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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Doc Gino:</b> Menopausal women experience vaginal dryness due to lack of estrogen--a kind of female hormone--in their body. Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) is an effective solution to this problem. Because HRT is not without complications, a thorough gynecologic evaluation is essential. I suggest that you seek medical consult to a doctor who specializes in this field.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Manila, Philippines14.5995124 120.984219514.5567674 120.93761049999999 14.6422574 121.0308285tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-21795758478563955862011-08-06T22:52:00.002+08:002011-08-06T22:52:00.157+08:00Tubig sa Baga (Pleural Effusion)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Tanong (T):</b> Hello. I just want to ask your opinion. May tubig sa baga ang father ko. Ano ang ibig sabihin noon?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Doc Gino (DG):</b> It's like this, kung meron siyang problema sa puso, sa tingin ko ay “pleural effusion” iyon. Ibig sabihin hindi mai-“pump” nang mabuti ng puso ang dugo kung kaya naiiwan sa “lungs” ang tubig. Kung tama ang hinala ko sa kondisyon niya, “medical management” ang dapat gawin at hindi surgery.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>T:</b> Delikado ba yun?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>DG:</b> Oo, delikado iyon dahil hindi makakahinga mabuti. At kapag hindi makahinga mabuti, ang “carbon dioxide” sa katawan ay hindi makakalabas at magkakaroon ng “electrolyte imbalance” sa katawan. Pwedeng maging “comatose” dahil sa magiging “acidotic siya.” Mas magiging mataas ang “acid” sa katawan na pwedeng pumunta sa utak.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>T: </b>Ano ang “medical management”?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>DG:</b> Ang “medical management” ay puro intravenous medications at fluids lamang ang ibinibigay. Nothing surgical. Kumbaga, sa suwero pinadadaan ang mga gamut. Pero kung masyadong marami ang tubig, pwedeng magkaroon ng kaunting “surgical management like for example “thoracentesis’”, isang procedure na tutusukin ang baga ng karayom para mailabas ang tubig agad-agad. “Emergency procedure” lang iyon para makahinga siya agad, tapos “aggressive medical treatment” na.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>DG:</b> We have to be realistic. There is always good hope for recovery. But also, there are many risk factors like his age, and other existing illnesses.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>T:</b> Thank you. I appreciate it very much.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Manila, Philippines14.5833333 120.9666667000000214.5433073 120.92322070000002 14.623359299999999 121.01011270000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-63791807335293561572011-06-22T07:00:00.009+08:002011-06-22T07:00:02.404+08:00Nova Scotia ordered to pay a woman for growing Cannabis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The government of Nova Scotia, Canada has been ordered to subsidize the costs of growing marijuana for the medical needs of a woman who is suffering from pain arising from a vehicular accident.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The province was told by the Income Assistance Appeals Board to pay the one-time start-up cost of $2,500 plus $100 every three months for Tanya and her husband Sam, the <em>Canadian Broadcasting Corp.</em> (CBC) said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Health Canada awarded the Amherst couple to grow 25 marijuana plants but they do not have the money to pay for the lighting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Both in their 40s, Tanya and Sam are disabled and are in welfare. They both use<em>Cannabis</em> to alleviate their pain, in a report by <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/06/20/Govt-pays-woman-to-grow-pot/UPI-17561308611281/" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">UPI</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tanya told <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/06/20/ns-medical-marijuana-growing.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CBC</a>, "When I don't smoke marijuana I have so much pain that I don't want to get out of bed. I have no energy. I don't want to do nothing."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In April 2010, a woman from Halifax was awarded financial support from the province to sponsor her use of medical marijuana, in another report by <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/04/01/ns-marijuana-dexter-review.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CBC</a>.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Amherst, NS, Canada45.829151 -64.20665745.8079235 -64.233672000000013 45.850378500000005 -64.179642tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-3445733924721215102011-06-21T08:00:00.008+08:002011-06-21T08:00:03.134+08:00Dengue vaccine out by 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Almost all (90 percent) Pakistani women experience domestic violence. Majority (82 percent) of them earn less than their male counterparts. Over 1,000 females are killed each year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In India, 44.5 percent of girls get married before they turn 18. Female infanticide and feticide are practiced such that 50 million girls had been aborted over the past century.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In Somalia, 95 percent of girls between 4 and 11 years old undergo genital mutilation. Majority (91 percent) give birth outside the hospitals which could put them at risk. Only 7.5 percent of parliament seats are held by women.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Manila, Philippines14.5833333 120.9666667000000214.5433073 120.92322070000002 14.623359299999999 121.01011270000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-11448376456283505292011-06-14T07:00:00.013+08:002011-06-14T07:00:02.659+08:008-Year-old girl becomes third rabies survivor in the US<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An 8-year-old girl became the third person in the US to have recovered from rabies infection that is most commonly acquired from the saliva of infected warm-blooded animals like dogs and cats.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not receiving post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), how Precious Reynolds of Humboldt County, California acquired the highly infectious disease is not clear but public health officials suspect that she may have been exposed to an infected wild cat near her school in Willow Creek. The responsible animal was never recovered, according to <a href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/newsdetail.html?key=5441&svr=http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu&table=published" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">UC Davis Website</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She initially complained of abdominal pain that later progressed to neurologic signs with inability to swallow, neck and back pains, loss of muscle control and inability to walk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The girl was admitted to a hospital where appendicitis and influenza were ruled out. With the progression of brain involvement and her overall health decline, she was referred to UC Davis Children's Hospital as a pediatric emergency.