�Latest inquiry into dual-purpose contraceptives and non-hormonal contraception was presented at a major scientific conference in Melbourne.
Laureate Professor John Aitken* from the University of Newcastle and Dr Eva Dimitriadis from Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research addressed the annual scientific conference of the Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB).
Professor Aitken, a world-leader in reproductive biology, will discourse the want to develop novel, safe, effective, dual-purpose contraceptive agents that combine the bar of gestation with trade protection against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). His research has explored the development of a birth control device agent that immobilises - but does not kill - sperm. The agent also possesses microbicidal activity simultaneously reducing the risk of infection with sexually transmitted diseases, such as Chlamydia.
At the meeting Dr Eva Dimitriadis, Senior Research Officer at Prince Henry's Institute (PHI), presented a novel advance for new non-hormonal contraceptives for women.
Her work builds upon the need and community interest group to widen the selection of uncommitted female birth control device methods and in developing approaches that do non rely upon a adult female taking stiff hormones each day.
Dr Eva Dimitriadis and her colleagues in the Uterine Biology Group at PHI have identified several "pregnancy blocking" molecules that keep the uterus in a state that prevents pregnancy. Her findings in mice provide proof of principle of this alternate contraception approaching and farther development is planned.
Since a fertile woman's uterus is only receptive to a pregnancy for a few days each month a further potential advantage is that the approach would only need to be timed during this key period.
Source: Katie Porritt
Research Australia
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Friday, 22 August 2008
Ellen Degeneres - Radin Still Amazed By Degeneresde Rossi Nuptials
The newcomer who was handpicked to serenade ELLEN DeGENERES and PORTIA DE ROSSI at their hymeneals fears he'll never get a better gig.
DeGeneres asked singer/songwriter Joshua Radin to perform at her wedding ceremony on Saturday (16Aug08) after he wowed the TV horde on her show in the first place this twelvemonth (08).
And he still can't believe he got to sing at the nuptials.
He tells People.com, "I cannot imagine topping that experience. I've never played a wedding before, and I probably won't again until it's my own."
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Bryan Ferry - Bryan Ferry To Be Named Icon
Singer Bryan Ferry is to be named an icon by Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) at an awards ceremony in London, it has been announced.
BMI said the icon condition is tending to songwriters who have got bestowed "a unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers".
The old Roxy Music star joins a esteemed list of musicians honoured with the status, including Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, the Bee Gees, Dolly Parton and Paul Simon.
Ferry will be presented the award at London's Dorchester hotel on October seventh during a ceremony that will besides see the Robert S. Musel Award to the writer and publisher of the most performed vocal of the year.
BMI will also give 'Million-Air' certificates to writers and publishers whose songs have achieved over deuce-ace million US radio and television performances - the equivalent of more than 17 age of continuous airplay.
Ferry began his career in the early seventies with Roxy Music ahead moving on to solo work.
As a songwriter, his work includes Roxy Music's international strike Love is the Drug, Slave to Love, Kiss & Tell, Angel Eyes, More Than This, This Is Tomorrow and Don't Stop the Dance.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Haitian Women Living In Miami Less Likely Than Black, White Women To Have Had Pap Test, Research Shows
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Only 44% of Haitians over age 18 world Health Organization live in the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami have had a Pap test, compared with 84% of
Only 44% of Haitians over age 18 world Health Organization live in the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami have had a Pap test, compared with 84% of
Hotline: Poetic Escape drawing an eclectic mix
A local poetry and art societal mixer is about to get shaken up.
The monthly Poetic Escape night, held the last Wednesday of each month at Blue Wave on Congress Street, has added man-about-town DJ Paul Foley to the music mingle for Wednesday night, joining more than 20 poets alongside occupier DJ SolBak and musical jazz guests the Jason Hunter Quartet.
Poetic Escape is unremarkably a nox where folks mingle with poets and get a read on the latest in Boston�s urban art scene. Foley will no doubt get people moving.
�I know that I�ll be dropping the flava on wax,� exclaimed Foley. �I�ll be playing mostly golden-age hip-hop and r & b, with a little soul thrown in the shuffle for salutary measure.�
Promoter Elie St. Brice of local production company HBNN aforementioned the nighttime, now in its fourth month at Blue Wave, often brings in an eclectic, social crowd.
�The music is usually old school, not of necessity hip-hip only old-school individual and r & b,� St. Brice said. �The herd has been getting larger, so there�s been a good response.�
Though he aforesaid the night is geared more toward socializing and hearing poetry than a full-on dance party; the combination of live music, DJs, artistic production and poetry reading allows all types of artists to number together. Most nights, the poets volition side up with the live band and improvise on the spot.
