Saturday, June 30, 2012

China Defends Limits on Rare Earths Exports

China on Thursday defended its limits on exports of rare earths, after major trading partners sought litigation through the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a months-long dispute. "China's export restrictions on rare earths are aimed at protecting environmental resources and people's health, not the protection of domestic industries," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters. "In light of rare earth resources, market supply, demand and consumption, we will continue to practice management over the mining, production and export of rare earths." The European Union, the United States and Japan on Wednesday asked the WTO to form a panel to resolve a dispute over China's export restrictions on rare earths after earlier consultations through the trade body failed. In March, those trading partners claimed China was unfairly choking off exports of the commodities to benefit domestic industries. China produces more than 90% of the world's rare earths, which are used in high-tech equipment from iPods to missiles, and has set output caps and export quotas on the coveted resources. China has previously defended its practices, saying it aims to protect the resources and the environment as part of an effort to promote sustainable development. China also said last week its regulation of the rare earths industry was in line with global trade rules.

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Vickie Guerrero: The best choice for permanent GM?

Vickie Guerrero judges herself after her week as Interim General Manager: WWE.com Exclusive, June 29, 2012In the midst of a heated argument, Vickie Guererro slaps Dolph Ziggler: SmackDown, June 29, 2012Vickie Guerrero puts family first over Rey Mysterio: SmackDown, August 25, 2006Vickie Guerrero "punishes" Edge for his actions at Survivor Series: SmackDown, November 23, 2007SmackDown GM Vickie Guerrero strips The Undertaker of the World Heavyweight Title: SmackDown, May 9, 2008Divas Summertime Beach Battle Royal: Raw, June 25, 2012Jack Swagger begs Vickie Guerrero for a United States Championship Match for Raw: WWE.com Exclusive, June 25, 2012

While some people like to play things close to the vest, others just can?t help but voice their every want and desire. The latter is definitely the case when it comes to Vickie Guerrero, as became abundantly clear this past week.

No one could ever accuse this week?s interim Raw and SmackDown General Manager of being subtle, and, true to form, Vickie once again showed her hand Friday on SmackDown. Announcing in no uncertain terms that it?s her goal to become the permanent GM of both shows, Guerrero alerted the WWE Universe to her long-term game plan.

Vickie, who cites both her prior experience in the role and her "creativity" while at the helm of the two shows, has time and time again shown a willingness to do whatever it takes to get the gig. In an attempt to curry favor with the WWE Board of Directors ? who will ultimately make the final call when it comes to choosing the GM on the 1,000th episode of Raw ? Vickie shared, in a WWE.com exclusive video, what she gave the WWE group of head honchos to increase her chances at landing the desired position.

While WWE?s resident Cougar may not be the first choice among many members of the WWE Universe, Vickie just may be the person best suited to grab hold of the reins left idle in the wake of John Laurinaitis? firing by Mr. McMahon at No Way Out. Guerrero?s resume certainly speaks to her ability to handle the GM role ? having served in that capacity on both Raw and SmackDown in the past. So, perhaps she is the right woman for the job.

Vickie appears to be already accumulating the endorsements in her favor, as both Dolph Ziggler and Daniel Bryan have publicly lauded her efforts. By that same token, however, The Showoff found out Friday night that even those on good terms with the would-be GM might not be invulnerable to her wrath. When Guerrero shockingly slapped Ziggler, she demonstrated the type of iron fist-like rule that she is capable of imposing while in a position of authority ? a trait that may be necessary to successfully steering the dual-show ship.

Additionally, Vickie?s a proven decision maker, as made evident by the monumental Triple Threat Title Match she made for this week?s SmackDown main event. She certainly has no qualms when it comes to dealing with a dissenting fan base.

While she?s made no secret in her vying for the opportunity to take back both SmackDown and Raw as permanent GM, wanting and doing are two very different things. As such, the future of Vickie Guerrero ? and the entire WWE roster, for that matter ? will be uncertain until the Board makes its final decision.

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Court's Verdict on Health-Care Reform Holds Surprises, Legal Experts Say

THURSDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- After the U.S. Supreme Court's announcement Thursday that it would uphold most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, many legal experts were quick to register their surprise at the decision -- and their sense that perhaps the battle over health-care reform was not yet finished.

The complicated 5-to-4 decision allows the law to proceed with its goal of covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans. That includes the controversial "individual mandate" provision, which requires most consumers to buy health care insurance or face a penalty. The court held that the mandate fell under the category of a tax, and as such was constitutional and could stand.

That came as a surprise to Stephen Presser, a professor of legal history at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. He had predicted that the Supreme Court would find the health-reform law unconstitutional and the whole package would go down.

