BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's oil ministry says oil exports in January have declined by nearly 4.5 percent compared to the previous month.
Sunday's statement says last month's oil exports averaged 2.0137 million barrels per day, down from an average of 2.107 million barrels per day in January.
The sales grossed $6.595 billion based on an average price of $112.928 per barrel. January's sales were based on an average price of $109.081 per barrel and yielded $7.061 billion.
The oil was sold to 27 international oil companies.
Iraq relies on oil exports for 95 percent of its revenues, and the uncertainty in the market stemming from the conflict between the West and Iran over its controversial nuclear program has helped support global crude prices.
Identifying acute myeloid leukemia gene mutations may indicate risk, best treatment
Saturday, March 24, 2012
An international group of researchers, including those from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have published a paper in the March 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reviewing the results of a study that analyzed mutations in 18 genes of 398 patients who had acute myeloid leukemia (AML). They found that several mutated genes predicted improved outcomes when patients with certain gene mutations were given high-dose induction chemotherapy. Their findings suggest that mutational profiling could potentially be used for both risk stratification and also in helping health care providers make therapeutic decisions for some AML patients.
"Previous studies have found that AML is a highly heterogenic disorder," said study co-author Hugo F. Fernandez, a senior member at Moffitt and associate chief of Moffitt's Blood and Marrow Transplantation Division. "Moreover, recent studies have revealed that a number of genetic mutations in AML patients might have prognostic value. The question of the presence of these gene mutations altering outcomes based on current therapy had not been answered to date."
Their paper cites a clinical trial carried out by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) in which dose-intensified chemotherapy improved outcomes in two age sets of AML patients. Based on these findings, the research team hypothesized that carrying out mutational analysis of all known molecular alterations occurring in more than 5 percent of patients with AML might allow for the identification of distinct, molecularly defined subgroups of patients who might benefit from dose-intensified chemotherapy.
The laboratory research team subsequently performed a mutational analysis on diagnostic samples from 398 patients enrolled in the ECOG clinical trial they cited and used patients' frozen sample cells for extraction and profiling. The researchers validated the results of this latter group of 104 patients.
"We found that intensification of the dose of anthracycline significantly improved outcomes and overall survival in patients with mutations in DNMT3A, NPM1 or MLL translocations," said Fernandez. "This finding suggests that mutational profiling could be used to determine which AML patients will benefit from dose-intensive induction therapy."
"Most importantly," said Fernandez, "this study demonstrates how integrated mutational profiling of samples from a clinical trial cohort can advance understanding of the biologic characteristics of AML."
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Contact: Ellen Acconcia eacconcia@sirweb.org 703-460-5582 Society of Interventional Radiology
Emergency minimally invasive repair effectively treats potentially fatal ruptured aneurysms in the abdomen without major surgery, involves less recovery time and fewer discharges to in-patient care facilities
A burst aneurysm (a local area of bulge) in the abdominal aortathe largest blood vessel in the body is a deadly condition. In fact, about half of these patients don't make it to the hospital in time. Those who do more often than not face open surgery to repair the blood vessel. This study finds that a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for ruptured aneurysms called endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is safer than open surgical repair and is associated with lower mortality rates, say researchers Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a local area of bulge or dilatation in the abdominal aorta. If left untreated, this bulge can increase in size andafter reaching a certain size--it can burst or rupture causing fatal internal bleeding. In the United States, 9 percent of the population over the age of 65 years has an abdominal aortic aneurysm, and there are 15,000 deaths per year from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. A man is four times more likely to suffer an aneurysm of this kind than a woman, and smokers are also four times as likely to develop the condition.
"People with peripheral arterial disease are at risk of an aneurysm, which is a weakening and abnormal bulging of a major artery. Once this area of bulge ruptures, this can lead to fatal internal hemorrhage," explained Prasoon Mohan, M.D., co-author of the study from the department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill. "Prior to the development of minimally invasive endovascular repair, it was customary for individuals to undergo open surgery, but now the majority of these elective aneurysm repairs are being done by endovascular technique. It's only a question now of getting clinicians and institutions to use the same technique in emergency settings for ruptured aneurysms," he added.
"We found that endovascular aortic repair resulted in significantly fewer hospital deaths after treatment compared to open surgery, and the hospital stay associated with endovascular repair was less than that of open surgery," said Mohan.
