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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating information on Victrelis (boceprevir). The drug is used as a hepatitis C (HCV) protease inhibitor. It is cheap louis vuitton shoes combined with various ritonavir-boosted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease inhibitors. The FDA is stating that it cannot recommend use of the drug at this time, because it appears to reduce effectiveness of other medications and has been seen to cause HCV and HIV to increase in the bloodstream. This is known as the viral load, and obviously leads to the diseases becoming more potent and aggressive. Ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitors include ritonavir-boosted Reyataz (atazanavir), ritonavir-boosted Prezista (darunavir), and Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir). Ritonavir is an HIV protease inhibitor that is taken as a small dose along with other HIV protease inhibitors in order to increase their levels in the blood and make them more effective. This is known as ritonavir boosting. The FDA states that patients should not simply stop taking their medicines on FDA advice, but must seek consultation with their physician as to the best course of action for their particular situation. The FDA also issues advice for healthcare professionals who are treating patients with chronic HCV and HIV, using Victrelis where the patient was taking antiretroviral therapy in the form of ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors. The patient's response to the drug combination should be closely monitored for any unexpected increase in virus levels. The FDA has already issued a warning about Victerlis in Feb. 2012, stating that using Victrelis while taking any one of the three ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitors appeared to reduce the desired blood levels of both medicines. Obviously this is undesirable because lower blood louis vuitton lady t-shirts levels of the drug can lead to less effective treatment and higher viral load. The FDA goes on to remind healthcare professionals that there is only limited information on the use and effectiveness of Victrelis and ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitors when they are used together in patients infected with both HIV and HCV. A small clinical trial studied treatment of patients with both HIV and HCV, where the HCV infection was treated with either peginterferon/ribavirin or boceprivir plus peginterferon/ribavirin and whose HIV infection was treated with ritonavir-boosted atazanavir, ritonavir-boosted darunavir, lopinavir/ritonavir, or raltegravir (Isentress). People who took boceprevir plus peginterferon/ribavirin were more likely to have undetectable HCV viral loads 12 weeks after completing HCV treatment than individuals who received peginterferon/ribavirin alone. Overall, seven patients had HIV virologic rebound, 3/64 randomized to receive boceprevir with peginterferon/ribavirin and 4/34 randomized to peginterferon/ribavirin alone. Preliminary results of this clinical trial were presented at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections on March 6, 2012. The clinical trial abstract is online. The FDA says that the findings of the drug-drug interaction study and the clinical trial, has caused it to revise the Victrelis drug label to state that co-administration of Victrelis with ritonavir-boosted Reyataz (atazanavir), ritonavir-boosted Prezista (darunavir), or Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir) to patients infected with both chronic HCV and HIV is not recommended at this time. There is a larger clinical trial in process, to look at HCV treatment with boceprevir and peginterferon/ribavirin, where patients have both HCV and HIV and are Classic lv sunglasses outlet 2012 new sale online discount taking antiretroviral treatment that use ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitors. The FDA intends to update any new information it has about the co-use of the drugs.

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An analysis of 5,000-year-old genetic material from preserved human remains found in Sweden suggests that people moving from southern to northern Europe spread louis vuitton sunglasses agriculture across that continent long ago. In addition to agricultural know-how, the intrepid farmers brought their genes: They interbred with hunter-gatherer communities to create modern humans living in Europe today. "Genetic variation of today's Europeans was strongly affected by immigrant Stone Age farmers, though a number of hunter-gatherer genes remain," study researcher Anders Gotherstrom, of Uppsala University in Sweden, said in a statement. The results of this study, to be published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, match up well with previous archeological evidence of farming in Europe. The researchers studied the remains from four humans, one found on an ancient farm in Gokhem parish, likely belonging to a member of the agricultural Funnel Beaker culture. Less than 250 miles away, a second set of remains from three humans were unearthed on the island of Gotland, from hunter-gatherers of the Pitted Ware culture. "We know that the hunter-gatherer remains were buried in flatbed grave sites, in stark contrast to the megalithic sites that the farmers built," said study researcher Mattias Jakobsson, also from Uppsala University. "The farmer we analyzed was buried under such a megalith, and that's just one difference that helps distinguish the two cultures." Researchers already knew a fair bit about these different cultures and the excavated remains, though nobody had looked at their genetics. In the new study, the team analyzed the bones' genetic information to see how the humans differed from each other genetically as well as from other louis vuitton bracelet modern humans. The group analyzed thousands of genetic markers from each Stone Age individual. The genetics of the hunter-gatherer sample looked similar to that of modern northern Europeans (from countries like Finland), while the genes isolated from the Stone Age farmer looked more like modern southern Europeans who live along the Mediterranean Sea. Interestingly, these ancient genomes don't share many similarities with modern-day Swedes, despite their discovery and excavations in Sweden. These southern Europeans, who were genetically distinct from the hunter-gatherer societies in the area, seem to have brought their agriculture knowledge north, where they made their homes and likely interbred with hunter-gatherers in what is now Sweden. [ 10 Wedding Traditions from Around the World ] "When you put these findings in archaeological context, a picture begins to emerge of Stone Age farmers migrating from south to north across Europe," said study researcher Pontus Skoglund, a graduate student at Uppsala University. "And the result of this migration, 5,000 years later, looks like a mixture of these two groups in the modern population." This finding agrees with previous reports on the age of farming. Researchers think that agriculture emerged about 11,000 years ago in the Near East before reaching Europe about 5,000 years later (about 6,000 years ago in total). The new study supports this idea and suggests that farming was first introduced to southern Europe before it spread north about 1,000 years later. This spread of agriculture also seems to have been a movement of people, and as a result introduced new genetic diversity into northern European communities. "The results suggest that agriculture spread across Bestseller louis vuitton shoes for men discount on sale 2012 blue Europe in concert with a migration of people," Skoglund said. "If farming had spread solely as a cultural process, we would not expect to see a farmer in the north with such genetic affinity to southern populations."

