffing their faces with chips, pizza and beer, was eye-catching. It starred a man sporting a red heart costume and carrying a briefcase being jumped by assailants wearing placards emblazoned with \"high cholesterol,\" \"overweight\" and other risk factors linked to stroke and heart attack.</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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The quiz assesses individual risk factors for heart attack, stroke and kidney disease -- all consequences of long-standing hypertension. English and Spanish versions of the quiz are available at <a href=\"http://beatyourrisk.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>beatyourrisk.com</a>.</p><p>To take the quiz, people must know their blood pressure. Health officials consider readings of 120/80 mm Hg or higher to be elevated. The site offers tips about reducing it through the usual means: a healthy diet and exercise. Drugs are prominently displayed on the site but not explicitly mentioned.</p><p>An estimated one in three Americans has high blood pressure, and public health officials believe that one-third of them are unaware of it, because the condition may not cause symptoms.</p><p>The goal of the ad was to \"break through the clutter\" and reach the largest possible audience, said Steve Andrzejewski, chief commercial officer for King Pharmaceuticals, which is based in Bristol, Tenn. ?</p><p></p><p><i>Comments:<a href=\'mailto:boodmans@washpost.com\'>boodmans@washpost.com</a>.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1722','1','<p>STANFORD, Calif. -- Don\'t have a date tomorrow? A San Francisco radio station jumps into the fray as Cupid\'s helper. Among the listeners is a recently divorced woman. The announcer telephones her and tells her on the air that she has been chosen to come into the studio and meet half a dozen great guys, among whom she will pick her valentine. \"It\'s about the future . . . about hope . . . love,\" he booms. \"It\'s all about love,\" the woman wails. Yes, continues the announcer: \"Love . . . marriage . . . and, uh, baby carriage!\"</p><p>But first, how about a box of chocolates!</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Aging Well</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<p> </p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html\" >Pulling Against Time</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201138.html\" >My Time: At Any Age, You Need Somebody to Love</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201143.html\" >On This Video Set, Seniors Run the Show</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html\" >Resuming the Job Hunt: Bracing for Job Re-entry</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201145.html\" >Knee Osteoarthritis: Exercise Won\'t Make It Worse</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201155.html\" >M E D I A   S C A N: Brain Power</a>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201138_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'At Any Age, You Need Somebody to Love\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201138.html\',\'STANFORD, Calif. -- Don\\\'t have a date tomorrow? 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You are never too old to fall in love or to get married -- but graying veterans of amorous campaigns know better than to fall for this once-a-year mating mystique. After all, experience is an advantage in the pursuit of love.</p><p>\"Valentine\'s Day sucks,\" says Jane Juska, 73, a former schoolteacher in Berkeley, Calif. \"This notion of romantic love attached to things we have to buy -- champagne, chocolates, lingerie -- is perpetuating the superficial,\" continues the author of \"Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate.\"</p><p>Not that older men and women don\'t seek love or enjoy the courtship of candlelight dinners. But there\'s a difference between passionate love -- the vital, intimate connection with another -- and valentine fever\'s hazy hallucinations of happy forever after with a blind date and a bouquet of roses.</p><p>For Juska, the hard realities of passion are preferable to fuzzy dreams of romantic utopia. Five years ago, she placed a personal ad in the New York Review of Books saying: \"Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.\" The ad drew hundreds of responses, and Juska set out on her journey to find the perfect lover. She found several and described her exploits in an earlier book, \"A Round-Heeled Woman.\" Since then she has become something of an expert on the passion-driven life.</p><p>\"Passion is a desire to live fully,\" she says. It\'s a decision not to sit on the sidelines of life. \"You give up passion and you give up life.\" Divorced more than 30 years ago, Juska raised a son from that marriage and is now a grandmother. Her only regret is that she didn\'t place the ad when she was 50.</p><p>It is never too late to discover -- or reawaken -- your passionate self. Juska learned she could hold her own in conversation with those very bright and sophisticated men who answered her ad -- and she could hold her own in bed as she explored the many ways to give and receive pleasure.</p><p>She also got her heart broken. \"That\'s why Cupid has an arrow,\" she quips. Two of her lovers continue to be friends. But she flipped over a man who was decades younger. Then came the \"Dear Jane\" e-mail telling her that he had gotten married! Now they, too, are friends, their grand passion reduced to tea and cookies, discussions of Kafka and warm  memories.</p><p>\"You\'re going to have to take the pain with the pleasure,\" she says. \"It\'s enriching. Even in the throes of abandonment, you know that you are richer than you were when you went in.\" This richness to late-life love is not accessible to the young, she points out. Everywhere, it seems, the young are Doing It -- on TV, on the beach, in middle school, but \"without tenderness, without patience, without empathy or longing, without kindness or the generosity that comes with age,\" she writes in \"Unaccompanied Women.\" \"It takes years to learn how to be grateful and at the same time gracious\" in loving relationships.</p><p>The combination of graciousness and gratitude may be why older men and women have the advantage in love -- all kinds of love, from the passionate encounter to a long-lasting marriage. This richness, which is rooted in empathy and patience, also bodes well for those who decide to get married in the second half of life -- when the valentine script of \"baby carriage\" involves integrating children and grandchildren from previous relationships.</p><p>For Ron Browne, 63, of Cleveland, the arc of Cupid\'s arrow was slow but sure. The sexual spark glows, but it does not dominate the way it did in younger years. \"We are still sexually driven, but not to the same extent. We have the experience of life decisions that we regret. So we\'re careful,\" he says. Age can make us love-smart -- not so vulnerable to those sudden, swept-away passions of youth that fade in the morning light.</p><p>Browne, who works in the field of aging, met a woman at the annual conference of the American Society on Aging. They shared common ground: careers in gerontology, a love of Beethoven, physical activities from long-distance running to Pilates. Conversation was the aphrodisiac. Over many months, they came to know each other, trust each other, even as they lived in different states. \"We like to say we fell in love on the phone,\" he jokes. And now they plan to marry.</p><p>\"To build a life together in the second half looks a little different. We\'re not distracted by having kids. We\'re both settled into careers,\" he continues. \"We\'re wiser. We are more life-experienced.\" In the process of courtship, they have melded their two communities: \"We like each other\'s friends, each other\'s families,\" he says.</p><p>And this is another key to loving as we get older. Researchers point out that we don\'t just need one person to love, but a circle of loved ones. These are people you cannot imagine your life without: spouses and partners, friends and family members -- an inner core of beloveds who make up your community over a long life.</p><p>The optimum number is about 10, according to psychologist Laura Carstensen, director of the Center on Longevity at Stanford University.</p><p>So I think about all the ones I love. This Valentine\'s Day, I am sending out 10 cards and plan to rejoice in the richness of love\'s bloom in the second half of life. ?</p><p><i>Health columnist Abigail Trafford is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University\'s longevity center. Comments:<a href=\'mailto:mytime@washpost.com\'>mytime@washpost.com</a>.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1723','1','<p>The next time the boss finds you snoozing at your desk, take heart.</p><p>A large new study has found that people who regularly took a siesta were significantly less likely to die of heart disease.</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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Heart disease kills more than 650,000 Americans each year, making it the nation\'s No. 1 cause of death.</p><p>\"It\'s interesting. A little siesta, a little snooze may be beneficial,\" said Gerald Fletcher, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., speaking on behalf of the American Heart Association. \"It\'s simple, but it has a lot of promise.\"</p><p>While more research is needed to confirm and explore the findings, there are several ways napping could reduce the risk of heart attacks, experts said.</p><p>\"Napping may help deal with the stress of daily living,\" said Michael Twery, who directs the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute\'s National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. \"Another possibility is that it is part of the normal biological rhythm of daily living. The biological clock that drives sleep and wakefulness has two cycles each day, and one of them dips usually in the early afternoon. It\'s possible that not engaging in napping for some people might disrupt these processes.\"</p><p>Researchers have long known that countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain, where people commonly take siestas, have lower rates of heart disease than would be expected. But previous studies that attempted to study the relationship between naps and heart disease have produced mixed results. The new study is first to try to fully account for factors that might confuse the findings, such as physical activity, diet and other illnesses.</p><p>\"This study has a number of advantages,\" Trichopoulos said.</p><p>He and colleagues at the University of Athens  examined 23,681 Greek men and women ages 20 to 86 who had no history of heart disease or any other serious health problem when they enrolled in the study between 1994 and 1999. The researchers asked the participants whether they took midday naps and, if so, how often and for how long. They also asked detailed questions about their health and lifestyles, such as whether they had any illnesses that might make them sleep more, how much exercise they got and what they ate.</p><p>After an average of more than six years of follow-up, 792 of the study subjects died, including 133 who died of heart disease. Of that group, 94 were nappers. After the researchers accounted for factors that could confuse the issue, they found that those who took naps frequently were 34 percent less likely to die of heart disease than those who did not. The biggest nappers -- 79 people who took a siesta for 30 minutes or more at least three times a week -- had a 37 percent lower risk.</p><p>Naps appeared to offer the most protection to working men: Those who took midday siestas either occasionally or systematically had a 64 percent lower risk of death from heart disease. Non-working men had a 36 percent reduction in risk. A similar analysis could not be done in women because too few died of heart disease.</p><p>While it is too soon to recommend naps to prevent heart disease, Trichopoulos said the finding offers one more reason to nap.</p><p>\"If you have an opportunity to take a nap, then, yes, do it,\" he said. \"If you\'re accustomed to taking a nap, then don\'t give it up.\"</p><p>Trichopoulos also noted that siestas are becoming less common around the world as globalization spreads the Western workaholic lifestyle.</p><p>\"If you visit many countries, during the middle of the day everything stops. People have an opportunity to have a large meal and take a nap,\" he said. \"With globalization, this is out. If this turns out to be right, people may think again before introducing the continuous, stopless activity that\'s happening with globalization.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1724','1','<p>AIDS patients suffering from debilitating nerve pain got as much or more relief by smoking marijuana as they would typically get from prescription drugs -- and with fewer side effects -- according to a study conducted under rigorously controlled conditions with government-grown pot.</p><p>In a five-day study performed in a specially ventilated hospital ward where patients smoked three marijuana cigarettes a day, more than half the participants tallied significant reductions in pain.</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. They can be quite memory inhibiting and are more likely to be present in the control group, as a lack of mental stimulation can increase self doubt, decrease confidence and cause a form of panic. 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Roberts, a former interim associate deputy director in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, now with Americans for Safe Access, which promotes access to marijuana for therapies and research.</p><p>Countless anecdotal reports have suggested that smoking marijuana can help relieve the pain, nausea and muscular spasticity that often accompany cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other ailments. But few well-controlled studies have been conducted.</p><p>The new study enrolled 50 AIDS patients with severe foot pain caused by their disease or by the medicines they take.</p><p>The team first measured baseline pain, both subjectively (patients ranked their pain on a scale of 1 to 100) and with two standardized tests, one involving a small hot iron held to the skin and another involving hot chili pepper cream.</p><p>Then, for five days, patients lit up at 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. using a calibrated puff method that calls for inhaling for five seconds, holding one\'s breath for 10, then waiting 45 seconds before the next.</p><p>The cigarettes were kept frozen and locked in a safe, then thawed and humidified one day before use. Cigarette butts and other debris were collected, weighed and returned to the safe to ensure no diversion for recreational purposes.</p><p>Grown on the government\'s official pot farm in Mississippi, the drug was about one-quarter the potency of quality street marijuana. The inactive version was chemically cleansed of cannabinoids, the drug\'s main active ingredients.</p><p>\"It smelled like and looked like\" normal marijuana, said study leader Donald I. Abrams, a physician at San Francisco General Hospital, where the smoking ward was located. Like the patients, Abrams was not told who had the active pot until the study was over.</p><p>Thirteen of 25 patients who smoked the regular marijuana achieved pain reduction of at least 30 percent, compared with six of 25 who smoked placebo pot. The average pain reduction for the real cannabis was 34 percent, compared with17 percent for the placebo.</p><p>Opioids and other pills can reduce nerve pain by 20 to 30 percent but can cause drowsiness and confusion, Abrams said. And many patients complain that a prescription version of pot\'s main ingredient in pill form does not work for them.</p><p>That was true for Diana Dodson, 50, who received an AIDS diagnosis in 1997 after a blood transfusion.</p><p>\"I have so many layers of pain I can hardly walk,\" said Dodson, who was in the new study. Prescription drugs made her feel worse. \"But inhaled cannabis works,\" she said.</p><p>Patients in the study -- all of whom had smoked pot previously -- reported no notable side effects, though the researchers acknowledged that people unfamiliar with the drug may not fare as well.</p><p>Igor Grant, director of the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, which funded the research, said the study was probably the best-designed U.S. test of marijuana\'s medical potential in decades. He called the results \"highly believable.\"</p><p>But David Murray, chief scientist at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, called the findings \"not particularly persuasive.\" The study was relatively small, he said, and it is likely that those who received the real pot were aware of that, introducing a bias of expected efficacy.</p><p>\"We\'re very much supportive of any effort to ameliorate the suffering of AIDS patients,\" Murray said. But even if ingredients in marijuana prove useful, he added, they ought to be synthesized in a pill to make dosing more accurate and to minimize lung damage.</p><p>Separately, ending a six-year effort, a Massachusetts group learned yesterday that it had won a legal victory against the DEA in its battle for federal permission to grow its own cannabis for federally approved studies, instead of relying on government pot.</p><p>In an 87-page opinion, administrative law judge Mary Ellen Bittner ruled that it \"would be in the public interest\" to allow a University of Massachusetts researcher to cultivate marijuana under contract to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which sponsors medical research on marijuana and other drugs.</p><p>The DEA is not obligated to follow the advice of its law judges, but the detailed decision should make it difficult for the agency to balk, said MAPS President Rick Doblin.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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The condition also can occur spontaneously. Indeed, the reports don\'t exceed the numbers expected to occur naturally each year _ the so-called background rate, the FDA said.</p><p>\"It looks like this is the natural background rate that we are seeing,\" said Dr. Michelle Goveia, medical director for pediatric medical affairs at the vaccine\'s manufacturer, Merck &amp; Co. Inc. Goveia suggested heightened concerns about the previous vaccine, made by Wyeth, prompted the FDA to act.</p><p>In Tuesday\'s public health notification, the agency said it wanted in part to encourage reporting of any additional cases of intestinal twisting or blockage to help it assess any risks associated with the three-shot vaccine series. It also said the vaccine\'s label would mention the cases of intussusception.</p><p>Dr. Paul Offit, the vaccine\'s co-inventor, said the 28 reports were well below the hundreds of cases one would expect naturally. He suggested the FDA wanted to \"shake the tree\" for more reports about the vaccine.</p><p>\"I am actually encouraged by those data: 28 cases, when you would have expected at least 500 cases, that is really reassuring,\" said Offit, of the Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia. \"I don\'t see how those numbers suggest something\'s awry. If anything, they suggest nothing\'s awry.\"</p><p>The 28 cases included 16 infants who required intestinal surgery. There have been no reports of deaths.</p><p>RotaTeq received FDA approval in February 2006. At the time, the FDA and Merck said trials of the vaccine involving nearly 70,000 infants indicated it did not increase the risk of intussusception. But Merck and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are conducting follow-up studies of tens of thousands more infants to track any long-term effects of the vaccine. The FDA also is monitoring reports.</p><p>About 3.5 million doses of the Merck vaccine have been distributed in the U.S., though not all have been used, the FDA said.</p><p>The earlier rotavirus vaccine, Wyeth\'s RotaShield, was pulled from the U.S. market in 1999 after it was linked to a small increase in intussusception. It had been on the market a year.</p><p>In the United States, rotavirus sickens about 2.7 million children younger than 5, sends up to 70,000 to the hospital and causes 20 to 70 deaths each year.</p><p>___</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>Food and Drug Administration notification on RotaTeq: <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/cber/safety/phnrota021307.htm\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.fda.gov/<wbr/>cber/<wbr/>safety/<wbr/>phnrota021307.htm</a></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1726','1','<p>Not long ago, workers in their 40s were closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, already hearing retirement\'s siren song. Today, by choice or by chance, many 40-somethings (and 50- and 60-somethings) are starting over, seeking new jobs or even new careers.</p><p>Looking for work can be daunting at any age, but for those 40 and older, the job search involves particular perils. Some are practical. (Should I list all 20 years of experience on my e-r?sum?? And what\'s an e-r?sum?, anyway?) Some are psychological. (Who\'d want me when they could hire someone younger?) As baby boomers inch toward 60, there\'s lots of advice out there for non-spring-chickens who are shifting careers. We talked to two  midlife career-changers who\'ve made it their (new) business to steer their peers through the thicket.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Aging Well</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<p> </p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html\" >Pulling Against Time</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201138.html\" >My Time: At Any Age, You Need Somebody to Love</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201143.html\" >On This Video Set, Seniors Run the Show</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html\" >Resuming the Job Hunt: Bracing for Job Re-entry</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201145.html\" >Knee Osteoarthritis: Exercise Won\'t Make It Worse</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201155.html\" >M E D I A   S C A N: Brain Power</a>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Bracing for Job Re-entry\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html\',\'Not long ago, workers in their 40s were closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, already hearing retirement\\\'s siren song. Today, by choice or by chance, many 40-somethings (and 50- and 60-somethings) are starting over, seeking new jobs or even new careers.\',\'\') ;\n</script><script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144_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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html%3Freferrer=digg&title=Bracing for Job Re-entry&bodytext=Not long ago, workers in their 40s were closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, already hearing retirement\'s siren song. 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Today, by choice or by chance, many 40-somethings (and 50- and 60-somethings) are starting over, seeking new jobs or even new careers.&bkmk=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201144.html%3Freferrer=delicious&title=%22Bracing for Job Re-entry%22&notes=Not long ago, workers in their 40s were closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, already hearing retirement\'s siren song. 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Steven Greenberg, also a lawyer, switched to recruitment and human resources 14 years ago and is now a mid-career columnist for Forbes. Last year Greenberg launched <a href=\"http://www.jobs4point0.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.jobs4point0.com</a>, a job-search site for folks older than 40. Here\'s their advice.</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Bone Up on the Basics.</i> Younger workers expect to change jobs every four years, Geary notes, so their job-search skills never get too rusty. Yours will probably need polishing. Professional career counselors can help you update your r?sum? and interview skills; they can also provide psychological reassurance and see that you keep your search moving forward. Can\'t afford a coach? Most towns offer government-funded career-counseling services, Geary says; many churches offer the nondenominational Crossroads program that can lend a hand. (By the way, Geary says, &quot;It\'s enough to put 10 to 15 years of work on your r?sum?. People don\'t want to buy 35 years of experience.&quot;)</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Be Flexible.</i> Don\'t just try to replicate your former career, Geary advises, but be open to all kinds of possibilities. &quot;Look into industries that are age-friendly, like health care and education,&quot; she suggests. But be prepared to retool: You may need to go back to school for a while or at least attend a certification program. Geary advises older workers to take advantage of their relative freedom. &quot;We have more options than people who are younger,&quot; she says. &quot;In a lot of cases, we have more flexibility in our schedule and hours, travel, insurance&quot; than younger workers. And consider the possibility of pursuing a &quot;lost career,&quot; one you always wished you\'d pursued. &quot;A counselor can help you explore whether it\'s financially feasible and can look to see if there\'s a market for [that career] in your town,&quot; Geary says.</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Get Out of the House.</i> Don\'t hole up at the computer all day, our experts advise. Volunteer. Attend classes or cultural events. Maintain human contact. &quot;If you spend all your time posting online, you may feel all alone,&quot; Geary says. Plus, she adds, &quot;Networking is still the number-one way to go&quot; in looking for work. &quot;Call everyone you know. You never know where you\'re going to get a job lead.&quot;</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Stay -- or Get -- Active.</i> Join a softball league, or find another way to get in shape while spending time with other adults. Being fit, Greenberg says, &quot;makes a difference in how you interact with other people. It ramps you up, gets you out of the rut. It affects your attitude and the way you carry yourself.&quot;</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Gussy Up.</i>&quot;One of the biggest questions I\'m asked,&quot; Geary says, &quot;is, \'Should I dye my hair?\' &quot; Probably. &quot;Self-presentation is one of the main things for older workers,&quot; Geary says. &quot;Update your hair, glasses, wardrobe and r?sum?.&quot;</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? But Don\'t Go Overboard.</i>&quot;Don\'t pretend to be somebody else, but make yourself as attractive a candidate as possible,&quot; Greenberg says. &quot;Challenge yourself to make the best of your authentic self.&quot; In other words, spend more energy thinking about who you are and what you want to do with your life than on getting a facelift.</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Focus Forward.</i>&quot;At 22, you\'re selling your potential,&quot; Greenberg says. &quot;Over 40, you don\'t want to be looking backward. Turn your energy and commitment toward the future.&quot; So, on your r?sum?, instead of just listing what you\'ve done, give it a forward spin: &quot;My experience has given me contacts up and down the East Coast.&quot;</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Be Glad You\'re Not Retiring.</i>&quot;AARP says that 35 percent of us will be working after 70,&quot; Geary says, &quot;and not just for money but for keeping mentally sharp, for the social communication.&quot; She cites research showing that people who retire early and don\'t take up some meaningful activity suffer declining health. &quot;It\'s healthier to be stimulated.&quot;</p><p><i></i></p><p><i>? Put On a Smile.</i>&quot;You\'ve got to stay positive and upbeat and expect to be successful in your job search,&quot; Greenberg says. &quot;I get tons of cover letters that say, in all kinds of unwritten ways, \'I keep getting rejected, and I fully expect to be rejected again.\' &quot; Selective searching can help: &quot;You can\'t send your r?sum? for every single job listing,&quot; Greenberg says; the combination of outright dismissals and the &quot;giant silence&quot; that most applications produce &quot;creates a culture of rejection in your own life.&quot; Instead, &quot;dig deep, find companies you like, positions you seem suited to, and craft a cover letter specifically for each job. Find jobs that are a good match and go for them.&quot;</p><p>Geary agrees. \"Be optimistic and open to possibility,\" she says. \"Be of good cheer that you\'re going to land your dream job that you\'ll like better than anything you\'ve ever done,\" she says. \"That\'s what usually happens.\"</p><p></p><p><b>-- Jennifer Huget</b></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1727','1','<p>ST. LOUIS -- When Joy Lagos learned she had cancer, she was confident she would beat it. What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and chemotherapy would lead to early menopause and rob her of the chance to have children.</p><p>Last week, that may have changed.</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<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/2007/02/13/AR2007021300746_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'St. Louis Surgeon Transplants Ovary\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021300746.html\',\'ST. 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What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and chemotherapy would lead to early menopause and rob her of the chance to have children.\',\'BETSY TAYLOR\') ;\n</script><script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021300746_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/2007/02/13/AR2007021300746.html%3Freferrer=digg&title=St. Louis Surgeon Transplants Ovary&bodytext=ST. 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Dr. Sherman Silber completed the transplant Feb. 5, after performing the same procedure between twins last month.</p><p>The operations are believed to the first whole-ovary transplants ever done in the United States. Surgeons in China reported a successful transplant earlier this decade, but offered scant details.</p><p>The surgery could restore normal hormone function for women going through early menopause, whether because of cancer treatments or other, unexplained causes. It also could mean that one day, a woman with cancer could freeze an ovary, undergo chemotherapy and radiation, and have her own ovary returned later to restore her fertility.</p><p>Lagos, 30, is now waiting to see whether the transplant takes hold and allows her to ovulate normally, and whether she can get pregnant. The twins are also waiting to learn the outcome of their operation.</p><p>When Lagos was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2004, her older sister Maeapple Chaney, now 31, donated bone marrow. Lagos was cured of cancer, but the treatment disabled her ovaries and she went into early menopause.</p><p>\"I was devastated,\" Lagos recalled, her voice breaking as she tried to talk about it Monday. Now married, Lagos was not with a partner at the time, and so was not able to freeze any embryos, she said.</p><p>After the cancer treatment, she wanted to have children of her own. But also, the menopause also induced osteoporosis, diminished her sex drive, and interfered with the natural \"ebb and flow\" of her emotions, she said.</p><p>\"I think it sounds selfish, but I just wanted to feel like a woman again,\" she said.</p><p>Chaney was willing to donate eggs so that Lagos and her new husband, Rodrigo Lagos, could have a baby through in vitro fertilization, but then Rodrigo Lagos saw a TV report about Silber.</p><p>In 2004, Silber placed strips of ovarian tissue from a fertile twin into her prematurely menopausal sister. That woman, Stephanie Yarber, has since given birth to two children. 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Some 47 million Americans lack health\ncoverage, forcing many to rely on emergency rooms for care.</p><p>Wyden has offered a proposal to offer universal health\ncoverage.</p><p>White House economic adviser Al Hubbard said Bush was\n\"pleased\" by the invitation to work on health care legislation.</p><p>\"We agree with these senators -- we want to fix health care\nnow,\" Hubbard, director of Bush\'s National Economic Council,\nsaid in a statement.</p><p>In addition to Wyden, the letter was signed by Republican\nSen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad\nof North Dakota, Republican Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah,\nRepublican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, Democratic Sen.\nMaria Cantwell of Washington, Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of\nIdaho, Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Republican\nSen. 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In his favor were experience, technical skill and a thing called \"boat-moving ability.\"</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/2007/02/12/PH2007021201126.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201128.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-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201128.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021201126.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Porter Collins, left,  Bob Kaehler, Douglas Burden and Fred Honebein train for the 1996 Olympics in Chula Vista, Calif. Kaehler made the team three times, but he couldn\'t do it a fourth time in 2004.\"  height=\"141\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Porter Collins, left,  Bob Kaehler, Douglas Burden and Fred Honebein train for the 1996 Olympics in Chula Vista, Calif. Kaehler made the team three times, but he couldn\'t do it a fourth time in 2004.<span id=\"credit\"> (By Joel Rogers) </span></div></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>\nGraphic</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/02/12/GR2007021200743.html\" target=\"\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/02/12/GR2007021200732.gif\" class=\"imgfloatleft\"  alt=\"[Chart: Nine 1972 silver-medalist oarsmen were studied before the Olympic Games and 10 and 20 years later.]\"  border=\"0\"/></a><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/02/12/GR2007021200743.html\" target=\"\">Fighting to Keep Fit</a><br/>Fitness levels in elite oarsmen decreased significantly every 10 years after Olympic competition even though they continued exercising three to four times a week. 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But Training Can Curb the Inevitable Decline.%22 By David Brown&notes=When Bob Kaehler tried out for the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team in 2004, he wanted just once more to feel the elation of flying across the water at 32 feet per second, nine human bodies and a boat fused into a perfect expression of power, balance and timing.\" 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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html%3Freferrer=yahoo&title=Pulling Against Time&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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html%3Freferrer=reddit&title=Pulling Against Time\" 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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125.html?referrer=facebook\')+\'&t=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'Pulling Against Time\'),\'sharer\',\'toolbar=no,width=642,height=436\'));\">Facebook</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/></div></div></div>\n</td></tr></table>\n<p>He didn\'t make it.</p><p>As he looks back, he says there were lots of reasons. His body was just one of them, and perhaps not even the biggest one. But things were different.</p><p>\"It is hard to say where my physiology really was. It was not where it needed to be. It probably would never have been where it was in 1996,\" Kaehler, who is 42, said last week. \"When you are older, you need to get back in the game sooner. It is doable. But I would have probably needed 18 months, not six months or eight months.\"</p><p>Athletic performance declines with age -- it\'s the one <i>other</i> thing that\'s inevitable besides death and taxes. But how does that happen? What is it that slips? And why is it that, sooner or later, when you try to roll the rock of physical conditioning up the hill, you can\'t get it as high as you once could?</p><p>Those are questions all world-class athletes ask when they unwillingly clean out their lockers for the last time. For others -- those who retire before they have to -- it comes later. For Mike Teti, the 50-year-old head coach of the U.S. men\'s rowing team and a three-time Olympian, it came all at once, on a day in 2000 he still remembers clearly.</p><p>The team had a rare day off, and Teti took his newspaper to a coffee shop in Princeton, N.J., to relax. He opened it and couldn\'t read the print. He went to the boathouse to work out on a power-measuring machine called an ergometer. He had the  worst scores he\'d ever seen. Getting dressed to go home, he noticed his pants were tight.</p><p>\"For me, everything happened at once. Almost overnight. And you say, \'Oh my God, I\'m over the hill.\' \"</p><p>Kaehler and Teti have long since come to terms with the fact they will never again be the athletes they were. Kaehler, who lives in Holland, Pa., is a physical therapist and runs a coaching business on the side called RedLine Maximum Fitness. (\"As in redlining an engine,\" he says tellingly). Teti exercises to stay fit (\"and to eat\") and helps bring other rowers to the sweet spot where body, mind and opportunity can win races.</p><p>To understand why the decline of athletic performance is inevitable with aging -- and why it is partially reversible at any age -- requires a little knowledge of exercise physiology. (Don\'t worry, it\'s worth it.)</p><p>Sports that combine strength and endurance -- rowing is perhaps the best example -- are enterprises that in many ways come down to one basic task: finding a way to deliver the most oxygen to muscles as fast as possible.</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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_3.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">3</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_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/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201125_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
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Indeed, the reports don\'t exceed the numbers expected to occur naturally each year -- the  \"background rate,\" the FDA said.</p><p>\"It looks like this is the natural background rate that we are seeing,\" said Michelle G. Goveia, medical director for pediatric medical affairs at Merck, which makes the vaccine.</p><p>In yesterday\'s  public health notification, the FDA said it wanted  to encourage reporting of any additional cases of intestinal twisting or blockage to help it assess  risks associated with the three-shot vaccine series.</p><p>The 28 cases included 16 infants who required  surgery. There have been no reports of deaths.</p><p>The vaccine received FDA approval in February 2006. About 3.5 million doses of RotaTeq have been distributed in the United States,  but not all have been used, the agency  said.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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The $40,000 study was commissioned by the Clorox Co.</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/2007/02/15/PH2007021500350.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500352.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-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500352.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500350.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"A worker is shown sitting behind his desk at an office. A new research report shows your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you\'re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers. (AP Graphic)\"  height=\"172\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">A worker is shown sitting behind his desk at an office. A new research report shows your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you\'re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers. 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The other problem is makeup.\"</p><p>Don\'t get Gerba wrong: Women\'s desks typically looked cleaner. But the knickknacks are more abundant, and cosmetics and hand lotions make prime germ-transfer agents, Gerba said. Makeup cases also make for fine germ homes, along with phones, purses and desk drawers.</p><p>Food in desk drawers also harbors lots of microorganisms, and it is more abundant among female office workers. Gerba found 75 percent of women had munchies in their desks.</p><p>\"I was really surprised how much food there was in a woman\'s desk,\" he said. \"If there\'s ever a famine, that\'s the first place I\'ll look for food.\"</p><p>The news isn\'t all negative for the fairer sex.</p><p>Gerba found the worst overall office germ offender is men\'s wallets.</p><p>\"It\'s in your back pocket where it\'s nice and warm, it\'s a great incubator for bacteria,\" Gerba said.</p><p>Another hot spot for bacteria in men\'s offices: the personal digital assistant.</p><p>\"Men tend to play with their Palm Pilots more,\" Gerba said. \"I think they\'re playing video games or something.\"</p><p>The average office desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat, Gerba said.</p><p>Gerba said using a hand sanitizer and using a disinfectant on office surfaces helps, with 25 percent fewer bacteria found on surfaces that were regularly disinfected. Once-a-day use should be sufficient.</p><p>\"You don\'t have to go crazy with it, but with the key areas, desktops, phones and keyboards probably need to be disinfected once in a while,\" he said.</p><p>___</p><p>Information from: Arizona Daily Star, <a href=\"http://www.azstarnet.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.azstarnet.com</a></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1733','1','<p>OMAHA, Neb. -- ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.</p><p>Lids of jars with a product code beginning \"2111\" can be returned to ConAgra for a refund, the company said.</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/2007/02/15/PH2007021500635.jpg\"/--><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500637.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-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500637.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021500635.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"This jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter shown Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, in Tyler Texas, has the product code beginning with the number \"2111\" imprinted on the lid.  ConAgra said in the aftermath of a salmonella outbreak, that consumers should throw away all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter jars produced by ConAgra that have that product code. The affected jars are made by ConAgra in a single facility in Sylvester, Ga., according to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)\"  height=\"190\" width=\"137\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">This jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter shown Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, in Tyler Texas, has the product code beginning with the number \"2111\" imprinted on the lid.  ConAgra said in the aftermath of a salmonella outbreak, that consumers should throw away all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter jars produced by ConAgra that have that product code. The affected jars are made by ConAgra in a single facility in Sylvester, Ga., according to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. 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How salmonella got into peanut butter is still under investigation, said Dr. Mike Lynch, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p><p>CDC officials believe the salmonella outbreak to be the nation\'s first stemming from peanut butter. The most cases were reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.</p><p>About 20 percent of all the ill were hospitalized, and there were no deaths, Lynch said. About 85 percent of the infected people said they ate peanut butter, CDC officials said.</p><p>ConAgra officials said it was unsure why the CDC identified peanut butter as the source of the problem. Its own tests of its peanut butter and the plant have been negative, but it shut down the plant so it can investigate, spokesman Chris Kircher said.</p><p>\"We\'re trying to understand what else we need to do or should be doing,\" he said.</p><p>Kircher called the recall a precaution. \"We want to do what\'s right by the consumer,\" he said.</p><p>ConAgra officials haven\'t said how much peanut butter is covered in the recall. The Peter Pan brand is sold in 10 varieties, according to ConAgra\'s Web site. The Great Value brand, which is also made by other companies, is a Wal-Mart brand.</p><p>He said the CDC contacted the Food and Drug Administration, which sent investigators to the Georgia plant to review records, collect product samples and conduct tests for salmonella.</p><p>Kircher said ConAgra makes peanut butter only at the Sylvester plant, for distribution nationwide.