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Entertaining rabies, Reynolds' team of physicians and nurses followed the <em>Milwaukee</em><em></em><em>protocol</em> by medically-inducing a state of coma while administering anti-viral drugs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At least two survivors out of 25 patients were reported adhering to the first version of the protocol, whereas two survivors out of ten patients using the revised protocol survived,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The attached YouTube video shows the first person to have survived the disease in 2004 without PEP. She has already graduated in college this year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 2008, a 15-year-old Brazilian boy survived rabies without PEP also adhering to the protocol, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453244,00.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fox News</a> said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As of 2006, <a href="hhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17870631" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease</a> reported that only four countries have successfully eradicated rabies—Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the UK.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Between 1995 and 2004, the ten countries that had the highest number of human deaths due to rabies were: India (244,478), Bangladesh (22,900), China (13,995), Philippines (5,658), Viet Nam (5,183), Pakistan (2,843), Sri Lanka (2,042), Myanmar (1,683), Thailand (1,377) and Indonesia (1,208), according to <a href="http://doctorsronline.blogspot.com/2010/04/human-rabies.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WHO</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is an exciting moment in Science and Medicine. Rabies, once known to be 100 percent fatal, has now <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/712839_7" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">eight percent chances of survival</a>, scientists say. Slim chance but in time, it will likely go higher.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Humboldt Hill, CA, USA40.7259606 -124.1897819000000140.6966396 -124.20908790000001 40.7552816 -124.17047590000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-88313451196846452892011-06-06T08:00:00.009+08:002011-06-06T08:00:04.225+08:00Contraceptives for the macho<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For their male counterparts, we only know barriers like condoms and the permanent method—vasectomy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Invented more than three decades ago in India, Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance (RISUG) is a gel that contains compounds that blocks and kills sperm cells when injected into the <em>vas deferens</em> of the testis—a tube where the sperm passes through and is the site that is ligated during vasectomy, according to <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/307482" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Digital Journal</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The 15-minute injection of Vasagel (trade name in the US) offers ten year efficacy. Another injection will remove the gel to restore fertility.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Still on clinical trial in India, the gel could be available in the US in 2015 if approved according to schedule.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course, not a single modality on earth is totally risk-free.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kidney problems and swelling has been reported following the use of RISUG, <a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/10/23/stories/2002102302860900.htm" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Hindu</a> said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vitamin A is important in sperm production and this is exactly where the target of the next birth control method is all about.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">US researchers found that a chemical that blocks the body's ability to utilize vitamin A made the male laboratory mice unable to produce sperms without affecting their desire for sex, according to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/14440-male-birth-control-pill-sperm-vitamin.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Live Science</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once the compound was withheld, sperm production returned to normal levels.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because vitamin A is important for other bodily functions such as vision and ability to fight diseases, scientists are looking for other pathways in which drugs that act against the vitamin specifically in the testis without affecting other organs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this time, this method is still in the lab animals stage. When fully developed, a whole new meaning of <em>machismo</em> will be born.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The accused prescribed HIV medications to the recruits without neither laboratory confirmation nor physical examination. Some of them were found to be HIV-negative, according to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/APaec93edf37e04ec79465c0500ccb5918.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AP</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The doctor who lives in a $610,000 White Plains home, billed Medicaid for prescription. His cash-strapped patients bought the medications using state health funds. The middlemen bought the drugs from the recruits in exchange for cash and sold them illegally.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said, "By taking advantage of a program intended to assist New Yorkers who cannot afford to pay for medical care, the defendant victimized not only the neediest members of our community but also all New York taxpayers."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Facing 15 years imprisonment, Dr. Hemrajani came to the US in 1984. He has been in medical practice since 1991.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-63777876625911217282011-06-04T07:00:00.010+08:002011-06-04T07:00:01.448+08:00US researchers blind mosquitoes to combat fatal diseases<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Three classes of molecules were created by scientists at the University of California that will make mosquitoes less sensitive to smell the carbon dioxide exhaled from the human body.