�One of the world's longest and largest trials of internal secretion replacement therapy (HRT) has found that post-menopausal women on HRT gain substantial improvements in quality of life.
The results of the latest study by the WISDOM research team (Women's International Study of foresighted Duration Oestrogen after Menopause) are promulgated today on the British Medical Journal website http://www.bmj.com.
The study involved 2130 postmenopausal women in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and assessed the shock of combined oestrogen and progestogen internal secretion therapy on the women's quality of life. The average geezerhood of women in this study was 13 age after climacteric and most participants did not have menopausal symptoms.
"Our results show that hot flushes, night sweats, sleeplessness and roast pains were less common in women on HRT in this age group. Sexuality was also improved," says Professor Alastair MacLennan, leader of the Australian arm of WISDOM and head of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
"Overall, calibre of life measures improved. Even when women did not feature hot flushes and were well past menopause, there was a small only measurable melioration in quality of liveliness and a noted improvement in sleep, sexuality and joint pains. HRT users also had more titty tenderness and discharge compared to those on a placebo," he says.
Dr Beverley Lawton, Head of WISDOM New Zealand, says: "These new information should be added to the risk/benefit equation for HRT. The quality of life benefits of HRT may be greater in women with more grave symptoms near menopause. New research suggests that HRT taken from near climacteric avoids the cardiovascular risks seen when HRT is initiated many years after menopause."
Professor MacLennan says studies such as those conducted by WISDOM "enable the risks of HRT to be rock-bottom and its benefits maximized when the treatment is individualized to each woman".
"Early start-up side effects backside usually be alleviated by adjusting the treatment," he says. "For most women with substantial menopause symptoms the benefits of HRT outweigh the risks. The latest analyses of the main semipermanent randomized control trial of HRT (The Women's Health Initiative) show that chest cancer is not increased by oestrogen-only HRT and is only increased in women exploitation combined oestrogen and progestogen HRT after seven age of usance. This increased risk is less than 0.1% per year of use.
"If a woman feels that HRT is needed for quality of life, then doctors can buoy find the safest regime for her. She can buoy try exit off HRT every xlv years, and can then make an informed pick about whether she takes and continues HRT."
The WISDOM research is independent of the pharmaceutical industry and has been funded by UK, Australian and New Zealand government research bodies.
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Pete Doherty rescued from lagoon
Pete Doherty had to be rescued from a Scottish loch after his boat began sinking.
The Babyshambles star was trying to get to the VIP section at Scotland�s Live at Loch Lomond euphony festival when the rowing boat he was in sprang a leak and began to sink.
Pete�s director, Adrian Hunter - wHO was besides in the vessel - said: "It was freeze and we had a laugh only it wouldn�t have been funny if someone had died."
A luxury speedboat was available to help ferry the band to the VIP area, but Pete - wHO was late released from jail after a string of do drugs offences�- decided to arrange his possess travel.
Hunter added to Scotland�s Daily Record newspaper: �We were waiting for the official sauceboat when we saw this old guy with a rowing boat and decided to take that or else. It was more fun.
�Halfway to set ashore we lost an oar so the boat was drifting to the other side, but we didn�t really mind.
�Then we realized it had sprung a leak and water was coming in fast. We were about 30 metres from prop � it was actually cold and the water was selfsame deep.
"Pete kept our hopes up by singing ocean shanties."
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Friday 27 June 2008
Kickback
Artist: Kickback
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Discography:
Les Les 150 Passions Meurtrieres
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Mauricio Kagel
Sunday 22 June 2008
Naomi campbell avoids jail for 'air rage'
A court has sentenced Naomi Campbell to 200 hours of community service after the British supermodel pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers during an expletive-filled "air rage" incident in April.
The 38-year-old had faced up to six months in prison and a fine of £5000 ($NZ13,100) for the assaults, but Uxbridge Magistrate's Court in west London imposed a community service sentence, which involves unpaid work, under a 12-month order.
Wearing a dark suit and sunglasses, she was escorted by her minders through a large scrum of reporters and photographers waiting outside the court building.
The court heard how Campbell swore and screamed abuse at the captain of the Los Angeles-bound British Airways flight when she learned one of her bags had gone missing.
In April, the airline was beset by problems with check-in and baggage handling systems at the newly opened £4.3 billion Terminal 5. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of suitcases went missing.
Prosecutors said Campbell ordered the captain to find her missing luggage and became violent when police tried to escort her off the aircraft. The model pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers and to a public order offence.
In addition to the community service, Campbell was ordered to pay compensation of £200 to one of the police officers, £150 to the captain and a further £2300 pounds in fines.
Earlier Campbell's spokesman, Alan Edwards, said outside court that she conceded the incident had been "regrettable".
Shortly after the incident, media reported Campbell had been banned from flying on British Airways as a result of the outburst.
Although the airline declined to confirm the ban, it said: "All incidents of abuse against passengers or staff are taken extremely seriously by BA and will not be tolerated."
Campbell's spokeswoman said at the time that she hoped the problem could be "resolved amicably".
It is not the first time Campbell has been in trouble with the law.
She spent five days mopping floors and cleaning toilets as part of a community service sentence in New York last year after throwing a mobile phone at her housekeeper during an argument over a pair of jeans.
She was also ordered to attend anger management classes.
In a previous incident with a telephone in 1998, Campbell assaulted an assistant, Georgina Galanis.
The model agreed in 2000 to plead guilty to the assault in exchange for expressing remorse, paying Galanis an undisclosed amount of money and attending anger management classes.
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Sunday 15 June 2008
Apples in Stereo plot summer 'Projects'
Indie-rock experimentalists The Apples in Stereo [ tickets ] will play a mix of headlining and festival dates beginning next month as the group supports its latest compilation CD.The Denver-based band will kick off the run July 18 in Louisville, KY, and has 13 appearances lined up over the summer months, including a July 20 slot at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival. Details are below.Early last year, the group released "New Magnetic Wonder," its first new studio album in five years. The video for the song "Energy," which marks actor Elijah Wood's directorial debut, is streaming at The Apples' MySpace page alongside the video for the band's latest single, "Can You Feel It?"The album was produced by the band's frontman, Robert Schneider, with additional production and mixing by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Evan Dando). The set is the group's first for Simian Records--formed by Wood, reportedly a huge fan of the group--and also the band's first album not to be released on the now-defunct spinART label. The band recently released its third compilation album, "Electronic Projects For Musicians," which collects all of the group's non-album cuts from the last 12 years, according to Schneider. The set includes the cut "Dreams," which was originally intended for inclusion on 1997's "Tone Soul Evolution," but was unfinished in the studio sessions for that album. The band re-recorded instrumental parts for the song's release on "Electronic Projects."
Monday 2 June 2008
Man in court over Potter actor's murder
A 21-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Rob Knox, a young actor who had a small part in the latest Harry Potter film.
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