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A federal administrative judge ruled that pomegranate juice maker Pom Wonderful used deceptive advertising when it implied its products could treat or prevent shoes 2012 serious diseases and other medical conditions. Judge D. Michael Chappell upheld much of a 2010 Federal Trade Commission complaint against the Los Angeles company owned by Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The judge said in his decision issued Monday that Pom used "insufficient" evidence to back its claims that Pom products "treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction." The judge did not find all Pom ads in the original complaint to be at fault. But one cited as deceptive described Pom juice as an "antioxidant superpower," and went on to say that antioxidants guard against agents that "can cause heart disease, premature aging, Alzheimer's disease, even cancer." Chappell, the chief administrative law judge at the FTC, ordered Pom to discontinue making "any representation" that a product "is effective in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease." Violations of the order could be subject to a buy louis vuitton hoodie fine of $16,000 per incident. The 335-page ruling did not agree with the entire, original FTC complaint. The judge said the complaint went too far in requiring Pom to get pre-approval from the Food and Drug Administration for any claims made in future advertisements. He ruled that pre-approval "would constitute unnecessary overreaching." Also, the judge did not find all Pom ads challenged by the FTC to be deceptive. David C. Vladeck, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, issued a short statement saying that he was "pleased" the judge agreed deceptive advertising had been used. Pom issued a statement Monday focusing on the parts of the original complaint that were discarded. It said the ruling allows the company to "share the scientific evidence that highlights the value and power inherent in pomegranates and pomegranate juice with impunity." The judge's decision goes into effect in 30 latest louis vuitton handbag 2012 days unless Pom formally challenges it. "We do plan to appeal certain aspects of the ruling," Pom spokesman Corey Martin said. The appeal would be heard by the five-member FTC. If an appeal is not successful, Pom could take the matter to a federal appeals court.

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Two new studies have found that people with sleep apnea, a common disorder that causes snoring, fatigue and dangerous pauses in breathing at night, have a higher risk of new shoes 2012 louis vuitton cancer. The new research marks the first time that sleep apnea has been linked to cancer in humans. About 28 million Americans have some form of sleep apnea, though many cases go undiagnosed. For sleep doctors, the condition is a top concern because it deprives the body of oxygen at night and often coincides with cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. "This is really big news," said Joseph Golish, a professor of sleep medicine with the MetroHealth System in Cleveland who was not involved in the research. Golish, the former chief of sleep medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said that the cancer link may not prove to be as strong as the well-documented relationship between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease, "but until disproven, it would be one more reason to get your apnea treated or louis vuitton ladies tee shrits to get it diagnosed if you think you might have it" . In one of the new studies, researchers in Spain followed thousands of patients at sleep clinics and found that those with the most severe forms of sleep apnea had a 65% greater risk of developing cancer of any kind. The second study, of about 1,500 government workers in Wisconsin, showed that those with the most breathing abnormalities at night had five times the rate of dying from cancer as people without the sleep disorder. Both teams only looked at cancer diagnoses and outcomes in general, without focusing on any specific type of cancer. In both studies researchers ruled out the possibility that the usual risk factors for cancer, like age, smoking, alcohol use, physical activity and weight, could have played a role. The association between cancer and disordered breathing at night remained even after they adjusted these and other variables. Mitesh Borad, a cancer researcher and assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic who was not involved with the studies, called the findings "provocative" but said more research was needed to confirm the association. Recent animal studies have suggested that sleep apnea might play a role in cancer . When mice with tumors were placed in low-oxygen environments that simulate the effects of sleep apnea, their cancers progressed more rapidly . Scientist speculate that depriving mice of oxygen may cause black suits for men 2012 their bodies to develop more blood vessels to compensate, an effect that could act as a kind of fertilizer for cancer tissue and cause tumors to grow and spread more quickly. Researchers wondered whether a similar relationship might exist in humans.

