Child diabetes levels almost four times higher in China than in US

ScienceDaily (July 5, 2012) ? A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found Chinese teenagers have a rate of diabetes nearly four times greater than their counterparts in the United States. The rise in the incidence of diabetes parallels increases in cardiovascular risk, researchers say, and is the result of a Chinese population that is growing increasingly overweight.

The study led by Barry Popkin, Ph.D., W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Chinese researchers, used data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), the longest ongoing study of its kind in China. Between 1989 and 2011, the study followed more than 29,000 people in 300 communities throughout China, with surveys conducted in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011. The CHNS project was a joint undertaking by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Chinese Center for Disease Control (CCDC) National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety.

The findings appear online in Obesity Reviews. Early View Section and will be published in the September issue (Obesity Reviews Volume 13, Issue 9, September 2012).?

China has experienced unprecedented economic growth in the past two decades, but the study finds that at the same time, China has seen equally dramatic changes in the weight, diets and physical activity levels of its people. UNC-CCDC researchers followed a randomly selected sample representing 56 percent of the Chinese population in 2009 and found large increases in overweight and cardiometabolic risk factors.

"What is unprecedented is the changes in diet, weight and cardiovascular risk for children age 7 and older," said Popkin. "These estimates highlight the huge burden that China's health care system is expected to face if nothing changes."

The UNC-CCDC team observed rates of diabetes of 1.9 percent and pre-diabetes levels of 14.9 percent in Chinese children age 7-17. Researchers noted that high levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were found in the children's blood. HbA1c is a measure of the average plasma-glucose concentration over time.

"The findings suggest a very high burden of chronic disease risk starting at a young age, with 1.7 million Chinese children ages 7-18 having diabetes and another 27.7 million considered prediabetic," Popkin said. "In addition, more than one-third of children under age 18 had high levels of at least one cardiometabolic risk factor."

Comparing the Chinese data with data from the United States based on National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) results, the authors found that diabetes and inflammation rates were higher in the Chinese pediatric population than in the U.S. pediatric population or in other Asian countries. Researchers found 1.9 percent of Chinese children age 12-18 had diabetes, compared to 0.5 percent of children in the U.S. The study also found great disparity with respect to inflammation, a key cardiovascular risk factor; 12.1 percent of Chinese adolescents showed a high inflammation risk, compared to 8.5 percent of adolescents in the U.S.

"The number of individuals with high levels of at least one cardiovascular risk factor increased to 85 percent in individuals age 40 and older," said Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D., professor of nutrition in UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health. "Of even greater concern is the fact that we see these high levels of risk in individuals living across the entire country -- in rural and urban, as well as high and low-income areas. So the impending health care costs and implications are immense."

These results reinforce earlier research by the authors that found higher levels of obesity emerging in the past decade among the poor and those living in rural areas of China.

The new study is titled "The expanding burden of cardiometabolic risk in China: the China Health and Nutrition Survey."

Research assistant professor of nutrition Shufa Du, Ph.D. and professor of nutrition Linda Adair, Ph.D., both of UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health also co-authored the study.

Co-authors from China include Shegkai Yan, Guangzhou Improve Medical Instruments Co., Ltd., Guangzhou; Jiang Li, M.D., Department of Laboratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing; and Bing Zhang, Ph.D., Public Health Nutrition Department, National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing.

The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health with additional funding from the CCDC.

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Central America Draws Support from Mexico and Colombia in Fight against Drug Trafficking

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03/07/2012

The Colombian Air Force uses the A-37 Dragonfly Cessna, among others. It has both day and night capabilities, can reach an altitude of 40,000 feet and speeds above 600 kilometers per hour. (Photo: USAF/SOUTHCOM)

The Colombian Air Force uses the A-37 Dragonfly Cessna, among others. It has both day and night capabilities, can reach an altitude of 40,000 feet and speeds above 600 kilometers per hour. (Photo: USAF/SOUTHCOM)

Colombia and Mexico have come to play the role of a kind of older sibling in matters related to the fight against drug trafficking in Central America, whether through training or through joint operations with their Armed Forces.

The excellent results achieved in recent years by the aerial campaigns of the Colombian Air Force (FAC) against drug trafficking, according to Colonel Luis Alfonso Garc?a Lozano, head of the 3rd Combat Air Command (Cacom), headquartered in the municipality of Malambo, Colombia, are due to joint agreements and operations with Central America.

