Tuesday, April 3, 2012

UK warship heads to S. Atlantic amid Falklands tension

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Fitness and Weight Loss Health Camps Offers Early Enrollment ...

WellBalance weightloss camps offer $500 discount to limited number of early camp enrollees.

Asheville, NC (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

WellBalance fitness and weight loss camps recently announced a $500 early enrollment discount available to families interested in enrolling their child at either weightloss camp location of WellBalance by the Bay in Santa Cruz, CA or WellBalance Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

?We certainly understand that these are trying economic times for many families,? commented John Gordon, CEO of WellBalance, ?We thought this $500 early enrollment discount would help more kids, teens, and young adults have the opportunity to attend WellBalance and enjoy healthier, happier lives.?

This Early Enrollment discount of $500 is only available to the next 15 camp enrollees.

Applications and deposits to WellBalance weight loss camps must be for more than a 4 week enrollment and must be received by midnight Monday, March 26 to be considered for the $500 offer. Families applying to either WellBalance California or WellBalance Cape Cod locations are eligible for this offer.

?We believe WellBalance offers the best weight loss camp value anywhere,? continued Mr. Gordon, ?We have two great locations in popular vacation destinations, masters-level staff in nutrition, culinary, fitness, and behavioral psychology, a complete health approach, and now a discount that makes our pricing even better.?

WellBalance Cape Cod fitness and weight loss camps operate for 8 weeks with 2 ? 8 week sessions available from June 17 through August 11, 2012. WellBalance by the Bay in California runs from June 24 to August 18, 2012 with 2 ? 8 week sessions.

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WellBalance health camps (http://www.WellBalance.com) were created in response to the growing obesity epidemic and the unmet needs for a realistic, scientific, and personalized approach to fitness and weight loss. The WellBalance approach, called the ME Plan, is designed to Motivate Educate on diet + activity + lifestyle changes. Founded by professionals and guided by experts who provided leadership to some of the largest behavioral health, mental health, and treatment programs in the country, WellBalance is working to become the leader in fitness and weight loss programs. WellBalance operates two summer camps in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Santa Cruz, California. For additional information please visit http://www.wellbalance.com or call (800) 975-0435.

John Gordon
WellBalance
617-792-4121
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Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/fitness-weight-loss-health-camps-offers-early-enrollment-070514131.html

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Japan survey sees no rise in business confidence

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Countries that spend the most on health care

Joe Raedle / Getty Images file

The United States spends more than any other country but has the eighth-lowest life expectancy in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development survey.

By Michael B. Sauter and Charles B. Stockdale, 24/7 Wall St.

This week, the Supreme Court considered President Obama?s health care reform law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. If the law is overturned, health care costs covered by the federal government would drop substantially.

While government spending on health care could decline, that will not result in?lower health?care costs. Based on data published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on global health issues, 24/7 Wall St. identified the countries where health care costs are the highest per person.

Spending a great deal on health care does not result in a healthier population. Of 34 OECD member countries, only three that spent the most per person have citizens that live the longest. The United States spends more than any other country but has the eighth-lowest life expectancy in the OECD. Japan, meanwhile, spends $2,878 per person -- about $5,000 less than the U.S. -- and has the highest life expectancy among developed nations.?

According to the OECD's Matthias Rumpf, health care spending does not result in better treatment. In countries that spend more, he says, people opt for expensive tests and elective procedures that drive up costs. To discourage excess in Germany, for example, citizens are penalized if they see a specialist without first consulting their doctor.

In most of the OECD countries, health care expenses come to more than $2,000 per person each year. In the case of the 10 countries with the highest costs, expenses are roughly twice that. In the U.S., spending on health care per capita comes to nearly $8,000 per person.?Many proponents of public health care blame the U.S.?s highly privatized system as the reason for such high costs. But according to Rumpf, a number of factors influence the national spending on care.

How patients use medical services impacts health care expenses. Expensive diagnostic procedures and elective surgeries, like MRI scans and corrective knee surgeries, drive up costs. Conversely, irregular visits to the doctor impair preventative care.

