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| Women's erection election The erection drug Viagra has been given the thumbs down by women who say longer-lasting medication is better, according to a small sample survey. The study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, was partly-funded by Eli Lilly, who make Cialis, a rival to Viagra. New Zealand researchers road--*test*-('")ed the two drugs on 100 couples affected by erectile dysfunction. They found 80 per cent of the women in the three-month study preferred Cialis, which can help men achieve erections during arousal for 36 hours, over Viagra, which works for about four hours. This is the first study to gather women's views on the drugs' performance. Most said they had a more natural or spontaneous sexual experience on the drug. "The lack of time pressure with the longer-acting medication just seemed to make the women feel more relaxed and less stressed or pressured to get on with things in bed in an allotted time," said University of Waikato researcher Dr Helen Conaglen, who collaborated with her husband, Professor John Conaglen, of the University of Auckland. "As a result of the slower pace, there was more sexual satisfaction and more intimacy and romance." Just 15 per cent said they preferred Viagra, while five per cent did not prefer either. Dr Conaglen said couples responded differently to each drug, with contradicting claims about which was best in various ways, like erection quality. Viagra and Cialis work in similar ways, both targeting the same enzyme to amplify blood flow to the penis, but Cialis is not metabolised or secreted as quickly. Neither drug is available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to treat erectile dysfunction. http://www.theage.com.au/news/health/women...3788415264.html |
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| The electroshock therapy business that is happening above without anaesthetic used to be quite common in the UK and USA simply because after that treatment you dont remember a thing thats happened to you, so the patients never complained despite the pain they were put through. |
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| Scientists switch off tumour feeding frenzy Australian scientists have discovered a new way to stop rapid growth of blood vessels that "feed" deadly tumours, paving the way for a new cancer therapy. Fast-growing blood vessels are essential in helping tumours grow and spread, but a team from Western Australia revealed they could halt the process by switching off a master gene. Turning off the gene, called RGS5, forces vessel growth to return to normal and gives the immune system a better chance of getting to the tumour and destroying it. The world-first discovery, reported in the international journal Nature today, was made in mice, but the researchers and other cancer experts say it offers hope as a bold new therapy if the process can be replicated in humans. "By understanding what is actually going on in the tumour itself, the ultimate hope is that we'll be able to work on making current therapeutic approaches even more successful and reducing side effects of them," said Professor Ruth Ganss, of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Prof Ganss and her team were studying the behaviour of blood vessels when they realised the gene could reverse so-called angiogenesis, the growth of blood vessels inside the tumour. "It's the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels and the formation of abnormal blood vessels inside tumours that 'feed' them, allowing them to grow and stopping the immune system from wiping out the tumour," she said. "What we've shown is that RGS5 is a master gene in angiogenesis and that when it is removed, angiogenesis reverses and the blood vessels in tumours appear more normal." Prof Ganss said this normalisation changed the tumour environment in a way that improved immune cell entry, meaning tumours could be destroyed. Cancer Council Australia chief executive Professor Ian Olver said reversing abnormal vessel growth represented a fresh approach to tackling angiogenesis. "Most of the other research looks at either killing or blocking the vessels, not reversing their growth," Prof Olver said. Current treatments focus on attacking growth factors that stimulate vessels to grow, giving a "slightly increased advantage" when used alongside other therapies. "But attacking a gene is further down the pathway which, in theory, should make it more effective," he said. "It's early days but very exciting." http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sci...8025319088.html |
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| People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS – 5 hours ago ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name. One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians. "My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said. The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women. Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos. "This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title." He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10. Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the grea-*test*-('") poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women. Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church. Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him. One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair. Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?" The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment. |
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| Torture at the hospital A private hospital in Istanbul did not take care of 14-month-old Sıla until her father paid the fee in cash. Little girl suffered from the pain until her dad found the money.  Sıla suffers for seven hours In Halkalı, Istanbul, a 14-month-old baby named Sıla got burnt with boiling water. First, she was taken to a private hospital near their home; after the first treatment, the baby was taken to three other hospitals who could not treat her as they did not have the proper medical unit for burning. Özel TEM hospital asked for a cash payment of 8,500 YTL for the treatment for five days. Little girl suffered from the pain for seven hours then her dad found the money. |
