Siriraj Hospital has invented an infant milk made of chicken meat for those allergic to cow's milk, the Faculty of Medicine head, Professor Dr Piyaskol Skolsattayathorn announced yesterday.
Published on August 11, 2007
The chicken-extract "milk" is the first of its kind and much cheaper than substitutes made in other countries, around Bt600 per litre compared to Bt2,000-Bt3,000.
The milk is expected to help around 20,000 infants allergic to cow's milk, or around 3 per cent of newborns each year.
Siriraj Hospital can now make around 25 litres of milk a week.
One kilogram of chicken breast makes 24 litres of milk. Only the breast can be used because it contains no fat, and the meat used is from chickens raised for export, as they have not been fed hormone-laced food.
The invention of the milk by Associate Professor Tharathip Kholathat and Professor Dr Phiphob Jiraphinyo of the Department of Paediatrics was based on the fact that infants allergic to cow's milk can be fed chicken broth.
Siriraj Hospital began experimenting with the chicken-extract project 10 years ago. Production involves mincing and blending chicken meat and adding food substitutes. The milk is stored at -72 degrees Celsius and mixed with hot water for use. It can be bottle-fed to infants.
A total of 80 children allergic to cow's milk have been fed the extract during the experimental period. Only two of them were allergic to it and were fed with imported substitute milk.
The invention of the chicken-extract milk will be published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and the milk has been registered, Piyaskol said.
Siriraj Hospital will further develop the milk into different formulas for older children and adults.
Citing foreign medical reports, the dean said the global tendency of infants becoming allergic to cow's milk was growing as a result of the decrease in breastfeeding, now at the rate of 2-10 per cent depending on country.
The symptoms stemming from allergy to cow's milk range from rashes and dry skin, to vomiting, nausea, diarrhoea and asthma. The allergy can be fatal.
Duangkamon Sajirawattanakul
The Nation
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
child swallows ecstasy back with parents, ................just hand her the needle why dont you
A TWO-YEAR-OLD Sydney girl who ate ecstasy off her parent's floor is back in their care, despite two previous reports of concern about the child's welfare to authorities.
The girl's 29-year-old father is due in Sutherland Local Court next month charged with drug possession and supply offences.
The Daily Telegraph reports the girl ingested an ecstasy tablet last Thursday morning at her parent's Engadine home, in Sydney's south.
The Department of Community Services (DoCS) has decided the parents are fit to care for the girl, despite receiving two reports, which were not drug-related, of concern for the child's health, the newspaper reports.
When the child fell ill her mother became concerned and woke her partner, who allegedly noticed ecstasy pills on the kitchen floor and feared the girl may have eaten one.
Both parents rushed the girl to hospital and allegedly told doctors she may have ingested ecstasy.Doctors called police who accompanied the father back to the family home and later charged him.
The girl was treated and released from hospital on the same day.
The girl's 29-year-old father is due in Sutherland Local Court next month charged with drug possession and supply offences.
The Daily Telegraph reports the girl ingested an ecstasy tablet last Thursday morning at her parent's Engadine home, in Sydney's south.
The Department of Community Services (DoCS) has decided the parents are fit to care for the girl, despite receiving two reports, which were not drug-related, of concern for the child's health, the newspaper reports.
When the child fell ill her mother became concerned and woke her partner, who allegedly noticed ecstasy pills on the kitchen floor and feared the girl may have eaten one.
Both parents rushed the girl to hospital and allegedly told doctors she may have ingested ecstasy.Doctors called police who accompanied the father back to the family home and later charged him.
The girl was treated and released from hospital on the same day.
Circumcision cuts ur chance of attracting HIV by 50%................................so they say
Circumcising African men may cut their risk of catching AIDS in half, the National Institutes of Health said today as it stopped two clinical trials in Africa, when preliminary results suggested that circumcision worked so well that it would be unethical not to offer it to uncircumcised men in the trials.
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AIDS experts immediately hailed the result, saying it gave the world a new way to fight the spread of AIDS, and the directors of the two largest funds for fighting the disease said they would now consider paying for circumcisions.
"This is very exciting news," said Daniel Halperin, an H.I.V. specialist at Harvard's Center for Population and Development, who has argued in scientific journals for years that circumcision slows the spread of AIDS in the parts of Africa where it is practiced.
In an interview from Zimbabwe, Mr. Halperin added: "I have no doubt that, as word of this gets around, millions of African men will want to get circumcised and that will save many lives."
But experts also cautioned that circumcision is no cure-all. It only lessens the chances that a man will catch the virus, it is expensive compared to condoms, abstinence or other methods, and the surgery has serious risks if performed by folk healers using dirty blades, as often happens in rural Africa.
