Jul 28, 2010
Men's Health
U.S. Marshals seize FastSize Extender devices and FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor devices
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized $346,954.43 worth of FastSize Extender devices and FastSize EQM™ Erectile Quality Monitor devices, as well as component parts used in the manufacture of the FastSize Extender. The FastSize Extender and the FastSize EQM™ Erectile Quality Monitor are manufactured and distributed by FastSize, LLC of Aliso Viejo, Calif. [More]
Analyzing PSA level, not sufficient for treatment decisions: Report
A new report published in the July 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine claims many men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer undergo aggressive therapy, even when they have low PSA scores and low-risk disease, saying "these results underscore the fact that PSA level, the current biomarker, is not a sufficient basis for treatment decisions." [More]
Report shows most men with low PSA undergo aggressive therapy
Most men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer appear to under undergo aggressive therapy, even if they have a low prostate-specific antigen level and low-risk disease, according to a report in the July 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [More]
Study on treatment needs of prostate cancer patients with low level PSA
Controversy has long existed over the benefit of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test used to screen for the presence of prostate cancer, and there has been little study to document the risk profile of men who have a PSA level at or below what is considered 'normal.' New research published in the latest edition of Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170, No. 14) by a team of investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), further explores this population. The findings show that most men with prostate cancer who tested below the normal PSA level and had low-risk disease nevertheless underwent aggressive treatment. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. [More]
Gamma-tocotrienol suppresses colony formation of cancer stem cells: Research
Scientists from Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong have found that gamma-tocotrienol is potent in killing prostate cancer stem cells. This small group of cells is responsible for the initiation of prostate cancer and is resistant to conventional chemotherapy drugs. It causes relapses in the cancer by producing new chemo-resistant cancer cells. Gamma-tocotrienol is a member of the Vitamin E family and is derived naturally from palm oil. [More]
Cancer institute offers new tumor monitoring system for radiation therapy patients
A new system that utilizes a precise a GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors is now being offered to patients undergoing radiation therapy at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. The monitoring system, called Calypso, allows radiation beams to more precisely target the cancer as it gives real-time positioning information that allows the radiation beams to focus directly on the cancer. [More]
AIDS 2010 studies, releases: Criminalization, discrimination of high-risk groups; Test-and-treat; UNAIDS launches HIV prevention commission
The criminalization of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in Asia is holding back efforts to contain HIV/AIDS in the region, according to a report presented Wednesday by the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health at the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, VOA News reports. The report "linked the criminalization of homosexual behavior to an increase in the infection rate of HIV and AIDS in Asia," the news service writes (Dewan, 7/21). [More]
Adult circumcision proposed for possible HIV prevention in gay men
Adult circumcision has been proposed as a possible HIV prevention strategy for gay men, but a new study by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference suggests it would have a very small effect on reducing HIV incidence in the United States. [More]
Report: Older gay, bisexual men enrolled in long-term study of HIV used illicit drugs infrequently
Most older gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV used recreational drugs infrequently over a 10-year period, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference. [More]
Researchers block central pathway for prostate cancer progression
Prostate cancer advances when tumors become resistant to hormone therapy, which is the standard treatment for patients, and begin producing their own androgens. [More]
Vietnam rejects French officer's ashes request
Gen Bigeard was a veteran of WWII, French Indochina and Algeria
'Military junta' rules Zimbabwe, says MDC's Bennett
Mr Bennett said Mr Mugabe was being forced to continue as president by his generals
Spain faces bullfighting ban vote in Catalonia
BBC News - Passenger plane crashes in hills near Pakistan capital
Mist hampers plane rescue
A plane with more than 150 people on board has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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Jul 27, 2010
Malta's mash of civilisations
Mdina was used as the capital by the Knights of Malta. Photograph: Lino Arrigo Azzopardi/EPA
Madagascar's 'lemur lady' on saving endangered animals
The scientist was fresh out of her university course studying animal husbandry in the Soviet Union and working at the national zoo in Madagascar when she was sent to join the group.
With Madagascar's Priceless Biodiversity on the Line, New Report Says 'Go for it' to USAID
Madagascar Rail © Pete Morris/Birdquest, from the surfbirds galleries.
Expats warned about Maldives violence
The archipelago, a popular destination with tourists, is being rocked by a violent power struggle beween its president and the opposition-led national Parliament.
Most of the violence has been concentrated in the capital of Male, where street demonstrations have resulted in injuries among both policemen and civilians.
Iceland begins EU accession talks
Iceland is beginning formal accession talks with the European Union on Tuesday, following the approval of the bloc's foreign ministers in Brussels.
The EU ministers agreed a "negotiating framework" on Monday, despite differences over such issues as whale hunting and the Icelandic banking collapse that hit British and Dutch investors in 2008. Iceland is already a member of the Schengen border-free travel zone and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), and hopes to join the bloc in about two years' time.
Three months later, supplies arrive in Haiti
Volunteers load a shipping container with supplies bound for Haiti at the Pease Tradeport this April. The container finally arrived in mid-July in Milot, Haiti, where it will benefit the Eben Ezer School and local community.
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- Leaks create fresh doubt about Afghan war, secrets (AP)
AP - The monumental leak of classified Afghan war documents threatened Monday to create deeper doubts about the war at home, cause new friction with Pakistan over allegations about its spy agency and raise questions around the world about Washington's own ability to protect military secrets.