In many of these countries, the source of high costs is drug prices. In four of the countries with the most expensive health care, pharmaceutical expenses come to at least $600 per person per year. In the U.S., those costs are more than $950 per capita.

Another factor that increases cost is poor health-related behavior of the population. Of course, excessive alcohol consumption, tobacco use and poor exercise increase health problems. The incidence of these behaviors is different country to country.

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Many of the countries that spend the most per capita on health care have highly privatized systems. In the U.S. and Switzerland, which spend the most and third-most on health care, respectively, the government pays less than 65?percent of the total health care costs. In most of the countries in the developed world, public expenditure accounts for at least 70?percent of total costs.

Many of the countries with the highest expenditure per capita on health care also have among the most government-funded health care systems. The governments of Denmark, Austria and Luxembourg pay 84?percent or more of the total health care cost. Total public spending in these countries, without accounting for private health care spending, ranges from 6.5?percent of GDP in Luxembourg to the OECD-high 9.8?percent of GDP in Denmark. In most of the OECD nations, the government foots the majority of the health care bill.

These are the countries that spend the most on health care.?

1. United States

  • Total expenditure on health per capita:?$7,960
  • Expenditure as?percent of GDP:?17.4?percent (the most)
  • Annual growth of total health expenditure:?+2.2 percent (14th least)
  • Life expectancy:?78.2 years (27th highest)

The U.S. has, by far, the highest total expenditure on health care per capita. America spends approximately $2,600 more per person annually than Norway, the second-highest spender. Only 47.7 percent of this amount is public expenditure -- the third-smallest percentage among developed countries. However, the actual amount of public spending, $3,795, is among the highest. The U.S. also spends the largest amount on pharmaceuticals and other medical nondurables. The country has fairly low rates of doctors and hospital beds relative to its population. It also has the eighth-lowest life expectancy, at 78.2 years.

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2. Norway

  • Total expenditure on health per capita:?$5,352
  • Expenditure as?percent of GDP:?9.6?percent (16th most)
  • Annual growth of total health expenditure:?+8.4?percent (4th most)
  • Life expectancy:?81.0 years (10th highest)

After its neighbor, Denmark, Norway has the most nationalized health care system in the developed world. Of the country?s $5,352 expenditures per person, 84.1?percent are covered by the public sector. Access to health care in the country is high. There are approximately four physicians per 1,000 people, the third most in the OECD. Despite the high percentage of total costs covered by the public, the nation?s residents still pay more than $800 per person on health care.

3. Switzerland

  • Total expenditure on health per capita:?$5,344
  • Expenditure as?percent?of GDP:?11.6?percent (5th most)
  • Annual growth of total health expenditure:?+2.8?percent (17th most)
  • Life expectancy:?82.3 years (2nd highest)

Switzerland currently spends the third most on health care per capita, or the equivalent of 11.6 percent of the country?s GDP. Switzerland has one of the most privatized health care systems in the world, with 30.9 percent of expenses coming out of pocket. Because of the wealth of country, this comes to $1,650 per person, more than double every country in the developed world except the U.S.

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4. Netherlands

  • Total expenditure on health per capita:?$4,914
  • Expenditure as?percent?of GDP:?12?percent (second most)
  • Annual growth of total health expenditure:?+16.4?percent (the most)
  • Life expectancy:?80.6 years (14th highest)

Health care costs in the Netherlands amount to $4,914 per person each year. The Dutch health expenditure is equivalent to 12?percent of the nation?s GDP -- the second greatest relative health expenditure of every nation in the OECD except the U.S. Total expenses jumped by 16.4?percent between 2008 and 2009, the most among OECD nations. Despite this increase, total out-of-pocket expenses per capita are just $227 per person, the fourth-lowest in the OECD.

5. Luxembourg

  • Total expenditure on health per capita:?$4,808
  • Expenditure as?percent?of GDP:?7.8?percent (seventh least)
  • Annual growth of total health expenditure:?+8?percent (6th most)
  • Life expectancy:?80.7 years (tied for 12th highest)

Health care expenditure in Luxembourg is $4,808 a year, or 7.8?percent of national GDP. This is the greatest decrease among OECD countries. Of that, public expenditures account for 84 percent of the total, the eighth-highest rate among OECD countries. The country?s system faces some difficult challenges in offsetting unhealthy lifestyle choices. For instance, Luxembourg has the highest annual rate of alcohol consumption at 15.5 liters per capita.