Sex education messages to young men need to make it clear that "this does not mean that you have an absolute protection," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an AIDS researcher and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which sponsored the trials. Circumcision should be added to other prevention methods, not replace them, he said.
The two trials were carried out among nearly 3,000 men in Kisumu, Kenya, and nearly 5,000 men in Rakai, Uganda. None were infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS; they were divided into circumcised and uncircumcised groups. They were given safe sex advice — although many presumably did not take it — and retested regularly.
The trials were stopped by the National Institutes of Health's Data Safety and Monitoring Board this week after data showed that the Kenyan men had a 53 percent reduction in new H.I.V. cases and the Ugandan men a 48 percent reduction.
In Kenya, 22 of the 1,393 circumcised young men in the study caught the disease, compared with 47 of the 1,391 uncircumcised men.
Those results echo the finding of a trial completed last year in the town of Orange Farm, South Africa, financed by the French government, which demonstrated a reduction of 60 percent among circumcised men.
Two agencies, one under the State Department and the other financed by a number of countries, said they now would be willing to pay for circumcisions, which they have not before, citing a lack of hard evidence that it works.
Dr. Richard G. A. Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said that if a country seeking money submitted plans to conduct safe, sterile circumcisions, "I think it's very likely that our technical panel would approve it."
Ambassador Mark Dybul, executive director of the $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the State Department, said his agency "will support implementation of safe medical male circumcision for HIV/AIDS prevention."
He too warned that it was only one new weapon.
"Prevention efforts must reinforce the ABC approach — abstain, be faithful and correct and consistent use of condoms," he said.
Uncircumcised men are thought to be more susceptible to AIDS because the underside of the foreskin is rich in Langerhans' cells, which attach easily to the virus. The foreskin may also suffer small tears during intercourse, making it more susceptible to infection.
Researchers have long noted that parts of Africa where circumcision is practiced — particularly in the Muslim countries of West Africa — had much lower AIDS rates. But it was unclear whether other factors, such as religion or polygamy, played important roles.
Outside Muslim regions, circumcision is spotty. In South Africa, for example, the Xhosa people circumcise teen-age boys, while Zulus, whose traditional homeland abuts theirs, do not. AIDS is common in members of both tribes.
In recent years, as word has spread that circumcision might be protective, many African men have sought it out. A Zambian hospital offered $3 circumcisions last year, and Swaziland trained 60 doctors to give them at $40 each after its waiting lists grew.
"Private practitioners also do it," Dr. Halperin said. "In some places, it's $20, in others, much more. Lots of the wealthy elite have already done it. It prevents STD's, it's seen as cleaner, sex is better, women like it. I predict that
a lot of men who can't afford private clinics will start clamoring for it."
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Complete Coverage: AIDS/H.I.V. »
Web Link
Q&A About the NIAID-Sponsored Adult Male Circumcision Trials in Kenya and Uganda (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
AIDS experts immediately hailed the result, saying it gave the world a new way to fight the spread of AIDS, and the directors of the two largest funds for fighting the disease said they would now consider paying for circumcisions.
"This is very exciting news," said Daniel Halperin, an H.I.V. specialist at Harvard's Center for Population and Development, who has argued in scientific journals for years that circumcision slows the spread of AIDS in the parts of Africa where it is practiced.
In an interview from Zimbabwe, Mr. Halperin added: "I have no doubt that, as word of this gets around, millions of African men will want to get circumcised and that will save many lives."
But experts also cautioned that circumcision is no cure-all. It only lessens the chances that a man will catch the virus, it is expensive compared to condoms, abstinence or other methods, and the surgery has serious risks if performed by folk healers using dirty blades, as often happens in rural Africa.
Sex education messages to young men need to make it clear that "this does not mean that you have an absolute protection," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an AIDS researcher and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which sponsored the trials. Circumcision should be added to other prevention methods, not replace them, he said.
The two trials were carried out among nearly 3,000 men in Kisumu, Kenya, and nearly 5,000 men in Rakai, Uganda. None were infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS; they were divided into circumcised and uncircumcised groups. They were given safe sex advice — although many presumably did not take it — and retested regularly.
The trials were stopped by the National Institutes of Health's Data Safety and Monitoring Board this week after data showed that the Kenyan men had a 53 percent reduction in new H.I.V. cases and the Ugandan men a 48 percent reduction.
In Kenya, 22 of the 1,393 circumcised young men in the study caught the disease, compared with 47 of the 1,391 uncircumcised men.
Those results echo the finding of a trial completed last year in the town of Orange Farm, South Africa, financed by the French government, which demonstrated a reduction of 60 percent among circumcised men.
Two agencies, one under the State Department and the other financed by a number of countries, said they now would be willing to pay for circumcisions, which they have not before, citing a lack of hard evidence that it works.