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a paper published in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7349/full/nature10081.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nature</a>, lead investigator Anandasankar Ray, 37, an assistant professor of entomology, the breakthrough would give additional protection against mosquito-borne diseases.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The chemicals will block the ability of the disease-carrying insects to smell of carbon dioxide people release from their body and thereby change the mosquiotes’ host-seeking behavior, in a report by <a href="http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_mosquito02.1240d23.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Press Enterprise</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the attached YouTube video, Ray said, "In my lab, we have been recently able to find odors that can specifically act on the carbon dioxide detection machinery of mosquitoes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"There is one class of compounds that can block the carbon dioxide receptor. Another class of compounds can mimic the activity of carbon dioxide, and the third class of compounds—which is the most exciting—are odors that can superactivate the mosquitoes' carbon dioxide sensor, or in other words, it blinds the carbon dioxide sensor for several minutes and they are unable to navigate towards the carbon dioxide source."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The researchers identified one of the problems with the 13 chemicals from an array of 50 found to be effective was that they are not pleasant to the nose.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a report by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Smelly-relief-Gas-that-fools-mosquitoes/articleshow/8705356.cms" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Times of India</a>, an American scientist Mark Stopfer said, "The chemicals tested so far have not been shown to be safe for humans. But the principles that these compounds reveal are definitely not safe for mosquitoes."</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-49482733248096587772011-06-03T07:00:00.008+08:002011-06-03T07:00:00.074+08:00US medical board revokes fertility doctor's license<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The medical license of a Beverly Hills obstetrician-gynecologist—who implanted 12 embryos to a 34-year-old American that resulted to the delivery of octuplets—will be revoked effective 1 July, announced by the Medical Board of California Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The State’s medical board ruled that Dr. Kamrava "committed 'gross negligence' with 'repeated negligent acts, for an excessive number of embryo transfers'" to his patient Suleman.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The American Society for Reproductive Medicine <a href="http://www.asrm.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Website</a> recommends the implantation of no more than two embryos for women with infertility problems below age 35. For women beyond 40, no more than five embryos can be implanted.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The fertility doctor was also found guilty in two separate cases, in a report by <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/a-matter-octomom-doctor-michael-kamrava.html" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LA Times</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He administered seven embryos to a 48-year-old patient. She conceived with quadruplets and her pregnancy became complicated, the medical board stated.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In another case, he administered <em>in-vitro fertilization</em> procedure to a 42-year-old with a missed diagnosis of advanced ovarian carcinoma.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-83741277312785729152011-06-01T08:00:00.010+08:002011-06-01T08:00:00.739+08:00Global father aims for 100 children<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meet Daad Mohammed Al Balushi, a 63-year-old global father from the United Arab Emirates. Yes, he is global, as he wants to be called. He is father of 90 children to date.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In June, two of his current three wives will give birth. He promised in 2002 to go for the century mark before he dies—and he is a few kids away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Al Balushi said in a report by <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9256293/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5raGFsZWVqdGltZXMuY29tL0Rpc3BsYXlBcnRpY2xlMDguYXNwP3hmaWxlPWRhdGEvdGhldWFlLzIwMTEvTWF5L3RoZXVhZV9NYXk3MTMueG1sJmFtcDtzZWN0aW9uPXRoZXVhZQ==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Khaleej Times</a>, "Next month, by the grace of God, I will be the father of 92 children."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A retired UAE Armed Forces member of 20 years, global dad now has 60 sons, 30 daughters and 50 grandchildren from mothers that came all the way from Morocco to the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I’m a global father having children from one edge of the world to another. All these were legitimate marriages. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to have more than four wives at a time. If allowed, I can manage 20 wives at a time. Now I have three wives. I will have my fourth wife after next week when I marry Rukhsana Arif from Pakistan."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Sharia Law allows four wives at a time. He would marry someone more fertile after divorcing one wife.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But don't worry, all his wives are well supported financially. "I divorce them, but look-after them thereafter, like a separate house with full financial support. Now, I have 17 houses with 17 families, all under my care."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First married at age 19, Al Balushi meets all his families at the same time in his Manamah home every week.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He said each wife receives equal time from him. "Every wife has a separate house to live with her children. Every house has a car and housemaids to look after the family."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As for his health, "I never eat frozen or canned food. I always go for the fresh—in fact my wives are also fresh because I never marry a divorcee or widow. I cannot recall visiting a hospital for treatment."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the prolific dad figured in a road accident in 1995 when he lost his leg. He will travel to Jaipur, India in June for an artificial leg, and of course, look for a new bride.