</p><p>ConAgra randomly tests 60 to 80 jars of peanut butter that come off the line each day for salmonella and other pathogens, he said.</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500597_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500597_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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500597_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500597_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1734','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\">Calcium, vitamin D boost limits stress fractures</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Young women benefit from higher-than-suggested doses, Navy study shows</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>OMAHA, Neb. - Very active young women who took higher-than-recommended doses of calcium and vitamin D supplements for eight weeks had fewer stress fractures than women who were given dummy pills, a study of Naval recruits showed.</p><p>Experts called the results encouraging and of interest to young female athletes as well as women in the military.</p><p>\"What really surprised us is that calcium/vitamin D supplements made a significant difference in such a short period of time,\" said lead researcher Joan Lappe of Creighton University. \"Frankly, we were not sure we would see any statistically significant results in only eight weeks.\"</p><p>The study, funded by the Department of Defense, was presented recently at the Orthopaedic Research Society\'s annual meeting in San Diego.</p><p>Stress fractures are the most common type of injury seen in military trainees, particularly women, and are also prevalent in some athletes.</p><p>The body uses calcium to build and repair bones. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium.</p><p>The Creighton University study found that women who took 2,000 milligrams of calcium and 800 international units (IUs) of vitamin D daily had 27 percent fewer stress fractures than those who didn\'t.</p><p>The government recommends 1,000 milligrams of calcium and 200 IUs of vitamin D each day for women ages 19 to 50. However, young women generally don\'t get enough of these important ingredients.</p><p>As many as one in five female military recruits is estimated to suffer from a stress fracture, which forms when the bone doesn\'t have time to heal from rigorous activity. Some can lead to chronic pain.</p><p>Roughly 3,700 women, ages 17 to 35, training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill., participated in the full study. About half were given supplements with the higher amounts of calcium and vitamin D over their eight-week training periods. The other half took placebos. Fewer fractures were reported among the women who took the supplements.</p><p>Lappe said 14,441 women trained at the Great Lakes center during the two years the study was conducted. If all of them had been taking the supplements, there would have been about 260 fewer female recruits with stress fractures, 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/17130058/\">Woman receives whole ovary transplant</a></li><li><a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/17132656/\">Intimacy issues?ap immune system</a></li><li><a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/16909012/\">Ward off cancer with bad breath</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. Murray Favus, the director of the University of Chicago\'s bone program, who often sees stress fractures among young, active women, said the findings were the first to show how such injuries can be reduced.</p><p>The study \"clearly demonstrates that a simple intervention using calcium and vitamin D have significant benefits in reducing the rates of stress fractures. This is very encouraging,\" he said.</p><p>Favus and Lappe both suggested the study would have implications for people outside the military.</p><p>Lappe noted that high school athletes, particularly those who participate in track and field, are at high risk for stress fractures. It\'s likely, she said, that they would suffer fewer of those injuries with higher levels of calcium and vitamin D in their diets.</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('1735','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\">American Cancer Society gets $10 million gift</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Drug maker pledges support for hospital patient care program</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>ATLANTA - A drug company is pledging $10 million to The American Cancer Society - one of the largest gifts in the organization\'s history - to help provide one-on-one support for cancer patients in U.S. hospitals, the organization announced Wednesday.</p><p>The unusual gift is from AstraZeneca PLC, an international pharmaceutical company.</p><p>It\'s earmarked for a program that stations specially-trained Cancer Society employees in 60 hospitals and cancer treatment centers. The \"navigators\" guide patients to social and emotional support, transportation, medical and financial assistance services.</p><p>The gift will allow the program to expand to 50 more locations in medically underserved areas, said Nancy Single, the Cancer Society\'s vice president for mission strategy.</p><p>The Atlanta-based Cancer Society, founded in 1913, receives just under $1 billion in gifts and grants each year. Less than 2 percent of that comes from drug companies, she said.</p><p>The largest single gift to date was a $13 million unrestricted estate bequest in 2005, from an undisclosed donor. AstraZeneca\'s is the second largest gift, and is the biggest from a corporation.</p><p>AstraZeneca, based in London, had health care sales of more than $26 billion last year. The company developed the popular breast cancer drug tamoxifen, and makes about a half-dozen other breast and prostate cancer medications.</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/17072115/\">Secondhand smoke is deadlier for women</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>Last year, the company gave $7 million to help the Cancer Society develop a Hope Lodge in Boston. AstraZeneca has been looking for important ways to work with the Cancer Society to help patients, said Lisa Schoenberg, the company\'s vice president of specialty care.</p><p>\"There\'s probably few ways we could have as big of an impact across the nation with these important institutions and these important patients and their families,\" she 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('1736','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\">Why you love sis, but not in a weird way</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study: \'Kin-detection system\' keeps siblings from kissing</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 - Researchers who wanted to find out why it is not only taboo to kiss your sister, but also disgusting, said Wednesday they have uncovered why in a discovery that challenges some basic tenets of Freudian theory.</p><p>The instinct evolved naturally and cannot be taught, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the University of California at Santa Barbara wrote in their report in the journal Nature.</p><p>Spending time in the same household and watching your mother care for your brother or sister is all it takes. This is all subconscious, of course, reported the researchers, who worked with Debra Lieberman of the University of Hawaii.</p><p>\"We went in search of a kin-detection system, because some of the most important theories in evolutionary biology said such a thing should exist,\" Cosmides said in a telephone interview.</p><p>\"It should regulate both altruism and incest disgust.\"</p><p>Humans have an in-built system that does both, they found.</p><p>\"This data shows that the degree to which we feel those things is governed by these cues that, for hunter-gatherers, predict whether somebody is a sibling. And it works regardless of your beliefs - who you are told who your siblings are,\" she said.</p><p>Cosmides and her colleagues tested 600 volunteers, asking them all sorts of questions jumbled together so they would not know what was being studied.</p><p>\"We asked them how many favors did you do for this particular sibling in a month. We asked if this sibling needed a kidney, how likely would you be to donate this sibling a kidney.\"</p><p><b><strong>Forbidden fruit</strong></b><br>And they asked about all sorts of ethical dilemmas, including questions about sexual relationships with siblings.</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/17132656/\">Bad relationships can weaken immune system</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16542396/\">Sibling rivalry renewed with aging parents</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14335112/\">What are the effects of \'middle child syndrome\'?</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>Among the volunteers were people who had never shared a home with their siblings - for instance, full- or half-siblings born 10 or even 20 years apart.</p><p><b><strong>Contradicts Freud</strong></b><br>What determined incest disgust and altruism was the same - how much time an older sibling spent watching his or her mother care for a younger one, or how much time the two spent together in the same household.</p><p>\"If you co-resided with them for a long time as a child, you\'d treat them as you\'d treat any full sibling. This seems to operate non-consciously,\" Cosmides said.</p><p>Especially strong was the effect of watching one\'s mother care for a younger child. \"They would be very altruistic towards that baby and they\'d be grossed out at the idea of sex with that baby as an adult,\" Cosmides said.</p><p>Women are especially sensitive to this, added Cosmides, a cognitive psychologist. \"One whiff of possible sibling-hood, and that\'s it for you if you are a woman,\" she said.</p><p>The study contradicts the teachings of Sigmund Freud, who described Oedipal urges and conflicts, Cosmides said.</p><p>\"He thought you are attracted to your relatives and your siblings and parents, and it takes the force of culture and society to keep you from committing the incest that is in your heart,\" she said.</p><p>Cosmides said Freud had a possible reason for his own feelings - he had a wet nurse who cuddled and breastfed him: \"Who their brain thinks is mom is different from who they consciously believe is mom. For them it is quite reasonable that they have an attraction to their mothers.\"</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('1737','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\">FDA sets new guidelines for diet-pill makers</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Companies should prove products help people keep off weight for a year</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 - As more Americans struggle with growing waistlines, U.S. health officials Wednesday set out their own tips for drugmakers seeking to develop products for people trying to shed pounds.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration\'s draft guidelines - more than 10 years in the making - aim to help companies develop and test new drugs and devices for treating obesity.</p><p>About a third of U.S. adults, or more than 60 million people, are obese and another third are overweight, government statistics show. Nearly a fifth of U.S. children weigh too much.</p><p>The FDA proposed that companies should prove their products can help people lose weight and keep it off for at least a year. It also urged them to study people with a body mass index of at least 30 or those with a BMI of at least 27 who have weight-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.</p><p>BMI is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters. People with a score of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight, and those at 30 or higher are considered obese.</p><p>\"In general, patients should have or be at significant risk for weight-related morbidity and mortality,\" the FDA said.</p><p><b><strong>More room for diet products<br></strong></b>The proposed guidelines come as more drugmakers look to enter the U.S. weight-loss sector, which some analysts have said remains untapped.</p><p>Overweight individuals are at risk for other, potentially life-threatening problems. In addition to diabetes, high-blood pressure and certain cancers are also possible.</p><p>Drugs usually aim to help people lose weight by curbing their appetite or preventing fat absorption. Some devices, such as Allergan Inc.\'s Lab-Band, are used in surgical procedures to limit stomach size.</p><p>Last week, GlaxoSmithKline Plc won U.S. approval to sell an over-the-counter version of Roche AG\'s prescription obesity drug Xenical, called Alli.</p><p>Sanofi-Aventis is also awaiting the FDA\'s ruling on its Acomplia drug, which the agency earlier this week postponed until July.</p><p><b><strong>Drugmakers often rely on guidelines<br></strong></b>Although the guidelines are non-binding, drugmakers often rely on them when developing products. Companies may take other approaches as long as they meet legal standards, the FDA said.</p><p>They could also help prompt more manufacturers to develop weight-loss solutions.</p><p>\"Given the large market opportunity, the health consequences of no therapy, we were shocked that we could only find 17 companies\" with products on the market or in advanced development, Susquehanna Financial Group analysts wrote in a recent research note.</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/17032249/\">Fat-blocking pill to be sold over the counter</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17136113/\">Want a good workout? You better believe it</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>FDA officials first proposed the guidelines in 1996, but they lingered until 2004, when the FDA sought public comments.</p><p>The revised version, now on the FDA\'s Web site, includes advice on products for children as well as those combining two or more drugs. It also offers guidance for products aimed at patients whose extra pounds result from other medications.</p><p>\"The use of weight-management products in pediatric patients, as in adults, should be contemplated only after a sufficient trial of lifestyle modification has failed,\" the FDA said.</p><p>The proposal calls for studies to include a wide variety of patients from different regions and racial backgrounds.</p><p>The FDA invited public comment on the proposal but gave no deadline. An agency spokeswoman could not be immediately reached to comment on the <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/07d-0040-gdl0001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines</a>.</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>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('1738','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\">Weakness in AIDS virus boosts hope for vaccine</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>\'Site of vulnerability\' boosts researchers\' hopes for blocking infection</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 - Scientists have captured an image of the AIDS virus in a biological handshake with the immune cells it attacks, and said Wednesday they hope this can help lead to a better vaccine against the incurable disease.</p><p>They pinpointed a place on the outside of the human immunodeficiency virus that could be vulnerable to antibodies capable of blocking it from infecting human cells.</p><p>National Institutes of Health researcher Peter Kwong said the study, published in the journal Nature, may reveal HIV\'s long-sought \"site of vulnerability\" that can be targeted with a vaccine aimed at preventing initial infection.</p><p>\"Having that site and knowing that you can make antibodies against it means that a vaccine is possible,\" Kwong said in a telephone interview.</p><p>\"It doesn\'t say we\'ve gotten there. But it\'s taken it off the list from an impossible dream and converted it to something that is a (mere) technical barrier.\"</p><p>Experts agree that a vaccine is the only hope of stopping the pandemic of AIDS, which has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981. About 40 million people now live with HIV, with sub-Saharan Africa hardest hit.</p><p>But while dozens of potential vaccines are in development, only two AIDS vaccine candidates are in advanced human trials - one made by Merck and Co. and another by Sanofi-Aventis SA.</p><p>Because the virus attacks immune system cells, it has been especially difficult to design a vaccine to fight it.</p><p>The team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the NIH, made atomic-level images of the virus.</p><p>They revealed the structure of a protein on the surface of HIV as it looks while the protein is bound to an infection-fighting antibody. They said this protein, called gp120, seems susceptible to attack by this antibody, which is called b12 and is capable of broadly neutralizing the virus.</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/17119640/\">Pot eases pain for HIV patients, study says</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>An antibody is an immune system protein that helps seek and destroy invaders like viruses and bacteria.</p><p>The researchers detailed the precise interaction as the virus tries to grab and infect cells sent to protect the body.</p><p>\"The first contact is like a cautious handshake, which then becomes a hearty bearhug,\" said Dr. Gary Nabel, an NIH vaccine expert and a co-author of the research.</p><p>The virus uses the protein gp120 to gain entry into the CD4 T-cells it infects. But the researchers also found that the antibody b12 can block this process.</p><p>The virus mutates quickly and continuously to beat the immune system\'s efforts to target it. It also is cloaked in such a way that it stops antibodies from blocking the proteins that HIV uses to bind to a cell and infect it.</p><p>So this is a critical area of vulnerability, Nabel said. \"This is certainly one of the best leads to come along in recent years,\" he said.</p><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the allergy and infectious disease institute, said the findings are of great importance, but much more work in animal and human studies is needed, and any vaccine is years away.</p><p>\"I don\'t think there\'s any one particular thing that, in and of itself, is the show-stopper. But I don\'t think we could really make substantial, fundamentally scientifically based progress until we got this very important information,\" he said.</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('1739','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 spray deemed better than shot for kids</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study backed by FluMist maker finds benefit for older babies, preschoolers</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\">NBC 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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070215/tdy_snyderman_peanut_070215.300w.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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\"></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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\">Snyderman on peanut butter scare</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 15: NBC News health correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman talks with TODAY\'s Ann Curry about a salmonella outbreak linked to a peanut butter and reports about nasal vaccine being better than shots in reducing the flu.</font><p class=\"credit\">Today show</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\">TODAY</font><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>BOSTON - A new version of the nasal spray vaccine FluMist is better at preventing influenza than traditional flu shots in older babies and children, according to a study sponsored by its maker, MedImmune.</p><p>The spray also dramatically reduced the risk of flu-related ear and lower respiratory tract infections, said the report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.</p><p>But for infants age 6 to 12 months, or older children who sometimes wheeze when they breathe, old-fashioned shots are safer, the researchers found.</p><p>Results of the worldwide test on 8,400 preschoolers, conducted during the 2004-2005 flu season, are being released as health officials encourage flu vaccinations for those age 6 months to 5 years to prevent the spread of the virus.</p><p>But old-fashioned shots, which use killed virus particles, provide less protection to children under 5 than to adults, and may cause more side effects. The spray uses live weakened viruses.</p><p>Robert Belshe of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri and colleagues found both treatments reduced children\'s flu rate, but half as many of those who got nasal spray became ill as those who received flu shots.</p><p>While 8.6 percent of children getting injections developed flu, the rate was 3.9 percent for kids given the spray.</p><p>Regular influenza kills an average of 36,000 Americans every year, and up to 500,000 people globally. While most victims are elderly, more than 100 U.S. children, many of them previously healthy, can die in an average flu season.</p><p>FluMist is squirted up the nose using a special device.<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 border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/ColorBoxes/Styles/ColorBoxImages_GlobalOnlyPlease/interactive_icon.gif\" height=\"14\" width=\"24\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">Test yourself </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=\"/id/3297143/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/031107/Quiz_TZ152.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"150\" 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=\"/id/3297143/\">What do you know about the flu?</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></p><p>\"The big difference is the induction of antibodies in the nose, which is important because this is where the flu virus usually enters the body. The nasal spray flu vaccine appears to induce a more complete immune response,\" Belshe said.</p><p>The study used a new version of FluMist that does not need to be kept frozen, only refrigerated. U.S. regulators approved it last month for healthy children and adults age 5 to 49.</p><p>Researchers also discovered the spray worked against strains that had mutated slightly over time.</p><p>\"That translates into very high protection even when the circulating strains don\'t precisely match the vaccine strains,\" Belshe said in a telephone interview.</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/17120618/\">Mismatched hearts save babies\' lives</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17119478/\">Adoptive parents more invested, study says</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 the spray vaccine may carry special risks for recipients younger than 1. Those babies were more likely to develop wheezing and 2.3 times more likely to be hospitalized for any cause if they received FluMist instead of the shots.</p><p>Youngsters who had a history of wheezing before receiving the shots were excluded from the test.</p><p>So for children less than 1 year old or older children with a history of wheezing, \"the flu shot remains the vaccine of choice because of the safety issues,\" Belshe said.</p><p>\"For children over 12 months of age who do not have a history of wheezing, and that\'s approximately 80 percent of children, it looks like the intranasal vaccine is the better choice,\" he said.</p><p>MedImmune hopes to expand its market by showing that the spray, first licensed in the United States in 2003, is safe and effective for preschoolers, who are particularly vulnerable to flu. A decision from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected by the end of May.</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('1740','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\">Men can\'t help but ignore their wives</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Psychologists offer insights into why husbands refuse to take out the trash</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/j/msnbc/Components/Sources/Art/sourceLiveScience.gif,standard.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"><p></p></font><p>NEW YORK - When a man fails to help out around the house, his poor performance might be related to a subconscious tendency to resist doing anything his wife wants, a new study suggests.</p><p>Men and women are sure to argue about this one. In fact, the man and woman who led the study disagree on the meaning of the results.</p><p>Psychologists have long known about \"reactance,\" the tendency to do the exact opposite of what\'s requested by a loved one or boss. The new study aimed to find out whether the phenomenon might occur at a subconscious level.</p><p>Participants were asked to name a significant person they perceived as controlling their lives, and another who just wanted them to have fun. Then they were asked to discern words from jumbled letters on a computer screen while the names of the people they had mentioned were flashed subliminally. </p><p>The names were flashed too quickly to be registered consciously. Subjects performed better when exposed to the name of the person who wanted them to have fun than when exposed to the controlling individual\'s name. </p><p>\"Our participants were not even aware that they had been exposed to someone else\'s name, yet that nonconscious exposure was enough to cause them to act in defiance of what their significant other would want them to do,\" said Gavan Fitzsimons, a professor of marketing and psychology at Duke University.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td></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=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LoveLustLoyalty/tz300_LoveLust_1p.gif\" height=\"45\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Love, Lust &amp; Loyalty Survey\"></a></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><p class=\"textMed\"><a href=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\">Take the MSNBC.com/iVillage.com Survey</a></p></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><b><strong>Doing the opposite<br></strong></b>Further testing found that study participants who were more reactant responded more strongly to the subliminal cues and had a wider performance gap.</p><p>\"People with a tendency toward reactance may nonconsciously and quite unintentionally act in a counterproductive manner simply because they are trying to resist someone else\'s encroachment on their freedom,\" said Tanya Chartrand, also a professor of marketing and psychology at Duke.<br>Chartrand\'s own experiences were the impetus for this study.</p><p>\"My husband, while very charming in many ways, has an annoying tendency of doing exactly the opposite of what I would like him to do in many situations,\" Chartrand said.</p><p>Oh, her husband? That would be Fitzsimons.</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/17152347/\">Vote: Does your significant other help?ut when asked?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17130793/\">When it comes to sex, do women settle for less?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17048922/\">Couples\' compatibility is in the genes</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17045070/\">Women aroused by male sweat</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>Chartrand said her husband \"should now be better equipped to suppress his reactant tendencies.\" But Fitzsimons said the results \"suggest that reactance to significant others is so automatic that I can\'t possibly be expected to control it if I don\'t even know it\'s happening.\"</p><p>The findings related to this marital spat, announced this week, were published online by the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved. </em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1741','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\">U.S., Britain ranked last in child welfare</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>U.N. study of wealthy nations cites economic inequality, poor family support</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>BERLIN - The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a U.N. survey of child welfare in 21 wealthy countries that assessed everything from infant mortality to whether children ate dinner with their parents or were bullied at school.</p><p>The Netherlands, followed by Sweden, Denmark and Finland, finished at the top of the rankings, while the U.S. was 20th and Britain 21st, according to the report released Wednesday by UNICEF in Germany.</p><p>One of the study\'s researchers, Jonathan Bradshaw, said children fared worse in the U.S. and Britain - despite high overall levels of national wealth - because of greater economic inequality and poor levels of public support for families.</p><p>\"What they have in common are very high levels of inequality, very high levels of child poverty, which is also associated with inequality, and in rather different ways poorly developed services to families with children,\" said Bradshaw, a professor of social policy at the University of York in Britain.</p><p>\"They don\'t invest as much in children as continental European countries do,\" he said, citing the lack of day care services in both countries and poorer health coverage and preventative care for children in the U.S.</p><p>U.S. officials questioned the comparisons made by the study, while Britain said it failed take into account recent social improvements.</p><p><b><strong>Risky ways<br></strong></b>The United States finished last in the health and safety category, based on infant mortality, vaccinations for childhood diseases, deaths from injuries and accidents before age 19, and whether children reported fighting in the past year or being bullied in the previous two months.</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=762&amp;ThreadID=194718&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Discuss: Should the U.S. and Britain be ashamed?</a></li><li><a href=\"http://www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full UNICEF report</a></li><li><a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/17134702/\">Warning on diarrhea vaccine for infants</a></li><li>\n<a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/17119478/\">Study: Adoptive parents more invested</a><a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/17134702/\"> </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>The U.S. was second to worst, behind only Hungary, for its infant mortality rate of 7 per 1,000 births. The rate, a standard indicator of children\'s health and prenatal care, is under 3 in Japan. </p><p>The study also gave the U.S. and Britain low marks for their higher incidences of single-parent families and risky behaviors among children, such as drinking alcohol and sexual activity.</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/070214/AP_ChildWellfare.gif\" align=\"Right\" height=\"566\" width=\"178\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr></table></p><p>Britain was last and the U.S. second from the bottom in the category focusing on relationships, based on the percentage of children who lived in single-parent homes or with stepparents, as well as the percentage that ate the main meal of the day with their families several times per week. That category also counted the proportion of children who said they had \"kind\" or \"helpful\" relationships with other children.</p><p>The report\'s authors cautioned that the focus on single-parent families \"may seem unfair and insensitive\" and noted that many children do well with one parent.</p><p>\"But at the statistical level there is evidence to associate growing up in single-parent families with greater risk to well-being - including a greater risk of dropping out of school, of leaving home early, poorer health, low skills and of low pay,\" the report said.</p><p>On average, 80 percent of the children in the countries surveyed live with both parents. There were wide variations, however, from more than 90 percent in Greece and Italy to less than 70 percent in Britain and 60 percent in the U.S., where 16 percent of adolescents lived with stepfamilies.</p><p>Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of The Children\'s Fund charity in Britain, said the UNICEF report also showed that less than half of British children reported good relations with their peers.</p><p><b><strong>Bullying in Britain<br></strong></b>\"That really jumped off the page,\" he said, citing concerns about the competitive, ratings-based school environment in Britain and higher reported incidences of bullying and fighting. \"The environment for these young people is quite negative.\"</p><p>The study ranked the countries in six categories, based on national statistics: material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people\'s own subjective sense of well-being. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1742','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\">Mama cat adopts Rottweiler puppy</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>6-day-old canine at animal shelter was rejected by its mother</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070215/070215_puppylove_hmed_8a.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Bob Child / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Charlie, a Rottweiler mix, whose own mother rejected him, snuggles?n Feb. 14 with his substitute mother, Satin, at the Meriden Humane Society in Meriden, Conn. The cat had just had her own litter of kittens and adopted Charlie as well.</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>MERIDEN, Conn. - Who says cats and dogs don\'t get along?</p><p>Workers at the Meriden Humane Society are marveling at a short-haired mother cat that has adopted a 6-day-old Rottweiler puppy that was rejected by its mother.</p><p>The tiny pup, named Charlie by Humane Society volunteers, nurses alongside a jumble of black and gray kittens recently born to Satin, who was taken to the shelter by an owner unable to care for her.</p><p>Charlie\'s mother was found by the side of the road in Meriden a couple of months ago. She gave birth to two puppies, but one was stillborn. As sometimes happens with a stillborn in the litter, the mother refused to accept Charlie.</p><p>Volunteers bottle-fed him every two hours, but the effort was exhausting for them and insufficient for the puppy, volunteer Chris Chorney said.</p><p>Research indicated that a suitable substitute could be Satin, who had given birth to four kittens that have quickly warmed to Charlie.</p><p>\"The kittens scrum up with him and the kittens treat him like one of their own,\" Chorney said. \"There\'s a certain social benefit of small animals being with each other.\"</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;Best pet stories on MSNBC.com</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/17152566/\">Overweight Oregon feline finds celebrity status</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17141083/\">Spaniel is America\'s top dog</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16487857/\">How to shed pounds with your pooch</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>Such relationships are not all that unusual in certain circumstances, said Deirdre Chiaramonte, a veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center, a specialty teaching hospital in New York.</p><p>The cozy arrangement between Charlie, Satin and the kittens will likely change as the pup grows. Full-grown male Rottweilers commonly weigh 100 pounds.</p><p>Volunteers are hoping that dog owners will volunteer their puppies to be Charlie\'s playmates.</p><p>\"Dogs need to be with a litter of puppies, to learn to play with other dogs,\" Chorney said. \"He has to learn to be a well-socialized dog.\"</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('1743','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 abuse of prescription drugs holds steady</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Drug czar says youths get them online, from friends, medicine cabinets</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\">NBC 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\',\'d5c27b29-6f33-44f1-a7b9-fbef05b0dc31\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17164413\',\'Teens abuse prescription drugs\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070215/tdy_snyderman_abuse_070215.300w.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\',\'d5c27b29-6f33-44f1-a7b9-fbef05b0dc31\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17164413\',\'Teens abuse prescription drugs\')\"></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\',\'d5c27b29-6f33-44f1-a7b9-fbef05b0dc31\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17164413\',\'Teens abuse prescription drugs\')\">Teens abuse prescription drugs</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 15: Reports show 16 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds abuse prescription medication. TODAY host Matt Lauer talks with Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC\'s chief medical editor, and Ann Shoket of Seventeen magazine about this problem.</font><p class=\"credit\">Today Show Health</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>NEW YORK - While U.S. teenagers\' use of marijuana is declining, their abuse of prescription drugs is holding steady or in some cases increasing, according to a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters.</p><p>\"The drug dealer is us,\" said Walters, the national drug policy director.</p><p>Walters said many teenagers are obtaining drugs over the Internet, getting them free from friends or taking them from someone\'s medicine cabinet.</p><p>According to an analysis of national surveys prepared by Walters\' office, 2.1 million teenagers abused prescription drugs in 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available.</p><p>While their use of marijuana declined from 30.1 percent to 25.8 percent from 2002 to 2006, use of OxyContin, a painkiller, increased from 2.7 percent to 3.5 percent over the same period. Use of Vicodin, another painkiller, increased slightly from 6 percent to 6.3 percent.</p><p>Teens are also abusing stimulants like Adderall and anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax because they are readily available and perceived as safer than street drugs, Walters said.</p><p>Walters said adults should keep track of prescription drugs and throw them out when they expire.</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/12803776/\">Teens getting hooked on pain pills</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16811101/\">Brain damage can curb urge to smoke</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15146185/\">Protect your kids from a Web of risky pills</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>\"People just aren\'t aware that they need to be careful, and so they leave prescriptions in the medicine cabinet, and they don\'t think anything about it,\" he said.</p><p>The report is based on the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a survey of 68,308 families, and the 2005 Monitoring the Future Survey of 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders conducted by the University of Michigan.</p><p>Dr. Terry Horton, the medical director of Phoenix House, which operates nearly 100 substance abuse programs in nine states, said the belief that prescription drugs are safer than street drugs is false.</p><p>\"These medicines cause dependence and addiction when misused and have the potential to cause death,\" he said. \"We\'re talking about medicines that are related, pharmacologically, to heroin and have very similar effects.\"</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/PrescAddict_031106/data.js\"></SCRIPT>\n\n<SCRIPT Language=\"JavaScript\">\n\nif (window.PrescAddict_031106) { \n\n            //CUSTOM SETTINGS\n\ndisplayApp(PrescAddict_031106); \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('1744','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\">No sign of deadly avian flu found in U.S.</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>U.S. Geological Survey detects only mild strain of virus in 75,000 wild birds </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 - Tests on nearly 75,000 wild ducks, gulls and other birds have turned up no sign of dangerous H5N1 avian influenza in the United States, a federal agency said Thursday.</p><p>\"The program was unprecedented in scope in terms of the range of species of birds sampled, which included waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls and terns, among others,\" Hon Ip of the U.S. Geological Survey said in an e-mail posted to an infectious-disease message group.</p><p>\"As of today, the testing of over 74,506 samples in wild birds from across the United States has been completed, and no highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses have been found,\" said Ip, who works at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis.</p><p>The tests did turn up several samples of a low-pathogenic H5N1 virus, which is not particularly dangerous to either birds or to people, the USGS reports on its Web site.</p><p>Canada has run similar surveys and found no dangerous bird flu.</p><p>Birds infected with low-pathogenic H5N1 were found in states including Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maryland. This virus apparently is not dangerous to the birds, although Ip said he wanted to study infected birds to see if it has subtler effects on their ability to survive and migrate.</p><p>USGS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and experts from other federal agencies have been testing birds since 2005 for H5N1 avian influenza, concentrating on Alaska but looking in all regions.</p><p>Experts expect the virus to eventually arrive in North American birds, carried by migrating birds as it has been to various parts of Asia.</p><p>This year, outbreaks in birds have caused concern in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Turkey, Pakistan, Hungary and in Nigeria, which reported its first human death earlier this month.</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/17131585/\">British, Hungarian bird flu \'identical\'</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17116777/\">Bird flu immunity possible, study suggests</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 disease continues to kill people and poultry in Indonesia, as well. WHO says there have been 273 human cases worldwide and 166 deaths since 2003. More than 200 million birds have died or been slaughtered.</p><p>The virus can be carried by both wild birds and by the commercial poultry trade. Ip said it was important to get hard data on when the virus is spread by wild birds and when it is spread by other means - from truck tires to infected feathers.</p><p>There are dozens of different kinds of avian influenza. The highly pathogenic H5N1 is particularly deadly to chickens and is thus a threat to the poultry industry.</p><p>H5N1 poses an additional threat to people because it has has shown a tendency to mutate. It could change into a form easily transmitted from one person to another, experts say, in which case it would rapidly sweep around the globe.</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('1745','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\">Women\'s desks only <em>look</em> cleaner</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study: Their workspaces have up to four times more bacteria than men\'s </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\',\'3c308ed1-56a6-4ae6-8af0-3fdc097aa380\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17168062\',\'Women rule in desktop germs\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070215/a_brown_desk_070215.300w.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\',\'3c308ed1-56a6-4ae6-8af0-3fdc097aa380\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17168062\',\'Women rule in desktop germs\')\"></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\',\'3c308ed1-56a6-4ae6-8af0-3fdc097aa380\',\'us\',\'\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17168062\',\'Women rule in desktop germs\')\">Women rule in desktop germs</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 15: Research shows women\'s desks may look cleaner, but they harbor more germs than a workplace restroom. MSNBC.com\'s Dara Brown tells you why. </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>TUCSON, Ariz. - Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you\'re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers\', a new research report shows.</p><p>Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do, the study by University of Arizona professor Charles Gerba showed. Gerba, a professor of soil, water and environmental sciences, tested more than 100 offices on the UA campus and in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon and Washington, D.C. The $40,000 study was commissioned by the Clorox Co.</p><p>\"I thought for sure men would be germier,\" Gerba said. \"But women have more interactions with small children and keep food in their desks. The other problem is makeup.\"</p><p><b><strong>Tidy doesn\'t mean clean</strong></b><br>Don\'t get Gerba wrong: Women\'s desks typically looked cleaner. But the knickknacks are more abundant, and cosmetics and hand lotions make prime germ-transfer agents, Gerba said. Makeup cases also make for fine germ homes, along with phones, purses and desk drawers.