Those kinds of experiences might not raise flags

Canada has become the first country to greenlight the world’s first approved drug that has stem cells as its active ingredient, offering hope to children suffering cheap louis vuitton sunglasses for men from an extremely painful disease that kills up to 80 percent of children affected. "I am very proud of the leadership role Canada has taken in advancing stem cell therapy and particularly gratified that this historic decision benefits children who would otherwise have little hope," said Andrew Daly, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Oncology at the University of Calgary, Canada, according to a press release. As the National Institutes of Health explains, the immune system, as the body's tool to fight infection and disease, works by seeing harmful cells as “foreign” and attacking them. When children receive a donor's stem cells (the “graft”), their job is to recreate the donor's immune system in the child's body (the “host”). The New York Times says, graft versus host disease (GvHD), the leading cause of transplant related deaths, is the term used when immune cells contained within transplanted bone marrow see the recipient’s organs as foreign and attack them, causing potentially severe damage to the skin, liver and digestive tract. For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in draft recommendations issued Friday. Baby boomers account for more than 2 million of the 3.2 million Americans infected with the blood-borne virus. It can take decades to cause liver damage, and many people don't know they're infected. CDC officials believe the new measure could lead 800,000 more baby boomers to get treatment and could save more than 120,000 lives. "The CDC views hepatitis C as an unrecognized health crisis for the country, and we believe the time is now for a bold response," said Dr. John W. Ward, the CDC's hepatitis chief. Several developments drove the CDC's push for wider testing, he said. Recent data has shown that from 1999 to 2007, the number of Americans dying from hepatitis C-related diseases nearly doubled. Also, two drugs hit the market last year that promise to cure many more people than was previously possible. The virus can gradually scar the liver and lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer, and is the leading cause of liver transplant. It can trigger damage in other parts of the body as well. All told, more than 15,000 Americans die each year from hepatitis C-related illnesses, according to the CDC. The hepatitis C virus is most commonly spread today through sharing needles to inject drugs. Before widespread screening of blood donations began in 1992, it was also spread through blood transfusions. Health officials believe hundreds of thousands of new hepatitis C infections were occurring each year in the 1970s and 1980s, most of them in the younger adults of the era — the baby boomers. The hepatitis C virus was first identified in 1989. Today, about 17,000 infections occur annually, according to CDC estimates. About 3 percent of baby boomers test positive for the lv bangles virus, the CDC estimates. Of those, some manage to clear the infection from their bodies without treatment, but still have lingering antibodies that give a positive initial test result. That's why confirmatory tests are needed. Still, only a quarter of infected people are that lucky. Most have active and dangerous infections, Ward said. The agency's current guidelines recommend testing people known to be at high risk, including current and past injection drug users. But as many as a quarter of infected baby boomers say they don't recall engaging in a risky behavior. It's possible some people were infected in ways other than injection drug use or long-ago blood transfusions. Some experts say tattoos, piercings, shared razor blades and toothbrushes, manicures and sniffed cocaine may have caused the virus to spread in some cases. Those kinds of experiences might not raise flags in the minds of many patients or their physicians, experts said. A recent Harris Interactive survey of 1,000 baby boomers found other forms of ignorance about hepatitis C. Fewer than 20 percent knew they belonged to the generation most likely to be infected, and only a similar percent were aware it can be cured in many patients. Also, only about 25 percent said they had been tested, according to the survey, done on behalf of the American Gastroenterological Association and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which makes one of the hepatitis C medications. Currently, many baby boomers learn of their infection almost by accident, like when they donate blood or get a physical exam for a life insurance policy, said Dr. Ryan Ford, an Emory University physician specializing in hepatitis care. "It's a long awaited and very much hoped for development that I believe will save lives," said Dr. Ira Jacobson, a hepatitis expert at New York Presbyterian/Weill white sunglasses for men 2012 Cornell Medical Center The new testing recommendation is expected to become final later this year.

