�UroToday.com - Dr. Alvaro Morales and associates from the Centre for Applied Urological Research, reported on the first study on testosterone deficiency syndrome (TDS) in men treated with radiotherapy for prostate genus Cancer. Five work force with clinically localized CaP were prospectively studied. The mean Gleason sum was 7 and mean PSA level in front radiotherapy was 12.8ng/ml. The meanspirited PSA earlier testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) was 0.3ng/ml.
All five hands had symptoms of TDS and deuce chose intramuscular injections of testosterone, ane oral replacement and two used transcutaneous patches. Testosterone levels ahead TRT were 5.3 and at last inspect were 17.6. The duration of follow-up was 14.6 months. One man had a short-lived PSA increase, but none had levels of >1.5ng/ml.
All patients had marked responses in the symptoms of TDS, foursome with reduced hot flashes, decreased fatigue and improved libido, and two reported improved erectile function. One man discontinued therapy due to headaches. Four manpower had an improvement in sexual stake, but none recovered satisfactory erectile function with testosterone alone. A phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor was successful in tierce men. The best overall symptom improvements were in hot flashes and fatigue. This paper is hypothesis-generating for larger studies to address this issue.
Morales A, Black AM, Emerson LE
BJU Int. 2008 Jul 29. Epub ahead of print.
doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07882.x
Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS
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Sunday, 31 August 2008
Avril Lavigne's Show Goes On in Malaysia
Looks like Avril Lavigne can prove she's "The Best Damn Thing" in Kuala Lumpur after all.
The Malaysian government has granted the green light for the wannabe hood rocker's spear on Aug. 29 as scheduled, despite scrapping the concert last week for being "overly sexy."
The determination was converse after Lavigne's promoters assured the performance wouldn't spoil the mainly-Muslim country's young person or break up its independence day celebration on Aug. 31.
"In giving the approving, the cabinet also instructed the (arts and cultural) ministry to monitor the concert to ensure that the performances do not clash with the Malaysian culture and values," the Arts and Culture Minister Mohamad Shafie Apdal told Bernama, a Malaysian news agency.
Beyonce Knowles, Gwen Stefani and the Pussycat Dolls are among the former artists wHO experienced trouble in the conservative country, which imposes dress rules and conduct codes on performers, including no jump, shouting, hugging or fondling on stage.
But the 23-year-old "Complicated" isaac Bashevis Singer told MTV, "They tend to, you know, sometimes not want Western artists in their country," she continued. "I respect that, but at the same time, you know, there's people that listen to music at that place and want to witness their idols and stuff, so it's all good: been sanctioned by the government and [I'm] going to go put on a show and have fun."
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
HSE Concerned At Continuing Hydrocarbon Releases Offshore, UK
�The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today (Wednesday, 13th August, 2008) expressed concern at the continuing number of major and significant hydrocarbon releases in the offshore industry, much regarded as precursors to a major accident.
Figures released by the HSE revealed that there had been no improvement in the number of this kind of incident during 2007/08. During the year, 517 dangerous incidents were reported, 40 per penny of which were hydrocarbon releases. HSE's report on offshore statistics is uncommitted here.
Chair of the Health and Safety Executive Judith Hackitt issued a reminder to the offshore industry, "The statistics we have released today underscore that we are far from existence in a position where we privy feel comfortable. Although there are instances where improvements have been sustained, the control of potential major incident risks seems to have taken a game seat."
"We continue to be concerned at the failure to reduce the number of hydrocarbon releases, together with an increment in the number of major injuries. This suggests that basic safety systems are non being followed."
Ms Hackitt advised that HSE has been tasked to complete a major review of the industry and aforementioned: "Twenty days on from Piper Alpha, we must learn key lessons to ensure that failures of basic systems do not lead to major incidents. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, has asked us to conduct a thorough limited review of the industry undermentioned the KP3 report on asset unity published last year. This industry review will be a crucial part of our on-going work in this high priority programme."
"With the demand for oil and gas so high and with assets being worked beyond their original intended life couplet, it is more important than always that the offshore industry continues to invest in the sector to protect its workers and puts safety number one."
The Offshore Safety Statistics also indicated that the in 2007/08, the lowest rate e'er had been recorded for the bit of minor three twenty-four hours injuries at 148, and although it had remained broadly the same for the last six geezerhood, this was a pregnant achievement from the peak of virtually 300 in 1997/98.