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Skin cancer & drug resistance | UC Health

Second mutation in BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma does not add to drug resistance, UCLA study finds.

Roger Lo, UCLA

UCLA scientists studying the ways in which skin cancer becomes resistant to drug treatment have discovered that a second mutation found in the tumors of patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma does not contribute to resistance to BRAF inhibitor drugs, a finding that runs counter to what they expected.

The study by researchers at UCLA?s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that patients with mutations in both the MEK1 and BRAF genes respond as well to the inhibitors as patients with the BRAF mutation alone.

Another surprising finding is that the MEK1 and BRAF mutations exist together in these patients, despite the fact that they drive the same cell signaling pathway. That discovery also bucks conventional wisdom, said the study?s senior author, Dr. Roger Lo, an assistant professor of dermatology and molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA and a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist.

?This study is a good example of why scientists should not always rely on what we expect to find,? Lo said. ?We expected that this second mutation was involved in drug resistance, and it wasn?t. We also expected that only one mutation would exist in this signaling pathway, and that also was wrong.

The study appears April 1 in the early online edition of Cancer Discovery, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Cancer Research.

About 50 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma, or 4,000 people a year, have the BRAF mutation and can be treated with the inhibitor Zelboraf ? two pills taken twice daily. Zelboraf was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in metastatic melanoma in August 2011. Many other common human cancers, including colon, thyroid and lung cancers, also harbor BRAF-mutated subsets, Lo said.

According to Lo, the use of BRAF inhibitors leads to a response in about 60 percent of those with the mutation. After responding initially, however, most of those patients become resistant to the drug. Lo and his team of Jonsson Cancer Center scientists have been studying the mechanisms of resistance to see if they can either prevent it or find a way to re-sensitize the tumor to treatment. It was part of this work that led Lo to examine what role the MEK1 mutation might or might not be playing in that resistance.

?MEK1 is rarely mutated in cancers, but we found in this study that it was frequently associated with BRAF mutations,? Lo said. ?The presence of both mutated MEK1 and BRAF might have been considered a biomarker for patients who would not respond to BRAF inhibitors. We were quite surprised when we found that patients with both mutations respond to BRAF inhibitors as well as those with only the BRAF mutation.?

In exploring the association between the two mutations, Lo and his team analyzed tumor samples from 31 melanoma patients treated with a BRAF inhibitor. Sixteen percent of the samples carried the double mutations before the cancer was treated, Lo said. The researchers? findings were confirmed using melanoma cell lines grown in Lo?s laboratory.

Going forward, Lo and his team will look at approaches using inhibitors of MEK1 with BRAF inhibitors to determine if patients with the double mutations respond better and for longer periods. They will also try to understand why MEK1 mutations occur quite frequently in melanomas. About 15 percent of the patients with BRAF mutations also have a mutated MEK1, Lo said.

?As BRAF inhibitors gain widespread use for advanced melanoma treatment, biomarkers for drug sensitivity or resistance are urgently needed,? the study states. ?We identify here concurrent activating mutations in BRAF and MEK1 in melanomas and show that the presence of a downstream mutation in MEK1 does not necessarily make BRAF mutant melanomas resistant to BRAF inhibitors.?

About 70,000 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed each year in the United States. Of those, 8,000 will die of the disease.

The study was funded by the Bud and Sue Selig Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up to Cancer, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Seaver Institute, the Richard C. Seaver Charitable Trust, the National Cancer Institute, STOP CANCER, the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Melanoma Research Foundation, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the American Skin Association, the Caltech?UCLA Joint Center for Translational Medicine, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, Wendy and Ken Ruby, and Louise Belley and Richard Schnarr.

