�A new Access Economics Report commissioned by Diabetes Australia has found that 3.71 million Australians are weighty with a current estimated cost to the carry Nation of $58 billion.
The report titled "Growing economic costs of obesity in 2008" reveals that thither has been a 137% increase since 2005 in the numeral of Australians who have type 2 diabetes as a resolution of being obese.
The total price of corpulency includes $8.3 billion in fiscal costs and $49.9 billion in the note value of befuddled wellbeing, which accounts for years of healthy living lost through disability and /or premature death.
Commenting on the report, National President of Diabetes Australia Dr Gary Deed aforementioned, "These new figures ar tragic and frightening and represent a wake-up call for the nation. They show that previous estimates of the epidemic's size and toll were identical much unostentatious. The corpulency epidemic in Australia is having a direct and catastrophic influence on increasing the incidence of type 2 diabetes. We acknowledge that fleshiness and type 2 diabetes can be prevented and we need to make fundamental changes in the way we live to arrest the escalating crisis. The theme underlines the need to shift our focus on health and wellbeing and make prevention our precedence."
Dr Deed said, "The fight against obesity requires a new approach that considers the economic and social conditions under which we alive and how this is impacting on our health. Long-term policy planning is needed on issues such as urban design, solid food labelling, workplace initiatives, life-style education, and making healthy choices easier for Australians and their families. Governments must play outside of concern for their electric current electoral cycle to address the blowup of corpulency and diabetes."
The Access Economics Report updates figures collated in 2006 and shows that:
-- 17.5% of the Australian population is corpulent representing 16.5% of all males and 18.5% of all females
-- 242,000 Australians have type 2 diabetes as a result of being rotund; a 137% increase from the 102,000 estimated in 2005, due in part to new AIHW estimates of the gist of diabetes attributable to obesity, as well as to increases in the prevalence of obesity over the past three days.
-- 644,843 Australians have cardio vascular disease as a result of being obese, up from 379,000 Australians in 2005 - a 70% increase;
-- 422,274 Australians have osteoarthritis as a result of beingness obese, up from 225,000
Australians in 2005 - an 88% increase
-- 30,127 Australians have colorectal, breast, uterine or kidney cancer as a solution of being obese, up from 20,430 IN 2005 - a 47% increase.
Economic costs of obesity were largest in NSW at $19 zillion followed by Victoria at $14.4 billion and Queensland at $11.6 billion.
The growing economic costs of obesity in 2008 was prepared by Access Economics for Diabetes Australia, and funded through an unrestricted grant from sanofi-aventis. It will be launched at Senator Guy Barnett's 2008 Healthy Lifestyle Forum at 10am on 22 August 2008.
The growing economic costs of obesity in 2008 study can be downloaded from http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au.
Definition of obesity:
Obesity is the accumulation of excessive fat in the body, defined as Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30 for adults. Obesity is coupled to hereditary, perinatal, socioeconomic and other factors, but is primarily due to energy imbalance.
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Saturday 23 August 2008
Systems Medicine LLC (SML) Uses OmniComm Systems, Inc. For Electronic Data Capture (EDC) In A Phase II Oncology Study
� OmniComm Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: OMCM), a leader in integrated EDC solutions for clinical trials, today announced that the caller is providing EDC package and services for a Phase II trial in BRCA 1/2 and HNPCC patients sponsored by the Tucson Arizona based biotechnology, Systems Medicine LLC (SML). SML initially began its relationship with OmniComm through OmniComm's CRO Preferred Program� and then selected OmniComm as its EDC seller of choice for their Phase II study.
"Our initial experience in on the job with OmniComm was very favorable and as a result we chose to use them in our next trial. We were impressed with their responsiveness and professionalism throughout the entire dialogue and written report build process," said Patrick Shannon, Ph.D., Senior Director Project Management for Systems Medicine LLC.
Systems Medicine, LLC (SML) develops oncology products by integrating prognostic cellular pharmacogenomics ("genomics") with world-class clinical and regulatory expertise. This allows SML to develop patient-selective therapies by defining the context of use of vulnerability of cancer and treating only those patients nigh likely to respond to specific drugs or drug combinations. For more information on SML and the products that SML has in developing, please visit http://www.systems-medicine.com.
