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Sexual Potency After Prostate Cancer Varies Widely, Study Finds
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The study found great variation in men's odds of having firm erections after treatment. For surgery, the prospects for maintaining top sexual function for a 50-year-old man could range from 21 percent to 70 percent, depending on his PSA level and whether a nerve-sparing technique was used. For standard radiation, the study found, the odds for a man keeping top sexual function ranged from 53 percent to 92 percent depending on PSA level and whether ugg boots hormones were used ugg australia sale along with radiation. The researchers couldn't find an age-related difference for standard radiation. For radiation pellets, a 60-year-old man's chances of keeping top sexual function ranged from 58 percent to 98 percent depending on race and body mass index. African-Americans and trimmer men had better chances. The study has some deficiencies, experts said. It didn't include men who chose ugg boots sale what's called "active surveillance," where a doctor keeps track of a tumor through regular tests and treats it only if the cancer markedly worsens. Many prostate cancer patients with slow-growing tumors can live their whole lives without symptoms or treatment, said Dr. Durado Brooks, prostate cancer director for the cheap ugg boots American Cancer Society. They die of something else before the cancer kills them. "There are a lot of prostate cancers that are not likely to ugg australia sale uk benefit from treatment," Brooks said. Including an active surveillance group would have shown how much sexual function changes because of factors other than treatment, such as age and general health, he said. Most patients treated for early-stage prostate cancer survive, so the common side effects of treatment – incontinence and sexual problems – have become more important for patients making choices. Jerry Hardy, 57, of Detroit had nerve-sparing surgery for prostate cancer in 2000 and lost sexual uggs function. ugg australia uk sale It took three years of trying different pills and injections before he decided on a penile implant, which has worked for him and his wife. He's not sure whether having a better prediction method for future sexual function would have meant anything to him – even with all he's been through. "The most important thing was to cure the cancer. Then we would deal with the side effects later," Hardy said. "If you're not alive, you don't have to worry about sex." Jonathon Alsop, 54, of Boston was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. His surgeon, study co-author Sanda, used early data from the study to tell Alsop there was a 70 percent chance he would keep his good sexual function after nerve-sparing surgery. That number was reassuring, Alsop uggs on sale said, and he was convinced surgery was the best choice for him for medical reasons. Now, nine months after treatment, his sexual function is returning, but isn't yet back to where it was. "I'm feeling good about where I'm headed," Alsop said. "Let's just be frank. It's an important issue. ... My advice to any couple would be to think and act like young lovers, and explore what works for you and what doesn't," Alsop said. The researchers followed the men for ugg australia two years after treatment. In the men who were potent before treatment, 52 percent reported problems with erections two years after treatment. That included 60 percent of the men who had their prostates uggs uk removed, 42 percent who had regular radiation and 37 percent of the men who had radioactive seeds, also called brachytherapy. Brooks of the American Cancer Society cautioned that sexual problems can show up later for men who have either type of radiation therapy. A two-year follow-up may not have been long enough, he said. The study was done from 2003 through 2006, a time when laparoscopic surgery, uggs sale with small incisions and often performed robotically, was less common than it is today. Dr. Michael Barry of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making said it's not clear yet whether the newer surgical technique is better or worse for sexual function. "This paper gives us one ugg uk piece of the puzzle," ugg boots said Barry, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "It doesn't address what are my chances with problems of incontinence? Or what are my chances of dying of prostate cancer for these different treatments? A patient would want to synthesize all that information to figure out what to do." CHICAGO -- A new study addresses one of the most worrying questions faced by men with prostate cancer: What are my chances of losing sexual function after treatment? The answers vary greatly by age, sexual potency before treatment, PSA levels and whether a man has surgery, standard radiation or radioactive seeds, the study found. Using the findings, men can get a rough idea of their personal odds by answering questions that also include weight and race, experts said. Unsurprisingly, older men uggs sale whose sexual function is already low have the worst chances of good sexual function after treatment. "This will make it possible for patients to have a more realistic view of what to expect for themselves, rather than trying to guess where they fit in overall compared to the average guy with prostate cancer," said study co-author Dr. Martin Sanda of Beth Israel ugg australia uk Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The federally funded study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, included only men with early-stage cancers, and it didn't address cure rates for different treatments. In the real world, some patients have limited treatment choices. For instance, only men with early-stage, slow-growing cancers can choose radioactive pellets. That means the findings may be most useful in giving a realistic picture of the sexual side effects of a treatment that's already chosen, rather than helping men pick a treatment. Researchers studied factors affecting potency in men and developed a questionnaire to help measure it. They evaluated its usefulness among 1,027 prostate cancer patients ages 38 to 84 and validated its accuracy in a separate group of more than 1,900 men. It correctly predicted the chances of post-treatment potency in 77 percent of the men who had surgery to 90 percent of the men who had radiation. The study found great variation in men's odds of having firm erections after treatment. 