Garc?a told the Colombian newspaper El Heraldo that, thanks to this, ?the Colombian Air Force owns the night.?

The high-ranking officer specified that the excellent results achieved in fighting drug traffickers are due to the international agreements Colombia has signed with countries such as the United States, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, and more recently, the Dominican Republic, which have made it possible to put an end to illegal flights that violate international airspace.

?Joint efforts with allied countries resulted in a decrease of illegal flights, which entered or left the country at an average rate of 250 a year, and today (for the first quarter of 2012) only add up to a maximum of five, the entirety of which are neutralized by our aircraft,? Col. Garc?a said.

Cacom 3 operates from La Guajira to Urab?, an area that includes the entire Colombian Caribbean, an airspace that, in addition, is fully monitored by the South American pilots. The FAC in the Caribbean normally operates with two platforms, which are responsible for detecting and identifying illegal air traffic, and an average of 16 interceptor aircraft.

In Colombia, drug trafficking has been almost completely neutralized as an issue in its airspace, thanks to international treaties. The problem is located abroad, where drug traffickers fly, always at night, due to the lack of planes capable of detecting and neutralizing them.

This is a problem that Honduras has already detected, for example, and that for the moment, it has only been able to alleviate by destroying clandestine airstrips on its territory, which also borders the Caribbean.

?A few years ago, the Dominican Republic was dealing with an average of almost 200 illegal flights a year. At present, there are none, as a result of Operation Caribbean, which is now in its third stage: three years in which the seizure of almost 13,000 tons of cocaine hydrochloride has been achieved, in addition to that of 60 aircraft that were put out of use in that Caribbean country,? Garc?a said.

Normally, drug traffickers use single-engine planes, like the Cessna 206 and 210, and planes with light engines, like the B-50, Baron, and CNK, among others, while the aircraft used by the FAC are the A-29 Super Tucano and the A-37 Dragonfly, which are capable of flying both at night and day and can reach altitudes of up to 40,000 feet and speeds of over 600 kilometers an hour, as well as carrying detection equipment such as radar with a range of up to 240 miles, with a full set of the latest technology.

Col. Garc?a also said that the first air interdiction agreement that Colombia signed was with the United States, over a decade ago. At that time, Colombian aviators received training, instruction, general preparation, and equipment, with which the Colombian government has conducted joint operations. Today, he added, the FAC trains and develops pilot skills for friendly countries, as in the case of the Dominican Republic, for which six A-29 pilots and four radar operators have been trained with complete military instruction.

In the same way, Colombia also conducts periodic exercises focused on the interception of illegal flights with Honduras, known as Honcol, which provide sufficient muscle to pursue and seize small drug planes and their cargo in transit through the Central American region, from the southern part of the hemisphere to the north, headed for their American customers.

For Costa Rican Security Minister Mario Zamora, international cooperation is vital on this issue of fighting organized crime and drug trafficking.

?We understand that it?s a multinational fight, in which the contributions of the United States, Colombia, and Mexico have been very important. We?ve achieved a historic level of coordination among land, sea, and air forces, and that is what is achieving things,? he stated.

Specifically, members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard, part of a national security force, since that Central American country has not had armed forces for decades, receive training in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States.

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Graciela Tiscareno-Sato: To SCOTUS and President Obama- My Uninsurable Child Thanks You

No issue has ever drawn me into a two-hour debate on Facebook; last week's Supreme Court announcement upholding the Affordable Care Act did it.

Voices of parents raising children born prematurely, or with disabilities, have not been the loudest in this debate. I want us to be heard now so that those of you clinging to old, Tea Party/Limbaugh-inspired rhetoric about how you have lost something (you know who you are), that it's violating your individual freedoms, etc, can begin to realize that this decision is not about you. This decision is about my child, about a child you know, about a child or grandchild you might someday have, and about millions of others who are rejoicing with the recent SCOTUS decision confirming the constitutionality of the ACA.

First, a quick thanks to recognize the wisdom and courage of Chief Justice John Roberts on this, and the four others that voted with him. We parents of children with special needs are rejoicing today and are significantly less fearful of the future.

Why? My first child was born into the world weighing one pound two ounces, at 25 weeks gestation -100 days too soon. We thank you because:

- You upheld the individual mandate under congressional taxing authority - a smart move to ensure Americans of its constitutionality and make it clear that choice remains, whether they love the choices or not.