Ian Whewell, Head of HSE's Offshore Division added, "Despite the reduction in minor injuries, the overall trend for these injuries does not yet show grounds of a significant decline and the potential for minor injuries to receive been major injuries remains ever present. The industriousness cannot afford to be complacent and faces a difficult chore if it intends to achieve its current direct of being the safest offshore sector in the world by 2010 and will need to make significant improvements in wild incident performance to reach this."
The statistics as well revealed an increase in the number of major injuries in the seaward sector in 2007/08p, emerging from 39 the late year, to 44. There were no fatalities in the industry for the first time in trine years, although there were 12 fatalities in marine operations associated with the offshore activities including the Bourbon Dolphin incident where eight lives were missed. These incidents do not come under the send back of the HSE to investigate and regulate and instead come under the control of marine government.
Headline statistics (Based on provisional figures for 2007/2008)
- The main causes of major injuries were related to slips/trips/fall (15), organism trapped, smitten by or striking against equipment (13), or injuries associated with
Figures released by the HSE revealed that there had been no improvement in the number of this kind of incident during 2007/08. During the year, 517 dangerous incidents were reported, 40 per penny of which were hydrocarbon releases. HSE's report on offshore statistics is uncommitted here.
Chair of the Health and Safety Executive Judith Hackitt issued a reminder to the offshore industry, "The statistics we have released today underscore that we are far from existence in a position where we privy feel comfortable. Although there are instances where improvements have been sustained, the control of potential major incident risks seems to have taken a game seat."
"We continue to be concerned at the failure to reduce the number of hydrocarbon releases, together with an increment in the number of major injuries. This suggests that basic safety systems are non being followed."
Ms Hackitt advised that HSE has been tasked to complete a major review of the industry and aforementioned: "Twenty days on from Piper Alpha, we must learn key lessons to ensure that failures of basic systems do not lead to major incidents. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, has asked us to conduct a thorough limited review of the industry undermentioned the KP3 report on asset unity published last year. This industry review will be a crucial part of our on-going work in this high priority programme."
"With the demand for oil and gas so high and with assets being worked beyond their original intended life couplet, it is more important than always that the offshore industry continues to invest in the sector to protect its workers and puts safety number one."
The Offshore Safety Statistics also indicated that the in 2007/08, the lowest rate e'er had been recorded for the bit of minor three twenty-four hours injuries at 148, and although it had remained broadly the same for the last six geezerhood, this was a pregnant achievement from the peak of virtually 300 in 1997/98.
Ian Whewell, Head of HSE's Offshore Division added, "Despite the reduction in minor injuries, the overall trend for these injuries does not yet show grounds of a significant decline and the potential for minor injuries to receive been major injuries remains ever present. The industriousness cannot afford to be complacent and faces a difficult chore if it intends to achieve its current direct of being the safest offshore sector in the world by 2010 and will need to make significant improvements in wild incident performance to reach this."
The statistics as well revealed an increase in the number of major injuries in the seaward sector in 2007/08p, emerging from 39 the late year, to 44. There were no fatalities in the industry for the first time in trine years, although there were 12 fatalities in marine operations associated with the offshore activities including the Bourbon Dolphin incident where eight lives were missed. These incidents do not come under the send back of the HSE to investigate and regulate and instead come under the control of marine government.
Headline statistics (Based on provisional figures for 2007/2008)
- The main causes of major injuries were related to slips/trips/fall (15), organism trapped, smitten by or striking against equipment (13), or injuries associated with
Monday, 11 August 2008
Temps Perdu?
Artist: Temps Perdu?
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Earth Story
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Athanor
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
The day the earth melted
Year:
Tracks: 1
Terra Incognita
Year:
Tracks: 9
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Big festival was really Chill-ed
SET in the stunning surroundings of Hertfordshire, thousands of revellers
flocked to this year's Big Chill.
flocked to this year's Big Chill.
As usual the line up was a diverse offering of music, ranging from jazz and
dub reggae to soul, electro and world
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Bono, Bob Geldof push for more African aid
U2's Bono and Bob Geldof are pushing world leaders to make good on their promises to give more financial aid to Africa.
The politically active rockers presented a new report that estimates that the Group of Eight of the world's wealthiest countries have only given a small fraction of the amount they pledged in 2005 to donate to Africa by 2010.