�It�s been a good mixture,� St. Brice added. �It�s good to have people come out and taste something newfangled.�
Poetic Escape, Wednesday at Blue Wave, 343 Congress St., 8 p.m., $5.
Chesney joins Farm Aid
More-than-a-li�l�-bit country star Kenny Chesney has been added to the growing Farm-Aid lineup, which already boasts superstar rockers Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews.
The Tennessee-born creative person is no stranger to the rural cause.
�American family unit farmers are what this country is built on,� said Chesney in a iron statement.
Farm Aid is slated for Sept. 20 at the TweetComcastWoods Center in Mansfield. Tickets are $35 to $95 and ar on sale through Ticketmaster.
Adios, Mr. Boston
Hotline reluctantly bids goodbye to Acton�s possess Lee �Mr. Boston� Marks, who was booted from VH1�s �I Love Money� on Sunday in only the show�s fourth episode. This power be the last televised sayonara for �Mr. Boston,� the fast-talkin�, nose-pickin� preppy-nerd who originally appeared on the outset season of �I Love New York.�
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First NY To LA Living Donor Transplant Chain Results In Three Lifesaving Kidney Transplants
�The lives of leash Los Angeles area kidney transplant patients were transformed by one of the West Coast's first tripartite living presenter kidney transplant chains, made possible through the generosity of a non-directed, altruistic kidney donor from New York City -- proclaimed today at a articulation news conference.
The carefully orchestrated surgeries, which took place July 24 and 30 at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, also involved one of the first transcontinental live-kidney donations.
The kidney from the New York giver was delivered by the New York Organ Donor Network to UCLA's operating room for the July 30 transplant after existence removed by Dr. Joseph Del Pizzo, director of laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery in urology and associate professor of urogenital medicine at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
The "donor chain" is an innovative twist on efforts aimed at increasing the donor puddle by giving people world Health Organization are ineffective to donate to a loved one or friend the chance to still give a kidney through an exchange between incompatible donor recipient role pairs. The domino effect of "chains" creates receiver donor "clusters," with each subsequent cluster beginning with a "remnant" donor wHO starts the new bundle.
NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and its medical partner, The Rogosin Institute, initiated one of the nation's low three-way kidney donor chains in February. The UCLA chain is the number one in Southern California, delivery hope to those with kidney disease in California and the western United States. The project partners with the National Kidney Registry (hTTP://www.kidneyregistry.org), which matches donors and recipients through a specialized figurer program developed by businessman and register founder Garet Hil.
Hil started the register when his youngest girl needed a transplant and tests revealed that her body would have spurned his kidney, as well as kidneys from trey uncles and the anonymous New York donor world Health Organization ultimately started the chemical chain at UCLA.
"If all incompatible donors and recipients were simply listed in one common pool, the problems related to incompatible and poorly matched donors and recipients would be a thing of the past," Hil said.
"NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell introduced the registry to UCLA a few months ago, suggestion UCLA to join the innovative programme," said Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the paired-donation program.
"This is a rare instance of a living donor kidney being shipped across the country to initiate a chain," Veale said. "If we can become comfortable shipping living donor kidneys like we do with deceased donor kidneys, then thousands of patients will have the opportunity to receive a kidney world Health Organization otherwise would have been forced to remain on dialysis."
"The hope is that this simon Marks the first base of many such collaborations among the nation's transplant centers," said Dr. Sandip Kapur, foreman of transplant surgery and associate professor of oR at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
"Donor chains have enormous voltage to extend the donor pool and to provide better matched organs for the many individuals wHO are in desperate want of lifesaving transplants," Kapur said.
"Kidney donor chains could have a significant impact on the country's organ donor deficit," said Dr. David Serur, medical director of The Rogosin Institute Transplant Center and associate professor of clinical medical specialty at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
"Most paired exchanges are swaps, and they end," he said, "whereas the chain involves an extra bestower in the beginning, so you can buoy initiate a self-propagating cascade."
Normally, a kidney is delivered when it comes from a deceased donor; live donors typically have the kidney extracted at the same midpoint where it is deep-rooted in the recipient the same day.
"But in this case, UCLA received a live-donor kidney from New York, which hasn't been done earlier," Veale said.
Here's how the kidney ernst Boris Chain worked at UCLA:
Pamela Heckathorn, of Cypress, Calif., was to receive a kidney from her cousin Dave Busk, wHO lives in the Los Angeles region. Husband and wife Arturo and Maricela Carvajal, of Fillmore, Calif., were to have formed a donor-recipient pair, and Randy Platt, of Covina, Calif., cherished to give a kidney to his mother, Inocenta. But each of these donors sour out to be incompatible with their loved ones.