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It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days _ even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. Recently in Chicago, in what is believed to be louis vuitton shoes the first documented case of its kind in the U.S., a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a patient while he was still alive and given to somebody else. There have been other cases since the 1980s of transplant organs being used more than once, but they were rare and involved instances in which the first recipient died. Typically when transplanted organs fail in living patients, doctors throw them away. But with more than 73,000 people awaiting transplants nationwide, some specialists say doctors should consider trying to reuse more organs to ease the severe shortage. "The need for kidney transplantation doesn't match our capacity," said Dr. Lorenzo Gallon, a Northwestern University transplant specialist who oversaw the kidney recycling operation in Chicago. "People die on dialysis" while awaiting kidneys. That was the possible fate awaiting two strangers. A research letter describing the unusual case was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. The donated kidney lasted just two weeks in the first patient, a 27-year-old Illinois man. The same disease that ruined his kidneys started to damage the new kidney, given to him by his sister. He was getting sicker, and doctors needed to act fast if they were going to save the organ. With permission from the man and his sister, they removed it last July and retransplanted it into a 67-year-old Indiana man. The Illinois man is back on dialysis and will probably get another transplant eventually. Still, reusing a transplanted organ can be tricky _ and riskier _ because surgeons have to deal with scar tissue that typically forms around an organ as the body heals louis vuitton handbags from the operation. Also, Wayne Shelton, a bioethicist at Albany Medical College in New York, said the practice may raise ethical questions. He said doctors need to make sure patients who are offered reused parts understand all the risks and are not made to feel coerced into accepting such organs. And because these cases are so rare, there is little data on how patients with recycled parts fare, Shelton noted. Dr. Jonathan Bromberg, director of transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center, praised the Northwestern doctors but said organ recycling is unlikely to become commonplace because it would be rare for an already transplanted organ to be healthy enough to be reused. In Boston in 2009, a man died shortly after a getting a new heart, and the organ was in good enough shape to be transplanted into someone else. A 2005 medical journal report detailed three U.S. cases involving donor livers reused after the initial recipients died, and said they were among 11 similar cases between 1987 and 2005. Medical literature also includes reports from the 1990s about a kidney retransplant in Spain and a heart retransplant in Switzerland. In the Chicago case, Ray Fearing of Arlington Heights, Ill., received a new kidney that was later reused by Erwin Gomez of Valparaiso, Ind., a surgeon familiar with the medical complexities involved. Joel Newman, a spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing, said previous retransplants in the U.S. "have occurred when the original recipient has died soon after a transplant but the organ is still able to function. To our knowledge, this is the first publicly reported instance where a kidney has been removed from a living person due to the risk of organ failure and retransplanted." Fearing had a disease that caused scarring that prevented the kidneys from filtering waste from blood. He had to quit his industrial machinery job and went on dialysis Louis vuitton shoes discount for women sale outlet a year ago. His sister donated a kidney last June in what was "probably the happiest moment of my life," Fearing said. The worst, he said, was a few days later, when doctors told him the kidney was damaged and had to be removed. Gallon, medical director of Northwestern's kidney transplant program, thought the kidney could be reused in somebody else if it was removed quickly, before it became irreversibly damaged. Gallon needed Fearing's permission, and also asked the young man's sister, Cera Fearing. Fearing said he was heartbroken and reluctant to abandon an organ that had been his only hope for a normal life. But he decided it was the only option that made sense. His sister, too, was crushed but said she didn't hesitate when told her kidney might help someone else. "I just assumed it's damaged, it's garbage," she said. "The fact that they were able to give it to someone that somehow was able to benefit from it was great." Gomez was selected because he was a good match. But Gallon said doctors also thought Gomez's medical background would help him understand the complexities. Gomez said he had never heard of reusing transplant organs, and he worried about taking what seemed like damaged goods. But he agreed after the Northwestern team explained the risks and possible benefits. The removal and retransplant operations took place July 1. Within two days, the transplanted kidney had regained function. Gallon said he is convinced the damage is reversed. Gomez is taking anti-rejection drugs and is off dialysis. "I finally feel normal," he said. Fearing is back on dialysis and said he is doing OK. Gallon said it is not uncommon for patients with Fearing's disease to go through more than one transplanted kidney, and he expects Fearing will eventually get another burberry ties one. Despite his own misfortune, Fearing said he is "extremely happy about being a part of this medical breakthrough" that might end up helping others.