"I had thought that the issue of whether [the individual mandate] was a tax was over and done with," Presser said. "This strikes me as a disappointing decision, which fails fully to preserve the limitations on the Constitution of the federal government," he added.

"It's disappointing that all the proponents of the Act had steadfastly said that this was not a tax. That this was not a bill to raise revenues, that this was not a bill to increase health care costs. Had it acknowledged that it was in fact a tax, it's much more doubtful that it would have passed, given the thin margin that it did pass by, it may have made a difference. So what the court has done is salvaged the Act in a Constitutional sleight of hand," Presser said.

But Renee Landers, a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, had betted on the other side -- that the mandate could still survive -- and today's decision justified her confidence.

"It was hard to stay with that opinion the last few weeks though because everybody was so busy hedging their bets," she said. She was somewhat surprised at one of the four dissenters: "I thought [Justice Anthony] Kennedy would go over for it, but he didn't."

However, she wasn't surprised that Chief Justice John Roberts backed the majority decision.

"I think at the end that Roberts was motivated by that overturning an act of Congress is a really significant action by the court even though not [entirely] unprecedented, and if at all possible the court should work to uphold the Constitution," Landers said.

The decision did limit the expansion of Medicaid as proposed under the law.

"What they said was that the part of the expansion that would penalize states -- that would withdraw all Medicaid funding from the states if they didn't go along with the expansion -- is invalid," Landers explained. "The expansion still exists, but a state can either sign onto it or not and won't lose all its current Medicaid funding if it doesn't go along with the expansion."

While some states are already expanding their Medicaid roles and others are happy to cooperate because of the federal funding they'll receive, she said, "there are always those states who are very parsimonious -- not generous -- in granting Medicaid benefits to adults. So basically, this decision will have the effect of limiting the impact of the law in getting more adults insurance coverage."

Another expert, Robert Field, a professor of law in the department of health management and policy at Drexel University's School of Public Health, weighed in and found that each side may have gained from the decision.

"I do think this is potentially a win for both sides, although the losers in the case may not immediately see it this way," Field added. "I think [President Barack] Obama wins politically. He gets around the charge that [Republican Mitt] Romney had been making that he wasted all his political capital on something that was unconstitutional."

And for conservatives, "there is no new precedent that expands Congress' power" when it comes to the Medicaid provision, Field added.

"[The Justices are] saying that Congress can expand Medicaid and can offer states a carrot to expand it, but they cannot follow the carrot with a stick that would take away their entire Medicaid programs if they don't agree to the expansion," Field explained. "The carrot is the 90 percent to 100 percent of the expansion that Congress will pay. However, the law had said that if the states don't go along with that they could lose funding for their entire Medicaid program. Now that wouldn't happen. The worse that would happen to them is their programs will stay as they are."

Gregory Magarian, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, believed that the entire law would pass by a narrow margin, but on a different basis.

"The result is what I was expecting on the mandate, but the way they got to it is not at all what I was expecting," Magarian said. "It sounds to me that the court was trying to be as cautious as it could in wading into the constitutional issues. What it found was the narrowest way to uphold the mandate and therefore uphold the rest of the Act. I think the result is the right result under my best understanding of the law so I'm very happy with what the court did. But it really is a curveball in terms of how they got there."

So, is this the end of the battle over health care reform? Probably not: the fight may simply switch venues, the experts said.

Today's decision by the Supreme Court settled the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and now "Congress is free to change the provisions of the statute that the Court has said is constitutional," according to Landers.

"Congress could repeal the statute, revise the statute, or reduce, or decline to appropriate funds for the various programs the Act contemplates," Landers explained. "So now, a great deal rides on the November election -- control of the House and Senate and/or the outcome of the presidential election."

Presser added that, for now, however, "whatever else you want to say about the opinion, it creates a situation where the court steps aside. Roberts is the chief justice and he thinks about institutional issues and it's not surprising that he may have wanted to avoid a political firestorm. What is surprising is how he did it."

Landers said that whatever happens next politically, "in the meantime, I think that states have to move forward in implementation because they have some deadlines in January 2013, like taking steps to create their own [health insurance] exchanges that they have to meet, and you can't do that kind of thing overnight."

More information

Visit the U.S. Supreme Court site for the official Affordable Care Act ruling.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/courts-verdict-health-care-reform-holds-surprises-legal-200607897.html

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa [Excerpt]

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The challenges of poverty in rural Ghana are tied to a long and rich history of economic development and globalization, archaeology and oral history reveals


ghana-skeletonHUMAN HISTORY: The discovery of a grave in Ghana helped elucidate a more complete picture of poverty and development over the decades in that African country. Image: Courtesy of Edward Carr

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Edward R. Carr's Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future.