So on July 24, Busk's kidney was given to Maricela, and Arturo's was given to Inocenta. And on July 30, the altruistic New York donor's kidney was flown from NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell to UCLA and given to Pamela Heckathorn. Randy Platt will be the "nosepiece" to broach another cluster and more than transplants.
"Living bestower exchange represents the superlative of teamwork and professional and personal trust and good faith that ideally epitomizes the organ transpose endeavor," aforementioned Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, prof of medicine in the UCLA Division of Nephrology and medical director of the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program. "The team consists of surgeons, physicians, nurses, coordinators, patients and donors all working together toward the like goal."
Other members of the NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell transfer team included: Dr. David Leeser, assistant attending surgeon and helper professor of surgery in transplantation; Marian Charlton, R.N., living donor transplant coordinator; Judith Hambleton, R.N., director of living donor transplanting; Allyson Pifko, R.N., transfer data coordinator; and Jennifer Keen, L.M.S.W., living donor transplant social worker.
Other members of the UCLA surgical team were: Dr. H. Albin Gritsch, associate prof of urology and surgical director of the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program; Dr. Gerald Lipshutz, assistant prof of surgical operation and urology and director of the UCLA Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Program; Dr. Peter Schulam, associate professor of urology; and Dr. Jennifer Singer, supporter clinical prof of urogenital medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of pediatric urogenital medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Alan H. Wilkinson, conductor with Danovitch of the Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Programs and professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology and Suzanne McGuire, R.N., living-donor transplant coordinator, were also mired with the patients' care.
Nearly 79,000 people ar on the kidney transplant waiting list in the United States, according to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing. California only has some 16,240 people on the list.
"Patients can waitress up to eight geezerhood for a deceased presenter transplant," Veale said. "This donor sir Ernst Boris Chain may enable hundreds of patients to receive a kidney, thanks to one generous altruistic donor, quite than in the past, where but one patient benefited from an altruistic donor. This could significantly decrease the waiting lean for kidney transplantation."
Background on Donors and Recipients
The altruistic donor's decision to give a kidney was the culmination of several profound life experiences.
"I have had the incredibly distressing experience of having a colleague die while waiting for a kidney graft," said the donor, wHO has chosen to remain anonymous. "I have a close friend who donated a kidney to her brother, and I have a fill up friend wHO received a kidney more than a decade ago -- and I see the terrific experiences she's had since.
"When I started thinking around it, I thought, 'I'm ble and healthy at this pointedness in my life to do this -- to help individual have more years of a wagerer life -- why non donate?' The peach of this partnership between excellent doctors, transplant coordinators and staff at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, UCLA and a grouping of seven-spot people -- a partnership connecting both coasts -- is that a concatenation of people have better lives, and the chain goes on."
Pamela Heckathorn, 51, has polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Her father died of complications from PKD at historic period 49, and her brother, who besides has PKD, received a transplant around 10 years ago.
"If we can get this interchange program sledding, it's going to be the respond to dozens of people's situations," she said. "This is loss to help so many people mastered the line."
For his portion, David Busk, a tec with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, is happy that the program is retention Heckathorn off the grueling dialysis regimen.
"I really conceive this program is a good thing," said Busk, who is only seven-spot days jr. than his cousin. "Pam couldn't sit on the transplant wait-list for several years. Something needed to be through with. I'm glad I could do my part to help."
For Maricela Carvajal, 36, who was discovered to have kidney problems when she was pregnant with her daughter 13 years ago, her participation may serve to highlight the importance of organ donation among Hispanics, who ar generally reluctant to be donors.
"To me, it's unfortunate that more Latinos don't donate," she said. "Everyone would benefit if more than donated. Today it's me, tomorrow it's someone else."
Her husband, Arturo, 44, aforementioned this system gives lifespan to others and volition also free his kinsperson to call relatives in Mexico. They can't go now due to Maricela's dialysis schedule.
"Whatever affects her impacts everyone in the family," Arturo said. "It was like a closed door that is now being open again."
Inocenta Platt's kidneys were destroyed by the autoimmune disease lupus. Though her son Randy wanted to donate, the 52-year-old Inocenta's body would have rejected his kidney without big amounts of anti-rejection medications, since the match was not ideal. The decision to be involved was an easy one for mother and son.
"Randy and I talked about it, and we said, 'OK, he's willing to give to person else, and I won't have to take as many medications after the surgery,'" she said.
Randy, 30, feels proud in his status as the bridge conferrer to a new cluster.
"It gives me a sense of role," he said.
He was determined to participate, even losing weight in order to qualify for the surgery.
The UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program performed its first kidney transplant in 1957 and for the past 50 years has continued to be a national loss leader in both clinical research and donnish excellence. UCLA is the second-largest kidney transplant syllabus in the country and the largest in Southern California, playing hundreds of adult and pediatric transplants each year. The program has some of the best outcomes in the country, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national database of organ transplant statistics. UCLA's program has helped pioneer the use of minimally invading laparoscopic surgery to remove kidneys from living donors. For more information, visit http://www2.healthcare.ucla.edu/transplant/kidneyhome.html.
NewYork Presbyterian Hospital's organ transplantation program -- which includes NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and the Rogosin Institute -- has performed more transplants this year than whatever other shopping mall in the nation. It offers comprehensive and individualised care for the ticker, liver, pancreas, kidney and lung. With outcomes ranked among the nation's best, the hospital is consecrate to up quality of life for its patients. NewYork-Presbyterian's consecrate teams of surgeons and physicians ar responsible for many substantial advances made over the past several decades in transplant surgery and the maintenance of healthy variety meat. The hospital has been on the forefront of developing and improving anti-rejection medications (immunosuppressants), minimally invasive surgery for living donors, genetic methods to discover transplant rejection, strategies to increase opportunities for donor matching, islet cell transplanting and the Food and Drug Administration approved left hand ventricle help device (LVAD), which functions as a bridge to transplantation for those wait for a new spirit.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
425 E 61st St., Fl. 7
New York, NY 10021
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The carefully orchestrated surgeries, which took place July 24 and 30 at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, also involved one of the first transcontinental live-kidney donations.
The kidney from the New York giver was delivered by the New York Organ Donor Network to UCLA's operating room for the July 30 transplant after existence removed by Dr. Joseph Del Pizzo, director of laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery in urology and associate professor of urogenital medicine at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
The "donor chain" is an innovative twist on efforts aimed at increasing the donor puddle by giving people world Health Organization are ineffective to donate to a loved one or friend the chance to still give a kidney through an exchange between incompatible donor recipient role pairs. The domino effect of "chains" creates receiver donor "clusters," with each subsequent cluster beginning with a "remnant" donor wHO starts the new bundle.
NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and its medical partner, The Rogosin Institute, initiated one of the nation's low three-way kidney donor chains in February. The UCLA chain is the number one in Southern California, delivery hope to those with kidney disease in California and the western United States. The project partners with the National Kidney Registry (hTTP://www.kidneyregistry.org), which matches donors and recipients through a specialized figurer program developed by businessman and register founder Garet Hil.
Hil started the register when his youngest girl needed a transplant and tests revealed that her body would have spurned his kidney, as well as kidneys from trey uncles and the anonymous New York donor world Health Organization ultimately started the chemical chain at UCLA.
"If all incompatible donors and recipients were simply listed in one common pool, the problems related to incompatible and poorly matched donors and recipients would be a thing of the past," Hil said.
"NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell introduced the registry to UCLA a few months ago, suggestion UCLA to join the innovative programme," said Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the paired-donation program.
"This is a rare instance of a living donor kidney being shipped across the country to initiate a chain," Veale said. "If we can become comfortable shipping living donor kidneys like we do with deceased donor kidneys, then thousands of patients will have the opportunity to receive a kidney world Health Organization otherwise would have been forced to remain on dialysis."
"The hope is that this simon Marks the first base of many such collaborations among the nation's transplant centers," said Dr. Sandip Kapur, foreman of transplant surgery and associate professor of oR at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
"Donor chains have enormous voltage to extend the donor pool and to provide better matched organs for the many individuals wHO are in desperate want of lifesaving transplants," Kapur said.
"Kidney donor chains could have a significant impact on the country's organ donor deficit," said Dr. David Serur, medical director of The Rogosin Institute Transplant Center and associate professor of clinical medical specialty at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
"Most paired exchanges are swaps, and they end," he said, "whereas the chain involves an extra bestower in the beginning, so you can buoy initiate a self-propagating cascade."
Normally, a kidney is delivered when it comes from a deceased donor; live donors typically have the kidney extracted at the same midpoint where it is deep-rooted in the recipient the same day.
"But in this case, UCLA received a live-donor kidney from New York, which hasn't been done earlier," Veale said.
Here's how the kidney ernst Boris Chain worked at UCLA:
Pamela Heckathorn, of Cypress, Calif., was to receive a kidney from her cousin Dave Busk, wHO lives in the Los Angeles region. Husband and wife Arturo and Maricela Carvajal, of Fillmore, Calif., were to have formed a donor-recipient pair, and Randy Platt, of Covina, Calif., cherished to give a kidney to his mother, Inocenta. But each of these donors sour out to be incompatible with their loved ones.
So on July 24, Busk's kidney was given to Maricela, and Arturo's was given to Inocenta. And on July 30, the altruistic New York donor's kidney was flown from NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell to UCLA and given to Pamela Heckathorn. Randy Platt will be the "nosepiece" to broach another cluster and more than transplants.