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| Greek doctors remove twin from nine-year-old girl 10 hours ago LARISSA, Greece (AFP) — Surgeons have removed the foetus of an undeveloped twin from the stomach of a nine-year-old Greek girl, doctors said Thursday. In a rare medical case, the girl had grown up with the six-centimetre (two-inch) foetus inside her undetected until recently. Doctors at the hospital at Larissa said the girl had recovered with no problems from the operation to remove what is known as a "parasite foetus". |
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| Oral sex blamed for rise in throat cancer For five gruelling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection. Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she savoured a single spoonful of weak broth. "The radiation basically burns the skin off the outside and inside of your throat," said Kanga, 52. "It's like there's a fire inside your neck." Kanga's treatment was successful, but the virus that struck her is causing increasing concern among some researchers who think it is causing a small-scale epidemic of throat cancer. That virus, scientists have proved only in the last two years, is human papillomavirus, or HPV - the same virus that's behind most cases of cervical cancer. With 6,000 cases per year and an annual increase of up to 10 per cent in men younger than 60, some researchers say the HPV-linked throat cancers could overtake cervical cancer in the next decade. "It's almost a new disease, in a sense," said Dr Ezra Cohen, an oncologist at the University of Chicago Medical Centre. "It's now becoming a dominant sub-type of the disease that we see in our clinic." The HPV infections likely took root decades ago as the Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood, and only now are spurring a rise in throat cancer cases, mostly among men and women in their 50s. No one understands the precise reason for the increase, though experts suspect it's linked to changes in sexual practices that emerged in the 1960s and '70s. For example, oral sex is a known risk factor for HPV-related throat cancers, and studies have shown that people who have come of age since the 1950s are more likely to have engaged in oral sex than those who were born earlier. "Those people were in their teens during the sexual revolution, so they may be leading the wave," said Dr Maura Gillison, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre who has published numerous studies indicating that HPV-related throat cancer is a distinct type of disease. The virus targets a specific portion of the upper throat called the oropharynx, which includes the tonsils and base of the tongue. Just a decade ago, doctors believed nearly all such cancers were linked with smoking or extremely heavy drinking. Last year, however, Gillison's team published a major study that found stark differences between the risky behaviours of throat cancer patients with HPV and those without. The HPV-positive cancer patients tended to have had higher numbers of sex partners than the others and were far more likely to have had multiple oral-sex partners. The virus-linked cancer appears somewhat less deadly than throat cancers that arise from smoking or drinking. A paper published this year found that 96 per cent of HPV-positive patients survived at least two years after diagnosis, compared with 62 per cent survival for HPV-negative cancers. "They have a better prognosis, but these are still very aggressive cancers," said Dr Marshall Posner, medical director of head and neck oncology at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre in Boston. While doctors had hoped for an overall drop in throat cancer as the percentage of Americans who smoke declined, the rise of HPV-related throat cancers seems to be offsetting any such benefit. Gillison's group -*test*-('")ed hundreds of head and neck tumours that doctors began saving in the early 1970s, long before anyone knew such cancers might be linked to HPV. The work showed that the number of HPV-positive tumours increased by about 1 per cent a year on average, though the trend has quickened in the last decade, especially in men younger than 60. The virus thrives in the outer layer of skin and is transmitted mostly by skin-to-skin contact, researchers think. Sexual transmission tends to cause infection near the site of contact; intercourse is linked with cervical cancer, while oral sex can cause cancer of the upper throat. Recent increases in HPV-positive throat cancers could be an aftershock of changes in sexual behaviour that began decades ago. A landmark 1994 study of sexual behaviour showed that oral sex had become commonplace only in the generations born in the 1950s or later. Fewer than 60 per cent of people born in the 1930s were found to have had oral sex, compared with more than 80 per cent of people born since 1950. "The older people simply did not do it as much," said Edward Laumann, a University of Chicago professor of sociology who led the National Health and Social Life Survey. "It's a very complicated social story that nobody's really worked out in detail," he said. Other causes may have contributed to the spread of HPV cancers, including the increased movement of people around the country and the world in the last half-century, experts said. Scientists aren't even sure yet whether the virus might be spread by kissing, though data suggest oral sex is a major route of transmission. One implication of the cancer trend is that oral sex does not constitute "safe sex," Kanga said. "We can't be afraid to talk about this," Kanga said. "The message that oral sex carries risks is just not out there." Conservative groups say the emergence of HPV-related throat cancer is an additional argument for abstaining from sex until marriage. But many researchers focus on expanded use of the HPV vaccine, which since 2006 has been recommended for girls ages 11 to 12. Just as the vaccine lessens the risk of cervical cancer for those girls, it may offer protection from HPV-positive throat cancer, though studies have not yet addressed that question. Vaccine maker Merck & Co hopes to submit an application this year to the US Food and Drug Administration for use of its HPV vaccine in males. Although the company's studies will not show specifically whether the vaccine protects against throat cancer, they should reveal whether the shots prevent infection with HPV. "We expect the vaccine to work just as well in male and female populations," said Dr Richard Haupt, director of Merck's clinical program for the vaccine, Gardasil, which was developed using technology pioneered in Australia. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2...ge#contentSwap2 |