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Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are louis vuitton shoes already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms. Democrats unveiled their bill late Tuesday, a measure that would prevent today's 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for low- and middle-income students from doubling automatically on July 1. The interest rate freeze, which would help 7.4 million people, would last for a year. The congressional maneuvering highlighted the competition between the two parties to appeal to college voters, who leaned heavily toward Barack Obama during his 2008 run for the White House, and to address the broader financial pressures facing Americans in an economy still struggling to regain strength. Not willing to cede any ground, Obama's likely GOP rival this time, Mitt Romney, has also asked Congress to temporarily extend the lower rates. Congressional Republicans say they too support keeping students' interest rates low. That apparent agreement on the overall goal is not stopping either side from seeking political advantage. "Republicans in Congress have voted against new ways to make college more affordable for middle-class families, even while they're voting for huge tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires," Obama told college reporters Tuesday by telephone as he flew aboard Air Force One from North Carolina to Colorado, where he addressed university audiences on the subject. "This is a question of values," he added. Obama was scheduled to speak to students Wednesday at the University of Iowa. At the Capitol, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, told reporters that Romney's call for freezing student loan rates was "a huge contradiction" because Romney supports the House-passed GOP budget. That fiscal plan proposed no changes in the student loan law, which would double the loans' interest rates without congressional action. Republicans trained their fire on Democrats' plan to finance the bill by making it harder for owners of smaller, privately owned companies called S corporations to avoid paying Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on some of their income. The proposal would apply to such companies with incomes exceeding $250,000 and whose revenues come mostly from the work of three or fewer owners. The higher payroll taxes would also be required for some law firms, doctors' practices and other professional services partnerships. "Not only are they calling for higher taxes on louis vuitton sunglasses small-business owners, they also plan to raid the Medicare and Social Security trust funds at the same time," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Democrats released their plan a day after the government announced that Social Security's trust fund would be depleted by 2033, three years earlier than projected last year. It said Medicare's trust fund would run dry in 2024, the same as last year's estimate, but cautioned that the program's spending is continuing to grow quickly. Senate Democratic aides said their bill would pay for itself with around $6 billion in extra Medicare taxes that would be collected over the next decade from the private companies. That money would normally go to a Medicare trust fund for financing the hospital care the program provides its elderly recipients. Democrats said their payroll tax language would also raise $3 billion in new Social Security revenue, but that money would go to Social Security's trust fund and not be used to pay for the student loan legislation. Top House Republicans said little about the issue Tuesday. Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, blamed Democrats for the potential doubling of student loan interest rates -- a reference to the 2007 law that lowered rates to 3.4 percent but said they would automatically double in 2012. "That's why Republicans and Democrats on both sides of Capitol Hill will be working on this issue in coming months," Steel said. Rank-and-file House Republicans said they were open to keeping students' interest rates low but opposed the Democrats' payroll tax increase on company owners. "The proposal they're talking about is a dream world," said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., a tea party-supported freshman, would not commit to supporting the overall bill, saying he wanted to study it. Asked if Romney's endorsement of keeping interest rates low would sway him, Toomey said: "I'm aware of that. We all make our own decisions." House Democrats said they are writing legislation similar to the Senate Democratic bill. The Obama administration says a doubling of interest rates would cost the average student more than $1,000 over the life of the loan. College students finish school owing an average $25,000 in loans. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimated that 37 million Americans -- about 1 in 7 -- owe $870 billion in student loan debt, with two-thirds held by people under age 30. There are about 4 million S corporations. They pay no corporate income tax, but their owners must pay individual income taxes on the company's earnings. S corporation owners owe payroll taxes on the part of their income that they consider their salaries. 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Global health officials are making headway with driving down the number of measles deaths, but there are signs that progress is stalling, a pattern that has kept cheap monster beats headphones outlet nations from meeting a global mortality benchmark, researchers reported today. The new profile of measles deaths, which appeared in The Lancet yesterday, comes as world health partners launch a new strategy to prevent the disease, one that involves pairing the vaccine with immunization against rubella. In 2008, the World Health Assembly set a goal of reducing by 2010 the number of measles deaths by 90% of 2000 numbers. However, according to the new Lancet estimate, the number of measles deaths fell 74% during that period. The international research team, funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), used a new type of modeling that incorporated surveillance data to estimate the incidence and age distribution of cases, factor in herd immunity, and use robust statistical methods to estimate uncertainty. Measles deaths declined steadily, due to increased vaccine coverage and the delivery of more than a billion doses, but progress stalled starting in 2008 due to large outbreaks in southern Africa that resulted in a small mortality increase for that World Health Organization (WHO) region. In India,Monster Beats Studio MLB Chicago White Sox delayed implementation of measles vaccination activities have hampered vaccine coverage there, the researchers said. The team found that measles mortality dropped by more than three quarters in all WHO regions except for Southeast Asia. India accounted for 47% of estimated measles deaths in 2010, and the WHO's African region accounted for 36%. Researchers noted that their estimate of measles mortality is lower than earlier estimates, though they lie within 95% confidence interval of the new estimate, they wrote. In a related editorial, two vaccine experts from Emory University, Walter Orenstein, MD, and Alan Hinman, MD, MPH, wrote that although the estimate of deaths from measles in 2000 was substantially lower in the new report, "this estimate still highlights that far too many children are dying from this readily preventable disease." The group's estimate of deaths in 2000 was 27% lower than an earlier estimate. Orenstein and Hinman wrote that the group's study highlights crucial gaps in data to guide prevention programs. The study noted that only 65 countries have vital registration data that measures actual deaths, and that the data are inadequate in 128 countries where most louis vuitton sunglasses measles deaths occur. 