When we hit what we thought was another trash pit in the Ghanaian village of Dominase, we had seen so many of these that we did not expect anything terribly interesting. A quick glance at the first artifacts out of the pit confirmed a late 1800s fill date, much like all the other trash pits we found. This sort of find had become so routine that I left my field assistant Francis Quayson to supervise its excavation and went to oversee other crew members in another part of the site.

Things changed rapidly when Francis called a halt to his group's digging and came to me with a long bone he could not identify. We routinely found goat and sheep bones in these trash pits, and even found one cow bone, which was surprising, as beef is expensive and cattle are not raised in or around these villages. However, this bone was different. I was reluctant to identify it as human, because the Fante people of central Ghana treat their dead with some reverence and usually bury them at least six feet underground, or as deep as they can go until they hit bedrock. After closing that excavation area for the day, I took the bone to the Cape Coast compound where the larger Syracuse University archaeological team was based, and found our physical anthropologist, Joe Johnson. I showed him the bone and said, "Please tell me this isn't people." Joe looked at the bone for a few seconds and then stated, "Oh, that's people."

The next week of my life was dedicated to clearing the trash pit out to find the rest of the body. As it turned out, at the bottom of the pit there was a nearly complete skeleton lying on its side in a slightly flexed position typical of burials in this area. There was no sign of a coffin, suggesting burial in a shroud. The acidic clay soil had taken a serious toll on the bones. The smallest and most spongy bone materials had long since dissolved, but the long bones, ribs, and other significant bones were intact. All that was missing was the head. I believe it was accidentally broken up and removed by the person who dug the pit in the late 1800s, unaware of the burial below.

There is something very intimate about sitting in a grave with a skeleton, gently brushing soil off bones, beads, and other burial goods. The bones told us that this was a young man, probably around 19 or 20 years old at the time of his death. They did not provide any clues to the cause of his death. However, the grave goods associated with this young man told us a great deal about the connections between the people of this village and the larger world in the earliest days of the settlement. The materials in the grave all date to around 1825?the burial is the earliest evidence of occupation we have for this village. Buried with the man were beads from Venice and Bohemia (today the western part of the Czech Republic), a Dutch clay smoking pipe, and British sheet brass that had been hammered by an Akan craftsman into a vessel called a forowa, used to hold personal items. The markers of status and respect accorded this young man in his burial were global goods from various parts of Europe. This burial alone makes it clear just how integrated the people of this village were into the global economy, even in the earliest days of Dominase's settlement. These goods were common enough, and had been around for long enough, to be incorporated into their lifeways such that they made sense as burial goods. This burial leaves little doubt that those who settled these villages were at least partially motivated by accessing this global trade, as well as integrating into the regional political economy.

Dominase and Ponkrum were not settled at random in the coastal hinterland of Elmina in Ghana. Instead the first residents set up alongside a road that the historian and archaeologist Gerard Chouin has identified as Asante Road #7. This road linked Elmina, the principal trading post in the area, to the powerful Asante kingdom inland. In the early 1800s slaves, gold, and various materials passed down this road from Asante to Elmina and the waiting ships of the Dutch, who controlled the trade around Elmina at that time. A tremendous variety of materials returned to Asante by this same route. By settling along this road, the founders of Dominase and Ponkrum positioned themselves to obtain trade goods in exchange for their crops along a reliable route to the markets at Elmina. These settlements are therefore creations of the interaction of a globalizing economy with this part of the world. In fact, places we often characterize as lacking, or needing, development are often better understood as the outcomes of development and globalization in the past.

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Excuses, Fearmongering and Sour Grapes Are Only Certainty In GOP's Response To Health Care Reform

As a supporter of Medicare For All or a genuine public option at the minimum, I'm still only lukewarm to Obama's health care reform act despite the law being affirmed by the highest court in the land. I also suspect more fall-out from the court?s mixed decision, most notably in its weakening of the law?s Medicaid provisions in the name of states? rights.

But if I were the republican governor of a state, I'd certainly proceed with the framework of state-run health care exchanges, knowing that the exchanges are a requirement in practically every proposal for health care reform proposal written over the past 30 years.

Gov. Scott Walker however says Wisconsin will not proceed with implementing the Affordable Care Act because the SCOTUS decision he claims, creates uncertainty.

Channel 3000 Excerpt:
In the meantime, Walker says the state will not proceed with setting up a health care exchange as is required.[...]

He said the decision creates uncertainty for Wisconsin businesses and that's bad for job growth. Walker has also said businesses will be bullish about adding jobs since he won a June 5 recall election.


