gucci shoes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Annual screening for prostate cancer doesn't cut men's chances of dying from the disease, according to the latest results of a large screening trial.

gucci shoes for men Comparing men who were screened each year with so-called PSA tests, for prostate specific antigen, or rectal exams to those who received their usual care, researchers found that more men in the screening group had been diagnosed with prostate cancer after 13 years -- but there was no difference in how many had died from it.

The results support a previous report by the same researchers that found no difference in deaths seven to 10 years after the screening program started.

They are also consistent with recent draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommending that average-risk men not undergo regular PSA screening, according to a researcher who worked on the study.

burberry outlet "Men, if they're considering screening, should be aware that there's a possibility that there's little or no benefit (and) that there certainly are harms to PSA screening," said study co-author Philip Prorok, from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

burberry sale Those harms include catching and treating small cancers that never would have been detected or caused men any problems, Prorok told Reuters Health.

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gucci outlet According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 223,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in the U.S. in 2007, the most recent year with available data, and 29,000 died from the disease.

The new findings are from a national study examining the effect of screening for prostate, lung, colon and ovarian cancers.

The data come from close to 77,000 middle-aged and older men, who between 1993 and 2001 were randomly assigned to a regular screening program with six years of annual PSA blood testing and four years of rectal exams, or to their usual care.

For some men, that usual care included cancer screening. The researchers estimated that men in the comparison group received about half as much screening as those enrolled in the annual screening program.

A new study suggests that where you live may be a contributing factor when it comes to assessing your risk of cardiac arrest.

The study, done by researchers at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, focuses on the country's largest city but its findings could be applied to other parts of the country.

Simply put, the study suggests that some areas of Toronto - especially in southwest and central Scarborough, western parts of North York and north Etobicoke - had the highest rates of cardiac arrest, about 500 per 100,000 people.

The communities with the lowest rates were those within north Scarborough, downtown Toronto, East York and the northeast part of North York. Those rates were about 160 per 100,000 people.

Katherine Allan, the PhD student who led the study, looked at more than 5,000 cardiac arrest victims in 140 neighbourhoods across Toronto between 2006 and 2010.

Normally cardiac victims are mapped by where the attack happened. But Allan's study mapped the home addresses of the victims.

Mapping by neighbourhood can add to information about lifestyle and environment, the researchers said.

The study found that in some neighbourhoods people are more at risk - and by a large factor in some cases.

Each neighbourhood was examined for possible contributing factors, such as socio-economic status, health status and "how activity friendly the neighbourhoods were."

Those areas with higher household incomes and higher levels of education showed a lower risk of cardiac arrest, according to the preliminary analyses.

louis vuitton outlet "The data is important for prevention efforts," Allan states in a news release. "We often look at how to prevent cardiac arrest in terms of getting resources to the areas where it occurred, but this research goes back to see what lifestyle factors or behaviours contribute to the risk."

louis vuitton bags Allan told CBC News on Friday that this type of mapping could help health organizations to recognize neighbourhoods that are at risk and help them plan prevention campaigns.

"It could be education campaigns, working in collaboration with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, for example," she said.

The researchers point out that living in a high risk area doesn't mean people should move, "it just means in your neighbourhood there are people at risk and we need to figure out what are those risks so we can prevent it from happening," Allan said.

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. -- A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. Jessica Joy Rees was 12 years old.

Jessica's family announced her death on her Facebook page, stating that her 10-month battle with brain cancer ended Thursday. Tens of thousands of people responded by posting updates to the page in a show of support that includes "likes" and prayers.

By Friday afternoon the outpouring surpassed Jessica's goal to get one "like" for each of the estimated 50,000 American children with cancer.

The Orange County seventh-grader, called "Jessie" by family and friends, began her blog and Facebook page after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in March. A second tumor was discovered in September.

burberry outlet While some of her posts discussed her struggles as she underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments, others urged readers in dozens of countries to support pediatric cancer research and to pray for other children with the illness.

She always signed her posts with the acronym "NEGU" (NEE'-goo), short for "never ever give up."

Also, she and her parents started The NEGU Foundation, a nonprofit organization to raise awareness of pediatric cancer, support sufferers and raise money for research.

burberry sale The foundation sold and provided thousands of "JoyJars" stuffed with candy and toys to sick children. More than 3,000 were sold and distributed in 27 states last year, according to the NEGU website.

gucci outlet Co-host Ryan Seacrest also allowed her to announce country singer, and eventual winner, Scott McCreery.