"Research organizations are looking at at EDC as a strategic imperative to serve maximize their investments in today's highly competitive clinical research environs," said Stephen Johnson, COO of OmniComm. "OmniComm is privileged to be partnering with companies like SML that ar delivering cutting off edge crab treatments to the marketplace. It gives us outstanding satisfaction to know that our TrialMaster EDC solution helps to speed up that serve."
About OmniComm
OmniComm Systems, Inc. provides customer-driven Internet solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research and medical device organizations that conduct life changing clinical trial enquiry. OmniComm's ontogeny base of satisfied customers is a direct result of the company's commitment to cede products and services that ensure ease of exercise, faster study build, simplicity of integration and better performance. OmniComm's client intuitive pricing example allows companies that cooking stove from little to mid-size to large scale institutions to safely and efficiently capitalize on their clinical research investments. OmniComm Systems, Inc. has corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with offices in Bonn, Germany, Tula, Russia, California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina and Texas.
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Statements around OmniComm's future expectations, including without restriction, future revenues and earnings, plans and objectives for the future operations, future agreements, succeeding economic carrying into action, operations and all other statements in this press release former than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. OmniComm intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the Safe Harbors created thereby. Since these statements involve risks and uncertainties, including but non limited to economic private-enterprise, governmental, contractual and technological factors poignant OmniComm's operations, markets and profitability, actual results could differ materially and adversely from the expected results.
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"Our initial experience in on the job with OmniComm was very favorable and as a result we chose to use them in our next trial. We were impressed with their responsiveness and professionalism throughout the entire dialogue and written report build process," said Patrick Shannon, Ph.D., Senior Director Project Management for Systems Medicine LLC.
Systems Medicine, LLC (SML) develops oncology products by integrating prognostic cellular pharmacogenomics ("genomics") with world-class clinical and regulatory expertise. This allows SML to develop patient-selective therapies by defining the context of use of vulnerability of cancer and treating only those patients nigh likely to respond to specific drugs or drug combinations. For more information on SML and the products that SML has in developing, please visit http://www.systems-medicine.com.
"Research organizations are looking at at EDC as a strategic imperative to serve maximize their investments in today's highly competitive clinical research environs," said Stephen Johnson, COO of OmniComm. "OmniComm is privileged to be partnering with companies like SML that ar delivering cutting off edge crab treatments to the marketplace. It gives us outstanding satisfaction to know that our TrialMaster EDC solution helps to speed up that serve."
About OmniComm
OmniComm Systems, Inc. provides customer-driven Internet solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research and medical device organizations that conduct life changing clinical trial enquiry. OmniComm's ontogeny base of satisfied customers is a direct result of the company's commitment to cede products and services that ensure ease of exercise, faster study build, simplicity of integration and better performance. OmniComm's client intuitive pricing example allows companies that cooking stove from little to mid-size to large scale institutions to safely and efficiently capitalize on their clinical research investments. OmniComm Systems, Inc. has corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with offices in Bonn, Germany, Tula, Russia, California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina and Texas.
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Statements around OmniComm's future expectations, including without restriction, future revenues and earnings, plans and objectives for the future operations, future agreements, succeeding economic carrying into action, operations and all other statements in this press release former than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. OmniComm intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the Safe Harbors created thereby. Since these statements involve risks and uncertainties, including but non limited to economic private-enterprise, governmental, contractual and technological factors poignant OmniComm's operations, markets and profitability, actual results could differ materially and adversely from the expected results.
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Wednesday 13 August 2008
Causes For Sexual Dysfunction Change As People Age - Earlier Experiences With Multiple Partners And STDs Take Their Toll
�Sexual dysfunction is not an inevitable part of aging, simply it is strongly related a number of factors, such as mental and physical health, demographics and lifetime experiences, many of which ar interrelated, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago.