Bad for job growth but businesses remain bullish about adding jobs? Which is it?

But tell that to four (Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and even Tea Party Mitch Daniels Indiana) of the six midwestern states that have all outjobbed Wisconsin in 2011 while instituting that "uncertainty" by building the framework for the state health care exchanges in the new health care law. Add to that the fact that two (California and New York) of the top three states in the country that have had significant increases in employment from May, 2011 to May, 2012 have implemented the ACA almost in it's entirety. While three states with dismal job growth, North Carolina, Alaska and New Mexico have literally banned the ACA. Beginning this week, New Mexico has finally initiated a task force to develop a proposal for creating a state health insurance exchange. So how can the decision be bad for job growth?

Even more ridiculous is to say the decision is bad for Wisconsin. But we'll have to go in circles here for just a moment to tackle that one.

Walker's belligerent failure to implement the law has the same impact on the state as if SCOTUS struck it down. So the decision can't be bad for job growth or create "uncertainty" for Wisconsin businesses if he refuses to implement it. Without implementing the Affordable Care Act, it's business as usual for the GOP and the state of Wisconsin. With the recalls behind us, the state should be gushing in certainty ...and jobs according to Scott Walker.

Conversely, he could have claimed Obama's health care reform was bad for job growth given the poor state employment results of the past year, but only if he had implemented it. He missed that opportunity by fighting it every step of the way. But this is where the rubber meets the road. The GOP's (and Walker's) biggest fear is not that Obama's health care reform fails - but if it would succeed. The idea of course is to never give it a chance.

So using Walker's fearmongering and certainty logic, only states that implemented the federal health care law have "uncertainty," yet those same states have experienced some of the most significant job growth over the past year AND if Walker was right, that should have translated into businesses and workers fleeing those states for Wisconsin.

But we know that's not happening and Walker is playing politics as usual and fabricating more uncertainty by hedging on not implementing the health care plan, with the intention to blame the health care law for all that fails in the state by not implementing it. That's full circle insanity.

Mitt Romney also found himself in a similar foot-in-mouth position earlier this week by saying if the nation?s highest court overturned what he derides as Obamacare, ?then the first 3 1/2 years of this president?s term will have been wasted on something that has not helped the American people.?

Boston.Com Excerpt:
Yet the court, with the vote of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, today upheld the law?s constitutionality.

Accepting Romney?s logic, that would mean that the bulk of Obama?s first term in office was spent on something that helped the American people.

Roberts is not someone Romney can dismiss, either. On his campaign website, he pledges to nominate Supreme Court justices ?in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts,? as well as other court conservatives.


Epic backfire.

ADDITIONAL:

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Think Progress - Sen. Ron Johnson thinks freedom means having the freedom to deny health care to cancer patients.

Democurmudgeon - Tea Party Losers Whine, have Temper Tantrum, call for Armed Revolution.

Crooks and Liars - Republicans Biggest Fear: That Health Care Reform Would Succeed

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Training Resources for Adults with Disabilities | New England INDEX

Teacher with Adult LearnersThere are many trainings for people with disabilities both in state and around the country. The following include those recommended through discussions with self advocacy groups around the state.

Trainings in Massachusetts

Self Advocacy Leadership Series / Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council
Contact Sandy Houghton at 617-770-7676

Offers a ten week self-advocacy leadership program that provides education, training and support to people with developmental disabilities.

Assistive Technology Workshops / Easter Seals
Contact Jeff McAuslin at 774-641-6340,
jmcauslin@eastersealsma.org

Easter Seals assistive technology staff share their expertise through informative workshops, course offerings, iPad and product spotlights.

Healthy Sexuality / Relationship Training / DDS Central/West Region
Contact Pat Carney at 413-5083,
patricia.carney@state.ma.us

Offers sexuality training for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities in agencies, school systems and on an individual basis.

Mass Advocates Standing Strong (MASS)
To schedule a training session contact: 617-624-7549, mass.office.info@gmail.com

Offerings include ?How to start a self advocacy group?; ?Awareness and Action?, an abuse awareness and action program; and ?Explore, Prepare, Act?, an employment training.

Training Resources in other states include curriculum, higher education, webinars and conferences.

Self Advocates Becoming Empowered, SABE
P.O. Box 30142
Kansas City, MO 64112
SABEnation@gmail.com

SABE is the self advocacy organization for the United States and their website includes resources for conferences, webinars and publications.

UNH Institute on Disability?
10 West Edge Drive
Suite 101
Durham, NH 03824
phone: 603-862-4320

This comprehensive website offers extensive resources, curriculum, workshops and webinars.