</p><p>Food in desk drawers also harbors lots of microorganisms, and it is more abundant among female office workers. Gerba found 75 percent of women had munchies in their desks.</p><p>\"I was really surprised how much food there was in a woman\'s desk,\" he said. \"If there\'s ever a famine, that\'s the first place I\'ll look for food.\"</p><p><b><strong>Back pocket an \'incubator for bacteria\'</strong></b><br>The news isn\'t all negative for the fairer sex.</p><p>Gerba found the worst overall office germ offender is men\'s wallets.</p><p>\"It\'s in your back pocket where it\'s nice and warm, it\'s a great incubator for bacteria,\" Gerba said.</p><p>Another hot spot for bacteria in men\'s offices: the personal digital assistant.</p><p>\"Men tend to play with their Palm Pilots more,\" Gerba said. \"I think they\'re playing video games or something.\"</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/17168899/\">Survey: Is your desk a home for germs?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17009655/\">Does your skin need a shrink?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16923118/\">Doctors warn of hand gel poisoning</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17005558/\">Eeew! 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Once-a-day use should be sufficient.</p><p>\"You don\'t have to go crazy with it, but with the key areas, desktops, phones and keyboards probably need to be disinfected once in a while,\" he said.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/interactives/_prod/germs_050211/data.js\"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.germs_050211) { displayApp(germs_050211); }</SCRIPT></td></tr></table></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('1746','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\">Old and the restless clash in retirement homes</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Depression-era elders balk at amenities postwar-boom seniors demand</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070214/070214_senior_hmed5p.hmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Betty Cable, Inge Berliner, Doris Bebb\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Erin Lubin / AP</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">From left, Betty Cable, Inge Berliner and Doris Bebb eat in the formal dining room at San Francisco Towers in San Francisco. The preferences of younger, more active seniors in retirement communities include buffets and casual dining.</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 - For most of the past 37 years, the dinner dress code was coats and ties for men, skirts or dresses for women, at The Sequoias, a high-rise retirement community. But the newer, younger residents lobbied successfully for more casual dining.</p><p>More than two years later, some of the old-timers are still grumbling.</p><p>\"There is a definite generation gap between the ones who have lived here 20 years\" and more recent arrivals, said Hilde Orloff, 82.</p><p>At retirement communities around the country, a rift has opened up between the 90-year-olds and the comparatively spry 70-year-olds, between the generation that came of age during the Depression and the one that reached adulthood amid postwar prosperity.</p><p>They are clashing over such things as dress codes, the food, the conversion of tearooms into coffee bars, and higher monthly fees to pay for the weight rooms, roomier quarters and computer-ready apartments demanded by the younger, more active set.</p><p><b><strong>\'So the carpet is a little worn, so what?\'<br></strong></b>Maria Dwight, a Santa Monica-based consultant who helps plan and market senior-citizen housing, said older residents do not want to pay for perks they won\'t use, and they can be resistant to change.</p><p>\"They don\'t see the facilities with fresh eyes,\" she said. \"So the carpet is a little worn, so what? They are living there; they are comfortable.\"</p><p>The intergenerational tension is expected to mount as more and more baby boomers enter their golden years, during which they are expected to be healthier and more active than the generation that came before them. By 2030, one in five U.S. residents is expected to be 65 and older.</p><p>\"This creates a real dilemma for older retirement communities,\" Dwight said, \"because they tend to have small dwelling units and huge dining rooms that aren\'t attractive to younger older people who want weight rooms and casual dining and lap pools and a home office and room for the grandchildren to come visit.\"</p><p>Even small switches, such as replacing a calisthenics class with Pilates, can be disconcerting to the old-timers. At Oakmont Village, a 3,000-home neighborhood in Santa Rosa, it was the cost of spiffing up the gym that raised people\'s blood pressure. At the San Francisco Towers, a luxury retirement community, there was some tension when the ladies\' tearoom was transformed into a casual cafe.</p><p><b><strong>Indoor lap pool \'hedonistic\'</strong></b><br>One retirement-home chief executive in New Jersey was forced out after residents rebelled over plans to modernize the place, Dwight said. \"They tried telling me that having an indoor lap pool was very hedonistic,\" she recalled.</p><p>That is the quandary in which Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services, which owns The Sequoias and six other retirement communities, finds itself. Chief executive Barbara Hood said upgrading aging facilities is critical to nonprofit organizations like hers as more private developers get into the increasingly lucrative senior housing market.</p><p>The Sequoias, whose 333 residents range in age from 69 to 103, added a buffet and casual-dress seating, though it also kept sit-down table service and the dress-up rule for those who preferred it. A cafe where people can grab an espresso and pastry is also planned. And an outdoor garden for meditating and practicing tai chi was 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/17073220/\">Older people take a rosier view on life </a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17132656/\">Intimacy issues?ap immune system</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\'s their home, so of course they are going to be concerned,\" Hood said of the grumbling from the older residents. But \"we have to make sure we are keeping our commitments to current residents and attracting the next cohort of seniors.\"</p><p><b><strong>Baby boom generation will alter equation<br></strong></b>While there has been a lot of talk about what the baby boom generation will want when it retires, the changes under way have largely been targeted at their predecessors, the so-called Silent Generation born between 1925 and 1942. And they tend to be wealthier and more outspoken than the GI Generation that came before them, said Anne Burns Johnson, president of Aging Services of California.</p><p>Most senior citizens tend to adapt if the changes are handled with sensitivity, said Dee Ann Campbell, vice president of the Episcopal Homes Foundation, which operates the San Francisco Towers.</p><p>\"The people who have been there a while and only did water aerobics or chair yoga will say, \'I didn\'t think I would like line dancing, but it\'s really fun,\' \" she said.</p><p>Over at The Sequoias, the chronic complainers still gripe about how things just haven\'t been the same since the dining room relaxed the dress code. But many residents have embraced the buffet or learned to adapt.</p><p>\"We have grandchildren coming in who wear nothing but jeans,\" Orloff said. \"But by and large the nasty looks have disappeared - sort of.\"</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('1747','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\">South has highest levels of heart disease</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Conditions vary widely by region, CDC says in first-ever study of states</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>ATLANTA - West Virginia and Kentucky have the nation\'s highest levels of heart disease, according to a first-of-its-kind study released by U.S. health officials Thursday.</p><p>The new research is the first to look at what percentage of people in each state live with or have survived heart attacks and certain other cardiac problems.</p><p>It found that states in the Southeast and Southwest were heart disease leaders. Meanwhile, Colorado and the District of Columbia had the lowest percentages.</p><p>The findings are not surprising. They line up well with previous, state-specific reports about heart disease death rates, obesity and other risk factors, said Wayne Rosamond, an epidemiology professor at the University of North Carolina who chairs a statistics committee for the American Heart Association.</p><p>But he called the study \"very important. It confirms what we know about regional differences in the burden of disease.\"</p><p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the findings in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.</p><p>CDC researchers drew their data from a 2005 telephone survey of 356,112 U.S. adults in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.</p><p>Participants were asked if a doctor or health-care professional had told them they had experienced a heart attack, angina or coronary heart disease. The researchers then statistically adjusted the results to correct demographic differences in state samples to better mirror the U.S. census.</p><p>The findings: For the nation as a whole, roughly 4 percent had had a heart attack, angina or coronary heart disease, and 6.5 reported one of those conditions.</p><p>But in West Virginia, more than 10 percent had at least one of the conditions. The prevalence in Kentucky was nearly 9 percent, making it the No. 2 state in terms of heart disease. Mississippi was No. 3, with 8 percent.</p><p>The prevalence in both Colorado and the District of Columbia was a little under 5 percent, tying them for the nation\'s lowest rate. Hawaii was close behind.</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/17151509/\">Study: Coffee doesn\'t raise heart risk</a></li><li><a href=\"http://msnbc-wbpreview/id/17150316/\">Time to bring back bloodletting?</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 regional differences are believed to stem from rates of obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and other known risk factors for heart disease, said the study\'s lead author, Jonathan Neyer, a CDC epidemiologist.</p><p>That means the explanation would come from differences in cultural norms, poverty rates and other social factors, and not environmental causes, he said. \"There\'s not something in the water,\" Neyer said.</p><p>Other findings:</p><ul><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">Among those who didn\'t finish high school, 1 in 10 had at least one of the conditions. Among college graduates, only 1 in 20 did.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">More than 8 percent of men had one of the conditions, but only 5 percent of women did.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">Nearly 1 in 5 people 65 and older had at least one of the conditions. The percentages were much smaller among younger age groups.</li><li class=\"textBodyBlack\">The results were the same for blacks and whites, with just over 6 percent having one of the conditions. Fewer than 5 percent of Asian-Americans had any of the health problems, making them the healthiest ethnic group. American Indians and Alaska Natives had the highest prevalence, at about 11 percent.</li></ul><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('1748','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\">Human brain can regrow cells, study shows</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Research could point way to better treatments for damage and 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>WASHINGTON - New evidence shows that the human brain can manufacture fresh brain cells, researchers said on Thursday in a study that may lead to better ways to treat brain damage and disease.</p><p>Scientists had known that other animals, such as rats and mice, make new brain cells throughout their lives, and there had been indirect evidence that humans being can too.</p><p>Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and electron microscope images of tissue donated from the brains of people who died, Maurice Curtis of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Peter Eriksson of Sahlgrenska Academy in Goteborg, Sweden, and colleagues found the elusive cells.</p><p>Just as in mice and rats, these cells are born in one part of the brain and then migrate to the olfactory bulb, where smells are processed. They mature into neurons on the way.</p><p>In animals, they said, brain damage prompts the birth of new cells. \"Our study provides the foundation for this possibility in the adult human brain,\" they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.</p><p>Humans have far more developed brains, so searching for these cells has been harder than it was in rodents.</p><p>In mice and rats it has been clear these cells are born in the forebrain and then migrate to the smell center. There, they can help the animals learn and adapt to new smells.</p><p>Smell is less important for humans, but it is still important for sensing dangers from smoke, for instance, or rotten food.</p><p>And studies show that the loss of smell may be an early sign of brain-destroying illnesses such as Parkinson\'s, the researchers said - a hint that these cells may be important.</p><p>\"This study is exciting, because it reveals a group of brain cells in the adult human brain that are continuously regenerating,\" said Dr. Mark Baxter of Britain\'s Oxford University.</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/17150900/\">Men can\'t help but ignore their wives</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17151824/\">Call for \'neuroethics\' as science races ahead</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>\"Animal studies have pointed to the existence of such groups of cells, but it has been difficult to determine whether they exist in the human brain as well,\" Baxter, who was not involved in the research, said in a statement.</p><p>\"This opens another direction by which we may discover ways to repair human brains that are damaged from injury or diseases, and underscores the importance of animal research in guiding biomedical research in humans,\" Baxter said.</p><p>Another expert, Sebastian Brandner, head of the Division of Neuropathology at the Institute of Neurology at University College London, agreed.</p><p>\"These findings are important for several reasons: Understanding stem cell biology is essential to study brain repair in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\'s and it is even possible that stem cells are the source of some brain tumors,\" Brandner said in a statement.</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('1749','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\">Peanut butter recalled in salmonella outbreak</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Peter Pan, Great Value brands yanked by ConAgra after cases in 39 states </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\">NBC 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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070215/tdy_snyderman_peanut_070215.300w.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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\"></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\',\'99b93bb4-6b30-481e-8b75-95e81818037c\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17165133\',\'Snyderman on peanut butter scare\')\">Snyderman on peanut butter scare</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 15: NBC News health correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman talks with TODAY\'s Ann Curry about a salmonella outbreak linked to a peanut butter and reports about nasal vaccine being better than shots in reducing the flu.</font><p class=\"credit\">Today show</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\">TODAY</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>OMAHA, Neb. - ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.</p><p>Lids of jars with a product code beginning \"2111\" can be returned to ConAgra for a refund, the company said.</p><p>The salmonella outbreak, which federal health officials said Wednesday has sickened 288 people in 39 states since August, was linked to tainted peanut butter produced by ConAgra at a plant in Sylvester, Ga. How salmonella got into peanut butter is still under investigation, said Dr. Mike Lynch, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p><p>CDC officials believe the salmonella outbreak to be the nation\'s first stemming from peanut butter. The most cases were reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.</p><p>About 20 percent of all the ill were hospitalized, and there were no deaths, Lynch said. About 85 percent of the infected people said they ate peanut butter, CDC officials said.</p><p><b><strong>Plant shut down for investigation</strong></b><br>ConAgra officials said it was unsure why the CDC identified peanut butter as the source of the problem. Its own tests of its peanut butter and the plant have been negative, but it shut down the plant so it can investigate, spokesman Chris Kircher said.</p><p>\"We\'re trying to understand what else we need to do or should be doing,\" he said.</p><p>Kircher called the recall a precaution. \"We want to do what\'s right by the consumer,\" he said.</p><p>ConAgra officials haven\'t said how much peanut butter is covered in the recall. The Peter Pan brand is sold in 10 varieties, according to ConAgra\'s Web site. The Great Value brand, which is also made by other companies, is a Wal-Mart brand.</p><p>He said the CDC contacted the Food and Drug Administration, which sent investigators to the Georgia plant to review records, collect product samples and conduct tests for salmonella.</p><p>Kircher said ConAgra makes peanut butter only at the Sylvester plant, for distribution nationwide.</p><p>ConAgra randomly tests 60 to 80 jars of peanut butter that come off the line each day for salmonella and other pathogens, he said.</p><p>\"We\'ve had no positive hits on that going back for years,\" Kircher 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/17133480/\">Salmonella found in frozen cat food</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17067562/\">Exposure to antibiotics linked to resistance</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 plant itself is also regularly tested, he said, though he didn\'t know how often. He said none of those tests have detected salmonella either.</p><p><b><strong>Outbreak began six months ago</strong></b><br>The latest outbreak began in August, with no more than two cases reported each day, CDC officials said. Only in the past few days did investigators home in on peanut butter as a source, Lynch said.</p><p>Other states reporting cases are Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.</p><p>Salmonella infection is known each year to sicken about 40,000 people in the United States, according to the CDC. Salmonellosis, as the infection is known, kills about 600 people annually.</p><p>Symptoms can include diarrhea, fever, dehydration, abdominal pain and vomiting.</p><p>The recall does not affect Great Value peanut butter made by other manufacturers, the FDA said.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/getdata.asp?id=Health_FoodPoisoning&retfmt=js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/poptext/poptext_codeV2.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.Health_FoodPoisoning) { displayApp(Health_FoodPoisoning); }</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('1750','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\">What you want to know about the Big Ohhhh</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Do some orgasms reign supreme? Can too many kill you? Is she faking it?</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070213/hMed_BigOhh.vlarge.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></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\"><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></p><p>Our <a href=\"/id/16870812/\">last column about women\'s sexual satisfaction</a> apparently, umm, hit a nerve. We were flooded with questions about orgasms. Here is a small sampling that we hope will fill in some details.?</p><p>Have an intimate question about sexual health or satisfaction? To e-mail us, <a href=\"/id/9913001/\">click here</a>.</p><p><b><strong>Q: I heard that vaginal orgasms are better than clitoral, is this true?</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>A:</strong></b> Some researchers say the whole vaginal versus clitoral orgasm is a myth foisted on women by Freud, that an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm. But Beverly Whipple, a Rutgers University professor emeritus who has made orgasms her business for decades, strongly disagrees. Whipple, who recently authored a book titled \"The Science of Orgasm\"<em> </em>with Barry Komisaruk and Carlos Beyer-Flores, says that \"absolutely there is a difference.\"</p><p>She and her colleagues used imaging technology to see just what happens during orgasm. In vaginal sex, she says, \"you have G-spot involvement, the uterus pushes down and the vagina has different nerves involved.\" Whether or not there is a G-spot is also controversial, but Whipple is a firm believer. </p><p>Also, some orgasms activate the brain\'s amygdala (important for processing emotion) and some don\'t, Whipple says. Women who can orgasm just by thinking erotically don\'t seem to involve the amygdala. Same for women who orgasm from, say, a foot massage. (Seriously, how do you women do this?) </p><p>This brain thing brings up a good point. The \"quality\" of an orgasm has a lot to do with what\'s going on up there - what emotions you are feeling, how lost you are in the moment. </p><p>Whether or not one is \"better\" than another is kind of up to you. We say they\'re all good.?</p><p><b><strong>Q: I am over 60 yet find that my orgasms are not at all affected by age. In fact, after getting off a long list of Prozac-type antidepressants, I have become multi-orgasmic with as many as five strong orgasms in 10 minutes of vibrator stimulation. My question is: What is the age limit for sexual satisfaction in women? I have found nothing in the research about this. Can these multiple orgasms give me a stroke or heart attack?</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>A:</strong></b> I am always amazed how so many people with great news find something to worry about. Relax. You\'ll probably be running up that electric bill for years to, uh, come.</p><p>Renowned sexual medicine expert Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor in chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, says there is no limit as long as you are fit. Vibrator sex is easier on the heart than partnered sex, but if you were having sex with a partner, Goldstein says a rule of thumb is that you should be able to \"climb three flights of stairs with no chest pain or rhythm problems to tolerate the exercise of sex.\"</p><p>To be on the safe side, tell your doctor you are planning on running every morning. See if he objects.</p><p><b><strong>Q: Why are women so sensitive after we have an orgasm? What happens physiologically to cause this?</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>A:</strong></b> Think of your clitoris like a bundle of wires. When you are sexually excited, the wires go live and your clitoris engorges with blood, swelling like a man\'s penis.</p><p>\"So the clitoris is dilated and after orgasm it reduces in size in a few minutes,\" explains Goldstein. \"But at the point just after orgasm, it is still engorged.\"</p><p>In other words, you\'ve got a bundle of jumpy nerve endings packed in a small, swollen space, which is fine if you are on the way up, but now you are on the way down so, Goldstein explains, \"it becomes exquisitely sensitive to touch.\"?? </p><p><b><strong>Q:</strong></b> <b><strong>My wife and I have sex about four to six times a week and I have at times felt that it\'s more work than pleasure. Is it common for a woman to expect to have an orgasm every time we have sex?</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>A:</strong></b> Again with the worry! Four to six times a week? And you\'re married?</p><p>Look, is it common for a man to expect to have an orgasm every time he has sex? Think about it, then invest in a vibrator, the best labor-saver since the riding mower.? </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/17121476/\">Survey: Do you think it\'s true?hat an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm?</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><b><strong>Q: How can I know when my girlfriend is having an orgasm?</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>A:</strong></b> Do you mean to ask, \"How can I tell if my girlfriend is faking an orgasm?\" Well, my friend, there\'s a school located somewhere in the jungles of South America where all women go to learn how to fake an orgasm for those instances when a man initiates sex during the commercial break just before the start of \"American Idol.\"</p><p>So how do you tell? If she\'s a good student, you can\'t.?</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><p><em>Sexploration appears every other Thursday.</em></p><strong><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=\"javascript\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/interactives/tools/mailbag.js\"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=\"javascript\"> oMailbag = new Array(); oMailbag.appWidth = 460; oMailbag.BoxStyle = 3053755; oMailbag.appHeader = \"E-mail Sexploration\"; oMailbag.appDeck = \"Have an intimate question for our Sexploration columnist? Write us. We\'ll post selected answers in future columns. </b><br><br><i>Submissions may be edited for clarity.</i>\"; oMailbag.sTBHead = \"Please keep your submissions brief.\"; oMailbag.sSubject = \"Sexploration\"; oMailbag.aRetLink = new Array(\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3035461/\",\"Sexploration\"); oMailbag.sMailTo = \"Sexploration@feedback.msnbc.com\"; oMailbag.bTown = 1;  oMailbag.bReqEmail = 1;  oMailbag.navsectionID = 3034590; if (window.MailbagWB3) { MailbagWB3(oMailbag); } </SCRIPT></td></tr></table></p></strong><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1751','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\">Want a good workout? You better believe it</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>People who think of activities as exercise gain more benefits</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>People who think they\'re getting a good workout obtain more benefits than those who perform the exact same activities but don\'t think what they are doing is exercise, according to the findings of a study by Harvard researchers. These results support the idea that the benefits of exercise may involve a placebo effect.</p><p>Hotel cleaners who were told that their work of cleaning roughly 15 rooms each day was enough physical activity to maintain a healthy lifestyle were more trim and fit four weeks later than their peers who weren\'t given this message, Dr. Ellen Langer and her student Alia J. Crum report in the February issue of Psychological Science.</p><p>While the placebo effect of fake pills is widely accepted, Crum and Langer note, no one has yet studied whether the belief that exercise is maintaining fitness might exert a kind of placebo effect as well.</p><p>To investigate, the researchers recruited at 84 female housekeepers working at seven different hotels. Workers in four of the hotels were told that the exercise they got on the job met or exceeded the Surgeon General\'s activity recommendations for a healthy lifestyle, while those in the three other hotels were not told anything. Several measures of participants\' fitness and health were taken at the beginning of the study and four weeks later.</p><p>Before the study started, about two-thirds of all participants said they didn\'t exercise regularly, while one third said they didn\'t exercise at all. After four weeks, 79.7 percent of the women in the informed group said they exercised regularly. They also lost 2 pounds, on average; lowered their blood pressure by 10 percent; and showed reductions in percentage of body fat, body mass index, and the size of their waists in relation to their hips.</p><p>All of these changes were significantly greater than those seen in the group who weren\'t told that their work was good exercise.</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/17136679/\">Vote:?hat\'s your mind\'s role in your exercise habits?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16927021/\">Is your job making you fat?</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17115245/\">Daytime naps can help the heart</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17120663/\">No sweat? Chain touts 4-minute workout</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>One possible explanation could have been that women in the informed group became more active and ate more healthily, the researchers note, but they found that this was not the case, making it unlikely that the fitness improvements were due to changes in behavior.</p><p>\"These results support the hypothesis that exercise affects health in part or in whole via the placebo effect,\" Crum and Langer write. \"Whether the change in physiological health was brought about directly or indirectly, it is clear that health is significantly affected by mind-set.\"</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i>(c) Reuters 2007. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1752','2','\n\n\n	 <p>Binge eating is not yet officially classified as a psychiatric disorder. But it  may be more common than the two <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/eatingdisorders/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about eating disorders.\">eating disorders</a> now recognized, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/anorexianervosa/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about anorexia nervosa.\">anorexia</a> nervosa and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/bulimia/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about bulimia.\">bulimia</a>.</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/2007/02/12/health/13eat_ready.html\', \'13eat_ready\', \'width=448,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/2007/02/12/health/13eat_ready.html\', \'13eat_ready\', \'width=448,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/eat.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"246\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Rachel Domm</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\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/health/mentalhealthandtreatment/index.html?page=recent\">Forum: Mental Health and Treatment</a>\n</h2>\n<p class=\"summary\"></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>The first nationally representative study of eating disorders in the United States, a nationwide survey of more than 2,900 men and women, was published by <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> researchers in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry. It found a prevalence in the general population of 0.6 percent for anorexia, 1 percent for bulimia and 2.8 percent for binge-eating disorder. </p><p>Lifetime rates of the disorders, the researchers found, are higher in younger age groups, suggesting that the problem is increasingly common. Eating disorders are about twice as common among women as men, the study reports.</p><p>Experts not involved in the study called it significant. ?his is probably the best study yet conducted of the frequencies of eating disorders in American households,?said Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, director of the eating disorders research unit of the New York State Psychiatric Institute 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 Medical Center</a>.</p><p>?t confirms that anorexia nervosa and bulimia are uncommon but serious illnesses, especially among women,?Dr. Walsh said. ?t also finds that many more individuals, especially those with significant <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>, are troubled by binge eating, and underscores the need to better understand this problem.?/p><p>The survey, partly financed by two pharmaceutical companies, was carried out from 2001 to 2003 among adults 18 and older, and the diagnoses were established using face-to-face interviews.</p><p>While all three eating disorders appear in the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_psychiatric_assn/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about American Psychiatric Association\">American Psychiatric Association</a>? diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M.-IV, binge eating disorder is not considered a definitive diagnosis like anorexia and bulimia. Rather, it is one of a number of categories requiring further study. </p><p>Some suspect that establishing binge eating disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis is merely an attempt by psychiatrists or drug companies to ?edicalize?what would otherwise be considered simply ordinary, if unfortunate, human behavior. Cynthia M. Bulik, director of the eating disorders program at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_north_carolina/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about University of North Carolina\">University of North Carolina</a>, Chapel Hill, does not see it this way.</p><p>?t? patients who want this in the D.S.M. so they can get treatment,?Dr. Bulik said. ??e gotten e-mails from people saying, ?hanks for putting a name on this binge-eating disorder.?</p><p>?he disorder has no diagnostic label that will get them insurance payments,?she continued. ?hey have a nasty syndrome with serious health implications, knowing that there is evidence-based treatment available and not being able to get it because it? not officially recognized as a diagnosis.?/p><p>The diagnosis of binge eating disorder requires that a person eat an excessively large amount of food in a two-hour period at least twice a week for six months, feel a lack of control over the episodes, and experience marked distress regarding the practice.</p><p>Marlene B. Schwartz, the director of research and school programs at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity 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>, who had no role in the study, said binge-eating disorders were ?ot a matter of just eating too much every now and then.?/p><p>?he diagnosis requires the feeling that you can? stop,?Dr. Schwartz said. ?nd it? that loss of control that makes it a psychiatric disorder different from someone just overindulging every now and then.?/p><p>Dr. James I. Hudson, the lead author of the new study, said  binge eating was associated with obesity, particularly severe obesity. ?his brings in a lot of medical consequences and suggests it? a major health problem,?he said. ?his information will help us make decisions on public health policy.?Dr. Hudson is director of the psychiatric epidemiology research program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.,  and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard. </p><p>A diagnosis of anorexia requires a refusal to maintain at least 85 percent of normal weight and a distinctly distorted view of one? weight or body shape. Bulimia is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating at least twice a week for three months and then compensating for the behavior, usually by self-induced vomiting or abuse of laxatives and other medicines. </p><p>Eating disorders, the researchers found, are commonly accompanied by other psychiatric illnesses. In the survey, more than half of the people with bulimia  had major <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/depression/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about depression.\">depression</a>, 50 percent had <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/phobias/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about phobias.\">phobias</a> and more than one-third had a substance abuse disorder. Over all, more than 94 percent of people with bulimia, 56 percent of those with anorexia and 79 percent of those with binge-eating disorder had at least one other psychiatric diagnosis.</p><p>Dr. Hudson said  the most significant limitation of the study was its basis on self-reports, explaining that people tend to underreport their problems with eating disorders. So the true prevalence, he said, is probably higher than  reported.</p><p>?besity is an endpoint, and there are many pathways in,?Dr. Bulik said. ?ne of the things I look for is modifiable behavioral factors. This study shows now that binge eating disorder is relatively prevalent. For a certain percentage of the population, this is a modifiable behavior.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1753','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\">When it comes to sex, do women settle for less?</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Most keep dissatisfaction a secret from their partners, expert says</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/j/msnbc/Components/Sources/Art/sourceLiveScience.gif,standard.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"><p></p></font><p>NEW YORK - Women have high expectations for nearly every area of their lives, but when it comes to sex, they settle for less. </p><p>And most women keep their dissatisfaction with sex a secret, leaving their partners (let alone their doctors) in the dark, said Anita Clayton, a psychiatrist who focuses on women\'s sexuality at the University of Virginia Health System.</p><p>\"Whereas men, if they have trouble with sex, it\'s a crisis. They run to the doctor and say \'I need something for this.\' Women don\'t do that. They just sort of stuff it down and push it further down on the list,\" Clayton said. </p><p>With surveys and years of clinical experience, Clayton has compiled a vast collection of data on women\'s sex lives. Often, she said, a female patient would visit her with issues like marital problems or depression, and only when directly asked about sex, the patient would divulge dissatisfaction.</p><p>Clayton attributes several factors to a woman\'s lack of sexual satisfaction, including: </p><p>Sex gets shoved to the bottom of the \"to do\" list for women. And when they do have sex it becomes just another task. Women are not getting their emotional needs met during sex. An orgasm might not be the point.</p><p>Many women strive for unrealistic physical perfection seen in the media and are unhappy with some aspect of their physical bodies. </p><p>Women don\'t ask for what they want in bed, fearing their partner will be hurt or leave them. Medications such as antidepressants can reduce a woman\'s libido and ability to reach orgasm.??</p><strong>What is mediocre sex? <br></strong><p>Some women did complain about difficulty reaching orgasm or lack of sexual desire, but frequently they just felt an overall letdown regarding sex, Clayton said. </p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td></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=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/PROJECTS/LoveLustLoyalty/tz300_LoveLust_1p.gif\" height=\"45\" width=\"298\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Love, Lust &amp; Loyalty Survey\"></a></td></tr><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><table><tr><td><p class=\"textMed\"><a href=\"/id/16894488/\" target=\"_blank\">Take the MSNBC.com/iVillage.com Survey</a></p></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>\"It tends to be this feeling that they\'re not satisfied and a lot of times that\'s on an emotional level. They might have had an orgasm. But many women don\'t feel like [an orgasm is] the end-all, be-all every time they have sex,\" Clayton explained. </p><p>Not knowing why they feel so deflated after sex, women assume it\'s their fault or they just don\'t bring up the topic to their partner. Plus, Clayton said women don\'t have a clear awareness of their sexual desires because of social, cultural or religious beliefs that label such female wants as shameful. </p><p>Outside pressures impact a woman\'s view of her body, which can make having sex even less appealing. </p><p>\"Women are so obsessed with our physical appearance, and we really are trying to achieve some idealized woman\'s body that we see in the media. We always feel like we\'re lacking,\" Clayton told LiveScience. </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/16870812/\">Why she can\'t get no satisfaction</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14061456/\">MSNBC.com Special Report: America Unzipped</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17045070/\">Mmm, sweaty! Women aroused by male scent</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>Instead, they focus on the ever-growing to-do list and sex becomes another task at the very bottom of the list. </p><p>\"Work and family come first. We end up putting sex low on the priority list,\" Clayton said. \"Then when our partner initiates sex, it\'s just another task. I really believe that we as women accept a level of dissatisfaction that we don\'t need to accept.\"</p><p><b><strong>Make it a priority</strong></b><br>To ramp up sexual satisfaction, Clayton suggests both partners can play a role. </p><p>For one, women should know that the perfect body doesn\'t equal good sex. \"You don\'t have to be a sexy bombshell-looking person to have great sex. It\'s really not about that. We might think that Victoria\'s Secret models have a great sex life, but their sex life is no better than anybody else\'s,\" Clayton said.</p><p>A confident, sexy attitude and an openness to explore sensuality can breathe life into lackluster sex. Also, women can give a higher priority to sex, holding the laundry for another day.</p><p>Guys can be more open to talking about what a woman wants in bed, to the point of initiating the conversation, Clayton said. And to make more time for sex, she said, men can help a girlfriend or wife with tasks around the house. </p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved. </em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1754','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\">Woman receives whole ovary transplant</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Surgeons hope procedure will restore cancer patient\'s fertility</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>ST. LOUIS - When Joy Lagos learned she had cancer, she had enough hope to believe she would beat it. </p><p>What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and chemotherapy would lead to early menopause and rob her of the chance to have children.</p><p>Last week, that changed.</p><p>A renowned infertility expert in suburban St. Louis transplanted a whole ovary from Lagos\' sister into Lagos, a step that could enable her to have children. Dr. Sherman Silber completed the whole ovary transplant Feb. 5 in Missouri, after performing the same procedure between twins last month.</p><p>The surgery could restore normal hormone function for women going through early menopause. It also could mean that one day a woman with cancer could freeze an ovary, undergo chemotherapy and radiation, and have her own ovary returned later to restore her fertility.</p><p>When Lagos, now 30, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2004, her older sister Maeapple Chaney, now 31, donated bone marrow. Lagos was cured of cancer, but the treatment disabled her ovaries and she went into early menopause.</p><p>\"I was devastated,\" Lagos recalled, her voice still breaking as she tried to talk about it Monday. Now married, Lagos wasn\'t with a partner at the time, so wasn\'t able to freeze any embryos, she said.</p><p>\"I think it sounds selfish, but I just wanted to feel like a woman again,\" she said.</p><p>Yes, she wanted to have children of her own, but the menopause also induced osteoporosis, ended her monthly cycle, diminished her sex drive, and interfered with the natural \"ebb and flow\" of her emotions, 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/16532785/\">N.Y. hospital to pursue womb transplants</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16654912/\">Opinion: Should womb transplants be allowed?</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><b><strong>Surgery on twins</strong></b><br>Chaney was willing to donate eggs so Lagos and her new husband, Rodrigo Lagos, could have a baby through in vitro fertilization, but then Rodrigo Lagos saw a television report about Silber.</p><p>In 2004, Silber placed strips of ovarian tissue from a fertile twin into her prematurely menopausal sister. That woman, Stephanie Yarber, now has two children following the surgery. He has since done similar surgeries on six other sets of twins.</p><p>All of the twins who have had the ovarian tissue transplants are ovulating and menstruating normally, Silber said. But the women may get only a few years of ovarian function using the strips of tissue, he said.</p><p>Silber, who directs the Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke\'s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo., hopes that a whole ovary with its own blood supply will last decades.</p><p>Last week, Silber removed one of Chaney\'s ovaries and gave it to Lagos, a form of microsurgery that requires sewing the tiny ovarian artery of the donor to the ovarian artery of the recipient.