- Because you upheld two provisions that, had you struck them down, would have forced us to relive nightmares already lived -- like when my daughter was dropped from my employer-provided coverage after reaching the "lifetime maximum" on day 82 of her life, two weeks before her due date, while still hospitalized in the NICU (a journey that would last 137 hellish days.) Because you upheld this key provision of the ACA, other mothers and fathers won't have to go to the extremes I did to keep her covered, extremes that included threatening to kick my own employer and our insurance company in the PR nuts to keep her covered, stressful stuff like that.

-Because you upheld the provision that protects my daughter from corporate entities that called her "uninsurable" to my face. She was uninsurable because she had five surgeries after birth just to save her life, and a tiny bit of her sight. She was deemed uninsurable because her medical history includes "lung disease," (scarring) which developed when a ventilator was used to save her life in the very beginning when she barely had functioning lungs. Those faceless insurance companies didn't want to take that kind of risk on insuring her, even though she's a super healthy kid now. She just doesn't see beyond light and shadows. But she's damn good on snow skis and getting better in the pool. Thank you SCOTUS.

Not everyone is happy with the decision of course and that's why I spent two hours on Facebook expressing my joy and encouraging them to read beyond the headline. From military friends I saw stuff like "SAD DAY IN AMERICA...R.I.P Freedom" linking to the story. Thoughts like "As military member(s), we live, fight, and die for INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS, and the right to be free from tyrannical governments imposing their will on you with an Iron Fist!"

As a military veteran myself, I offered this soldier three ways to think about it, hoping it might help him (and others) in some way:

1. As a military member with all healthcare benefits provided, you have already happily surrendered so many individual freedoms to serve haven't you? Freedom to wear your hair as long as you want? No. Live in base housing and want to let the grass grow to 12" tall? No. Want to attend your friend's wedding that takes place 3 weeks after your deployment date? Sorry. Want to use your freedom of speech to tell the major to go *!&! himself? No. Shall I continue? You love the will imposed on you or have at least come to accept it; it's this President you love to hate, yes?

2. You have a choice: buy insurance (pay a private company) or pay a fine/tax (to the government) into the pool of money you're going to use when you are in a car accident and end up in the emergency room with no private insurance. Easy, choice is preserved. You do your own math, choose your risk and live with consequences. But, now you're required to take personal responsibility to prepare for that contingency and not free load when your gamble goes against you.

3. Use the social security analogy - you have no choice but to pay, because you will very likely use it someday.

One of those approaches will hopefully help many get over the whole loss of freedom rhetoric they've subscribed to, now that this has finally been ruled constitutional. You don't have to love it. Who loves paying Social Security taxes? Yet we know we must and that we'll likely benefit as we age. Now this thinking can be applied to healthcare insurance coverage, but you still have a choice.

Let's try to read beyond the headlines. Let's return to appreciate the very real benefits that children (17 million kids alone) and adults with "pre-existing" conditions can now breathe easier, as I'm today. There's a little girl in my life that is blind, wears hearing aids and has other medical needs you can't imagine -- so just trust this mother on this point. The Supreme Court has ruled that they too must be insured by insurance conglomerates, who before were happy to drop them, and healthy people when they become sick. And their coverage won't end, as it did when she was born, when some random number, some maximum, is reached. Human bodies, disease and disability are all unpredictable.

Kara Ramirez, another mommy raising a premature child that I connected with in the Facebook group called It's a Preemie Thing, posted, "Thank you Mr. President for ensuring my daughter, who has several preexisting conditions, the ability to be medically insured for the rest of her life. It doesn't make sense to me how people can be denied healthcare based on numbers on a paper or what they've been through."

One of her friends eloquently stated, "I am finding those that are opposed are misinformed about the topic." BINGO.

For the invincible "I shouldn't be required to buy insurance or pay a fine because I don't need it" crowd, who can pay but would rather stick the cost of their care to the rest of us, I offer this thought: Project your mind into the future day when you will be sick, in a likely car accident or simply old and worn out. That's the day you'll look back and begrudgingly thank our President for his leadership on this, even though you'll hate it. You'll also realize then that these actions likely helped you avoid bankruptcy due to medical bills. In fact, I remember a CNN article titled "Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies," that you should read if you're still screaming individual freedom violation.

Lastly, if you have no children yet and do plan to reproduce, I wish for you supremely healthy offspring someday. But if something out of your control should intervene (genetics, fibroids, mysterious premature birth, childhood cancer, any one of many syndromes, etc) and you bring into the world a child like mine, you too will look back and thank all three branches of our government for getting this one right.