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The 62 countries that aren't vaccinating against rubella are being encouraged to do so within their measles vaccine delivery system. CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, said in the statement that rubella is the leading cause of congenital malformations in newborns. "This new plan outlines strategies we know work. It is time to partner with key countries to implement the plan in order to save our children from these terrible diseases," he said. The WHO said starting this year, developing countries can apply to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) for financial support to obtain combined burberry handbags measles-rubella (MR) vaccine. Seth Berkley, MD, chief executive officer of GAVI, said in the statement, "With GAVI's $605 million [USD] investment for both the combined MR and measles second dose vaccines in developing countries, this is an historic moment for the reduction and hopefully eventual elimination of both diseases." Kathy Calvin, chief executive officer with the United Nations Foundation, said in the statement that $112 million more is needed to achieve measles and rubella goals for 2015. "We need significant commitments from governments and the private sector if we are going to stop measles and rubella, as well as the support of individuals worldwide, because a small donation from the public can go a long way and help save many lives," she said. Best known as a cosmetic therapy to banish facial frown lines, botulinum toxin type A, or Botox, was approved to prevent migraines in 2010, but only for patients who experience 15 or more migraine headaches a month. Today, about half of the $1.6 billion annual sales of Botox are from migraine and other non-cosmetic uses, a company spokesperson tells WebMD. 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About 38% of people with migraine headaches could benefit from prevention, but less than a third of them use them, says guideline author Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, of Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, in a news release. Researchers analyzed studies on migraine prevention treatments to determine which are or are not effective. The launch of a commercial cargo ship making its first flight to the International Space Station is expected to slip a week or so to give engineers more time to complete pre-flight testing and analysis, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, announced late today. The company had been aiming to launch its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule on April 30. A second launch opportunity was available May 3. Last week, NASA managers tentatively cleared the SpaceX rocket and capsule for launch pending completion of testing and a final review of open items and overnight Sunday, company founder and chief designer Elon Musk said in a Twitter posting: "Just completed the rocket rollout review at SpaceX HQ in California. Almost time to launch. Pucker factor increasing..." But this afternoon, after a review of the Dragon systems, Musk tweeted: "Am pushing launch back approximately a week to do more testing on Dragon docking code. New date pending coordination with NASA." Company spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham said in a later e-mail: "After reviewing our recent progress, it was clear that we needed more time to finish hardware-in-the-loop testing and properly review and follow up on all data. While it is still possible that we could launch on May 3, it would be wise to add a few more days of margin in case things take longer than expected. 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A group of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs will announce on Apr. 24 a new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc., which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth, in the process adding trillions of dollars to the global GDP, helping ensure humanity’s prosperity and paving the way for the human settlement louis vuitton sunglasses of space. “The resources of Earth pale in comparison to the wealth of the solar system,” said Eric Anderson, who founded the commercial space tourism company Space Adventures, and is co-founder of a new company along with Peter Diamandis, who started the X Prize foundation, which offers prize-based incentives for advanced technology development. Nearly 9,000 asteroids larger than 150 feet in diameter orbit near the Earth. Some could contain as much platinum as is mined in an entire year on Earth, making them potentially worth several billion dollars each. The right kinds of investment could reap huge rewards for those willing to take the risk. Outside of NASA, Anderson and Diamandis are among the most likely candidates to realize such a dream. Space Adventures has sent seven private tourists to the International Space Station while the Ansari X Prize led to a spurt of non-governmental manned spaceships. “We have a long track record of making large-scale space ventures real,” said Diamandis. Despite the promise of astronomical profits, the long time-scales and uncertain return on asteroid mining has historically driven most investors away from such Ray ban sunglasses undertakings. But the new company is also backed by a number of other billionaire luminaries, including Google’s CEO Larry Page and executive chairman Eric Schmidt, former Microsoft chief architect Charles Simonyi, and Ross Perot Jr. The venture also counts on filmmaker James Cameron, former astronaut Tom Jones, former JPL engineer Chris Lewicki, and planetary scientist Sara Seager as advisers. Still, this new undertaking will be much larger and more ambitious than anything Anderson and Diamandis have attempted before. The hurdles are many and high. While the endeavor is technically feasible, the technology has not yet been developed. And beyond their initial steps, the details of Planetary Resources’ plans remain scarce. The first hurdle will likely be ensuring that Planetary Resources has covered all