</p><p>\"It\'s maybe the size of a tiny piece of white thread you might use to sew on a button,\" Silber said of the vessel.</p><p>Dr. Pasquale Patrizio, director of the fertility center at Yale University, said he\'s paying attention to Silber\'s work because he is working on freezing and thawing ovaries to help cancer patients preserve their fertility. \"It\'ll tell us in the field if the entire organ can be successfully retransplanted,\" Patrizio said.</p><p><b><strong>Close match required</strong></b><br>Surgeons at China\'s Zhejiang Medical Science University reported a successful whole ovary transplant between sisters earlier this decade; however, Silber and Patrizio said they have not seen any published medical literature or peer review related to that case.</p><p>Doctors also still have concerns about transplants that would require immune-suppressing drugs because of possible health effects for the mothers and their babies. \"If they\'re not a close match, we\'re not ready to tackle that yet,\" Silber said.</p><p>Because of the bone marrow transplant and the close match to Chaney, Lagos is able to tolerate her sister\'s tissue and didn\'t have to use the drugs.</p><p>The Lagoses said the surgery cost about $15,000, which is being paid for with the couple\'s resources and donations. Chaney, who lives on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, Calif., said it\'s possible she could go into menopause a few years earlier than she otherwise would have because of the ovary donation, but doesn\'t regret the bone marrow and ovary she has given her sister.</p><p>\"It\'s a great opportunity, both for my sister and for fertility treatment in general,\" Chaney 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('1755','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\">Husband to get wife\'s kidney on Valentine\'s Day</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Dairy farmer who battled kidney disease faced dialysis or transplant</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>OLEAN, N.Y. - Most people give flowers or candy on Valentine\'s Day.</p><p>Pearl Hamilton is giving her husband a kidney.</p><p>Byron Hamilton is a 57-year-old dairy farmer who has battled kidney disease for years. In September, doctors told him he\'d either need a transplant or dialysis.</p><p>His wife didn\'t think twice about being the donor. She\'s says all that matters is making sure her husband is well.</p><p>The transplant happens tomorrow at the Erie County Medical Center in upstate New York. </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('1756','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\">Time to bring back bloodletting?</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Donating blood may help reduce iron-related artery disease, study 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>CHICAGO - Blood donations may help keep the body\'s circulatory system healthy by reducing stores of iron, but the effect may not work for older people, a U.S. study suggested Tuesday.</p><p>Researchers at the White River Junction, Vermont, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School said they looked at 1,277 men and women ages 43 to 87 who had peripheral arterial disease, a common condition in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs. The study lasted for six years.</p><p>Blood was drawn to promote iron reduction at six-month intervals from some of the patients but not from others. As a whole there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of deaths, heart attacks or other problems.</p><p>But when the researchers analyzed the results just for younger patients aged 43 to 61 they found fewer deaths from all causes in the iron-reduction group, and also fewer nonfatal heart attacks and strokes.</p><p>\"While our study did not show that reducing iron led to across-the-board decreases in overall mortality, or combined death plus nonfatal (heart attack) and stroke, it did support the theory that vascular health might be preserved into later life by maintaining low levels of iron over time,\" said lead author Dr. Leo Zacharski.</p><p>He said bloodletting is \"safe and inexpensive, and correlates to routine blood donation (and) appears to contribute to improved vascular health.\" But, he added, until more research is done people should not try to donate blood just to lower their iron levels, and added that reductions in iron can also be achieved through dietary restrictions or drug treatment.</p><p>\"We suspect that the toxic effect of excess (iron) may become permanent at an older age, such that the benefits of iron reduction are realized only if it is started early and continued over time,\" Zacharski added.</p><p>Excess iron in the blood is thought to promote free-radical damage to arteries, particularly in the early stages of heart disease, said the study published in this week\'s Journal of the American Medical Association.</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('1757','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\">Coffee doesn\'t appear to raise heart attack risk</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study of older women in Sweden says java might even be protective</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070214/070214_coffee_vmed_10a.vmedium.jpg\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"Coffee cup\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><font size=\"-2\">Anthony Bolante / Reuters file</font><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><font size=\"-1\">Studies?xamining a link between coffee drinking and heart attack risk have produced mixed results overall.</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>NEW YORK - Drinking coffee does not appear to increase the risk of heart attack, according to a study of older Swedish women, and it may even be protective.</p><p>Several studies have examined ties between coffee consumption and risk of heart attack, but results have been mixed. Some studies have suggested a harmful effect of coffee consumption on the heart, whereas others have shown no link.</p><p>In their study, Dr. Sarah Rosner of Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues examined the effect of coffee consumption on the risk of heart attack in 32,650 Swedish women ages 40-74.</p><p>The women were participating in a study initiated between 1987 and 1990. During an average follow-up of 5.1 years, 459 heart attacks occurred. Of these, 391 were nonfatal and 68 resulted in death.</p><p>In analyses adjusting for possible confounding factors, the team found that women who drank 5 or more cups of java per week had a 32 percent reduced relative risk of having a heart attack compared with women who drank 0 to 4 cups per week, although this did not reach statistical significance.</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/17130058/\">Woman receives whole ovary transplant</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17052463/\">Fertility therapies slightly raise odds of 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>Overall, there was \"a non-significant trend toward lower risk with higher consumption levels,\" the investigators report.</p><p>There are \"several plausible biologic mechanisms\" by which coffee may reduce risk of heart attack, Rosner\'s team explains. \"Coffee contains phenolic compounds, which are known antioxidants and may reduce oxidative stress,\" they note. Additionally, coffee has been shown to improve the body\'s use of insulin and may protect against type-2 diabetes.</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('1758','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\">Bad relationships may weaken immune system</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Intimacy issues affect how a person responds to stress, research 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>Feeling insecure in close relationships with others may take a toll on the immune system, preliminary research suggests.</p><p>In a study of 61 healthy women, Italian researchers found that those who had difficulty establishing close, trusting relationships showed signs of weaker immune function. Specifically, lab experiments showed that the women\'s \"natural killer\" immune system cells were less lethal compared with those from other study participants.</p><p>Whether this means they\'re more susceptible to disease is unknown, and for now the answer to that question is a \"very prudent maybe,\" Dr. Angelo Picardi, the study\'s lead author, told Reuters Health.</p><p>The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, are in line with research showing that chronic stress can impair immunity, and the extent of the impact may depend on how an individual perceives and responds to stress. In short, personality traits may affect immune function.</p><p>The researchers looked at the trait known as \"attachment insecurity,\" characterized by difficulty trusting and depending on others, feeling uncomfortable with emotional intimacy or worrying about being abandoned by loved ones.</p><p>A person\'s \"attachment style\" forms in childhood, based on a child\'s relationship with his or her parents. It affects and is further shaped by romantic relationships later in life, explained Picardi, a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome.</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/17009655/\">Does your skin need a shrink?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17048922/\">Some may be born to cheat</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16927056/\">Sex troubles can point to health woes</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>So attachment style can be seen as a fairly stable trait that affects a person\'s response to stressful events, according to Picardi. Attachment insecurity, he explained, affects people\'s ability to regulate their own emotions, including how they perceive and deal with stress -- which may affect the body\'s physiological response to stress.</p><p>For their study, Picardi and his colleagues recruited a random sample of female nurses, who were younger than 60 years old, had no chronic illnesses and no history of major psychiatric disorders.</p><p>The researchers measured the women\'s attachment style using standard questionnaires and collected blood samples to study the function of their immune system cells.</p><p>In general, the study found, women with greater attachment insecurity had lower activity in their natural killer cells, key defenders against illness.</p><p>Picardi noted that in other research, his team has found associations between insecure attachment and certain skin diseases related to immune dysfunction. These include plaque psoriasis, a condition where scaly patches form on the skin, and alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss.</p><p>\"However,\" he said, \"it should be underscored that a causal link between insecure attachment, impaired immunity, and poorer health is far away from being proved.\"</p><p>It\'s possible that relationship insecurity alone is not enough to make someone vulnerable to illness, according to Picardi, but in conjunction with other factors - like older age or chronic disease - it might be enough to worsen a person\'s health.</p><p>\"Clearly,\" he said, \"a lot more research is needed to elucidate these issues.\"</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('1759','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\">Fish oil alone unlikely to relieve depression</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Study shows limited evidence that it works in tandem with antidepressants</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 - Despite some evidence linking depression with low levels of omega-3 fatty acids, there is currently no convincing evidence that the acids alone can relieve depression, according to a report published this week.</p><p>And there is limited evidence that omega-3 fatty acids - abundant in oily fish, nuts, seeds, and leafy green vegetables - can relieve depression in combination with antidepressant drugs. But this needs to be confirmed before the routine use of fish oil supplements can be recommended for depression, the report states.</p><p>Circumstantial evidence has suggested a link between omega-3 levels and behavior and mood disorders, such as depression, findings that have attracted widespread attention.</p><p>Omega-3 fatty acids \"are involved in chemical messaging in the brain, and help regulate blood vessel activity and aspects of the immune system that affect the central nervous system,\" according to the report in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, a publication of the British Medical Journal Group. Many people take omega-3 supplements, which are available over-the-counter.</p><p>Investigators pooled the results of published studies that evaluated the effect on depression of omega-3 fatty acid supplements alone or in combination with established antidepressant drugs.</p><p>As mentioned, there was little convincing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids alone can alleviate symptoms of depression and only limited evidence to back their use as a supplement to established antidepressant drugs.</p><p>In about nine studies that were reviewed, fish oil supplements were generally well tolerated; the most common side effects, \"particularly with higher doses, are nausea, fishy belching and loose stools,\" the report states.</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/17150900/\">Men can\'t help but ignore their wives</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17149743/\">Why you love sis, but not in a weird way</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>There have been concerns that fish oil supplements may contain environmental toxins such as dioxins, PCBs or mercury. Therefore, investigators believe it is important not to exceed the maximum recommended doses.</p><p>\"Surveys of fish supplements by the Food Standards Agency have found that the levels of mercury they contain do not pose a risk to consumer safety,\" the report notes.</p><p>Moreover, because fish oil supplements contain vitamin A, pregnant women should take only low-dose omega-3 supplements because of the potentially harmful effects of high levels of vitamin A on the fetus.</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('1760','6','\n\n\n	 <p>More than a decade ago, Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., received a religious message through an unlikely medium: a grilled cheese sandwich she had made herself. As she gazed at the brown skillet marks on the surface of the bread, a familiar visage snapped into focus. </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/imagepages/2007/02/12/science/20070113_FACE_GRAPHIC.html\', \'1020_627\', \'width=1020,height=627,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/science/FACE190.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"190\" alt=\"Distorted or Blurry, the Face Shines Through\" border=\"0\"><span class=\"mediaType graphic\">Graphic</span>\n</a>\n\n\n<h2>\n\n<a href=\"javascript:pop_me_up2(\'http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/12/science/20070113_FACE_GRAPHIC.html\', \'1020_627\', \'width=1020,height=627,location=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\" >Distorted or Blurry, the Face Shines Through</a>\n\n</h2>\n<div class=\"clear\"></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n   \n<div class=\"image\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/13/science/face.190.2.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Golden Palace.com; Oyster shell: Denis Balibouse/Reuters</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\nA grilled cheese sandwich, top, with an image of what some see as the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay. Jesus Christ is seen in an oyster shell, a frying pan and a pirogi. \n</p>\n</div>\n  \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>? saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back,?she told reporters in 2004. ? was in total shock.?/p><p>After holding onto the stale relic for 10 years, Ms. Duyser put it up for sale on eBay. The auction generated so much excitement that the sandwich eventually sold for $28,000, proving that she was not alone in seeing a face where none should reasonably exist. (Efforts to locate her to comment for this article were unsuccessful.)</p><p>Such faces made headlines again near the end of 2006, when Mars Express, an orbiter from the European Space Agency, captured the  highest-quality three-dimensional images to date of what looks like a face in the Cydonia region of Mars. The photos reignited conspiracy theories that governments on Earth are trying to hide the existence of intelligent life on Mars.</p><p>Why do we see faces everywhere we look: in the Moon, in Rorschach inkblots, in the interference patterns on the surface of oil spills? Why are some Lay?  chips the spitting image of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/fidel_castro/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Fidel Castro.\">Fidel Castro</a>, and why was a cinnamon bun with a striking likeness to <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/teresa_mother/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Mother Teresa.\">Mother Teresa</a> kept for years under glass in a coffee shop in Nashville, where it was nicknamed the Nun Bun? </p><p>Compelling answers are beginning to emerge from biologists and computer scientists who are gaining new insights into how the brain recognizes and processes facial data.</p><p>Long before she had heard of Diana Duyser? grilled-cheese sandwich, Doris Tsao, a neuroscientist at the University of Bremen in Germany, had an inkling that people might process faces differently from other objects. Her  suspicion was that a particular area of the brain gives faces priority, like an airline offering first-class passengers expedited boarding. </p><p>?ome patients have strokes and are then able to recognize everything perfectly well except for faces,?Dr. Tsao said. ?o we started questioning whether there really might be an area in the brain that is dedicated to face recognition.?/p><p>Dr. Tsao used functional magnetic resonance imaging to record which areas of the brain were activated when macaque monkeys were presented with  stimuli including fruits, gadgets, scrambled patterns ?and faces. She discovered almost immediately that groups of cells in three  regions of the brain? temporal lobe seemed to be strongly attuned to faces.</p><p>?he first day we put the electrode in, it was shocking,?Dr. Tsao said. ?ell after cell responded to faces but not at all to other objects.?Her results were published in October in the journal Science. </p><p>Dr. Tsao? investigation yielded a surprising related finding: areas of the brain she had identified as face-specific occasionally lighted up in response to objects that bore only a passing resemblance to faces. </p><p>?onface objects may have certain features that are weakly triggering these face cells,?she said. ?f you go above a certain threshold, the monkeys might think that they?e seeing a face.?In the same way, she said, objects like cinnamon buns, rocky outcroppings and cloud formations may set off face radar if they bear  enough resemblance to actual faces. </p><p>Pawan Sinha, a cognitive scientist at the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_institute_of_technology/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Massachusetts Institute of Technology\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, has devoted years of research to figuring out just what attributes touch off these face-specific pings. Security software that is being developed for identifying potential terrorists or detecting intruders must be able to reliably recognize  faces. In teaching the software to do this, Dr. Sinha and his colleagues have arrived at  unexpected insights into the question of why we sometimes see a cinnamon bun as  a cinnamon bun, and other times as the earthly incarnation of a sainted nun.</p><p>To develop detector software optimized to pick out any human face, even in less-than-ideal surroundings, Dr. Sinha began by putting into  his computer hundreds of faces as varied as those in a Benetton advertisement famous for its  diversity.  </p><p>As the computer amassed the information, it was able to discover relationships that were of great significance to almost all faces, but very few nonfaces. ?hese turn out to be very simple relationships, things like the eyes are always darker than the forehead, and the mouth is darker than the cheeks,?Dr. Sinha said. ?f you put together about 12 of these relationships, you get a template that you can use to locate a face.?</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('1761','6','\n\n\n	 <p><strong>Correction Appended</strong></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/2007/02/12/health/13case_ready.html\', \'13case_ready\', \'width=515,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/2007/02/12/health/13case_ready.html\', \'13case_ready\', \'width=515,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes\')\">\n<IMG src=\"http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/case.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"192\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n</a>\n<div class=\"credit\">Brian Stauffer</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\n  \n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>I remember myself as a new doctor. After graduating from medical school in June 1956, I land a surgical internship on July 1 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. </p><p>Beginner? luck: my first rotation is in the emergency room. Actually a series of rooms, all small, disorienting for me. The whole area smells of arriving tension ?everyone poised for action, like a batter expecting a bean ball. I am at the plate for the first time, hoping to see the ball, to make a diagnosis. Not to get stunned.</p><p>I am in all white except for the pink soles of my new white bucks. But inside I am green as a Granny Smith apple, not yet fit to deal with blood on a regular basis. ?m I ready??I keep asking myself. ?m I really a physician??/p><p>The first day, I am fortunate. A relative lull, quiet for an emergency room. I suture lacerations, prescribe <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> for respiratory infections, admit a heart attack. I practice medical Spanish. No curves. I am almost relaxed. I can do this. </p><p>The second day starts slowly. Mostly I chat with a fellow intern, Dick Golinko, a smart guy who will eventually become a prominent pediatric cardiologist. He seems calmer, more settled than I ?the necessary nature of pediatricians. </p><p>Midafternoon, a siren sounds, close, introducing a young woman who has jumped several stories from her psychiatrist? office window. One look, even a beginner? glance, and I know she is in trouble. </p><p>She is listed as 30, but her face looks 50. Multiple injuries. Looks bad, an odd color, battleship gray, listing. Gray face ringed by long curly black hair, a halo of shade. </p><p>Still conscious, but woozy. <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> low. I quickly consult the Merck Manual but find no reference to <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> and multiple injuries. We are on our own. </p><p> Dick and I insert several intravenous lines. Tubes go into stomach, bladder. Call for help. Get the specialists, more experienced, cooler, used to tragedy. </p><p>I wonder about the family ?has someone notified them? I consider Virginia Woolf: drowning yourself must be easier than deserting your therapist through his window. Suicide alone is one thing, not rare. But for an audience, your psychiatrist? How thick the sadness must be.</p><p>The emergency room is a crush of activity ?asking, receiving,  checking, patients piling up. Its noises are important,  compelling. Yet the focus now is on this one woman. </p><p>The nurses, deliberate as a snowstorm, have seen it all. For them, this is just an iteration. They watch over the tyros: they will allow no serious mistakes. </p><p>Then I see a man moving through their midst, as if from foxhole to foxhole. He slips into the curtained area where we are working. For a moment he stands, then leans, embracing the wall. Her therapist. </p><p>I wonder if he will pass out. I think his blood pressure must be teetering near hers. I pray he will sit rather than pass out and require our care. </p><p>What is in his head? In some sense, he must now be her twin, at least emotionally. How does a psychiatrist deal with a patient? ultimate gesture of rejection ?a deadly leap from the therapist? own window? I think it must be the equivalent of a surgeon failing to stop bleeding, or a radiologist missing an obvious lung <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>. No, worse. </p><p>Now she stabilizes, looks better, is moved to neurosurgery for observation and further treatment. He slips  away, and I never see him again. Where does a doctor go after such an event?</p><p>After five decades, I still remember my bewilderment. The woman who jumped was not far from my age. At some time she  must have made promises  ?to herself and others  ?about a life. She must have had hopes and imagination. I had the future; why did she try to lose hers? </p><p>In the 1950s, medical school taught us little of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/depression/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about depression.\">depression</a>, never emphasized that suicide was a common result. And little was understood of brain chemistry, of neurotransmitters.</p><p>Now, much older, I understand that depression is a terrible disease, one that in its extreme forms can drive its victims ?however young and attractive, however rich or  popular or  talented  ?to self-murder. In his memoir, ?arkness Visible,?the late William Styron explains the ?orrors of depression?as ?o overwhelming as to be quite beyond expression.?</p><p>The young woman had no way to express her sadness through language. Instead, she jumped.</p><NYT_TAGLINE>\n<p><i><p><strong>Correction: February 15, 2006</strong></p><p><em style=\"i\">An essay in Science Times on Tuesday, about a doctor? recollections of a patient? suicide attempt in 1956, at which time he reflected on the suicides of others, referred incorrectly to one death. The poet Sylvia Plath should not have been included; her suicide occurred in 1963.</em></p></i></p>\n</NYT_TAGLINE><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1762','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\">Cancer returns in teen caught in custody battle</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Parents fought with state over medical treatment for their daughter</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>HARLINGEN, Texas - A young cancer patient whose parents fought a bitter custody battle with the state over their daughter\'s treatment was told the disease has aggressively returned, the girl\'s father said Wednesday.</p><p>In October, Katie Wernecke\'s family Web site reported her cancer was in remission nearly a year after a judge returned the teen to her parents to resume her treatment for Hodgkin\'s disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes.</p><p>\"The last time it was gone,\" Edward Wernecke said. \"Now it\'s already back.\"</p><p>Katie, 14, has a large mass near her lower ribs, her father said.</p><p>The state had seized Katie from her parents in June 2005 after they refused radiation treatments. The Werneckes had argued chemotherapy already killed the cancer and they feared the radiation would do more harm than good.</p><p>In November 2005, Katie was returned to her parents, who took her to several states for various treatments, including intravenous vitamin C in Kansas and ultimately radiation.</p><p>Ed Wernecke said his daughter - a top student - had missed about a month of school to travel for treatments but was getting assignments and was expected to return to school on Thursday. He said both chemotherapy and radiation have failed and that she was currently undergoing immunology treatments.</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/8243545/\">Girl with cancer to continue as ward of state</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14371567/\">Starchild Cherrix, court reach agreement over cancer care</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16441782/\">Fighting cancer costs $2.3 billion in lost time</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 we\'re at. She\'s trying to boost her immune system that she has left,\" he said.</p><p>The family\'s most recent Web site posting rails against some of Katie\'s medical treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston when she was in foster care.</p><p>Hospital spokeswoman Julie Penne declined to comment \"out of protecting her privacy.\"</p><p>In a similar case, a Virginia judge in July ruled that 16-year-old Starchild Abraham Cherrix could reject chemotherapy for his Hodgkin\'s disease in favor of alternative treatments. A doctor in September said Cherrix appeared to be improving.</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('1763','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\">New breast cancer test wins FDA approval</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Analysis could help predict possibility of tumor relapse</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\">NBC 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\',\'03725922-b64f-48b8-a8a7-a9047ed7f3b9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'c24\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17010286\',\'FDA approves breast cancer test\')\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070206/nn_snyderman_cancer_070206.300w.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\',\'03725922-b64f-48b8-a8a7-a9047ed7f3b9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'c24\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17010286\',\'FDA approves breast cancer test\')\"></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\',\'03725922-b64f-48b8-a8a7-a9047ed7f3b9\',\'us\',\'hotvideo_m_edpicks\',\'c24\',\'msnbc\',\'\',\'17010286\',\'FDA approves breast cancer test\')\">FDA approves breast cancer test</a></font><br><font color=\"black\">Feb. 6: The Food and Drug Administration approved a new gene test Tuesday to help predict whether women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer will relapse in five or 10 years. NBC\'s Nancy Snyderman reports.</font><p class=\"credit\">Nightly News</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>WASHINGTON - Women with early stage breast cancer won a new gene test Tuesday to help predict whether they\'ll relapse in five or 10 years, information that could influence how aggressively they fight that initial tumor.</p><p>The MammaPrint test isn\'t the first such predictor for breast cancer to hit the U.S. market, but it is the first to win formal approval from the Food and Drug Administration.</p><p>The test is far from perfect, warned FDA\'s Dr. Steven Gutman.</p><p>Indeed, it\'s much better at predicting who isn\'t likely to relapse than who is, Gutman said. He cited studies suggesting that when the MammaPrint predicts a woman is at high risk of cancer returning in five years, it will be right just a quarter of the time. That compares with 95 percent accuracy if the woman is told she\'s at low risk of a relapse.</p><p>\"This information has to be used very carefully by physicians,\" Gutman said. \"This is a complex test. It requires use by people who know their business.\"</p><p><b><strong>Test can help decide who could skip chemo</strong></b><br><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 border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/ColorBoxes/Styles/ColorBoxImages_GlobalOnlyPlease/interactive_icon.gif\" height=\"14\" width=\"24\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td><td width=\"98%\" bgcolor=\"#7788aa\"><font size=\"-1\"><b color=\"#FFFFFF\">Test yourself </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=\"/id/3296963/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/031107/Quiz_TZ152.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"150\" 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=\"/id/3296963/\">Breast cancer: How much do you know</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>More than 178,000 U.S. women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. More than 100,000 of them will have early stage tumors with a remarkably good prognosis: They\'re small, they haven\'t yet spread to the lymph nodes, and they\'re sensitive to hormones.</p><p>The vast majority of those women would survive with surgery, radiation and hormone treatment. Yet guidelines today recommend chemotherapy as well for most to catch the few - two or three out of every 100 patients - who need more aggressive help to try to prevent a recurrence years later.</p><p>Gene testing can help doctors and patients winnow out who\'s most likely to need the chemo from who might gamble on skipping it. For about two years, a growing number of breast cancer specialists have begun offering such testing to do just that.</p><p>But until now, the FDA hasn\'t required formal approval of those tests, allowing sales instead as doctor-ordered services that laboratories provide, Gutman said.</p><p>Tuesday\'s approval doesn\'t mean the MammaPrint works better than what\'s already used, but that its Dutch manufacturer, Amsterdam-based Agendia, sought formal FDA review and approval. The agency now is debating whether existing gene-predictor tests need similar oversight, Gutman 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/16695236/\">Obese breast cancer patients get undertreated</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16673818/\">Dense breast tissue hikes risk of cancer</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>How the test works</strong></b><br>How does MammaPrint work? It analyzes the level of activity of 70 genes in a sample of the woman\'s surgically removed tumor, and provides a numerical ranking. Women ranked as high-risk have about twice the likelihood of a relapse in the next five to 10 years as women who are ranked low-risk, Gutman said.</p><p>The FDA has no information on whether the test results actually improved the survival of high-risk women, Gutman said.</p><p>A spokesman for Agendia didn\'t return a phone call seeking the test\'s price. Its main U.S. competitor costs $3,000.</p><p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td><SCRIPT language=javascript src=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/interactives/_prod/BreastCancerFacts/data.js\"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/interactives/tools/interactive.js></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>if (window.BreastCancerFacts) { displayApp(BreastCancerFacts); }</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('1764','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\">Discipline debate: Spanking gets a timeout</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Proposed Calif. law reignites battle over best way to deal with unruly tots</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/070203/Vlrg_Spanking_1215p.vmedium.jpg\" 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;\">Victoria Clayton</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://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/Health/clayton.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>Victoria Clayton</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:\'+\'vcmsnbc\'+\'@\'+\'yahoo.com\">\')</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>Of all the controversial issues in parenting perhaps none is more heated than spanking. Most of us probably can recount seeing an out-of-control parent in a parking lot or supermarket (if not in a home) smack a child. And if you\'ve seen it once, it likely left an indelible impression.</p><p>In California, one lawmaker says she\'s had enough. Democratic assemblywoman Sally Lieber has introduced a bill that would outlaw this behavior with children under age 4. If the bill becomes law, that parent in the parking lot could be charged with a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail or a fine of up to $1,000, making California the first state with such a law. The use of physical punishment to discipline children is already illegal in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden.</p><p>But should spanking be banned? Is it wrong or even effective? What\'s really the best way to discipline unruly tots?</p><p>\"Education, not legislation, is the method of choice to improve parenting practices, with the exception of clearly abusive practices,\" says Diana Baumrind, a research psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley. Baumrind is one of the few experts who has been dubbed \"pro-spanking\" in the media. \"In my view, spanking.is no more or less harmful than a mild scolding, timeout or other developmentally appropriate level and kind of punishment.\"</p><p>However, Baumrind also says that any form of punishment by definition is aversive, and so, whether physical or non-physical, punishment should be reserved for times when milder methods such as persuasion or distraction have failed.</p><p>The majority of psychologists, however, come down decidedly on the anti-spanking side. And the American Academy of Pediatrics is firmly against spanking and hitting, saying in a policy statement that \"corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects.\" </p><p>Researcher Paul Frick of the University of New Orleans in Louisiana warns spanking and hitting can lead to later emotional and behavioral problems. Even children who are only smacked occasionally are more likely to show signs of depression or lower self-esteem, he says.</p><p>Frick and his team, who studied the impact of corporal punishment on 98 children and published their results last month in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, said they couldn\'t find any positive effects for spanking. Children on the receiving end of a slap can learn that when they are upset and angry they hit, he says, rather than understanding their behavior was wrong and that they need to do better.</p><p>\"This is a small but significant sample,\" says Frick. \"We don\'t want to overstate the implications, though. The vast majority of kids who are subject to mild corporal punishment will not suffer severe negative effects. Our point, though, is that spanking and hitting are not effective and may be dangerous.\"</p><p><b><strong>Parents at the end of their ropes<br></strong></b>Jane Tucker, a parenting coach and mother of a 4-year-old son in Santa Monica, Calif., agrees. \"I think parents only use it because they get to the end of their ropes,\" she says. \"Usually, the problem is that they haven\'t set up boundaries and clear limits. If there aren\'t limits, kids will just push and push parents as far as they can.\"</p><p>For example, kids often have meltdowns in the grocery store. Tucker says she conditioned her son early on to know that when they go to the market he gets to select one of several items she allows. \"I look for ways to make win-win situations so we\'re both happy and there\'s little need for discipline - physical or otherwise.\"</p><p>Even when discipline can\'t be avoided, most parents have found ways to circumvent the need to make it physical. </p><p>\"We\'ve started using timeouts on our 3-year-old son,\" says Robin Cook, a marketing director and mother of 4-month-old and 3-year-old sons in Fayetteville, Ark. \"First we give him a warning and a choice, though. So we say, \'Either you can listen to what mommy or daddy say or you can have a timeout. What would you like to do?\' He had a few timeouts in the beginning but after that it\'s really worked well. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1765','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\">Help kids stay thin by putting them to bed</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Kids who sleep more weigh less, researchers say</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"></td></tr></table><font size=\"-2\"><a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/\"><a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceReuters.gif\" height=\"20\" width=\"140\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></a></a><p></p></font><p>WASHINGTON - Children who do not get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight than those who get more, according to a study published Wednesday that tracked more than 2,000 U.S. kids for five years.</p><p>Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, used detailed diaries kept by families to examine children\'s sleep behavior and its relationship with weight.</p><p>\"Children who get less sleep tend to weigh more five years later,\" lead researcher Emily Snell said in an interview.</p><p>Snell and colleagues Emma Adam and Greg Duncan determined that an extra hour of sleep cut the likelihood of being overweight from 36 percent to 30 percent in children ages 3 to 8, and from 34 to 30 percent in those ages 8 to 13.</p><p>The study, published in the journal Child Development, involved 2,281 children taking part in a nationally representative survey. They were ages 3 to 12 at the start of the study in 1997. Follow-up data was collected five years later.</p><p>The diaries recorded the number of hours the kids slept, what time they went to bed and what time they woke up. Their height and weight also were recorded.</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=762&amp;ThreadID=189070&amp;BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1\">Discuss: Do your kids get enough sleep?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/15329197/\">Sleep more, weigh less?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/11405023/\">Quiz: Are you getting enough sleep?</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/14624545/\">Some \'night owl\' teens may have sleep disorder</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 researchers found that children who got less sleep were more likely to be overweight and have higher body mass index measures than those who got more sleep, even when factors such as race, ethnicity and parents\' income and educational level were considered.</p><p><b><strong>More chances to eat</strong></b><br>The study noted that sleep experts recommend that children ages 5 to 12 sleep for 10 to 11 hours a night and adolescents sleep for 8 to 9 hours. But the researchers said children in the study at age 7 on average got less than 10 hours of sleep on weekdays and at age 14 got 8.5 hours of sleep on weekdays.</p><p>The study did not examine why children who slept less tended to weigh more, but Snell cited a few possible explanations.</p><p>Not getting enough sleep may affect hormones that influence appetite, Snell said. Getting less sleep - for example, staying up an hour later at night - may provide more opportunity to eat, she added. And she said not getting enough sleep may leave a person more lethargic, cutting down on exercise.</p><p>Snell said on weekdays, school schedules can dictate when children must wake up, but parents can control bedtime.</p><p>\"Particularly for younger children who need 10 to 11 hours of sleep at night, if their wake-up time has to be 6:30 or 7 (a.m.) for school, we encourage parents to sort of aim for the 8 o\'clock hour for bedtime,\" Snell said.</p><p>The researchers noted there is growing evidence linking sleep to children\'s cognitive and social functioning, with previous research connecting sleep problems and too little sleep to maladjustment in preschoolers and depression and school problems in adolescents.</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('1766','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\">To spank or not to spank? Readers talk back</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Many parents stand up to experts and support a smack on the bottom</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>To spank or not to spank? That is the question we asked our readers.</p><p>Since a California legislator proposed a state bill that would make spanking a child under the age of 4 a misdemeanor, parents and experts have been debating what\'s the best form of discipline. </p><p>While most parenting experts come out against physical punishment, many parents take a different view. In an <a href=\"/id/16929436/\">MSNBC.com poll, nearly 90 percent of our readers</a> said there\'s nothing wrong with the occasional smack on the bottom, and the messages in our mailbag overwhelmingly support spanking, usually as a last resort.</p><p>Scott from Denver, writes, \"Associating pain with physical danger is very important. I reserve spanking my 2-year-old daughter for any behavior which can cause her serious negative, or even deadly, consequences.\"</p><p>Read on for more reader responses:</p><p><em>A swat on the behind isn\'t going to scar a child for life. We\'re living in a society that is spoiled rotten enough as it is. Where is respect for one\'s elders when our children hold</em> us <em>hostage with the threat of calling child services on their own parents for</em> <em>being parents?<br></em><b><strong>- Don, Oklahoma City, Okla.</strong></b></p><p><em>It all depends on your child. You HAVE to match the discipline to the child. Spanking should be the last resort when nothing else works. Also, if controlled spanking does not work, do not continue to spank. You have to spend the time to find what works and make a discipline chart so that all parties know the boundaries. ... Also, you have to revisit the plan periodically to asses the effectiveness and make any needed changes.