Once an abdominal aortic aneurysm reaches a particular size, treatment is recommended to prevent its rupture. An abdominal aneurysm can be treated by open surgery or by minimally invasive endovascular technique. Open surgery requires a large incision in the abdomen and replacement of the dilated portion of the aorta with a synthetic blood vessel. In endovascular repair, an interventional radiologist makes a small incision in the groin, which serves as an entry point for a thin wire catheter that is guided through the femoral artery to the dilated portion of the aorta using advanced medical imaging. Once in place, a stent graft that is compressed into the catheter is opened up and the edges of the stent push against the aortic wall and stays in place. Blood flows through the stent graft instead of the abnormally dilated aorta and prevents it from rupturing.
For this retrospective study, researchers mined the National Inpatient Sample (NIS), the largest national all payer database containing information on around 8 million hospital encounters per year. This database is a part of the larger Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. The objective was to find all cases of ruptured AAA from 2001 to 2009 that were treated by either endovascular repair or open surgery and to compare their outcomes. They found that 38,858 individuals, with an average age of 74, had ruptured AAA and received one of these two treatments. Endovascular repair was used to treat 6,790 patients; 32,069 individuals had open surgery.
The researchers reported that 39.7 percent of patients who received open surgery died in the hospital, compared to 28.2 percent of patients who received EVAR. The average length of hospital stay for people who had EVAR was about 11 days, but those who received open surgery stayed almost 14 days. While 35 percent of patients were able to go home without requiring further in-patient rehabilitation after endovascular repair, only 22 percent of those who received open surgery were discharged to their homes. Interestingly, regardless of the type of repair, women had worse outcomes compared to men after the procedure.
"Endovascular aortic repair involves less recovery time and fewer discharges to in-patient care facilities, potentially saving insurers, institutions and individuals money," he added.
"Interventional radiology has made enormous contributions to the progress of modern medicine in the last few decades. No other group of specialists have contributed so many innovations, especially in the field of minimally invasive therapy, for such a broad range of diseases in such a short period of time. Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has been one of those great innovations," said Mohan. "I believe endovascular aortic repair will be the procedure of choice for emergency treatment of ruptured aneurysms in the future. It has proven valuable and it saves lives," he added.
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More information about the Society of Interventional Radiology, interventional radiologists and minimally invasive treatments can be found online at www.SIRweb.org.
Abstract 178: "Comparison of the Outcomes of Endovascular and Open Repairs of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the United States From 2001 to 2009," P.P. Mohan, M. Hamblin, department of diagnostic and interventional radiology, St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Ill. SIR 37th Annual Scientific Meeting, March 24-29, 2012. This abstract can be found at www.JVIR.org.
About the Society of Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-ray, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, such as in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.
Today, interventional oncology is a growing specialty area of interventional radiology. Interventional radiologists can deliver treatments for cancer directly to the tumor without significant side effects or damage to nearby normal tissue. Many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery. Visit www.SIRweb.org.
The Society of Interventional Radiology is holding its 37th Annual Scientific Meeting March 24-29 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif. The theme of the meeting is "IR Evidence," chosen to reflect interventional radiology's gathering, presenting and discussing results of care-changing investigations.
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Emergency minimally invasive repair effectively treats potentially fatal ruptured aneurysms in the abdomen without major surgery, involves less recovery time and fewer discharges to in-patient care facilities
A burst aneurysm (a local area of bulge) in the abdominal aortathe largest blood vessel in the body is a deadly condition. In fact, about half of these patients don't make it to the hospital in time. Those who do more often than not face open surgery to repair the blood vessel. This study finds that a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for ruptured aneurysms called endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is safer than open surgical repair and is associated with lower mortality rates, say researchers Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a local area of bulge or dilatation in the abdominal aorta. If left untreated, this bulge can increase in size andafter reaching a certain size--it can burst or rupture causing fatal internal bleeding. In the United States, 9 percent of the population over the age of 65 years has an abdominal aortic aneurysm, and there are 15,000 deaths per year from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. A man is four times more likely to suffer an aneurysm of this kind than a woman, and smokers are also four times as likely to develop the condition.
"People with peripheral arterial disease are at risk of an aneurysm, which is a weakening and abnormal bulging of a major artery. Once this area of bulge ruptures, this can lead to fatal internal hemorrhage," explained Prasoon Mohan, M.D., co-author of the study from the department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill. "Prior to the development of minimally invasive endovascular repair, it was customary for individuals to undergo open surgery, but now the majority of these elective aneurysm repairs are being done by endovascular technique. It's only a question now of getting clinicians and institutions to use the same technique in emergency settings for ruptured aneurysms," he added.
"We found that endovascular aortic repair resulted in significantly fewer hospital deaths after treatment compared to open surgery, and the hospital stay associated with endovascular repair was less than that of open surgery," said Mohan.
