2011年4月24日星期日

David Arquette-the first celebrity than TMI after rupture (associatedcontent)

He was responsible for the debacle of celebrity ads, no later than week involving Courteney Cox and David Arquette. Cox and Arquette are currently a separation of the trial, but after remarks that David Howard Stern, it is doubtful that a reconciliation will take place. Arquette was more forthcoming about his relationship with the star friends, particularly with regard to their sexual life. It is not the first celebrity to reveal intimate details after a split. Here are three people more disclosed more that we have taken care to know.

John Mayer

Who could forget the statements this singer after he and Jessica Simpson are separated? Although the couple never married, they were a high-profile 2006-2007. It was only this year that Mayer talked publicly about his relationship with the Simpsons. He referred to her as "sexual napalm", and he even indicated that he would have paid to continue sleeping with her if she had been offered it (nydailynews.com). Simpson appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in March and expressed embarrassed how it was that Mayer made his comments. She also acknowledged that worse things have been said to his subject.

Whitney Houston

This was not so much sexual revelations that Houston shared with Oprah last year; It was more on other details of her marriage to Bobby Brown has proven to be amazing. In an interview in two parts, made shared singing diva intimate of his drug use, the abusive way that Brown dealt with his and their dependence on copulation. Viewers suspect that something was happening with the singer, but is she came clean with Oprah, after the end of his marriage, that we discovered the details.

Heather Mills

If this woman does not ring a Bell, think of the Beatles - Sir Paul McCartney, exact to be. Billionaire singer married Mills, several years after the death of his beloved wife, Linda, of cancer. Mills has a capacity can stop talking about his mind, and even if it kept silence for 18 months after it was announced that she and McCartney were longer, the divorce dragged on and in a very public way. Mills accused the singer to be stingy with his money when it comes to charitable giving. It also implies that he was a man broken, which she put together back again after they have become an element (msnbc.com). She even Sir Paul said that if he take responsibility for their divorce and openly make this concession in the world, she would walk away with nothing. It goes without saying that this woman was very appreciated in Britain, he step and homeland of McCartney.

Therefore, with these examples, how will Courteney and David will draw from what is said in an interview Howard Stern? Arquette was not much of a serious player first, and his actions he does are not putting on the best. Courteney is not affected as much because it has adopted an approach honest separation, based on what David said on this subject. It is likely that these two players will continue with career success. When enough time passes, these things have long been forgotten.

Sources:
"David Arquette on"Howard stern": talks with Courteney Cox sex life, admits sex with waitress", Huffington Post ".
Nicole Lyn Pesce, "John Mayer dishes on Jessica Simpson being"crazy"in bed:" this girl is like crack me "", NY Daily News
"Whitney Houston said all", The Oprah Winfrey Show
Mike Celizic, "Mills: Sir Paul is Sir Cheap when it comes to charity", MSNBC ".


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Middle School sex Survey targets Kids: Young as 11 (associatedcontent)

If based on a survey of sex "one size", use D.C. middle school students have been invited to give details of their sexual exploits and drugs. Young sexually active and those who went only through the transition to school all have received the same issues.

Middle School sex survey: designed to raise awareness of STD

Fox News reported that the parents of college students Hardy may have obtained taken by surprise when their children were interviewed on the differences between vaginal, anal and oral sex.

A survey of Metro TeenAIDS, which kids potentially sexually active targets sex between the ages of 11 to 20, poses questions about the identity of genus, drug use, alcohol consumption, practices and the use of barrier contraceptives.

The problem arises when the opt-out letters arrived at their parental home after children had already taken the survey. In addition, young people from making the transition from school were combined into interviewed students.

Thus, a child who may have been raised in a more restrictive House and may not have received exposure to a lot of sex, drugs and rock ' n roll will not fail to have had a bit of shock.

Parents need to get the program

Even if he is suspected of having a sex survey which focuses on 11 - 20 years younger respondents, Metro TeenAIDS is shamelessly and actually noted that the questionnaire follows D.C. standards. Parents should also get with the program, since "most of these children of 12 years is much more experienced sexually that these parents think."

How sexually Active adolescents of America?

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 46% of adolescents aged 15 to 19 admit having had sexual relations. Prior to the age of 15 years, the percentage drops to 13. This number is 19 percent in 1995. Despite this, the majority of active adolescents sexually have their first experience at the age of 17 years. The Institute noted that "sex is rare among very young adolescents, but becomes common in adolescence later."

The facts and the figures compiled by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2009 paint a slightly different picture. Results of the study show that sexually active 12 - years are engaged in various types of sexual relations with multiple partners and without protection of the barrier.

D.C. Middle School Sex lifted a sign of the times?

It is obvious that Metro TeenAIDS is incorrect in stating that "most" 12 - year olds are more sexually experienced parents give their credit. Despite this, the organisation is correct in stating that the older students are frequently sexually active.

The implications are obvious: public school has make education which may (or may not) take place at home. Parents have a choice whether or not their children should transition to middle school sites which are public.

Sources

Fox News: "sex Survey in D.C. school Sparks controversy".
Metro TeenAIDS: "making proud choices."
Guttmacher Institute: "facts on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents Americans".
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: "Middle school youth as early as 12 years to engage in risky sexual activity"


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2011年4月21日星期四

Study doubt anti-aging claims of DHEA (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - the hormone DHEA supplement can be promoted as a fountain of youth, but there was no evidence of good that it stimulates the memory of older women, sexual function, or general welfare, a new research review finds.

DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, or other steroid hormones, including testosterone and estrogen is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands that is converted. The people of DHEA naturally levels peak during the twenties, and then taper as they age. Therefore, synthetic over-the-counter DHEA supplements are marketed as an anti-aging weapon.

The supplement is applied to enhance memory and other cognitive skills, boost libido and sexual function and improve the overall feelings of "well-being". He said also help protect against heart disease by improving the rate of cholesterol and diabetes by improving the use of the body of insulin hormone regulation of blood sugar.

But none of these claims hold up in the longer term studies, according to the new review, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & metabolism.

"In the 1990s, DHEA was considered an elixir of youth, with the preliminary studies suggesting benefits," said Dr. Susan r. Davis, principal investigator for the review and the Director of the research program of the health of women at Monash University at VictoriaAustralie.

But, more recently, she told Reuters Health in an email, some larger, more long term found no benefit.

For example, a few previous studies found that DHEA could stimulate the memory of older women. But they understood that a small number of women and lasted only for 2-4 weeks.

The largest study to examine the question - a subsequent 115 women for 1 year - 2008 trial found no evidence that DHEA benefited to the memory of women or other cognitive abilities.

Similarly, Davis and his colleagues found the bulk of the evidence was negative when it comes to DHEA for managing sexual dysfunction, mood, cholesterol and insulin.

"Our data suggest that there is virtually no benefit for post-menopausal women use DHEA supplements to improve sexual function, wellness, cognitive performance, or for the prevention of diabetes/insulin resistance or at lower levels of cholesterol," said Davis.

However, she noted, some trials have suggested that DHEA may help slow the loss of bone density after menopause. Researchers examined 10 studies have examined the effects of DHEA on bone density more than 6 months to 2 years, and the majority have revealed some of the positive effects on bone mass women.

However, Davis said, it is not known if DHEA may reduce the risk of older women of fractures.

DHEA capsules are widely sold with vitamins and supplements, costs about $ 6 a month supply.

The most common side effects of DHEA appear to be acne and excess hair on the face and body, said Davis. Researchers don't know yet what negative health effects, if any, might be caused by use in the long term.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/gpY9kN Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & metabolism, online March 16, 2011.


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Documents: Guatemalan commends U.S. syphilis doctor (AP)

ATLANTA - the Guatemala U.S. physicians have also been summary of one of the more contrary to medical ethics that they had never carried out, a medical official Guatemalan rented as noble principal investigator and thanked profusely.

More than 60 years ago letter praising the Guatemalan official is among the thousands of documents published Tuesday on the doctor who led the study that have infected the Guatemalan prison inmates and the mentally ill with syphilis in the 1940s.

The discs released by the National Archives reveal new information on Guatemalan officials involvement in research, well that it is not clear if they were aware of all the details of what the doctors United States were.

The documents that belonged to researcher U.S. Public Health Service Dr John c. Cutler were formerly housed at the University of Pittsburgh but resides in the dark until a medical historian discovered their. The international press for its conclusion in October, when the Government of the United States recognized research had taken place, and apologized for it.

The President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called President Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, to apologize personally.

Embassy Guatemala official Fernando de la Cerda, said that his country had never known anything about the experience until Clinton made the call.

But indicated that just as the experience was buried by medical officials at the United States, it was also known and they apparently forgotten at the Guatemala.

Indeed, it was a Guatemalan, who first proposed the country as a framework for research. The idea comes from Dr. Juan Funes, Chief of the division of control of venereal diseases of the national health service of the Guatemala, who was assigned to a public health laboratory, in New York for a year Cutler wrote in a summary of the study.

1946-48, The Service of public health of the United States and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau has worked with several agencies of the Government of Guatemala to study - paid by the Government of the United States - involving a deliberately exposing subjects to sexually transmitted diseases.