"Living bestower exchange represents the superlative of teamwork and professional and personal trust and good faith that ideally epitomizes the organ transpose endeavor," aforementioned Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, prof of medicine in the UCLA Division of Nephrology and medical director of the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program. "The team consists of surgeons, physicians, nurses, coordinators, patients and donors all working together toward the like goal."
Other members of the NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell transfer team included: Dr. David Leeser, assistant attending surgeon and helper professor of surgery in transplantation; Marian Charlton, R.N., living donor transplant coordinator; Judith Hambleton, R.N., director of living donor transplanting; Allyson Pifko, R.N., transfer data coordinator; and Jennifer Keen, L.M.S.W., living donor transplant social worker.
Other members of the UCLA surgical team were: Dr. H. Albin Gritsch, associate prof of urology and surgical director of the UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program; Dr. Gerald Lipshutz, assistant prof of surgical operation and urology and director of the UCLA Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Program; Dr. Peter Schulam, associate professor of urology; and Dr. Jennifer Singer, supporter clinical prof of urogenital medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of pediatric urogenital medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Alan H. Wilkinson, conductor with Danovitch of the Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Programs and professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology and Suzanne McGuire, R.N., living-donor transplant coordinator, were also mired with the patients' care.
Nearly 79,000 people ar on the kidney transplant waiting list in the United States, according to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing. California only has some 16,240 people on the list.
"Patients can waitress up to eight geezerhood for a deceased presenter transplant," Veale said. "This donor sir Ernst Boris Chain may enable hundreds of patients to receive a kidney, thanks to one generous altruistic donor, quite than in the past, where but one patient benefited from an altruistic donor. This could significantly decrease the waiting lean for kidney transplantation."
Background on Donors and Recipients
The altruistic donor's decision to give a kidney was the culmination of several profound life experiences.
"I have had the incredibly distressing experience of having a colleague die while waiting for a kidney graft," said the donor, wHO has chosen to remain anonymous. "I have a close friend who donated a kidney to her brother, and I have a fill up friend wHO received a kidney more than a decade ago -- and I see the terrific experiences she's had since.
"When I started thinking around it, I thought, 'I'm ble and healthy at this pointedness in my life to do this -- to help individual have more years of a wagerer life -- why non donate?' The peach of this partnership between excellent doctors, transplant coordinators and staff at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, UCLA and a grouping of seven-spot people -- a partnership connecting both coasts -- is that a concatenation of people have better lives, and the chain goes on."
Pamela Heckathorn, 51, has polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Her father died of complications from PKD at historic period 49, and her brother, who besides has PKD, received a transplant around 10 years ago.
"If we can get this interchange program sledding, it's going to be the respond to dozens of people's situations," she said. "This is loss to help so many people mastered the line."
For his portion, David Busk, a tec with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, is happy that the program is retention Heckathorn off the grueling dialysis regimen.
"I really conceive this program is a good thing," said Busk, who is only seven-spot days jr. than his cousin. "Pam couldn't sit on the transplant wait-list for several years. Something needed to be through with. I'm glad I could do my part to help."
For Maricela Carvajal, 36, who was discovered to have kidney problems when she was pregnant with her daughter 13 years ago, her participation may serve to highlight the importance of organ donation among Hispanics, who ar generally reluctant to be donors.
"To me, it's unfortunate that more Latinos don't donate," she said. "Everyone would benefit if more than donated. Today it's me, tomorrow it's someone else."
Her husband, Arturo, 44, aforementioned this system gives lifespan to others and volition also free his kinsperson to call relatives in Mexico. They can't go now due to Maricela's dialysis schedule.
"Whatever affects her impacts everyone in the family," Arturo said. "It was like a closed door that is now being open again."
Inocenta Platt's kidneys were destroyed by the autoimmune disease lupus. Though her son Randy wanted to donate, the 52-year-old Inocenta's body would have rejected his kidney without big amounts of anti-rejection medications, since the match was not ideal. The decision to be involved was an easy one for mother and son.
"Randy and I talked about it, and we said, 'OK, he's willing to give to person else, and I won't have to take as many medications after the surgery,'" she said.
Randy, 30, feels proud in his status as the bridge conferrer to a new cluster.
"It gives me a sense of role," he said.
He was determined to participate, even losing weight in order to qualify for the surgery.
The UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program performed its first kidney transplant in 1957 and for the past 50 years has continued to be a national loss leader in both clinical research and donnish excellence. UCLA is the second-largest kidney transplant syllabus in the country and the largest in Southern California, playing hundreds of adult and pediatric transplants each year. The program has some of the best outcomes in the country, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national database of organ transplant statistics. UCLA's program has helped pioneer the use of minimally invading laparoscopic surgery to remove kidneys from living donors. For more information, visit http://www2.healthcare.ucla.edu/transplant/kidneyhome.html.