The Pennsylvania Training Partnership for People with Disabilities and their Families
1755 N 13th Street
Student Center
Room 411S
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Contact Carol Csaniz at 1-866-865-6170 or TTY: 1-215-204-1356

The Partnership provides state-wide training, technical assistance, mentoring and leadership development by and for people with disabilities.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Might and Magic Clash of Heroes coming to iOS and Android devices

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, previously released on DS, XBLA and PSN, will soon be available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android, Ubisoft has announced.

Clash of Heroes takes place 40 years before the Heroes V saga. Scattered across five different regions of Ashan, five special heroes must travel their own dangerous paths to grow in strength, unravel a demonic plot, and ultimately save the world from Chaos.

Ubisoft hasn't put a firm date or price on the game.

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With mind-reading speller, free-for-all conversations that are silent and still

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) ? Researchers have come up with a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation. The key to such silent and still communication is the first real-time, brain-scanning speller, according to the report published online on June 28 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

The new technology builds on groundbreaking earlier uses of fMRI brain scans to assess consciousness in people described as being in an unconscious, vegetative state and to enable them to answer yes and no questions. fMRI (or functional magnetic resonance imaging) is typically used for clinical and research purposes to track brain activity by measuring blood flow.

"The work of Adrian Owen and colleagues led me to wonder whether it might even become possible to use fMRI, mental tasks, and appropriate experimental designs to freely encode thoughts, letter-by-letter, and therewith enable back-and-forth communication in the absence of motor behavior," said Bettina Sorger of Maastricht University in The Netherlands.

The new evidence shows that the answer to that thought question is yes. Sorger's team came up with a letter-encoding technique that requires almost no pre-training. Participants in their study voluntarily selected letters on a screen, which guided the letter encoding; for each specific character, participants were asked to perform a particular mental task for a set period of time. That produced 27 distinct brain patterns corresponding to each letter of the alphabet and the equivalent of a space bar, which could be automatically decoded in real-time using newly developed data analysis methods.

In each communication experiment, participants held a mini-conversation consisting of two open questions and answers. Everyone the researchers tested was able to successfully produce answers within a single one-hour session.

The results substantially extend earlier uses of fMRI, which allowed individuals to answer the equivalent of multiple-choice questions having four or fewer possible answers, by enabling free-letter spelling. That could make all the difference for people who are completely paralyzed and unable to benefit from other means of alternative communication, Sorger says.

Ultimately, she says their goal is to transfer the fMRI technology they've developed to a more portable and affordable method for measuring blood flow, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

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High Blood Pressure In Children Why It Is On The Rise And How ...

High Blood Pressure In Children Why It Is On The Rise And How You Can Protect Your Child

Article by Paul J Johnson

Although you may find it surprising that Cold and flu medication can increase blood pressure, you may be even more surprised to learn that high blood pressure is becoming more and more common among children. In fact, it is estimated that nearly 5% of American children suffer from hypertension.

Why do so many children suffer from high blood pressure? There are different reasons such as:

* Birth complications ? babies who have high blood pressure are often born premature or have problems with their heart or kidneys

* Heredity ? There is a history of high blood pressure in the family

* Unhealthy lifestyle ? Many children live a sedentary lifestyle and eat poor diets, causing them to become overweight and experience unnatural stress.

An unhealthy lifestyle is the leading cause of high blood pressure in children. Many children have become obese from eating a diet rich in high fatty processed foods, and consuming high sugar and caffeinated beverages such as soda. Furthermore, children of today are much more content sitting in front of a TV or computer for hours on end.

Due to the fact that they are consuming too much fat and are failing to burn it off, this creates many health problems including high blood pressure, which can lead to heart failure, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes in children.

Like adults, children should have their blood pressure checked on a regular basis, starting at the age of 3. Regular blood pressure checks will be different depending on the health of the child in question. If you discover that your child?s blood pressure is higher than normal, they should have their blood pressure checked again in 6 months.

It is imperative that you have your child?s blood pressure monitored regularly, because if it is not checked and he or she has hypertension, you will be oblivious to the condition until your child begins to exhibit the signs and symptoms including visual problems, dizziness, headaches, fatigue and shortness of breath. Usually by the time these sings become present, the child is suffering from a sever case of high blood pressure.

How can hypertension be prevented in children?

Aside from taking your child for regular blood pressure checkups, you can help them maintain a healthy blood pressure level and prevent hypertension, even if the condition is hereditary, by -

* Providing a healthy diet ? Limit processed and high fat foods, as well as sugar and caffeinated beverages. Make sure your child is receiving plenty of water and the necessary portions of foods that contain the essential nutrients they need to help them grow and stay healthy.