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Asked why he wants an Indian wife, global dad said, "India commands the respect of the world today. There are many women around who want to marry me but I want an Indian girl as Indian women are humane, and well raised with solid values."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hi's father, Murad <span id="person_link_5848" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.allvoices.com/people/Abdul_Rahman_(convert)" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Abdul Rahman</a></span>, lived up to 110 years old and had 27 children from four wives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If he will have the same longevity, he can easily double his goal.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-44991633180898249482011-05-31T08:00:00.009+08:002011-05-31T08:00:00.396+08:00Japan: More women seeking marriage after twin calamities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Like in many modern countries, Japanese women focus on their careers and marry late. The 11 March Great East Japan Earthquake that plagued the country may have been a wake up call to many singles particularly women.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A surge in the number of singles was seen in several matchmaking sites for people seeking for lifetime partners, <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9248680/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hc2FoaS5jb20vZW5nbGlzaC9US1kyMDExMDUxNTAxNzIuaHRtbA==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Asahi.com</a> said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A 30-year-old Tokyoite employee said, "I am more worried about my future and now realize how important it is to have a family. I want to form a bond with others."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She said that the twin disasters made her rethink of her lifestyle. She experienced difficulty in sleeping. It took six hours for her to get back home on the night of the earthquake because all the transportations were shut down.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She is one among the many who availed of the matchmaking services during the Golden Week in early May.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inquiries to marriage agencies, marriages via matchmaking services and sale of engagement rings are skyrocketing, according to agencies and retailers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A 12 percent increase in the number of request for brochures was observed in April compared to 12 months before, said O-net Inc., a popular matchmaking company in the capital city.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The soaring numbers were particularly evident with women in the Kanto area, one of the worst hit areas, at 24 percent.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An agency official of the Osaka-kita branch said, "More inquiries started coming in the immediate aftermath of the quake. We are seeing a 20 percent to a 30 percent increase in the number of people becoming our members compared with the past."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After the quake, membership increased in Kanto region and in Nagano, Niigata and Yamanashi prefectures, said Sunmarie Co., another Tokyo-based company.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marriage inquiries from women rose to 30 percent post-tsunami, according to Anshin Group, a marriage company in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Fukushima branch of <em>Kekkon</em><em> Joho</em> <em>Center</em> (marriage information) noted a 50 percent rise in membership after the disasters.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"People who felt OK about being by themselves under normal circumstances must have felt a strong urge to have some kind of tangible security," said Chuo University's Professor Masahiro Yamada of Family Sociology.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A 27-year-old woman from Arizona gave birth to a 1,143-gram (2-pound-14-ounce) baby boy at 32 weeks gestational age last Monday at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Center at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, the fetus developed outside his mother's womb.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In fact, Nicolette Soto, who has been trying to conceive for nearly five years, learned at 18 weeks of her pregnancy that she has been carrying a baby who was situated at one of the horns of her uterus known as <em>cornual</em> pregnancy, <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9246024/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ueWRhaWx5bmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy9uYXRpb25hbC8yMDExLzA1LzI5LzIwMTEtMDUtMjlfYXJpem9uYV93b21hbl9kZWxpdmVyc19taXJhY2xlX2JhYnlfd2hvX2RpZF9ub3RfZ3Jvd19pbl9oZXJfd29tYi5odG1s" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">NY Daily News</a> said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This type of ectopic pregnancy is feared by most obstetricians like me. It is a high-risk pregnancy where the growing baby attached himself in a narrow and unyielding area between the mother's womb and the fallopian tube.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of the problems encountered with ectopic pregnancy is that the growing baby and the placenta will cause the tubes to rupture and may risk the life of both the mother and the fetus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Soto told <em>FOX 10</em>, "It was really scary. Just because we didn't know where the baby was and what he was attached to and what could happen."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also known as interstitial pregnancy, they occur in 2-4 percent of all tubal pregnancies or 1 in 2,500 to 5,000 live births. In general, women with this kind of pregnancy are seven times more at risk than other ectopic pregnancies. They usually rupture between 12 and 16 weeks gestational age.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr. Edwards said, "This is just a case that proves that nothing in medicine happens always or never."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Grace Aquino was killed in a collapsed building in Joplin to save her son by covering him. He sustained minor bruises, according to an email sent by viewer Dustin Dalisay to <em>Balitang America </em>on Tuesday, in a report by <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9204342/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hYnMtY2JubmV3cy5jb20vZ2xvYmFsLWZpbGlwaW5vLzA1LzI1LzExLzItZmlsaXBpbm9zLWFtb25nLWNhc3VhbHRpZXMtam9wbGluLW1pc3NvdXJpLXRvcm5hZG8=" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">ABS CBN</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a radio interview, Grace's daughter Divine told Manila's DZMM Wednesday morning, "I talked to the rescuers of my sister saying they need help, stranded. When they arrived, the building was gone. They heard a child crying." [<em>Nakausap ko 'yung nag-rescue sa kapatid ko. Noong una, nakakuha ng call from the church, [saying] they need help, stranded. Pagdating ng rescuers, wala na iyong building. Narinig [nalang] nila may sumisigaw na bata.