NewYork Presbyterian Hospital's organ transplantation program -- which includes NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and the Rogosin Institute -- has performed more transplants this year than whatever other shopping mall in the nation. It offers comprehensive and individualised care for the ticker, liver, pancreas, kidney and lung. With outcomes ranked among the nation's best, the hospital is consecrate to up quality of life for its patients. NewYork-Presbyterian's consecrate teams of surgeons and physicians ar responsible for many substantial advances made over the past several decades in transplant surgery and the maintenance of healthy variety meat. The hospital has been on the forefront of developing and improving anti-rejection medications (immunosuppressants), minimally invasive surgery for living donors, genetic methods to discover transplant rejection, strategies to increase opportunities for donor matching, islet cell transplanting and the Food and Drug Administration approved left hand ventricle help device (LVAD), which functions as a bridge to transplantation for those wait for a new spirit.
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Keep Of Kalessin
Artist: Keep Of Kalessin
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Armada
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Reclaim
Year: 2003
Tracks: 5
Agnen - A Journey Through The Dark
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Through Times Of War
Year: 1997
Tracks: 7
During their low gear incarnation, Norway's Keep of Kalessin were comprised of vocalizer Ghâsh, guitarist/keyboardist Obsidian C., bassist Warach, and drummer Vyl, and released a pair of quite competent -- merely as well rather distinctive -- Scandinavian opprobrious metal albums in 1997's Through Times of War and 1999's Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark. Neither LP made much of an impingement outside the utmost metal scene itself, and so the bandmembers went their separate slipway, as Obsidian C. (real name Arnt Grønbech) recognized a posture as touring guitarist with Satyricon, spell continuing to write his possess songs on the side. These he finally recorded with the help of Satyricon drummer Frost and opprobrious metal vocalist-for-hire extraordinaire Attila Csihar (Havoc, Aborym, etc.) and released under the Keep of Kalessin nominate as 2003's Repossess EP, featuring trey prolonged tracks of eclectically spiced black metallic element. One year later on, Grønbech and keyboardist Steinar Gundersen were arrested in Canada on assault accusations piece touring with Satyricon, just all charges were presently discharged as groundless and, by 2006, Grønbech was ready to release a one-third full-length Keep of Kalessin CD, Armada, featuring new cohorts Thebon on vocals, Wizziac on bass, and Vyl (aka Vegard Larsen) on drums.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Kill Hannah
Artist: Kill Hannah
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
For Never and Ever
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
American Jet Set
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Kill Hannah was fundamentally vocalist/guitarist Mat Devine's dorm room four-track baby until a move to Chicago in 1995. After recruiting a few supporting players, Devine and Kill Hannah debuted the sound -- a glitzy mix in of gothic tendencies and fashionably crunchy forward-looking rock. Steady local gigs followed, as did a series of self-released EPs and a couple of albums (1997's Here Are the Young Moderns, 1999's American Jet Set). Devine eventually set up a card that stuck as his band's dour, sometimes thankless tour of duty on the Chicago medicine view dragged into the new millenary. With guitarists Dan Wiese and Jonathan Radtke, bassist Greg Corner, and drummer Garrett Hammond along for the ride, Kill Hannah continued to build a bombinate topically piece showcasing for majors often. The hard work at long last paid sour in late 2002, when Devine and the band sign with Atlantic. For Never & Ever appeared in October 2003; in add-on to new corporeal, it featured a few retooled versions of sr. songs. Kill Hannah toured in support of the album through year's end, reverting to the studio apartment later to complete their side by side record, 2006's Until There's Nothing Left of Us.
Con Funk Shun
Artist: Con Funk Shun
Genre(s):
funk
Jazz: Funk
Discography:
Spirit of Love
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Electric Lady
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Fever
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
The Best of Confunkshun
Year:
Tracks: 17
Con Funk Shun was formed by high classmates Michael Cooper and Louis "Tony" McCall, along with Karl Fuller, Paul "Maceo" Harrell, Dennis Johnson, Cedric Martin, and Danny "Sweetened Man" Thomas. All of them had been playing together since their senior high years in Vallejo, CA. Felton Pilate, too from Vallejo, coupled the grouping afterward his band, a local rival, disbanded.
