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Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Various Artists, DFA PresentsSupersoul Recordings: Nobody Knows Anything

Supersoul Recordings have been in macrocosm for just a couple of age, but during that time have managed to catch the ear of the almighty DFA, whose sub-label Death From Abroad has collected together highlights from Supersoul's offset two eld in being. This is no surprise to anyone who's a fan of LCD Soundsystem's more spatial moments on Sound Of Silver or the, ahem, 'sports accompaniment' 45' 33.

Founded by Xaver Naudascher in 2006, Supersoul's defining sound operates chiefly within the roomy expanses of krautrock, Italo Disco, Electro, Chicago House and Detroit Techno, combining the most rapturous elements of each to create a new euro disco, one more in the descent of forefathers such as Cerrone and Moroder, than the likes of Sash or any other purveyors of radio-edit-cheese that have blighted the path since.

Nobody Knows Anything is a misnomer of a title, as it turns out the inhabitants of Supersoul for sure know their way around a tune. Of the 19 tracks on offer across the double CD set, the shortest pin clover in about five transactions, with a good quarter of the album made up of tunes pushing the 11 minute mark. This is music to lose yourself in � spatial cosmic disco is not a three-minute example, this music has to breathe and envelope you.

Of the highlights, the four parts of Mogg & Naudascher's Moon Unit are a particular treat. Elegantly layering elements, hammering propusively through a excerpt of moods and breakdowns, with perpetually welcome distance noises to accentuate the giddiness. Intergalactic discotextures that never fail to send you happy wherever you are. Others, such as Max Brannslokker's Stropharia and Skateb�rd's Marimba manage to release serotonins that inform your body it's in for the night of its life, while the inter-dimensional acid of Plastique De Reve's Lost In The City allows you to get your ass down and realise it.

Xaver Naudascher has brought together some like-minded forces to give Supersoul a unique identity and with this aggregation has created one of the most thrilling, forward thinking and, well, danceable dance label showcases in years. Supermarvellous.

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Saturday, 23 August 2008

More breastfed babies at risk of morphine overdose than thought: study

Nursing mothers who habit painkillers that contain codeine could be putting their infants at risk of a pernicious overdose, Canadian doctors warn.

Codeine is metabolized into morphia and is commonly put-upon for pain relief in combination with acetaminophen.

While the American Academy of Pediatrics lists codeine as compatible with breastfeeding, some women may end up metabolizing it into morphine at a quicker rate, potentially exposing a breast-fed babe to an excess dose, according to researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Western Ontario.

'Our study confirms that codeine as a treatment for pain may be unsuitable and cannot be considered safe for all breastfed infants.'�Dr. Gideon Koren

"With nearly half of all infants in North America being delivered by caesarean section or after episiotomy, there is clearly a requirement for pain respite for mothers," said Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the Motherisk program at Sick Kids, and atomic number 82 author of the study published in Wednesday's online issue of the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

"However, our study confirms that codeine as a handling for pain may be unsuitable and cannot be considered safe for all breastfed infants."

Koren found 17 of 72 infants studied became sedated or experienced abnormal breathing after their mothers took codeine.

Of the 17 cases showing signs of overdose, only three of the mothers had a known genetic strain that increases their peril of metabolizing codeine more than quickly; the other 14 did not.

The findings mean that mothers without the variant may also pop off on toxic levels of morphine to their babies, Koren complete, extending his previous findings on the link.

Mothers of infants showing symptoms had an average 59 per cent higher dose of codeine than those whose infants appeared healthy, the team launch.

Watch for somnolence

Mothers taking painkillers containing codeine should be exceedingly careful, and watch their infants for increased drowsiness or other signs of overdose, Koren advised. Parents should as well watch for signs of overdose in children wHO are pickings codeine.

The advice came also late for Rani Jamieson, who lost her son Tariq less than a month afterwards he was born, in April 2005.

Jamieson told CBC Newsworld on Thursday that was disappointed and angry that Tariq's death was avoidable, and she hopes her tragic case will serve as a caution for other mothers.