* Encouraging exercise ? Make sure your child exercises every day by bicycling, running, swimming, dancing, engaging in sports, etc.

* Reducing their exposure to secondhand smoke ? If you or anyone in your home smokes, it?s time to quit. Frequently exposing your child to the nicotine in second hand smoke increases their blood pressure.

Essentially, ensuring that your child lives a healthy lifestyle also means adopting a healthy lifestyle yourself. You can?t expect your child to make healthy choices without your guidance. You are their role model.

Finally, remember that even if your child is overweight but doesn?t have high blood pressure, it is still imperative that you do everything you can to help them attain their ideal weight by ensuring better eating habits and exercise. The reason is because children who are overweight have a dramatically higher risk of developing high blood pressure and dangerous health complications such as heart disease, heart attack and stroke when they become overweight adults.

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Paul Johnson has an interest in High Blood Pressure. For further information on High Blood Pressure please visit http://www.natural-blood-pressure-reduction.com/bloodpressure.html or http://www.natural-blood-pressure-reduction.com/blog/2006/12/14/sleep-disorders-linked-to-high-blood-pressure/.












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Exposure to bisphenol A may be a risk factor for a common type of brain tumor called meningioma, reports a study from China. This is the first study to suggest a link between brain cancer and the chemical, which is widely used in consumer products.

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Those with the highest urine BPA levels were about 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with meningioma compared to those with lower concentrations.

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This link was observed even after accounting for other factors associated with meningioma. More research is needed to confirm the findings.

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Meningioma?is a type of brain tumor that develops from the meninges, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

About 90 percent of diagnosed meningiomas are benign. That is, they are non-cancerous, slow-growing tumors. The other 10 percent are malignant. However, benign tumors can cause illness and death as they?grow and press against the brain and spinal cord.

Meningioma affects six in 100,000 people in the United States. It is more common in women than in men (Bondy et al. 1996) and in those older than 40. Radiation, genetic disorders and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (Blitshteyn et al. 2008) are potential risk factors. Tumors may also be related to previous head injury and viral infections, although more research is needed to confirm this.

Meningioma is a hormone-sensitive cancer ? the tumor thrives and grows in the presence of hormones. Because of this, there are concerns that endocrine disruptors ? compounds known to mimic or block hormones in the body ? may play a role in the development of cancers like meningioma.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical that can behave like estrogen. It is used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. BPA is in many consumer products, including the lining of food and beverage cans, plastic food packaging, dental sealants, paper receipts and water pipes. Exposure in people is widespread and occurs mainly through eating or drinking contaminated food and beverages.

Animal and human studies have linked BPA to hormone-sensitive cancers, including breast and prostate cancers. The relationship between BPA exposure and meningioma is unclear.

Researchers examined the relationship between BPA exposure and the diagnosis of meningioma. They followed 247 patients with the brain cancer and 258 patients with no history of cancer who were getting medical exams at the Union Hospital in Wuhan, China.

Meningioma was confirmed with a brain scan or a biopsy ? a tissue sample. BPA concentrations were measured in participants' urine samples.

Researchers used questionnaires and medical records to collect the patients medical history and information on factors potentially related to meningioma ? for example, age, gender, use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), body mass index (BMI) and family history of cancer.

Participants were placed into one of four exposure groups based on the BPA concentrations in their urine: less than 0.53 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), 0.54 - 0.91 ng/mL, 0.92 - 1.69 ng/mL and greater than 1.69 ng/ml. They assessed whether the odds of being diagnosed with meningioma increased with increasing BPA concentrations in urine.

Several factors potentially associated with meningioma ? age, gender, race, BMI, family history of cancer, HRT use ?also were considered in their analysis.

There was a positive association between BPA concentrations in urine and diagnosis of meningioma.

The patients with higher concentrations of BPA in their urine ? the three groups with greater than 0.53 ng/ml ? were more likely to have the brain cancer compared to those with the lower concentrations ? less than 0.53 ng/mL. Specifically, those with higher concentrations were 1.4 to 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed than patients in the group with the lowest urine concentrations.

The results also support what other studies have shown. The personal factors of gender, BMI and use of HRT influence the risk of the disease. However, when considering the link with BPA, the personal factors did not alter the results.

This means the association was consistent regardless of BMI status. There was a positive association between BPA levels in urine and meningioma among normal weight, overweight and obese participants.

Similar results were observed for patients with or without HRT use. Among HRT users, those with urine BPA concentrations above 0.92 ng/mL had 1.4 to 1.5 times the risk of being diagnosed with meningioma compared to those with lower concentrations. Non-HRT users had 1.5 to 1.7 times the risk of a positive diagnosis.