</em><em><br></em><b><strong>- Rhonda</strong></b></p><p><em>I feel that an occasional swat on the behind to get their attention, and convey to them that their is an urgency to start behaving, is just fine. There is a big difference, I believe, in the concept of spanking as opposed to striking or beating. Most good parents, I feel, know the difference and the ones who don\'t may need to get help, but not arrested.<br></em><b><strong>- Larry, Phoenix</strong></b></p><p><em>When our daughter refuses to help with house work claiming that it is too heavy we take the same approach as Mr. and Mrs. Pope. She gets push-ups for not lifting. We tell her well if it\'s too heavy we need to strengthen those muscles. We also have her on the treadmill and she gets 1/4 of a mile for back talking. We have used this approach with her for about since she was 8 and it has worked well on our behalf.</em> <br><b><strong>- Jon, St. Paul, Minn.</strong></b></p><p><em>As an adult who was spanked as a child, I thought I was all for spanking. That is until I became a mother. When my daughters misbehaved, I just could not bring myself to hit them. This might sound crazy to some, but when I would tell my daughters that their behavior was unacceptable and disappointing to me, this usually took care of the issue. . For me, I choose not to spank because it hurts me to think that I would ever strike my children. . For those who choose to use spanking as a form of discipline, I cannot judge them. Spanking is personal decision to be made by the parents.<br></em><b><strong>- Sherry, Charlotte, N.C.</strong></b></p><p><em>The best technique is to instill some assertiveness in those whiney mothers I see who spend all their time begging their unruly kids to \"pleeeese\" behave. Whiney, unassertive mothers give away the social pecking order and make life miserable for everyone. My hat is off to all assertive, strong, dominant mothers who set the family tone. Hurray!</em><br><b><strong>- Ed, Atwater, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>We use a variety of methods for our boys, usually resorting to spanking when we need to send a very powerful, startling message. Usually, though, we use timeouts and, as they get older, grounding and/or loss of privileges. I do not feel, however, that it is anyone\'s right to tell another person how to raise their children.</em><br><b><strong>- Jennifer, Muncie, Ind.</strong></b></p><p><em>Not hitting, not slapping, but spanking works. Spanking is a controlled form of discipline, not an emotional outburst, or reaction to being angry - that is called hitting. There is a huge difference between spanking and hitting and those who use spanking as an effective disciplinary measure will have no problem defending the practice. California, and all states, already have laws preventing abuse. It is a huge overstep of the state to think they can and should legislate parenting.</em><br><b><strong>- Chris, Omaha, Neb.</strong></b></p><p><em>If you find yourself spanking the children under 5 and unable to find better ways to handle them, you need to have medical assessment of the problem.</em><br><b><strong>- Donna, San Jose, Calif.</strong></b></p><p><em>I never have to spank my daughter. I have a \"Count to 3\" rule. Usually after \"2,\" she stops her bad behavior immediately. If I reach the number 3, I take away the privilege that I warned her about before I started counting, usually for only a day. No matter how much your child cries, you must be consistent and keep your word.</em><br><b><strong>- Mike, San Diego</strong></b></p><p><em>If spanking is done in love and not anger, I have found it to be very effective with my four children. Even with the toddler, a very small swat on the diaper (enough to make a noise) and a firm \"no\" make him obey. Outlawing spanking is not going to curb abuse. People who abuse their children are generally not law-abiding citizens anyway.</em><br><b><strong>- Joy, Los Angeles</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/16929303/\">Discipline debate: Spanking gets a time-out</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16929436/\">MSNBC Poll: Spank or not?</a>\n</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><em>I have three grown sons. I spanked them, occasionally using a belt. I always knew ahead how many times I would strike them and never exceeded that number. I never failed after a spanking, to sit them on my knee and tell them that I loved them and explained what they had done wrong. They turned out fine and well adjusted.</em><br><b><strong>- Mike, Plymouth, Mich.</strong></b></p><p><em>To spank or not to spank? I think that is a parental question that should be left up to the parents. They are the ones responsible, after all. I agree educating parents is a must. If I had taken a parenting class before my daughter was born, I could have avoided a lot of problems.<br></em><b><strong>- Bryan, Lake Worth, Fla.</strong></b></p><p><em>As usual the \"soccer moms of America\" continue to lead our youth of this country down the path of non-accountability for their actions, which translates to them believing that they are untouchable in the real world. Don\'t believe me? Take a look at the youth population of our jails. It has dramatically increased with the \"time out\" generation.</em><br><b><strong>- Richard, Covington, Ga.</strong></b></p><p><em>Spanking is the ONLY effective method of child discipline. There is a difference between hitting and spanking, yet most \"experts\" think they are the same. Spanking is also biblical and ordered by GOD. If God says it is OK, we should be listening. ... My wife and I both believe in spanking and even at 2, my daughter understands that there are consequences for wrong actions. </em><br><b><strong>- Greg, Alabama</strong></b></p><p><em>The article provided some great tips for discipline. However, I have a concern about the suggestion to use push-ups for punishment. Doing this is likely to cause children to link physical activity to adverse consequences, potentially resulting in adverse feelings towards physical activity - certainly not something we need with the rising obesity rates in our children.<br></em><b><strong>- Lindsay, Scotia, N.Y.</strong></b></p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 MSNBC Interactive</em></i></div><br>');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1767','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\">Born to be bad? Genetic research says maybe</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Argumentative parents pass on behavior problems to kids</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>If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true.</p><p>In a study of adult twins and their children, researchers found that genes, rather than parents\' own argumentative behavior, seemed key in the children\'s odds of serious conduct problems - like bullying, skipping school and shoplifting.</p><p>The findings, published in the journal Child Development, touch on the classic nature-versus-nurture question.</p><p>In the case of child behavior, research has linked parents\' marital conflicts to long-term, serious conduct problems in their children. However, it has been unclear whether that means that marital woes themselves cause the behavioral problems.</p><p>The new findings suggest it\'s more a matter of genes. That is, parents who are naturally argumentative pass on these traits to their kids.</p><p>\"Marital conflict doesn\'t appear, in this study, to cause stable patterns of conduct disorder,\" explained lead study author K. Paige Harden of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.</p><p>\"Rather, marital conflict is influenced by parents\' own characteristics - including their genes -and these genes are passed on to children,\" she told Reuters Health.</p><p>Harden and her colleagues arrived at their conclusions by studying 1,045 adult twins and their children. Some of the twin pairs were identical, which means they shared all of their genes; the rest were fraternal, meaning they shared only some of their genes.</p><p>Such studies allow researchers to tease out the effects of genes and environment on a given behavior.</p><p>In this case, Harden\'s team found that genetic influences were important in parents\' marital conflicts, and genes, in turn, explained the link between marital discord and children\'s conduct problems.</p><p><b><strong>No \'argument\' gene<br></strong></b>There may be no \"argument\" gene, but genes do influence personality traits, including those that make people more or less prone to confrontation.</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/16929303/\">Discipline debate: Spanking gets a time-out</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17010115/\">To spank or not? Readers talk back </a>\n</li><li><a href=\"/id/17024156/\">Kids who sleep more weigh less</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>According to Harden, it\'s possible that genes involved in risk-taking, sensation-seeking and other aspects of antisocial behavior may make parents more likely to clash, and, when passed on to their kids, make conduct problems more likely.</p><p>However, the researchers stress, none of this means that fights between parents do no harm to children.</p><p>Even if genes are more important in long-term, serious behavioral problems, parents\' conflicts do distress their kids, explained Dr. Robert E. Emery, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and a co-author on the study.</p><p>The study \"does not mean that children are unaffected by parents\' disputes,\" he told Reuters Health.</p><p>\"Think about how you feel when friends, a couple you know, start fighting. Now make them your parents, you\'re six, and they\'re screaming about moving out. Parental conflicts definitely are not healthy for children.\"</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i>(c) Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1768','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\">Surprise hope for recovery from Rett syndrome</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Stunning experiment reverses autism-related symptoms in mice</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  - Scientists are raising the first hope of recovery from an autism-like disease that leaves thousands of girls unable to talk or walk - with an experiment that erased symptoms of the disorder in genetically engineered mice.</p><p>Thursday\'s report challenges the long-held belief that the brain damage from Rett syndrome is permanent, but it comes with a big warning: Researchers don\'t know how to even try such treatment in people yet, making the discovery one of both optimism and continued frustration.</p><p>\"The thing that keeps your feet on the ground with this study is it shows the principle of reversibility, but doesn\'t give you any clue about how to accomplish that,\" cautioned lead researcher Dr. Adrian Bird, a geneticist at Scotland\'s Edinburgh University.</p><p>Still, parents rejoiced at the research, saying it gave them hope that even if finding actual therapies takes another decade, their severely disabled daughters still may have a chance to improve.</p><p>\"To think even 10 or 20 years down the road ... she could learn to talk and walk,\" said Jennifer Endres of her daughter Jillian, 4, who smiles delightedly as she watches other children play but can\'t even hold a toy in her own hands. \"If it can happen in Jillian\'s lifetime, that means the world to us.\"</p><p>And the work, published Thursday by the journal Science, could affect more than Rett syndrome, because the same genetic culprit plays a role in certain forms of autism and other brain diseases, too.</p><p>\"In this class of disorders, now we have a great hope that if we figure out a way to manipulate the function of the neurons ... we have a chance of recovery,\" said Dr. Huda Zoghbi of the Baylor College of Medicine. Zoghbi discovered Rett\'s genetic culprit in 1999.</p><p><b><strong>1 in 10,000 girls<br></strong></b>Rett syndrome is rare, afflicting roughly one in 10,000 girls. (Boys who are stricken almost always die in infancy.)</p><p>But Rett is the most physically disabling of the family of autism diseases. Girls are born healthy but then the culprit gene somehow mutates, destroying speech and normal movement. A classic sign is hands that can do nothing but wring. Many children never walk; those that do have a stiff-legged gait. Symptoms usually appear between 6 and 18 months of age. Patients can live to adulthood, although many die of infections before then.</p><p>What goes awry: a gene called MECP2 that is supposed to switch off other genes involved in the maturation of neurons. When MECP2 shuts off in Rett syndrome, girls\' brain cells don\'t die, but they don\'t keep developing.</p><p><b><strong>Even researcher stunned<br></strong></b>The question is whether switching that gene back on could restore neuronal function. Even Bird didn\'t think so - he was stunned by his own team\'s finding.</p><p>First the Scottish researchers switched off MECP2 in male mice by inserting a chemical roadblock into the gene that they could switch on and off with medication. When the gene was switched off, baby mice hardly moved and died within weeks.</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/17047721/\">U.S. autism rate higher than thought</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/17028484/\">Drug combo?ay?elp?arkinson\'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 first attempt at switching the gene back on killed half the mice, apparently by flooding their cells with too much of MECP2\'s protein. So the scientists tried again, this time gradually increasing gene activity - and rescuing all but one mouse. Video shows the treated animals scurrying around just like normal rodents.</p><p>The real test was in female mice. Why? The mutated gene is carried on just one of females\' two X chromosomes, giving them some normal gene function so they don\'t show symptoms until they\'re older. If even adult female mice could be saved, it would signal hope for girls - and it worked.</p><p>\"We expected that at best we\'d get a reduction in the severity of the symptoms. To have them go away virtually completely was a big surprise,\" Bird said.</p><p>The experiments couldn\'t test cognitive functions, such as speech, just physical ones.</p><p>But \"the work is really beautiful,\" said Dr. Uta Francke of Stanford University, a co-discoverer of culprit MECP2 who has studied and cared for Rett patients for 20 years. \"They have very convincing evidence\" that damage once thought permanent is reversible.</p><p>The Rett Syndrome Research Foundation, a parents\' group that co-funded the research, now will push scientists to develop human treatments.</p><p>\"We were worried there was this narrow window of opportunity within which you had to intervene,\" said foundation co-founder Monica Coenraads, whose 10-year-old daughter Chelsea has Rett syndrome. The new study dispels that notion, and \"gives scientists every reason to explore the next steps on every front, from gene therapy to drug discovery.\"</p><p>Gene therapy probably is a long shot, specialists agree. More practical would be to figure out what other genes MECP2 governs and how to use medications to manipulate those downstream effects, Zoghbi 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('1769','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\">Dads\' comments may push girls toward bulimia</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Parental criticism and weight worries affect daughters from young age</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 - Fathers are important influences on their daughters\' perceptions of their weight and shape during childhood, and can increase their risk of developing an eating disorder in adolescence, research shows.</p><p>\"Fathers have been mostly ignored in previous research on eating disorders,\" Dr. W. Stewart Agras, who led the research, told Reuters Health. Based on his findings, Agras said fathers \"should avoid criticizing their daughter\'s weight or shape. Rather they should build up their daughter\'s confidence by emphasizing other positive attributes.\"</p><p>Weight concerns and preoccupation with being thin, together with social pressure to be thin, are strong risk factors for eating disorders in later adolescence. In an effort to throw light on what factors during childhood contribute to weight concerns and thin body preoccupation, Agras and colleagues from Stanford University in California followed 134 children (68 girls and 66 boys) from birth to age 11 and their parents.</p><p>Annual questionnaires beginning at age 2 assessed parents\' concerns about their children\'s weight and eating habits as well as their own weight.</p><p>The results show, Agras said, that \"fathers are important in influencing their daughters toward bulimia, particularly fathers who were overweight and wanted to be thinner.\" These influences may be direct - such as criticizing the daughter\'s weight or shape - or indirect, by expressing their own concerns about weight and shape.</p><p>\"Parents who exhibit concern or criticism about their daughter\'s weight and shape and who push their daughter toward dieting may increase the risk of their daughter developing bulimia,\" added Agras.</p><p><b><strong>\'Influences occur before adolescence\'</strong></b><br>The study also found that parental behaviors such as over-control of what their child eats, together with parent and peer pressure to be thin, also raises the risk of eating disorders.</p><p>Importantly, this study shows that \"all these influences occur before adolescence,\" Agras 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/16909706/\">Binge eating a common problem in the U.S.</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/16981527/\">Child weight surgery becoming more common</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17032249/\">Fat-blocking pill will be sold over the counter</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>\"Concerns about weight and shape emerge as early as the third grade,\" he and his colleagues point out in <em>Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry</em>. Therefore, it may be that prevention programs for eating disorders should begin early in childhood and perhaps should include education for the parents, they add.</p><p>Summing up, Agras said: \"Children learn by observing their parents. Hence, weight control behaviors, such as dieting and expressed concerns about weight, should not form an important aspect of family life. It is more important to develop positive healthy family lifestyles.\"</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>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('1770','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\">Mismatched hearts save babies\' lives</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Lack of immune rejection fuels wrong-blood-type transplants</b><br></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><script language=\"javascript\">var fl=new flashObj2();fl.flashFile = \"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/070212/heart_final2.swf\";fl.flashVars = \"\";fl.bgcolor = \"#FFFFFF\";fl.altImgWB3 = \"\";fl.url = \"\";fl.width = \"624\";fl.height = \"390\";fl.ID = \"fl17122433\";fl.play = \"true\";fl.loop = \"true\";fl.quality = \"Best\";fl.scale = \"noborder\";fl.salign = \"tl\";fl.mode = \"opaque\";fl.cabVersion = \"7,0,0,0\";fl.flashVer = \"7\";fl.defaultType = \"\";fl.htm = \"\";fl.downloadLink = \"top\";fl.webTV = \"true\";fl.deviceFont = \"false\";fl.instrumented = \"false\";try {fl.write();}catch(e) {document.write(writeFlashComponent2(fl));}</script></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>WASHINGTON - Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that didn\'t match his blood type - deliberately.</p><p>Connor, now 11 months old and thriving, is one of several dozen babies around the world to have received mismatched hearts, part of a slowly growing movement to increase these tiniest patients\' survival by taking advantage of a lag in their immune systems.</p><p>Now the nation\'s transplant network is expanding that effort, saying youngsters may be candidates for an incompatible heart up to age 2.</p><p>It\'s the first step in a new push by the United Network for Organ Sharing to decrease the number of children who die awaiting an organ transplant, a toll particularly high for infants and toddlers.</p><p><b><strong>\'It will not happen overnight\'<br></strong></b>\"It will not happen overnight,\" cautioned Dr. Stuart Sweet of Washington University in St. Louis, chairman of the network\'s pediatric transplant committee. But the new heart guidelines \"have the potential for significantly impacting the number of patients who die on the waiting list.\"</p><p>If the policy sounds counterintuitive, well, it is: Implant a mismatched heart in an adult, and he or she will die rapidly. That happened in 2003, when surgeons in North Carolina accidentally gave a teenager the wrong-type heart and lungs.</p><p>But babies\' immune systems must learn to recognize and attack an organ of a different blood type, a process that\'s turning out to be more gradual than scientists long thought.</p><p>Transplant a heart before the baby starts making antibodies that will attack a mismatched organ, and he or she survives as well as babies given matching hearts, says Dr. Lori West, the Canadian surgeon who pioneered incompatible transplants in Toronto in the late 1990s.</p><p>Those babies still need immune-suppressing drugs for life - blood type is just one form of organ rejection.</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/17119478/\">Adoptive parents more invested, study says</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17047721/\">Autism rate in U.S. higher than thought</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 given the scarcity of tiny hearts, the mismatch option was good news. In 2005, the last count available, 45 children under age 2 died while awaiting a new heart. As of last month, 74 youngsters under 2 were on the waiting list.</p><p>About one in 5,000 children are born with a heart defect so bad that they\'ll need a transplant in the first year or two of life. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1771','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\">Warning on diarrhea vaccine for infants</font><br><spacer type=\"block\" height=\"10\" width=\"1\"></spacer><br><b>Twisting of intestines reported after babies received rotavirus shots</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 warned on Tuesday of potentially life-threatening twisting of the intestines in infants vaccinated against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhea.</p><p>The condition, called intussusception, is the same that led to the withdrawal of the first rotavirus vaccine eight years ago.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration said it was unknown whether the recently approved vaccine, called RotaTeq, caused the 28 new cases. The condition also can occur spontaneously. Indeed, the reports don\'t exceed the numbers expected to occur naturally each year - the so-called background rate, the FDA said.</p><p>\"It looks like this is the natural background rate that we are seeing,\" said Dr. Michelle Goveia, medical director for pediatric medical affairs at the vaccine\'s manufacturer, Merck &amp; Co. Inc. Goveia suggested heightened concerns about the previous vaccine, made by Wyeth, prompted the FDA to act.</p><p>In Tuesday\'s public health notification, the agency said it wanted in part to encourage reporting of any additional cases of intestinal twisting or blockage to help it assess any risks associated with the three-shot vaccine series. It also said the vaccine\'s label would mention the cases of intussusception.</p><p>\"It\'s a known serious, life-threatening adverse event that is being seen at an expected level postmarketing. But because it is so serious, we asked the company to change the label,\" FDA spokeswoman Karen Riley said.</p><p>Dr. Paul Offit, the vaccine\'s co-inventor, said the 28 reports were well below the hundreds of cases one would expect naturally. He suggested the FDA wanted to \"shake the tree\" for more reports about the vaccine.</p><p>\"I am actually encouraged by those data: 28 cases, when you would have expected at least 500 cases, that is really reassuring,\" said Offit, of the Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia. \"I don\'t see how those numbers suggest something\'s awry. If anything, they suggest nothing\'s awry.\"</p><p>The 28 cases included 16 infants who required intestinal surgery. There have been no reports of deaths.</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/17120618/\">Mismatched hearts save babies\' lives</a></li><li><a href=\"/id/17119478/\">Study: Adoptive parents more invested</a> </li><li><a href=\"/id/3295897/\">Are your child\'s shots up-to-date?</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>RotaTeq received FDA approval in February 2006. At the time, the FDA and Merck said trials of the vaccine involving nearly 70,000 infants indicated it did not increase the risk of intussusception. But Merck and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are conducting follow-up studies of tens of thousands more infants to track any long-term effects of the vaccine. The FDA also is monitoring reports.</p><p>About 3.5 million doses of the Merck vaccine have been distributed in the U.S., though not all have been used, the FDA said.</p><p>The earlier rotavirus vaccine, Wyeth\'s RotaShield, was pulled from the U.S. market in 1999 after it was linked to a small increase in intussusception. It had been on the market a year.</p><p>In the United States, rotavirus sickens about 2.7 million children younger than 5, sends up to 70,000 to the hospital and causes 20 to 70 deaths each year.</p><div class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"clear:both;\"><i><em>?2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1772','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; Walter Reed building has mold, holes in walls, newspaper says<br> &#8226; Army secretary says top brass didn\'t know about problems<br> &#8226; &quot;Action plan&quot; being put in place to prevent recurrence<br> &#8226; Wounded troops from Iraq, Afghanistan wars treated at facility<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> (CNN) -- Army Secretary Francis Harvey blamed a failure of leadership for substandard conditions in a building that is part of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and vowed Tuesday to move quickly to fix the problem.</p><p>&quot;We failed here, we failed in having a facility like this,&quot; Harvey told CNN. &quot;Unfortunately, it\'s a leadership problem.&quot;</p><p>Inside Building 18, used for outpatients who suffered wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan, workers were repairing plumbing, covering holes in ceilings and repainting mold-covered walls. (<a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/us/2007/02/20/mcintyre.walter.reed.problems.cnn\',\'2007/03/06\');\">Watch a tour of the run-down facility</a> <a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/us/2007/02/20/mcintyre.walter.reed.problems.cnn\',\'2007/03/06\');\',\'2007/02/20\');\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif\" alt=\"Video\" width=\"19\" height=\"12\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\"></a>)</p><p>Harvey said he learned about the conditions in the building, a former hotel where some soldiers have been recuperating for more than a year and a half, on Sunday, when the Washington Post broke the story.</p><p>&quot;If we would have known about this, we would have fixed it,&quot; he said. &quot;Unfortunately, we didn\'t know about it.&quot; </p><p>The article, titled &quot;The Other Walter Reed,&quot; said some outpatients at the facility include veterans who suffer from depression and were involved in overdoses and suicide attempts. </p><p>Walter Reed is the Army\'s top medical facility. It opened in 1901 in a single small building and now is a complex of structures with 28 acres of floor space.</p><p>The hospital can accommodate 250 patients and admits more than 14,000 a year. Thousands use its outpatient facilities daily.</p><p>President Bush has been seen visiting wounded troops at the hospital several times, and presidents often receive medical care there.</p><p>The Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 2005 recommended closing Walter Reed in 2010.</p><p>Harvey said an &quot;action plan&quot; was being put together &quot;to ensure across the board that our soldiers are being taken care of with the highest quality medicine possible in the kind of facilities that provide a quality of life for the soldier that is equal to the quality of their service.&quot;</p><p>He added, &quot;To have it in this condition is disappointing to me, unacceptable to me as the secretary of the Army, and we have a plan in place.&quot;</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1773','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/23/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226; ADHD drugs ordered to include new guidelines about heart, psychiatric risks<br> &#8226; Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera and all other ADHD drugs will include the advisories<br> &#8226; FDA discussion includes reports of increased blood pressure and heart rate </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)  -- Drugs prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder will include guides to alert patients and parents of the risks of mental and heart problems, including sudden death.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it directed the manufacturers of Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera and all other drugs for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to develop the guides. In May 2006, the agency told manufacturers to revise the labels of the drugs to reflect concerns about the cardiovascular and psychiatric problems.</p><p>Draft versions of the guides posted on the FDA Web site include discussion of reports of increased blood pressure and heart rate in ADHD patients, as well as cases of sudden death in some who have heart problems and heart defects. In adult patients, the reported problems also include stroke and heart attack.</p><p>The alerts also cover psychiatric problems, such as hearing voices, unfounded suspicions and manic behavior, of which there is a slightly increased risk in patients who take the drugs, the FDA said. The guides also tell patients and their parents of precautions they can take to guard against the risks.</p><p>Wednesday\'s announcement came roughly a year after two panels of FDA advisers recommended that the drugs include such patient medication guides. The announcement covers 15 drugs, including extended-release, patch and chewable versions of some of them.</p><p>Ritalin is manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. and in generic form by other companies; Adderall is made by Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Strattera by Eli Lilly &amp; Co.</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('1774','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"03/23/2007\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCHighlightsBox\"><!----><h4><span>Story Highlights</span></h4>&#8226;<b> NEW </b>&quot;Miracle baby&quot; heads home four months after her birth<br> &#8226; Delivered at 22 weeks, she\'s one of the earliest known surviving preterm babies <br> &#8226; Amillia weighed less than 10 ounces at birth; she\'s now about 4 1/2 pounds<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>MIAMI, Florida</b> (AP) -- Parents of one of the world\'s smallest premature babies got to take her home Wednesday for the first time since she was delivered last fall.</p><p>Amillia Sonja Taylor has known only an incubator for a bed at Baptist Children\'s Hospital since she was delivered in October after less than 22 weeks in the womb.</p><p>&quot;The baby is healthy and thriving and left Baptist Children\'s Hospital today after four months in our neonatal intensive care unit,&quot; hospital spokeswoman Liz Latta said.</p><p>Amillia, who was just 9 1/2 inches at birth and weighed less than 10 ounces, will still require oxygen at home and a developmental specialist will follow up with her and her parents to track her neurological development.</p><p>The infant now weighs about 4 1/2 pounds and is just over 15 1/2 inches long.</p><p>Amillia\'s parents, Eddie and Sonja Taylor of Homestead declined to speak with reporters Wednesday. (<a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/20/bpr.tiny.baby.doctor.wplg\',\'2007/03/06\');\">Watch more from one of Amillia\'s doctors</a> <a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/20/bpr.tiny.baby.doctor.wplg\',\'2007/03/06\');\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif\" alt=\"Video\" width=\"19\" height=\"12\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\"></a>)</p><p>Doctors had hoped to release Amillia from the hospital Tuesday but kept her an extra day to monitor a low white blood cell count that could have indicated a vulnerability to infection.</p><p>Full-term births come after 37 to 40 weeks, and few babies born before 22 weeks survive.</p><p>Amillia suffered respiratory and digestive problems, as well as a mild brain hemorrhage, but doctors believe those problems will not have major long-term effects.</p><p>Amillia was conceived in vitro and was delivered by Caesarean section after an infection caused her mother to go into premature labor, doctors 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('1775','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  Laura Flynn McCarthy<br> Parenting.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>You are how you sleep. It\'s the one-third of your life that most affects the two others. Of course, when your kids are young and you need lots of energy to get through the day, getting a good night\'s rest can be challenging.</p><p>If you\'re not sleeping well, you\'re not alone: </p><p>&#8226; Two-thirds of women report symptoms of insomnia at least a few nights a week. </p><p>&#8226; The average woman over age 30 sleeps only six hours and 41 minutes a night. No doubt, moms of babies or toddlers are lucky to get that much! </p><p>As a mom, some of the very things you do in the name of good parenting can compromise your sleep. Here are some common mistakes moms make, and how to fix them so you can sleep like a baby, or, even better, like a well-rested adult. (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,687909,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: Guaranteed ways to get decent rest.</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><b>Mistake:</b> Trying to get everything done after the kids go to bed &quot;As soon as my daughters are tucked in at eight, I clean, iron, pay the bills, and so on,&quot; says Mercedes Gray, a mom of three in Ontario, California. Instead of winding down before her own bedtime, she speeds up. By 11 p.m., Gray says, &quot;I\'m so keyed up that it takes me a while to fall asleep.&quot; </p><p><b>A better approach:</b> Don\'t use all of your free time to multitask. Just as your child needs a bedtime routine that settles her down for the night, so do you. &quot;Thirty to sixty minutes before your bedtime, begin to do things that relax you,&quot; says Clete Kushida, M.D., director of the Stanford University Center for Human Sleep Research. &quot;Take a bath, read quietly, watch a favorite show, whatever works. If possible, minimize your exposure to bright light during this time. Follow a similar pattern every night and your body gets conditioned to expect that it\'s time for bed, so you\'ll fall asleep more easily.&quot; If you have a snack, try small portions of low-fat carbs, such as toast with a little jam or cereal with milk. Want a drink? Chamomile tea and honey are both natural sedatives. Just don\'t eat a big meal within three hours of going to bed. Digesting a large amount of food has been shown to make you less sleepy.</p><p><b>Mistake:</b> Staying in your child\'s room until he falls asleep Your child will become dependent on you to nod off. And when he awakens in the middle of the night (as everyone does), he won\'t be able to fall back to sleep on his own. Not only will you not get enough sleep, but it\'ll also be fragmented, and not very restorative. (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,1575954,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: How to keep your preschooler out of your bed.</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><b>A better approach:</b> Pave the way for your child to sleep in his own room by himself. &quot;Stick to a specific bedtime,&quot; says Dr. Kushida. &quot;Tell him that if he needs to use the bathroom or get a drink of water, he should do it beforehand. Follow a soothing routine -- perhaps a bath and reading together -- then say good night and leave.&quot; Naturally, your child isn\'t going to like this at first. When my son, Liam, was a toddler, we got into the habit of playing a tape of kids\' songs to lull him to sleep. The problem? If he woke up during the night, the music wouldn\'t be on, and he\'d yell &quot;Tape!&quot; in a blood-curdling scream. My husband or I would run to play the tape, bleary-eyed from the interrupted sleep. So we decided to cut him off cold turkey, which involved two horrible nights of Liam crying himself to sleep. We felt like the worst parents in the world. By the third night, though, he grumbled a little and started to snooze in about five minutes. So stay firm. Your child will eventually adapt to your new routine and everyone will catch more zzz\'s.</p><p><b>Mistake:</b> Sleeping late on the weekends when your husband can watch the kids Of course it\'s tempting, and you deserve the break. But sleep regularity is just as important as sleep quantity, says Amy Wolfson, Ph.D., author of &quot;The Woman\'s Book of Sleep.&quot; &quot;If you\'ve been sleep-deprived all week, getting a little extra on the weekends may be beneficial. But don\'t overdo it, or you\'ll throw off your sleep/wake cycle and Monday morning will be brutal.&quot; </p><p><b>A better approach:</b> By all means, take your husband up on the offer. Just don\'t sleep in longer than one hour, which is enough to make you feel refreshed. Consider doing something else with the extra time -- take a walk with a friend or read the Sunday paper uninterrupted.</p><p><b>Mistake:</b> Not exercising at all or exercising too close to bedtime Physical activity can help you nod off more easily and improve the quality of your sleep. How? No one knows for sure, but there are theories: It may help regulate your body\'s circadian rhythms. Or, because exercise raises body temperature during the day, your body may try to lower its temperature at night, which makes you drowsy. Or perhaps exercise cuts down on anxiety and other problems that may interfere with sleep. Exercising close to your bedtime, though, can make you too wired and your body too warm to sleep. (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,1194585,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: Making fitness fun.</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><b>A better approach:</b> Be active during the day if possible, but not within two to three hours of bedtime. In a recent study, women who worked out first thing in the morning reaped the most sleep benefits. If you take your child to preschool every day and you don\'t have to rush to work, wear workout clothes and exercise right after. Aim for 30 to 60 minutes per day of aerobic activity. Even a brisk 10-minute walk three times a day helps. To fit exercise into her busy day, Lynn Lombard of Akron, New York, turned her basement -- where she keeps exercise equipment -- into a playroom for her 4-year-old. &quot;That\'s the only place in the house where Amanda\'s allowed to paint or use Play-Dough, so she loves being down there, and I get to work out in peace.&quot; She also started planning dinners in advance, so she has more time to work out.</p><p><b>Mistake:</b> Napping when your baby naps This classic advice applies only when you\'re getting up every few hours at night to feed your newborn. Once he\'s a few months old and sleeping longer -- and especially if he\'s sleeping through the night and you are, too-- you don\'t need to nap much. Babies should get about 15 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period. You need about eight. If you snooze for three hours during the day, you may have trouble sleeping at night.</p><p> <b>A better approach:</b> If you\'re tired, take a catnap at about the same time every day. Ten to 20 minutes will help you feel refreshed for another couple of hours. Doze much longer than that and you can wake up feeling groggy and worse than you did before.</p><p><b>Mistake:</b> Ignoring your health issues You\'d never miss a well-baby checkup, but when was your last physical? Many treatable conditions interfere with a good night\'s sleep, including PMS, asthma, restless leg syndrome and bladder problems. (Going to the bathroom once in the middle of the night is normal; going three or four times is not.) About 50 percent of people who have chronic insomnia have an underlying psychiatric issue, such as anxiety disorder or depression. (<a href=\"/parenting/article/0,19840,1559892,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Parenting.com: Why you shouldn\'t lie to your doctor.</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><b>A better approach:</b> See your doctor if you think any health concerns are affecting your sleep. All of the problems mentioned above can be helped with medication and lifestyle changes. Says Nancy Collop, M.D., spokeswoman for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. &quot;You don\'t have to suffer.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Laura Flynn McCarthy, a mom of two, is a regular contributor to Parenting.</p><br clear=\"all\"><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\"><a href=\"https://subs.timeinc.net/PA/pa_keepsake.jhtml;jsessionid=0VYG4ASLZ12GGQHMGASBHOQ?experience_id=126742&source_id=62&_requestid=56496\" target=\"new\">Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE</a></p>\n\n\n<p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">Copyright 2006 <a href=\"/linkto/parenting.html\" target=\"new\">PARENTING magazine</a>. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p>\n <!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1776','1','<!--startclickprintinclude--><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">var clickExpire = \"-1\";</script> <div id=\"cnnSCFontButtons\" class=\"cnn0pxTMargin\"><div id=\"cnnSCByLine\">By  A. Chris Gajilan<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  I walk into her apartment, Amanda Baggs makes no eye contact. She doesn\'t come to the door or raise her hand to greet visitors. In fact, I\'m having a hard time discerning whether she even knows I\'m there. I say hello and introduce myself, but she remains silent, sitting at her desk, staring out the window, rocking slightly back and forth. </p><p>Amanda Baggs is a 26-year-old  woman with autism. I\'ve been corresponding with her for weeks via e-mail. I\'ve read her Web site, and from her I\'ve learned a great deal about living with autism. </p><p><a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/21/nat.autism.is.my.language.baggs\',\'2007/03/07\');\">A video she posted recently</a> <a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/21/nat.autism.is.my.language.baggs\',\'2007/03/07\');\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif\" alt=\"Video\" width=\"19\" height=\"12\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\"></a> on the Internet describes how she experiences the world.  &quot;My language is not about designing words or even visual symbols for people to interpret,&quot; she says in the video. &quot;It is about being in a constant conversation with every aspect of my environment.&quot; </p><p>Admittedly, it\'s hard to recognize her in real life, after meeting her online persona first. (<a href=\"/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/02/behind-veil-of-autism.html\">Read Dr. Sanjay Gupta\'s thoughts after meeting Amanda Baggs.</a> )</p><p>I awkwardly carry on a one-sided conversation, until she grunts. My attention shifts to her computer slowly booting up. She clicks on a program. A keyboard diagram fills the screen. She begins to type at a staccato pace. We begin a conversation. I talk. She types. (<a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/21/gupta.amanda.pt1.cnn\',\'2007/03/07\');\">Watch Amanda communicate in her own way</a> <a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/21/gupta.amanda.pt1.cnn\',\'2007/03/07\');\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif\" alt=\"Video\" width=\"19\" height=\"12\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\"></a>)</p><p>This is the Amanda I\'ve come to know over the past few weeks. She\'s highly intelligent, well read and has a great sense of humor. She never makes eye contact, but there is no doubt she is interacting with me. </p><p>Amanda is part of a new generation of adults with autism. The Autism Society of America estimates that 600,000 adults are living with autism in the United States. That number will most likely skyrocket, given the CDC\'s recognition of an increase in the numbers of children with autism. The newest numbers suggest that one in every 150 children has autism. </p><p>&quot;The field as a whole has really neglected adults with autism,&quot; says Dr. Eric Hollander, psychiatrist and head of the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence. </p><p>Adults with autism live normal life spans and may require long-term medication, therapy and residential placement. Hollander says the average cost of caring for an individual with autism over a lifetime can be several million dollars. </p><p>Autism treatment and research are undeniably centered on children. The goals are early diagnosis and intervention. They\'re aimed at reducing disruptive behaviors and eventually mainstreaming children with autism into school and society. </p><p>At its core, autism is a developmental disorder of communication. There is no cure. No one knows the precise causes, but recent science points towards a genetic component with a possible environmental trigger. </p><p>Amanda Baggs has severe autism. She didn\'t cry when she was born. She had to be taught how to nurse. As a little girl, she rocked her head back and forth but could speak. As she grew, she would go longer and longer without speaking, until her spoken language disappeared altogether. (<a href=\"/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/\">Read Amanda\'s post to the AC 360 blog on CNN.com.