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President Receives Evangelical Ambassador

December 15 (World Watch Monitor) ? (Compass) ? Three weeks after assuming office, President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia met with evangelical leaders in La Paz, the first official meeting in more than a decade between Bolivian Protestants and their head of state. ?We expressed evangelical support for the democratic process in Bolivia,? said Johan Candelin, Goodwill Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance, who met with Mesa on November 7. ?The situation is so fragile and difficult, that any support for the democratic process is badly needed.? Congress elevated Mesa, 53, to the presidency on October 17 after his predecessor, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, was forced to resign and leave the country following weeks of unruly protests which left more than 60 people dead. The meeting provided an opportunity for evangelicals to raise an issue close to their hearts: religious liberty. ?The basic understanding during the talks with President Mesa was that religious freedom is an important issue and that evangelicals should have the same religious freedom as all other citizens,? Candelin said. ?It has permitted us to harmonize and adapt our national strategy for the defense of religious liberty within our Biblical principles,? added Bruno Ossio, president of the Evangelical Alliance of Bolivia, who arranged the audience.

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Decline in available liver transplants expected

Jan. 10, 2013 ? A new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration, and published in the January 2013 issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), found that the non-use of donor livers climbed through 2010 due to a worsening of donor liver quality, primarily from donation following cardiac death. Diabetes, donor age, and body mass index (BMI) were also linked to a decrease in use of organs.

"For patients with end-stage liver disease, transplantation is the only option for extending life, but organ availability places constraints on the transplant community," explains Dr. Eric Orman with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. "One of the methods to increase the donor pool is to include donors with less than ideal health status -- those with fatty livers, older donors, and donation after cardiac death."

In an attempt to increase available livers for transplant, the transplant community has gradually extended donation criteria. However, previous research shows that poor outcomes may occur following transplant of more inferior organs. In fact, studies have shown an increased recipient morbidity and mortality risk with donation after cardiac death (when circulation ceases) than with standard donation following brain death in which donor circulation is sustained.

For the present study researchers used data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to identify 107,259 deceased donors in U.S. between 1988 and 2010. Donors were 18 years of age and older who had a least one organ (liver, heart, intestine, kidney, lung or pancreas) used for transplantation. The mean donor age was 44 years; 41% were female and 68% were white. Split liver donations and donors with BMI less than 14 kg/m² or more than 50 kg/m² were excluded.

Analysis indicates that 41,503 donations occurred after June 30, 2004 with 82% of livers used for transplant and 18% unused. The number of unused livers decreased from 1,958 (66% of donors) in 1988 to 841 (15%) in 2004, and then increased to 1,345 (21%) in 2010. Liver non-use was independently linked to older donor age, greater BMI, diabetes prevalence and donation after cardiac death -- all of which are on the rise in the U.S.

Researchers reported a four-fold increase in the odds of non-use of livers from donation following cardiac death donors between 2004 and 2010, with the proportion of nonuse climbing from 9% to 28% during the same time period. "Our findings show nonuse of livers for transplantation is steadily rising, and is primarily due to donation after cardiac death," concludes Dr. Orman. "If these trends continue, a significant decline in liver transplant availability would be inevitable."

In a related editorial also published in Liver Transplantation, Dr. Anton Skaro from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. concurs, "Utilization of livers donated after cardiac death increases risk of biliary complications, greater costs and higher graft failure rates, resulting in a reduction of liver transplants using organs donated after cardiac death in the U.S. since 2006." Dr. Skaro suggests that liver transplantation using organs donated after cardiac death should be encouraged for recipients who would have poor outcomes by remaining on the waitlist.

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1. Eric S. Orman, A. Sidney Barritt, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Paul H. Hayashi. Declining liver utilization for transplantation in the United States and the impact of donation after cardiac death. Liver Transplantation, 2013; 19 (1): 59 DOI: 10.1002/lt.23547

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Lily Allen Welcomes Daughter Marnie Rose

The "Smile" singer and her husband Sam Cooper welcomed her second daughter -- and the baby girl shares her special day with rock legends Elvis and David Bowie. Marnie Rose arrived on Tuesday, Jan. 8, according to reports.