The written report, funded by the National Institutes of Health, found that a history of sexually transmitted disease as well has an impact on sexual health later in life. People who had an STD are as well more likely to receive had sexual experiences over their lifetimes that included more risks and multiple sex partners.
"Having had an STD about quadruples a woman's odds of reporting sexual nuisance and triples her lubrication problems," aforesaid Edward Laumann, the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University, and pencil lead author of the paper, "Sexual Dysfunction Among Older Adults: Prevalence and Risk Factors from a Nationally Representative U.S. Probability Sample of Men and Women 57 to 85 Years of Age," published in the flow issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Men are more than five times as likely to report sex as non-pleasurable if they have previously had an STD.
Laumann was linked in writing the paper by University researcher Aniruddha Das, and Linda Waite, the Lucy Flower Professor in Sociology at the University.
The study showed that women english hawthorn be more likely than men to experience sexual dysfunction because of health issues. The most common problem for men is erectile disfunction, a trouble that increases with eld.
"The results point to a need for physicians who are treating old adults experiencing sexual problems to take into account their physical health and also consider their mental health and their satisfaction with their intimate relationship in making any assessment," Laumann aforementioned.
The study is based on interviews with a national sample of 1,550 women and 1,455 workforce, ages 57 to 85, who were part of the 2005-2006 National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, a nationally example survey of community-dwelling senior U.S. adults. The survey collected data on social life, gender, health, and a unsubtle range of biological measures.
The cogitation is a companion to a 1999 study Laumann led that looked at sexual dysfunction among workforce and women, ages 18 to 59. That study found that physical health was a bigger predictor of sexual problems for men than it was for women. For that younger long time group, having an STD did not increase the odds of experiencing sexual dysfunction.
The new report found that among older women, a common agent correlated with sexual disfunction was urinary tract syndrome, which was associated with decreased sake in gender, as were mental health issues such as anxiety.
Among men, mental health issues and relationship problems contributed to a lack of interest in sex and the inability to achieve orgasm, piece being treated for urinary tract syndrome was associated with worry maintaining and achieving an erection.
Daily alcohol consumption seems to ameliorate a woman's sexual wellness, increasing her interest and pleasure in sex. Among men, thither was no reported impact of alcoholic drink consumption.
Demographic characteristics and cultural factors likewise are related to to sexual performance, the study constitute. Hispanic women were twice as likely to report pain during intercourse. Among men, blacks were twice as likely to report a want of interest in sexual urge and more likely to report climaxing too early.
The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project is supported by various components of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Aging, the Office of Research on Women's Health, the Office of AIDS Research and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. The National Opinion Research Center, whose staff was responsible for the data collection, besides supports the project.
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The written report, funded by the National Institutes of Health, found that a history of sexually transmitted disease as well has an impact on sexual health later in life. People who had an STD are as well more likely to receive had sexual experiences over their lifetimes that included more risks and multiple sex partners.
"Having had an STD about quadruples a woman's odds of reporting sexual nuisance and triples her lubrication problems," aforesaid Edward Laumann, the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University, and pencil lead author of the paper, "Sexual Dysfunction Among Older Adults: Prevalence and Risk Factors from a Nationally Representative U.S. Probability Sample of Men and Women 57 to 85 Years of Age," published in the flow issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Men are more than five times as likely to report sex as non-pleasurable if they have previously had an STD.
Laumann was linked in writing the paper by University researcher Aniruddha Das, and Linda Waite, the Lucy Flower Professor in Sociology at the University.
The study showed that women english hawthorn be more likely than men to experience sexual dysfunction because of health issues. The most common problem for men is erectile disfunction, a trouble that increases with eld.
"The results point to a need for physicians who are treating old adults experiencing sexual problems to take into account their physical health and also consider their mental health and their satisfaction with their intimate relationship in making any assessment," Laumann aforementioned.
The study is based on interviews with a national sample of 1,550 women and 1,455 workforce, ages 57 to 85, who were part of the 2005-2006 National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, a nationally example survey of community-dwelling senior U.S. adults. The survey collected data on social life, gender, health, and a unsubtle range of biological measures.