</a>)</p><p>She slowly learned how to type. Now, she relies on her computer or a voice synthesizer linked to a keyboard to interact with people. According to Hollander, &quot;You might think that these individuals are mentally retarded or have no verbal skills, but in fact, they\'re not mentally retarded. They really understand what is going on and if they utilize a communication device, they can really communicate what they are thinking and feeling.&quot;  </p><p>For Amanda, it takes a great deal of energy to think in words. It is not her natural state of mind. &quot;It\'s like being bilingual,&quot; she types. &quot;A lot of the way I naturally communicate is just through direct response to what is around me in a very physical sort of way. It\'s dealing with patterns and colors rather than with symbolic words.&quot; (<a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/22/gupta.amanda.pt2.CNN\',\'2007/03/08\');\">Watch why &quot;normal&quot; communication isn\'t for Amanda</a> <a href=\"javascript:cnnVideo(\'play\',\'/video/health/2007/02/22/gupta.amanda.pt2.CNN\',\'2007/03/08\');\"><img src=\"http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif\" alt=\"Video\" width=\"19\" height=\"12\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\"></a>)</p><p>The Internet has allowed Amanda to communicate to the whole world. While standard body language and facial expressions are lost on many with autism, she says many non-verbal people with autism have the ability to communicate with one another through autistic body cues. </p><p>Thirty or 40 years ago, life would have been different and much harder for Amanda, says Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a cognitive psychologist who specializes in autism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. &quot;The Internet is providing for individuals with autism, what sign language did for the deaf,&quot; she says. &quot;It allows them to interact with the world and other like-minded individuals on their own terms.&quot; (<a href=\"/exchange/ireports/topics/forms/2007/02/living.autism.html\">Ask Amanda your questions about autism.</a> )</p><p>These days, Amanda Baggs lives on her own terms. With the help of an agency, she moved from California to Vermont about a year and a half ago to be closer to a friend.</p><p>And what does Amanda think is the hardest thing about living with autism? &quot;Having to navigate a world that is, on all levels, is built for the abilities and deficits of people who are not built remotely like me.&quot;</p><p class=\"cnnSCAttribution\">A. Chris Gajilan is a senior producer with CNN Medical News</p><!--startclickprintexclude-->  ');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1777','1','\n\n\n	 <p>CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 21 ?President Bush? plan to expand health coverage by revamping the tax code has been pronounced dead by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill. But Mr. Bush, ever the optimist, forged ahead Wednesday, conducting a chat session here in <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/oprah_winfrey/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Oprah Winfrey.\">Oprah Winfrey</a> style with people who are uninsured.</p>      <p>Mr. Bush held forth for nearly an hour, cracking jokes about everything from the age of one of the participants ??ou don? look a day over 34,?he said after learning that she was 35 ?to ?he hair follicle benefit,?a wry reference to what he views as luxury health plans. The participants had been carefully selected, the tone was confessional, and the president, describing himself as the ?ducator in chief,?sounded more like talk-show host in chief.</p><p>Marty Ginn, an office manager from nearby McMinnville, told Mr. Bush, ? have a pre-existing condition, I have trouble with my left knee, and the quotes were just outrageous and I? just kind of stuck.?/p><p> ?hat? patently unfair,?the president replied after telling Ms. Ginn that under his plan, she would get a tax deduction of $7,500 to help defray the cost of coverage.</p><p>? think it?l work for you, Danny, I really do,?Mr. Bush told another participant, a nursery manager named Danny Jennings, after encouraging Mr. Jennings to make a sales pitch of his own, for some nice spring rhododendrons.</p><p>The round-table discussion, which followed a similar if less lively event with health insurance executives in Washington on Tuesday, was aimed at pitching the president? proposal to provide tax breaks for low- and moderate-income workers to buy insurance while imposing tax increases on some Americans covered by generous employer-sponsored plans. Single people would receive a $7,500 tax deduction, and families a deduction of $15,000, but anyone whose insurance cost more would pay taxes on the difference.</p><p>Despite Mr. Bush? cheery demeanor, the idea seems to be a nonstarter on Capitol Hill, where Democrats have set universal coverage as their goal and the two parties remain miles apart in their visions for helping the nation? 47 million uninsured.</p><p>Leading Democrats, including Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/max_baucus/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Max Baucus.\">Max Baucus</a> of Montana,  chairman of the Finance Committee, and Representative Pete Stark of California, chairman of a subcommittee overseeing health policy, said in interviews that Mr. Bush? plan was far too dependent on the private sector and that they did not envision anything like it becoming law.</p><p>Mr. Stark called it ? farcical move?that was ?rimarily designed to encourage employers to drop group coverage.?Mr. Baucus said the plan was ?oo much focused on the individual market,?though he did give the president credit for ?tirring up the debate?with his tax idea.</p><p>?t? an out-of-the-box thought,?Mr. Baucus said. </p><p>Mr. Bush, undaunted, sees morsels of encouragement in a recent letter from a bipartisan group of five Democratic and five Republican senators who said they wanted to work with him on health care legislation. The <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>, who included Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/trent_lott/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Trent Lott.\">Trent Lott</a> of Mississippi, the party whip, said they agreed in principle that universal coverage was the goal, maintaining that ?he health care system cannot be fixed without providing solutions for everyone.?</p><p>The Democrats, led by Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/ron_wyden/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Ron Wyden.\">Ron Wyden</a> of Oregon, who had initially been critical of the tax plan, said economists had convinced them that the tax rules needed to be modernized and that ?urrent rules disproportionately favor the most affluent.?Mr. Wyden said in an interview that the two sides had spent weeks parsing the language in the letter.</p><p>The White House, for its part, is signaling that Mr. Bush is flexible. A chief architect of the tax plan, Al Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council, said, ?e realize that the ultimate legislation is not going to look exactly as the president proposed and that there? going to be compromise on both sides.?</p><p>Whether that spells legislative possibilities for 2007 is hard to say.  Democrats in Congress say they are most focused this year on reauthorizing Schip, a program that provides coverage to low-income children. As for tackling universal coverage, Mr. Stark said each of the two parties would most likely coalesce around whatever plan its 2008 presidential nominee embraces.</p><p>Some states, though, are moving ahead on their own. Tennessee, with the prodding of Gov. Phil Bredesen, who also participated in Wednesday? round table, has committed $100 million to a new program, Cover Tennessee, intended to help employers provide basic insurance to workers willing to pay a modest amount, roughly $50 a month. </p><p>After returning to Nashville later Wednesday, Mr. Bredesen, a Democrat, said in a phone interview that he was skeptical of the president? tax proposal and had been a bit leery of participating in the event here. He did so after assurances from Mr. Bush? health and human services secretary, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/michael_o_leavitt/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Michael O. Leavitt.\">Michael O. Leavitt</a>, that he would get a chance to make his own pitch, for Cover Tennessee.</p><p>? didn? particularly want to fly down there and be a set piece in a play for something I didn? really believe in,?he said, ?ut he assured me that they really were there to highlight the kinds of things we were doing.?/p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1778','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Joining the national debate over the 47 million people without health insurance, a group of the largest commercial hospital chains plans  to propose today that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.  </p>      <p>The proposal, which the hospital group hopes might eventually find its way into federal legislation, would require individuals to take coverage through employers, when health benefits are offered; purchase it on their own;  or if they are eligible, to receive it through existing government programs. </p><p>The group, the Federation of American Hospitals, said that the plan would add $115.2 billion a year to the $900 billion that federal and state agencies currently spend on health care. It does not indicate where the additional money would come from, raising immediate questions about the political viability of the plan. </p><p>The proposal for addressing the uninsured takes its place alongside others made in recent weeks by  California&#8217;s Republican governor, <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/arnold_schwarzenegger/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Arnold Schwarzenegger.\">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>;  former Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/john_edwards/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about John Edwards.\">John Edwards</a>, the Democratic presidential aspirant; various business groups; and members of Congress. </p><p>But hospitals have a particularly big stake in the issue. Together, the nation&#8217;s commercial and nonprofit hospitals strain under the burden of $40 billion a year in unpaid bills, most of them generated by people without insurance.</p><p>  &#8220;We, in essence, have become the insurers of the uninsured,&#8221; said Victor L. Campbell, the association&#8217;s chairman and a senior vice president of <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=HCA\" title=\"HCA\">HCA</a>, the nation&#8217;s largest hospital chain.</p><p><span class=\"bold\"> </span>The plan calls for expanding eligibility for the current Medicaid and state children&#8217;s health insurance programs for lower-income people. Subsidies based on income would be available to uninsured workers who have access to an employer plan but have not signed up because of the cost. </p><p>Individuals purchasing coverage on their own would also be subsidized, according to income, and they could deduct insurance costs from income taxes as employers do now. </p><p>Expanding the children&#8217;s programs, which are up for renewal by Congress later this year, has wide bipartisan support, health policy experts say. </p><p>But the potential price tags vary, ranging from President Bush&#8217;s relatively modest proposal to spend $5 billion more over five years, to a $60 billion proposal last week by a bipartisan group of senior House members, including Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois, and two <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>, Jim Ramstad of Minnesota and Ray LaHood of Illinois.</p><p>Charles N. Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, said his group&#8217;s proposal was meant to influence the growing national debate on changing the insurance system.  The hope is to enact legislation, he said,  but not until after the 2008 election.</p><p> The proposal is intended to  build on the existing employer-based plans that cover 160 million people; on Medicare, which covers 36 million older or disabled people; and on Medicaid and children&#8217;s programs, which   cover an additional 35.9 million. </p><p>Mr. Kahn, who goes by the nickname Chip, is a longtime strategist  in Washington health care debates. During the first Clinton administration he was the head of the insurance lobbying group that sponsored the provocative &#8220;Harry and Louise&#8221; television advertisements that helped derail <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>&#8217;s plan to overhaul the health insurance system.   </p><p>&#8220;The main lesson of 1993 and 1994,&#8221;  Mr. Kahn said, &#8220;is don&#8217;t disturb what people already have.&#8221; </p><p> The hospital group recently surveyed 1,200 registered voters with 86 percent &#8220;demanding action by the president and Congress to address coverage for the uninsured&#8221; before the next election, according to Mr. Kahn.</p><p>Linda A. DiVall, a Republican pollster  who supervised the survey, said that politicians could face &#8220;consequences&#8221; at election time if they ignored the poll results. </p><p>Mr. Campbell of HCA said the company&#8217;s  chain of 173 hospitals  treated more than one million uninsured people in its emergency rooms last year at an estimated cost of $1 billion to $1.5 billion. One in five emergency room patients was uninsured.</p><p>&#8220;Unless this issue is addressed, hospitals won&#8217;t be able to provide the services and care they need to provide,&#8221; he said. </p><p>Under state laws, hospitals are required to treat patients in emergencies. </p><p>People without insurance often delay seeking care until an illness becomes unbearable and expensive to treat. </p><p>Although the association represents only about 17 percent of all American hospitals, its influence is &#8220;much larger because of Chip&#8217;s Washington savvy and sophistication,&#8221; said Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation, a policy research group in Washington.</p><p>Mr. Nichols was a senior adviser on the losing side in the 1990s Clinton  battle. More recently, he helped draft a health reform proposal by Senator <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/ron_wyden/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Ron Wyden.\">Ron Wyden</a>, Democrat of Oregon, which would end most employer-based coverage and replace it with a government-regulated system.  </p><p>Mr. Kahn &#8220;is trying to cover everyone without rocking any boats,&#8221; Mr. Nichols said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not going so far as to get into a fight&#8221; with the insurance industry.</p><p>Mr. Nichols pointed to an outpouring of recent health reform proposals, some of them involving unlikely partners, like  the big nonunion retailer <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=WMT\" title=\"Wal-Mart\">Wal-Mart</a> and the Service Workers International Union. </p><p> &#8220;In the last six weeks, there has been more movement on the cover-everyone front than any time since Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s 1990s proposal,&#8221; Mr. Nichols said.</p><p>Joseph Antos, a pro-market health policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, agreed that there was &#8220;a consensus building that we need to do something about health insurance in this country.&#8221;</p><p>But, he said, &#8220;the consensus tends to break down when you get down to the who pays for it and what do we have to rearrange in the system and how feasible it is.&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;The one thing that has to be done without fail,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is to resolve the debate over how big an expansion&#8221; should be made in the state children&#8217;s health program. On that issue, he said, &#8220;you can see a deal coming.&#8221;</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1779','1','\n\n\n	 <p>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 ?Frustrated by government policy and inaction, a group of advocates for medical marijuana  sued two federal health agencies on Wednesday over the assertion that <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/smoking/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about smoking.\">smoking</a> it has no medical benefit.</p>      <p>The group, Americans for Safe Access, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court, challenging the government? position that marijuana, ?as no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.?/p><p>In its lawsuit, the group contends that federal regulators have publicly issued ?alse and misleading statements?about the medical benefits of marijuana. </p><p>The lawsuit, which named the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/health_and_human_services_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Health and Human Services Department, U.S.\">Department of Health and Human Services</a> and the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/food_and_drug_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the U.S. Food And Drug Administration.\">Food and Drug Administration</a>, seeks a court order to retract and correct statements that the group called, ?ncorrect, dishonest and a flagrant violation of laws.?/p><p>A lawyer for the medical marijuana group, Joseph Elford, said the lawsuit was filed now because administrative avenues had been exhausted and because of mounting scientific and anecdotal evidence to the contrary. </p><p>Mr. Elford said a recent study by the Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital, which was approved by the F.D.A. and other federal agencies, found that smoking marijuana relieved pain and certain symptoms 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.\">H.I.V.</a>, the virus that causes AIDS. </p><p>A spokeswoman for the health department said Wednesday in a telephone interview that ?he agency does not comment on litigation as a general policy.?</p><p>The spokeswoman, Christina Pearson, said the agency stood by its publicly stated position and pointed to an April 20, 2006, statement. In that advisory, which Ms. Pearson said was current, the federal government asserts that ?here is currently sound evidence that smoked marijuana is harmful.?</p><p>It goes on to say that ?o animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana,?which is not an approved drug.</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1780','1','\n\n\n	 <p>Puppies do it. Chickens do it. Even preschoolers do it.</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/2007/02/19/health/20vita.snack190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"172\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Stuart Goldenberg</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\n  \n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/columns/vitalsigns/\">More Vital Signs Columns ?/a></h2><h3 class=\"promo\">Web Link</h3><h2><a href=\"http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/adc.2006.103259v1\" target=\"_blank\">Eating in Larger Group Increases Food Consumption</a> (Archives of Disease in Childhood)</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/health/fitnessandnutrition/index.html?page=recent\">Forum: Fitness and Nutrition</a>\n</h2>\n<p class=\"summary\"></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>That is the finding of a new study that looked not at falling in love but at how children eat when they are in larger groups. Like animals, the researchers found, the preschoolers ate more.</p><p>The researchers, who report their <a href=\"http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/adc.2006.103259v1\" title=\"Read the Abstract.\" target=\"_blank\">findings</a> online in The Archives of Disease in Childhood, say it has often been observed in animals and adults that consumption goes up as the number eating increases. People will even keep eating past the point when their appetite has been satisfied.</p><p>But it was not known whether this held true for young children, a question that may have implications for fighting the <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> problem. The researchers, Dr. Julie C. Lumeng and Katherine H. Hillman of 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>, set out to answer it by studying more than 50 children at a preschool.</p><p>The tools of the study were simple: hungry children, a snack area and that mainstay of childhood, graham crackers. The researchers looked at how children ate when they were in groups of three or nine. They found that in the larger groups, the children ate 30 percent more.</p><p>There are two main theories for why people eat more in bigger groups. One is that in larger groups, people socialize more, extending the length of their meals and their contact with food. The other is called the arousal theory and suggests that the sight of others eating leads to more and faster consumption, especially in animals, which may feel they are competing for food.</p><p>?n animals, you?e going to be a little more frenzied when you eat in a group,?Dr. Lumeng said.</p><p>This also appears to be the case with preschoolers ?not that the researchers saw snarling and clawing as the graham crackers were put out. But they did note that the children in larger groups ate not only more but faster.</p><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1781','1','\n\n\n	 <p><span class=\"bold\">THE FACTS</span> It is an odd adage that has stuck around for ages: women who suffer heartburn during <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/pregnancy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about pregnancy.\">pregnancy</a> will have babies with full heads of hair. But doctors have long shrugged it off. </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/2007/02/18/health/20really.190.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<div class=\"credit\">Leif Parsons</div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n</p>\n</div>\n  \n   \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Until now, that is. In December, researchers at <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/johns_hopkins_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Johns Hopkins University\">Johns Hopkins University</a> conducted a study intending to put the claim to rest. To their surprise, they ended up confirming it. The study, published in the current issue of the journal Birth, followed 64 pregnant women, about 78 percent of whom reported having some heartburn. After the women gave birth, two outside observers looked at pictures of their infants and rated their levels of hair.</p><p>Of the 28 women who reported moderate to severe heartburn, 23 had babies with average or above-average amounts of hair. Conversely, 10 of the 12 women who reported no heartburn had babies with little or no hair.</p><p>Other studies have shown that in pregnant women, high levels of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/estrogen/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about estrogen.\">estrogen</a> and other <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/hormones/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about hormones.\">hormones</a> can relax the sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus, causing heartburn. The same hormones, other studies show, can influence fetal hair growth.</p><p>The lead author of the study, Kathleen Costigan, who runs the fetal assessment center at Johns Hopkins, said the findings came as a shock.</p><p>?e?e heard this claim hundreds of times, and I?e always told people it? nonsense,?she said. ?ince the study came out, I?e had to eat a lot of crow.?/p><p><span class=\"bold\">THE BOTTOM LINE</span>   Heartburn during pregnancy may mean a greater likelihood a baby will have a lot of hair.</p><NYT_TAGLINE>\n<p><i><a href=\"mailto:scitimes@nytimes.com\">scitimes@nytimes.com</a></i></p>\n</NYT_TAGLINE><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n</NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1782','1','\n\n\n	 <p>This month, researchers 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> published a survey  finding that binge eating is by far the most common <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/eatingdisorders/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about eating disorders.\">eating disorder</a>, occurring in 1 in 35 adults, or 2.8 percent ?almost twice the combined rate for <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/anorexianervosa/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about anorexia nervosa.\">anorexia</a> (0.6 percent) and <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/bulimia/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about bulimia.\">bulimia</a> (1 percent). </p> \n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\"><a href=\"#secondParagraph\" class=\"jumpLink\">Skip to next paragraph</a>\n  \n  \n<div id=\"sidebarArticles\">\n<h4>Related</h4>\n<h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/health/psychology/13eat.html\" >Survey Puts New Focus on Binge Eating as a Diagnosis</a> \n\n(February 13, 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/health/fitnessandnutrition/index.html?page=recent\">Forum: Fitness and Nutrition</a>\n</h2>\n<p class=\"summary\"></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n    \n</div>\n</div><a name=\"secondParagraph\"></a>\n <p>Yet unlike the other two, binge-eating disorder is still not considered a formal diagnosis by the <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_psychiatric_assn/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about American Psychiatric Association\">American Psychiatric Association</a>. I? mystified as to why, and when you read my story you may wonder as well.</p><p>It was 1964, I was 23 and working at my first newspaper job in Minneapolis, 1,250 miles from my New York home. My love life was in disarray, my work was boring, my boss was a misogynist. And I, having been raised to associate love and happiness with food, turned to eating for solace. </p><p>Of course, I began to gain weight and, of course, I periodically went on various diets to try to lose what I? gained, only to relapse and regain all I? lost and then some.</p><p>My many failed attempts included the Drinking Man? Diet, popular at the time, which at least enabled me to stay connected with my hard-partying colleagues. </p><p>Before long, desperation set in. When I found myself unable to stop eating once I? started, I resolved not to eat during the day. Then, after work and out of sight, the bingeing began.</p><p>I learned where the few all-night mom-and-pop shops were located so I could pick up the evening? supply on my way home from work. Then I would  spend the night eating nonstop, first something sweet, then something salty, then back to sweet, and so on. A half-gallon of ice cream was only the beginning. I was capable of consuming  3,000 calories at a sitting. Many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth. </p><p>And, as you might expect, because I didn? purge (never even heard of it then), I got fatter and fatter until I had gained a third more than my normal body weight, even though I was physically active.</p><p>My despair was profound, and one night in the midst of a binge I became suicidal. I had lost control of my eating; it was controlling me, and I couldn? go on living that way. </p><p>Fortunately, I was still rational enough to reach out for help, and at 2 a.m. I called a psychologist I knew at his home. His willingness to see me in the morning got me through the night.</p><p>Just talking about my behavior and learning from the psychologist that I was not the only person with this problem helped relieve my despair. Still, he was not able to help me stop bingeing. That was something I would  have to  do on my own.</p><p>I finally reached the conclusion  that if I kept eating that way, the dreadful foods would end up killing me. And I knew by then that diets were a disaster, something one goes on to go off, only to regain what one has lost. So I decided that if I was going to be fat, at least I was going to be healthy.</p><p><span class=\"bold\">An Eating Plan</span></p><p>With my then-limited knowledge of nutrition, I created an eating program for myself: three substantial meals a day with a wholesome snack between meals if I was hungry. No skipping meals allowed. I stripped my apartment of favorite binge foods, though I allowed myself one small treat a day. And I continued with my regular physical activity. </p><p>After a month of eating three big meals a day, I had lost seven pounds. And I continued to lose about two pounds a month (as my weight dropped, so did the amount of food I needed to feel  satisfied) until two years later I was back to my normal weight.</p><p>As I have learned from talking with experts who treat eating disorders, the factors that precipitated my binge eating and the route I took to ?ure?myself are strikingly similar to the precipitants among their binge-eating patients and the therapeutic measures used to help them.</p><p>It is important for everyone out there with this problem to know that help is available.</p><p>While binge eating without purging occurs in 2.8 percent of the adult population, it is much more prevalent, as you might expect, in obese people. </p><p>Dr. Katherine Halmi, director of the eating disorders program at the Westchester division of <a href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york-presbyterian_hospital/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about New York-Presbyterian Hospital\">New York Presbyterian Hospital</a>, says 10 percent to 15 percent of the obese population has this problem, and among those who binge without purging, almost 90 percent are obese.</p><p>Dr. Halmi, who is also a professor of psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, said she had found dieting a frequent ?roximal trigger?among people with binge-eating disorder. </p><p>Other common risk factors, Dr. Halmi said,  include a ?ersonal disaster in a person? life, like the death of a spouse, losing one? job, having a serious problem at work, or being left by one? husband for another woman.?/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('1783','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 602109 --> <p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who live in densely populated urban areas may be less likely to be overweight if they have parks and lawns in their neighborhoods, a U.S. study suggests. </p> <p>This is probably because children are more active if they have access to green spaces that make physical activity more enjoyable, said lead author Dr. Gilbert Liu, of the Children\'s Health Services Research Program at Indiana University School of Medicine.</p> <p>The study, in the March/April issue of the <i>American Journal of Health Promotion</i>, included 7,334 children, ages 3 to 18, in Marion County, Ind. The researchers used body mass index to determine which children were overweight and also looked at the amount of green space and the number of food outlets (fast food restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores) around each child\'s home.</p> <p>Children who lived in neighborhoods with fewer green spaces were more likely to be overweight, the study authors said.</p> <p>One expert said it\'s difficult to directly link green space and children\'s weight.</p> <p>\"We may say that green spaces are associated with kids\' activity level, but we really don\'t know for sure,\" said Thomas Glass, of the department of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health in Baltimore.</p> <p>\"People who live in green spaces areas versus not might be different in a lot of ways that have nothing to do with the presence of green space. There are a lot of parks in Baltimore, for example, but you can point to a lot of factors, such as crime, to explain why you find these parks empty of kids playing,\" Glass added.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The American Academy of Family Physicians offers advice to parents on how to <a href=\"http://familydoctor.org/344.xml\" target=\"_new\">help their children achieve a healthy weight</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1784','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of <b>Thomson CenterWatch</b>:</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Skin Cancer </b></span></p><p> This trial will compare Allovectin-7 vs. chemotherapy in people with stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma. Volunteers may qualify if they are at least 18, have confirmed stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma that may have had previous treatment, and at least one melanoma tumor that is 1cm x 1cm or greater (about the size of a dime). People with melanoma lesions in the brain or liver will not be eligible.</p><p>The research sites are located across the United States. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\" http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat37.html\" target=\"_new\"> http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat37.html</a>.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome </b></span></p><p> This trial is for people with Unverricht-Lundborg Disease (ULD), a genetic form of progressive epilepsy that causes movement disorders (myoclonus) and seizures. The trial will test the effectiveness and safety of different doses of a new medication in reducing myoclonus and improving overall function. Candidates 16 or older with diagnosed ULD ascertained by appropriate genetic testing may be eligible.</p><p>The research sites are located in Italy and France. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat779.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat779.html</a>.< /p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Diabetic Neuropathy </b></span></p><p> This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an investigational medication vs. placebo to treat diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Patients 18-75 diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who are on stable doses of diabetic medication may be eligible.</p><p>The research site is in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. </p><p><b>More information</b></p><p>Please see <a href=\"http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat253.html\" target=\"_new\">http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat253.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('1785','1','	<p><p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials on Wednesday told manufacturers of all drugs used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder that they must develop patient medication guides warning of possible cardiovascular and psychiatric risks.</p> <p>\"We issued letters earlier today to manufacturers of all the ADHD products asking them to implement medication guides to alert patients and their families to certain risks that may be associated with these drugs when taken at usual doses,\" Dr. Tom Laughren, director of the psychiatry products division at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said at a Wednesday teleconference.</p> <p>Experts hailed the move.</p> <p>\"A warning like this is important because it makes people think twice before they do this, and it stimulates more investigation,\" said Dr. Steven Lipshultz, chairman of the pediatrics department at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. \"I think this is excellent, and can only be beneficial.\" </p> <p>According to the FDA, ADHD affects 3 percent to 7 percent of school-aged children and about 4 percent of adults. An estimated 2.5 million U.S. children and 1.5 million adults now take medications for the treatment of ADHD -- a field that has seen its share of controversy. </p> <p>Spiraling growth in use of these medicines -- the number of adults aged 20 to 44 using ADHD drugs surged more than 139 percent from 2000 to 2005 -- has already prompted safety questions.</p> <p>One drug, Strattera, is now required to carry a black box warning that it might prompt suicidal thoughts in children. Last year, Health Canada briefly pulled another drug, Adderall, from the market because of reported cardiac risks. And in the United States, Adderall XR carries a warning that patients with heart conditions should not use the drug.</p> <p>Last year, an FDA pediatric advisory panel recommended against putting black box warnings about psychiatric and cardiac risks on ADHD drugs. Instead, the panel recommended that the medications use simpler language and include more information on the label.</p> <p>A month before that, however, another FDA advisory committee, the Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee, reached the opposite conclusion when it called for a black box warning on ADHD drugs because of possible cardiac risks.</p> <p>The FDA essentially followed the advice of the pediatrics committee, and new warning language was incorporated into the labels by last fall.</p> <p>Wednesday\'s action is also a result of those meetings last year.</p> <p>\"It has taken us longer to develop language for the medication guides, and we expect that the companies will quickly implement the new language,\" Laughren said. In fact, companies have 30 days to comply with the directive.</p> <p>The patient medication guides address two areas of concern.</p> <p>The first is cardiovascular adverse events in patients with underlying heart problems or defects, along with reports of stroke and heart attack in adults with certain risk factors.</p> <p>\"It\'s possible that the events might have been caused by the underlying disease, but the advisory committees advised us to alert clinicians to the possibility that the drugs might have had a role,\" Laughren said.</p> <p>The second area of concern involves psychiatric events, primarily psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusional thinking or the emergence of manic symptoms, even in patients who have no history of psychiatric problems. The occurrence of these events is roughly one in 1,000 people treated.</p> <p>Officials hope that the guides, which are given to patients at the time the drug is dispensed, will alert doctors and patients to the importance of taking a careful medical history, doing a physical exam, and carefully monitoring patients for symptoms that may indicate a problem.</p> <p>The medications affected by the action include Adderall, Adderall XR, Concerta, Daytrana, Desoxyn, Dexedrine, Focalin, Focalin XR, Metadate CD, Methylin, Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Ritalin LA and Strattera.</p> <p>Laughren emphasized, however, that ADHD drugs do provide real benefit for certain patients.</p> <p>\"In no way do we consider this a general prohibition against using these drugs,\" he said. \"We view the drugs as quite safe and effective, and in no way are we trying to inhibit appropriate prescribing.\"</p> <p>\"We just want prescribers and patients to be aware of certain risks, so patients can be safely treated,\" he added.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>View drafts of the patient medication guides at the <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ADHD/default.htm\" target=\"_new\">U.S. Food and Drug Administration</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1786','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>Diabetes Drug Linked to Fractures in Females</b></span></p> <p> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert Wednesday on drug maker GlaxoSmithKline warning doctors that long-term use of its diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) has been linked to an increased incidence of fractures in females. </p> <p> The company outlined the results of a safety review of a large-scale study involving 4,360 patients with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus. The review found that female Avandia users experienced more fractures of the upper arm, hand, or foot than did female patients who received the two other medications in the study, metformin and glyburide. The incidence of fractures in male users was similar in all three drugs. </p> <p>The company is advising doctors to consider the risk of fractures when prescribing Avandia to female patients. </p> <p>And, according to <i>MarketWatch</i>, a spokesman for Glaxo said the company was in talks with European Union regulators about sending a similar letter to European doctors.</p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Vaccine Safety Group Reports Adverse Gardasil Reactions </b></span></p> <p> An analysis of reports of serious medical problems following vaccination against cervical cancer with Merck &amp; Co.\'s Gardasil found that two-thirds of patients required additional medical care, a vaccine safety group said Tuesday. </p> <p> The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) looked at a report from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) on problems following vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) during the last six months of 2006.</p> <p>Of 385 adverse events reported, two-thirds required further attention and one-third occurred in children 16 and under. In almost 25 percent of those cases, patients also received one or more of 18 vaccines that Merck did not study, in combination with Gardasil, NVIC said in a prepared statement. </p> <p> As a result, NVIC called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn parents and physicians that Gardasil should not be combined with other vaccines. They also urged that young girls be monitored for at least 24 hours after vaccination and that any reports of adverse events be made as soon as possible to VAERS. </p> <p> The report follows on the heels of Merck\'s decision Tuesday to stop lobbying state governments for laws mandating that pre-teen girls be vaccinated against cervical cancer. The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> has reported that Merck had initially been successful in convincing such state leaders as Texas Gov. Rick Perry to order the vaccinations, but many parent and advocacy groups objected, saying it might encourage youngsters to have pre-marital sex and infringed on their freedom of choice. </p> <p> The FDA approved Gardasil in 2006 to prevent two strains of the sexually-transmitted HPV. Studies have shown that these two strains result in almost 70 percent of all cervical cancer cases. </p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> U.S. Stillbirths Decline, Racial Disparities Persist: Study </b></span></p> <p> Stillbirths in the United States declined significantly between 1990 and 2003, but the fetal mortality rate for non-Hispanic black women was more than double that of non-Hispanic white women, a new report released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) shows. </p> <p> The study, \"Fetal and Perinatal Mortality, United States: 2003,\" looked at fetal deaths among all racial and ethnic groups occurring at 20 weeks of gestation or more. The fetal mortality rate for non-Hispanic black women was 11.56 per 1,000, compared to 4.94 per 1,000 for non-Hispanic white women. \"While we can see that progress has been made in preventing fetal mortality, it is also clear that substantial disparities remain along race and ethnic lines, \" said the study\'s lead author, Marian MacDorman, senior social scientist in the Division of Vital Statistics at the CDC\'s National Center for Health Statistics. </p> <p> Among other findings in the report: </p> <ul> <li> The number of fetal deaths per 1,000 live births declined an average of 1.4 percent a year from 1990-2003. </li> <li> The decline since 1990 occurred among pregnancies 28 weeks of gestation and longer, while the fetal death rate for pregnancies 20-27 weeks of gestation has changed little since 1990. </li> <li> American Indian women had a fetal death rate of 6.09 per 1,000 live births -- 24 percent higher than that for non-Hispanic white women. For Hispanic women, the rate was slightly higher than that for non-Hispanic white women (5.46 per 1,000), and the rate for Asian or Pacific Islander women was similar to that of non-Hispanic white women (4.98 per 1,000). </li> </ul> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b>Dispose of Prescription Drugs in Kitchen Waste, EPA Urges</b></span></p> <p>Government experts say unsavory waste such as kitty litter and old coffee grounds can keep unwanted prescription drugs out of the wrong hands. </p> <p> New drug disposal guidelines urge consumers to mix unused, unneeded or expired drugs with undesirable substances and to discard them in nondescript containers to avoid reuse. And, while the time-honored habit of flushing drugs down the toilet can also be used, officials warned that could create environmental problems if proper disposal instructions on the safety label are disregarded. </p> <p> \"Following these new guidelines will protect our nation\'s waterways and keep pharmaceuticals out of the hands of potential abusers,\" Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen L. Johnson said in a prepared statement Wednesday. Some pharmacies will also collect drugs for safe disposal, the agency added. </p> <p>-----</p> <p><span class=\"subhead\"><b> Scientists Close in on Genetic Code for Lou Gehrig\'s Disease </b></span></p> <p> Johns Hopkins researchers say they\'ve identified 34 unique variations in the human genetic code that predisposes people to the non-inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig\'s Disease. </p> <p> The 34 single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, were found among 276 unrelated subjects and appear to be good candidates for further study of the neurodegenerative disease, the scientists said Tuesday in a prepared statement. The team used a new technology, known as \"SNP chips\" -- a kind of computer chip coated with tiny beads -- to scan the genome. </p> <p> \"Although we haven\'t located the exact gene responsible for sporadic ALS, our results seriously narrow the search and bring us that much closer to finding what we need to start developing treatments for the disease,\" Dr. Bryan J. Traynor, of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in the statement. One in about 2,000 people are at risk yearly of developing the disease, and 10,000 Americans a year die from ALS. </p> <p> The findings were published in this month\'s online edition of the journal <i>Lancet Neurology</i>. </p> <p>-----</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1787','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 602112 --> <p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Federal forecasters predict that U.S. health-care spending will double by 2016, to $4.1 trillion per year.