UCLA?s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center?has more than 240 researchers and clinicians engaged in disease research, prevention, detection, control, treatment and education. One of the nation?s largest comprehensive cancer centers, the Jonsson Center is dedicated to promoting research and translating basic science into leading-edge clinical studies. In July 2011, the center was named among the top 10 cancer centers nationwide by U.S. News & World Report, a ranking it has held for 11 of the last 12 years.

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Your Own Online Business Utilizing Social Media Advertising

You can promote sales and provides via your social media websites. In the event you provide greater access and better discounts to your followers, people are much more most likely to follow you on Facebook. Something that draws individuals to your site inside a positive way is really a plus, but getting more individuals there is only half the battle. You still have to function to keep them coming back.

Have your customers take a survey in order to find out what their social media habits are. If a sizable base of your followers utilize social media sites, than it?s a wise idea to create your own social media site designed particularly for your brand. If respondents express a lack of interest in social media, your resources are greatest spent elsewhere.

Take note from the time of the day which you get the most responses and re-tweets on your account. Once you determine any patterns, adjust the time you send your tweets. If you?re messaging service is automatic, try setting your account up to send your tweets when the majority of your followers are likely logging on to their own accounts.

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Samsung introduces 6.7-inch Galaxy Note 2 Quad: ?because we can?

23. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

i m gonna pass sgs III for this beast:)

happy april fools:D

3. redmd posted on 5 hours ago 7 0

Yay, I want one, but today is just the first of April so...

4. djripster posted on 5 hours ago 7 0

PhoneArena seams to be on a roll with their April Fool jokes...

5. gemmabba posted on 5 hours ago 2 16

"We just wanted to make a phone that is twice bigger than the iPhone"
seriously??? why are you so obsessed with apple? leave them be, dont imitate how they run business

44. Nathan posted on 2 hours ago 6 0

Wait, you do realize this is an April Fools joke right?

6. roscuthiii posted on 5 hours ago 5 0

Ah, this made my day. I'm stuck at work so I'll probably come back every once in a while just to read the "Tim" quote and perk my day up. Better than 5 Hour Energy.

14. good2great posted on 4 hours ago 2 0

i'm at work as well... i could DEFINITELY use that "5 hour energy" zzzzz hahaha but i must admit this article did wake me up!

7. hung2900 posted on 5 hours ago 2 2

In fact 6.7 inch is nearly 4 times bigger than iphone, not 2 times!
Fail!! ^^

9. abdane posted on 4 hours ago 5 0

dafauq ??? the iphone is 3.5 ... 3.5 x 2 = 7 !!! HOW ITS NEARLY 4 TIMES ???

29. darkkjedii posted on 3 hours ago 2 0

U need to go back to math class dude. 3.5x2=7... So 6.7 isn't even twice as big.

32. frommars posted on 3 hours ago 1 3

it's nearly 4 times bigger than iphone do the math again.

53. starandmountain posted on 24 min ago 0 0

frommars is right,
if you've got a 7 inch screen you need four 3,5 inch screens to fill a 7 inch screen, it is diagonal. if you draw in on a paper. you'ill see frommars is right;)

8. PackMan posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

victor got a chance to bash samsung in the name of April fool's day.

10. Walter.D.DROID posted on 4 hours ago 3 0

damn this day I guess :@ they could joke with something related with iPhone -.-
I have a Galaxy Note and expecting a sequel, but not 6.7inch, my guess is that, it will be between 5.5-6inch and all the way with quad :P

27. Gcombs posted on 3 hours ago 1 0

I'm guessing the same 5.3 but with the borderless design so it makes it smaller in design but with that nice screeen.

47. Walter.D.DROID posted on 2 hours ago 1 0

hmmm, i would like it that screen a little more bigger, 5.8inch maybe, but we will see about that, if it even will there be a sequel, Samsung Galaxy Note II? dreams for now, atleast we can imagine how it goes when the specs (and SGS3 itself) for SGS3 are finally unveiled -.-' quad core, ice cream sandwhich or jelly bean are a must, oh and a little bump on the screen resolutions! 1280x800 on the note 10.1 was a let down :@

cheers

12. apocalypsebc posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

They haven't made a 5.3" Windows Phone yet. lol

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