"What this big, long, exact, cold and brutal analysis shows us is that halfway to this historic date of 2010 � halfway � these wealthy countries ... have delivered 14 percent. How tragic is that?" Geldof said.
The report was issued by DATA, an advocacy organisation dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Bono sits on its board of directors.
The report also gave statistics on how Africans have benefited greatly from financial aid, with millions of children entering school for the first time because of debt relief and getting immunized against life-threatening diseases, reports the Associated Press.
It also said that France, Germany, Italy and Canada have fallen off track in their pledges, and only the US and Britain appear to be on track to meet their targets by 2010.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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The politically active rockers presented a new report that estimates that the Group of Eight of the world's wealthiest countries have only given a small fraction of the amount they pledged in 2005 to donate to Africa by 2010.
"What this big, long, exact, cold and brutal analysis shows us is that halfway to this historic date of 2010 � halfway � these wealthy countries ... have delivered 14 percent. How tragic is that?" Geldof said.
The report was issued by DATA, an advocacy organisation dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Bono sits on its board of directors.
The report also gave statistics on how Africans have benefited greatly from financial aid, with millions of children entering school for the first time because of debt relief and getting immunized against life-threatening diseases, reports the Associated Press.
It also said that France, Germany, Italy and Canada have fallen off track in their pledges, and only the US and Britain appear to be on track to meet their targets by 2010.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Chris: 'I'm Still Trying To Live Up To Brad!'
They may be happily married with two kids, but Chris Martin says he is still trying to live up to Gwyneth Paltrow's ex!
The Coldplay front man even told Rolling Stone magazine that her two-and-a-half-year relationship with Brad Pitt is what drives him to make his band ever more successful.
"You've got to be hungry," he told the rock bible. "If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"
Brad and Gwyn, 35, started dating in 1995 after they met on the set of the thriller Seven and got engaged in November 1996.
But although Brad, 44, had said it had been "love at first sight" the couple split in June 1997.
A lot has happened in the decade since they broke up -- but for some reason Chris, 31, still can't get his wife's love affair with one of the world's sexiest and most successful movie stars out of his head.
His latest effort to impress the mother of his children, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, is set for its US release on 17 June.
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
EastEnders set for stabbing storyline
'EastEnders' is reportedly set for a shocking stabbing storyline when youngster Jay Brown gets mixed up with a gang.
According to reports, the schoolboy, played by Jamie Borthwick, will begin to hang around with a violent gang after his father Jase starts spending more time with Dawn.
The gang reportedly terrorise elderly local lady Dot Cotton at her home and in the street and later Jay's father Jase also gets on the wrong side of them.
Reports have suggested that an 'EastEnders' regular gets stabbed by one of the gang in a confrontation.
A show source told The Sun: "This is easily one of the most shocking and controversial storylines 'EastEnders' has ever done."
"It is not a decision bosses have taken lightly, but it is an issue that is top of the news agenda."
The source also said: "We're going to tread very carefully - it won't be gratuitous. The plan is to screen the episodes in the usual slots before the watershed."
"Hopefully by showing the suffering that gang violence can cause, some people may think twice about getting involved."
According to reports, the schoolboy, played by Jamie Borthwick, will begin to hang around with a violent gang after his father Jase starts spending more time with Dawn.
The gang reportedly terrorise elderly local lady Dot Cotton at her home and in the street and later Jay's father Jase also gets on the wrong side of them.
Reports have suggested that an 'EastEnders' regular gets stabbed by one of the gang in a confrontation.
A show source told The Sun: "This is easily one of the most shocking and controversial storylines 'EastEnders' has ever done."
"It is not a decision bosses have taken lightly, but it is an issue that is top of the news agenda."
The source also said: "We're going to tread very carefully - it won't be gratuitous. The plan is to screen the episodes in the usual slots before the watershed."
"Hopefully by showing the suffering that gang violence can cause, some people may think twice about getting involved."