Researchers attempted to infect about 700 prostitutes, prisoners and the mentally ill with syphilis. Approximately 770 subjects of tests, including soldiers, have been exposed to gonorrhea.

Patients were treated with penicillin. Among the objectives of the research was to see how well different doses of penicillin worked against various venereal diseases.

But Cutler records were not kept with other documents of the Government, and apparently its summaries of the works were never published in a medical journal.

Researchers American command were firm of research, and it is not clear if each involved Guatemalan official knew all the details of the work of U.S. physicians. The Director of the psychiatric hospital - who gave permission to his patients to be participants in the study - apparently did not know that they have granted the disease, said Susan Reverby, Wellesley College historian who discovered the records of the study.

But there is no record of any Guatemalan expressing ethical scruples with what they knew not.

Quite the contrary: Dr. Roberto Robles Chinchilla, Penetenciaria Guatemala Central medical administrator, wrote Cutler to "eternal gratitude" for "Gentleman and noble way in which you reduce the suffering" of prisoners of the penitentiary.

"You have really been a philanthropist," he wrote in December 1948, as Cutler was finishing the major part of his research there.

The perception of Philanthropy was understandable. Search U.S. money paid for a new laboratory in the national service of public health in the construction of Guatemela headquarters.

Asylum of crazy poorly equipped where much of the research of syphilis has been conducted, U.S. paid search for drugs antiepileptics-cruelly metal cups and plates, a new large refrigerator and even a projector of film for the entertainment of the residents.

Patients who participated were rewarded with cigarettes, not to mention the attention that they had already obtained not prior to the installation of lack of personnel and reconnaissance. Some were thus draws exuberant that they always tried to return to doctors of extra blood or other procedures, Cutler wrote.

But it is doubtful, that they understood the potential harms that they risked being infected. Some mentally ill did not even know their own name, he wrote.

Cutler, was later involved in the notorious Tuskegee study, another form of research in which black men in Alabama, who already had syphilis were followed by but not processed.

In 1990, Cutler donated a collection of approximately 12,000 pages of correspondence, reports, photographs and records of patients at the University of Pittsburgh. Cutler died in 2003.

The National Archives announced records in line with a press release. "It is another example of the commitment of the employees of the National Archives of transparency", Archivist of the United States David s. Ferriero said in a prepared statement.


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Aphrodisiac natural work? (LiveScience.com)

For people looking for a natural aphrodisiac, fear not that your supply of the penis of Horn and tiger rhino runs low. (They traffic in any way). Scientists have found in herbs and spices common aphrodisiac properties.

Researchers at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, the Canada, conducted a comprehensive review of dozens of studies on various plant and animal products considered as having aphrodisiac powers, ambrien (excreted from the intestines of the sperm whale; you do not want to learn more) to Spanish fly (neither Spanish nor a mouchemais such is the truth behind the aphrodisiac this) (called most).

Among them, the substances with the most potential - and, by coincidence, the more acceptable - are Korean ginseng and saffron. Yohimbine, of the West African yohimbe tree bark, also helped the sexual function in nine studies conducted over the past two decades; but the side effects of the yohimbine include convulsions and death, not the kind of rigidity most of the guys are after. [Natural Viagra: Spider Bite causes erection]

Nuts of nutmeg, cloves, garlic and Ginger nails, too, were at least moderately effective in animal studies. These results will appear in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of foraging.

A my mojo working

Aphrodisiac is a substance which increases sexual desire, or libido. Some experts of human sexuality extend this definition to include the capacity of the chemical product to increase sexual pleasure.

Compliance by the narrower definition, it is there has not known of natural aphrodisiacs. Viagra and Cialis are synthetic drugs, and yet they do not increase libido. His sexual desire, or mojo, must be working for these drugs in the workplace.

Alcohol simply reduced sexual inhibitions and reduced end sexual performance. MDMA or ecstasy, may increase the tactile sensation and thus improve sexual pleasure in this one respect; but, as with alcohol, drugs can impair the erection and delay or decrease orgasm for both sexes.

Psychoanalysis, also sexy as sounds, is the most common for libido, particularly when linked to depression or other psychological disorders.

Just crazy of Saffron

First saffron aphrodisiac properties were tested in rats, as if disorder rodents to mate. SAFFRON extract of rat increased erection frequency. (Editor's Note: use of this phrase for the first time!) Follow-up studies on human males with erectile dysfunction revealed how Saffron is slightly effective but all simply not as good as Viagra. The absence of side effects, however, pushes the call for further studies.

Panax ginseng - the good stuff from the Korea, sold as red ginseng if you trust or read the label - treated erectile dysfunction effectively in several human studies. Ginseng has also enhanced the sexual desire and excitement in both sexes, which raises the possibility that ginseng may be the first known legitimate natural aphrodisiac. Larger studies are needed, however.

Ginseng probably works as Viagra to relax muscles and improve blood flow in the genital area.

Yohimbine, familiar those without spam filters as ingredient in "natural" Viagra, seems to have aphrodisiac properties, according to numerous studies. Its potential, however, is hampered by many and serious side effects: kidney failure, panic attacks, hallucinations and death above. The range between the effective dose and dangerous dose is unknown, but seems to be rather narrow.

Basic nutrition

Most of the aphrodisiac claims are the stuff of folklore. Some are harmless: oysters are high in zinc, necessary for the production of sperm and rich D-aspartic acid and N-methyl-D-aspartate, which may increase testosterone. Chocolate a phenylethylamine and serotonin, chemicals that the light areas of pleasure in the brain. This does not - and none of the studies have shown - that chocolate increases sexual desire.

Maca root, you never find this herb in the Andean mountains, is highly nutritious and could help with sexual performance by increasing the blood flow. But, for the moment, this herb can be classified as aphrodisiac, nor the good state of general health and fitness can.

Many other so-called aphrodisiacs are dangerous - for the consumer or for endangered species, providing the ingredient. For example, Spanish fly is the ground - up blister beetle containing a juice called caustic acid CANTHARIDIN which causes a sensation of burning or swelling in the urinary tract resembling misinterpreted as sexual stimulation. Perhaps this is not good for the girl you love.

Before turning to exotic substances, consider improving your health. As indicated in the American Journal of Medicine in 2007, erectile dysfunction is strongly correlated with the poor state of physical health and inactivity: more 50 percent of diabetics, 44% of people with high blood pressure and 26% of subjects look three or several hours of television per day had difficulty achieving an erection "sometimes". or "always".

Side effects of diet and exercise include better confidence, which could still be the best aphrodisiac.

Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books "bad medicine" and "Food for work". His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on LiveScience.


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Female genital mutilation prohibited by Islamic leaders in Mauritania (ContributorNetwork)

This week, 34 deemed Mauritanian religious and national leaders have signed a fatwa, or Islamic law, prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The fatwa is considered a huge step towards women's rights in the world of Islam.

Female genital mutilation, or female genital mutilation, are a form of female circumcision. It involves the removal of all or part of the external female genital organs, including the clitoris and labia.

It is often performed on girls between the time where they were born and their early teenage years. After the circumcision is complete, much experience serious bleeding, difficulty in urinating, complications of childbirth and, in some cases, death.

According to the World Health Organization, the procedure has no medical benefits.

Female circumcision is not a practice of religion. However, it became "entitled by custom," said Jacqueline Castledine in an article published on the site of Mount Holyoke College.

She said that "the practice has become important of Islam because it is associated with female sexual purity." "FGM is intended by its practitioners for sexual drives of two control women and also for clean female genitalia by removing the clitoris, which is considered to be male, a female penis".

The Act was adopted on January 15, 2011, by 34 national and religious personalities Mauritanian. It prohibits the practice of female genital mutilation in the country.

According to Magharebia.com, "the authors cited the work of Islamic legal expert Ibn al-Hajj in support of their assertion that [s] uch practices were not present in the countries of the Maghreb in past centuries.".

This new law will certainly restrict the practice of female genital mutilation in Mauratania.

"" It removes the religious mask such practices have hidden behind, ", explains Dr. Cheikh Ould Zein Ould Imam, Professor of jurisprudence at the University of Nouakchott, in an article in Magharebia.com." "" We must, however, a media campaign to highlight the fatwa, to explain and to expose its religious and social significance. ?

Many men and women - both Islamic and it said pas - a victory for women's rights, saying the fatwa was long awaited.

"Where were the imams in the course of the past decades, when [FGM] killed dozens of girls each year?" Were imams and circumcision victims on two different planets? Speaking personally, I find no answer to these questions. All I'm trying to say, it's that necessary that fatwa prohibiting circumcision, long ago. I have been victimized by this brutal custom when I was seven, and he left an indelible psychological scar, "said Miriam, a woman 30 years circumcised as a young girl home.

Wendy Rose Gould is an independent journalist who resides in Phoenix. His work appeared both online and catalog of Hearst, Conde Nast, AOL, USA Today and other publications. Gould is an avid traveler who has lived abroad and traveled extensively in the world. She holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism and another in philosophy.


