�Recently, PSA or prostate-specific antigen, screening made headlines when a US Preventive Task Force recommended that men over the years 75 lay off screening for prostate crab. While at that place is presently no definitive data regarding improvement in survival from screening for prostate crab using the PSA test, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) experience now shown that manpower who had been screened for a longer period of time using PSA tests were less likely to have adverse features of prostate gland cancer at the time of diagnosing. These results are promulgated in the August 15, 2008 issue of Cancer.
"While we are awaiting the results from big clinical trials, this information can be helpful to doctors and patients alike who are looking for circumstantial evidence regarding the role of PSA screening," said Neil Martin, MD, a investigator and dr. in Radiation Oncology at BWH. "This research behind be added to the body of literature suggesting that screening may cut prostate malignant neoplastic disease deaths."
Researchers evaluated more than 1,000 manpower who had been screened for prostate cancer and compared them based on treatment dates. Treatment in the form of radical prostatectomy occurred either before 1995, 'tween 1995 and 1998 or after 1998. Martin and colleagues compared the change in PSA scores - or the PSA speed which is of known prognostic time value - for each radical. They base that manpower who had their PSA tested routinely over longer periods of time were less likely to have adverse features associated with their prostate cancer when compared to men wHO had less screening. Researchers also reputation that all over the time period in which the PSA test was usable, fewer workforce were diagnosed with prostate gland cancer that had adverse features.
"While the US Preventive Task Force recommends against screening for elder men, these results - and other published studies - show that PSA screening whitethorn be an effective peter in reducing the number of prostate cancer deaths," said Anthony D'Amico, head of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology at BWH and senior author of the
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Monday, 25 August 2008
Mp3 music: Joan as Police Woman
 Artist: Joan as Police Woman: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Joan as Police Woman's discography:  Real Life Year: 2006 Tracks: 10 Described by Joan Wasser as "punk rock john Rock R&B" and "American soul music," Joan as Police Woman unite two of the biggest influences on her music: classical somebody such as Al Green and Nina Simone and the rougher, observational sounds of Sonic Youth and Bad Brains. The desegregate never sounds artificial, thanks to the intuitive interplay of Wasser's vocals, violins, and guitar, Rainy Orteca's basso, and Ben Perowsky's percussion. Wasser, wHO has played with everyone from the Scissor Sisters to Lou Reed, began playing fiddle at age vIII patch attendance form school in Norwalk, CT. At Boston University, she studied fiddle with Yuri Mazurkevich and likewise played with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, and expanded her horizons to rock with local acts including Hot Trix (which featured Autoclave member and Helium founder Mary Timony) and the Dambuilders, which went on to national success. Wasser likewise played with Timony and Shudder to Think's Nathan Larson in Mind Science of the Mind, which released their self-titled album in 1996. The following year, the Dambuilders disbanded and Wasser's swain, Jeff Buckley, drowned incidentally in Memphis, TN. Wasser unbroken on making music, collaborating with the Grifters' Dave Shouse and Buckley's onetime guitar player Michael Tighe in Those Bastard Souls in the late '90s, and then with Tighe in Black Beetle, which folded in the early 2000s. Along with working as a fiddler for hire with artists as diverse as Sheryl Crow, Hal Willner, Rufus Wainwright, and Antony and the Johnsons, Wasser developed her have songwriting, and formed Joan as Police Woman in 2002. She met Perowsky during his stint as drummer for Elysian Fields; like Wasser, he collaborated with many forward-thinking artists, including John Cale, John Zorn, and Roy Ayers. Similarly, Orteca (wHO is likewise a writer, editor program, and graphic designer) has worked with many of New York City's finest, ranging from Antony and the Johnsons to Sarah Silverman to White Magic. Joan as Police Woman released their starting time single, My Gurl, early in 2003, and self-released the Joan as Police Woman EP in 2004. The mathematical group signed to the British tag Reveal, which issued their full-length debut, Real Life, in summertime 2006, along with the Ageless Flame, Christobel, and The Ride singles. Real Life was released in the U.S. in summertime 2007. |
Friday, 15 August 2008
Many Hispanic Immigrants Adopt Unhealthy Lifestyles Upon Arrival To U.S.