Friday, 6 June 2008
Dosh
Artist: Dosh
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Pure Trash
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Dosh
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Martin Dosh was natural to an ex-Catholic non-Christian priest father and an almost-nun female parent outside Los Angeles; he and his kinsfolk touched back to his parents' native Minneapolis when he was precisely a bambino. By age three, Dosh had started piano lessons, which he continued until 11, and then pick up the drums when he was 15. The adjacent year he touched to Massachusetts to attend euphony schoolhouse, tooling around on the East Coast until he finally returned to his parents' home in 1997 when he was 25 (he had since picked up the keyboards over again). Finding the music scene there palmy, he presently started playing drums in the Andrew Broder-led Fog, as well as in their subservient offset, Lateduster. In 2003 Anticon released Dosh's self-titled debut, followed by Pure Trash, which featured vocal samples from his married woman, deuce children, and his drum students, in 2004. The Lost Take, which had contributions from Andrew Bird, Jeremy Ylvisaker of Fog, and members of colleague Minneapolitans Happy Apple and Tapes 'n Tapes, came out in 2006.
Andreas Kauffelt
Artist: Andreas Kauffelt
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Jetflange-Noisechamber
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Datenstrom Bassquake Remixes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
The Real Deep Shit
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Das Akustische Labyrinth
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Susan Tedeschi
Indy loses his Mr. Big ranking as "Sex" rules at the box office
LOS ANGELES — "Sex and the City" and its legion of female fans over the weekend gave Hollywood exactly what it needs to survive an uncertain summer movie season: an unconventional hit.
The romantic comedy, based on HBO's long-running television series of the same name, unexpectedly overtook the latest "Indiana Jones" movie at the domestic box office, bringing in an estimated $55.7 million since opening with midnight shows on Thursday, according to Warner Bros., which released the film.
The performance fell short of the $70 million-plus opening some foresaw after sellout crowds — 85 percent of the ticket buyers women, many viewing in groups — brought the film about $26 million in sales Friday.
Still, the weekend opening far exceeded industry expectations, which only a week ago were looking something closer to the $27.5 million taken in by "The Devil Wears Prada," a similarly female-driven hit released by 20th Century Fox in June of 2006.
"It is kind of mind-boggling," Sarah Jessica Parker, the "Sex and the City" star, said in a telephone interview from her Manhattan home Saturday. "We are thrilled and humbled that the audience came out."
"Sex and the City," of course, benefited from the enormous audience awareness that came with the television series' six seasons, strong DVD sales and continuing appearances in syndication on TBS.
There was also no shortage of media attention showered on the return after four years of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, whether features about their clothes, their men or the show's enduring influence (for good or ill) on the culture.
And yet surprise at the weekend performance was palpable, even among those who made the $65 million film.
Parker, for instance, said she did not intend to sit home monitoring the box-office results. But by late Friday, fans were sending messages and even photographs to her cellphone of women in line outside movie theaters across the country. (As the weekend went on, more men showed up, according to Warner Bros.) A clutch of negative reviews did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm for making a night or day of it at the theater.
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Matt Mays
Artist: Matt Mays
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
When the Angels Make Contact
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Canadian roots rocker Matt Mays has turn one of the nation's almost popular new artists since striking the road with his championship band, El Torpedo. Born on August 10, 1979, Mays first came to the attention of music fans as a member of the Nova Scotia-based alt-country band the Guthries, wHO formed in 1998. The Guthries released their first album in 2000, Turned Windmill, only spell the album was praised by critics and fared well with fans, Mays opted to hit out on his possess. Mays released his first solo album in early 2003, plainly called Matte Mays, and in order to tour in support of the release, he assembled a road band featuring Jarrett Murphy on guitar and vocals, Rob Crowell on keyboards and saxophone, Andy Patil on bass voice and vocals, and Tim Baker on drums, with Mays handling lead vocals and trading sour guitar lines with Murphy. Extensive roadwork in Canada helped the band gain ground a loyal winnow base, and Mays gave his band co-star billing for his second album, Matte Mays + El Torpedo, released by Sonic Entertainment in the spring of 2005. The songs "Cocain Cowgirl" and "On the Hood" became major hits in Canada, and the band was chosen to subject a major Canadian circuit by the Black Crowes. Mays began fashioning noise in the United States after playing a display case at the 2006 South by Southwest Music Conference and appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and in late 2006 Flatness Mays + El Torpedo eventually standard a tardy release in the United States through the independent 02:59 label. As Mays and El Torpedo began touring the United States to push the album in America, they were likewise playing larger shows at habitation in support of record album numeral ternion, the ambitious When the Angels Make Contact. In early 2007, Mays resettled to New York City in order to better promote his career in America, and guitar player Jarrett Murphy amicably left El Torpedo; Jay Smith, from the Cape Breton band Rock Ranger, signed on as the band's new guitar player in April 2007.