its legal bases. While some have argued that governments need to set up specific property rights before investors will make use of space, the majority of space lawyers agree that this isn’t necessary to assure the opportunity for a return on investment, said space policy analyst Henry Hertzfeld at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Mining occurs in international seabeds — even without specific property rights — overseen by a special commission dedicated to the task, he said. A similar arrangement would likely work in space. In terms of extraction, Planetary Resources hopes to go after the platinum-group metals — which include platinum, palladium, osmium, and iridium — highly valuable commodities used in medical devices, renewable energy products, catalytic converters, and potentially in automotive fuel cells. Platinum alone is worth around $23,000 a pound — nearly the same as gold. Mining the top few feet of a single modestly sized, half-mile-diameter asteroid could yield around 130 tons of platinum, worth roughly $6 billion. Within the next 18 to 24 months, Planetary Resources hopes to launch between two and five space-based telescopes at an estimated cost of a few million dollars each that will identify potentially valuable asteroids. Other than their size and orbit, little detailed information is available about the current catalog of near-Earth asteroids. Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-101 Space Telescopes will figure out whether any are worth the trouble of resource extraction. Within five to seven years, the company hopes to send out a small swarm of similar spacecraft for a more detailed prospecting mission, mapping out a valuable asteroid in detail and identifying rich resource veins. They estimate such a mission will cost between $25 and 30 million. The next step — using robots to remotely mine, possibly burberry ties refine ore, and return material to Earth safely — is probably the toughest phase, and Planetary Resources is still tight-lipped about its plans here. This is an unprecedented challenge — the only asteroid material ever returned to Earth comes from the Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft, which successfully returned a few hundred dust particles from asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2010. One possibility might be to find a useful asteroid and push it closer to Earth. A fairly low-power solar-electric ion engine could nudge a hunk of rock into orbit around the Earth, effectively creating a small second moon that could be easily accessed. A recent white paper (.pdf) written by a team of scientists and engineers for the Keck Institute for Space Studies looked at exactly this proposition in order to use an asteroid for scientific and manned exploration. The team concluded that the technology exists, though such a plan would need at least $2.6 billion in funding. If Planetary Resources went this route, it would rack up a large initial investment, which doesn’t include actually mining and returning material back to Earth, potentially adding many hundreds more millions of dollars. “It’s one thing to understand the mining and refining processes and another thing to actually build it,” said JPL engineer John Brophy, who co-authored the paper. “And everything in space tends to be harder than you think it will be.” Another option to simplify the process burberry handbags might be to bring the ore back to Earth for refining, though that presents its own set of challenges. Say for the sake of argument that you send a 5,500-pound robot (roughly the weight of a small car) to an asteroid and it can mine and carry back 100 times its own weight in asteroid material. On most asteroids, chopping up a one-ton chunk of regolith will generate less than an ounce of platinum. Even asteroids with the highest concentration of platinum yield only about two ounces of platinum per ton. This means that with the current commodity prices, each of your robot miners will generate about $875,000, even on an asteroid with the highest platinum amounts. Given a mission cost that is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, it wouldn’t be advantageous to refine ore on Earth. There are also unknown financial aspects of a successful asteroid mining operation. The sudden influx of hundreds of tons of platinum into Earth’s economy would certainly drive the commodity’s price down. Looking at historical analogues, the enormous gold and silver reserves the Spanish inherited from their New World conquests led to terrible inflation and possibly the decline of their empire. But Planetary Resources sees a platinum price louis vuitton handbags drop as one of its potential goals. “I would be overjoyed as a company if we brought back so much platinum that the price fell by a factor of 20 or 50,” said Anderson. Aluminum was incredibly expensive in the 1800s, before new technology allowed it to be easily separated from its ore, said Diamandis. Today, aluminum is used in hundreds of applications, something that Anderson and Diamandis would like to see happen to the platinum-group metals. While mining platinum and other rare metals is Planetary Resource’s way of bringing wealth to Earth, the world still has ample reserves of such material — South African platinum mines alone are expected to produce for another 300 years. “In my view, its questionable oakley sunglasses how the economics of asteroid-retrieval works if you’re going to bring it to the ground,” said Brophy. “It makes more sense if you’re going to use the materials in space.” Asteroids contain one substance that is of extremely high value for astronauts: water. Water can be used for drinking and it can be broken into its constituents. Oxygen is valuable for life support in space-based habitats, while liquid oxygen and hydrogen are both used to produce rocket fuel. Rather than having to lug all the fuel for a mission out of Earth’s deep gravity well — an expensive proposition — having a “gas station” in space could help enable missions to Mars and beyond. Such a refueling depot might allow people to permanently live and work in space, another goal of Planetary Resources. Of course, this creates a sort of chicken-and-egg problem. Do you generate tons of resources for your nonexistent space civilization first or do you get your space civilization started and then utilize the available resources? Wired Science’s resident space historian David S. Portree thinks asteroid mining might make more sense when we have a more established space-based habitats with a different economy and better technology. “Right now it would be like a big oil tanker dropping anchor off the coast of medieval England,” he said. “The medieval English might identify the oil as a useful Discount louis vuitton bracelets for women classic best outlet silvery commodity, but wouldn’t be able use enough to profit the tanker crew. Heck, they wouldn’t know how to get it off the tanker, except in wooden pails and rowboats.”