The cogitation is a companion to a 1999 study Laumann led that looked at sexual dysfunction among workforce and women, ages 18 to 59. That study found that physical health was a bigger predictor of sexual problems for men than it was for women. For that younger long time group, having an STD did not increase the odds of experiencing sexual dysfunction.
The new report found that among older women, a common agent correlated with sexual disfunction was urinary tract syndrome, which was associated with decreased sake in gender, as were mental health issues such as anxiety.
Among men, mental health issues and relationship problems contributed to a lack of interest in sex and the inability to achieve orgasm, piece being treated for urinary tract syndrome was associated with worry maintaining and achieving an erection.
Daily alcohol consumption seems to ameliorate a woman's sexual wellness, increasing her interest and pleasure in sex. Among men, thither was no reported impact of alcoholic drink consumption.
Demographic characteristics and cultural factors likewise are related to to sexual performance, the study constitute. Hispanic women were twice as likely to report pain during intercourse. Among men, blacks were twice as likely to report a want of interest in sexual urge and more likely to report climaxing too early.
The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project is supported by various components of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Aging, the Office of Research on Women's Health, the Office of AIDS Research and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. The National Opinion Research Center, whose staff was responsible for the data collection, besides supports the project.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
David DeCoteau redoing horror films
Cult director inks deal for 10 films, iI TV series
NEW YORK -- Several classic horror tales are getting a merry makeover courtesy of Regent Studios, its sister cable channel Here! Networks and cult film director David DeCoteau.
The helmer has inked a two-year deal with Regent to direct 10 films and two television serial publication through his Rapid Heart Pictures shingle.
The projects, some of which will be released theatrically by Regent in the fall, include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and adaptations of works by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New features will besides be made for "The Brotherhood" and "The Invisible Chronicles," deuce ongoing TV/DVD series.
All of the fabled tales in the slating will be refashioned to include brave themes, as was DeCoteau's recently released Poe adaption "House of Usher." The only film confirmed for release this Fall is the "pansexual" film noir "Playing With Fire," starring Susan Anton and Michael Bergin.
DeCoteau has produced and/or directed more than 50 music genre films o'er the past two decades, including "Leeches!" "Creepozoids" and "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," after his start in the mid-'80s gay porno industry.
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NEW YORK -- Several classic horror tales are getting a merry makeover courtesy of Regent Studios, its sister cable channel Here! Networks and cult film director David DeCoteau.
The helmer has inked a two-year deal with Regent to direct 10 films and two television serial publication through his Rapid Heart Pictures shingle.
The projects, some of which will be released theatrically by Regent in the fall, include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and adaptations of works by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New features will besides be made for "The Brotherhood" and "The Invisible Chronicles," deuce ongoing TV/DVD series.
All of the fabled tales in the slating will be refashioned to include brave themes, as was DeCoteau's recently released Poe adaption "House of Usher." The only film confirmed for release this Fall is the "pansexual" film noir "Playing With Fire," starring Susan Anton and Michael Bergin.
DeCoteau has produced and/or directed more than 50 music genre films o'er the past two decades, including "Leeches!" "Creepozoids" and "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," after his start in the mid-'80s gay porno industry.
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Mystical Fire
Artist: Mystical Fire
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Other
Discography:
Hybrid Hostes and Abysmal Empire
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Thursday 19 June 2008
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Girls Aloud - Coyle Lights Up Us Candle Shop Empire
GIRLS ALOUD star NADINE COYLE is set to open a chain of candle shops in the U.S.
The singer, 22, who currently resides in Los Angeles, already has a Mexican restaurant and a string of properties to her name, but now wants to expand the business into a chain of shops Stateside.
She says, "I'm so excited about it. L.A.'s the perfect place for it too as people love to get pampered. I've already got my brother-in-law to create the decor. He's an artist and does amazing canvasses, so it will be a proper family business - and really personal.
"I've got my mum to run it while I'm away working with the band."
But Coyle insists her business acumen won't ever come before her career with the chart-topping girl band: "There's no way I'm quitting the band. The candle shop and my businesses are something else I love to do. I'm having such a laugh with the band."
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