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IMF: U.S. Needs More Revenue, Spending Cuts For Credible Debt Reduction
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Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Kills Hiker: Couple's Screaming, Running Possibly Triggered Attack
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Newly released recordings of 911 calls from hikers who came upon a fatal bear mauling in Yellowstone National Park reveal a harrowing scene in which the hikers heard a bear's roar and a couple screaming before the man went silent burberry sales and the woman continued to yell for help. Authorities released the recordings Tuesday along with a report from investigators that concluded the couple's screaming and running possibly triggered the mauling of 57-year-old Brian Matayoshi. "It sounded like they were trying to scare the bear," ugg boots uk an unidentified male hiker told the 911 dispatcher. "I heard a man's voice making loud, like, um, burberry shoes like animal noises. It sounded like he was trying to scare the bear and I heard a woman screaming. It sounded like she was scared." A cheap tiffany short time later, another caller who identified himself as a trauma surgeon called and said he was just a few hundred yards from the scene. "Did you hear what they were saying? Did they say they were attacked or just yelling for help?" the dispatcher ugg shoes asked. "No. They were just yelling for help. And all I can hear is the lady's voice now. There was a man ugg as well, so I'm worried that the man may be injured," the caller said. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, park officials said the Matayoshis burberry stores responded correctly when they encountered ugg shoes the bear along the burberry scarves park's popular Wapiti Lake Trailhead. But following a two-month investigation, bear researchers and wildlife agents concluded the couple's harried, 173-yard retreat after they encountered the bear may have played a role. "What possibly began as an attempt by the bear to assess the Matayoshis' activities became a sustained pursuit of them as they fled running and yelling on the trail," the investigation team tiffany jewellery report said. The couple was not carrying bear spray – mace-like canisters of pressurized pepper spray that park officials advise hikers to carry for self-defense. The attack took place about tiffany sale 1 1/2 miles from the park's popular Wapiti Lake picnic ground, where the Matayoshis had set out for a hike at about 8:30 a.m. after arriving in the park a day earlier, according to the investigators' report. The couple first spied the mother grizzly with her two cubs just after ugg boot uk 10 a.m., from a vantage point along the trail. It was the Matayoshis fourth visit to the park, but the first in burberry handbag which they had seen any bears. As burberry bag the burberry sunglasses bears were digging and grazing in an open meadow, the couple stopped and took pictures from a distance of several hundred yards, then hiked on after deciding the animals were not near the trail. After another half mile, the uggs outlet couple turned back because they were annoyed by mosquitoes, and soon after saw a large bear off the trail about 100 yards away. They turned and started heading for a patch of nearby trees when Marylyn Matayoshi "saw the bear's head pop up." "She started coming at us and ugg tall Brian said `Run.' We were ugg running down the trail," Marylyn Matayoshi ugg uk told investigators. She heard her husband yell and turned uggs boots to see the sow "hit him," with the cubs trailing behind their mother and growling. After killing the husband, the bear tugged at Marylyn uggs Matayoshi's backpack, then released her and ugg boots fled. "She walked over to her husband tiffany uk and attempted uggs outlet to use a tourniquet on Brian's leg and heard a long breath escape from Brian," the report said. Marylyn Matayoshi tried to call 911 for help – her cellphone log showed she tried 21 times – but never got through. She started back down the trail several times, ugg cheap but kept turning back out of fear that she would encounter the bears again. Eventually she walked to the edge of the meadow where the bear charged from and was found by rangers who had been alerted to the attack by other hikers. Park authorities later burberry outlet decided to let the bear remain free because it had no prior run-ins with humans and was reacting as might be ugg online expected to a surprise encounter. Two other people ugg cheap have been killed by grizzlies in the Northern Rockies this ugg sales year. That includes a second attack in Yellowstone burberry belts earlier this month that killed a ugg store Michigan man, and a Nevada hunter killed Friday by a wounded bear along the Idaho-Montana border. The Yellowstone bear that killed the Michigan man remains at large. The bear in Friday's attack was killed by the hunter's companions.

