The study examined the association of candy consumption (broken into three categories: total candy, chocolate or sugar) on total energy intake (calories), nutrient intake, diet quality, weight status, CVD risk factors and metabolic syndrome in more than 15,000 U.S. adults 19 years of age and older based on 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data.

Results of the study showed that while candy contributed modestly to caloric intake on days it was consumed, there was no association of total candy intake to increased weight/BMI-suggesting that over time, consumers were able to balance longer-term caloric intake.

“The DGAs devote a whole chapter to helping consumers understand the key principles of weight management: know how many calories your body needs, learn the calorie content of foods and beverages, and recognize the correlation between the two,” said Roger A. Clemens, University of Southern California, and 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee member.

“It’s all about balance, moderation, variety in the diet and physical activity – and this study suggests some candy consumers may understand how to navigate the calorie equation, he added.

The study is published in Nutrition Research.

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• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g. ibuprofen, naproxen, and many others)
• Intraarticular glucocorticoid injections (i.e. steroid joint injections)
• Non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: (e.g. methotrexate)
• Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: (e.g. abatacept, anakinra and TNF-α inhibitors such as etanercept, adalimumab, infliximab)
• Systemic glucocorticoids: (e.g. prednisone)

It is estimated that one child in every 1,000 will develop a rheumatic disease. Nearly 300,000 American children suffer from juvenile idiopathic arthritis, which begins before patients reach the age of 16 and may involve chronic inflammation of one or many joints. JIA often persists into adulthood and can cause long-term co-existing conditions and disability. However, recent treatment advances have greatly improved short-and medium-term outcomes for these patients.

Recommendations Based on Sound ResearchThe research team led by Timothy Beukelman, MD, MSCE American College of Rheumatology member and assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed the guidelines using established processes from the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. The method defines appropriate patient care by combining the best available scientific evidence with the collective judgment of experts.

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City health official Jim Chase said: “The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It’s unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that.”

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The judge condemned her action as reprehensible. “To tell a vulnerable, defenseless young boy that he was dying of cancer for your own pecuniary gain was beyond the realm of comprehension,” he said.  

Schnuphase had deceived her 13 year-old son to believe that he had leukemia and kept him feeling sick by giving him opiate-laced food. She had also shaved his eyebrows and head to fool the people who gave her money and toys to help her. In her defense, her attorney, Dominic Greco, claimed that she had suffered a huge loss in her husband’s death and the thought her son had cancer became a reality to her very soon when she found she couldn’t halt what she had started.

Assistant Prosecutor Therese Tobin said that in her experience she had not seen a combination of this kind of scam and child exploitation.  Schnuphase’s family has stated that the sentence is too mild for her. In fact, different family members claim that she has had a history of cheating people and her remorse was simply over the fact that she did not plan better to get away successfully. Her cousin says that she always had a sinister side.

Children’s Protective Services has taken over the custody of the son. 

  

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In tests, three sessions of treatment were enough to reduce panic caused by heights.

Fear of high places, or acrophobia, is one of the most common phobias. It can be treated by exposing people to heights, or by recreating the experience of being high up using virtual reality glasses.

However, the technique is rarely fully successful. The new method combines this “exposure therapy” with a dose of cortisol, the hormone released by the body in times of stress. The international team of scientists tested the effects of a cortisol pill on 40 people suffering from acrophobia.

Volunteers were either given cortisol or a placebo an hour before they egan exposure treatment.

At the end they were asked to gauge how scared they were using a questionnaire. Those taking cortisol were noticeably less fearful.

The effects were also lasting, with the volunteers still feeling less frightened a month after taking the pill.

The scientists believe that cortisol works by making people forget what they are scared of. It is thought to cut blood flow to regions of the brain that retrieve memories, leaving people unable to recall their phobia of heights.

The report has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Maithripala Sirisena, the Health Minister, instructed the Director General of Health Services, Dr.Agith Mendis, to look to other countries for the necessary drugs even if they are more expensive. The Indian companies involved delayed in supplying the drugs and also supplied them in small quantities through several shipments. Also, the drugs failed quality tests. With a failure in following tender procedures too, there has been a severe shortage in some critically-needed drugs.

The Health Minister, after discussing the matter with Finance Ministry Secretary P B Jayasundara will take the decision of buying high quality essential drugs from other companies in other countries for higher prices.

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The Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board (ABMU) realized in 2009 that the patient who had gone through a surgery in 2007 was at risk of developing CJD, a rare and fatal progressive degenerative brain disease. In these two years, the instruments used in the surgery  still contaminated by proteins that cause the disease, not destroyed by sterilization, would have been used in other surgical operations, spreading the risk to other patients.

Public Health Wales (PHW) has identified 38 patients who could now be facing the threat of the disease and has notified them.

Jorg Hoffman, consultant in communicable disease control, says, ”We know all the surgical instruments used on this group of patients were cleaned, disinfected and sterilised normally. However, it is possible that the proteins which cause CJD, known as prions, survived these routine sterilisation procedures so an extremely small risk of transmission remains.”

 He is quick to point out  that the surgeon who carried out the operation was unaware of the risk posed by the patient and so, no one can be blamed for the situation.

Although it is not known whether the 38 people involved have donated blood, carrying the risk further, Dr. Hoffman is again quick in his assurances that the likelihood of someone contracting CJD “from a contact of a contact” was highly unlikely.

“We do understand that it’s very upsetting for the patients to live with this uncertainty for years to come,” he added. “Our advice is they should carry on to live their lives as before.”

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“The measles epidemic is spiralling out of control” said Gael Hankenne, MSF head of mission in Congo.

“Since September 2010 we have vaccinated more than 1.5 million children in response to the crisis. But the disease is spreading like wildfire.”

Hankenne said the epidemic must be treated by the health community as “a national priority.”

Apart from Congolese authorities, MSF criticised a lack of aid from UN humanitarian agencies as measles spread from southern provinces northwards.

Florence Fermon, head of vaccinations at MSF, said she had sought several times to alert the World Health Organisation (WHO) or UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) but without success.

“In terms of operational aid on the ground, the WHO is not shifting, the ministry has given us vaccines and some support but in an altogether insufficient manner,” she said.

Fermon said the response needed to be scaled up.

“If the reaction of all those responsible is delayed, it will be impossible to wipe out the measles outbreak in DR Congo,” she added.

Measles is a highly contagious viral respiratory infection that causes high fever, skin rash, runny nose, watery eyes and cough, and mainly affects children under the age of five.

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