- BP's Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works (AP)
- Immigrant groups criticize fingerprint initiative (AP)
- High-paid CA council members vote to slash pay (AP)
- Blagojevich defense attorney clashes with judge (AP)
- Black Caucus chair on Rangel: Don't presume guilt (AP)
Jul 26, 2010
2,000-year-old Ptolemaic statue found in Egypt
An Egyptian-Dominican team made the discovery at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria, said a statement from the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Alexandria was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt for 300 years, until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra.
British Museum under pressure to give up leading treasures of Egypt
The demand, issued in Cairo at the end of a two-day conference, is addressed to every country that holds ancient relics.
Western museum hold most of the items listed by countries ranging from China to Mexico. The British museum is the principal target because of the prominence of the artefacts it owns.
Cleopatra papyrus goes on display
Two fragments of papyrus featuring the handwriting of Cleopatra Photo: REUTERS
The document with the Greek inscription, "make it happen," refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. It is one of 150 artifacts in an exhibition featuring the latest discoveries in an intensifying search for her long-lost tomb.
Bus driver shoots six dead near Cairo
Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Mahmud Taha Ahmad Sueilem, 54, the driver for the company Arab Contractors, was taking 22 employees to their workplace in Giza when he stopped the bus at Meniel Shiha, 12 miles south of the Egyptian capital, and suddenly started firing, an official said.
Greek man wins £175,000 over Turkish yoghurt picture
The 77-year-old man, who was angry at being portrayed as a Turk, the traditional national enemy of Greeks, originally demanded £4.5 million in damages for the use, without permission, of his image.
His photograph, with distinctive long moustache, red hat and traditional Greek dress, has been used on millions of yoghurt tubs marketed as a Turkish-style product.
Northern Cyprus plans to become Mediterranean 'Las Vegas'
The centre of the casino world in North Cyprus is Kyrenia
The Turkish enclave of Cyprus has announced proposals for a series of glamorous new resorts and shopping arcades in a move which risks straining relations with the south.
Details were revealed by a new hardline leadership in the north as it prepared to mark the 36th anniversary of the Turkish invasion today.
BBC News - Putin says spies expelled from US had 'tough lives'
Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life"
Hezbollah members 'facing Rafik Hariri charges'
Mr Nasrallah claimed the UN-backed tribunal was politically motivated
Oaxaca festival in Mexico highlights indigenous pride
The Chirinos Chinas family are performing in the Guelaguetza
An old Mexican man, with a big moustache and wearing a wide sombrero, ambles into the sunlit Benito Juarez auditorium in Oaxaca City, clutching a live, twitching turkey.
Looking around for his fellow villagers, he passes rows of vividly embroidered traditional dresses, pineapples with red ribbons tied round their middles in bows, and thousands of sombreros like his own.
Cuban President Raul Castro set for 26 July speech
Monday's celebrations recall the start of the Cuban revolution
Cuban President Raul Castro is set to make one of his rare televised speeches at the annual 26 July rally which marks the start of the revolution in 1953.
Many Cubans will be hoping that he will use the event to move on his long-awaited economic reforms.
Leaked records 'reveal civilian deaths' in Afghanistan
The files have been passed on to three news organisations
Burma leader's India visit draws rights criticism
Burma and India have enjoyed warm relations over the last 10 years
Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe has arrived in India for a controversial five-day visit, which has been condemned by rights groups.
The junta leader is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a trip that marks India's desire to strengthen trade links with its neighbour.Rights groups have written to Mr Singh saying it was "unbecoming" of a democracy to welcome
BBC News - Al-Qaeda in North Africa 'kills French hostage'
Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old retired engineer, was kidnapped in Niger in April
US says Wikileaks could 'threaten national security'
The leaks raise "serious" questions about US policy in the region, a senior US senator has said
Festival organisers 'ignored Death Tunnel safety advice' -Germany
Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene
Taliban offer US navy body in exchange for prisoners
The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a US navy member they say was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said today.
Tony Hayward to quit BP | Business | The Guardian
Tony Hayward's departure will be announced tomorrow Photograph: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned | Life and style
First up, a sorry dispatch from the Great Celebrity Adipose Wars – a conflict that finally has its Hutton report. Once again, the BBC has issued a humiliating apology for its output, although this time the beneficiary is not Alastair Campbell but Eamonn Holmes. The main thing is, the good guys are still winning.
Casablanca writ large | Travel
Tahir Shah in the restored library of Dar Khalifa, and its original pool Photograph: Ingrid Pullar
Seven years ago, exasperated by living in a tiny London flat, the writer Tahir Shah enacted the cherished fantasy of stressed city dwellers everywhere by uprooting his young family and decamping to a stunning house on the outskirts of Casablanca.
The big story is cricket but the news is all football
Tune in for an update on the status of Didier Drogba's groin injury. Photograph: Tom Jenkins
With most of the big free-to-air sport – World Cup, Wimbledon, the Open – finished, we now enter a kind of pending period before football starts again, a two‑week hiatus that enthusiasts and terminal nostalgists like to call the cricket season.
Manchester City willing to break transfer record for Fernando Torres
Liverpool are uncertain of holding on to their star striker Fernando Torres. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Roberto Mancini has confirmed Manchester City are willing to underwrite a British record transfer for Fernando Torres should the Spaniard decide to leave Liverpool.
Kansas City Wizards 2-1 Manchester United | Friendly match report | Football
Kansas City Wizards celebrate Davy Arnaud's opener against Manchester United. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
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