</p> <p>That\'s one-fifth of the nation\'s gross domestic product (GDP).</p> <p>Health spending in 2006 was projected at $2.1 trillion, or 16 percent of the GDP.</p> <p>\"There is a relatively modest and stable projection for 2006 to 2016, with an average growth rate of 6.9 percent,\" John Poisal, deputy director of the National Health Statistics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said during a Tuesday teleconference. He noted that with projected growth rates falling slightly in 2006 and 2007, \"that would result in five consecutive years of slowing growth.\"</p> <p>But the projected decelerations didn\'t impress outside experts.</p> <p>\"We haven\'t solved the health-care cost problem,\" stated Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund. \"There was a lot of feeling when the 2006 numbers came out and we were growing at about 7 percent a year, that maybe it wasn\'t a continuing problem. But, I think even growing at 7 percent a year you see that by 2016 we are going to be spending 20 percent of the nation\'s economy on health care. I think it says we\'ve got to get serious about doing something that really improves the efficiency of the health-care system and not just shifting money.\"</p> <p>Here are other highlights from the report, prepared by CMS actuaries and Medicaid Services and appearing in today\'s online edition of <i>Health Affairs</i>:</p> <ul> <li>Medicaid spending is expected to reach $313.5 billion in 2006, about the same as in 2005. </li> <li>Medicaid drug spending is projected to drop 36 percent between 2005 and 2006 as low-income recipients who also are eligible for Medicare start receiving drug coverage through the new Part D program.</li> <li>With the addition of Part D, total Medicare spending growth is expected to reach $417.6 billion in 2006, up from $342 billion the year before. Medicare spending growth is expected to slow to 6.5 percent in 2007, partly due to legislated cuts in payments to managed-care plans and to physicians. By 2016, Medicare spending is expected to more than double, reaching $862.7 billion.</li> <li>U.S. prescription drug spending should reach $497.5 billion by 2016, more than double the expected level for 2006. Prescription drug spending will grow at an average annual rate of 8.6 percent until 2016.</li> <li>The cost of hospital care is expected to climb to more than $1.2 trillion by 2016, vs. $651.8 billion expected for 2006. The growth rate for hospital spending is expected to slow, from 7.9 percent in 2005 to 6.6 percent in 2006.</li> <li>In 2006, consumers are expected to spend slightly less than 1 percent more in out-of-pocket ($250.6 billion) health-care costs. The total spent will reach $440.8 billion by 2016, however. In 2005, an individual spent an average of $850.02 on health care and in 2006 they are projected to spend $846.50. In 2016, the average spent will be $1,405.73, although that number is not adjusted for inflation, officials said.</li> <li>Private health insurance premiums are expected to grow 4.4 percent in 2006, down from a high of 11 percent in 2002.</li> <li>Growth in total physician and clinical spending is expected to slow from 7 percent in 2005, to 6.1 percent in 2006.</li> <li>Growth in nursing home spending is also expected to slow, from 6 percent in 2005 to 3.4 percent in 2006, largely as a result of slowing Medicaid and Medicare spending.</li> <li>Home health spending is likely to rise 1.4 percentage points to 12.5 percent in 2006, or $53.4 billion. This would make it the fastest growing area of health care.</li> </ul> <p>Many of the changes reflect cost shifting, Davis said.</p> <p>\"They\'re trying to deflect costs onto other parties,\" she said. \"What we really need is a transformation of the health-care system that gives us value for the money we\'re spending. We clearly have to do something about the underlying rising health costs that affect everyone.\"</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>There\'s more on health-care costs at the <a href=\"http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml\" target=\"_new\">National Coalition on Health Care</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1788','1','	<p><!--Spanish ID: 602111 --> <p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital procedures need to be modified to reduce the risk of medical errors and adverse events in stroke patients, U.S researchers say.</p> <p>A new study found that 12 percent of stroke patients had suffered adverse events during treatment.</p> <p>Researchers analyzed data on 1,440 stroke patients admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center between July 2001 and December 2004.</p> <p>Of those 1,440 patients, 173 (12 percent) suffered a total of 183 adverse events, defined as an injury to a patient during medical management. Adverse events are not necessarily the result of a medical error, which are incorrect actions or plans that may harm a patient.</p> <p>Of those 183 adverse events, 86 were preventable, 37 were not preventable, and 60 were indeterminate, the study said.</p> <p>Of the 86 preventable adverse events, 37 percent were transcription/documentation errors, 23 percent were failure to perform a clinical task, 10 percent were communication/handoff errors between health providers, and 10 percent were failed independent checks/wrong calculations.</p> <p>\"Although most patients who experienced a preventable adverse event were not seriously harmed, adverse events do lead to temporary discomfort, longer hospital stays, and, in some cases, serious injury or the potential for legal action,\" study author Dr. Robert G. Holloway, of the University of Rochester Medical Center, said in a prepared statement.</p> <p>\"If these figures were applied to the nearly 1 million patients admitted to U.S. hospitals each year for stroke, 50,000 to 100,000 patients may experience an adverse event related to an error,\" he said.</p> <p>The study is published in the Feb. 20 issue of <i>Neurology</i>.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers <a href=\"http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/5steps.htm\" target=\"_new\">five steps to safer health care</a>.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1789','1','	<p><p>(HealthDay News) -- When arteries become blocked by fat, cholesterol and other substances, blood flow to the heart is blocked.</p> <p>Coronary bypass surgery sidesteps the blockage from these substances -- collectively called plaque -- and restores blood flow to lessen a person\'s risk of heart attack.</p> <p>Here\'s are two possible ways to accomplish a coronary bypass, courtesy of the American Heart Association:</p> <ul> <li>An artery is detached from the chest wall and the loose end attached to the coronary artery below the blockage. </li> <li>A section of a long vein in the leg is removed and sewn (grafted) onto the large vessel that leaves the heart called the aorta. The other end is attached to the coronary artery below the blockage.</li> </ul> <p>Either of these methods will allow blood to follow a new path, bypass the clogged portion of an artery, and restore a free flow to the heart.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1790','1','	<p><p> (HealthDay News) -- Binge eating occurs when a person habitually overeats.</p> <p>A person with the disorder often eats quite rapidly, may not stop eating when they are full, and usually feels unable to stop.</p> <p>These actions often are a response to stress, anger or being emotionally upset, the Nemours Foundation says.</p> <p>The foundation offers this list of common warning signs:</p> <ul> <li>Eating very quickly.</li> <li>Eating until extremely full or uncomfortable.</li> <li>Eating large amounts when not hungry.</li> <li>Being too embarrassed to eat around other people, or eating alone.</li> <li>Feeling guilty or disgusted after binge eating.</li> <li>Excessive weight gain.</li> </ul> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1791','1','	<p><p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking two cups of spearmint tea a day might help treat women with an unsightly condition that causes them to grow excess hair on their face, breasts and stomach, Turkish researchers report.</p> <p>The tea works by lowering the levels of circulating male hormones in these women, the scientists claim in the current online issue of <i>Phytotherapy Research</i>.</p> <p>The authors called the findings preliminary.</p> <p>\"There are no recommendations for patients and physicians yet,\" said Mehmet Numan Tamer, co-author of the study and a professor of endocrinology and metabolism at Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Turkey. \"This is the first clinical study about the spearmint tea, but further studies are needed to give the practical recommendations to patients.\"</p> <p>But other experts feel the findings are far-fetched.</p> <p>\"This is absurd,\" said Khursheed Navder, an associate professor of nutrition and food science at Hunter College in New York City. \"I completely think it is very preliminary, and you need major randomized trials. It\'s nothing to get thrilled about.\"</p> <p>Hirsutism is a condition that can occur in both men and women, but, for obvious reasons, it is more of a cosmetic concern in women. The hair growth is a result of unnaturally high levels of androgens such as testoserone.</p> <p> According to Tamer, standard therapy includes oral contraceptives to suppress androgens or drugs such as spironolactone, which prevents the body responding to androgens.</p> <p>Spearmint, which grows naturally near Isparta, has been widely used for indigestion, nausea and vomiting, as well as for the common cold, cough, sinusitis, fever and bronchitis.</p> <p>\"Spearmint has been used as an herb for a long time now,\" confirmed Navder. \"These are all folk remedies.\"</p> <p>The Turkish researchers thought that spearmint might be linked with reports of diminished libido in townsmen (presumably because of its effects on androgen levels). In one previous rat study, spearmint reduced testosterone levels.</p> <p>\"Previously, we investigated the effects of [peppermint] and [spearmint] herbal teas on testicular function in an experimental rat model and found that testosterone levels were decreased,\" Tamer said. \"Because we found the anti-androgenic effects of spearmint, we decided to observe the effect of this herbal tea on the androgen levels in hirsute women.\"</p> <p>For this study, 21 women with hirsutism drank two cups of herbal spearmint tea for five days at a certain time in their menstrual cycle.</p> <p>All women showed a decrease in free testosterone (circulating hormone not bound to other molecules) and an increase in several different \"female\" hormones, including follicle-stimulating hormone and estrogen.</p> <p>There was no significant decrease in total testosterone levels; it was unclear if there was any change in amount of excess hair growth.</p> <p>\"The next step is to show the effect of spearmint tea on hirsutism scores of the women in a treatment period,\" Tamer said.</p> <p>Although the amounts of spearmint used in this study are not generally toxic, the herb can be harmful if taken in larger amounts.</p> <p><b>More information</b></p> <p>Visit the <a href=\"http://familydoctor.org/210.xml\" target=\"_new\">American Academy of Family Physicians</a> for more on hirsutism.</p> </p>\n		');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1792','1','	<p>Katy Folven never leaves home without her insulin pen, but the busy Boston social worker sometimes forgets to track her daily doses.<p/>\nWhen that happens, she must prick one of her already-calloused fingertips to measure blood sugar. That can mean as many as 10 punctures in a day.<p/>\nEli Lilly and Co. is introducing a unique insulin pen Thursday that could prevent some punctures. The Indianapolis drug maker\'s Memoir pen, the first on the market with a memory device, is for use with its top-selling insulin, Humalog.<p/>\nThe battery-operated pen, called the \"Lexus\" of insulin pens by one doctor, uses a computer chip to remember the last 16 insulin doses delivered.<p/>\nLilly says Memoir could reduce hassles for some of the 21 million Americans who live with diabetes, but others question whether it will catch on.<p/>\n\"The concept is beautiful,\" said Dr. William Hsu of the Joslin Diabetes Center, also in Boston. \"Now the issue is, is it practical?\"<p/>\nSome predict U.S. insurers and patients might be hesitant to pay $100 for the pen and a separate fee for the insulin cartridges.<p/>\nAnd while insulin pens are popular in Europe and Asia, only about 800,000 of the 4 million U.S. diabetics who need daily insulin injections use a pen. Most use syringes and insulin vials.<p/>\nMatt Beebe, the company\'s U.S. brand team leader for Humalog, predicts that will change once Memoir enters the market. He said Lilly is debuting Memoir in the U.S. and may branch into Europe and Asia.<p/>\nHsu said the pen\'s price will keep him from prescribing it.<p/>\n\"I think it\'s expensive,\" he said.<p/>\nLilly plans to offer coupons that let patients buy one of the new pens for $45.<p/>\n\"Patients helped us develop it and gave us the idea to bring it to market, and we want to make sure they have access to it,\" Beebe said.<p/>\nThe new pen could boost Lilly\'s diabetes product portfolio, which took a hit last month when the company announced it was halting the construction of a Virginia insulin plant. Company officials have said they expect worldwide demand for Lilly\'s insulin products to grow, but not at levels projected when plans for the site were developed in 2003.<p/>\nLilly\'s diabetes portfolio accounted for nearly one-fifth of the company\'s $15.7 billion revenue in 2006, and analysts have predicted that figure could double in the next four years.<p/>\nLilly spent seven years developing the pen in partnership with Battelle Medical Device Solutions of Columbus, Ohio. It is one of three that Lilly plans to introduce this year, part of a strategy to increase Humalog demand, said Lehman Brothers analyst Tony Butler.<p/>\nMemoir answers a call for more patient-friendly products, said Miller Tabak and Co. analyst Les Funtleyder. But he doubts it will lead to a noticeable revenue increase for the drug maker.<p/>\n\"That could change if everybody says they have to have it, like the next Tickle Me Elmo,\" he said. But he said the pen was \"a step in the right direction for Lilly, and it certainly is where the world is going.\"<p/>\nFolven, who was diagnosed with diabetes more than 20 years ago, said she plans to ask her doctor about Memoir.<p/>\n\"Having a backup is nice because it\'s not always easy when life gets going,\" she said.<p/>\n</p>\n		');
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Shots also were selected, prepared and administered by unqualified people under unsanitary conditions, the indictment said, though it did not detail those conditions.</p><p>No medical problems have been reported as a result of the shots, federal officials said.</p><p>Before making the indictment public, federal agents on Thursday morning arrested two of those charged, John Froelich, 49, of suburban Harwood Heights, and Paul Kocourek, 53, of Chicago.</p><p>Prosecutors said Froelich operated and controlled several companies that provided the allergy shots, chiefly the American Institute of Allergy, which did business in Illinois, northwestern Indiana and Arizona.</p><p>All those involved in the alleged scam were affiliated with Froelich businesses, it said. Kocourek worked for American Institute of Allergy and submitted bogus claims to insurance companies, according to the indictment.</p><p>Froelich and Kocourek appeared in federal court Thursday afternoon; each was released on $100,000 unsecured bond. The other defendants are to receive summonses for later hearings.</p><p>Froelich attorney Joseph J. LaRocco had no comment on the charges. Kocourek attorney Michael I. Leonard said: \"We strongly believe in his innocence but our investigation is just beginning.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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Even pop star Britney  Spears reportedly broke up with her soon-to-be-ex-husband Kevin Federline via a text message sent to his cellphone -- a message he read while taping an interview for a Canadian television show in November.</p><p>It\'s no longer unusual to deliver uncomfortable news by text message, instant message or e-mail and, increasingly, through social networking sites. MySpace and Facebook, among other sites,  allow users to post public comments on one another\'s profile pages -- including some very private, and sometimes confrontational, messages. An October survey commissioned by Samsung Telecommunications America reported that about 11 percent of Americans say breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend via text message is okay.</p><p>Singles can also break up with a partner by means of a prerecorded voice-mail message, set up a special phone number to screen calls, reject a potential suitor via a hotline -- and even use an e-card to tell a past sexual partner that he or she may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease.</p><p>It\'s all about what makes the bearer of the bad news feel more comfortable, singles report -- not about how it will make the receiver of those messages feel. While many of these tools are passed around as jokes via text messaging and e-mail forwards, some people are using them to avoid the discomfort that can come with having to tell someone they\'re not interested or to deliver otherwise unsettling news.</p><p>This concerns some psychologists, who say that avoiding confrontation may not be a good idea for the person delivering the message -- or for the receiver.</p><p>\"Some of this involves courage or lack of courage and ability to face up to things, which people often have to struggle with,\" said Bernard Guerney Jr., founder of the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement, a nonprofit educational corporation based in Bethesda. \"You grow some when you face these things, and I think you lose something when you have to resort to tricky things and not confront people about things that are intimately important.\"</p><p>Still, while it is clearly hurtful to be on the receiving end of such rejection messages, there may be a bright side. That, at least, is how Helen Friedman, a St. Louis clinical psychologist who specializes in dating and relationships, chooses to see it.</p><p>Of the person initiating the breakup, she said, \"it shows a lack of character to not just be able to say no\" face to face. \"Most people want to be [romantically] involved with someone who has character, so the recipient can say, \'Hey, I\'ve been spared something.\' \"</p><p>And though some of the modern messaging is clearly done in jest, it can leave a lingering trail of damage, a recent survey suggests. Teenagers report that technology can fuel near constant -- even harassing -- contact via instant messaging and text messaging; and jilted boyfriends and girlfriends can post embarrassing pictures, videos and messages on social networking sites, according to the survey, sponsored by Liz Claiborne Inc., which commissioned the research to evaluate levels of dating abuse among teens.</p><p>Here is a sampling of the technologies available:</p><p></p><p><i>REJECTION HOTLINE</i> Created in 2001, this prerecorded voice-mail line is available in more than 80 area codes. Some 90 million callers, according to the company that runs the service, have dialed it and heard a message that begins, &quot;This is not the person you are trying to call. . . . The person who gave you this rejection hotline number did not want you to have their real number. We know this sucks, but don\'t be too devastated. Maybe you\'re just not this person\'s type. . . . Please take the hint. Accept the fact that you\'ve been rejected and then get over it.&quot;</p><p>Jeff Goldblatt, whose Atlanta-based company runs the hotline along with the &quot;Breakup Butler&quot; site mentioned below, estimates that the majority of callers dial the number as a joke after hearing about it from friends. But he has heard from users who give the number out in bars or other dating situations to reject strangers. <a href=\"http://www.rejectionhotline.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.rejectionhotline.com</a></p><p></p><p><i>STD E-CARDS</i> Launched in 2004 as a service for gay men seeking to notify past sex partners about exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, the e-cards are now available to anyone, according to Deb Levine, director of Internet Sexuality Information Services, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit that distributes the cards. They are similar to the e-greeting cards sent to celebrate birthdays and holidays, but instead they deliver news of potential exposure to an STD and advise the receiver to get tested.</p><p>\"It\'s not what you brought to the party, it\'s what you left with,\" one card states. \"I left with an STD. You might have, too. Get checked out soon.\" More than 80 percent of the cards are sent anonymously, and about 80 percent include an optional personal message, Levine said. The Web site gets about 750 unique visitors each day.</p><p>Levine said the cards are available free nationwide. But the site requires senders to click on a geographic region before selecting a card. That feature is simply to provide location-specific information for recipients who want to follow up with STD testing in their area, Levine said. <a href=\"http://www.inspot.org\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.inspot.org</a></p><p></p><p><i>BREAKUP HELP</i> Another option for breaking up with significant others: the Breakup Butler, who delivers a &quot;kinder, gentler, proper breakup,&quot; said Goldblatt, who also offers a female voice declaring  a much harsher, meaner ending to the relationship. The Web site allows you to enter your partner\'s e-mail address and have the prerecorded message delivered, as an audio attachment to him or her.</p><p>&quot;We really don\'t know how many people are actually using the breakup service to actually end relationships,&quot; Goldblatt said. &quot;And if they are, you have to question what kind of relationship it actually was. . . . We caution people to think before they use it and to take people\'s feelings into account.&quot; <a href=\"http://www.breakingupiseasytodo.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.breakingupiseasytodo.com</a></p><p></p><p><i>SCREEN NUMBERS AND RESCUE CALLS</i> Set up an alternate phone number that routes calls to your voice mail or your regular phone number. If you decide  you\'re not  interested in the person calling the alternate number, cancel it. Available -- sometimes free, or for a small monthly fee -- through a variety of service providers. Also useful in the dating scene are so-called rescue-ring calls, which allow you to schedule a prerecorded  call to your cellphone at a predetermined time -- perhaps in the middle of dinner -- so you can make a quick getaway if the date isn\'t going well. Instructions provided on the recording typically walk you through how to comfortably excuse yourself from the date.</p><p>Call screening: <a href=\"http://www.screennumber.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.screennumber.com</a>. Rescue ring services: <a href=\"http://www.cingular.com/voiceinfo\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.cingular.com/<wbr/>voiceinfo</a> (called Instant Alibi), <a href=\"http://www.virginmobileusa.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.virginmobileusa.com</a>. A company called Moderati offers &quot;faux calls&quot; and &quot;faux numbers,&quot; available for subscribers to all major cellphone services: <a href=\"http://www.mobilefaker.com\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.mobilefaker.com</a>. ?</p><p><i>Comments:<a href=\'mailto:paynej@washpost.com\'>paynej@washpost.com</a>.</i></p><p><i></i></p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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Eight months later, Susan Jaenke is both grief-stricken and strapped -- behind on her mortgage, backed up on her bills and shut out of the $100,000 government death benefit that her daughter thought she had left her.</p><p>The problem is that Jaenke is not a wife, not a husband, but instead grandmother to the 9-year-old her daughter left behind. \"Grandparents,\" she said, \"are forgotten in this.\"</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/2007/02/15/PH2007021502140.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/asection/2007-02-16/index.html?imgId=PH2007021502142&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021502142.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_7644710\">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/asection/2007-02-16/index.html?imgId=PH2007021502142&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021502142.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021502140.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Kayla Jaenke\'s mother, Jaime, was killed in Iraq last June. The Navy medic wanted a death benefit to go to her parents, but it cannot.\"  height=\"143\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">Kayla Jaenke\'s mother, Jaime, was killed in Iraq last June. The Navy medic wanted a death benefit to go to her parents, but it cannot.<span id=\"credit\"> (By Linda Davidson  --  The Washington Post) </span></div></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>\nPhotos</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\">\n<a href=\"javascript:void(window.open(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2007/02/15/GA2007021501927_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/2007/02/15/PH2007021501933.jpg\" class=\"imgfloatleft\"  alt=\"/nation/photo\"  border=\"0\"/></a>\n<a href=\"javascript:void(window.open(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2007/02/15/GA2007021501927_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\'))\">Left Behind With Grief and Burden</a><br/>For the families of soldiers killed in Iraq, the military\'s death benefit can help survivors move on. But strict rules on who can claim the benefits prevent some family members from collecting, even when the soldier\'s intentions were made clear. One such person is Susan Jaenke, an Iowa woman raising her grandchild after her daughter\'s death last year in Anbar province.<br/>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Military News</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\"><ul><li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/12/12/CU2006121200910.html\"><b>Military news top strip</b></a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100201.html\"><b>Blair Plans To Withdraw 1,600 Troops From Iraq</b></a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022101792.html\"><b>Plea Accepted in Iraq Rape, Murders</b></a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022101820.html\"><b>Paramilitary Scandal Takes Colombian Elite by Surprise</b></a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100225.html\"><b>3 Killed, 25 Injured In Chlorine Attack</b></a>\n</ul><div align=\"center\" style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400140.html\" style=\"FONT-WEIGHT:normal; FONT-SIZE:11px; COLOR:#333399; FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif; margin-top:8px;\">More Stories</a></div><div style=\"clear:both;\"></div></div></div></div>\n\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/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'The Forgotten Families\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828.html\',\'Her daughter was killed by a bomb in Iraq. 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The load of responsibilities placed on that generation -- both during deployment and if a service member is injured or killed -- \"is a huge issue.\"</p><p>The case of Petty Officer 2nd Class Jaime S. Jaenke, a Navy construction-battalion medic killed last June in Anbar province, is particularly striking because she was a single parent who clearly meant to assign her mother the benefit. Jaenke, 29, filled in her mother\'s name on a form and carefully spelled out her wishes in a letter.</p><p>But by law, the $100,000 benefit goes first to a spouse or a child. So 9-year-old Kayla Jaenke collects the $100,000 -- plus $400,000 in life insurance -- after she turns 18, leaving Susan Jaenke to ask, \"What about the next nine years?\"</p><p>In some other families, the $100,000 death benefit has gone to neither the children nor the grandparents who are raising them.</p><p>In California, Barbie and Matt Heavrin are caring for a 2-year-old grandson without the death gratuity or life insurance. Their daughter, Pfc. Hannah McKinney, assigned her $400,000 in life insurance to the man she wed just before deployment, her father said; by law, her husband also received the gratuity.</p><p>The Heavrins are happy to raise the boy -- from an earlier relationship their daughter had -- but wonder why he would get nothing. Five months after their daughter died last September, their only assistance is monthly benefits they expect will total about $800, most of which goes to day care.</p><p>In Missouri, grandmother Gail Kriete is raising 9-year-old Taylor Purdy, the child of Lance Cpl. Erik R. Heldt, a Marine killed in Iraq in June 2005. His wife collected the full $500,000. Kriete said none went to his daughter, from a previous relationship.</p><p>\"It just needs to be thought out a little more carefully,\" Kriete said. \"There are so many blended families that the suffering is very spread out.\"</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_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/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_3.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">3</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_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/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1796','1','<p>It comes in a purple and mustard-yellow package, with a message aimed squarely at anyone having sex in the nation\'s capital, and today the city will dispense 250,000 of these DC-branded condoms during a massive giveaway.</p><p>In a single morning, the kickoff distribution to groups working on the front line of HIV/AIDS will almost equal the number of condoms supplied by the D.C. Health Department in 2005 and 2006 combined. The agency wants to hand out 1 million by year\'s end, making the small package the most visible element of the District\'s efforts to reverse epidemic levels of the virus.</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/2007/02/15/PH2007021501662.jpg\"/--><div style=\"float:left;position:relative;top:14px;\"><a href=\"javascript:void(popitup(\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/metro/2007-02-16/index.html?imgId=PH2007021501664&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021501664.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_7690308\">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/2007-02-16/index.html?imgId=PH2007021501664&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021501664.html\',650,850))\"><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/15/PH2007021501662.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"The D.C. Health Department is giving out DC-branded condoms as part of its campaign to combat HIV/AIDS.\"  height=\"152\" width=\"228\" align=\"top\"></a><div id=\"caption\">The D.C. 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They can be quite memory inhibiting and are more likely to be present in the control group, as a lack of mental stimulation can increase self doubt, decrease confidence and cause a form of panic. 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Pane, director of the department,</p><p>With condoms one of the most effective ways of preventing the spread of HIV, Pane hopes that they will be placed prominently and accessibly not only in government buildings, health clinics and social service agencies but also in barbershops, nightclubs, convenience stores and other locations.</p><p>\"We want to go places we haven\'t gone before,\" Pane said.</p><p>Officials had planned to introduce the new design on Valentine\'s Day, which, because of its amorous overtones, doubles as National Condom Day. And if internal complications and bad weather had not delayed the launch, the District would have shared the distinction of having the first municipally authorized protection in the country.</p><p>New York City alone claimed that distinction Wednesday, debuting a snazzy black condom wrapper with lettering like that used by the subway system. As many as 18 million are expected to be distributed in the city\'s five boroughs this year.</p><p>Compared with New York\'s catchy approach, including \"We\'ve got you covered,\" the District slogan, \"Coming together to stop HIV in DC,\" seems clunky. And the slogan, borrowed from the department\'s HIV testing campaign last summer, has in this context a double entendre that officials said was not intended.</p><p>But the local package, printed in English and Spanish, has its defenders. \"The good news is, it does have \'stop HIV\' on it. It does say DC. It does have important information,\" said Walter Smith, whose organization, the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, has issued several critical evaluations of the city\'s efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. Smith called today\'s distribution \"a good first step,\" though he said the real test will be getting the condoms to the most at-risk populations.</p><p>\"It\'s going to take some time to fine-tune the system to get to that,\" he added.</p><p>The first quarter-million condoms will go to a variety of community providers. Nearly half will be delivered to the Life Guard project, which in two months passed out 7,000 free condoms through a 24-hour laundromat, a late-night pizza joint and a fast-food restaurant east of the Anacostia River.</p><p>Early on, health officials largely dismissed the alliance of groups behind the project. They have had such a change of heart that today\'s announcement will be at that same SpinCycle Coin Laundry. \"I think they understand the power of the community,\" said David Johnson, who has scouted Life Guard drop sites in Wards 7 and 8. \"We\'re really looking for places to be in the city.\"</p><p>More than a dozen beauty salons and barbershops along the lower Georgia Avenue corridor will have plenty of condoms available to customers in coming months, thanks to the tens of thousands that Us Helping Us will receive today from the city. The nonprofit organization also will offer them in black gay clubs and neighborhood haunts already visited as part of its HIV outreach program.</p><p>Ron Simmons, Us Helping Us executive director, wonders whether people will treat the wrapper as a novelty -- and not use its contents. \"The city is going to have to do a really good social marketing campaign,\" he said yesterday, \"so people will become accustomed to the colors and packaging and realize these are reliable condoms.\"</p><p>At HIPS, which helps sex workers in the city, Executive Director Cyndee Clay offered a different thought.</p><p>\"Packaging is very important in normalizing condom use, in showing that condoms are something everyone should carry, that everyone can carry,\" she said. \"But all the cool packaging in the world is not necessarily going to make up for the conversation.\"</p><p>This first batch of condoms, made in China, expire in 2011.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1797','1','<p>A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government\'s standard advice to limit seafood while pregnant.</p><p>The study finds \"no evidence to lend support to the warning of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption,\" concluded the team led by Joseph R. Hibbeln, a researcher at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, writing in the Lancet.</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<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/2007/02/15/AR2007021501515_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Fish in Mother\\\'s Diet Benefits Child, Study Finds\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501515.html\',\'A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government\\\'s standard advice to limit seafood while pregnant.\',\'Sally Squires\') ;\n</script><script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501515_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; 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He urged increased consumption of seafood during pregnancy, but excluded  fish that have particularly high mercury levels: shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish.</p><p>In 2001 and again in 2004, both the FDA and the EPA warned women of childbearing age, as well as those who are pregnant or nursing, and young children, to avoid consuming any of those large species.</p><p>While acknowledging that seafood can be an important part of a balanced diet, the agencies urged the public to consume a variety of fish and said that women in these groups \"could safely eat 12 ounces per week of cooked fish.\"</p><p>In 2004, the agencies added a warning to eat no more than six ounces of albacore tuna per week.</p><p>These advisories were based on theoretical calculations, however, so Hibbeln teamed with British researchers from the University of Bristol to look more closely at the actual effects of seafood consumption in pregnant women and their children.</p><p>In 1991, the Bristol researchers had begun the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, one of the longest and most comprehensive studies ever to assess how environmental factors, including diet, affect the development, health and well-being of children. It included more than 14,000 women and about  13,000 of their children who survived to 12 months of age.</p><p>Participants filled out food questionnaires four times during pregnancy and answered specific questions about their seafood consumption during the third trimester. Later, they provided information at regular intervals about the diet, education, social circumstances, and behavioral and developmental outcomes of their children. The children also underwent intelligence testing at age 8. Because the United Kingdom conducts national tests of students, the researchers were also able to check school test scores of children who dropped out of the study.</p><p>To the researchers\' surprise, children of women consuming the most fish showed significantly higher verbal IQs at age 8 and fewer behavioral problems than youngsters whose mothers consumed only the amount of seafood recommended in the United States.</p><p>The EPA said yesterday that until the results can be reviewed and replicated, its advice would remain the same.</p><p>\"EPA and FDA recommend that women of childbearing age and children eat two average meals of fish and shellfish a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury, and not eat certain fish that are high in mercury,\" said Benjamin H. Grumbles, assistant administrator for the EPA\'s Office of Water.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1798','1','<p>On a gray November morning, I find myself down on my hands and knees in the middle of a muddy field. Push-ups. The stuff of recruitment films or high school gym-class nightmares. The ground is cold and squishy, and I am convinced that I feel the first few drops of rain.</p><p>There\'s a reason new military recruits are put through boot camp: to make them strong and fit and all that they can be. But could this hard-core approach work for a 40-something mother of two known for wearing elastic-waist maternity pants even though her kids are in grade school? Could I really be all that I <i>never</i> was?</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/2007/02/16/PH2007021601082.jpg\"/--><img src=\"http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/16/PH2007021601082.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Doug Vasiliadis, 45, of Great Falls, leads Active Duty Fitness for Women at the YMCA in Reston, VA .\"  height=\"144\" width=\"228\" align=\"bottom\"><div id=\"caption\">Doug Vasiliadis, 45, of Great Falls, leads Active Duty Fitness for Women at the YMCA in Reston, VA .<span id=\"credit\"> (Michael Temchine - FTWP) </span></div></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Boot Camp</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<p> </p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500522.html\" >Ten-Hut! Know Before You Go</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500521.html\" >Looking for a Few Good Boot Camps?</a>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500432.html\" >A Week in the Life</a>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></div>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Live Online</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<p>Join The Post\'s Weekend section staff for \"Weekend Now,\" a new weekly discussion about its feature stories and weekly entertainment information.</p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/13/DI2007021301036.html\">This Week\'s Discussion</a> &nbsp;</ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Sir, Yes, Sir!\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391.html\',\'On a gray November morning, I find myself down on my hands and knees in the middle of a muddy field. 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The name says it all. The words conjure images of a rigid military workout complete with an invective-spewing drill sergeant from the &quot;get down and give me 20&quot; school of fitness. Not exactly a warm fuzzy.</p><p>Then why are so many civilians from around the Beltway signing up for exercise boot camps? Blame television, or at least the time we spend sitting in front of it. Shows such as &quot;The Biggest Loser,&quot; &quot;Work Out&quot; and &quot;Celebrity Fit Club&quot; have raised our boot camp awareness and helped increase its popularity. Even Oprah launched her own boot camp exercise routine last year.</p><p>In the Washington area, the godfather of fitness boot camps is Patrick &quot;The Sarge&quot; Avon, who founded the Sergeant\'s Program in 1989.</p><p>Avon, 44, a former Navy fitness instructor, swears people want to be pushed by a drill sergeant, and pushed hard.</p><p>&quot;They love the discipline. They need the discipline,&quot; says Avon, who answers his phone with a booming &quot;Hoo-ah&quot; and tools around town in a Ford Mustang muscle car sporting the license plate: &quot;LOSE FAT.&quot;</p><p>Avon was a man ahead of the curve. He started the Sergeant\'s Program 18 years ago with a few ads tacked up on telephone poles. Today he employs 50 drill instructors, holds more than 30 boot camp classes and enrolls more than 800 students in Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George\'s counties, as well as the District.</p><p>To be honest, I wasn\'t looking for tough love -- I wanted a kinder, gentler approach to fitness. I enlisted in the Active Duty Fitness for Women boot camp in mid-November. It\'s a women-only exercise program that meets four days a week for an hour at a local park and indoors at the neighborhood YMCA when the temperature drops below freezing.