Exposure to BPA may be a risk factor for the hormone-related brain cancer meningioma. The preliminary study found the higher the levels of BPA measured in urine samples, the higher the chance of a positive tumor diagnosis.

This is the first study to show a link between BPA exposure and diagnosis of meningioma.

Previous studies in animals have observed an association between BPA and other hormone-sensitive cancers like breast and prostate cancer. This study adds to that because, according to the authors, it "demonstrated emerging evidence of the role of environmental exposure to BPA on estrogen-sensitive tumors in humans."

The study findings are also consistent with prior studies that report hormone replacement therapy raises the risk of the disease.

Importantly, the association between BPA exposure and meningioma diagnosis was present even when they included other known risk factors for the disease. This is important because it indicates that BPA is a risk factor by itself ? regardless of body mass or HRT use.

Results also confirm findings from previous research regarding the risk factors. Gender, HRT, and BMI were associated with the cancer.

There are several study limitations. For one, researchers measured only one urine sample to establish exposure to BPA but a one-time, current sample is a fairly weak indicator of the long-term exposure presumably required to cause or promote tumors. In part, this is because BPA exposure varies greatly from day to day (Ye et al. 2001). BPA is rapidly excreted from the body (Stahlhut et al. 2009) so one sample may not adequately reflect long-term exposure. This is a particular concern for a disease like meningioma, which can take years to develop. Additionally, a one-time, current sample cannot confirm that BPA exposure preceded and led to the tumors.

Additionally, while one previous study (Stahlhut et al. 2009) suggests that BPA might linger in the body and not be rapidly eliminated, the prevailing view is that BPA is rapidly cleared and excreted (V?lkel et al., 2002). If the latter is true, then using one urine sample to assess long-term exposure is a particular concern for a disease like meningioma, which can take years to develop. (Correction 6/26/12)

Also, researchers did not report or statistically account for the type of urine samples collected. Samples collected in the morning may be more concentrated than spot samples randomly collected throughout the day.

Because researchers also failed to report average BPA concentrations observed in the participants? urine, the results cannot be compared to other populations.

Larger, more in-depth studies that address these study limitations are needed. Even with these caveats, the authors suggest that "until then, however, clinicians and patients should be aware of the risk of those products that contain BPA."

Bisphenol A (BPA). National Institute of Environmental Health.

Blitshteyn, S, JE Crook and KA Jaeckle. 2008. Is there an association between meningioma and hormone replacement therapy? Journal of Clinical Oncology 26(2):279-82.

Bondy, M, and B Lee Ligon. 1996. Epidemiology and etiology of intracranial meningiomas: A review. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 29(3):197-205.

Meningiomas. Bringham and Women's Hospital.

Stahlhut, RW, WV Welshons and WH Swan. 2009. Bisphenol A data in NHANES suggest longer than expected half-life, substantial nonfood exposure or both. Environmental Health Perspectives 117: 784-789.

V?lkel, W, T Colnot, GA Csan?dy, JG Filser and W Dekant. 2002. Metabolism and kinetics of bisphenol a in humans at low doses following oral administration. Chemical Research in Toxicology 15(10):1281-7.

Ye, X, LY Wong, AM Bishop and AM Calafat. 2011. Variability of urinary concentrations of bisphenol A in spot samples, first morning voids, and 24-hour collections. Environmental Health Perspectives 119(7):983-8.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Possible outcomes in pending health care law case

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Saving its biggest case for last, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its verdict Thursday on President Barack Obama's health care law. The outcome is likely to be a factor in the presidential campaign and help define John Roberts' legacy as chief justice. But the court's ruling almost certainly will not be the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. The problems of high medical costs, widespread waste and tens of millions of people without insurance will require Congress and the president to keep looking for answers, whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality.

A look at potential outcomes:

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Q: What if the Supreme Court upholds the law and finds Congress was within its authority to require most people to have health insurance or pay a penalty?

A: That would settle the legal argument, but not the political battle.

The clear winners if the law is upheld and allowed to take full effect would be uninsured people in the United States, estimated at more than 50 million.

Starting in 2014, most could get coverage through a mix of private insurance and Medicaid, a safety-net program. Republican-led states that have resisted creating health insurance markets under the law would have to scramble to comply, but the U.S. would get closer to other economically advanced countries that guarantee medical care for their citizens.

Republicans would keep trying to block the law. They will try to elect likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney, backed by a GOP House and Senate, and repeal the law, although their chances of repeal would seem to be diminished by the court's endorsement.

Obama would feel the glow of vindication for his hard-fought health overhaul, but it might not last long even if he's re-elected.