Dr. Richard G. A. Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said that if a country seeking money submitted plans to conduct safe, sterile circumcisions, "I think it's very likely that our technical panel would approve it."
Ambassador Mark Dybul, executive director of the $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the State Department, said his agency "will support implementation of safe medical male circumcision for HIV/AIDS prevention."
He too warned that it was only one new weapon.
"Prevention efforts must reinforce the ABC approach — abstain, be faithful and correct and consistent use of condoms," he said.
Uncircumcised men are thought to be more susceptible to AIDS because the underside of the foreskin is rich in Langerhans' cells, which attach easily to the virus. The foreskin may also suffer small tears during intercourse, making it more susceptible to infection.
Researchers have long noted that parts of Africa where circumcision is practiced — particularly in the Muslim countries of West Africa — had much lower AIDS rates. But it was unclear whether other factors, such as religion or polygamy, played important roles.
Outside Muslim regions, circumcision is spotty. In South Africa, for example, the Xhosa people circumcise teen-age boys, while Zulus, whose traditional homeland abuts theirs, do not. AIDS is common in members of both tribes.
In recent years, as word has spread that circumcision might be protective, many African men have sought it out. A Zambian hospital offered $3 circumcisions last year, and Swaziland trained 60 doctors to give them at $40 each after its waiting lists grew.
"Private practitioners also do it," Dr. Halperin said. "In some places, it's $20, in others, much more. Lots of the wealthy elite have already done it. It prevents STD's, it's seen as cleaner, sex is better, women like it. I predict that
a lot of men who can't afford private clinics will start clamoring for it."
CHINA’S rapid industrialisation has likely made extinct a species of fresh water dolphin
that had been on Earth for over 20 million years.A team of scientists from China, Japan and the United States failed to find the white dolphin, known as the baiji, during a six-week search of its natural habitat in the Yangtze river late last year. "This result means the baiji is likely extinct,'' Wang Ding, who led the survey and is one of the world's leading experts on the species, said.The dolphin was a victim of devastating pollution, illegal fishing and heavy cargo traffic on the Yangtze, Wang said.The findings mean the baiji is likely the first mammal to become extinct in more than 50 years. It is the cousin of the bottlenose dolphin, which is also on the critically endangered list. Wang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, emphasised that not all hope was lost for the dolphin, which had made its home along the lower reaches of China's now heavily polluted Yangtze River for more than 20 million years. "We are not saying the baiji is already gone,'' he said. But he lamented that further searches this year had failed to find any sign of the dolphin. Wang said that a letter written by the survey team had been published in the latest issue of the Royal Society Biology Letters journal in Britain to confirm the dolphin was believed to be extinct. The baiji, identifiable by its long, teeth-filled snout and low dorsal fin, was last officially sighted more than two years ago. The last confirmed count by a research team was conducted in 1997, when just 13 were recorded. Up to 5000 baiji were believed to have lived in the Yangtze less than a century ago, according to the baiji.org website, which was established by a range of international conservation groups. Other rare species that live in the Yangtze, such as the Chinese sturgeon and the finless porpoise, are also in danger of extinction.
200 baht bribes to vote NO, and 30 m to 2 judges to vote not guilty, may the bribes begin in Thailand
Im declaring the olypmics open, MAY THE BRIBES BEGIN HOORAY
Government officials in the North and North east of Thailand have been bribing individuals with 200 baht to say no to the new constitution, that being about an average days wage, even thou they were employed to educated the people I guess they just figured they know better are saving these poor people the problem of having to decide themselves. How considerate of these people.
Its just recently come to light that an ex-police colonel has offered two judges 30 million baht to change their views in the Constitution Tribunal, which saw the Thai Rak Thai party dissolved and its members banned for five years thou something in the must be changing because they both rejected the offer, maybe someone else just beat them to it
Government officials in the North and North east of Thailand have been bribing individuals with 200 baht to say no to the new constitution, that being about an average days wage, even thou they were employed to educated the people I guess they just figured they know better are saving these poor people the problem of having to decide themselves. How considerate of these people.
Its just recently come to light that an ex-police colonel has offered two judges 30 million baht to change their views in the Constitution Tribunal, which saw the Thai Rak Thai party dissolved and its members banned for five years thou something in the must be changing because they both rejected the offer, maybe someone else just beat them to it
US loses track of 190,00 weapons in Iraq in 2 years, ...............what r they doin over there
THE Pentagon cannot account for 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 - about half the weapons earmarked for soldiers and police.
The Government Accountability Office(GAO), the investigative arm of the US Congress, said in a July 31 report to lawmakers that the Defence Department also could not account for 135,000 items of body armour and 115,000 helmets reported to be issued to Iraqi forces as of September 22, 2005.