</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The other fatality was Esterlita Moore, according to radio report.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I listened to an entertaining—but not necessarily educational—debate about one of the Philippines' hotly discussed topics these months known as the <em>Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008</em> or simply, the <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9171573/aHR0cDovL2pscC1sYXcuY29tL2Jsb2cvZnVsbC10ZXh0LW9mLWhvdXNlLWJpbGwtbm8tNTA0My1yZXByb2R1Y3RpdmUtaGVhbHRoLWFuZC1wb3B1bGF0aW9uLWRldmVsb3BtZW50LWFjdC1vZi0yMDA4Lw==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Reproductive Health (RH) Bill</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pro-RH Bill Rep. Rissa Hontiveros Baraquel and anti-RH Bill Sec. Lito Atienza Jr. belted their best wisdom on whether the country needs to pass this Bill as a Law in a debate at DZMM.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">During the afternoon debate, there was a question by Atienza if the RH Bill can answer the economic problems of the country. I think the humorous former Manila mayor failed to recognize that with or without the Bill, the economic problems stem from so many causes, one of which is government corruption.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It seems to me that the entire one-hour debate was more of a circus of issues thrown at the other side than having the listeners learn the political, health, and social impacts of the proposed Bill. In the end, I learned nothing new. It was a frustrating and disappointing exchange. Atienza failed to inject new ideas and threw jokes instead just to gain ground. Baraquel, in fairness, answered the issues correctly but I know she can do better next time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Noize Zapata</em>: Hurray for Lito! You are right, corruption is our problem. Hurray for Lito. How much did you profit from the DENR? Oh no. <em>[mabuhay ka lito! Tama ka, korapsyon ang problema ng bayan...</em><em> Mabuhay ka lito.. Magkano ba ang kinita natin sa denr? Ay nako...</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Atienza speaks well. Why don't you orphan those children roaming around Manila who were abandoned by their parents and whose hobbies are just to propagate. Sigh, the RH Bill need to be scrutinized and analyzed carefully. Pass those that are necessary and reject those that will not help the majority. [<em>ang galing magsalita ni atienza, ampunin nyo na lang ung mga batang nagkalat sa maynila na napabayaan ng magulang, hobby kasi ng mga mahihirap ang gumawa ng bata...ay nako, dapat ilatag at himayin ang napapaloob sa rh bill,ipasa ung mga dapat at d aprobahan ang di sang ayon sa nakakarami..</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Meliton Cuaycong Añano</em>: Jing Castañeda, please tell Mayor Atienza that if he were against abortion, why did he not banish all those vendors in Quiapo Church selling abortifacients when he was in power... which is still the problem of the incumbent mayor. [<em>jing castañeda pakisabi kay mayor atienza na kung kontra siya sa abortion bakit yung mga nagtitinda ng pampalaglag diyan sa quiapo church eh di niya inalis noong nakaupo siyang mayor ng maynila.........at hanggang ngayon eh problema pa rin ng mayor ngayon.......</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Michael Obrero</em>: Is the government going to impose the RH bill once enacted into law on companies whose owners' beliefs are against it and sex education on private schools notably catholic schools who are against the same? Isn't the latter an act of transgression of government over religion?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Mechaela Nica Basada</em>: I still believe that overpopulation is not the problem of this country but the never ending corruption that is.! Besides, the country will not benefit from this bill. We are only making the Western contraceptive manufacturers. They are the ones becoming rich. [<em>pinayayaman lamang natin ang mga western na nagmamanufacture ng mga contraceptives. sila lang ang yayaman.</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Antoniette Tubale</em>: We should focus on fighting corruption in the government, which is the main reason why there are so many poor people. RH Bill is not the solution. [<em>Dapat na mas bigyan ng pansin kung paano masugpo ang kurapsyon sa ating gobyerno kasi yun ang higit na pinagkakaugatan kung bakit madaming tao ang naghihirap.hindi rh bill ang solusyon.</em>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Mar P. San Pedro</em>: Riza Hontiveros you're wrong, RH bill won't solve poverty. Atienza, your political inclination sucks, even on your previous positions, but I support your anti-RH stand together with the Catholic Church.</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-2864935245057799332011-05-21T07:00:00.012+08:002011-05-21T07:00:01.122+08:00Philippine town wins UN Disaster Risk Reduction Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The municipality of San Francisco in the Camotes Island, Cebu bagged the grand prize of $25,000 from the <em>2011 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction</em> for strengthening its disaster preparedness program.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The town in Central Philippines was proclaimed the winner for being innovative in the use of its "Purok (Region) system" where villagers voluntarily contribute money to bank account to help release emergency funds for victims of natural disasters such as typhoons and floods that happen frequently in the country.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Argentina's Santa Fe and Canada's Vancouver were the other two cities that won the award.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Established in 1986, the UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction was founded by a Japanese businessman and philanthropist Ryoichi Sasakawa—the founding chairman of the Nippon Foundation. The other awards given by the Sasakawa Foundation are the WHO's Sasakawa Health Prize and the UN Environment Programme's Sasakawa Environment Prize.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sept. 28, may nakatalik akong babae na naka-chat ko lang sa Facebook. Well educated siyang babae pero hindi ako naniniwalang ikalawa lang ako sa mga naka-sex niya.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oct. 13, nag-sex kami ng girlfriend ko while having her period. After noon eh nakaramdam na ako ng tila mabigat na pakiramdam na parang namamaga sa kaliwang bayag ko.