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Troy Davis' Execution Eve Sees Last-Minute Efforts To Save His Life
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A small delegation of supporters took the long walk from the prison entrance to death row, to a room where Troy burberry outlet locations Davis stood in his white and blue-striped prison uniform burberry outlet sale and a pair of prison-issued loafers on his feet. “We circled around him and we prayed,” burberry sale said Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P. “I looked in his eyes and I saw peace, I saw a man of faith.” Early this morning, before word came down from the state pardon board that Davis would not be granted clemency for the 1989 murder of a police officer, his three sisters and a nephew made the early morning trek to the prison. They walked in with hope that some miracle would burberry on sale stave off the execution, scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. They left saddened, and retreated from the prison grounds. "They are hanging on," DuBose said about 6:30 on burberry bag Tuesday evening. "But clearly they are emotionally shocked." While the Davis family prepared for the end of what has been burberry outlet store online a decades-long fight to prove Davis' innocence, another family rejoiced. "That's what we wanted, and that's what we got," Anneliese MacPhail, the victim's mother, told the Associated Press. "We wanted to get it over with, and for him to get his punishment." "Justice was finally served for my burberry online shop father," said Mark MacPhail Jr., the son of the dead officer, Mark MacPhail. But for Troy Davis' family and his supporters, the looming finality of the board's decision to carry out his execution, sent a very different message. "It is bigger than Troy. It really reflects the attitude of a country and a state that still sees black life as meaningless," said Edward DuBose. "That is the only conclusion that you burberry outlet store could come away with from the decision made by the parole board." DuBose described Davis as “up beat” and more sociable than his visitors. For about 30 minutes DuBose said the group met with Davis, who told his story, the same as he always had, that he was innocent and that he wanted the world to know it. No weapon was ever found at the scene that night back in 1989, in a dark Burger King parking lot where a police officer was gunned down. In the decades since, witness have burberry bags on sale recanted their stories implicating Davis, casting further doubt on his gilt. “He told us whether he’s executed or not to carry the message to the people, to keep the faith and continue to challenge the system for people, not just his case, but those just like him,” DuBose said.“From a man’s point of view, I held back tears as best I could. But not tears of sadness for him, if you can imagine that, tears of sadness for this moment for all of us.” Meanwhile, as the state moves closer to Davis' execution, there are still groups fighting to save his life, albeit against improbable odds. “We’re going burberry outlet to fight to the very end,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, a web-based grassroots organization that rallies behind causes that affect African Americans. “Not doing anything isn’t going to get us any type of movement. The only way we are going to have some sort to success is to burberry online outlet continue to press forward. The burberry sale fact that Troy Davis hasn’t already been executed in the state of Georgia is a testament to the activists that have already spoken out and the lawyers and organizations that haven’t given up.” Robinson said that ColorOfChange "will continue to fight this decision and tell Troy's story as burberry bags outlet long as we can," in spite of the board's decision. "It is unimaginable how they could have come to this decision in the face of all burberry sale the evidence which indicates that burberry bags Troy Davis didn't commit the crime of which he was accused," he said. Robinson said that more than 100,000 ColorOfChange members "clearly and strongly said that killing a man who may burberry clothing be innocent is not justice" and that the group intended to ask the board to reconsider. “The identification procedures used to convict Davis would never pass muster today,” said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is one of the 66 members of the Innocence Network that has burberry outlet store exonerated more than 300 wrongfully convicted individuals. “For the sake of the integrity of the criminal justice system, we sincerely hope that the Board of Pardons and Paroles will stay Troy’s execution at least long enough to hear from an expert on memory and identification who can explain the many burberry bags sale reasons why Davis may have been misidentified.” The N.A.A.C.P said it would consider asking President Barack Obama to intervene, though he has no jurisdiction in the state's decision. The Rev. Al Sharpton is planning to hold a vigil in Jackson on Wednesday. Davis, convicted of the 1989 killing of the off-duty Savannah police officer, has steadfastly maintained his innocence. In the decades since his conviction, his case burberry scarf has gained the support of burberry bag former President Jimmy Carter, former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, one-time FBI Director William Sessions, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Pope burberry purse Benedict XVI. Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court turned down what likely was Davis' last set of appeals. In 2009, Davis, by filing an original writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court, convinced the justices to order a federal court in Georgia to review new evidence that Davis said would establish his innocence. By then, according to reports, burberry outlet several of the witnesses had recanted their earlier testimony that Davis had gunned burberry bags down officer MacPhail in a Burger King parking lot that night 20 years earlier. The new hearing in June of 2010 gave Davis a chance to cheap burberry bags present his new evidence in his defense. He chose not to take the stand or call on witnesses who had given statements on his behalf. The trial judge concluded that Davis' evidence was "largely smoke and mirrors," according burberry sale to a New York Times article from burberry outlet sale earlier this year. The Supreme Court refused to review Moore's ruling. "I wanted to believe that we had abandoned the Old South, but the burberry scarf decision by the parole board not only reflects that we have not abandoned burberry outlet the Old South, but we have not even burberry outlet left the days of Jim Crow," said DuBose, who at 53 said he can recall the last days of cradle-to-grave segregation in Georgia. "I think it's a message that they said during burberry outlet seattle Jim Crow: Stay mens burberry in your place. 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Donnerstag, 15. September 2011

Why a Million People Are Lining Up in Front of You at Whole Foods
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Yemen: Al Qaeda Clashes With Government, 12 Militants Killed
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Euro Officials Warning 'Systemic' Crisis Risks New Credit Crunch
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Dienstag, 13. September 2011

White House Outlines $467 Billion In Savings To Pay For Jobs Act
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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced on Monday a series of tax policy changes that officials say will pay for the costs of the president's job creation plan. The provisions, announced by Office of Management and Budget Chair Jack Lew, would raise a projected $467 billion over the course of 10 years. The American Jobs Act, as outlined by the president last week, will cost an estimated $447 billion. The president is set to offer those pay-fors as part of ugg cheap a larger package of debt and deficit reduction measures that he will present to the congressional committee tasked with ugg shoes finding $1.5 trillion in savings. Whether the committee incorporates those measures is up to them, Lew said. If they choose ugg shoes not to, however, the administration said it would welcome Congress as a whole taking up ugg boots uk the proposal. 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"In terms of timing, these provisions don't take effect until January 2013," he added, emphasizing the long-term nature of the off sets. "It is very consistent in paying for an immediate jobs and growth package." By offering specific ways to pay for the American Jobs Act, the White House is fulfilling an early promise from when he began the latest pivot to job-creation: mainly that anything he proposed wouldn't increase the deficit. But in coming out with a plan of his own (rather than, say, asking the super committee to find the money for the bill), the administration risks handing the GOP a cudgel of its own. The tax provisions that Lew outlined all have been offered, to some degree, in the past, only to be summarily castigated as hikes and shelved by Democrats and this president. WASHINGTON -- The ugg boots Obama administration announced on Monday a series of tax policy changes that officials say will pay for the costs of the president's job creation plan. The provisions, announced by Office of Management and Budget Chair Jack Lew, would raise a projected $467 billion over the course of 10 years. The American Jobs Act, as outlined by the president last week, will cost an estimated $447 billion. The president is set to offer those pay-fors as part of a larger package of debt and deficit reduction measures that he will present to the congressional committee tasked with finding $1.5 uggs boots trillion in savings. Whether ugg boot uk the committee incorporates those measures is up to them, Lew said. If they choose not to, however, the administration said it would welcome Congress as a whole taking up the proposal. The provisions the White House is offering as ugg an offset are largely rehashes of tax policy changes that the president has pushed before. 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Tropical Storm Lee: Northeast Turns To Flood Recovery
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Tropical Storm Lee: Northeast Turns To Flood Recovery HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Recovery efforts in the aftermath of flooding from Tropical Storm Lee focused Monday on reopening roads and bridges, cleaning the grimy layer of mud left by receding waters and tallying up the millions of dollars in damage wrought by days of drenching rains last week. For people in riverside tiffany uk towns prone to flooding, it felt familiar. "The long haul now will be the money thing, the estimating, the recording, getting estimates on different things," said Mayor Norm Ball of Tunkhannock, a northeastern Pennsylvania town where parts of the business district were inundated by high waters from the Susquehanna River and tributaries. "It's quite a process – I've dealt with it before." In Pennsylvania, about 1,100 customers were still without power, more than 200 roads remained closed and 18 state and local bridges had damage, with