The nation still faces huge problems with health care costs, requiring major changes to Medicare that neither party has explained squarely to voters. Some backers of Obama's law acknowledge it was only a first installment: Get most people covered, then deal with the harder problem of costs.

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Q: On the other hand, what if the court strikes down the entire law?

A: Many people would applaud, polls suggest.

Taking down the law would kill a costly new federal entitlement before it has a chance to take root and develop a clamoring constituency, but that still would leave the problems of high costs, waste and millions uninsured.

Some Republicans in Congress already are talking about passing anew the more popular pieces of the health law.

But the major GOP alternatives to Obama's law would not cover nearly as many uninsured, and it's unclear how much of a dent they would make in costs. Some liberals say Medicare-for-all, or government-run health insurance, will emerge as the only viable answer if Obama's public-private approach fails.

People with health insurance could lose some ground as well. Employers and insurance companies would have no obligation to keep providing popular new benefits such as preventive care with no copayments and coverage for young adults until age 26 on a parent's plan. Medicare recipients with high prescription drug costs could lose discounts averaging about $600.

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Q: What happens if the court strikes down the individual insurance requirement, but leaves the rest of the Affordable Care Act in place?

A: Individuals would have no obligation to carry insurance, but insurers would remain bound by the law to accept applicants regardless of medical condition and limit what they charge their oldest and sickest customers.

Studies suggest premiums in the individual health insurance market would jump by 10 percent to 30 percent.

Experts debate whether or not that would trigger the collapse of the market for individuals and small businesses, or just make coverage even harder to afford than it is now. In any event, there would be risks to the health care system. Fewer people would sign up for coverage.

The insurance mandate was primarily a means to an end, a way to create a big pool of customers and allow premiums to remain affordable. Other forms of arm-twisting could be found, including limited enrollment periods and penalties for late sign-up, but such approaches probably would require congressional cooperation.

Unless there's a political deal to fix it, the complicated legislation would get more difficult to carry out. Congressional Republicans say they will keep pushing for repeal.

Without the mandate, millions of uninsured low-income people still would get coverage through the law's Medicaid expansion. The problem would be the 10 million to 15 million middle-class people expected to gain private insurance under the law. They would be eligible for federal subsidies, but premiums would get more expensive.

Taxes, Medicare cuts and penalties on employers not offering coverage would stay in place.

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Q: What if the court strikes down the mandate and also invalidates the parts of the law that require insurance companies to cover people regardless of medical problems and that limit what they can charge older people?

A: Many fewer people would get covered, but the health insurance industry would avoid a dire financial hit.

Insurers could continue screening out people with a history of medical problems ? diabetes patients or cancer survivors, for example.

That would prevent a sudden jump in premiums. But it would leave consumers with no assurance that they can get health insurance when they need it, which is a major problem that the law was intended to fix.

Obama administration lawyers say the insurance requirement goes hand in hand with the coverage guarantee and cap on premiums, and they have asked the court to get rid of both if it finds the mandate to be unconstitutional.

One scenario sends shivers through the health care industry: The Supreme Court strikes down the mandate only, and delegates other courts to determine what else stays or goes.

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Q: What happens if the court throws out only the expansion of the Medicaid program?

A: That would limit the law's impact severely because roughly half of the more than 30 million people expected to gain insurance under the law would get it through the expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for low-income people.

But a potentially sizable number of those low-income people still might be eligible for government-subsidized private insurance under other provisions. Private coverage is more expensive to subsidize than Medicaid.

States suing to overturn the federal law argue that the Medicaid expansion comes with so many strings attached it amounts to an unconstitutional power grab by Washington. The administration says the federal government will pay virtually all the cost and says the expansion is no different from ones that states have accepted in the past.

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Q: What happens if the court decides that the constitutional challenge is premature?

A: The wild card, and least conclusive outcome in the case, probably also is the most unlikely, based on what justices said during oral arguments.

No justice seemed inclined to take this path, which involves the court's consideration of a technical issue.

The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., held that the challenge to the insurance requirement has to wait until people start paying the penalty for not purchasing insurance. The appeals court said it was bound by the federal Anti-Injunction Act, which says federal courts may not hear challenges to taxes, or anything that looks like a tax, until after the taxes are paid.

So if the justices have trouble coming together on any of the other options they could simply punt.

The administration says it doesn't want this result. Yet such a decision would allow it to continue putting the law in place, postponing any challenge until more of the benefits are being received. On the other hand, it might give Republicans more ammunition to press for repeal in the meantime.

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Online:

Supreme Court: http://tinyurl.com/3zukoc4

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