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Land ho: New island emerges off German coast

A new island has emerged off the coast of Germany

Germany has sprouted an island. The hook-shaped land is 16 miles off the coast of Germany, and it is 34 acres long. Dubbed Norderoogsand, the island, which lies in the German North Sea coast, has already become the home to more than 50 plant species and a variety of sea birds.

Amazingly, 10 years ago, the island didn?t exist. The speed with which it went from sand bar to land mass is surprising scientists.

?The fact that in just a few years a new island is formed is very impressive," local conservationist Detlef Hansen, who works at nearby Wadden Sea National Park, told the Telegraph. He added, "For conservationists, this is anything but ordinary."

The plucky island is bolstered against winds thanks to its 13-foot-high dunes and grasses that help it combat erosion. It was also helped by its location near other islands that buffered it from winter storms and the fact that few storm surges have appeared there in the past decade.

Still, don?t plan a vacation around this untouched paradise just yet: Scientists warn that one superstorm could wipe it off the map.

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New clock revolves around an atom's mass

Study claims that time can be gauged by a particle's heft

By Andrew Grant

Web edition: January 10, 2013

It?s part clock, part scale: A newly developed atomic clock measures time based on the mass of a single atom. The research, published online January 10 in Science, is controversial but could provide scientists with more precise methods of measuring both time and mass.

?This is the first clock based on a single particle,? says Holger M?ller, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. ?Its ticking rate is determined only by the particle?s mass.?

The idea for the clock stemmed from the quantum principle that particles also behave as waves, and vice versa. In particular, M?ller and his colleagues wanted to determine how frequently the wave form of a single atom oscillates, a quantity that in quantum mechanics is inherently linked to the atom?s mass. Then the researchers could use those oscillations like swings of a pendulum to create a clock.

The snag in M?ller?s plan was that it?s impossible to directly measure the oscillation frequency of waves of matter. The frequency of these waves is about 10²⁵ hertz, 10 orders of magnitude higher than that of visible light waves. So M?ller and his colleagues came up with an apparatus that creates two sets of waves ? one based on a cesium atom at rest and another on the atom in motion. The researchers measured the frequency difference between the waves and then used that number, a manageable 100,000 hertz or so, to calculate the much larger oscillation frequency of cesium at rest.

With this approach, M?ller was able to use the wave frequency of the cesium atom to create a clock that would gain or lose a second after eight years. That?s better than a wristwatch but about a hundred millionth as precise as today?s best atomic clocks, which count the frequency of light emissions from an atom as its electrons release small bursts of energy.

Physicists not involved with M?ller?s research are impressed with his clever technique but are skeptical about its potential for precise timekeeping. ?I think the paper is slightly oversold,? says Vladan Vuleti?, a quantum physicist at MIT.

Other researchers have a more conceptual objection: Because there is nothing at this frequency actually oscillating within the atom, they say it is not a clock at all. ?It may be a clock numerically, but it?s not a physical clock,? says Christian Bord?, a physicist at the Paris Observatory. M?ller counters that the clock?s simplicity is its greatest trait: He is measuring an intrinsic quantum property of an atom, one that depends only on the atom?s mass.

In fact, this relationship between frequency and mass means M?ller?s technique may prove most useful as a scale for measuring mass. Scientists define the kilogram, the base unit of mass, with a lump of metal stored in a French vault ? a lump that is likely gaining heft from contamination (SN: 11/20/10, p. 12). The international General Conference on Weights and Measures, led by Bord?, wants to replace this artifact with a kilogram standard based on fundamental physical constants.

M?ller says he can do just that by measuring the frequency of matter waves to accurately determine an atom?s mass. Once he finds the mass of one atom, he says, it is straightforward to relate it to the masses of other atoms. He will have a lot of convincing to do, but M?ller plans to let the scientific process play out to test his ideas. ?This is a concept that physicists never thought about,? he says. ?This frequency wasn?t measurable until now.?

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347512/title/New_clock_revolves_around_an_atoms_mass

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Drug Maker Settles With Sisters Who Blame Cancer On Pregnancy ...