another 64 on a precautionary list, emergency officials said Monday. The state was establishing a joint task force to coordinate recovery efforts, with disaster response centers to be located in affected areas. The tentative statewide death toll dropped from 13 to 11, a change that the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency could not immediately explain. The total figure may be revised again as death certificates are issued. Authorities pulled the body of a Manheim man from Chiques Creek in Lancaster County on Sunday evening, the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era burberry clothing reported. The man was walking through flood waters Thursday when the current knocked him over, and he was swept away after holding on to a utility pole for about 20 minutes, the newspaper said. Tests were being conducted at a home after a 62-year-old West Pittston woman died from inhaling some sort of gas, the Luzerne County coroner told The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre. Initial tests showed there was very little oxygen in the house, which had 3 feet of groundwater in the basement. More than a foot tiffany sale of rain fell in many communities over the five-day period that ended Friday, said meteorologist Jason Krekeler with the National Weather Service in State College. Harrisburg International Airport, which burberry sale averages about 4 inches of rain cheap tiffany in September, was deluged by 13.4 inches over that five-day period. "One thing to keep in mind is, a lot burberry outlet of these areas were hit fairly hard by (Hurricane) Irene as well, with 3 to 4, 5 inches in some locations," he said. cAcross the region, preliminary damage assessments were being conducted on the ground and by air because parts tiffany jewellery of the state remain inaccessible, said Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency spokesman Cory Angell. "You don't just open a road when the water goes away," Angell said. 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Sam Poueu, 'Biggest Loser' Contestant, Falls From San Francisco Building
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Freitag, 09. September 2011

AFL-CIO Goes To Bat For Undocumented Workers
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Talking Points Call For Less Regulation, No More Stimulusb
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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are circulating talking points in advance of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress, urging their members to play up the GOP's own economic plan and oppose a second stimulus and "job-crushing regulation." The GOP does not plan to offer an official rebuttal to the president's speech on Thursday night, but the four-page burberry outlet document being passed around by the House Republican Conference gives an indication of what Republicans will be saying to their constituents and on cable TV in the following days. Primarily, they will be opposing more stimulus spending, more burberry sale regulations and a payroll tax burberry bags extension. But the House Republican Conference, led by Rep. Jeb burberry bag Hensarling (R-Texas), notes there may be room for cooperation on permitting for construction projects, infrastructure spending, free trade agreements and a jobs program for the unemployed being eyed by the White House. "It's our hope that the president will take this opportunity to move past his failed short-term stimulus measures and offer policies to remove the barriers of uncertainty and to help job creators do their job by getting the government tiffany sale out of the way," states the document, passed along to The Huffington Post by a Democratic aide.One of the central points of Obama's plan will be extending a payroll tax cheap tiffany cut for workers. The Obama administration wants the tiffany uk tax to stay at 4.2 percent, instead of going back up to 6.2 percent. burberry outlet The tax applies to annual earnings burberry clothing up to $106,800. While Republicans typically embrace tax cuts, they're not very enthusiastic about burberry purse this one."Now the White House is calling for an extension when there have been burberry sale no signs that the temporary measure worked in the first place," the GOP talking points state. "While it's always a net positive to let taxpayers keep more of what they earn, not all relief is created equal for the purpose of helping to get the economy moving again." Obama is expected to push for more federal spending burberry outlet to help jump-start the economy, although he may avoid the burberry handbags word "stimulus," which has become a burberry outlets bogeyman for Republicans. The GOP document makes clear burberry sale that Republicans will continue to oppose anything resembling the last stimulus."At the time, House Republicans argued that a large, deficit-financed government spending bill was not the best way to improve our economic situation or create sustainable growth in employment. With these serious concerns in mind, House tiffany jewellery Republicans voted unanimously against the stimulus bill. Given the current unemployment and deficit numbers, we believe our concerns have been validated," the document says. Members are also encouraged to play up the "House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators," which they unveiled in May. The plan contained few new ideas, mostly rehashing points from past conservative wish lists: lower tax rates, pass burberry scarf pending free trade deals, get rid of regulations and increase domestic energy production.

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