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Motorola Quietly Reveals The LTE-Friendly, Kevlar-Clad Atrix HD

atrixhdRumors and questionable leaks of Motorola's next Atrix device have been making the rounds for what seems like ages, but Motorola finally put all that speculation to rest last night. The company recently revealed the new Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset on their website, albeit with a notable lack of fanfare.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Egypt's Mursi

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Sony XQD S Series, ces cartes m?moires d?passent le Compact Flash

Malgr? de nombreux autres formats de d?veloppements, le Compact Flash est rest? la carte m?moire pr?f?r?e de nombreux professionnels en photographies. Il est fiable, robuste et a une bonne taille pour changer rapidement lors des s?ances photos. Le CF est ?galement plus rapide que d?autres m?dias qui ont essay? d?entrer sur le march? pro. L?ajout d?UltraDMA Mode 7 en Revision 6.0 a permis d?augmenter la vitesse de lecture/?criture jusqu?? 167 MBps, mais Sony a r?ussi ? passer en t?te avec le lancement de ses cartes m?moire XQD S Series.


Peu de temps apr?s que CF6.0 ait ?t? d?voil?, Sony a annonc? des projets pour d?velopper un nouveau format en utilisant le standard PCI Express pour d?livrer des vitesses de transferts de donn?es plus rapides. Le nouveau format XQD a ?t? lanc? lanc? officiellement par la Compact Flash Association ? la fin de l?ann?e derni?re et l?, Sony UK a d?voil? ses nouvelles cartes S Series ??plus rapides que CF??.

La firme a d?clar? que ces nouvelles cartes offrent des vitesses de transfert soutenues de lecture/?criture de 168 MBps (vitesse actuelle), un gain qui pourrait ?tre tr?s important si vous ?tes un photojournaliste dont le but est de d?livrer vos images aux masses avant les autres. Quand elles marchent avec un Nikon D4, par exemple, Sony d?clare que la carte peut capturer des rafales non-stop de 108 fichiers d?images RAW. La nouvelle carte peut ?galement faire gagner 30% de temps sur la sauvegarde PC compar? aux plus rapides cartes CF disponibles.

Un driver haute vitesse pour le lecteur de carte MRW-E80 XQD est disponible en tant que t?l?chargement gratuit pour Windows et OS X depuis Sony UK, ce qui permet aux nouvelles cartes m?moire d??tre utilis?es avec des ordinateurs compatibles Thunderbolt.

Les premi?res cartes XQD S Series ? partir des starting blocks seront ? 64Go (QDS64) vers la fin de ce mois, et une version 32Go (QDS32) en Septembre ou Octobre. Ce sera certainement int?ressant de voir si la vitesse de transfert suffira pour attirer les photographes professionnels loin de leur format CF bien-aim?.

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Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), answers journalist's question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), answers journalist's question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file picture the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid), one of the experiments preparing to take data at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator is photographed near Genva, Switzerland. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.The results of the experiment will be announced Wendesday July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini,File)

FILE - In this March 30, 2010 file picture a scientist looks at the first collisions pictures at full power at the CMS experience control room at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.The results of the experiment will be announced Wendesday July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi.File)

Joe Incandela, spokesperson of the CMS experiment, addresses a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle" which is believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Denis Balibouse, Pool)

British physicist Peter Higgs arrives for a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012.The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Denis Balibouse, Pool)

(AP) ? Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science.

First proposed as a theory in the 1960s, the maddeningly elusive Higgs had been hunted by at least two generations of physicists who believed it would help shape our understanding of how the universe began and how its most elemental pieces fit together.

As the highly technical findings were announced by two independent teams involving more than 5,000 researchers, the usually sedate corridors of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, erupted in frequent applause and standing ovations. Physicists who spent their careers in pursuit of the particle shed tears.

The new particle appears to share many of the same qualities as the one predicted by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs and others and is perhaps the biggest accomplishment at CERN since its founding in 1954 outside Geneva along the Swiss-French border.

Rolf Heuer, director of CERN, said the newly discovered particle is a boson, but he stopped just shy of claiming outright that it is the Higgs boson itself ? an extremely fine distinction.

"As a layman, I think we did it," he told the elated crowd. "We have a discovery. We have observed a new particle that is consistent with a Higgs boson."

The Higgs, which until now had been purely theoretical, is regarded as key to understanding why matter has mass, which combines with gravity to give all objects weight.

