Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Richard III


Richard III dig: MP calls for state funeral

The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, said the city's cathedral would be the obvious choice for a burial

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A Leicester MP has called for bones found under a city car park to be given a state funeral, if they prove to be those of Richard III.
The king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 but his burial site was lost beneath later development.
A battle-scarred skeleton found by archaeologists last month is undergoing DNA tests to confirm it is the monarch.
Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth has said the ceremony should reflect his status and his Catholic faith.
Cleaved-in skull
A team from the University of Leicester, guided by contemporary documents, located the grave within a demolished church.
The skeleton has spinal abnormalities and a cleaved-in skull, thatsuggest it could be Richard III.
Richard IIIWounds on the skeleton match what is known of Richard's violent death at Bosworth
Mr Ashworth said: "I think he should have a state funeral because he is the last English monarch to have died on a battlefield.
"But there are some questions we have to confront.
"He would have been a Catholic, whereas today's monarch is head of the Church of England, so I would anticipate some sort of service which involves both a Catholic priest and Church of England clergy."
Results of DNA tests against descendants of Richard's family are expected in December.
The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, said details for a possible funeral service would need to be carefully worked out but he felt Leicester Cathedral were the logical choice for the burial.
He said: "My view is that if human remains are found in the location of consecrated ground then there is an obvious case for reinterring them in consecrated ground.
"If this proves to be the body of Richard III, the obvious place would be the cathedral grounds.
"There's been a memorial to Richard III in the cathedral for a long time, referring to his burial in the church of Greyfriars and that's turned out to be, as far as we can see, an accurate account.
"It's very important to us in Leicester. It will be very important, no doubt, to the palace and it's important we get it right.
"I hope it will be an uncontroversial set of decisions and I hope the Archbishop of Canterbury will be supportive of the decisions that are made."

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Richard III


Richard III dig: MP calls for state funeral

The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, said the city's cathedral would be the obvious choice for a burial

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A Leicester MP has called for bones found under a city car park to be given a state funeral, if they prove to be those of Richard III.
The king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 but his burial site was lost beneath later development.
A battle-scarred skeleton found by archaeologists last month is undergoing DNA tests to confirm it is the monarch.
Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth has said the ceremony should reflect his status and his Catholic faith.
Cleaved-in skull
A team from the University of Leicester, guided by contemporary documents, located the grave within a demolished church.
The skeleton has spinal abnormalities and a cleaved-in skull, thatsuggest it could be Richard III.
Richard IIIWounds on the skeleton match what is known of Richard's violent death at Bosworth
Mr Ashworth said: "I think he should have a state funeral because he is the last English monarch to have died on a battlefield.
"But there are some questions we have to confront.
"He would have been a Catholic, whereas today's monarch is head of the Church of England, so I would anticipate some sort of service which involves both a Catholic priest and Church of England clergy."
Results of DNA tests against descendants of Richard's family are expected in December.
The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, said details for a possible funeral service would need to be carefully worked out but he felt Leicester Cathedral were the logical choice for the burial.
He said: "My view is that if human remains are found in the location of consecrated ground then there is an obvious case for reinterring them in consecrated ground.
"If this proves to be the body of Richard III, the obvious place would be the cathedral grounds.
"There's been a memorial to Richard III in the cathedral for a long time, referring to his burial in the church of Greyfriars and that's turned out to be, as far as we can see, an accurate account.
"It's very important to us in Leicester. It will be very important, no doubt, to the palace and it's important we get it right.
"I hope it will be an uncontroversial set of decisions and I hope the Archbishop of Canterbury will be supportive of the decisions that are made."

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Monday, 1 October 2012

new deadly Salmonella


HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study

By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News
SalmonellaA new strain of deadly Salmonella may have emerged in the wake of HIV

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An epidemic of a deadly strain of Salmonella has swept across the whole of Africa by "taking advantage" of the spread of HIV, according to an international team of researchers.
Their study, published in Nature Genetics, is the first to identify the separate cases as a single epidemic.
One in four people in Africa infected with the strain died.
It is thought to be the first time a single strain of an infection has spread so widely in the wake of HIV.
Cases of this form of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella have been recognised in Africa for more than a decade. It causes fever, headaches, respiratory problems and sometimes death.