Once an abdominal aortic aneurysm reaches a particular size, treatment is recommended to prevent its rupture. An abdominal aneurysm can be treated by open surgery or by minimally invasive endovascular technique. Open surgery requires a large incision in the abdomen and replacement of the dilated portion of the aorta with a synthetic blood vessel. In endovascular repair, an interventional radiologist makes a small incision in the groin, which serves as an entry point for a thin wire catheter that is guided through the femoral artery to the dilated portion of the aorta using advanced medical imaging. Once in place, a stent graft that is compressed into the catheter is opened up and the edges of the stent push against the aortic wall and stays in place. Blood flows through the stent graft instead of the abnormally dilated aorta and prevents it from rupturing.
For this retrospective study, researchers mined the National Inpatient Sample (NIS), the largest national all payer database containing information on around 8 million hospital encounters per year. This database is a part of the larger Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. The objective was to find all cases of ruptured AAA from 2001 to 2009 that were treated by either endovascular repair or open surgery and to compare their outcomes. They found that 38,858 individuals, with an average age of 74, had ruptured AAA and received one of these two treatments. Endovascular repair was used to treat 6,790 patients; 32,069 individuals had open surgery.
The researchers reported that 39.7 percent of patients who received open surgery died in the hospital, compared to 28.2 percent of patients who received EVAR. The average length of hospital stay for people who had EVAR was about 11 days, but those who received open surgery stayed almost 14 days. While 35 percent of patients were able to go home without requiring further in-patient rehabilitation after endovascular repair, only 22 percent of those who received open surgery were discharged to their homes. Interestingly, regardless of the type of repair, women had worse outcomes compared to men after the procedure.
"Endovascular aortic repair involves less recovery time and fewer discharges to in-patient care facilities, potentially saving insurers, institutions and individuals money," he added.
"Interventional radiology has made enormous contributions to the progress of modern medicine in the last few decades. No other group of specialists have contributed so many innovations, especially in the field of minimally invasive therapy, for such a broad range of diseases in such a short period of time. Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has been one of those great innovations," said Mohan. "I believe endovascular aortic repair will be the procedure of choice for emergency treatment of ruptured aneurysms in the future. It has proven valuable and it saves lives," he added.
###
More information about the Society of Interventional Radiology, interventional radiologists and minimally invasive treatments can be found online at www.SIRweb.org.
Abstract 178: "Comparison of the Outcomes of Endovascular and Open Repairs of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the United States From 2001 to 2009," P.P. Mohan, M. Hamblin, department of diagnostic and interventional radiology, St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Ill. SIR 37th Annual Scientific Meeting, March 24-29, 2012. This abstract can be found at www.JVIR.org.
About the Society of Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-ray, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, such as in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.
Today, interventional oncology is a growing specialty area of interventional radiology. Interventional radiologists can deliver treatments for cancer directly to the tumor without significant side effects or damage to nearby normal tissue. Many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery. Visit www.SIRweb.org.
The Society of Interventional Radiology is holding its 37th Annual Scientific Meeting March 24-29 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif. The theme of the meeting is "IR Evidence," chosen to reflect interventional radiology's gathering, presenting and discussing results of care-changing investigations.
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This is Mariusz Pudzianowski, he's (I think) a five time World Strongest Man, he's a strongman competition competitor and MMA fighter. He's 6'1, and hovers between 260-310 pounds, as you see, he's pretty ripped, looks to be pretty low bodyfat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariusz_Pudzianowski There's the wikipedia page about him, what struck me the most was, his diet.
On one of the World Stongman events shown on TV, as well as in an interview for MTV, Mariusz when asked about diet said: "I eat everything. I do not follow any particular diet. I eat anything I want, anytime I want".[28]
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My energy comes from my diet. Breakfast is 10 eggs and two to three pounds of bacon. Between meals, I eat lots of candy. In the morning, it will be several 3 Musketeers and/or Snickers bars; I need them for energy. Lunch, at 1 or 2 PM, is a double meal of a Polish pork chop, sauerkraut and potatoes. An hour later, I work out, then take lots of supplements: magnesium, creatine, amino acids, all that stuff, and more chocolate. Dinner is whatever meat I can grab?steaks, pork chops, bacon?plus more sauerkraut and potatoes. At 9 or 10 PM, I work out again. Afterward, I have a protein shake and more chocolate. At 3 or 4 AM, I wake up and have more chocolate, then go back to sleep until morning.[29]
Quite shocking, no? He seemingly breaks all the rules, and is, well, the world's strongest man, and he's got a fairly low bodyfat percentage, definitely lower than someone like Hossein Rezazadeh, the super heavyweight Olympic weightlifting record holder. Anyway, yeah, regarding the diet, though, breaks all the rules, and, well.... look at the results. One thing I thought of in regard to this was the Lewis Black routine, the one about the guy who lived to be 115 eating bread fried in fatback and Thunderbird wine (which is an exaggerated story.) Here's the skit I'm talking about, btw...