Jessica wrote on Facebook that her mission was "to encourage kids fighting cancer to Never Ever Give Up by spreading hope, joy and love. A cheerful heart is great medicine."

A celebration service was scheduled for Wednesday at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, where her father, Erik Rees, is a pastor.

gucci shoes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Annual screening for prostate cancer doesn't cut men's chances of dying from the disease, according to the latest results of a large screening trial.

gucci shoes for men Comparing men who were screened each year with so-called PSA tests, for prostate specific antigen, or rectal exams to those who received their usual care, researchers found that more men in the screening group had been diagnosed with prostate cancer after 13 years -- but there was no difference in how many had died from it.

The results support a previous report by the same researchers that found no difference in deaths seven to 10 years after the screening program started.

They are also consistent with recent draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommending that average-risk men not undergo regular PSA screening, according to a researcher who worked on the study.

burberry outlet "Men, if they're considering screening, should be aware that there's a possibility that there's little or no benefit (and) that there certainly are harms to PSA screening," said study co-author Philip Prorok, from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

burberry sale Those harms include catching and treating small cancers that never would have been detected or caused men any problems, Prorok told Reuters Health.

MORE DIAGNOSIS, NOT MORE DEATHS

gucci outlet According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 223,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in the U.S. in 2007, the most recent year with available data, and 29,000 died from the disease.

The new findings are from a national study examining the effect of screening for prostate, lung, colon and ovarian cancers.

The data come from close to 77,000 middle-aged and older men, who between 1993 and 2001 were randomly assigned to a regular screening program with six years of annual PSA blood testing and four years of rectal exams, or to their usual care.

For some men, that usual care included cancer screening. The researchers estimated that men in the comparison group received about half as much screening as those enrolled in the annual screening program.

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. -- A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. Jessica Joy Rees was 12 years old.

Jessica's family announced her death on her Facebook page, stating that her 10-month battle with brain cancer ended Thursday. Tens of thousands of people responded by posting updates to the page in a show of support that includes "likes" and prayers.

By Friday afternoon the outpouring surpassed Jessica's goal to get one "like" for each of the estimated 50,000 American children with cancer.

The Orange County seventh-grader, called "Jessie" by family and friends, began her blog and Facebook page after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in March. A second tumor was discovered in September.

burberry outlet While some of her posts discussed her struggles as she underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments, others urged readers in dozens of countries to support pediatric cancer research and to pray for other children with the illness.

She always signed her posts with the acronym "NEGU" (NEE'-goo), short for "never ever give up."

Also, she and her parents started The NEGU Foundation, a nonprofit organization to raise awareness of pediatric cancer, support sufferers and raise money for research.

burberry sale The foundation sold and provided thousands of "JoyJars" stuffed with candy and toys to sick children. More than 3,000 were sold and distributed in 27 states last year, according to the NEGU website.

gucci outlet Co-host Ryan Seacrest also allowed her to announce country singer, and eventual winner, Scott McCreery.

Jessica wrote on Facebook that her mission was "to encourage kids fighting cancer to Never Ever Give Up by spreading hope, joy and love. A cheerful heart is great medicine."

A celebration service was scheduled for Wednesday at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, where her father, Erik Rees, is a pastor.

louis vuitton outlet A gym in Dubai has apologized after releasing an advertisement featuring an image from a German concentration camp to motivate clients to lose weight.

The Circuit Factory Gym published the image of the Auschwitz concentration camp with the phrase "Kiss Your Calories Goodbye" on its Facebook page, but soon took down the post amid a whirlwind of backlash from users, according to CBS New York.

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Gym founder Phil Parkinson apologized to a number of users who Tweeted angry remarks concerning the image and ensured followers that the designer is no longer with the company.

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louis vuitton sale However, Parkinson told Arabian Business News that he noticed an immediate increase in traffic to the gym's website, Facebook page and YouTube channel.

"It has got to the point I am nervous that I can't cater for demand," he told the paper.

But a public relations representative said the long-term consequences of the controversial ad could be yet to come.