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British Scouts "be prepared" with sex education (AFP)

London (AFP) - British scouts are giving their centuries-old motto "be prepared" a new twist with the launch Tuesday of sexual education classes to help in the fight against high rates of sexually transmitted infection in the country.

The Association of the Scouts is the addition of learning about birds and the bees to its more traditional activities such as camping, canoeing and climbing.

The program, for scouts aged 14-18, is designed to encourage young people to learn more about relationships and sexual health "with their peers and the confidence of adults", said the group.

Called "My body, my choice", it includes a range of activities as a "condom quiz" and a game of cards "sexually transmitted infections".

The "game fluid exchange" uses plastic cups and food colouring to demonstrate how quickly fluid and infection can spread.

Britain is the sick man of Europe in the field of sexual health, with the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies, according to official figures.

"We want to help young people become confident, talented up and aware," said Bear Grylls, scout leader and presenter of TV shows of adventure.

"We have only a single body, therefore respect and people will respect you."

The association said that Scout groups will be given material for the course but insists on the fact that individual Scout leaders can choose whether to run the program.


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AP IMPACT: company Porn is raise the numbers 1-800 (AP)

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By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press David B. Caruso, Associated Press – Tue?Apr?19, 7:06?am?ET

NEW YORK – For years, teenagers across the U.S. could call a toll-free hotline if they had embarrassing questions about AIDS and safe sex. Dial the same number now and you get a recording of giggling women offering to talk dirty to you.

"We both have big appetites for sex," they purr. "Pinch us and poke us. Spank us and tease us. We love it all. ... Enter your credit card number now."

Those naughty misdials, and countless others like them, appear to be no accident.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that over the past 13 years, a little-known Philadelphia company called PrimeTel Communications has quietly gained control over nearly a quarter of all the 1-800 numbers in the U.S. and Canada, often by grabbing them the moment they are relinquished by previous users. As of March, it administered more 800 numbers than any other company, including Verizon and AT&T.

And many, if not most, of those 1.7 million numbers appear to be used for one thing: redirecting callers to a phone-sex service.

Dial 1-800-Chicago and instead of reaching a tourism hotline for the Windy City, you will hear a woman offering "one-on-one talk with a nasty girl" for $2.99 per minute. A similar thing happens if you punch in the initial digits of 1-800-Metallica, 1-800-Cadillac, 1-800-Minolta, 1-800-Cameras, 1-800-Worship or 1-800-Whirlpool.

All those numbers contain messages redirecting callers to erotic chat lines operated by National A-1 Advertising, a company that shares an office building with PrimeTel, has common ownership and lists many of the same people as executives or business contacts.

Many people who mistakenly dial a phone-sex line probably just get red-faced and hang up as quickly as possible. Others apparently respond to the come-on and supply their credit card number.

"I guess enough people go for it that it makes business sense," said Aelea Christofferson, president of ATL Communications, another company that specializes in toll-free services. Capturing callers who have reached the wrong number — whether because they punched an incorrect digit or dialed a number without realizing it had changed hands — is a "big new industry," she said.

Founded in 1995, PrimeTel is one of around 400 companies registered as toll-free service providers for the U.S. and Canada. That gives it the same power to reserve and assign unused toll-free numbers as big phone companies with millions of customers. But PrimeTel appears to be amassing numbers predominantly for one closely related partner, National A-1.

There is nothing illegal about using toll-free phone services to promote adult entertainment, and callers aren't charged unless they supply their credit card information.

Over the years, though, PrimeTel has been hit with lawsuits and complaints alleging that it is violating federal rules banning toll-free service providers from hoarding digits. Federal Communications Commission rules say that "routing multiple toll-free numbers to a single toll-free subscriber" is usually considered hoarding.

The FCC has never taken formal action against PrimeTel or National A-1, although federal authorities have expressed renewed interest lately in companies that handle toll-free numbers. In the fall, authorities sent subpoenas to several, including PrimeTel, asking for information on how they acquire numbers and why.

And in October, federal agents and Philadelphia police spent two days removing records from National A-1's office suite, although it is unclear if the action was related to the phone business.

The man listed on many government records as the top executive at both PrimeTel and National A-1, Richard Cohen, declined interview requests. A lawyer for both companies, Charles Helein, would not discuss their business dealings in detail but said PrimeTel isn't breaking any rules or engaging in prohibited practices such as selling numbers or obtaining ones it doesn't intend to use.

"They are extremely sensitive to the FCC. ... They wouldn't have them if they didn't need them," Helein said of PrimeTel's huge pool of numbers. He said the company's large share hasn't caused any shortages: "Everybody's got all the numbers they need."

Helein said the raid last fall was not aimed at PrimeTel. National A-1 and its owners have a variety of business enterprises headquartered at the same address, including a website sometimes used by prostitutes to advertise their services.

According to a database maintained by an industry organization, PrimeTel was listed as the administrator of record for at least 1,667,000 out of around 7.87 million active 800 numbers as of this March. Industry experts said PrimeTel also holds a dominant share of numbers with other toll-free codes, like 888 and 866, giving it several million numbers overall.

Sex isn't the only business. Some numbers reach advertisements for a mortgage brokerage based in New Jersey. Others promote a dieting website or a travel reservation service. Those instances appear to be outnumbered by ones in which callers reach a phone-sex solicitation.

Critics of the company say it isn't the sex that bothers them, but the acquisition of so many numbers.

Bill Quimby, whose company, TollFreeNumbers.com, specializes in helping businesses obtain easy-to-remember digits to connect with customers, said it can be a challenge to find a good match because PrimeTel has gobbled up such an outsized share of the supply.

"They started by getting numbers for phone sex, then getting good numbers in general, then they started taking all phone numbers," he said.

A spokesman for the FCC, David Fiske, would not comment on whether the agency had ever examined PrimeTel's activities but said the commission is actively enforcing rules on number hoarding.

PrimeTel appears to have benefited by grabbing numbers associated with famous names, like 1-800-Beatles, or numbers that have recently been canceled but are still advertised widely.

From the late 1980s until around 2005, teenagers who dialed the national hotline used by Teens Teaching AIDS Prevention would reach a call center in Kansas City, Mo., where other youths were waiting to answer questions about the disease. When that program ended, the number was soon routed to one of National A-1's sex lines. But the AIDS hotline number is still publicized by public health groups.

When New York City's Fire Department relinquished its toll-free fire safety hotline a few years ago because of an administrative slip-up, PrimeTel grabbed it the moment it became available. Soon enough, 1-800-FIRETIP was ringing into one of National A-1's phone-sex lines.

The same thing happened to the Cook County Jail in Chicago when it canceled its toll-free inmate information line, and to rape counseling hotlines in Maine and New Mexico.

The Republican National Committee once printed a fundraising mailer with a toll-free calling code and was publicly embarrassed when the calls began ringing in to one of National A-1's chat lines.

It happened to Glenn Noyes, too. Shortly after the toll-free number for his auto repair business in Edgewater, Md., was mistakenly canceled by his phone company, it began redirecting customers to an erotic chat service called "Intimate Encounters."

"It was pretty embarrassing," Noyes said. "I had people walking around wearing T-shirts with that number."

People in the telecommunications industry who are familiar with PrimeTel say that in addition to snapping up familiar 1-800 numbers, the company may be trying to capitalize on people's fat-finger dialing mistakes by acquiring numbers that are just a digit or two away from a major company's number.

Helein denied PrimeTel was trying to capitalize from misdials or engaged in a strategy to intercept calls made by customers of other businesses.

The key to PrimeTel's business is its access to the entity that controls the assignment of toll-free numbers, called the 800 Service Management System. Numbers are available on a first-come, first-served basis at a cost of about 9.6 cents per month. When a customer is done using a number, it is supposed to go back into the pool for use by someone else.

FCC rules expressly ban service providers from reserving a number unless they have a genuine customer lined up to use it. Speculating in numbers is banned. They are considered public resources that may not be bought or sold. The big phone companies that supply toll-free numbers make their money not by selling the number itself but by providing telephone service.

But there are also companies that are illegally buying and selling the numbers, and they are a hot commodity, sometimes even available on eBay.

Such numbers are so highly sought-after that several companies have built powerful computer systems that search the database every day, looking for digits of potential value. Numbers can be reserved as quickly as 95 milliseconds after they are released by former users.

Helein said PrimeTel has been the target of complaints from other industry players who are "jealous" of the company's computer systems.


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The reluctant Americans to share gender, work details on web (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - while that of many American workers have adopted social media such as Facebook or LinkedIn sites, they are ill at ease in sharing information about their sex lives or salary, according to a new survey.

2,118 Adults survey showed that slightly more than three of the four participates in a social networking site, but they look more to display things like reviews of restaurant or vacation photos.

"In this age of over-sharing, people tend to clam on a couple of topics, which is the salary," said Rusty Rueff Glassdoor.com career expert, a job site that commissioned the Harris survey.

"We have yet to overcome the taboo of salary the offline and it is often to the benefit of the individual to become more comfortable to discuss information on jobs, and ideas with colleagues, friends and even family".He added in a statement.