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It quite clearly parallels the emergence of HIV in Africa”
Prof Gordon DouganSanger Institute
The research team analysed the genetic code of 179 batches of Salmonella from different parts of Africa and the rest of the globe. Using techniques similar to a large-scale DNA paternity test, they were able to construct the strain's "family tree" and then how it spread.
It happened in two waves. The first started in south-eastern Africa about 52 years ago and the second wave started 35 years ago from the Congo Basin.
Prof Gordon Dougan, from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge in the UK, told the BBC: "It quite clearly parallels the emergence of HIV in Africa."
HIV attacks the immune system and leaves people more vulnerable to other infections. It is thought the strain of Salmonella Typhimurium took advantage of this weakness and spread. The research team said the bacterium was given the chance to "enter, adapt, circulate and thrive".
There is poor monitoring data for the disease across the whole of the continent, but Prof Dougan said it was affecting "thousands and thousands" of people and that 98% of adult cases were in people with HIV.

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It's actually quite a huge problem and it seems to be getting worse because there are many susceptible people, it's got a grip in Africa”
Prof Brendan WrenLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
He said this spread of Salmonella Typhimurium had been different to that of other infections commonly associated with HIV, as it had been a single epidemic "people were completely unaware" of and there "were not really any other examples" of that happening.
Dr Melita Gordon, a gastro-enterologist at the University of Liverpool, said: "It's the first time this has been described right across a continent in such an obvious way."
She added: "The highest mortality associated with the disease is 80%. What's happened over the years is mortality has fallen down and down and down to between 20% and 25% as doctors inside Africa recognise it."
The genetic analysis also showed the strain was resistant to the first choice antibiotic, chloramphenicol, which means more expensive drugs would be needed to treat the infection.
It is thought that improving HIV treatment across Africa could reduce the prevalence of the Salmonella infection, as it would reduce the number of people with vulnerable immune systems. However, the researchers urged "vigilance" in case the Salmonella strain mutated again to become able to infect people with healthy immune systems.
Commenting on the study, Prof Brendan Wren, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC: "It's actually quite a huge problem and it seems to be getting worse because there are many susceptible people, it's got a grip in Africa.
"HIV, I think it's fair to say, provided a springboard for it to take off."
However, he thought the disease was "near its peak" as HIV was more controlled in other continents giving it little room to spread.

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HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study

By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News
SalmonellaA new strain of deadly Salmonella may have emerged in the wake of HIV

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An epidemic of a deadly strain of Salmonella has swept across the whole of Africa by "taking advantage" of the spread of HIV, according to an international team of researchers.
Their study, published in Nature Genetics, is the first to identify the separate cases as a single epidemic.
One in four people in Africa infected with the strain died.
It is thought to be the first time a single strain of an infection has spread so widely in the wake of HIV.
Cases of this form of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella have been recognised in Africa for more than a decade. It causes fever, headaches, respiratory problems and sometimes death.

“Start Quote

It quite clearly parallels the emergence of HIV in Africa”
Prof Gordon DouganSanger Institute
The research team analysed the genetic code of 179 batches of Salmonella from different parts of Africa and the rest of the globe. Using techniques similar to a large-scale DNA paternity test, they were able to construct the strain's "family tree" and then how it spread.
It happened in two waves. The first started in south-eastern Africa about 52 years ago and the second wave started 35 years ago from the Congo Basin.
Prof Gordon Dougan, from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge in the UK, told the BBC: "It quite clearly parallels the emergence of HIV in Africa."
HIV attacks the immune system and leaves people more vulnerable to other infections. It is thought the strain of Salmonella Typhimurium took advantage of this weakness and spread. The research team said the bacterium was given the chance to "enter, adapt, circulate and thrive".
There is poor monitoring data for the disease across the whole of the continent, but Prof Dougan said it was affecting "thousands and thousands" of people and that 98% of adult cases were in people with HIV.