The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton's early theories. Gravity was there all the time before Newton explained it. The Higgs boson was believed to be there, too. And now that scientists have actually seen something much like it, they can put that knowledge to further use.

The center's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, sends protons whizzing around a circular 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel at nearly the speed of light to create high-energy collisions. The aftermath of those impacts can offer clues about dark matter, antimatter and the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

Most of the particles that result from the collisions exist for only the smallest fractions of a second. But finding a Higgs-like boson was one of the biggest challenges in physics: Out of some 500 trillion collisions, just several dozen produced "events" with significant data, said Joe Incandela of the University of California at Santa Barbara, leader of the team known as CMS, with 2,100 scientists.

Each of the teams confirmed Wednesday that they had "observed" a new subatomic particle ? a boson. Heuer said the discovery was "most probably a Higgs boson, but we have to find out what kind of Higgs boson it is." He referred to the discovery as a missing cornerstone of science.

As the leaders of the two teams presented their evidence, applause punctuated their talks.

"Thanks, nature!" joked Fabiola Gianotti, the Italian physicist who heads the team called ATLAS, with 3,000 scientists, drawing laughter from the crowd.

Later, she told reporters that the standard model of physics is still incomplete because "the dream is to find an ultimate theory that explains everything. We are far from that."

Incandela said it was too soon to say definitively whether the particle was exactly the same as envisioned by Higgs and others, who proposed the existence of an energy field where all particles interact with a key particle, the Higgs boson.

Higgs, who was invited to be in the audience, said Wednesday's discovery appears to be close to what he predicted.

"It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said, calling the discovery a huge achievement for the proton-smashing collider.

Outside CERN, the announcement seemed to ricochet around the world with some of the speed and energy of the particle itself.

In an interview with the BBC, the world's most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, said Higgs deserved the Nobel Prize. Hawking said he had placed a wager with another scientist that the Higgs boson would never be found.

"It seems I have just lost $100," he said.

Marc Sher, a professor of physics at William & Mary College, said most observers concluded in December that the Higgs boson would soon be discovered, but he was "still somewhat stunned by the results."

The phrase "God particle" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, but it's used mostly by laymen as an easier way of explaining the theory.

Wednesday's celebration was mainly for researchers who explore the deepest, most esoteric levels of particle science. But the particle-hunting effort has paid off in other ways for non-scientists, including contributing to the development of the World Wide Web.

CERN scientists used the early Web to exchange information, and the vast computing power needed to crunch all of the data produced by the atom smasher also boosted development of cloud computing, which is now making its way into mainstream services.

Advances in solar energy, medical imaging and proton therapy used in the fight against cancer have also resulted from the work of particle physicists at CERN and elsewhere.

The last undiscovered piece of the standard model of physics could be a variant of the Higgs that was predicted or something else that entirely changes the way scientists think about how matter is formed, Incandela said.

"This boson is a very profound thing we have found," he said. "We're reaching into the fabric of the universe in a way we never have done before. We've kind of completed one particle's story. ... Now we're way out on the edge of exploration."

The discovery is so fundamental to the laws of nature, Incandela said, that it could spawn a new era of technology and development in the same way that Newton's laws of gravity led to basic equations of mechanics that made the industrial revolution possible.

"This is so far out on a limb, I have no idea where it will be applied," he added. "We're talking about something we have no idea what the implications are and may not be directly applied for centuries."

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Over-the-counter pain drugs not tied to miscarriage: study

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Study finds drug warning labels need overhaul to better capture attention, convey information

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Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Many patients seem to ignore prescription drug warning labels with instructions that are critical for safe and effective use, according to a study by a Kansas State University researcher working with scientists at Michigan State University.

Consumers, particularly older ones, often overlook prescription drug warning labels in part because the labels fail to attract attention, said Nora Bello, an assistant professor of statistics at Kansas State University. Bello helped investigate the effectiveness of prescription drug warning labels to convey drug information to patients. She and experts in packaging and psychology found that prescription drug warning labels fail to capture patients' attention, impairing the communication of important safety information. The research is published in PLoS ONE.

"These findings have implications for the design of prescription drug warning labels to improve their effectiveness, particularly as the U.S. government recently started to investigate approaches to standardize the format and content of these labels to decrease medication error rates," Bello said. "Results from this study can provide insight to assist debates about labeling designs that are most likely to impact a wide age range of consumers."