In the early '70s, the group was a computer backup band for the Soul Children with the name Project Soul. And when they weren't on the road with the Soul Children, they were creatively on the job with various Stax stave writers. In the mid-'70s, Project Soul made an exploit to become a star, but they met dead-ends and footling success. However, they base good fortune at Audio Dimensions, a Memphis recording studio owned by manufacturer Ted Sturges. Around this clock time, he radical named itself after the deed of conveyance of one of their instrumentals, "Confidence game Funk Shun." During their three-year stretch at Audio Dimensions, Sturges, besides owning the studio, was likewise Con Funk Shun's manufacturer. Their association resulted in the group's first-class honours degree album, Organized Con Funk Shun.
As their good highly-developed, Pilate and Cooper emerged as the primary lead vocalists. Around the clock time their first-class honours degree album for Crankshaft Productions, Inc. was beingness recorded, the eighth phallus, MC and technician Dennis Johnson, left the radical to go to seminary in California. By 1976, the group signed to Mercury, where they remained for ten age. Their first strike for Mercury was "Ffun," written by Michael Cooper as a tribute to the R&B/funk band Brick. One of the premier party funk bands of its time, they too began recording ballads and instrumental tracks by the early '80s. Aside from being the main musicians on all their albums, Con Funk Shun as well contributed to each of their albums as writers, arrangers, and/or producers.
Burnin' Love, the septet's last album with Mercury, was recorded without their longtime melodious heart, Felton Pilate, wHO left the group in 1986 to get a successful producer. (Pontius Pilate eventually became the musical military group slow MC Hammer.) Melvin Carter, a haunt collaborator of Con Funk Shun, linked the group upon Pilate's departure, and that like class Michael Cooper left for a solo career. Con Funk Shun disbanded after their lowest album with Mercury, but reunited in the '90s, and began acting at festivals and concerts about the world.
Mijatoho
Artist: Mijatoho
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
1912 Shape
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Jerona Fruits (JF003)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Scout Niblett
Artist: Scout Niblett
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
This Fool Can Die Now
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Scout Niblett is Nottingham, England's answer to all the cheeky, intelligent, and reliable distaff songwriters of America in the early 21st one C. Continually compared to Cat Power and boyfriend countrywoman PJ Harvey, Niblett (existent call: Emma Louise) can as well stand on her own, with a firm, stark voice and a preference for songs containing only when drums and vocals. She is as well known for having a warmheartedness for wigs, as she is seen in many of her photos donning a blond wig. Her lyrics, however, showing a more serious side, as they create their have position where love and its free senses rule and take on their possess lives. While a great deal playing solo, Niblett as well utilizes a revolving spew of bandmates from clock time to time.
Pickings her stage name from Harper Lee's illustrious novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Niblett number one emerged as a musician in 2001, having contributed to a tear 7" with Songs: Ohia on the Indiana-based Secretly Canadian Records. Her number one uncut, Sweet Heart Fever soon followed. Another 7" was released in 2002, and 2003 saw the freeing of both the I Conjure Series EP and I Am, the latter of which was recorded by the revered engineer Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago. North American dates in outpouring 2005 with the Kills coincided the vent of Kidnapped by Neptune, Niblett's debut for Beggars Banquet. Continuing her partnership with Albini, she returned in October 2007 with This Fool Can Die Now, which likewise featured foursome duets with Will Oldham (aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy).
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Rocker Joel Madden Named Newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joel Madden, lead vocalist
for the critically acclaimed, platinum-album-selling band, Good Charlotte
has been named UNICEF's newest Goodwill Ambassador, officials with the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF today announced.
The news came Sunday during a cable broadcast on global child survival
titled, The Survival Project: One Child at a Time, which aired on CNN and
was hosted by the network's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta.
Madden, along with fellow ambassador Lucy Liu, participated in the
hour-long special which explored the causes and the actions required to
stop the unnecessary deaths of children under age five. The special also
featured UNICEF experts from "the field" and examined the role celebrity
plays in bringing attention to the issue of child survival.
"UNICEF is the best organization for children worldwide -- they truly
make a difference," said Joel Madden recently. "Twenty-six thousand
children die every day from preventable causes, my band performs before
that many people regularly, so it's a number I can wrap my head around, and
pushes me to want to reduce it to zero."
No stranger to social and humanitarian causes, the 29-year-old
Baltimore native and new father, recently formed the Richie-Madden
Children's Foundation, a charity which provides funding to groups focused
on improving pediatric heath, education and human rights both domestically
and abroad.
Madden first got involved with UNICEF by volunteering for the TAP
Project, a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible tap water
available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF
provide safe drinking water to children around the world.
In May, after Cyclone Nargis devastated whole communities in Myanmar,
Madden and long-time girlfriend, Nicole Richie recorded a national public
service announcement (PSA) appealing for donations to help UNICEF provide
relief to the nearly one million children affected by the storm.
