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Monday, 24 October 2011
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Sunday, 23 October 2011
Flu Shots for Pregnant Women Also Protect Newborns (HealthDay)
THURSDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Getting a seasonal flu vaccination while pregnant protects newborns from the flu for months after birth and won't cause a miscarriage.
So say studies scheduled to be presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), in Boston.
"Pregnant women are understandably concerned about protecting their unborn babies, which makes it all the more important for them to understand that getting a flu shot during pregnancy is an important way to protect the baby, as well as themselves," Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, a member of IDSA's Pandemic Influenza Task Force and a clinical professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, said in a society news release.
"These new data on the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines is reassuring, and the increasing number of pregnant women receiving the vaccine affirms that women are hearing the message about the vaccine's benefits," she added.
Newborns enter the world without protective immunity and can't get the flu vaccine until they are six months old, which makes them particularly vulnerable to the flu. Infants who get the flu can become severely ill, require hospitalization and even die, according to IDSA.
A small University of Utah study found that pregnant women who receive a flu vaccination pass their flu immunity to their babies in the form of flu antibodies. This protection lasts for a few months after birth.
The researchers found flu antibody protection in all the babies born to 11 pregnant women who received seasonal flu vaccine, compared to 31 percent of babies born to 16 women who did not get the flu vaccine.
Among the babies born to immunized women, antibody protection was still present in 60 percent when they were two months old and in 11 percent when they were four months old. None of the babies born to non-immunized women had antibody protection at two or four months.
"Our research suggests that maternal vaccination does provide some protection from the flu for a few months after birth," lead author Dr. Julie Shakib, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, said in the news release. "Pregnant women should receive the vaccine as soon as it becomes available to protect themselves as well as their babies."
Another study found no link between seasonal flu vaccination while pregnant and miscarriage. Researchers compared 243 pregnant women who had a miscarriage and 243 pregnant women who did not miscarry. Women who miscarried were not more likely to have received flu vaccine in the four weeks before their miscarriage, compared to women who did not miscarry.
"Safety concerns are one of the top reasons pregnant women provide for abstaining from getting the influenza vaccine," Stephanie Irving, an epidemiologist at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin, said in the news release. "Our findings should help pregnant women feel more comfortable about getting vaccinated."
Because these studies were presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about pregnant women and the flu.
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Breaking: Snooki Was NOT Busted With Pot
Today it was made crystal clear that Snooki did not get arrested for pot recently. A website actually got owned by lawyer?s acting on her behalf after they spit out a story suggesting she was busted. Hey, she may stumble around half naked, with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, but she ain?t no pot head. Nope. Not even a little bit. The most ridiculous part of the story is in the details. The site that first posted it claimed that she was caught with 12 ounces. That?s not exactly a casual use amount. Anyway, she is a little loopy and out of it, but I never thought she was a stoner. Now they were forced to apologize. It seems pretty humiliating. Find out more about the story, and the site that published the bogus story at TMZ. I love looking at pictures of celebrities when they were kids. Here is a good collection ? Too Fab. You have to see the latest trailer for Angelina?s upcoming movie ? Bumpshack. Check out LeAnn Rimes doing an Adele song.. interesting ? I Need My Fix. Wow, have you seen the deets about Dina Lohan?s upcoming book? ? Have U Heard. [...]
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AT&T revenue falls short, iPhone sales start strong (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? AT&T Inc's (T.N) quarterly revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates, as wireless customers spent less than expected in the quarter ahead of the latest Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone launch.
Shares in the No. 2 U.S. mobile provider fell slightly early on Thursday on concerns about a slowdown in wireless revenue growth, despite strong iPhone sales early in the fourth quarter.
While AT&T's wireless profit margin was better than expected, its average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) for subscribers who pay monthly bills fell short.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Chris King said that investors will be anxious to hear whether ARPU was brought down by customers from acquired assets or from price pressure from rivals.
"If they say its a trend and they're getting competitive pressure that's not a good thing," said King, adding that AT&T's ARPU of $63.69 missed his $64.50 expectation.
But AT&T's 43.7 percent profit margin from wireless services was well ahead of his expectation for 41.9 percent.
Better than expected wireless profits could likely be attributed to lower smartphone sales as customers held off on buying smartphones this quarter as they waited for the new iPhone, Mizuho analyst Michael Nelson said.
"In this quarter what you're going to see not just from AT&T but from other carriers is purchase delays ahead of the iPhone launch," Nelson said.
AT&T activated 1 million customers of the latest Apple phone, the iPhone 4S, as of Tuesday. Orders for the device started on October 7, after the end of the third quarter.
This marked the most successful iPhone launch yet, according to AT&T, which has been heavily dependent on iPhone sales for customer additions since 2007.
AT&T, which is looking for regulatory approval to buy T-Mobile USA, was the first of the big U.S. operators to report third-quarter results. AT&T once had exclusive rights to sell iPhones, but it now shares the market with Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel (S.N).
AT&T added 319,000 subscribers in the quarter, compared with the average expectation for more than 382,000 from nine analysts. Most estimates were clustered in the 300,000-400,000 range, but one analyst forecast 800,000, lifting the average. The median was 311,000.
It reported a drop in operating revenue to $31.48 billion from $31.58 billion in the year-ago quarter, and was shy of analyst expectations for revenue of $31.60 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
AT&T's profit of $3.6 billion, or 61 cents per share that was in line with Wall Street expectations. It compared with a profit of $12.32 billion or $2.07 per share in the same quarter the year before, when it had a big gain from an asset sale.
AT&T shares were down 13 cents at $28.96 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew; editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Derek Caney)
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Ask and Answer Questions About Android [Help Yourself]
Google's officially unveiled Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) this week, and the update has some great new features. We've talked about iOS a lot recently, but today's Help Yourself is for the Android fans, so ask and answer any question you have about getting a killer set-up on your Android Phone.
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/4P8ldprILbA/ask-and-answer-questions-about-android
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Spend the night in the world?s deepest underground hotel in Sweden (Yahoo! News)
Sala Silvermine in Sweden houses a hotel suite 509 ft. underground
In the next few years, extreme travelers could spend the night floating around in a space hotel. For now, what the Earth can offer will have to suffice. Thankfully, some options have the potential to satiate even the most adventurous ? take for example the deepest underground hotel suite in the world. Located in the old, 15th century Sala Silvermine in Sweden, the suite lies 509 ft. deep under the earth's surface.
The tunnels of Sala's mine were used to excavate for silver until 1908. Now, it houses a museum, a theater, two ornate dining rooms, and a hotel suite where two people can spend the night. Guests are first toured around the underground facilities so they know their way around, but ultimately left alone overnight ? attendants stay on ground level. If you're hit by the call of nature in the middle of the night, you'd have to go up to 165 ft. to access the nearest toilet; no bathroom exists within the mine. Phones, of course, do not work that deep underground.
Clearly, if you're claustrophobic, agoraphobic, or if you really just can't stand gloomy places, this hotel is not for you. But if you fancy a stay underground for whatever purpose you might have, you can spend a night in Sweden's Sala Silvermine suite for $580.
Sala Silvermine via Gizmag
This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca
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