"Associating your brand with human suffering as a means to secure visibility is extremely short-sighted and may have far-reaching effects," Eileen Wallis, managing partner at a Dubai public relations firm, told Arabian Business News.

The Anti-Defamation League has accepted Parkinson's apology but denounced the "mindset of a generation that appears to be so distant from a basic understanding of the Holocaust" to deem the ad acceptable to use in the first place, the International Business Times reports.

Still, some are questioning whether the shock-factor of the advertisement was what the marketing team was after from the beginning.

"It's a PR trick, people...The only people that are stupid are the ones that fall for this obvious stunt," The Media Line quoted a commenter as stating.

Regardless of the designer's intentions, Twitter user Alison Lehr (@AlisonLehr), in addition to others, expressed her fury over the ad with a special message, CBS New York observed.

A new study suggests that where you live may be a contributing factor when it comes to assessing your risk of cardiac arrest.

The study, done by researchers at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, focuses on the country's largest city but its findings could be applied to other parts of the country.

Simply put, the study suggests that some areas of Toronto - especially in southwest and central Scarborough, western parts of North York and north Etobicoke - had the highest rates of cardiac arrest, about 500 per 100,000 people.

The communities with the lowest rates were those within north Scarborough, downtown Toronto, East York and the northeast part of North York. Those rates were about 160 per 100,000 people.

Katherine Allan, the PhD student who led the study, looked at more than 5,000 cardiac arrest victims in 140 neighbourhoods across Toronto between 2006 and 2010.

Normally cardiac victims are mapped by where the attack happened. But Allan's study mapped the home addresses of the victims.

Mapping by neighbourhood can add to information about lifestyle and environment, the researchers said.

The study found that in some neighbourhoods people are more at risk - and by a large factor in some cases.

Each neighbourhood was examined for possible contributing factors, such as socio-economic status, health status and "how activity friendly the neighbourhoods were."

Those areas with higher household incomes and higher levels of education showed a lower risk of cardiac arrest, according to the preliminary analyses.

louis vuitton outlet "The data is important for prevention efforts," Allan states in a news release. "We often look at how to prevent cardiac arrest in terms of getting resources to the areas where it occurred, but this research goes back to see what lifestyle factors or behaviours contribute to the risk."

louis vuitton bags Allan told CBC News on Friday that this type of mapping could help health organizations to recognize neighbourhoods that are at risk and help them plan prevention campaigns.

"It could be education campaigns, working in collaboration with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, for example," she said.

The researchers point out that living in a high risk area doesn't mean people should move, "it just means in your neighbourhood there are people at risk and we need to figure out what are those risks so we can prevent it from happening," Allan said.

"Of course, these five countries are at the forefront of the spread of these fast-food companies because of that," he said. "But they are also at the forefront of big business-friendly policies."

cheap ugg boots His team initially had wanted to use data on McDonald's, but the company refused their request to release data on global locations. Subway had two advantages: it recently became the world's largest chain in number of outlets, and all of its locations are listed for public viewing on the company's website.

cheap ugg boots The data produced by the analysis are undoubtedly striking. To quote the paper, which is published in this month's Critical Public Health:

Countries with the highest density of Subway restaurants such as the U.S. (7.52 per 100,000) and Canada (7.43 per 100,000) tend also to have a higher prevalence of obesity in both men (31.3 percent and 23.2 percent respectively) and women (33.2 percent and 22.9 percent, respectively). On the other hand, countries with a relatively low density of Subway restaurants such as Japan (0.13 per 100,000) and Norway (0.19 per 100,000) have a lower prevalence of obesity in both men (2.9 percent and 6.4 percent respectively) and women (3.3 percent and 5.9 percent respectively).

Given the holes in the study, it's hard to make any definitive claims about the study's conclusions.

cheap uggs It's possible that Japan and Norway are just huge Denny's consumers, and so maintain their litheness despite eating far more fast food than their Canadian and Australian peers. And it's also possible that there's some third factor (besides free market economics) driving both Subway and obesity in these five Anglophone countries.

ugg sale De Vogli said that he's working on another study that he hopes will connect the global reduction of tariff rates with the commensurate global rise in obesity levels, which may help unlock new parts of the puzzle.

ugg outlet But if the exact margins of the takeaway are, at least for now, a little vague, De Vogli says that the policy implications of the study are not.