Only one freshwater turtle species is known to have grown larger

A team of paleontologists including scientists from N.C. State University has discovered the fossil remains of a new species of dining table-size freshwater turtle that apparently lived side-by-side with the 50-foot snakes and super-size crocodiles that they had found earlier in the designerburberyoutlet same Colombian coal mine. Carbonemys cofrinii, or “coal turtle,” was well over six feet long from nose to tail. It represents a rapid increase in size from the largest known to have lived just before it, which were about two feet long. That makes it an intriguing piece of the evolutionary puzzle. In part, said the scientists, that growth spurt may have been a Darwinian strategy to fight off the giant crocs by making the turtle simply too big for dinner. “It was so large that it may actually have been chomping on some of the smaller crocodiles itself,” said Dan Ksepka, an NCSU paleontologist and a research associate at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. “Once it grew to its full size, nothing much was going to be able to eat it.” The shell of the turtle they found had bite marks from a couple of crocodile attacks, but none that came close to piercing the thick carapace. The head was equipped with surprisingly large and powerful jaws. Ksepka and NCSU doctoral student Edwin Cadena were among the authors of a research paper on the turtle published Thursday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. Cadena was scouting for fossils in 2007 in the Cerrejón mine in northern Colombia when he spied part of the turtle’s shell protruding from clay-based rock about 120 feet down in the pit. It took six days of painstaking labor with a hand www.designerburberyoutlet.com broom and a screwdriver to uncover the full remains of the shell. “It was only when I was finished do I see that it was something different than we had found before,” he said. The two NCSU scientists have a facility for discovering outsize species. Ksepka was part of a team that found the remains of giant penguins in New Zealand. Cadena, meanwhile, had discovered bones from the giant snake in 2005 in the same coal mine, though he initially believed it was a crocodile fossil. The snake – Titanoboa cerrejonensis – a water-dwelling constrictor, weighed an estimated 2,500 pounds and was more than a yard in diameter. The open-pit mine is among the world’s largest, at 30 miles long by five miles wide. The turtle, snake and two large species of crocodiles found there lived about 60 million years ago, in the late Paleocene period. The team of scientists, which includes representatives from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Florida Museum of Natural History, is interested in the flora and fauna that lived there during that time not just because of their size, but because they are part of an explosion of species in the tropics. “Maybe we can understand more about why the tropics are so diverse now if we can build a good record to help us understand what happened then,” Cadena said. It was an interesting time. The dinosaurs had just died off, and global temperatures rose to about 11 degrees warmer than today. The warmer temperature, Cadena said, almost certainly helped make the size of the turtle possible. Scientists have all kinds of questions about the plants louis vuitton shoes sale and animals of that time and place, but paleontology can be difficult in the region because so much is covered by jungle. That makes the outsize coal mine an extraordinary window into the tropical past: It offers both a deep look under the soil of the region and a broad one, too. “You can look at kilometers and kilometers of the same time layer,” Cadena said. The information that they hope to glean from the turtle and other species found there could help understanding not only of the evolution of that time and place, but also how different species react to changes in global temperature. That could be crucial in helping develop practical plans for dealing with the effects of global warming, he said, by helping understand which species are most likely to be affected. Only one freshwater turtle species is known to have grown larger, by a couple of feet. An example of that one was found in Venezuela; it lived just 5 million to 6 million years ago. The two are related, and Cadena said paleontologists are looking for others that lived in the tens of millions of years between them. That would close a massive gap in the understanding of turtle evolution and yield perhaps more information on how the turtles evolved as the climate cooled. The scientists also expect to find more examples louis vuitton t shirts for women of the species they’ve already discovered. “Probably,” said Cadena, “there are bigger ones waiting for us.”

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U.S. sales of two new smartphones from Taiwan's HTC Corp will be delayed due to a patent dispute with Apple Inc, a fresh blow to the company as it tries to turn cheap lv sunglasses around declining sales in what was once its largest market that knocked its shares down 5 percent. Apple scored a narrow victory against HTC in a patent lawsuit in December over technology in the smartphones, one of many such disputes in the fiercely competitive smartphone market. HTC said in a statement on Wednesday that "the U.S. availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC (International Trade Commission) exclusion order". Under that ruling, HTC phones with the disputed technology would be banned from entering the U.S. from April 19. HTC has said that it has a workaround in its new phones lv jewelry to avoid the technology. The shipments still require inspection however. Some shipments of the One X model had reached the U.S. before the ban date, enabling the model's launch, but further shipments are being delayed, an HTC official in Taipei said. U.S. operator AT&T, which has been carrying the One X model in store since May 6, says the smartphone is "out of stock" on its website. The launch of the EVO 4G LTE by Sprint, originally scheduled for Friday, will be delayed. Sprint has been taking pre-orders on its website. In its statement, HTC said it believes it is "in compliance with the ruling and HTC is working closely with customs to secure approval". Sprint and AT&T both declined burberry handbags cheap to comment. As of 0405 GMT, HTC shares were down 4.6 percent in a broader market down 1.3 percent. "Previously, it was expected that general exclusion order from the patent infringement referred to only old models from HTC. However, the latest news suggest otherwise with all models (new and old) potentially at risk," Goldman Sachs said in a trading note to clients seen by Reuters. It said the U.S. market was expected to account for 15-20 percent of HTC's second-quarter shipments, and this delay might hit the company's earnings this quarter and possibly in the third quarter, depending on how quickly HTC could resolve the issue. Last month, HTC Chief Executive Officer Peter Chou said HTC would not return to the days when more than 50 percent of its revenue came from the United States, a market where it saw a big drop last year because of the fierce competition from Apple's iPhone 4S. Former contract maker HTC had a fairytale ride in 2010 and early 2011, when its shares more than tripled in the 14 months to April 2011. The company's sales grew four-fold in 1-1/2 years as consumers snapped up its innovative phones with their distinctive large clock numerals. But it suffered an equally rapid fall from grace as its phones failed to keep up with Apple's AAPL.O iPhones and Samsung's 005930.KS Galaxy range. In late February, HTC announced its One series cheap burberry handbags of models with fast graphic chips and advanced music and photography functions, to generally positive reviews from analysts and tech bloggers.