The Harris survey also showed that about 55 to 70 per cent of people did not share non-personal information, but they were kept more on their children's activities and their purchases of households.

Only two for cent said that they were comfortable sharing information about the life of their sex or their salary details. Employees were also more likely to share the status of relationship that the employment situation.

Rueff, said that fear and social standards are behind the reluctance to share employment and pay information.

More women that men were likely to use social networking and 18 to 34 years, old sites was more inclined to share information on relations, employment status and progress than other age groups, according to the survey of.

Also, women were more likely to share related information on non-use for things like status relationship, shopping and holiday photos.

College graduates were more likely to share job search information. People living in the northeast of the United States were less forthcoming in sharing information, followed by the residents of the West and South. Midwest were actually the more open about their jobs.


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Test gets almost of cases of syphilis of 1 to 5 bad (AP)

The ATLANTA - hundreds of people may have learned that they tested positive for syphilis when they had not really the disease, health authorities say.

A study of five laboratories U.S. shows approximately 18% of the positive results of a method of test used since the 1980s have summer actually negative, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Experts believed the statistics was much lower - less than 7%.

The CDC recommends that additional tests when this test gives a positive result. But even though most physicians in retest, new research suggests that some people have unnecessarily worried that they have been infected with a sexually transmissible disease sadly famous.

There is also some patients received unnecessary treatment - probably the penicillin, which can have side effects.

Syphilis screening is recommended for all pregnant women and people considered at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

But officials of the CDC said it is not clear how widely used the problematic test method is more traditional versus, another.

Test problem, which is less expensive than the alternative, has an advantage: "He don't miss people who are infected," said Dr. Karen Hoover, a CDC epidemiologist who co-author of the study.

But it is not perfect to distinguish in the blood of antibodies to syphilis of other proteins, which means that sometimes gives a result positive for something other than syphilis, said scientists at the CDC.

Only about 14,000 Americans were most contagious forms of syphilis, but the number has increased in recent years. 14 000 Cases are those whose symptoms are confirmed with care, so the conclusion of the new study does not affect this count.

Hoover research is published this week in CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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PA. former Governor dumbfounded by a review of abortion lax (AP)

Philadelphia - former Governor Ed Rendell, said Friday he was "speechless" when he discovered last year that the State Health Department didn't that its power extended to abortion as Philadelphia clinics where prosecutors say that a physician used scissors to kill viable babies.

Rendell, a Democrat, whose second term of Governor ended last week, said in a statement that he ordered an increase of inspections after a raid of clinic early last year gave horrific accounts of bloody floors and baby parts in jars. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who led the clinic, was charged with killing seven babies and a woman who went to him for an abortion this week.

"I was flabbergasted to learn that the Health Ministry did not have their power to protect the public health extended to providing services of abortion clinics," Rendell, also a mayor of Philadelphia two terms in the 1990s, said in a statement issued through a spokeswoman.

"When I found this, from the press about the case of Gosnell, I immediately for them to inspect these installations," said Rendell. "It was simply absurd that the Department has adopted this position, never."

An indictment 261-page grand jury published this week against Gosnell and other details of the clinical staff a macabre litany of failures and failure to comply with even the most basic guidelines for public health. It sets out a long list of regulatory failures by the Department of health and other agencies.

In its report, the grand jury, said the Department and other agencies - including the Department of State, whereby the Board of Directors of medicine falls - allowed clinic Gosnell to operate virtually unhindered since the end of the 1970s. He had not been inspected since 1993.

A spokesman for newly installed Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, said Thursday there are 22 suppliers registered abortions in Pennsylvania, and each of them have been inspected in September and November.

Given that the grand jury report was published on Wednesday, the Health Ministry did not comment and referred inquiries to the Office of Corbett.

The grand jury said political plays a role in monitoring of abortion issues.

In its report, the Commission said the Health Ministry "decided, for political reasons, to stop the inspection of all abortion clinics the."

Counsel for the Department of health has changed their views and advice "according to the political preferences of various Governors", said the report. The Department has dropped its policy of annual inspections in the mid-1990s under Governor Tom Ridge, who supported abortion rights, said the report.

A lawyer from the Ministry of health testified about a meeting of the State of high level officials, 1999 "which has been decided not to accept a recommendation to reinstate regular inspections of the abortion clinics""," citing a concern that the routine inspections would lead to "less the installationsmoins women of abortion access abortion."

Rendell said Thursday that he "had no knowledge that has been the policy of the administration of the Ridge, nor that the policy was being sued." "The Ministry of health never reached me to discuss what policy should be."

Ridge did not comment the report. The Associated Press sought his comment through its representatives.

Gosnell, 69, a family practice physician not certified to perform abortions, was arraigned Thursday on charges of murder of seven babies and a patient. His lawyer declined to comment on.

Authorities allege Gosnell and overloaded his - sometimes untrained - unsanitary equipment of workers used to induce the labor very late-term pregnancies, born viable babies alive and killed with scissors to the spine and the parts of the body left in jars.

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Sexually gonorrhea becomes a "superbug"? (LiveScience.com)

Sexually transmitted diseases gonorrhea develops more and more resistance to all antibiotics, which we must deal with the United States, researchers warn.

In 2009, almost a quarter of the strains tested in a national gonorrhea surveillance project were resistant to penicillin, tetracycline, fluoroquinolones or a combination of these antibiotics which are typically used to treat the STD. And in early 2010 data is of another type of antibiotic resistance, cephalosporin. Is that those of cephalosporins are the only class of left to antibiotics that doctors recommend to treat the disease.

"This may be the harbinger of things to come", Dr. Kimberly Workowski, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of STD prevention, said the early 2010 data. Workowski "resistance may get worse," said MyHealthNewsDaily.

If the resistance to cephalosporins develops, gonorrhea may develop in a Superbug and have a catastrophic effect on our ability to control the disease in the country, researchers say. A Superbug is a strain of bacteria that became resistant to antibiotics and is very difficult to kill. Other examples of Superbugs: Staphylococcus aureus resistant to Methicillin (MRSA) and some strains of tuberculosis.

Experts are working on strategies to prevent resistance to antibiotics, including the treatment of this disease with several antibiotics at a time. They also advocate safe sex and testing STD and ways to reduce the acquisition of gonorrhea.

Emerging antibiotic resistance

Gonorrhea is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhea and spreads through sexual activity. Individuals with gonorrhea show often no symptoms, but the disease can lead to serious complications, including infertility and chronic pelvic pain in women, and men epididymitis, a painful condition of testicular attached channels which can cause infertility treated, according to the CDC. If bacteria transmitted for blood or joints, the condition can be fatal, said the CDC.

More than 301,174 cases of gonorrhea were reported to the CDC in 2009, but the Agency estimated that more than 700,000 people become infected with the disease each year in the United States. It is most often infectious diseases which is must be reported to the Government of the United States.

Since the 1970s, the bacteria have become resistant to traditional antibiotics, including penicillin and tetracycline. In 1991, resistance to fluoroquinolones began to emerge. Researchers do recommend treatment with antibiotics now because once a bacterium has developed a resistance to a drug, that the resistance can develop quickly once more.

Researchers see the emergence of gonorrhea that is resistant to cephalosporin in Southeast Asia. In General, resistant strains of this part of the world migrate on the United States and then spread from West to East, Workowski said.

"The concern is that history tends to repeat itself," said Workowski. "It's the same principle has happened before."

How to prevent resistance

To prevent the emergence of cephalosporin resistance, the CDC is now recommending that the disease be treated with an injectable form of cephalosporin and a different kind of antibiotic such as azithromycin or doxycycline.

The CDC, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, is working to identify other drugs that could be used for profitable gonorrhea, including drugs that target the bacteria at different stages of the life cycle, said Workowski.

The organization also works to develop a plan for intervention in the event, said Workowski.

Pass it: Gonorrhoea could become much more difficult to treat if disease-causing bacteria develop resistance the last class of antibiotics, that we must fight it.

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HPV may be linked to cancer of the lung (HealthDay)

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter by Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter - Mon Apr 4, 11: 48 pm EST

(Monday 4 April HealthDay News) - the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus that accounts for most cases of cervical cancer, can also play a role in cancer of the lung, researchers report.

In other smaller studies, HPV found in patients with lung cancer. But what role plays the virus, if any, in the development of the disease is not known, scientists from the International Agency for research on Cancer (IARC) stated.

"These results preliminary mandate more investigations on the role of HPV in lung cancer,", said principal investigator Devasena Anantharaman, a postdoctoral fellow in the genetic epidemiology group, which is part of the CIRC.

"However, to determine the physical presence of the virus in these Lung Tumors and other established markers of cancer related to HPV are necessary to establish a causal link," Anantharaman said.

The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held in Orlando, Florida Monday

For the study, the Anantharaman team sought 1,633 to 2,729 people without pulmonary disease HPV types in patients of lung cancer.

The researchers found that people without lung cancer had fewer types of HPV that patients with lung cancer. In patients with lung cancer, the chances of having eight serious HPV types have been significantly increased, the researchers added.