"It's simple: you tax junk foods and you subsidize fruits, vegetables and healthy foods," he said. "People need to have options, but if they're in an environment where most of the options are unhealthy options, then they don't have many choices."

cheap ugg boots For the first time in nearly a century, automobile accidents are no longer the nation's leading cause of accidental deaths, according to a major report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics.

The new number one killer is drugs -- not smack, crystal meth or any other stepped-on menace sold in urban alleyways or trailer parks, but bright, shiny pills prescribed by doctors, approved by the government, manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and sold to the consumer as "medicine."

uggs Yet of the billions of legit pills Americans pop every year for medical conditions serious and otherwise, the vast majority of lives are claimed by only a select few classes -- painkillers, sedatives and stimulants -- that all share a common characteristic: they promote abuse, dependence and addiction.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of the prescription drug abuse problem," says Dr. Margaret Warner, the federal report's lead author. "The take-home here is, this should be a wake-up call."

uggs on sale Some 41,000 Americans died from what the report refers to as "poisonings" in 2008, compared with 38,000 traffic deaths. That tally marks a 90 percent increase in poisonings and a 15 percent decrease in car accidents since 1999.

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uggs outlet Nearly nine out of ten of those poisonings were caused by prescription drug overdoses, with the chief culprit being opiate-based pain relievers such as Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin and Percocet (oxycodone), codeine, morphine -- and let's not forget Actiq (fentanyl), the infamous berry-flavored lollipop that is 100 times stronger than morphine and -- like most opiate analgesics -- so overprescribed that only about 10 percent of its sales come from its original indication to treat cancer pain.

burberry outlet These legal opiates accounted for 40 percent, or 15,000, of the fatalities, up from 25 percent, or 4,000, in 1999. Deaths by painkiller now outpace the combined nationwide number of deaths by cocaine (5,100) and heroin (3,000); these fatal overdoses often involve mixing painkillers with other prescription drugs-for example, Klonopin, Xanax, Valium or another benzodiazepines, which are the second most lethal class.

uggs clearance Other report findings: Three quarters of the poisoning are unintentional -- likely the result of overdoses rather than drug interactions or allergic reactions -- and some 13 percent are suicides. The five states with the highest oxy-type drug death rates (per 100,000 of the population) were New Mexico (30.8), West Virginia (27.6), Alaska (24.2), Nevada (21.0), and Utah (20.8).The most likely to die: white men, American Indians and Native Alaskans, usually between the ages of 45 to 54.

burberry sale Warner's death report is but the latest in a disturbing accumulation of evidence, ranging from scientific surveys to celebrity deaths, that underscore what we already know about our painkiller nation: pill mills and doctor shoppers are not just creating a land of bathroom-cabinet addicts -- their bodies are packing morgues.

ugg clearance With our surging "oxy addiction" showing no signs of letting up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year officially named it an "epidemic." President Obama has repeatedly invoked prescription drug abuse as the nation's leading drug problem responsible not only for a rising number of overdoses and deaths but also ratcheting up the incidence of break-ins and burglaries of pharmacies.

Walker and her colleagues at the agency, which oversees the NCHS, are at pains to draw comparisons between oxy-type drug deaths and those from auto accidents, because they hope that the same comprehensive approach that helped cut traffic deaths in half during the previous decade can save just as many lives on the drug front. Auto fatalities fell following a concerted government focus on national highway safety, resulting in car safety improvements as well as a wide range of regulatory, legal, and public health measures. Seat belt laws were enforced; drunk driving laws became stricter. The fact that alcohol -- yet another legal intoxicant -- is responsible for close to 40 percent of all traffic fatalities indicates how difficult it is to apply policy to substance abuse and get significant results. Still, drunk driving is playing a smaller and smaller role in automobile fatalities, falling by close to 40 percent since 1982.

gucci outlet In 2010, enough prescription painkillers were sold nationwide to keep every American medicated around the clock for an entire month.

"You need to look at policy, laws, individual behavior, community behavior and health care provider behavior," says Dr. Chris Jones, a consulting pharmacist with the CDC. One of the most innovative interventions includes building a database on patients who abuse painkillers and identifying doctors who overprescribe (or do so without examining the patient or his medical history). So far, five states have adopted specific pill-mill laws to flush out such doctors. "We're looking at these laws to evaluate them and for guidance on policy," says Jones.