BOSTON (CBS/AP) ? Four sisters who claimed in a lawsuit their breast cancer was caused by synthetic estrogen their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s have reached a settlement with the drug company Eli Lilly and Co., a lawyer for the sisters said Wednesday.

Attorney Julie Oliver-Zhang said the settlement, for an undisclosed amount, was reached on the second day of a trial in U.S. District Court in Boston. They had not specified damages sought in the lawsuit.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly released a statement after the settlement was reached saying:

While we continue to believe that Lilly?s medication did not cause the conditions alleged in this lawsuit, we believe the settlement is in the best interest of the Company. Settling this trial helps us get back to what we want to focus on as a company; developing important new medications through research and partnerships with doctors and patients.

The sisters? case was the first to go to trial out of scores of similar claims filed in Boston and around the country. A total of 51 women have lawsuits pending in U.S. District Court in Boston against more than a dozen companies that made or marketed the drug.

DES, or diethylstilbestrol, was prescribed to millions of pregnant women over three decades to prevent miscarriages, premature births and other problems. It was taken off the market in the early 1970s after it was linked to a rare vaginal cancer in women whose mothers used DES.

Studies later showed the drug did not prevent miscarriages.

In his opening trial statement Tuesday, Aaron Levine, another lawyer for the sisters, said Eli Lilly failed to test the drug?s effect on fetuses before promoting it as a way to prevent miscarriages.

James Dillon, a lawyer for Eli Lilly, told the jury there is no evidence the drug causes breast cancer in the daughters of women who took it. He also said no medical records show the mother of the four women in the Boston case took DES, or that if she did take it, that it was made by Eli Lilly.

DES was not patented and was made by many companies.

The Melnick sisters, who grew up in Tresckow, Pa., say they all developed breast cancer in their 40s after their mother took DES while pregnant.

Levine told the jury that their mother did not take DES while pregnant with a fifth sister, and that sister has not developed breast cancer.

The four Melnick sisters also had miscarriages, fertility problems or other reproductive tract problems long suspected of being caused by prenatal exposure to DES. They were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1997 and 2003 and had treatments ranging from lump-removal surgery to a full mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy.

Dillon said that the doctor who treated the Melnick sisters? mother is now dead, and that there are no records of him prescribing DES. Dillon said Eli Lilly at the time recommended DES for women who had had three or more consecutive miscarriages.

The sisters? mother, he said, did not have consecutive miscarriages, so prescribing it to her would have gone against the company?s recommendations. Dillon said leading researchers at the time recommended that DES be used for pregnant women.

Dillon told the jury that while it is ?terribly unfair? that the four sisters got breast cancer, it is a common disease and doctors still don?t understand what causes it.

Thousands of lawsuits have been filed alleging links between DES and vaginal and cervical cancer, as well as fertility problems. Many of those cases were settled.

Denise Lavoie of the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Storm leaves Gaza man dead, Jerusalem snowed in

A Palestinian rescue worker helps a boy cross a flooded street in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. In Gaza, civil defense spokesman Mohammed al-Haj Yousef said storms have cut electricity powering thousands of homes and rescuers were sent to evacuate dozens of people. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

A Palestinian rescue worker helps a boy cross a flooded street in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. In Gaza, civil defense spokesman Mohammed al-Haj Yousef said storms have cut electricity powering thousands of homes and rescuers were sent to evacuate dozens of people. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

JERUSALEM (AP) ? A Gaza health official says a Palestinian man was electrocuted after being struck by a power cable snapped loose by ferocious winter winds, while a rare snowstorm paralyzed traffic in Jerusalem, its suburbs and the nearby West Bank.

Ashraf al-Kidra says the 24-year-old died late Wednesday in the accident, which left four others injured. While heavy rains have subsided, wind gusts continue to wreak havoc with the territory's electrical supply, and power has been cut off this week for up to 14 hours a day.

On Thursday, several inches of snow piled up in Jerusalem, its environs and the West Bank for the first time in five years, shuttering schools and crippling transportation.

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