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oct. 14, di nawala yoong sakit at tila lalo pang lumala dahil pti kanang bayag ko eh sumasakit na rin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oct. 15, masakit na pareho pati kaliwa't kanang bahagi ng puson ko.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oct. 16, nagpa-check-up ako sa doctor. Sinabi ko lahat ng nararamdaman ko then he asked me if masakit ba ang pag-ihi ko. Sinabi kong hindi dahil wala naman akong nararamdamang ganoon. Pinablood-test at urine-test ako nguni’t sinabi niya na normal naman daw. Baka daw luslos na daw itong nararamdaman ko. Niresetahan niya ako ng OFLOXAXIN at CELCOXX for a period of 5 days then bumalik daw ako sa kanya.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oct. 17, hindi na parehong bayag ang sumasakit sakin Doc kundi pati kaliwang bahagi ng puson, at kaliwang bahagi ng ari ko na ang sumasakit. Tila parang namamaga at mainit na ang pakiramdam ko.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Based on my research Doc about sa HIV eh pumapasok ako sa 1 to 3 weeks before magkasymptoms ako nakaramdam ng mga ito. Ang girlfriend ko naman eh from October 13 na nag-sex kami eh namamaga ang lymph nodes niya sa may leeg na naramdaman lang niya kahapon (Oct. 16). Noong Oct. 13 lang kami ulit nag-sex since nakatalik ko ang isang babae noong Sept. 28.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kung STD-related case itong nararamdaman ko eh ano po kayang uri ito ng sakit and virus na nakainfect sakin?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Doc Gino (DG):</b> I wouldn't know what percentage. HIV does not occur fast. It can take several months to years before it manifests. There are too many kinds of STDs. Laboratory tests such as urinalysis, urine culture, blood tests can confirm what infection is present.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Umiinom na ako ng gamot since yesterday sir, walang nagbago sa pakiramdam ko Doc imbis eh lalo pang sumasakit. Should I finish the 5-day treatment instructed by my doctor or bumalik na ako sa kanya? Tnx sir in advance...</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-50111187487532392732011-05-17T07:00:00.007+08:002011-05-17T07:00:00.824+08:00Rat poison: Another theory surrounding the mysterious tourist deaths in Thailand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Widening the possible causes of deaths, Thai investigators now consider virus, chemical causes and other environmental factors to be the culprit.</div>
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A pesticide containing the toxic <em>chlorpyrifos</em> was implicated as responsible for the deaths of seven tourists from Britain, Canada, France, New Zealand and the US this year in an <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9015810-thailands-mysterious-tourist-deaths-linked-to-insecticide-poisoning" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">earlier report</a>.</div>
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The local media reported the hotel manager of Downtown Inn—located 800 kilometers north of Bangkok and where all the deaths occurred—denied using the insecticide, a substance that is regulated in the US.</div>
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Launching their own investigation, Chiang Mai officials claimed there was insufficient evidence to support the claim that insecticide poisoning was the cause. The mysterious deaths have negatively affected the local tourism industry.</div>
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-36078915103957983832011-05-16T08:00:00.009+08:002011-05-16T08:00:01.616+08:00Kids of undocumented Filipinos in Sabah are neither Filipinos nor Malaysians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many Filipino parents have raised their families in communities near Sabah—once a disputed land between the two nations—and as a result their children have considered themselves as Malaysian. These children do not know a single Filipino word nor have they been to the Philippines, according to a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=372625386966" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">speech by Ariel Hernandez</a>, Anak Mindanao Party List representative.</span></div>
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These children are neither Filipinos nor Malaysians because they do not have the papers, which make them loose the opportunity for education, shelter and government support.</div>
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<em>Anak</em> said, "I was born here, so I guess I am Malaysian."</div>
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Some children are forced to commit crime to earn a living. As shown in the video, they are inhaling something, which I think is what is locally known as "solvent"—inhalants made of adhesives, fabric protectors, household cleaners or paint thinner—that may lead to addiction. Solvents are also sometimes used to replace their feeling of hunger.</div>
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Another non-citizen, Hassan Ibrahim, said, "We have no documents. It's easy to blame things on us. They see us as trash, like animals. They don't want us here."</div>
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The thousands of Filipino illegal immigrants provide cheap labor force to Sabah.</div>
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About 500 of undocumented Filipinos are deported back to Zamboanga province every week, which also cause problems in southern Philippines.</div>
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-86671609247409115972011-05-15T08:00:00.009+08:002011-05-15T08:00:03.145+08:00Terminal breast cancer patient arrives in native South Korea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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They received a warm welcome by relatives. Crystal wants to spend the rest of her life in her home country.</div>
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In an <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9057121-terminal-cancer-patient-barred-to-fly-from-us-to-korea" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">earlier report</a>, she was not permitted to travel by Korean Air because of failing health.</div>
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Exercising its rights to refuse a passenger, the airline company feared that she "might die in flight and potentially traumatize other passengers," <em>King 5 News</em> said.</div>
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Upon arrival, Mimi, who plans to file a lawsuit against Korean Air, has this to say, "Your life will now be full of shame. It will be full of dishonor. It will be full of disrespect and that is your legacy. That is your punishment.</div>
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"My mother will live a life full of joy and happiness and peace, and that is her gift. That is her justice."</div>