The GAO said the Pentagon concurred with its findings and had begun a review to ensure full accountability for the program to train and equip Iraqi forces.
"However, our review of the 2007 property books found continuing problems with missing and incomplete records," the GAO report said.
The report raised concerns that weapons provided by the United States could be falling into the hands of Iraqi insurgents, just as politicians and policymakers in Washington await a September report on the success of US President George W. Bush's surge strategy for stabilising Baghdad.
One senior Pentagon official told The Washington Post some weapons probably were being used against US troops. He said an Iraqi brigade created in Fallujah disintegrated in 2004 and began fighting American soldiers.
Many in Washington view the development of effective Iraqi army and police forces as a vital step toward reducing the number of US troops in Iraq.
Since 2003, the United States has provided about $US19.2 billion ($22.55bn) to develop Iraqi security forces, the GAO said. The Defence Department has recently asked for another $US2bn ($2.35bn) to continue the train-and-equip program.
Congress funded the program for Iraqi security forces outside traditional security assistance programs, providing the Pentagon with a large degree of flexibility in managing the effort, the GAO said.
"Officials stated that since the funding did not go through traditional security assistance programs, the DOD accountability requirements normally applicable to these programs did not apply," the GAO report said.
Military officials in Iraq reported issuing 355,000 weapons to Iraqi security forces from June 2004 through September 2005, including 185,000 rifles and 170,000 pistols, the GAO said.
But the Defence Department could not account for 110,000 rifles and 80,000 pistols, the GAO said. Those sums amount to about 54 per cent of the total weapons distributed to the Iraqi forces.
The GAO quoted officials as saying the agency responsible for handling weapons distribution was too short-staffed to record information on individual items given to Iraqi forces.
Accountability procedures also could not be fully implemented because of the need to equip Iraqi forces rapidly for combat operations, the GAO found.
The Government Accountability Office(GAO), the investigative arm of the US Congress, said in a July 31 report to lawmakers that the Defence Department also could not account for 135,000 items of body armour and 115,000 helmets reported to be issued to Iraqi forces as of September 22, 2005.
The GAO said the Pentagon concurred with its findings and had begun a review to ensure full accountability for the program to train and equip Iraqi forces.
"However, our review of the 2007 property books found continuing problems with missing and incomplete records," the GAO report said.
The report raised concerns that weapons provided by the United States could be falling into the hands of Iraqi insurgents, just as politicians and policymakers in Washington await a September report on the success of US President George W. Bush's surge strategy for stabilising Baghdad.
One senior Pentagon official told The Washington Post some weapons probably were being used against US troops. He said an Iraqi brigade created in Fallujah disintegrated in 2004 and began fighting American soldiers.
Many in Washington view the development of effective Iraqi army and police forces as a vital step toward reducing the number of US troops in Iraq.
Since 2003, the United States has provided about $US19.2 billion ($22.55bn) to develop Iraqi security forces, the GAO said. The Defence Department has recently asked for another $US2bn ($2.35bn) to continue the train-and-equip program.
Congress funded the program for Iraqi security forces outside traditional security assistance programs, providing the Pentagon with a large degree of flexibility in managing the effort, the GAO said.
"Officials stated that since the funding did not go through traditional security assistance programs, the DOD accountability requirements normally applicable to these programs did not apply," the GAO report said.
Military officials in Iraq reported issuing 355,000 weapons to Iraqi security forces from June 2004 through September 2005, including 185,000 rifles and 170,000 pistols, the GAO said.
But the Defence Department could not account for 110,000 rifles and 80,000 pistols, the GAO said. Those sums amount to about 54 per cent of the total weapons distributed to the Iraqi forces.
The GAO quoted officials as saying the agency responsible for handling weapons distribution was too short-staffed to record information on individual items given to Iraqi forces.
Accountability procedures also could not be fully implemented because of the need to equip Iraqi forces rapidly for combat operations, the GAO found.
Im in a place where Ive heard it and seen it all.....................now judge let ye be judged
Ha ha ha now let me explain myself first, i've been living in a third world country for the last couple of years with my trusty ipod and computer and all the music I have and the movies Ive got are all years old, and have been repeated over and over and over again, now some would say that its a good test of ones contentment, and to be honest they say its against the law to buy illegal music/movies, but here you cant buy legally even if you want to, shops that use the name of overseas stores and companies and print out the whole cardboard jackets with proper cd covers and advertising, so basically they have the same amount of plastic and waste around them, but they have just been burnt off from the internet, so what can I do? buy illegal music/movies and increase the trade? or do I just download straight from the net, cut out the middle man, save myself a few bucks or what???
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