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'Pregnant man' gives birth to girl: report A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported today. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and -*test*-('")osterone therapy, attracted worldwide attention in April after revealing his pregnancy. The 34-year-old gave birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, America's ABC News reported, without providing further details. Beatie, who sports a beard, was dubbed the 'pregnant man' after appearing on Oprah Winfrey's television talkshow to discuss his pregnancy. "I feel it's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child," Beatie told the chat show queen. Beatie's unusual situation first became public when he wrote an article in the US gay magazine The Advocate in March entitled Labor of Love. "To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don't appear in the least unusual," he wrote, explaining that his wife was unable to have a child after undergoing a hysterectomy. So he chose to become pregnant by artificial insemination, he said. "Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns," Beatie wrote, adding the couple had experienced opposition from health care professionals, friends and family. One doctor refused to treat the couple, after consulting an ethics board. "How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am," Beatie wrote. http://www.theage.com.au/world/pregnant-ma...80704-31fm.html |
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| Fake sickie notes fraudulent, say doctors Doctors say employees who buy fake sick notes over the internet could be committing fraud. The notes available on the website http://www.doctorsno-*test*-('")ore.com, come from an overseas company expected to set up a base in Australia next month. At $40 each, the notes are less than the cost of the average visit to a general practitioner. Most employers now require a medical certificate if an employee calls in sick for two days or more and is seeking paid sick leave. But Dr Wayne Herdy - a GP, lawyer and chairman of the ethics committee of the Australian Medical Association Queensland (AMAQ) - said forging doctors' signatures at the bottom of the certificates was breaking the law and doctors' reputations could be damaged. "Anybody can write any sort of signature at the bottom of something, so there is no way of guaranteeing that the squiggle you see at the bottom is in fact a doctor's signature," Dr Herdy said today. Doctors also used a variety of different computer-generated sickness certificates. "So unless you have actually gone around to the 30,000 or so GPs in Australia and copied one of each, they (the website) are probably using some sort of proforma," he said. The website, which promises the fake medical certificates will arrive within five working days in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, says they are for novelty use only. "That is obviously not for novelty purposes," Dr Herdy said. "It is clearly inciting and abetting fraud and I would have thought that apart from medical bodies like the AMA looking at it, it's a matter that even the police should be looking at." The website also directs people to a comedy website telling them how to "chuck a sickie". Because of patient confidentiality, GPs and other medical professionals would not divulge information about a patient's health to his or her boss who may be seeking confirmation their employee was actually sick. But doctors could tell the employer whether or not they had issued the medical certificate to the patient on a particular day, Dr Herdy said. A spokeswoman for Australian Federal Police said no action was being taken because the internet company had not yet set up business in Australia. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) director of workplace policy Scott Barklamb said sick leave was an important protection for Australian workers and should not be abused. "We are most concerned to hear of fraudulent documents being produced,'' Mr Barklamb said today. "We think it is irresponsible and it can get an employee in a great deal of trouble in attempting to defraud their employer in relation to sick leave.'' Mr Barklamb said the ACCI shared the concerns of the AMA that employees could be committing fraud with fake sickness certificates and abusing the trust of their employers. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/07/...7097399278.html |
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| Probe launched after thirteen newborns die in Turkish hospital Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation after 13 newborn babies died in 24 hours at a state hospital in the western city of Izmir, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday. (UPDATED) Probe launched after thirteen newborns die in Turkish hospital According to media reports the babies, all prematurely born and underdeveloped, died at the Tepecik hospital on Saturday and Sunday due to a possible infection. "The number of babies that have died has increased to 13. We are looking into the deaths," AA quoted Mehmet Ozkan, the head of the local health directorate as saying. The local prosecutor’s office on Monday ordered that five of the babies, who had already been interred before officials became suspicious, be exhumed for an autopsy, the agency said. The bodies of the remaining babies were already at the local coroners office, it added. The head of the local health directorate, Mehmet Ozkan, told Anatolian Agency a medical investigation was also underway to determine the cause of the deaths. A detailed statement could be made later in the day, he added. In July, 2008, 27 newborn babies died in 15 days at a state hospital in capital Ankara. The hospital said at the time the deaths were caused by a variety of reasons, including hypertension, heart failure and complications at birth, but trade unions blamed it on an infection triggered by poor sanitary conditions. |
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