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In the years leading up to JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading loss, risk managers and some senior investment bankers raised concerns that the bank was making louis vuitton shoes increasingly large investments involving complex trades that were hard to understand, the New York Times reports. But even as the size of the bets climbed steadily, these former employees say, their concerns about the dangers were ignored or dismissed. An increased appetite for such trades had the approval of the upper echelons of the bank, including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive, current and former employees said. Initially, this led to sharply higher investing profits, but they said it also contributed to the bank’s lowering its guard. "There was a lopsided situation, between really risky positions and relatively weaker risk managers,” said a former trader with the chief investment office, the JPMorgan unit that suffered the recent loss. The trader and other former employees spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of the investigations into the trading losses. Instead, the bank maintains that the losses were largely the fault of the chief investment office. Overall tolerance for risky trading did not increase, current executives said, just the scale of the office’s activities because of the bank’s acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008 and its more risky credit portfolio. Despite Mr. Dimon’s recent apologies about the losses — which will most likely be repeated on Tuesday as JPMorgan shareholders gather for the company’s annual meeting in Tampa, Fla. — regulators will scrutinize risk management at the chief investment office. Top investment bank executives raised concerns about the growing size and complexity of the bets held by the bank’s chief investment office as early as 2007, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former bank officials. Within the investment office, led by Ina Drew, cheap LV sunglasses outlet 2012 new style sale online black who resigned on Monday, the bets were directed by the head of the Europe trading desk in London, Achilles Macris. Ina R. Drew has stepped down as chief investment officer at JPMorgan Chase. [JPM 35.79 -1.17 (-3.17%) ] Mr. Macris, who is also expected to resign, failed to heed concerns as early as 2009 from the unit’s own internal risk officer, said current and former members of the chief investment office. Mr. Macris and Ms. Drew were not available for comment. Under Mr. Dimon’s stewardship, JPMorgan Chase has long had a reputation for its strong risk-management abilities — indeed, it came through the 2008 financial crisis largely unscathed, unlike many big banks. For their part, senior bank officials on Monday disputed the assertions that the company weakened risk management in recent years while seeking higher trading profits. Risk managers were largely sidelined by Mr. Macris, who had wide latitude and also had Ms. Drew’s support, with only modest interference from her. At one point, after concerns were raised about positions assembled by Bruno Iksil, now known as the London Whale, Mr. Macris brought in a risk officer with whom he had worked closely in the past. Risk officers are empowered to halt trades deemed too dangerous, so the coziness of the arrangement generated talk in New York as well, according to the former trader within the chief investment office. Several bankers said that risk controls were not sufficiently strengthened by Doug Braunstein, who took over as chief financial officer in 2010, another reason the bolder trades continued. The bank disputes that Mr. Braunstein tolerated additional risk in any way, said Joe Evangelisti, a spokesman for the bank. David Olson, who headed up credit trading for the chief investment office until December, said that in his trading “the management was very involved and the risk controls were very strong.” Part of the breakdown in supervision, current executives said, was a fundamental disconnect between the chief investment office in London and the rest of the bank. Even within the chief investment office there were heightening concerns that the bets being made in London were incredibly complex and not fully understood by management in New York. Despite these concerns, the scope of the chief investment’s offices trades widened sharply following the acquisition of Washington Mutual at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Not only did the bank bring with it hundreds of billions more in assets, it also owned riskier securities that needed to be hedged against. As a result, the business’s investment securities portfolio rapidly grew, more than quadrupling to $356 billion in 2011, from $76.5 billion in 2007, company filing show. Ms. Drew made presentations to the board about twice a year, one former executive recalled, “but it was just not talked about a lot,” he said. What is more, said another senior former executive, Mr. Dimon cheap burberry bags had other fires to put out, and the chief investment office wasn’t a “problem child” for either top managers or the board of directors, despite its rapid expansion. Gigantic losses were piling up from bad mortgages, and new regulations were threatening the profitability of traditional banking, among other pressing matters. All of these factors may explain why Mr. Dimon, an executive known for his ability to sense risk who also was familiar with the minutiae of his business, failed to heed the first alarm bells that were sounded in early April. Sirens had gone off after a series of erratic trading sessions in late March resulted in big gains one day, followed by even bigger losses the next on the London trading desk of the bank’s chief investment office. Mr. Dimon was convinced by Ms. Drew and her team that the turbulence was “manageable,” executives said. Nor did anyone on the operating committee, of which Ms. Drew is a member, question her conclusion — in fact the full operating committee wasn’t told of the scope of the problem till early last week, just days before Mr. Dimon went public. The alarm bells were silenced in early April, but days after first-quarter earnings were reported on April 13, the erratic trading pattern continued, except this time there were few gains to offset the losses, and the red ink was flowing faster by the day. Mr. Dimon convened a second round of checks, which soon concluded there was a ticking time bomb, but by then it was too late, a situation made worse as traders actually increased their bets instead of shrinking them, resulting in a loss that now totals more than $2 billion and threatens a management team that until now could seemingly do no wrong. The company has indicated publicly that the losses could eventually double, depending on market conditions. On Monday, the bank replaced Ms. Drew with Matthew burberry watches E. Zames and appointed a former chief financial officer, Mike Cavanagh, to head up the task of fixing what went wrong. One of the most respected senior executives at the bank, Mr. Cavanagh has been a loyal lieutenant of Mr. Dimon since before he took over JPMorgan Chase and has been discussed as a possible successor.

