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HEALTH TIPS WEEKLY - Thursday, November 21, 2007
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British docs repair bad plastic surgeries
LONDON, -- More people crossing the English Channel for less
expensive plastic surgery wind up having repair work done
when they return, a British survey said. Thousands of people
travel to the continent annually for procedures that cost
less than what is charged in Britain. But British plastic
surgeons are warning patients what may seem like a good deal
could be expensive to correct if the procedure goes wrong,
the Telegraph reported. A survey by the British Association
of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons found more than 80 percent of
its members treated patients with problems related to off-
island surgery in the past year. The survey reported four of
10 surgeons said they had seen between three and five cases
in the past 12 months; 14 percent reported treating nine or
more. The survey also reported about a third of the surgeons
who participated performed "much more" repair work during
the past five years than previously. "My experience with
patients has shown that counseling is inadequate -- the in-
dividuals have no idea of the standards of care in the coun-
try they are visiting and no knowledge of the abilities or
experience of the surgeon," said Douglas McGeorge, BAAPS
president and plastic surgeon.
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Labs don't report tainted food imports
SAN FRANCISCO, -- The U.S. government does not require food
importers to submit the results of private lab tests if
those results indicate food is contaminated. One facility in
San Francisco that tests about 150 imported food shipments
each month finds at least 10 percent of the food contains
things like mercury and salmonella, making it unfit for hum-
an consumption, USA Today reported Monday. The newspaper
says generally Anresco Labs tells no one about food that
fails except for the importer who pays for the test. Curr-
ently there is no regulation requiring labs to send all test
results to the Food and Drug Administration though the FDA
automatically rejects food that fails lab tests. The danger
is that an unscrupulous importer who gets bad results from
one lab could hire another lab to test the food and pass it,
the newspaper reports. Anresco Chairman David Eisenberg says
the FDA's failure to require labs to submit all test results
forces them to protect importers more than the public.
Sleep-deprived moms prone to gain weight
OAKLAND, Calif., -- Sleeping just five hours a night triples
the risk of excessive weight for new moms a year after a
baby's birth, U.S. researchers report. Mothers who reported
sleeping no more than five hours daily when babies were six
months old had a three-times higher risk for weight reten-
tion -- at least 11 pounds -- at their baby's first birthday
than moms who slept seven hours per day, the study by Kaiser
Permanente and Harvard Medical School -Harvard Pilgrim
Health Care said. The study, published in the American Jour-
nal of Epidemiology, is the first to examine sleep depriva-
tion's impact on postpartum weight retention, a joint news
release said. Previous studies examined the effect of early
postpartum sleep deprivation on mothers' cognitive and emo-
tional health. "We've known for some time that sleep depri-
vation is associated with weight gain and obesity in the
general population, but this study shows that getting enough
sleep -- even just two hours more -- may be as important as
a healthy diet and exercise for new mothers to return to
their pre-pregnancy weight," study lead author Erica P. Gun-
derson, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland,
Calif., said in a news release.
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Human-canine precancerous link seen
LAFAYETTE, Ind.,-- Premalignant lesions in dogs and humans
show many similar characteristics that could lead to a bet-
ter understanding of breast cancer, U.S. researchers said.
The group of Purdue University researchers found similari-
ties between benign lesions considered to carry risk for
developing breast cancer in both canines and humans, a di-
scovery that could lead to better understanding of the
cancer's progression and prevention, the Lafayette, Ind.,
university said in a news release. "Dogs develop these
lesions spontaneously in contrast to other available mod-
els and are exposed to the same environmental risk factors
as humans," said team member Dr. Sulma Mohammed. "These
shared features make the dog an ideal model to compare the
breast lesions that will progress to cancer and those that
will regress. Such a model will facilitate customized treat-
ment and prevention strategies." The scientists studied 212
tissue biopsies from 200 female dogs with tumors and comp-
ared them to human specimens. Mohammed said the study foc-
used the precancerous lesions in the tissue around the
tumor. The research, the work of researchers from Purdue
and Sassari University School of Veterinary Medicine in
Sardinia, and was published in the Journal of Cancer Epid-
emiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
FDA announces three lab grants
WASHINGTON, -- Three lab grants designed to enhance food-
screening capabilities and spot radioactive materials in
food were awarded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The labs receiving the grants are part of the Food Emergency
Response Network, the FDA said Monday in a news release.
Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory, the
New York Health Research-New York Department of Health and
the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene each received
three-year grants of $250,000 per year for supplies, pers-
onnel, minor facility upgrades and training. The grants tar-
get improved detection of radiological contamination, and
boost the nation's overall capability to detect and respond
to attacks on the food supply, the FDA said.
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Genome analysis available to individuals
CONSTANCE, Germany, -- A laboratory in Germany said Monday
it will make genome sequencing available to private individ-
uals, the first European company to do so. GATC Biotech AG
in Constance will offer a routine analysis of human genomes,
making it possible for people to have their genetic make-up
decoded, the company said in a news release. The service st-
ill will focus primarily on the research sector and the
pharmaceutical industry. "Our aim is to decode a total of
100 human genomes by the end of 2010, says Peter Pohl, GATC
Biotech chief executive said. "The findings obtained will be
of use to the medical research sector and will result in
significant advances in this field." The cost of a standard
analysis is about $73,300, while one producing medical-value
results would cost nearly $1.5 million. Board member Markus
Benz said he expects the price to fall over time. "If the
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the technology for diagnostic purposes in the same way as
X-ray technology is used today," Benz said.
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