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-41303005698317145012011-05-15T07:00:00.004+08:002011-05-15T07:00:01.479+08:00Child slavery in the chocolate industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many people love chocolates. I, for one, am a huge fan of it but a documentary film that I watched last night made me think that there are many injustices behind my favorite dessert.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The four-part YouTube video titled <em>The Dark Side of Chocolate</em>(total running time: 45 minutes) opened my eyes that forced child labor exists in Ivory Coast where almost half of the world's cocoa is produced.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An incredible undercover investigation was carried out by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano who started their journey in Cologne, Germany. They interviewed famous chocolate manufacturers such as Archer Daniels Midland Mars, Barry Callebaut, Cargill, Hershey’s, Nestlé, Saf-Cacao and others.</span></div>
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None of these companies are fully aware of the child slavery that haunts the industry.</div>
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They continued their journey to Western Africa. They found out that children from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria are smuggled in bus stations and taken to Ivory Coast by motorcycle-borne men and women.</div>
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Although informants said these children age not less than 11, it is evident that many of them are younger. It was also mentioned that many of the children are forced to work without being paid. They were taken to the world's largest cocoa producer without their parents’ knowledge.</div>
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Smugglers are paid at a starting price of 250 Euros ($353) per child.</div>
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The European investigators had to use hidden cameras to document their findings because of the risky nature of their purpose in going there. One earlier investigator who did the same was reported to have lost and was not found since.</div>
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They interviewed the chocolate bigwigs but seem to deny the fact that child slavery exists.</div>
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International efforts through legislation have been poorly enforced.</div>
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I hope that this documentary will serve to open our eyes about the sad human rights violation that is going on when we eat or drink our favorite chocolate and what we can do to stop it.</div>
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Watch the attached video. The subsequent parts can be viewed in the YouTube site.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A weak-looking 62-year-old woman who is suffering from stage 4 breast cancer was denied transportation to her home country via Korean Air on 8 May for Mother's Day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Korean-American Crystal Kim accompanied by her daughter, Mimi, failed to take their seats in a flight from Seattle because airline authorities thought she was unfit to last the 11-hour travel even though she showed proofs from two doctors who cleared her that the illness will not be a deterrent, <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9057121/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5rb3JlYWhlcmFsZC5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvRGV0YWlsLmpzcD9uZXdzTUxJZD0yMDExMDUxMTAwMDg4Mw==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">The Korea Herald</a> said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's absolutely ludicrous, heartless and unbelievable. Her vitals are normal. ... She is fit for travel," Mimi told Seattle news station KING-TV after they were refused to get on board for the second and last attempt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Asian flight company said they were informed that Kim recently suffered from serious abdominal pain and had been visiting a hospital.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The medical certificates showed that the tumor has metastasized to distant sites such as the abdomen, bones, brain and lungs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A representative from the airline said, "(Korean Air) can have the patient on board. But after having a series of consultations with our medical staff, we decided not to have her to take the plane if she has no medical support on board."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The airline representative added that following international regulations, they reserve the rights to refuse passengers needing health clearance unless they meet the requirements.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, it was also reported that the doctors who were consulted by Korean Air only examined the medical certificates brought by the passenger but did not make physical examination.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a later development by the <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9057121/aHR0cDovL2FiY25ld3MuZ28uY29tL0hlYWx0aC9Xb21lbnNIZWFsdGgvYnJlYXN0LWNhbmNlci1wYXRpZW50LWtpY2tlZC1vZmYta29yZWFuLWFpci1mbGlnaHQvc3Rvcnk/aWQ9MTM1ODk3Njc=" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">ABC</a>, the pair was given seats by Delta Airlines on a 13:50 Seattle-Seoul flight on 12 May.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spokesperson Susan <span id="person_link_27253" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.allvoices.com/people/Elliott_Smith" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Elliott</a></span> said, "Breast cancer is a cause that is very near and dear to our hearts at Delta. We were just happy to be able to help."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She added, "Different carriers make their judgment calls for different reasons. Delta's policies say that if a passenger has a doctor's note saying that they are able to fly, we generally allow them to fly. This is something our employees felt was the right thing to do."