The strongest risk factor for lung cancer is smoking, however, this did not account of infection increased HPV, the authors of the study noted. The link between HPV and lung cancer remained current and former smokers as nonsmokers. The results are the same for men and women, said Anantharaman.

Types of HPV high risk, including HPV16 and HPV18, represent approximately 70 percent of cervical cancers. Types of low risk, HPV6 and HPV11, cause disorders such as genital warts and have also been observed in respiratory papillomatosis, which is a mild lung disease, Anantharaman said.

There is a vaccine to prevent HPV, but if the same vaccine would be any lung cancer is not clear, said Anantharaman.

"This study aims to report the observed associations." If these indicate that a causal relationship remains to be established, "he says. "I understand the interest in HPV vaccination." However, any interpretation in the light appears to be drawn by the hair at the moment. ?

The study was funded by the CIRC.

Dr. Luis e. Raez, co-leader of the Group of Thoracic Oncology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of medicine, said that "this association is not sufficient to establish causation."

However, this initial conclusion is quite interesting to serve as a basis for further studies designed to confirm the link, he said. "Maybe this virus is linked to lung cancer," said Raez.

"If this virus is really linked to lung cancer, perhaps you can vaccinate smokers with HPV vaccine and you can prevent lung cancer," he said.

They note that research presented at meetings was not submitted to rigorous review before publication in a medical journal.

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Guatemalan continue most of the 1940s us experiences syphilis (AP)

WASHINGTON - Guatemalan submitted to U.S. syphilis experiments in the 1940s continuing federal health officials to compensate health problems that they have suffered.

The prosecution comes after revelations that the United States scientists study the effects of penicillin, in 1940s deliberately infected approximately 700 prisoners Guatemalan mentally ill soldiers and orphans. None were advised or has consented.

Lawyers representing the Guatemalan spill asked Obama administration put in place a process of extra-judicial claims similar to those established in the oil from the Gulf of the Mexico and the terror of 9/11 attacks. But they say that they received no response within a period of Friday and has therefore filed the suit Monday morning.

Guatemalan experiments have hidden for decades, until a medical historian discovered the recordings in 2009.


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Amoebae: Sexy as anyone who knew (LiveScience.com)

After a second look at the tree of life, scientists are rethinking the asexuality of amoebae, regarded as the epitome of chastity. They have now evidence of life amoeboid sex, suggesting the Act did not evolve, it has always been there.

Amoebae are creatures of type blob on an old billion years - - the oldest members of the domain of life called eukaryotes. This group is fundamentally different in appearance and other characteristics of these two other areas of life. Amoeba species are distributed throughout this tree on each branch, interspersed with familiar lines such as plants and animals. They are known for how they move, slowly extending to as parts of their cell membranes.

"It changes how to interpret the evolution of organisms," study researcher Daniel Lahr, the University of Massachusetts, told LiveScience. "If the last common ancestor of eukaryotes is sexual, then it is in practice no evolution of sex."

Taking a sweep looking at what we know about them by conducting a search through the scientific literature, researchers say that these amoebae are more sexually active that we believe.

"When we talk about the sex of amoeboid protists, existing evidence not evoke chastity, but rather of Kama Sutra," Lahr writes in the book, published in the March 23 of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences:. [Why we sex: 237 reasons revealed]

Asexual Amoeba

Sex Amoeba would have been missed because when grown in the laboratory, many of them show no signs of engaging in sexual relations - they have the ability to reproduce by cloning, or the copy themselves indefinitely. And when they show signs of sex, researchers are wrong for a rare exception to the rule of non-sexe.

This is why most researchers believe that the amoebae (and all eukaryotes) has evolved from an asexual ancestor.

For these lower organisms sex is not so much an act between a male and a female with all the complications "birds and bees" with. Amoebae, sex is a special way to divide its genetic material in two while also divided doses, and then combines two of these packets into a new body. These two doses may come from the same person or different people.

When the genetic material is being classified off it undergoes a process and switches around some parts of its DNA. This switch gives the new individuals a greater diversity in their genes. They reproduce always using sex because in some environments, asexual reproduction can be more effective.

"The speed of Division is immediately beneficial to the individual," Lahr told LiveScience. "But in most cases, it is a condition that is doomed to extinction."

Muller ratchet

Asexuality is a game loser in the long term, because the errors accumulate in the genome and get passed on to descendants, eventually kill. This theory is called ratchet Muller and is traditionally used to explain why sex has evolved.

When genomes are mixed in the separation and the reconstitution of DNA during intercourse, the descendants can excrete these errors. Some animals asexual, such as bdelloid (small multicellular animals), have developed other ways to recombine their genomes and avoid the squeeze ratcheting of Muller.

"The message bring-home to the biology community: in General, they must examine more broadly that they would have if they really want to talk about theories on sex and gender roles,"said Fred Spiegel at the University of Arkansas".who wrote a commentary on the study for the same issue.

"The last common ancestor of all eukaryotes of life must be sexual," Spiegel told LiveScience. "Sex is the rule and not the exception."

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Best duck bills indicate sperm "Killer" (LiveScience.com)

Looking for a STD-free partner? Check the color of their invoice (if you are a mallard duck, that is). Researchers have found that the most brilliant of the bill, the most effective Mallard is their sperm to kill bacteria.

"Under the assumption that bacteria can hurt sperm, it is logical to think that men who have a better ability to kill bacteria could suffer less of that bacteria is the damage of sperm," said Rowe, Melissah, University of Oslo, Norway. "The females may be able to avoid a pathogen sexually and identify males with better sperm."

Colour of bill of the duck, which can vary from a dull olive green to a bright, yellow raincoat is a sexually selected feature, which means women prefer men with brighter invoices, making it more likely to be transmitted to offspring traits. They go for the brightest law projects, scientists believe, because the colour of signals in a certain way for a potential partner fitness or ability to produce healthy offspring.

"Researchers have shown that sexual selected strokes may be associated with health, with the quality, of semen and with parents of capacity" Rowe told LiveScience. "A female choose a male for more colorful Bill has some benefits of fitness, offspring of quality more or higher." If it did not enjoy that the preference for that quality would not evolve. ?

Super sperm

Previous work has shown that bill colour is also correlated with the speed of sperm and capacity generally best to fight infections. The Bill colour is created by carotenoids, more of these pigments, the most brilliant of the colour of the Bill.

To determine whether bill color and underlying carotenoids, are linked to the antibacterial functions of sperm Rowe and his colleagues tested the semen of a group of ducks. They measured the effectiveness with which the sperm was to kill the bacteria e. coli and s. aureus. Then, they compared the results to the brightness of the invoices of the ducks.

They found that the best bill color, better duck semen was to kill e. coli bacteria, although results for s. aureus has no comparison with the colour of the Bill. They are not certain which part of the semen gives these antibacterial properties and identification of these factors is the next project of Rowe.

E. coli is commonly found in feces. In the duck, it is often found in the reproductive tract as the Cloaca of the duck (opening of these regions as genital) is a collection spot for digestive and reproductive systems. Researchers what effect the bacteria could have on both partners, but humans and e. coli is known to be detrimental to the viability and quality of sperm.

Interestingly, even if sperm can kill second bacteria that they tested, s. aureus, this effect not associated with the colour of bill. Two antibacterial properties appear to be mitigated by different proteins, or s. aureus may not be as great a threat to the ducks.

Bacterial lambine

Sexually bacteria can have a negative impact on the two partners of duck. Bacteria can affect sperm of the male, making it less viable, and it can also make sick of the female, making it less likely to be able to take care of her offspring, but the specific effects of e. coli on mallards is unknown.

"A man with a lot of bacteria may be less able to produce high quality and the offspring of father sperm, said Rowe." "" A man who has a good ability to kill bacteria in the ejaculate may be able to defend the spermatozoa of these bacteria and probably not the decline of the same quality that other males have. ?

Because ducks were reared in captivity, it is possible that sexually selected traits pourraient were changed by the absence of the pressures of living in the wild, Aldo Poiani, of Monash University in Victoria, in Australia, said LiveScience in an email. For example, ducks must cope with diseases and predators that make life difficult wild.

The sample was relatively small, Poiani, who was not involved in the study, said, but "it is a beautiful piece of work".

The study is published today (April 12) in the journal Biology Letters.

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Target, Kroger now offer $4 generic prescription of medicines (ContributorNetwork)

Wal-Mart sells generic drugs for $4 for 30 days and $10 for three months, and now Kroger and target also carry. Wal-Mart and target have also $9 (30 days) and $24 (3 months) generic requirements for Wellbutrin, Levitra, Fertinorm, Sprintec, tamoxifen, asthma inhalers and several other expensive requirements.

Lists the available in each store requirements vary slightly. Kroger does not yet carry drugs monthly requirements of $9. Each store categorizes drugs a little differently. Kroger organized alphabetically, target organized alphabetically by condition and Wal-Mart has two options. Condition names differ too. Wal-Mart brings the antidepressants and SSRIS as "Mental health", while the target breaks down prescription drugs by "antidepressant," antipsychotic "drugs" and "anti-anxiety".