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The Washington Post on Tuesday examined how "emigrating from pitiful rural life in Central America to poor urban and suburban life" in the U.S. can movement immigrants to adopt new unhealthy eating habits that can pencil lead to obesity, diabetes, pump disease and other ailments. Nationwide, fleshiness and diabetes rates among Hispanics are reaching record levels, according to CDC and other organizations. Hispanics also ar nearly twice as likely to die from diabetes and have much higher rates of high blood pressure.
Lifestyle changes largely put up to immigrants' increased health risks. For example, jobs such as construction and housekeeping bring forth "constant physical effort, just virtually no beneficial utilisation," according to the Post. Diets besides change from "cooking rice and beans, which lack many vitamins," to foods that "have too much fat," the Post reports.
According to health experts, different segments of the Hispanic population face different health lifestyle changes -- youth tend to become less active and play more video games and consume more immobile food and soda; manpower, "far from family support networks and often communion quarters with other hands, tend to drink excessively much beer and high-sugar energy beverages"; and the women working long housework hours have less time to fix healthy meals for their families, the Post reports. In addition, culture and misinformation from their aboriginal countries keep Hispanics from following healthy lifestyles. For example, in Central America and Mexico it is believed that a salubrious child should be "plump," and a thin tiddler is sick, according to the Post.
In response, several health agencies in Washington, D.C. -- where more than than five hundred,000 Hispanics, including immigrants and their native-born children, live -- are arrival out to the residential area by offering health fairs, no-cost symptomatic tests, nutritionary education, prenatal care, utilisation classes and other programs. Elmer Huerta, a cancer expert at Washington Hospital Center world Health Organization hosts a daily health advice show on Spanish radio, said, "In the first 10 years after immigrating, people gain an average of 12 pounds," adding, "They arrive
The Washington Post on Tuesday examined how "emigrating from pitiful rural life in Central America to poor urban and suburban life" in the U.S. can movement immigrants to adopt new unhealthy eating habits that can pencil lead to obesity, diabetes, pump disease and other ailments. Nationwide, fleshiness and diabetes rates among Hispanics are reaching record levels, according to CDC and other organizations. Hispanics also ar nearly twice as likely to die from diabetes and have much higher rates of high blood pressure.
Lifestyle changes largely put up to immigrants' increased health risks. For example, jobs such as construction and housekeeping bring forth "constant physical effort, just virtually no beneficial utilisation," according to the Post. Diets besides change from "cooking rice and beans, which lack many vitamins," to foods that "have too much fat," the Post reports.
According to health experts, different segments of the Hispanic population face different health lifestyle changes -- youth tend to become less active and play more video games and consume more immobile food and soda; manpower, "far from family support networks and often communion quarters with other hands, tend to drink excessively much beer and high-sugar energy beverages"; and the women working long housework hours have less time to fix healthy meals for their families, the Post reports. In addition, culture and misinformation from their aboriginal countries keep Hispanics from following healthy lifestyles. For example, in Central America and Mexico it is believed that a salubrious child should be "plump," and a thin tiddler is sick, according to the Post.
In response, several health agencies in Washington, D.C. -- where more than than five hundred,000 Hispanics, including immigrants and their native-born children, live -- are arrival out to the residential area by offering health fairs, no-cost symptomatic tests, nutritionary education, prenatal care, utilisation classes and other programs. Elmer Huerta, a cancer expert at Washington Hospital Center world Health Organization hosts a daily health advice show on Spanish radio, said, "In the first 10 years after immigrating, people gain an average of 12 pounds," adding, "They arrive
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Lindsay Lohan says her gayness no business of LA's top cop
LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan said Friday police receive no occupation getting involved in her personal sprightliness, a mean solar day after the police tribal chief explained paparazzi are no longer an issue - in
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tigertailz
Artist: Tigertailz
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Original Sin
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Wazbones
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Guy Maddin celebrates hometown lore in new film, 'My Winnipeg'
TORONTO - Upon viewing Guy Maddin's brilliantly bizarre portrait of his Prairie hometown, it's tempting to embark on an extensive fact-checking mission into some of the filmmaker's more outrageous claims about Winnipeg.
Among other things, the strange yet tender tribute offers such unusual bragging rights as 10 times the global rate of sleepwalkers, mystical subterranean waterways, and animal stampedes that in one case sent homosexual bison careening through a children's playground and, in another, frantic race horses into a freezing river where they became logjammed and froze solid, their tormented heads dotting the snow-covered vista like morbid chess pieces.