One caveat of the research is that Koren's study was based on mothers recalling how their babies responded to the drugs, instead than testing the baby's bloodstreams for codeine and morphine.

The good news is that breastfed babies whose mothers ar taken off the drug show striking improvements, Koren said.

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Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Vascular Screening - Naional Pharmacy Association Responds To DH Consultation, UK

�The NPA has responded to the Department of Health (DH) Consultation on economic moulding of vascular screening. The NPA is asking for the DH to review the part which community pharmacy can buoy make as set out in the consultation document which is not in line with the DH recommendations in the Pharmacy White Paper 'Pharmacy in England Building in Strengths - delivering the future April 2008.

Margaret Peycke, NPA External Relations Manager said: "Community pharmacies ar easily accessible and many people ofttimes see pharmacists more often than whatever other healthcare professional. Both these factors make pharmaceutics an important tool in the delivery of vascular screening. Additionally community pharmacy will besides offer wellness promotion advice and referral as conquer."

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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Toxic Drugs, Toxic System: Sociologist Predicts Drug Disasters, Says Prescription Drug Harm Growing, Drug Testing, Approval And Marketing Flaws

� Americans are likely to be exposed to unacceptable side of meat effects of FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx in the future because of fatal flaws in the way new drugs ar tested and marketed, according to research to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

"Drug disasters are literally built into the current system of drug testing and approvals in the United States," said Donald Light, the sociologist wHO authored the study and a professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. "Recent changes in the system bear only increased the proportion of new drugs with serious risks."

According to a 1999 report for the Institute of Medicine, adverse dose reactions (ADRs) are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and more than two 1000000 serious reactions occur every year. ADRs can come for a number of reasons, including improper positive dosage, dose abuse and drug interactions.

Light's analysis identifies the organizational foundations of patient risk from prescription drugs and suggests institutional reforms to aid avoid or reduce future drug disasters.

According to Light, quite than victimization current sanctioned drugs as benchmarks of efficacy, the existing examination system evaluates the effectivity of unexampled drugs based on their effects compared to placebos. Systematic reviews indicate that one in seven unexampled drugs is superior to existing drugs, but 2 in every seven unexampled drugs result in side effects unplayful enough for action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including black box warnings, adverse reaction warnings, or fifty-fifty withdrawal of the drug.

Based on this organisation, Light asserts that new drugs ar twice as likely to harm patients as to provide them with benefits superior to existing drugs.

Light's analysis suggests another flaw lies within the design of clinical trials. He contends that pharmaceutical companies oft design their trails to minimize evidence of toxic side effects. To do so, they sample from a healthier population untypical of patients who testament actually take the drug, excluding mass who are older, poorer or wHO have multiple health problems. Trials are run tenacious enough to pick up main personal effects but not to detect some long term position effects. Approvals are based on these data; so drugs with harmful personal effects sometimes get through.

"Based on our current system of rules, the designation of 'safe and effective' on today's new drugs could be replaced with, 'apparently safe based on incomplete information, and more effective than a placebo,'" Light said.

With regard to government oversight, Light cites serious under-funding of the FDA, which creates a dependency on the pharmaceutical industry - the industry FDA regulates - to pay its staff. In return for drug company funding, Light says, the industry expects faster reviews, but quicker reviews potentially fail to identify grave long-term english effects.

"Speed-up reviews for safety have more than tripled the number of 'black boxwood warnings' of side effects or withdrawals after drugs are on the grocery," Light said. "Despite late reforms to strengthen the FDA's role in protecting the populace from harmful drugs, the harm-benefit proportion is deterioration due to these reviews and relaxed rules that allow companies to kick upstairs drugs for unapproved uses."

The paper, "Institutional Foundations of the Vioxx Disaster," was presented on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 2:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Boston at the American Sociological Association's 103rd annual meeting. Light identified eight institutional foundations for future drug disasters, and suggested multiple reforms to improve the U.S. drug approval system.

About the American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit rank association consecrate to serving sociologists in their operate, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by companionship.

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Source - Jackie Cooper
American Sociological Association

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