About 15 million medication errors occur each year in the United States, and most happen at home where patients are responsible for complying with medication regimes. Prescription warning labels are intended to serve as quick reminders of the most important instructions for safe and effective drug use to prevent injuries from medications. They can include, for example, warnings against accompanying use of the medication with alcohol or driving.

The findings show that older patients do not always pay attention to drug warning labels. The results are worrisome, Bello said, because this population is reportedly at a greater risk for dangerous medication errors given their usually more complicated drug regimes relative to younger patients.

Researchers tracked study participants' eye movements over labels on a prescription drug vial to measure attention. The participants interacted with vials under a hypothetical scenario of just having been delivered prescription medications from the pharmacy.

In the study, the eye gaze of 50 percent of participants older than 50 years of age failed to notice a warning label on prescription vials. For 22 percent of these participants, their vision did not enter the warning label area in any of the five vials they interacted with. In contrast, 90 percent of young adults between ages 20 and 29 fixated on the warning labels.

This difference was partially attributed to the age-specific dynamic of visual fixation of information between the age groups, researchers said.

The data provided a compelling case that understanding consumers' attentive behavior and how to attract their attention is crucial to developing an effective labeling standard for prescription drugs, researchers said.

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Collaborators include Michigan State University researchers Mark Becker and Laura Bix and Michigan State University graduate student Raghav Sundar. Research was partially funded through the Center for Food and Pharmaceutical Packaging Research at Michigan State University.


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Contact: Nora Bello
nbello@k-state.edu
785-532-0523
Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Many patients seem to ignore prescription drug warning labels with instructions that are critical for safe and effective use, according to a study by a Kansas State University researcher working with scientists at Michigan State University.

Consumers, particularly older ones, often overlook prescription drug warning labels in part because the labels fail to attract attention, said Nora Bello, an assistant professor of statistics at Kansas State University. Bello helped investigate the effectiveness of prescription drug warning labels to convey drug information to patients. She and experts in packaging and psychology found that prescription drug warning labels fail to capture patients' attention, impairing the communication of important safety information. The research is published in PLoS ONE.

"These findings have implications for the design of prescription drug warning labels to improve their effectiveness, particularly as the U.S. government recently started to investigate approaches to standardize the format and content of these labels to decrease medication error rates," Bello said. "Results from this study can provide insight to assist debates about labeling designs that are most likely to impact a wide age range of consumers."

About 15 million medication errors occur each year in the United States, and most happen at home where patients are responsible for complying with medication regimes. Prescription warning labels are intended to serve as quick reminders of the most important instructions for safe and effective drug use to prevent injuries from medications. They can include, for example, warnings against accompanying use of the medication with alcohol or driving.

The findings show that older patients do not always pay attention to drug warning labels. The results are worrisome, Bello said, because this population is reportedly at a greater risk for dangerous medication errors given their usually more complicated drug regimes relative to younger patients.

Researchers tracked study participants' eye movements over labels on a prescription drug vial to measure attention. The participants interacted with vials under a hypothetical scenario of just having been delivered prescription medications from the pharmacy.

In the study, the eye gaze of 50 percent of participants older than 50 years of age failed to notice a warning label on prescription vials. For 22 percent of these participants, their vision did not enter the warning label area in any of the five vials they interacted with. In contrast, 90 percent of young adults between ages 20 and 29 fixated on the warning labels.

This difference was partially attributed to the age-specific dynamic of visual fixation of information between the age groups, researchers said.

The data provided a compelling case that understanding consumers' attentive behavior and how to attract their attention is crucial to developing an effective labeling standard for prescription drugs, researchers said.

###

Collaborators include Michigan State University researchers Mark Becker and Laura Bix and Michigan State University graduate student Raghav Sundar. Research was partially funded through the Center for Food and Pharmaceutical Packaging Research at Michigan State University.


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CERN confirms existence of new particle consistent with Higgs boson, rewrites the standard model

CERN confirms existence of Higgs boson, rewrites the standard model, switches LHC off on the way out

Physics' big announcement had more in common with a leaky product launch than the serious business of re-writing the science books. But slack asset management aside, it's official: a new boson has been observed within 5 standard deviations of accuracy. The highly anticipated announcement came this morning direct from CERN's press conference (via ICHEP in Melbourne), and is the result of an intense, ongoing search for the elusive particle. This is still a preliminary result, but by far the strongest case yet for the existence of the elusive Higgs.

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