$4 Prescription drug list /$ 10 at each store operates more than 300 different drugs. $4 /$ 10 orders are available for heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, eye problems, hearing problems, treatments, antifungal, antidepressants, anti-anxiety seizures, antipsychotics and epilepsy, health of men, the health of women, antibiotics, skin conditions, arthritis, thyroid, virus, allergies and other conditions.

Wal-Mart and target $9 months-30 day and $24-three prescription drugs category includes:

-Health men: Levitra (Vardenafil) is the generic equivalent prescription drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and impotence. Levitra is available at target and Wal-Mart for $9 per tablet. 10 tablets per month can be purchased. Levitra sells for $67.50 for four tablets. Target and Walmart also carry limitation of $9 finasteride (Proscar), used to treat problems of the prostate in men.

-The health of women: $ 9 equivalent generic prescription birth control and infertility drugs include: tamoxifen (Novladex) 10 mg and 20 mg clomiphene (Fertinorm), Sprintec and Tri-Sprintec (thinyl estradiol and norgestimate) birth control are all available. SOD alendronate (Fosamax) 35 mg, and 70 mg, used for osteoporosis, is also on the list of prescription $9 $ 24.

-Smoking cessation: Bupropion SR, equivalent MG generic of Wellbutrin and Zyban, is available for $9 for a supply of 17 days. Bupropion is an antidepressant used in the abandonment of tobacco and the treatment of seasonal affective disorder. Asthma will be delighted to see albuterol and ReliOn/Ventolin HFA inhaler (. 8 mg / 60 puff) is available under the new program of drug prescription $9.

Parent must, also, don't forget to ask that the doctors send prescriptions to Wal-Mart, Target or Kroger pharmacies. Many maintenance medications, antibiotics, prescribed painkillers and topical treatments are available for $4 for 30 days and $10 for 90-day supplies. Vitamins and prenatal vitamins cost only $4 /$ 10. Here are the lists of medicinal products covered by the programmes of drug prescription Kroger, target, and Walmart.

Target four Dollar Prescription list update 2010

Updated Walmart retail Prescription drug program

Kroger prescription drug list

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The Pope, condoms and HPV: that Pope Benedict XVI may not know (ContributorNetwork)

Comment | Pope Benedict XVI has decided that the Catholic Church should approve of contraception in the form of condoms, in certain circumstances as to protect prostitutes. He reached his conclusion given the evidence that condoms prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS. Condoms also provide a high degree of protection for STDs such as syphilis and gonorrhea.

However, there are a few facts that the Pope can not knowing that we've accumulated here in America:

* The Pope know perhaps not a condom must be latex to provide a high degree of protection.

* The Pope is perhaps not to the current lack of condoms for efficacy against HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) - most dangerous second STD of today. According to this recent study at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), condoms do not provide a large degree of protection against HPV.

HPV is already connected with more than 90% of cases of cancer of the cervix. A male can carry without knowing of HPV to all its partners, and females may have no symptoms until it is too late, and they have cervical cancer.

HPV may be transmitted orally and genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation, contracted by exposure to the infected skin not protected by a condom, which covers only the male organ. HPV can be contracted warts open in the thighs or lips, sweat or mucous glands.

Orally, a condom placed on language for oral sex may not protect fabric HPV infected against outside covered area.

Another study of CDC 2010 proves that HPV oral sex and even reached only French kissing of epidemic proportions (there are forms more than 100 HPV.) (Gardisil HPV vaccine, covers only a few genital HPV strains).

* The Pope know perhaps not that according to the CDC, there are at least eight stages to the use of a condom correctly:

1 Use a new condom for each sexual act throughout the Act.

2. Prior to the sexual contact, put the condom the laminated side out.

3. If the condom is not a tank, pinch the end by leaving a space of half inches of semen collection (how many people, especially adolescents, are going to stop and measure a half-inch?).

4 Holding-the-art, scroll down to the base of the penis condom.

5. After ejaculation and before softening, grab the rim of the condom and it away, to ensure that the semen escape.

6 Wrapped condom in tissue and throw where others handle.

7. If the condom breaks during intercourse, delete it and put on another (it may be too late for protection at this time there).

8 Use water-based lubricants lubrication. Oil can weaken latex.

And there is nothing said on the fingers of washing, genitals or language before deciding to pursue more from sex play.

* The Pope know perhaps not the best condom can still result in three of every 100 pregnancies.

* The Pope know perhaps not that recent investigations on abstinence education concluded that abstinence education is effective. Discouragement of abstinence by safe sex - activists, and current United Nations encouragement to prostitution as a means of legal livelihood is not justified.

Several studies, including one by the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Journal, released in February 2010 discredit the use of condoms; but they reveal that the abstinence education works in many cases.

After two years of work with 600 American middle schoolers considered as in "high risk" for sexual experimentation, the results of the survey APAMJ showed:

* 52% of a group of test safe sex education began to have sexual intercourse, compared to only 33% of students in the program of abstinence - which is a difference of 19 percent between sexual practices and the Group of abstinence.

Abstinence education students had fewer sex partners, less often.


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Enemies seek to reject, to discredit the planning of births (AP)

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NEW YORK – From its defiant origins in 1916, Planned Parenthood has not shied away from controversy — fighting to legalize birth control, offering candid sex education to adolescents, evolving into America's largest provider of abortion.

Its foes have been relentless, and it now faces some of the most withering attacks of its history. A bill in Congress would strip the organization of federal family-planning grants and a series of covertly taped videos seek to depict some Planned Parenthood staff as willing to assist sex traffickers.

On one side, there are prominent conservatives suggesting that Planned Parenthood may be a criminal enterprise.

On the other, Planned Parenthood leaders and allies are seizing the moment to rally support, saying the ultimate target of the attacks is the ability of American women to get the reproductive health services they desire.

"We've been here for the past 95 years, and we'll be here for the next 95," said Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards.

Through its affiliates, Planned Parenthood operates more than 800 clinics and health centers across the country, serving more than 3 million patients a year.

A half-dozen of those clinics — in New Jersey, New York and Virginia — figure in the undercover videos released over the past two weeks by Live Action, a California-based anti-abortion group. The videos show a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute seeking health services for underage sex workers.

Planned Parenthood fired one clinic manager in New Jersey who offered advice to the visitors, but otherwise says its staff responded professionally and reported the visits to their superiors.

Planned Parenthood's national office notified the FBI before any videos were released and accused Live Action of resorting to deceptive "dirty tricks." It also announced a nationwide retraining program to ensure that clinic staffers were familiar with rules about reporting possible danger to minors.

While much about the videos is in dispute, they provided fresh ammunition for anti-abortion activists promoting a bill introduced by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., that would deny federal family-planning funds to any organization that performs abortions. Pence makes clear that Planned Parenthood is his target; it would lose more than $70 million in annual funding.

"Every American should be shocked that an employee of the largest recipient of federal funds under Title X has been recorded aiding and abetting underage sex trafficking," Pence said. "The time to deny any and all funding to Planned Parenthood is now."

By law, federal funds may not be used directly for abortions. But Pence argues that the grants, by covering overhead and operational costs, free up other money to provide abortions.

Planned Parenthood's staunchest allies in Congress — primarily liberal Democrats — have vowed to fight the proposed funding cut.

"In my community, Planned Parenthood is a very highly regarded mainstream organization," said Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., who depicted Pence's bill as "driven by an extreme ideological agenda."

Richards said Planned Parenthood, with a $1 billion annual budget, could survive the loss of the federal grants but would be forced to close some clinics and serve fewer people.

"This would roll back decades of progress for women's health care," she said in a telephone interview.

Planned Parenthood dates its beginnings to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister and a friend opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn. At the time, women couldn't vote or divorce abusive husbands, and contraception was illegal.

The clinic was raided, and Sanger was convicted of disseminating birth control information. Undaunted, she founded two organizations that later merged to form the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Sanger's personal legacy is complicated. She opposed abortion — yet the organization she founded now provides a quarter of America's 1.2 million annual abortions. Her views on eugenics and racial issues remain a subject of bitter debate to this day.

Over the decades, Planned Parenthood played pivotal roles in easing laws against contraception, popularizing the birth control pill and setting the stage for the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established a woman's right to have an abortion.

Its clinics have been repeated targets of bombings, arson and protests. A receptionist at one of its clinics in Brookline, Mass., was shot dead in 1994 by John Salvi, who described himself as a militant foe of abortion.

Abortions account for only a small fraction of the services provided by Planned Parenthood — mainly providing contraception, screening for cancer and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Many of the clients are low-income women with few other options for non-emergency health care.

At many clinics, demand is high. On a recent workday, the waiting room at the Brooklyn health center, which occupies an entire floor of an office building, was filled to overflowing, and center director Nellie Santiago-Rivera said her 35-member staff often sees 150 patients a day.

Most of the Brooklyn clients are black and Hispanic women in their 20s, many without a primary-care doctor of their own.

"This is their community health center," said Evelyn Intondi, a Planned Parenthood nurse-midwife.

Intondi said the undercover videos had been the topic of much discussion among clinic staff.

"You're angry, you're upset," she said. "You wonder, what's the perception of our clients coming in?"