Maddin said he set out to craft a fact-based film, but admitted he was largely driven by emotion and was at a loss to accurately describe what exactly he come up with in "My Winnipeg."
"I was commissioned (by the Documentary Channel) to make a documentary about Winnipeg and to make it personal ... but I'm still not sure what the hell it is I made, frankly," Maddin said last year from his cabin north of Gimli, Man., before hitting the festival circuit.
"At one point I was calling it a docu-fantasia, but then I thought that stressed the fantasia too much because I really pride myself on getting things right in it. ... It might be a docu-rant or a docu-gripe."
The film opens in Toronto on Friday, in Winnipeg on June 27 and other cities later.
Facts are a relative thing when it comes to the idiosyncratic mind of Maddin, whose love-hate relationship with Winnipeg is unfurled through a mix of archival footage and invented sequences that bestow alternating doses of heroism and shame on the city.
Shot largely in black and white, the film begins with a sleepy inhabitant on a train, desperately trying to flee the city - "again!" the narrator points out. But try as they might, Winnipeggers "are always lost, befuddled" by the strange pull of their snowy home, "the heart of the heart of the continent," and never quite leave.
Our hero drifts in and out of sleep as Maddin narrates provocative Winnipeg lore - the doomed creation of the Happyland amusement park in the early years of the 20th century, the notorious city seances of 1939, the simulated Nazi invasion of 1942.
Meanwhile, Maddin also revisits his own family traumas through re-enactments of childhood domestic spats featuring look-a-like actors.
Maddin, 52, insisted everything in the film is based on truth, although what constitutes truth is clearly up to interpretation.
"There are facts and then there are opinions - and to me, the originator of the opinions, that's the same thing. But I'm pretty aware of when things crossfade from fact to opinion and I always made sure the facts were carefully vetted," said Maddin, whose other outlandish experiments include "Brand Upon the Brain," "The Saddest Music in the World" and "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs."
"(Initially) I refused to do research on the movie, but once some people found out I was working on the film they would offer up stories and myths, factoids and honest-to-God rock solid history . . . whether I wanted them or not. So I'd have to corroborate them and I ended up doing research. It was really irritating and I got drawn into the thing, but everything seemed to rotate around these kind of mystical coincidences and First Nations traditions and the fact that the city is at the geographical centre of North America. And all these sort of secret Masonic and para-psychological and aboriginal things."
Two of Maddin's biggest gripes revolve around the well-documented destruction of two cherished landmarks - the city's flagship Eaton's building and the Winnipeg Arena, a facility replaced by the slick new MTS Centre on Portage Avenue that Maddin derides as the "MT" (as in "empty") centre.
"Demolition is one of our few growth industries," he intones during the film.
Still, Maddin said he loves his hometown, noting that Winnipeg has its moments of greatness and beauty, albeit ones that tend to appear on the frostiest days.
And as fantastical as "My Winnipeg" may seem, Maddin said it comprises some of Canadas greatest and truest myths that should be remembered, celebrated and passed on.
"In the shadow of America, perhaps the greatest self-mythologizers of all time, we're just too shy to even attempt a little mythology. So we've gone the other way and we make our histories and our historical figures smaller than life. But I'm just presenting them life-sized here," he said.
"What's beautiful about the myths in Winnipeg is that the best ones, anyway, actually happened."
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Cemetary
Artist: Cemetary
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Gothic
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
The Beast Divine
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Sweetest Tragedies
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Sundown
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Black Vanity
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Godless Beauty
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
An Evil Shade Of Grey
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
After obeisance in 1992 with the straightforward death alloy album An Evil Shade of Grey, the Swedish stripe Cemetary began tinkering with the genre on 1993's Goddess Beauty, incorporating both '70s stone and goth rock into the mingle. Before recording 1994's Pitch-black Vanity, vocalizer and guitar player Mathias Lodmalm laid-off the rest of the band, opting to produce the album on his have; the result pushed Cemetary further into the gothic realm. The transformation into a gothic metallic element band was fill in with the 1996 release of Sundown, which featured the new lineup of Lodmalm, Anders Iwers on guitar, Thomas Josefsson on bass, and Markus Nordberg behind the drums. Last Sundown followed in 1997.
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