Lindsay Lohan's Mum: Samantha Ronson's 'Great'
Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina has refused to confirm or deny rumours the actress is in a lesbian relationship with best pal Samantha Ronson, insisting she just wants her daughter to be "happy".
The Mean Girls star has been keeping gossips guessing as to the nature of her relationship with the DJ sister of producer Mark Ronson for the last six months.
But rumours escalated last week when the pair was seen repeatedly embracing and cuddling up to one another at a party in Cannes, France. Lohan has also been pictured kissing Ronson on the cheek.
And while the actress' representative insists the star is just "close
friends" with Ronson, Lindsay's manager mum Dina admits she will not stand in her daughter's way if she chooses to embark on a romance with the DJ.
Dina tells America's OK! magazine, "If she's happy, I'm happy. That's all I'll say.
"Samantha's great. I've known her and her family for ten years."
The Mean Girls star has been keeping gossips guessing as to the nature of her relationship with the DJ sister of producer Mark Ronson for the last six months.
But rumours escalated last week when the pair was seen repeatedly embracing and cuddling up to one another at a party in Cannes, France. Lohan has also been pictured kissing Ronson on the cheek.
And while the actress' representative insists the star is just "close
friends" with Ronson, Lindsay's manager mum Dina admits she will not stand in her daughter's way if she chooses to embark on a romance with the DJ.
Dina tells America's OK! magazine, "If she's happy, I'm happy. That's all I'll say.
"Samantha's great. I've known her and her family for ten years."
Sharon Stone Eats Chinese!!!
Sharon Stone is making up for her idiotic Chinese earthquake remarks ... one Chinese person at a time.
Last night she dined at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills but had nothing to say to us outside. If only she kept her mouth shut in the first place.
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Last night she dined at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills but had nothing to say to us outside. If only she kept her mouth shut in the first place.
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Barbara Walters - Walters Criticised Over Senator Affair
U.S. broadcaster BARBARA WALTERS has been heavily criticised for confessing to a passionate affair with a married senator during the 1970s.
In her upcoming memoirs, Auditions, Walters admits to an affair with former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke following the breakdown of her two previous marriages.
But Walters has come under fire by staff at conservative media watchdog group The Resistance, who claims she is a "shameless media whore".
Spokesman Marc DICe says, "Barbara has now sunk to the very level of other attention-starved celebrities such as Paris Hilton or even Steve-O from Jackass."
However, the 78-year-old's representative, Cindi Berger, has hit back, telling New York gossip column PageSix, "This conservative watchdog seems to have lived a sheltered life in his doghouse."
In her book, Walters claims Brooke - the first black member of the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction - was so in love with her, he told his wife he wanted a divorce.
But when his wife tried to reveal the affair to the National Enquirer, the couple ended the relationship.
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Winehouse quizzed by police over drug claim
Singer Amy Winehouse has been questioned in connection with a video which allegedly showed her smoking crack cocaine, a police source said on Wednesday.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers interviewed the 24-year-old in connection with an allegation of unlawful possession of a controlled drug.
He said she was not arrested, but was interviewed under caution and inquiries were continuing.
Last month footage obtained by the Sun newspaper appeared to show Winehouse inhaling fumes from a crack pipe.
The disturbing images were said to have been filmed during a party at Winehouse's London home.
The singer is now in rehab, admitting herself to the clinic in north London on 24 January days after the video appeared.
On 4 February the singer took a break from her treatment to apply for a US visa so she could attend the Grammys in Los Angeles on 10 February, where she is nominated for six awards.
The application process will not be simple due to her drugs record. Last October she was arrested and fined in Norway for possession of cannabis.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers interviewed the 24-year-old in connection with an allegation of unlawful possession of a controlled drug.
He said she was not arrested, but was interviewed under caution and inquiries were continuing.
Last month footage obtained by the Sun newspaper appeared to show Winehouse inhaling fumes from a crack pipe.
The disturbing images were said to have been filmed during a party at Winehouse's London home.
The singer is now in rehab, admitting herself to the clinic in north London on 24 January days after the video appeared.
On 4 February the singer took a break from her treatment to apply for a US visa so she could attend the Grammys in Los Angeles on 10 February, where she is nominated for six awards.
The application process will not be simple due to her drugs record. Last October she was arrested and fined in Norway for possession of cannabis.
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