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The study, of 218 women treated for early louis vuitton sunglasses breast cancer, found that almost one-third had "cancer-related fatigue" at the end of treatment. But far fewer -- six percent -- still had the problem a year later. That suggests for most women with the disease post-treatment fatigue will fade with some time, the researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. It's well known that cancer patients often suffer fatigue. And some studies have concluded it's common for that weariness to last for years after treatment ends. Among Ray ban sunglasses breast cancer survivors, researchers have found that more than one-third have fatigue two to three years after treatment. The reasons, though, have not been clear. And the new findings support the idea that some cases of chronic fatigue in earlier studies may have had causes other than the cancer itself. Past studies have often been "cross-sectional," meaning they studied people at one time-point. So it's possible to catch some bouts of fatigue that are related to various causes, explained Dr. David Goldstein, who led the new study. That could mean lingering fatigue from a viral illness, for example, or fatigue related to depression, according to Goldstein, of Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, Australia. "There are cancer survivors with true post-cancer fatigue," Goldstein said in an email. It's just that the number may be "less than previously thought." That may be true at least with early-stage breast cancer -- and possibly some other early cancers, Goldstein said -- but not necessarily more-advanced cancer. "The fatigue associated with advanced cancer is burberry handbags a much more complex issue -- tied up with the biology of an active tumor and its many physical effects, as well as the drugs used (for treatment)," Goldstein explained. The findings are based on 218 women who were treated for early-stage breast cancer with surgery and some type of "adjuvant" therapy, usually radiation, chemotherapy or both. The women answered questions about their physical and psychological health every few months for a year after treatment. Overall, Goldstein's team found, 11 percent persistently had fatigue at the six-month mark, while six percent still had symptoms a year after treatment ended. Goldstein said the study used a questionnaire that distinguished between physical and psychological symptoms, which some past studies have not done. And women who had persistent fatigue at six months were evaluated to rule out "alternative" causes -- like low thyroid hormone levels or depression. It's not clear why some women treated for early breast cancer remain fatigued for months or longer, according to Goldstein. Some recent research, he noted, has hinted that some patients could have a genetic predisposition to an "exaggerated bodily response" to chemotherapy, for example. Other work has suggested that chronic, body-wide inflammation could play a role. As for fatigue treatment, there's evidence that good sleep habits and regular exercise can help, if people can keep those habits up. Based on research into chronic fatigue, a combination of exercise plus cognitive behavioral therapy might help some patients, according to Goldstein. He said he and his colleagues are currently studying that approach. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of talk therapy focused on changing the thought patterns and behaviors that seem to be feeding physical or mental symptoms. One recent study also found that breast cancer survivors who got more omega-3 fats in their diets were less likely to have long-lasting fatigue than survivors who ate less. (See Reuters Health story of March 29, 2012) Omega-3 fats, which are thought to fight inflammation, burberry ties are largely found in oily fish like salmon, mackerel and tuna. Those findings, though, do not prove that omega-3 directly affects the long-term risk of fatigue. And the researchers said it was too soon for cancer survivors to be taking fish oil to battle fatigue. They noted, though, that eating fish a couple times a week -- something that's already recommended for general health -- could be a good idea. Imagine walking around with a tube that goes louis vuitton handbags through your nose and passes through your esophagus, right down into your stomach. A nasogastric tube, or feeding tube, provides nourishment. It’s usually reserved for patients with medical challenges. But now, feeding tubes are the new dietary rage. Last week, the New York Times ran a story about crash-dieting brides willing to undergo the 10-day K-E diet that costs $1,500 and requires a doctor’s supervision. It’s an eyebrow-raising trend, but oakley sunglasses we know where it stems from. The pressure on brides and women in general to look a certain way is not imaginary. When I was planning my wedding, every magazine had a get-fit-quick plan for brides. Looking a certain way was an ongoing dialogue. There was no escape from the endless pictures of Kate Discount louis vuitton bracelets for women classic best outlet silvery Middleton and even short-term bride Kim Kardashian. There’s nothing wrong with losing weight healthfully, but magazines, TV, runways and society seem to scream, “Lose weight. Look perfect.” Perfection is expected of women, not just by men, but by other women, because this is the culture of thinspiration and bodysnarking. We feel so insecure about our own image that we pick on others. I am no exception. I’ve been picked on for being too skinny and having acne. But I’ve also scoffed at the girls in too-short skirts and v-necks down to there. It’s the bullied becomes the bully complex. This is why Ashley Judd’s puffy face became beats by dr dre a thing to talk about recently. We all wondered if she was a victim of botched plastic surgery or a crazy beauty treatment. I shamefully admit I gave her face the questioning side-eye. And I know better. Still, it’s easy to get caught up in the crazy talk. In her essay for the Daily Beast, the actress blames the puffiness on steroids she was prescribed for an illness and takes us all to task over our obsession. “The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately,” she wrote. “We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.” She admits that she falls for it too. It’s one of those things in which none of us is completely innocent. And we must do better by our little girls and women. Judd says men and boys face the same pressure when it comes to fulfilling an image of masculinity. I think there are unfair expectations for guys. But I don’t think it’s the same as what women go through. On TV you can see a chubby, balding guy like “Modern Family’s” Jay Pritchett with the curvy and gorgeous Gloria. There is no reverse of that, not even in cartoon land with “Family Guy.” As long as a guy is funny, charming or talented, it almost doesn’t matter how he looks. Adele, one of the most talented singers in the world, was called fat by designer Karl Lagerfeld. But Ruben Studdard, once “American Idol’s” winner, was considered a “teddy bear.” Rapper Rick Ross, a Billboard regular known for his big belly, graced the cover of Vibe magazine’s sex issue last summer, shirtless. He has been called a sex symbol. But Jessica Simpson bares her naked, pregnant body on the cover of Elle and gets criticized for her weight. It’s called pregnant. There is no way for women to mold themselves into Monster Beats Studio NFL New Orleans Saints this image of perfection the media pushes. But there is a way for us to quit feeding into this unhealthy diet of body shaming and accept ourselves as well as one another. We cannot be reduced to our bodies, our faces and our clothes. We are much more than that. And it should be reflected in our conversations.