Anyone else have any thoughts about his diet? Nuts? Awesome? _________________ 'A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.' Saying 25, Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Abba Anthony.
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This is quite an old article. I remember seeing it a few years ago on a bodybuilding site. I doubt that was his real diet, although from watching his MMA fights, he gasses out very easily so who knows.
I also think he was doing steroids back when he was competing in TWSM. They don't test for performance enhancing drugs, only recreational from what I have read. Normally, it is advised to eat an incredibly healthy diet when consuming steroids, to get the best out of them, and to stay away from any possible negative side effects. I could see him saying "Oh yea, I just eat whatever" when the reality is his diet could be so complex that he doesn't even want to talk about it honestly. On the other hand if what he said is true he sure consumes a lot of sugars and massive amounts of fat and protein. Steroid users often eat more than normal, because they are working out so often and burning calories so fast.
He has leaned down quite a bit since the TWSM days, in order to improve his endurance for MMA, so maybe he is eating better now and on less or no steroids. Aside from the fact that he looks good aesthetically, and he can lift a lot, he doesn't look that healthy for an athlete, especially when I watch him fight. Still, to this day the guy gasses out so quick with those big muscles, so whatever he's doing it can't be good for the heart at all.
You can get big and strong if you eat and lift for mass, which is no secret. Many bodybuilders who are pretty big eat terrible diets, and as a result they are unhealthy in the long run. It's hard for me to respect guys like that, but in Marius's case terrible diet and steroids or not, I do respect how he has pushed the limits of a human body like he has... But I don't think it's that healthy whatever he is doing.
Herschel Walker says he only eats one meal a day and look at that guy. Herschel Walker also has multiple personalities though. _________________ "You know, the blues ain't nothing but a worried ole heart disease"-Son House
Zynga has just released a new S-1 in connection with its secondary offering. The company is looking to sell up to 43 million shares (42,969,153 shares to be exact). Zynga's CEO Mark Pincus will sell 15 percent of his shares, which is worth around $227 million based on yesterday's stock price. Pincus' voting power post-sale will go from 36.5 percent to 35.9 percent, according to the filing. Investors IVP, SilverLake, Union Square Ventures, Google, Reid Hoffman are also selling in the offering, as is board member Jeffrey Katzenberg. Owen Van Natta, General Counsel Reggis Davis, COO John Schappert and CFO Dave Wehner are selling shares as well (see chart below).
Support strong for capital punishment, but PM won't open debate 8:33 pm, March 16th, 2012
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper says opening the debate on capital punishment is a non-starter, despite this week's outcry from Canadians horrified by details of the Tori Stafford case.
"I don't think there is a public consensus on the death penalty," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. "I don't think the public wants to reopen the debate and I don't intend to reopen the debate."
Terri-Lynne McClintic pleaded guilty to the murder of eight-year-old Tori, and is testifying against her former boyfriend, who is currently on trial for first-degree murder.
Canadians started an online campaign to have a referendum on the death penalty in response to McClintic's conviction. In a recent Abacus Data survey, 66% of Canadians indicated they want the death penalty to be used in cases like Tori's, just as they called for it when they learned about the details of the deaths of Tammy Homolka, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French -- all victims of serial killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Some also think capital punishment is justified in the recent Shafia family murder case.
"I know there is a certain sentiment about capital punishment, and it comes out in these times, but those may not be the times when we need to make conscious decisions about where to go, because then it is a case of anger and emotion," said Conservative MP David MacKenzie.
MacKenzie is a former police chief of the Ontario city of Woodstock, where Tori lived. He says while he is aghast at what happened, he struggles with capital punishment.
During the 1990s, the death penalty was discussed on the Hill. In response to the Bernardo and Homolka case, several Reform Party members called for it to be reintroduced to the Canadian justice system.
Calgary's Rob Anders, however, is one of the only MPs left calling for the death penalty. He was first elected as a Reform MP in 1997.
"I support capital punishment, certainly in cases like this, and serial murders like Olson, or Bernardo," Anders said. "These people can't be rehabilitated. I also have no doubt that capital punishment serves as a severe deterrent."
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