The ostensible reason was to pay down public debt

The news that senior executives at Emera and its wholly owned, profit-protected subsidiary, Nova Scotia Power, topped their million-plus, louis vuitton sunglasses 2012 one-per-center-club-members-in-good-standing pay packets with raises from 20 to 30 per cent last year prompts all sorts of intriguing questions. For starters, how many of the companies’ secretaries sat on the compensation committee? The short answer: none. How many of Emera’s little old lady shareholders, clutching their 10-share legacies for their grandchildren, were invited to weigh in this larcenous largesse? Ditto. Given the usual corporate-speak soft-shoe routine about how such increases — Emera president and CEO Chris Huskilson now tops $2.99 million; executive vice president louis vuitton hoodie Nancy Tower, $1.4 million; and Nova Scotia Power president and CEO Rob Bennett, $1.15 million — simply reflect company performance, how likely is it that Emera’s 35 per cent drop in profits so far this year will show up in next year’s executive take-home pay? If you think it will, I have a Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project for sale. Cheap. And, since the company’s board of directors obviously believes its top executives are worth such dramatic pay increases, will it offer similar 20 to burberry handbags 30 per cent increases to its unionized workforce when the next contract is up for renewal? Or will it tout the flip-side arguments: increasing fuel costs — the need for new capital investment, the general state of the real-world work economy — to low-ball its waged workers? Two guesses. The first doesn’t count. There are other questions, too. How much better would Nova Scotia Power’s salt-fog, stiff-breeze, power’s-out-again response time be if it invested in hiring more linemen instead of underwriting the summer homes and sailboats of its top executives? And one more, larger question. Why did Donald Cameron’s short-lived Tory government peddle Nova Scotia Power, then a successfully publicly owned and operated public utility, to the private sector back in 1992? The ostensible reason was to pay down public debt. Our debt is higher now and still rising. And we no longer have a public utility burberry silk ties that reflects the public interest. Perhaps that was the real purpose.