</p><p>As with most boot camps, there is no newfangled equipment, no machines or treadmills. It\'s just man, or in this case woman, and the elements. I embarked on a training regime that relies on straightforward, no-nonsense exercises, a few stretchy bands and an act of sheer will.</p><p>What is new is the approach: There\'s no hint of the &quot;Thank you, sir, may I have another,&quot; gut-it-out training style. Exercise is not a punishment to be doled out, but rather it serves as its own reward.</p><p>&quot;Women prefer positive reinforcement and camaraderie,&quot; says Doug Vasiliadis, creator of Active Duty Fitness for Women, which has seven locations in Virginia. &quot;They\'re just not going to respond as well to a militaristic approach.&quot;</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">2</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_3.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">3</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_3.html\">3</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_4.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">4</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_4.html\">4</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_5.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">5</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_5.html\">5</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/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_2.html\'+unescape(location.search)+\'\">Next</a>\')</script><noscript><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391_2.html\">Next</a></noscript> ></b></font></td></tr></table></div><br>\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1799','1','<p>Consumers who thought they were purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet instead were shipped a powerful antipsychotic, sending some unwitting victims to the emergency room, federal health officials warned yesterday.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration said a number of consumers took the schizophrenia drug haloperidol after ordering other pills, including Ambien, a sleep aid, and the anxiety medications Xanax and Ativan. Others thought they were getting the antidepressant Lexapro.</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. They can be quite memory inhibiting and are more likely to be present in the control group, as a lack of mental stimulation can increase self doubt, decrease confidence and cause a form of panic. Could this have put the control group behind, at the same time the motivated groups were leaping ahead and would this not effect the measurement of the outcome? \" </p> <div style=\"text-align:right;\">-- <b>By smilesturner01 ;</b></div> <p style=\"border-top: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 7px; font-weight: bold;\"> <strong><font face=\"arial,helvetica\" SIZE=\"-1\">&#149; </font> <span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:11px;color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2006121901431&start=1\"><b>View, Add More Comments</b></a></span><br> <font face=\"arial,helvetica\" SIZE=\"-1\">&#149; </font> <span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:11px;color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901431.html\"><b>Read the Story</b></a></span><br></strong> </p> \n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div>\n</div>\n\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/2007/02/16/AR2007021601833_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Wrong Pills Shipped to Online Drug Buyers\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601833.html\',\'Consumers who thought they were purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet instead were shipped a powerful antipsychotic, sending some unwitting victims to the emergency room, federal health officials warned yesterday.\',\'\') ;\n</script><script src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601833_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; 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The FDA said it had reports of several consumers who took the pills seeking emergency medical treatment for symptoms such as difficulty breathing, muscle spasms and muscle stiffness.</p><p>The FDA used the occasion to remind consumers of the possible dangers of buying prescription drugs online.</p><p>The FDA posted images of the suspect pills and their packages on its Web site -- <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/photos/haloperidol.html\" target=\"\">http:/<wbr/>/<wbr/>www.fda.gov/<wbr/>bbs/<wbr/>topics/<wbr/>news/<wbr/>photos/<wbr/>haloperidol.html</a>-- to help consumers identify any suspect product they may have received.</p><p>Consumers who were sent haloperidol apparently had ordered drugs through a variety of commercial Web sites. The FDA said it was investigating.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1800','1','<p>After years of falling short, advocates of requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are again waging that fight in Congress -- and this time, they say, the odds are in their favor. Really.</p><p>A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation last week to grant the FDA authority over the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products, including the power to restrict advertising, require stronger warning labels, and regulate the amount of nicotine and other ingredients. The agency would not be able to ban tobacco.</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/2007/02/16/AR2007021602017_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco\',\'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602017.html\',\'After years of falling short, advocates of requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are again waging that fight in Congress -- and this time, they say, the odds are in their favor. 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Really.\" 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/2007/02/16/AR2007021602017.html%3Freferrer=yahoo&title=New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco&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/2007/02/16/AR2007021602017.html%3Freferrer=reddit&title=New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco\" 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/2007/02/16/AR2007021602017.html?referrer=facebook\')+\'&t=\'+encodeURIComponent(\'New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco\'),\'sharer\',\'toolbar=no,width=642,height=436\'));\">Facebook</a></div></div><br clear=\"all\"/></div></div></div>\n</td></tr></table>\n<p>&quot;Congress cannot in good conscience allow the federal agency most responsible for protecting the public health to remain powerless to deal with the enormous risks of tobacco, the most deadly of all consumer products,&quot; said <a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000105/\" target=\"\">Sen. Edward M. Kennedy</a> (D-Mass.), the lead sponsor and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.</p><p>&quot;This bill is long overdue,&quot; said <a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/w000215/\" target=\"\">Rep. Henry A. Waxman</a> (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee and the lead sponsor in the House. &quot;Despite the fact that cigarettes kill over 400,000 Americans each year, and despite the fact this is the most toxic substance that is sold legally and when used as intended has the potential to kill, there is virtually no regulation of tobacco by the federal government.&quot;</p><p>Rhetoric like this has been flying around Capitol Hill for years. The FDA claimed the authority to regulate tobacco in the mid-1990s during the Clinton administration, but the effort was challenged by tobacco companies and overturned by the Supreme Court in 2000. What followed were several attempts to pass legislation in Congress, many of which attracted broad-based support -- including from cigarette maker Philip Morris USA. But invariably the bills hit an impasse and died. Legislation to regulate tobacco won approval in the Senate in 2004, but GOP leaders never allowed a vote on it in the House, the bill\'s supporters say.</p><p>Now, with Democrats in control of Congress for the first time since 1994, proponents say the legislation has a far better chance.</p><p>&quot;This is the year when we can pass meaningful legislation,&quot; said <a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/d000136/\" target=\"\">Rep. Thomas M. Davis</a> III, the lead GOP sponsor in the House, whose father died of emphysema.</p><p><a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001056/\" target=\"\">Sen. John Cornyn</a> (Tex.), the top Republican sponsor in the Senate, said 54 percent of smokers take up the habit before age 18. The legislation &quot;is the best way to address the public health concerns and the marketing concerns we have about children being targeted and addicted to a drug like nicotine,&quot; he said.</p><p>The FDA would have the power to end vending-machine and self-service sales, prohibit tobacco advertising near schools and playgrounds, ban fruit- or candy-flavored cigarettes and stop cigarette makers from using claims such as &quot;light&quot; or &quot;low-tar&quot; unless they are scientifically proven.</p><p>The White House, generally no fan of expanding government regulation, referred calls to the Department of Health and Human Services, where a spokeswoman said officials were still reviewing the legislation. It is supported by groups such as the American Heart Association and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, and it once again has the backing of market leader Philip Morris USA, maker of Marlboro cigarettes.</p><p>&quot;In the long term, it\'s good for our business if fewer people get sick and die from smoking,&quot; said Steven C. Parrish, a senior vice president of Altria Group Inc., Philip Morris\'s parent company.</p><p>But R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. plans to fight the legislation, saying it would help entrench Philip Morris\'s dominant position by limiting advertising opportunities, something Philip Morris denies.</p><p>&quot;If you eliminate ways for competition to communicate with an audience, common sense and logic tells you that the primary beneficiary of that is the marketplace leader,&quot; said Reynolds spokesman David Howard, who added that the company was open to discussing &quot;reasonable&quot; regulation.</p><p><a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/b001135/\" target=\"\">Sen. Richard Burr</a> (R-N.C.) has said he opposes the bill. Another potential roadblock is Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000355/\" target=\"\">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-Ky.), whose state is also home to many tobacco growers.</p><p>&quot;I am concerned that giving the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco will have a major impact our farmers, therefore, I will closely review the legislation . . . to ensure that it not only protects our children but also the farmers, their families and the communities they support,&quot; McConnell said in a statement.</p><p>Daniel E. Smith, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, a lobbying group, predicted &quot;a heck of a fight with Senator McConnell.&quot; But Smith said Cornyn\'s support should help garner the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster in the Senate.</p><p>Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said, &quot;This will be a dogfight because the opposition is well funded and will stop at no end, but it appears there is now a broad bipartisan consensus to push it over the top.&quot;</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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Extroverts draw energy from engaging with the outside world and especially from being with other people; introverts need time alone to recharge.</p><p>\"Extroverts dominate public life,\" Jonathan Rauch wrote in a 2003 Atlantic Monthly article. \"Look at Bill Clinton. They seem to come fully to life only around other people.\" On the other hand, the introvert\'s motto is, \"I\'m okay, you\'re okay -- in small doses.\" His personal recharging formula, Rauch wrote, is \"roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing.\"</p><p>I identified myself as an introvert when I first read Jung in college, but thought little more about it for years. In my late 30s, that conclusion was reinforced by the \"personality type\" Myers-Briggs test, which a group of friends and I, living in Europe because of our husbands\' jobs, took in the hope of finding careers better suited to juggling with small children and our \"trailing spouse\" situations.</p><p>Thanks in part to the proliferation of such personality tests -- Myers-Briggs is taken by about 2.5 million Americans each year and given increasingly by corporations to new job applicants -- the terms introvert and extrovert have entered common parlance. Understanding is another matter.</p><p>As Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in a Time magazine column about personality tests, \"Their chief function as far as I could tell . . . was to weed out the introverts. When asked whether you\'d rather be the life of the party or curl up with a book, the correct answer is always, \'Party!\' \"</p><p>Then there are the pop psychology \"type\" tests in women\'s magazines and self-help books that include blatantly stupid questions such as the extrovert indicator, \"Do you feel annoyed with slow drivers?\" -- as if no introvert besides me is ever late and/or stuck behind someone lost in D.C. Typically, the book that question comes from -- Malcolm Godwin\'s \"Who Are You? 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself\" -- paints introverts as \"over-critical,\" \"pessimistic\" and \"anxious,\" and describes them as feeling \"unaccepted, unacceptable or simply inferior.\"</p><p>It\'s enough to make an introvert mad.</p><p>Jung cautioned that people tend to value their own psychological type the most. Extroverts in particular have trouble acknowledging the opposite tendencies. \"You can\'t be an introvert,\" one of my most extroverted colleagues insists. \"You have lots of friends.\"</p><p>I first got in touch with my inner introvert when we moved to Washington and I began \"career counseling,\" a sort of moral support for my ever-changing job description, from mental health counselor to journalist to writing teacher, to name a few. At the time, I was trying to help my younger son, Oliver, overcome his learning disabilities. The professionals I met with in both cases kept talking and talking about what it means to be an introvert.</p><p>\"Look at yourself, working at home, and then think about Oliver in school with people in his face for seven or eight hours a day,\" Serena Wieder, the therapist working with my son, said to me. \"Once he can organize his own time and activities, Oliver will do fine.\"</p><p>Slowly, various conundrums of my life became clearer: Why, once I\'d begun working at home, I dreaded the thought of returning to eight-hour-plus days surrounded by people. Or why, when friends urged me to share a spur-of-the-moment meal by saying, &quot;You <i>need</i> to eat sometime,&quot; I often longed to tell them, &quot;No, thank you, I need to eat <i>alone</i>.&quot; Any situation that demands a quick reaction is difficult for introverts; we need more time than extroverts do to reflect. So no matter how many times I silently repeat my mantra, &quot;Don\'t answer right away,&quot; agreeing to lunch is often easier.</p><p>My greatest ongoing challenge as an introvert is arguing with extroverts, notably my older son, a high school debater. When Edmund told me about a last-minute debate trip that would prevent him from coming on our family spring vacation, I was speechless with disappointment and thoughts of our nonrefundable plane tickets. Over the next few hours, I pulled together my objections, we negotiated, I gave in on other demands, and Edmund joined the family plan.</p><p>Since my introversion epiphany, I\'ve learned to sidestep back-to-back social events, because more than one in a row makes them all a wash. Even when begged, I fret less about saying no. And when something truly important, such as a high school graduation, takes over my life for days on end, afterward I spend hours behind a closed door with a thick thriller, guilt-free.</p><p>My enormous, extended and extroverted family still poses a challenge, especially on the small island where we converge for a few weeks every summer. My gregarious stepmother invites friends as well as family members to \"come chat\" on her king-size bed, where she makes everyone feel cozy -- including me, though the mere thought of anyone coming to chat on my own private retreat makes me shudder.</p><p>But the family is making strides in recognizing its introverted minority.</p><p>Recently at the formal dining table in my parents\' house, my 4-year-old nephew sat eating cantaloupe pieces cut into sizes awkward for his small spoon. He stared up at his mother, my stepsister, who asked, \"You want to go eat that by yourself, sweetie?\" With a silent nod, holding the bowl in two plump hands, Gates wriggled down from the large chair and trundled out of the dining room. Such a thing would never have been allowed or even imagined in all my years at that table.</p><p>\"Sometimes,\" his mother said, in response to my glance, \"he prefers to be alone.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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Its goal is to eliminate the messy family feuds that often occur when relatives of hospital patients block visitors they don\'t like, he said.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<title></title><div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>Online Resources</h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\" style=\"padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarbox\" style=\"color: #333;\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/metro/special/7/index.html\"><img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/graphics/vaPolitics_header.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2006 Elections\"></a>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 7px; margin-top: 5px; border-top: 1px #ccc dashed;\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2007/01/08/CU2007010800401.html\"><img src=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign06/keyrace_14x15.gif\" border=\"0\"></a>\nWhat\'s Coming?<br><a style=\"padding-left: 20px; font-weight: bold;\" a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2007/01/08/CU2007010800401.html\">Key Issues in 2007</a>\n</p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 7px; margin-top: 5px; border-top: 1px #ccc dashed;\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/05/DI2007010501472.html\"><img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign06/images/chat_25x18.gif\" border=\"0\"></a>\nLocal Politics Chat <br>\n<a style=\"padding-left: 20px; font-weight: bold;\" a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/05/DI2007010501472.html\">Transcript: Assembly Opens</a>\n</p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 7px; margin-top: 5px; border-top: 1px #ccc dashed;\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/metro/special/2/index.html\"><img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign06/images/mostViewed_14x15.gif\" border=\"0\"></a>\nLatest Headlines <br>\n<a style=\"padding-left: 20px; font-weight: bold;\" a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/metro/special/7/index.html\">Virginia Politics Coverage</a>\n</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div>\n</div>\n\n<title></title><!-- <div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>Blog</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\"><div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<div class=\"columnist\">\n<div class=\"blurb\">\n<h3><a href=\"http://blog.washingtonpost.com/richmondreport/\">Richmond Report</a></h3>\n<p>News and notes on Virginia politics.</p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" style=\"border-top: 1px #ccc dashed; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\">&#8226; <a href=\"http://blog.washingtonpost.com/richmondreport/\">Read more</a> | <img src=\"http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/article/pieces/articleIcon_rss_25x13.gif\" alt=\"XML\" border=\"0\" class=\"xmlfeed\" /> <a href=\"http://blog.washingtonpost.com/richmondreport/index.xml\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"></div></div></div></div><strong></strong> -->\n\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/2007/02/18/AR2007021801251_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Surprising Unity on Va. 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The fact that the measure would extend a protection to same-sex couples has eluded most state lawmakers, who, despite many deeply conservative members who adamantly supported last year\'s amendment, have voted unanimously in favor of the bill.</p><p>\"Everybody had an opportunity to look at the bill and weigh in,\" Englin said. \"There was nothing nefarious going on there. People understand that this bill helps a large number of people, including particular groups of people like the gay community and the elderly, who are especially vulnerable to these hospital visitation situations.\"</p><p>Several lawmakers, including self-described conservatives, said they have no problem protecting a patient\'s right to choose visitors, even if that means extending protection to same-sex partners.</p><p>\"I don\'t see why it would matter to anybody,\" said Sen. James K. \"Jay\" O\'Brien Jr. (R-Fairfax). \"Why would anybody say no to that?\"</p><p>But Del. Thomas D. Gear (R-Hampton) said it gives him \"some heartburn\" to learn after the fact that the bill might protect gay men and lesbians.</p><p>Englin\'s bill, which was passed unanimously  by a House of Delegates committee, the full House and a Senate committee, would require hospitals to add a provision to their visitation policies allowing adult patients, and not their relatives, to choose their visitors. At the hospitals\' request, the provision would not preempt existing visitation policies, particularly those related to a patient\'s medical condition or the comfort of other patients. An example would be limits on the number of visitors at one time.</p><p>The measure heads to the Senate floor Monday. At issue is a common hospital scenario in which visitors are denied access to patients because a relative declares them unwelcome -- for example, Englin said,  a hospitalized elderly widower who has a new girlfriend his adult children don\'t like. Depending on a hospital\'s policy, those children might be able to prevent the girlfriend from visiting the patient despite his own wish to see her.</p><p>\"There was a really horrible situation in Staunton where two women, best friends, both married, their husbands passed away -- they found themselves elderly and widowed and they decided to move in together,\" Englin said. \"It was nothing romantic. They were just roommates. They wanted to live out their days together. One was hospitalized on her deathbed, and the other was not allowed to visit because she wasn\'t family.\"</p><p>That example is one reason why AARP Virginia supports Englin\'s bill. It\'s also why the hospitals do: Hospitals are glad for a state law that would extricate their nurses and administrators from sometimes unpleasant family feuds.</p><p>\"This bill actually helps hospitals clarify visitation policy and gets them out of the middle of a very complicated family situation,\" said Katharine M. Webb, senior vice president of the Virginia Hospital &amp; Healthcare Association.</p><p>Although Englin emphasized that the bill carries a \"broad purpose\" that goes beyond gay rights, he said that granting protections to same-sex couples is, in his view, an added benefit. In fact, Englin said it was just such a scenario that inspired him to introduce the bill. Last year at a forum about the marriage amendment, Englin met Mike Rankin, a psychiatrist in Arlington County who was denied the right to visit his dying partner in a Seattle hospital because the man\'s ex-wife barred him from the facility.</p><p>\"She had said a visit by me would be disruptive to his children and depressing to his children, so I was not allowed to visit,\" Rankin recalled. \"All I knew was that I couldn\'t get in to see the man who had been the light of my life for six years.\"</p><p>Added Englin: \"It\'s terrible and tragic that patients\' wishes were not honored, and that caused a lot of pain.</p><p>\"This bill is intended to correct that and make these tragedies not happen again.\"</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1804','1','<p>Pregnant and nursing women, as well as those who want to conceive, are advised in the United States to avoid certain types of seafood and to limit consumption of other varieties as a way to reduce potential ill effects from mercury and other contaminants.</p><p>But a new report from a huge, ongoing research project in the United Kingdom suggests that if women skimp on seafood during pregnancy it may be detrimental to their children.</p><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"238\"><tr><td width=\"10\"></td><td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><b></b></div><div class=\"sidebar\"><h2>\nGraphic</h2><div class=\"sidebarcontent\">\n<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/08/07/GR2006080700867.html\" target=\"\">Comparing Benefits and Risks of Popular Seafood</a><br/>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"></div></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/2007/02/16/AR2007021602259_Technorati.html\') ;\ntechnorati.article = new item(\'Pregnant? 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Just ask Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, whose female relatives were so worried about the reports of contaminants in fish that they were ready to give up all seafood when they became pregnant. \"I said, \'No, no, no, you have to eat fish,\' \" Rimm relates. \"There\'s so much more benefit than risk.\"</p><p>The latest findings, published last week in the journal the Lancet, confirm his advice. Drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a project involving about 14,000 women and their kids, they show that the benefits of eating most types of seafood during pregnancy far outweigh any risks.</p><p>What surprised scientists most is that women who ate 12 ounces or less of seafood per week -- the amount that pregnant and nursing mothers are advised to stick to by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency -- \"were almost 50 percent more likely to have children with low verbal IQ scores compared with women who exceeded the advisory,\" says Joseph R. Hibbeln, a researcher at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and co-author of the report.</p><p>At age 3, children whose mothers ate less seafood during pregnancy were more likely to have social and communication problems with their peers, Hibbeln says. By ages 7 and 8, they tended to have more behavioral problems and trouble with fine motor skills and were more likely to have lower academic scores, Hibbeln says.</p><p>Indeed, skimping on seafood during pregnancy appears to produce the very problems that scientists feared could occur from eating too much seafood containing mercury. \"Advice to limit seafood consumption could actually be detrimental,\" concludes the study\'s team, which includes scientists from the University of Bristol.</p><p>The ALSPAC report is the third in recent years to find few or no adverse effects from consuming most types of seafood during pregnancy.</p><p>Will the current advice change? That\'s not yet known. The EPA and the FDA still have to review the latest findings. And some scientists, including Rimm, think that it\'s too soon to do more than reword the advice so women understand that 12 ounces per week is a goal, not a limit. That way, he says, women won\'t \"think that they should be eating zero to 12 ounces per week.\"</p><p>Here\'s a sampling of the latest nutritional advice for women who are pregnant, nursing or planning to conceive:</p><p><i>Choose seafood lowest in mercury.</i> The more variety, the better. Don\'t sweat the nutritional consequences of wild vs. farmed fish. A recent Harvard School of Public Health report showed that farm-raised fish contains as much, if not more, healthy omega-3 fatty acids as wild species do. Good choices include salmon, herring, sardines, anchovies, catfish, shrimp and light tuna. 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INSERT INTO `dede_addonarticle` VALUES('1805','1','<p><i></i></p><p>If you\'re just getting into regular weight training, or have hit a plateau in your progress, here\'s an offbeat suggestion: Accentuate the negative. 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You\\\'ll get a positive boost for your workout, and you\\\'ll show up those grunt-and-jerks at the next bench for the ignoramuses they are. Negative strength training -- also known as negative resistance training (NRT) or eccentric muscle training -- is the yin to the yang of a particular exercise. If you are working your bicep by lifting a dumbbell, for example, you\\\'re using concentric muscle action -- meaning that the muscle is contracting. 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Negative strength training -- also known as negative resistance training (NRT) or eccentric muscle training -- is the yin to the yang of a particular exercise. If you are working your bicep by lifting a dumbbell, for example, you\'re using concentric muscle action -- meaning that the muscle is contracting. 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If you are working your bicep by lifting a dumbbell, for example, you\'re using concentric muscle action -- meaning that the muscle is contracting. Eccentric, or negative, action refers to the lengthening of a muscle, as when you lower the weight or allow a machine to retrieve the bar.</p><p>The power of negative thinking, so to speak, is based on a little-known fact: A muscle can handle substantially more weight when it\'s lengthening than when it\'s contracting, when you\'re fighting either gravity or the machine\'s recoil. That means the alternate part of the exercise -- the exhale move, the release, the return -- which is so often shrugged off, should really be exploited as a work-down. Practicing controlled returns, with the muscles fully engaged, is like adding an extra set for the opposing muscles without changing machines or moves. (It\'s true: Less is more.)</p><p>This counterpoint of positive and negative exercise is what makes Pilates so effective as a conditioner; it emphasizes simultaneous concentric and eccentric motion. It\'s also the reason that \"SuperSlow\" training can produce benefits so quickly. SuperSlow, developed in 1982 as part of a program to help women with osteoporosis weight-train more safely, emphasizes a longer, more sustained motion than traditional weight lifting. Instead of curling a bicep in a second or two and releasing it almost as fast -- in the kind of rhythm you might use when combining light weights with cardio in a sculpting class -- SuperSlow practitioners use a count of 10 for the exertion move and four or five for the return. Some trainers even recommend a 10-and-10 count.</p><p>Think it\'s a weeny move? Prepare to be humbled. You can\'t cheat the weight by jerking or forcing, so it\'s less easy than it sounds. Slow-regimen training also requires close concentration because, if you let your form slip, you can strain something. So start with a lighter weight and remember to move smoothly, sustain muscle tension throughout the exercise (especially in the abs, another extra benefit), continue to breathe evenly and keep your shoulders out of your ears.</p><p>Research suggests that negative training is less stressful on the body as a whole, while paradoxically causing more microscopic muscle tearing. (The latter is actually a good thing: Because the body sews up these tiny muscle tears with extra stitching, so to speak, the muscle gets stronger.) One study of elderly people that compared traditional and negative training regimens found that eccentric exercise increased strength and improved balance to boot. (It also means that the showoff over there -- the one jerking huge weights up and then clanking them down -- is not only doing his lower back no good, he\'s also wasting half a set\'s worth of time and energy. So you can allow yourself a small, superior smile.)</p><p>There are a couple of ways to use negatives to your advantage. If you have a trainer or training partner, you can work your way up to heavier weights by having your companion help with the \"positive\" motion, giving you that little extra boost or lift, but completing the return movement on your own.</p><p>If you work out alone, try using both arms (or both legs) for the exertion move, but only one for the release. This is primarily for machine work, such as seated chess presses where you can use a pedal to help release the weight, although you can also adapt some elastic cord or free-weight exercise. Some professional weight trainers use a reverse SuperSlow, with a shorter concentric count and a longer release. Again, you should be particularly attentive to form if you do this because there\'s a tendency to relax the abs or curve the back if nobody reminds you.</p><p>There\'s also another type of \"negative\" exercise. If you\'re new to a particular exercise, it might help to start with a reverse version and work up to the conventional form. For example, one of the best ways to strengthen ankles is an old dancer\'s exercise for which the traditional starting position is on your toes -- actually, up high on the balls of the feet. From there, you bounce down and back up 20 or 30 times, keeping the legs, ankles and feet all straight. But if the muscles (and tendons) in your feet and legs are too weak to keep your ankles from wobbling, you can start with your feet flat on the floor, rise cleanly (and without letting your ankles bend out) until you\'re up as if on stiletto heels, then lower down. As you get stronger, you can do two sets from the down position and one set from the up position, and so on.</p><p>Similarly, if you want to start doing full-body push-ups and haven\'t found the knees-down position comfortable (or really useful), you might try starting on your hands and knees, then extending your legs -- keeping your back plank-straight from shoulder to toes -- and lowering yourself slowly to the floor.</p><p>Return to your hands and knees, push up into the plank position and lower yourself again. This is tougher than you think. But eventually you\'ll gain enough strength to be able to substitute traditional push-ups and then whole sets of the real thing.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
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As always, you can <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/15/DI2007021500792.html\" target=\"\">join</a> live, or <a href=\"http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_squires5.htm\" target=\"\">leave your comments</a>, questions and tips ahead of time, then check the <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401720.html\" target=\"\">transcript</a> later. And if you ever need to find a <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032500803.html\" target=\"\">past Lean Plate Club column</a>, they are also archived.</p><P><FONT FACE=\"Arial,Helvetica\" COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=\"-1\"><B>Food Recalls</B><br/><!-- BREAK --></FONT><hr size=\"1\" align=\"left\" color=\"#cccccc\"></P><p>Add peanut butter, <a href=\"http://www.dole.com/CompanyInfo/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.jsp?ID=1178\" target=\"\">cantaloupe</a> and one variety of baby <a href=\"http://www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/bacteria/index.htm\" target=\"\">food</a> to the list of foods that have been the subject of <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021600898.html\" target=\"\">recent investigations</a> because of <a href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/salmonellosis_2007/outbreak_notice.htm\" target=\"\">safety concerns</a>. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has <a href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/salmonellosis_2007/q_and_a.htm\" target=\"\">information to help</a> you if you think that you or your family members may have been affected. The National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has additional information about <a href=\"http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/Salmonellosis.htm\" target=\"\">salmonella.</a>, the bacteria that\'s been found in Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as <a href=\"http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2007/February/docs/01features_02.htm\" target=\"\">tips on how to figure out</a> if your upset stomach or diarrhea might be caused by an unwelcome addition to your food.</p><p>As for cantaloupe, they were sold in cartons by the <a href=\"http://www.dole.com/CompanyInfo/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.jsp?ID=1178\" target=\"\">Dole company</a> to fruit wholesalers in the United States and Canada between Feb. 5 and Feb. 8.</p><p>Meanwhile, on Friday , the Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01566.html\" target=\"\">advised</a> consumers not to use certain jars of Earth\'s Best Organic 2 Apple Peach Barley Wholesome Breakfast Baby Food because it could be contaminated with botulinum clostridium, the bacteria that causes deadly botulism. Check out <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/photos/earthsbest021607.html\" target=\"\">pictures</a> of the labels online, as well as an <a href=\"http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/pilot.html\" target=\"\">FDA pilot program</a> to help keep consumers better informed of recalls.</p><p>From E. coli in spinach to salmonella in peanut butter, what effect are these recent outbreaks of food-borne illness having on your eating habits? Tell us in today\'s Lean Plate Club Web chat, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. As always, you can <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/15/DI2007021500792.html\" target=\"\">join</a> live, or <a href=\"http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_squires5.htm\" target=\"\">leave your comments</a>, questions and tips ahead of time, then check the <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401720.html\" target=\"\">transcript</a> later.</p><P><FONT FACE=\"Arial,Helvetica\" COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=\"-1\"><B>Body Size</B><br/><!-- BREAK --></FONT><hr size=\"1\" align=\"left\" color=\"#cccccc\"></P><p>Looking emaciated may be stylish in Hollywood, but women of color are helping to expand the image of healthy women with their <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501879.html\" target=\"\">own body types</a>. What do you think about this trend? Weigh in with your thoughts in today\'s Lean Plate Club Web chat, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. As always, you can <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/15/DI2007021500792.html\" target=\"\">join</a> live, or <a href=\"http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_squires5.htm\" target=\"\">leave your comments</a>, questions and tips ahead of time. Then check the <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401720.html\" target=\"\">Web transcript</a> later.</p><p>And while we\'re on the topic of various body types, you won\'t want to miss <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602263.html\" target=\"\">the story in today\'s Health section</a> about body image in adolescents. Plus, the same company that featured regular women in their underwear is now tackling age. <a href=\"http://www.doveproage.com/home.asp\" target=\"\">Check out</a> Dove\'s latest commercial and then <a href=\"http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_squires5.htm\" target=\"\">tell us what you think</a>.</p><P><FONT FACE=\"Arial,Helvetica\" COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=\"-1\"><B>Move It!</B><br/><!-- BREAK --></FONT><hr size=\"1\" align=\"left\" color=\"#cccccc\"></P><p>The <a href=\"http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3045524\" target=\"\">American Heart Association\'s</a> new guidelines for women call for 60 to 90 minutes daily of activity. So there\'s no better time to get moving.</p><p>Boot camp exercise is increasingly popular. If you\'ve ever wondered what this rigorous morning workout is like, we\'ve got <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500391.html\" target=\"\">answers</a> as well as the <a href=\"http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500522.html\" target=\"\">10 Hut</a> things you need to know. Also, find <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500521.html\" target=\"\">tips</a> on locating a good boot camp in the Washington metro region as well as what to expect during a week of <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500432.html\" target=\"\">workouts.</a></p><p>Breathe in. Breathe out. Pilates, yoga and a number of other activities help you focus on breathing while you <a href=\"http://www.ideafit.com/pdf/022007_thescience.pdf\" target=\"\">exercise</a>.</p><p>Balance and flexibility are important for all ages but are particularly helpful to counter the unsteadiness and loss of muscle that occurs with more birthdays. That makes weight training, stretching and activities such as T\'ai Chi Chuan allies in staying strong. You don\'t have to find a class to learn T\'ai Chi. There are plenty of DVD\'s and videotapes to <a href=\"http://www.tai-chi.com/wproduct.php?id=18\" target=\"\">help you</a>.</p><p>Then learn how you <a href=\"http://www.squeezeoc.com/squeezeoc/livingitup/hobbiesoutdoors/article_1366818.php\" target=\"\">can have fun,</a> work out and ... find love.</p><p>Your feet support you all day. Why not do something for them? Natural Health magazine offers <a href=\"http://www.naturalhealthmag.com/health/exercises/14\" target=\"\">simple exercises</a> to help put your best foot forward.</p><p>Gin Miller\'s <a href=\"http://www.ginmiller.com/gmf06/gmf_store/workouts/simply_series/simply_step.html\" target=\"\">Classic Step</a>, a nonstop 50 minute workout helped shake off the winter doldrums in my workout this weekend. What did you do to stay active? Tell us how you\'re doing it in <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/15/DI2007021500792.html\" target=\"\">today\'s Web chat</a>.</p><p></p><P><FONT FACE=\"Arial,Helvetica\" COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=\"-1\"><B>What\'s for Dinner Tonight?</B><br/><!-- BREAK --></FONT><hr size=\"1\" align=\"left\" color=\"#cccccc\"></P><p>Just in time for Fat Tuesday, Cooking Light magazine has <a href=\"http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=222345&package_id=595335\" target=\"\">Cajun Shrimp and Corn Bisque</a>. <i><a href=\'http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&amp;id=recipe4326&amp;layout=edf&amp;subStyleType=recipes\'>Rigatoni with Tomatoes and Mozzarella</a></i> is ready in 20 minutes. It\'s from Everyday Food\'s light menus. Calories aren\'t included in the information provided but a quick calculation suggests that this meal has about 450 to 500 calories per serving. So go easy on whatever else you serve with it. (It should be pretty filling. Tip: make it with whole wheat pasta for even more fiber.)</p><p><a href=\"http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe4830172&layout=edf&edfParentCat=cat17924&subStyleType=recipes&catid=cat17924\" target=\"\">Pork Chops with Rice Noodles and Bok Choy</a> makes a one-dish wonder that\'s ready in 25 minutes.</p><p>Chinese New Year started on Feb. 18, so in honor of that how about some <i><a href=\'http://www.friedas.com/recipedetail.cfm?ref=139\'>Occidental Dumpling Soup</a></i> from Freida\'s, the specialty market in Southern California credited with introducing spaghetti squash as well as other produce to the American market. Add to this meal: <a href=\"http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=689958\" target=\"\">20-Minute Peking Duck</a> from Cooking Light.</p><p>Short on time? Check out the <a href=\"http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=222133\" target=\"\">Altuna Melt</a>, which uses canned tuna and other easy ingredients that you can keep on hand.</p><p>For those days when you don\'t have what a recipe calls for, chef and food writer David Joachim has solutions with <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0778801195\" target=\"\">the Food Substitution\'s Bible</a>: More Than 5,000 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment and Techniques. It\'s a winner of the best reference guide from the <a href=\"http://www.iacp.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=157\" target=\"\">International Association of Culinary Professionals</a>.</p><p>My food find this week: grapefruit vinegar from Trader Joe\'s. And my recipe experiment: I made a sweet potato, wild rice, blood orange, slivered almond version of potato latkes. Okay, so what healthy foods have you discovered? Got a recipe you\'d like to share? As always, you can <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/15/DI2007021500792.html\" target=\"\">join</a> live, or <a href=\"http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_squires5.htm\" target=\"\">leave your comments</a>, questions and tips ahead of time, then check the <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401720.html\" target=\"\">transcript</a> later.</p></div></div><br clear=\"all\">\n');