"It takes you about thirty seconds of conversation with Joel to realize
that he is a true advocate for children," said Caryl Stern, president and
CEO, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. "Joel represents a generation of young
people who are increasingly becoming more and more conscious of the world
around them and the role they can play to improve it by doing whatever it
takes to save a child."
Madden's first field visit as an official UNICEF Ambassador is
scheduled for the fall.
About UNICEF
For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been the world's leading
international children's organization, working in over 150 countries to
address the ongoing issues that affect why kids are dying. UNICEF provides
lifesaving nutrition, clean water, education, protection and emergency
response saving more young lives than any other humanitarian organization
in the world. While millions of children die every year of preventable
causes like dehydration, upper respiratory infections and measles, UNICEF,
with the support of partnering organizations and donors alike, has the
global experience, resources and reach to give children the best hope of
survival. For more information about UNICEF, please visit
http://www.unicefusa.org.
See Also
for the critically acclaimed, platinum-album-selling band, Good Charlotte
has been named UNICEF's newest Goodwill Ambassador, officials with the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF today announced.
The news came Sunday during a cable broadcast on global child survival
titled, The Survival Project: One Child at a Time, which aired on CNN and
was hosted by the network's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta.
Madden, along with fellow ambassador Lucy Liu, participated in the
hour-long special which explored the causes and the actions required to
stop the unnecessary deaths of children under age five. The special also
featured UNICEF experts from "the field" and examined the role celebrity
plays in bringing attention to the issue of child survival.
"UNICEF is the best organization for children worldwide -- they truly
make a difference," said Joel Madden recently. "Twenty-six thousand
children die every day from preventable causes, my band performs before
that many people regularly, so it's a number I can wrap my head around, and
pushes me to want to reduce it to zero."
No stranger to social and humanitarian causes, the 29-year-old
Baltimore native and new father, recently formed the Richie-Madden
Children's Foundation, a charity which provides funding to groups focused
on improving pediatric heath, education and human rights both domestically
and abroad.
Madden first got involved with UNICEF by volunteering for the TAP
Project, a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible tap water
available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF
provide safe drinking water to children around the world.
In May, after Cyclone Nargis devastated whole communities in Myanmar,
Madden and long-time girlfriend, Nicole Richie recorded a national public
service announcement (PSA) appealing for donations to help UNICEF provide
relief to the nearly one million children affected by the storm.
"It takes you about thirty seconds of conversation with Joel to realize
that he is a true advocate for children," said Caryl Stern, president and
CEO, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. "Joel represents a generation of young
people who are increasingly becoming more and more conscious of the world
around them and the role they can play to improve it by doing whatever it
takes to save a child."
Madden's first field visit as an official UNICEF Ambassador is
scheduled for the fall.
About UNICEF
For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been the world's leading
international children's organization, working in over 150 countries to
address the ongoing issues that affect why kids are dying. UNICEF provides
lifesaving nutrition, clean water, education, protection and emergency
response saving more young lives than any other humanitarian organization
in the world. While millions of children die every year of preventable
causes like dehydration, upper respiratory infections and measles, UNICEF,
with the support of partnering organizations and donors alike, has the
global experience, resources and reach to give children the best hope of
survival. For more information about UNICEF, please visit
http://www.unicefusa.org.
See Also
50 Cent Touched By African Fans
Rapper 50 CENT has been deeply touched by his trip to Africa with his G-UNIT labelmates - because it has made him aware of how much African fans have had to spend to get to gigs.
The In Da Club hitmaker, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks, among others, have been wowing fans at shows in South Africa and Tanzania, and the surly star has been going out of his way to thanks devotees for their support.
He tells MTV News, "It's a bigger sacrifice for them to actually attend these shows... Something is not happening in their lives for a month because they decided to spend money to buy tickets.
"It's, like, 'OK, we're not driving this month because we're going to see that show.' It's a big deal to them. It means something more to them than it means to attend a concert in the U.S."
The hip-hop star has also taken time to meet Nelson Mandela and learn about the history of anti-Apartheid during his voyage.
The In Da Club hitmaker, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks, among others, have been wowing fans at shows in South Africa and Tanzania, and the surly star has been going out of his way to thanks devotees for their support.
He tells MTV News, "It's a bigger sacrifice for them to actually attend these shows... Something is not happening in their lives for a month because they decided to spend money to buy tickets.
"It's, like, 'OK, we're not driving this month because we're going to see that show.' It's a big deal to them. It means something more to them than it means to attend a concert in the U.S."
The hip-hop star has also taken time to meet Nelson Mandela and learn about the history of anti-Apartheid during his voyage.
Paragon
Artist: Paragon
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Rock
Metal: Power
Discography:
Revenge
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
The Dark Legacy
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Law Of The Blade
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Steelbound
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Final Command
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
France Gall
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