However, she said the campaigns against Planned Parenthood reinforced her resolve.

"It reignites the fire in your belly that brought you to this in the beginning," Intondi said. "This is what I do. There are definitely some people who don't like it."

Planned Parenthood's foes are active on the federal, state and local level. On Thursday, Virginia's House of Delegates voted to prohibit not only state government but also local governments from allocating money to Planned Parenthood clinics.

The bill's sponsor, Delegate Robert Marshall, objects to the clinics' role in providing abortion but also holds Planned Parenthood responsible for broader phenomena he links to the sexual revolution — including out-of-wedlock pregnancies, adolescent sex and sexually transmitted diseases.

"Clearly this group has been on the cutting edge of attacking moral standards," Marshall said in an interview. "Now we're reaping their revolution, and people are having second thoughts."

While Planned Parenthood says it retains broad public support, some of its critics believe the tide of opinion is running against it.

Melinda Delahoyde is executive director of Care Net, a nationwide network of centers that counsel women with unintended pregnancies on alternatives to abortion. She said the cumulative effect of the undercover videos, public unease about abortion and parental concerns about sex education are taking a toll on Planned Parenthood.

"There are cracks in the dike that are widening on many different fronts," Delahoyde said.

Planned Parenthood leaders say their attitude toward sexuality is a key reason for the animosity they face.

"We are a safe place where people can go and ask difficult questions about sex," Richards said. "We do this for teens and adults, gays and straights, and that really irritates some people who believe sex is only for procreation."

Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary and an expert on gender issues, said Planned Parenthood deserved credit for directly addressing the complexities of human sexuality.

"It would be wonderful if we lived in a world where we didn't need Planned Parenthood, where women had all the information and resources they needed regarding their own sexual health," she said. "But given we don't have that, it fills a very important role."

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Wal-Mart and target $9 generic Prescription Drugs Levitra, Fosamax, Sprintec, tamoxifen, Fertinorm (ContributorNetwork)

Target $4 /$ 10 orders

Wal-Mart, Kroger and target sell much the same $ 4 /$ 10 generic drugs, but they are grouped differently on each list. For example, Walmart lists the requirements such as fluoxetine (Prozac generic equivalent) under the "mental health", while the target lists fluoxetine under "Antidepressant." Kroger lists prescription drugs for $4 in alphabetical order while target and Wal-Mart were alphabetical by condition lists.

Wal-Mart and target have added a $30 9 days and $24 for the class of prescription drugs three months. The drugs in this class include finasteride (Proscar), Alendronate (Fosamax), clomiphene (Fertinorm), Sprintec (Norgesimate, Estradiol) control, births, Tri-Sprintec and varieties of 10 and 20 mg tamoxifen (Novladex). Wal-Mart and target sell Wellbutrin and Zyban generic equivalent cessation Bupropion 150 MG SR for $9 (17 count). In the category of health among men, Wal-Mart and target selling Levitra (used to treat erectile Dysfuction) for $9 per tablet. The best price for Levitra online is $67.50 for four tablets.

Adults and parents of asthmatic children will be happy to hear equivalent generic albuterol, ReliOn / Ventolin HFA inhalers 8 g / 60 puff size, are now available for $9. Explore the list of every store of the requirements more than 300. Owens Corning, target and Walmart all sell them $4 /$ 10 generic drugs for many categories of health: allergies, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, antipsychotic drugs, antibiotics, antacids, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, arthritis, heart/hypertension, cancer/Oncology, preparations of cholesterol, diabetes, the eyes and ears, hormones, incontinence, muscle relaxers, Parkinson's disease, prostate, seizures/epilepsy, steroids, gastrointestinal / stomach, thyroid, of tuberculosis, vitamins (including prenatal) and women's health problems.

Generic drugs for $4 /$ 10 are available for everyone, the insurance or the absence of insurance independently. There is no particular qualifications to participate in the program. You should ask your doctor or your pediatrician to prescribe drugs on this list, and of generic drugs when possible. Application Kroger, Wal-Mart or target for your preferred pharmacy.

Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben, a homeschooler of 10-year veteran, has nearly three decades of experience of teachers of general education and special needs. It has created hundreds of thematic units and lesson plans on everything from the ancient Greece biodiversity to personal finance to poetry. She holds a BA in psychology and a degree: doctor of the University of life mother. She writes about parenting for the contributor to Yahoo! network.


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New therapy for enlarged Prostate may circumvent the unpleasant side effects (HealthDay)

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter by Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter - Kills the 29 March, 11: 47 pm and

TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) - a minimally invasive treatment for hypertrophy of the prostate which limits the blood supply to the prostate appears to be just as effective as surgery, but without the risk of debilitating side effects, such as impotence and urinary incontinence.

Treatment - called benign prostate or EAP artery embolization - is ready to be used in some patients, namely those with a prostate plue of 60 cubic centimetres, "with serious lower urinary tract symptoms and a weak urinary stream""," said Mr. Jo?o Martins Pisco, senior author of a study to be presented on March 29 at the annual meeting of the society of Interventional Radiology in Chicago.

But other experts are not so sure.

Drugs are used to treat most of the patients with hypertrophy of the prostate, with only about 10 per cent of qualifying for surgery to remove the gland together, said Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler, a urologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

"Because the drug is so effective, most of the patients we treat surgically are in very poor condition", she added. And while this study has shown some symptomatic improvement, it was not sufficient objective data to show that the new technique would surgery, she said.

Hyperplasia, benign prostate, also known under the name hypertrophy of the prostate, is a non-cancerous condition familiar to millions of older males. The condition occurs when the prostate enlarges slowly and press on the urethra, constricting the flow of urine.

Enlarged prostate is characterized by a host of unpleasant symptoms, including low urine flow or slow, an urgent need to urinate often, incomplete bladder emptying and having to get up several times during the night to urinate.

Surgery for enlarged prostate - Transurethral resection of the prostate or TURP - is used for men whose prostate is smaller than 60-80 cubic centimeters. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia and requires a hospital stay.

During this time, there is no size limit for PAE, which requires only local anesthesia and also decreases the risk of other side effects, such as the loss of blood and ejaculation retrograde, which occurs when semen leaks in the bladdersaid researchers. EAP can be both an external consultation procedure.

For the procedure, a catheter is inserted into the femoral artery in the groin. The catheter offer "grains" of tiny arteries that lead to the prostate, which block the blood flow and lead to shriveling ' gland.

In this study, EAP has contributed to most of the 67 patients who have undergone a procedure, according to researchers, who had noticed that 66 men who had not responded to the drug have experienced improvements in symptoms and a reduction in prostate volume. After nine months, none had experienced sexual dysfunction and 25 percent still reported improvements.

However, the authors have not seen as large 'urodynamic' results improved, as flow improved urine, which would indicate how the bladder and urethra are one; in this area, patient does not improve as much as those who had undergone surgery TURP, they noted.

Another drawback is that some doctors are trained to the EAP so far, said Pisco, Chairman of Radiology at hospital Pulido Valente and medical professor at the Faculty of science at the new University of Lisbon in the Portugal.

Other minimally invasive treatments for prostate hypertrophy that are currently available are less effective and have a higher risk of a need for reoperation, according to the information documents that accompanied the study.

Dr. Franklin Lowe, Director associate of Urology at the Hospital of St. Luke's - Roosevelt in New York City, said PAE is "probably" not much used to treat enlarged prostate.

Current surgical procedures generally require no more than a night at the hospital and complications such as incontinence and impotence are rare, he said.

"EAP is potentially dangerous complications,"Lowe said, adding that the follow-up to the study of less than one year was short for a disease that lasts decades.""

Given that the study is presented at a medical meeting and has not yet been published in a journal of peer, the conclusions should be considered preliminary.

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UN said female circumcision must end (AP)

Organization of the United NATIONS - United Nations High officials call for the end of female genital mutilation, saying it violates the fundamental rights of the person and endangers the health of 3 million girls who undergo the practice each year.

Anthony Lake, head of the Fund of the United Nations and Babatunde Osotimehin child, head of the United Nations Population Fund called Monday on the countries and organizations around the world to help end the practice.

Officials say that more than 6,000 communities in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Senegal have abandoned the practice because of a programme of three years of the United Nations.

Female genital mutilation, also known as the excision are removal of the external genitalia to limit sexual activity. It can cause prolonged bleeding, infection, infertility and death.


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2011年4月18日星期一

Healthcare providers Find closed Options meaningful use

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Slide show: 17 VendorsPhysicians of EHR prepares to certify for significant use of records electronic health (EHR) to save Medicare premiums, take note. Depending on where you practice, you do may not be able to claim exemptions from some of the necessary measures.

For example, in Illinois, a new report, says that the State is not able to accept electronic data of the EHR on syndromic surveillance, which is one of the 10 measures - which providers must respond to the five - stage 1 meaningful use. But the federal rules require eligible providers (physicians and other health care professionals who qualify for grants) report on at least one of the two measures related to the health of the population: syndromic surveillance and immunization registries.