“Start Quote

It's actually quite a huge problem and it seems to be getting worse because there are many susceptible people, it's got a grip in Africa”
Prof Brendan WrenLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
He said this spread of Salmonella Typhimurium had been different to that of other infections commonly associated with HIV, as it had been a single epidemic "people were completely unaware" of and there "were not really any other examples" of that happening.
Dr Melita Gordon, a gastro-enterologist at the University of Liverpool, said: "It's the first time this has been described right across a continent in such an obvious way."
She added: "The highest mortality associated with the disease is 80%. What's happened over the years is mortality has fallen down and down and down to between 20% and 25% as doctors inside Africa recognise it."
The genetic analysis also showed the strain was resistant to the first choice antibiotic, chloramphenicol, which means more expensive drugs would be needed to treat the infection.
It is thought that improving HIV treatment across Africa could reduce the prevalence of the Salmonella infection, as it would reduce the number of people with vulnerable immune systems. However, the researchers urged "vigilance" in case the Salmonella strain mutated again to become able to infect people with healthy immune systems.
Commenting on the study, Prof Brendan Wren, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC: "It's actually quite a huge problem and it seems to be getting worse because there are many susceptible people, it's got a grip in Africa.
"HIV, I think it's fair to say, provided a springboard for it to take off."
However, he thought the disease was "near its peak" as HIV was more controlled in other continents giving it little room to spread.

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Thursday, 13 September 2012

new US cable channel


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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

faulty breast implants


French women may need  removed


A defective silicone gel breast implant, which was removed from a patient and manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese Cases in which the defective implants have leaked have sparked concern

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French authorities say they will decide this week whether to ask 30,000 women given a potentially defective type of breast implant to have them removed.
Earlier reports said a decision to call for removal had already been made.
There are concerns that the implants supplied by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) carry potential health risks, according to the newspaper, Liberation.
PIP was found last year to have used a non-authorised silicone gel that caused abnormally high implant rupture rates.
The French government has formed a special committee to look at the issue.
"We have to remove all these implants," Dr Laurent Lantieri, a plastic surgeon on the committee, told Liberation. "We're facing a health crisis, linked to a fraud."
Government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse told French television that a plan of action would be unveiled later this week.
"All women who have PIP implants should return to see their surgeons urgently," she added. But a health ministry official said there was no immediate health risk.
Cancer fears
Investigations by the French Society of Plastic Surgeons last year found that PIP implants had a higher rate of rupture than other implants and that the silicone in them was not meant for medical use.
PIP went into administration last year and the use of its implants was banned.
Police have received 2,000 complaints from women who received the implants and have opened a criminal investigation into the firm, the AFP news agency reports.
Since the defects were discovered, 523 implants have been removed, according to the Le Monde newspaper.
Eight cases of cancer had so far been reported in patients with PIP implants, France's Director General for Health, Jean-Yves Grall, told Liberation. A ninth patient in Gers died of cancer last year.
But the head of France's National Cancer Institute, Dominique Maraninchi, said last week the cases were not necessarily linked to faulty implants.
Mr Grall added that all costs related to the removal of the implants would be reimbursed, although it is not clear if this will extend to paying for replacement implants.
PIP implants were among the cheapest available, and were also exported outside France. It is thought that as many as 40,000 British women may have them.
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Thursday, 15 December 2011

Lenders make better offer for Greek ‘haircut’


Lenders make better offer for Greek ‘haircut’

ARTICLE |  | BY DIONYSSIS KEFALAKOS
A new negotiations round was concluded on 13 December in Athens between the Greek government and the representatives of its private creditors, aka banks, over the application of the Private Sector Involvement (PSI) in cutting down the country’s debt, namely a debt ‘haircut’.
Under the general terms of the European Council’s 26 October Agreement, the PSI will contain a 50% reduction of the debt to be included in the agreement and the lenders receive 35% of the value of new bonds guaranteed by the European Financial Stability Facility, presently carrying a triple-A rating, plus 15% in cash, and the interest rate on the new bonds cannot be higher than the average interest rate of Greek bonds at present.
It must be remembered that the exchange is optional for lenders - negotiations cover the terms and the procedure of the swaps and the interest rate of the new bonds. According to the representatives of the two sides, the latest offer by the banks is closer to what the Greek government had originally proposed. The Greek treasury has offered a 4.5% interest rate on the new bonds to banks, while the banks themselves had been asking for around 7.5-8%
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