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Details of this report <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9057121/aHR0cDovL2FiY25ld3MuZ28uY29tL0hlYWx0aC9Xb21lbnNIZWFsdGgvYnJlYXN0LWNhbmNlci1wYXRpZW50LWtpY2tlZC1vZmYta29yZWFuLWFpci1mbGlnaHQvc3Rvcnk/aWQ9MTM1ODk3Njc=" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-34826411608207380002011-05-12T20:40:00.001+08:002011-05-14T06:55:26.620+08:00Successful HIV vaccine trial in monkeys gives hope for human cure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After years of working to create a vaccine that can effectively prevent the deadly HIV/AIDS, US scientists published a report that promises to find cure to the elusive virus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In their experiment, 24 healthy rhesus monkeys were injected with a vaccine that will produce antigens and attack the monkey form of HIV, said the <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9050322/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbmV3cy9oZWFsdGgtMTMzNjI5Mjc=" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">BBC</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In their study published in <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9050322/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uYXR1cmUuY29tL25hdHVyZS9qb3VybmFsL3Zhb3AvbmN1cnJlbnQvZnVsbC9uYXR1cmUxMDAwMy5odG1s" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Nature</a>, the vaccine offered complete control of the virus in 13 of the macaques and gave protection in 12 of the monkeys for more than one year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The study explained that the shot stimulated the memory T-cells in the blood of the test animals. These cells offered long-lasting protection by being on the look out after the infection was gone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Professor Louis J Picker of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute in Oregon—the main author of the landmark study—compared the T-cells to armed soldiers, "There are soldiers that are back at the base with their rifles in the shed, and then you have the guys out in the field."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The study shows that the success of the vaccine trial in lab animals may give clue on how to combat the infection in humans.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Human trials may come after three to five years and scientists face the dilemma on how to proceed and the ethical issues that go along with it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nonetheless, researchers consider this development as unprecedented in the field of HIV/AIDS. <span id="person_link_92555" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;">Found</span> effective, the vaccine will replace the current modes of treatment.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-5552523470875669872011-05-12T00:41:00.007+08:002011-05-12T00:41:00.209+08:00May 12 is International Nurses Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Feel good when you’re feeling bad. We have nurses to thank for.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">May 12 marks the International Nurses Day. The world honors the thousands of nurses who dedicate their services to the millions of sick people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The celebration coincides with the birth date of Florence <span id="person_link_1502" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.allvoices.com/people/" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Nightingale</a></span> on 12 May 1820 for her pioneering work during the Crimean War where she tended to many injured soldiers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In modern times, the nursing profession has progressed so much, such that there is now a wide array of specializations much like the doctors but the fundamental mission left by "The Lady with the Lamp" remains the same—the selfless dedication to heal the sick.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Celebrating the Nurse Week on 9-15 May with the theme "Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Chronic Care," the healthcare givers recognize how to provide quality care to people suffering from long-standing ailments such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes and rheumatism, said the <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9035275/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYi5jb20ucGgvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjU2OTg4L2ludGVybmF0aW9uYWwtbnVyc2VzLWRheQ==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Manila Bulletin</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the attached YouTube video, nurses and doctors display a special way to educate their young patients through singing, dancing and acting suggesting that there is a fun way to spend time when one is sick.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, in the Philippines—a good source of nurses abroad—the nursing profession seems to see a sad tale—nursing graduates face a decline in job placement in foreign countries, in <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9035275/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbmZvLmlucXVpcmVyLm5ldC9pbnF1aXJlcmhlYWRsaW5lcy9uYXRpb24vdmlldy8yMDExMDUxMS0zMzU4MDkvSGVhbHRoLXNlY3JldGFyeS10ZWxscy1zdHVkZW50cy1Bdm9pZC1udXJzaW5n" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">another report</a> by the <em>Manila Bulletin</em>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Health Secretary Enrique Ona advises incoming university students not to take up the nursing course because of the declining employment opportunities overseas like the UK and the US since 2006.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"If I have a daughter today, I would not let her take up nursing," Ona said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 2010, there are 200,000 unemployed nurses in the country. He advised them to take up advance nursing courses like stem cell research, which is currently in demand.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Details of this report <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9035275/aHR0cDovL25ld3NpbmZvLmlucXVpcmVyLm5ldC9pbnF1aXJlcmhlYWRsaW5lcy9uYXRpb24vdmlldy8yMDExMDUxMS0zMzU4MDkvSGVhbHRoLXNlY3JldGFyeS10ZWxscy1zdHVkZW50cy1Bdm9pZC1udXJzaW5n" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12000502359878957.post-45265039232908184292011-05-11T07:00:00.009+08:002011-05-11T07:00:03.176+08:007.1-Magnitude earthquake hits South Pacific, no injuries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-9026685/aHR0cDovL2VhcnRocXVha2UudXNncy5nb3YvZWFydGhxdWFrZXMvZXFpbnRoZW5ld3MvMjAxMS91c2MwMDAzYWc0Lw==" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">USGS</a> reported a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in the Loyalty Islands close to the island nation Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean at 08:55:11 UTC Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No tsunami warnings were issued. There were no injuries or damages reported.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The powerful temblor was located 134 kilometers (83 miles) southwest of the island nation at a depth of 26.5 km (16.5 miles), that made it a shallow quake.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was 1,741 kilometers (1,081 miles) away from Brisbane, Australia.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Details of this report <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixeI6MGjQ55drx4SDBIMdENBIHMg?docId=5a4d436de06b4fabb7c956aac92f7add" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #12679b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
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