"An EP Medicare [eligible provider] may postpone 5 measures set 10 menu, but only one of the measures of population health, without giving a reason why they did not mention the measures that they were different," says the report, drafted by internist Dr. Stasia sands-Kahnin collaboration with the Department of public health of Illinois and the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Reporter a measure is the same that claiming exclusion, according to the report. A provider may claim the exclusion for certain measures, but will be required to certify the exception. In the case of measures of population health, an exemption must be verified by the State in which the provider practices.

"For the health of the population, you must make one," sands-Kahn said in an interview. And the inability of the State to accept electronic data for one of the measures Won't get you off the hook for the other, she said. "The only way out of [the declaration requirement] is if you do not have immunizations at all," said sands-Kahn.

Sands-Kahn, an IT consultant who practice in the medical group three-provider Fox Prairie, Saint-Charles, Illinois, of health released the report Wednesday on its survival of the TRA website, which provides advice on electronic medical records to the practices of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Medicare eligible providers can claim exclusion of submitting electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies, given that the Department of public health of Illinois currently does not have the infrastructure in place to allow the EHR data, according to the report. However, suppliers met the requirement to measure health population significant use "simply by claiming an exclusion of the objective of the syndromic surveillance." "EPs must select at least one of the options in the health of the population," said the report.

In Illinois, this means that they must use the State immunization registry, even if it is essentially in the beta. Sands-Kahn noted that Illinois has run two drivers with groups of suppliers, but has not widely tested system.

Based on conversations with technical specialists to the CMS, Sands-Kahn has said that it believes similar problems exist in other States, and that could create a lot of headaches for small practices such as hers.

"My practice must send a test of the report of immunization," sands-Kahn has said, "and it means our EMR provider involvement." I need a vaccination interface. It is an add-on. And of course, the question is, do I pay for it? ?


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Report blasts is the problem of Cancer Research Grid

The National Cancer Institute is reassess a broad computing grid used for research on cancer, following an assessment by its Board of scientific advisors that the draft is riddled with problems. NCI has invested more than 350 million dollars in the project, called caBIG, including nearly 200 million dollars over the past two years.

CaBIG, the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, meaning is a pilot project launched in 2004, whose purpose was to provide a computing shared for biomedical research and develop software tools and standard formats for the exchange of information. Funded by the NCI Cancer Centers across the United States, including the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, have access to caBIG via 145 nodes of the network. CaBIG includes "workspaces, nine" which support research in the life sciences, clinical trials, banks of tissue and pathology and other areas.

Following his appointment in July, Director of NCI Harold Varmus has undertaken a review of four months of caBIG, and this review was completed in February by a group of work of the Council of the Institute of scientific advisers. The Working Group, in a report published last month, showed that less than a dozen cancer centers are using the management of clinical data of the caBIG tools or its cloud computing infrastructure. And while acknowledging that caBIG has had a "positive influence" on the establishment of standards for the exchange of data, the Working Group has criticized program for straying from its objectives initial and sprawling in a too complex "enterprise software" of more than 70 applications.

CaBIG is administered by the NCI of Biomedical Informatics Centre and it. The 10-member working group, composed of experts with degrees in science and medicine, found that management structure for the caBIG program became bureaucratic and suffers from "very high" costs generals. The program has increased too quickly without careful prioritization or a profitable business, according to the working group model. Lead contractors are Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC-Frederick and Sapient.

The NCI Board issued 10 recommendations for corrective action. They include an immediate moratorium on all the caBIG software development, including ongoing projects in commercial contracts. a moratorium of one year on all new projects and contracts; an audit of the expenses of caBIG to date; and the creation of an independent oversight committee.

Report of the Working Group detailed a long list of problems with the program. Some applications caBIG cost millions of dollars for the construction. The price tag for a, caArray, a system of management of the data in table, was $ 9.2 million. Other software is overdesigned, difficult to use, or lack of support and documentation. For these reasons and others, a majority of 32 life science "bench to bench" research tools developed for caBIG had limited use or impact, the report.

Only seven of the 51 centres funded by participating in caBIG NIC cancer uses the program cloud computing infrastructure, caGrid. Twenty others are on route to caGrid, but this brings the total to slightly more than half of these centres. Among the issues cited as obstacles are caGrid is too complex and has not been adequately tested for safety. Even the University of Chicago, which contributed to the development of caGrid, is not its use.

"There is always an example of how not to run a program, it can be," said Michael Biddick, President and CTO of Fusion PPT, a systems integrator working with government agencies. Biddick is a contribution InformationWeek editor who has written on caBIG. "The failure to link the mission objectives to technology shows how important acceptance by users and buy-in can be," he said.

Efforts to build a community of users of caBIG autour, which include strategic planning meetings and monthly conference calls, were also found to be missed. An annual meeting to advance the agenda has been described in the report by a participant not identified as "frenzy of food on the contractor". In addition to three major prime contractors, twenty other providers are involved with caBIG.

The NCI report describes the administration of the program of the caBIG as having a "very complex organizational structure" and said that information on the programme budget had been inconsistent and difficult to decipher. The Working Group has determined that the money paid to Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC-Frederick and Sapient over the past seven years more than $ 60 million and is "probably much more". It considers that the total expenditures on caBIG to be at least $ 350 million for the years 2004 to 2010, including about 100 million dollars in federal stimulus funds.


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2011年4月17日星期日

Frustration flares in the ONC meaningful use Workgroup debate

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Slideshow: Health, it stimulates the Patient Care, meaningful use Workgroup SafetyThe HIT Policy Committee is struggling to reach a consensus on the major requirements of step 2, with some accusing the group to be shy in certain regions and other characterizing the proposed requirements as unrealistic within the given time.

Specifically in the region to provide patients with electronic access to their hospital visit summaries through a Web portal, feuding flared April 5 of the HIT Policy Committee meeting, convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information technology.

Arguing that the Working Group seemed ready to add requirements around electronic transmission from provider to provider, but are opposed to those dealing with provider-patient transmission, Christine Bechtel, vice President of the national society for women and families, said: "we have to do attention to our tendency to raise the bar [to receive our approval] with what this is about patients and families, and them to query so we are not challenging things for suppliers.." We find a way to do this in step 2, in 2013, when everyone and their mother can communicate on the Internet. ?

Medical Director of James Figge, MD, New York State Department of Health, Office of health insurance programs, has replied, "well, it depends on how secure you want to be." If you want to be really secure, it is not easy to do. "Figge explained that the creation of the ability of patients to access their files via the portals provided by the hospital would be" a huge commitment, a really big deal. " Authentication of users on the Internet is not trivial. ?

Marty Fattig, CEO of Nemaha County Hospital, agree. "I believe that this will be a huge thing because we have to do this in a very secure manner." This is an operational problem. I am for this - I want just to do it properly. ?

Charlene Underwood, Director of the Government and the Affairs of Siemens Medical Solutions industry, echoed Figge and Fattig. "It is a big step in place for step 2, to develop infrastructure and authentication in place." We try to improve the discharge with summary information exchange. Access by patients is good, but another way to go after readmission rates was making them available to the provider of primary health care through health information exchange. "What, Bechtel has requested,""physician-physician communication is delicious, but what for patients and caregivers?" "

Deven McGraw, Director of the project for the protection of the personal information of health at the Center for Democracy and Technology, warns against adding information of each patient to a portal, which would be theoretically more sensitive to a breach of security. "What about the people who like their information in portals," she asked. "I don't know if I am uncomfortable with demanding that portals be established for persons who do not want to use". Specified A door option would be "by patient preference", the members of the groups may be complicating its operationalization.

As the Working Group visited online project stage 2 requirements, patient and life private defenders line up for a higher bar, while those on the provider preferred more moderate of measures.

Interestingly, the Working Group was clearly operating with more flexibility that an inch up or down approach to each proposed measure. The Group had "reported" for the industry as step 1 Menu items (articles that suppliers can choose to, instead of having to comply all the) would become "base" in step 2. They appeared in the same dynamic for step 2, perhaps expand the defined base to include new elements, while putting others in the menu. Some elements that seemed out of reach for step 2 - may be because this required of the new features of EHR and, therefore, time for the development of the seller and recertification produced - were relegated to step 3.

Another dynamic of the meeting was the desire of vendors, particularly Underwood by Siemens for accurate standards for any new proposed measures, especially those which would require a change in the software. She asked repeatedly Members proposing new measures that the standards in this area have been, or informed them that, currently, there is no vendors could build on.

For some proposed measures which appeared in the absence of standards, such as how to save and display of family medical history, Paul Tang, MD, VP and CMIO at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Chairman of the meaningful use work groupsaid that he confer with the HIT Standards Committee to see if something could be developed in tight deadlines of the group.

The timetable for the Working Group appeals make his step 2 measures fully HIT Policy Committee on 13 April. On 2 may, Tang said that the Working Group would convene to discuss feedback, that he had received of the political Commission, refining its proposals from step 2. 11, The Working Group will present its stage 2 "package" policy for a second review Commission. "We will then finalise our proposal after this meeting, in the preparation of a presentation to the June 8 meeting of the Committee of the policy when we will ask for approval.".


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