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Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products beats by dr dre are safe. The Food and Drug Administration issued tentative guidelines Friday for food and cosmetic companies interested in using nanoparticles, which are measured in billionths of a meter. Nanoscale materials are generally less than 100 nanometers in diameter. A sheet of paper, in comparison, is 100,000 nanometers thick. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers thick. The submicroscopic particles are increasingly showing up in FDA-regulated products like sunscreens, skin lotions and glare-reducing eyeglass coatings. Some scientists believe the technology will one day be used in medicine, but the FDA's announcement did not address that use. The draft guidance suggests the FDA may require food companies to provide data establishing the safety of any packaging using nanotechnology. Under longstanding regulations, companies aren't required to seek regulatory approval before launching products containing established ingredients and materials, such as caffeine, spices and various preservatives. But FDA officials said Friday that foods and packaging Monster Beats Studio NFL New Orleans Saints containing nanoparticles may require more scrutiny. "At this point, in terms of the science, we think it's likely the exemption does not apply and we would encourage folks to come in and talk to us," said Dennis Keefe, director of FDA's office of food additive safety. Keefe said companies are studying whether nanoparticles can reduce the risk of bacterial contamination in certain foods. He said the agency is aware of just one food louis vuitton sunglasses package currently on the market that uses nanoparticles but did not identify it. He said more are expected in coming years. The FDA has previously stated its position that nanotechnology is not inherently unsafe; however, materials at the nano scale can pose different safety issues than do things that are far larger. "This is an emerging, evolving technology and we're trying to get ahead of the curb to ensure the ingredients and substances are safe," Keefe said. In a separate guidance, the FDA laid out suggestions for the use of nanotechnology in cosmetics, a practice which has been in use since the 1990s. Nanoparticles are used in skin moisturizer, mineral make up and other cosmetics. The FDA has less authority over cosmetics than food additives. Generally, the FDA does not review cosmetics before they launch, and companies are responsible for assuring the safety of their products. The FDA will take comments on both proposals for 90 days. There Ray ban sunglasses is no deadline for finalizing the documents. Long-unrecognized lettering confirms that first-century artifacts found within an ancient Jerusalem tomb are the earliest representations of Christianity ever found, researchers say. Two Hebrew scholars who examined photographs showing the inside of the tomb agree that markings on an ossuary — a box made to hold human remains — are stylized letters that spell out the name of Jonah, the researchers said Thursday (April 19). Jonah was the Old Testament prophet whose story of being swallowed by a great fish was embraced by the early followers of Jesus. The tomb, located 6.5 feet (2 meters) below burberry handbags an apartment building in the East Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, was discovered in 1981 but resealed after Orthodox Jewish groups opposed its excavation. Two decades later, the group got license to enter the tomb, which has been dated to before A.D. 70. Researchers led by James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte did not enter the tomb themselves but instead used a remote camera to explore it. Their analysis of the images was reported Feb. 28 in the journal The Bible and Interpretation. The Hebrew scholars' translation of the stylized burberry ties letters on the ossuary have yet to be published. On one of the ossuaries was an inscription depicting "divine Jehovah," and a second had a picture that appeared to be a fish with a stick figure in its mouth, said to represent Jonah. If they fully understand these drawings, the researchers said, then they have found the oldest Christian artifacts, the earliest Christian art and the first evidence of faith in Jesus' resurrection. Similar depictions of Jonah were used by later Christian groups and became an important expression of the faith in later centuries. When the tomb and its contents were first disclosed, many biblical scholars offered alternate interpretations of the iconography and disputed the tomb's connections to Christianity. They said the image is more likely a funerary monument and not a fish at all. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus] After the initial announcement, the team continued to examine the images from their robot scout. Strange markings inside the fish head stood out to the researchers, louis vuitton handbags and they called upon James Charlesworth, a Hebrew script scholar from the Princeton Theological Seminary. The researchers said Charlesworth confirmed their interpretation of the marks: The lines that make up what they thought was a stick figure could also be viewed as four Hebrew letters. The script is similar to that from the Dead Sea Scrolls and seems to spell out "YONAH," the Hebrew name of Jonah. "This discovery by Professor oakley sunglasses Charlesworth is quite remarkable and had been overlooked in our initial analysis," Tabor said in a statement. "The engraver has apparently rather ingeniously combined what we took to be the stick figure of Jonah with the four Hebrew letters spelling out his name." Tabor also asked other Hebrew researchers for their opinion on the interpretation. Robert Deutsch of Haifa University confirmed Charlesworth's reading of YONAH, and Discount louis vuitton bracelets for women classic best outlet silvery Haggai Misgav of Hebrew University agreed there were definitely letters, but Misgav read them as "ZOLAH," Tabor said.

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For some veteran astronauts, today’s transformation of the shuttle Discovery into a museum exhibit is a cause for celebration. For others, it’s a reminder of their louis vuitton sunglasses regrets. But for John Grunsfeld, the one-time “Hubble Hugger” who is now NASA’s science chief, the dominant feeling is a sense of relief. Discovery's handover to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has re-ignited questions about the end of the 30-year space shuttle program. Why did they have to be retired? The short answer is that in the wake of the 2003 Columbia tragedy, policymakers decided that once the job of building the International Space Station was finished, it would just be too risky and expensive to keep the shuttles flying. Instead, President George W. Bush decided to re-target the space program on destinations beyond Earth orbit. For Bush, the first focus was going to be the moon. President Barack Obama shifted that initial focus to near-Earth asteroids, but the endpoint is the same: eventually getting to Mars. And the shuttles could never do that. They weren't built to go beyond Earth orbit. Nevertheless, some of America's best-known astronauts Ray ban sunglasses think the shuttles should have been kept around a while longer — particularly because NASA will be dependent on the Russians for rides to the space station for the next three to five years. "The unfortunate decision eight and a half years ago to terminate the shuttle program, in my opinion, prematurely grounded Discovery and delayed our research," retired senator-astronaut John Glenn said during today's handover ceremony at the museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Former senator-astronaut John Glenn speaks as the Smithsonian formally accepts space shuttle Discovery for permanent exhibition. Another retired astronaut who rode on Discovery, Tom burberry handbags Jones, voiced similar frustration during an interview conducted before today's ceremony. "I'm reliving the disappointment that the shuttles are retiring without a rapid successor," he told me. Jones wishes that the White House and Congress had revved up NASA's plan for new spaceships capable of going to the space station and beyond: the Constellation Program, which initially aimed to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020. Instead, Constellation was so cash-starved and technically challenged that the Obama White House scrubbed the program and reworked elements of it into the current plan to visit an asteroid by 2025. "We dropped the ball on this," Jones said. "If we just went from 0.5 percent of the federal budget to 0.6 percent, this would all be a non-issue." The benefit of retaining an American system for resupplying the space station is what motivated Glenn's call to keep the shuttles flying. Glenn made his pitch to the White burberry ties House in 2010 — but Obama didn't go for it, and the former Democratic senator told me today that he accepts the verdict. "No need crying over what happened in the past," Glenn said. "Let's get on with the future." The 'Hubble Hugger' and his pin Grunsfeld thinks the White House made the right call, at least on the question of grounding the shuttles. He's best-known for his role as a spacewalker on Hubble servicing missions in 1999, 2002 and 2009. During that last mission, Grunsfeld was the one who bade the Hubble Space Telescope goodbye forever. Now he's NASA's associate administrator for science. The way Grunsfeld sees it, keeping the shuttles flying might have led to another disaster like the 1986 Challenger explosion — or the loss of Columbia and its seven STS-107 crew members in 2003. "There's a possibility we could have flown them for a little bit longer, or extended them at some cost," Grunsfeld told me. "I'm actually extremely thankful that we are rolling Discovery into the Air and Space Museum, and not burying its parts. We flew out the space shuttle program gracefully. We didn't lose another one. It would have been tragic. The fact is that the space shuttle program was ended with louis vuitton handbags dignity — it was an amazing accomplishment, and I'm just thankful for that." Then he shared what he called a "small, personal story." "Just this morning, on my flight suit for the first time since the loss of Columbia, I took my STS-107 pin off. I felt like this was an apt celebration, that we flew out the program safely after Columbia, and that affected me very deeply," Grunsfeld said. "Now that we are where we are, I'm looking forward to getting the next space vehicle going." Retired astronaut Eileen Collins, who became NASA's first woman shuttle pilot during a 1995 mission on Discovery and went on to command shuttle missions in 1999 and 2005, has some firsthand knowledge about the risks associated with flying the shuttles. The 2005 mission on Discovery marked NASA's "return to flight" after the Columbia tragedy. She and most other people at NASA had thought they had solved the foam-loss problem that led to the Columbia's doom — but mission managers were shocked to see that the fuel tank shed a substantial piece of foam insulation during Discovery's ascent. No significant harm was done, but it took another year for NASA engineers to rework the problem to their satisfaction. This week, retired NASA shuttle manager Wayne Hale recounted the episode in a blog item headlined "How We Nearly Lost Discovery." Today, Collins noted that each shuttles was oakley sunglasses originally designed to fly for 100 missions or 10 years, whichever came first. Discovery, the most traveled of the shuttles, flew 39 missions ... over the course of 28 years. She recalled that she agreed with the shuttle retirement plan that was announced in 2004, but was disappointed when the Constellation Program was canceled in 2010. "At that time, I would say yes, we should keep the shuttles flying — with one major exception. Back in 2006, we at NASA made major decisions to start shutting down the pipeline for parts. In 2010, to reverse the decision and continue flying the shuttles was going to be very expensive and take a very long time. So it wasn't realistic to fly them again," she told me. "The worst thing we can do to our people is to constantly change things ... so in the end, the right thing to do was to fly out shuttle. I am personally very sad to see it go. But the big problem is, we don't have anything to follow on right now. We're going to get there. It's just that Discount louis vuitton bracelets for women classic best outlet silvery right now, we don't have it." It's not the end of the shuttle program that bothers Collins. Rather, it's the possibility that NASA won't be able to follow through on the beginning of the next program. Follow @CosmicLog "I don't want to see any more canceled programs," she told a school group after today's ceremony. "If we have problems, we need to fix those problems and press on. We can't just cancel and walk away from them. I go to schools, and I talk to kids, and I say, 'If you have problems, stick with it, fix it, don't give up.' We don't want to continue to give up on programs that are going to be taking us out into space, whether it's with robots or with people. We need to keep working on those programs." What do you think? Here's your chance to weigh monster beats studio in on the end of the shuttle program and the beginning of the next chapter in exploration. Just leave a comment below.

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