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Contact: Mark Couch mark.couch@ucdenver.edu 303-724-5377 University of Colorado Denver
AURORA, Colo. (May 21, 2013) A paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-written by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine finds that an important genetic risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis can be used to identify individuals at risk for this deadly lung disease.
Researchers looked at a fairly common variant of the gene for mucin-5B, a protein that is a component of the mucous produced by the bronchial tubes. While this variant of the MUC5B gene is fairly common, pulmonary fibrosis is an uncommonly reported disease.
In a review of CT scans of more than 2,600 adults who did not have a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis, researchers found imaging evidence of lung inflammation and scarring in about 9 percent of those over age 50. In this age group, these abnormal findings on CT scans were significantly more common among the 21 percent people with the MUC5B genetic variant.
Importantly, definite lung fibrosis seen on CT scan was strongly associated with the MUC5B genetic variant. While these abnormalities do not necessarily indicate a disease that will progress, the presence of these abnormalities were associated with more shortness of breath and cough as well as smaller lung sizes and ability to transfer oxygen.
The findings suggest that pulmonary fibrosis, which is a condition where lung tissue becomes thickened, stiff and scarred, may be a part of a much more common, but likely less severe, syndrome and could potentially be predicted on the basis of the MUC5B genetic variant.
David A. Schwartz, MD, chairman of the School of Medicine's Department of Medicine, was a corresponding and senior author of the paper. Gary M. Hunninghake, MD, MPH, from the pulmonary and critical care division of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston was a corresponding and first author of the paper. The research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the U.S. Veterans Administration.
Twenty-one authors shared credit for the paper, including researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston University. Joining Schwartz from Colorado were Elissa Murphy, MS, and Marvin I. Schwarz, MD, from the School of Medicine and Tasha E. Fingerlin, PhD, from the Colorado School of Public Health.
David Schwartz this month gave the American Thoracic Society's Amberson Lecture, an honor bestowed annually on an individual with a career of major lifetime contributions to clinical or basic pulmonary research and/or clinical practice.
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Contact: Mark Couch mark.couch@ucdenver.edu 303-724-5377 University of Colorado Denver
AURORA, Colo. (May 21, 2013) A paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-written by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine finds that an important genetic risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis can be used to identify individuals at risk for this deadly lung disease.
Researchers looked at a fairly common variant of the gene for mucin-5B, a protein that is a component of the mucous produced by the bronchial tubes. While this variant of the MUC5B gene is fairly common, pulmonary fibrosis is an uncommonly reported disease.
In a review of CT scans of more than 2,600 adults who did not have a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis, researchers found imaging evidence of lung inflammation and scarring in about 9 percent of those over age 50. In this age group, these abnormal findings on CT scans were significantly more common among the 21 percent people with the MUC5B genetic variant.
Importantly, definite lung fibrosis seen on CT scan was strongly associated with the MUC5B genetic variant. While these abnormalities do not necessarily indicate a disease that will progress, the presence of these abnormalities were associated with more shortness of breath and cough as well as smaller lung sizes and ability to transfer oxygen.
The findings suggest that pulmonary fibrosis, which is a condition where lung tissue becomes thickened, stiff and scarred, may be a part of a much more common, but likely less severe, syndrome and could potentially be predicted on the basis of the MUC5B genetic variant.
David A. Schwartz, MD, chairman of the School of Medicine's Department of Medicine, was a corresponding and senior author of the paper. Gary M. Hunninghake, MD, MPH, from the pulmonary and critical care division of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston was a corresponding and first author of the paper. The research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the U.S. Veterans Administration.
Twenty-one authors shared credit for the paper, including researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston University. Joining Schwartz from Colorado were Elissa Murphy, MS, and Marvin I. Schwarz, MD, from the School of Medicine and Tasha E. Fingerlin, PhD, from the Colorado School of Public Health.
David Schwartz this month gave the American Thoracic Society's Amberson Lecture, an honor bestowed annually on an individual with a career of major lifetime contributions to clinical or basic pulmonary research and/or clinical practice.
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Faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine work to advance science and improve care. These faculty members include physicians, educators and scientists at University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver Health, National Jewish Health, and the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The school is located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, one of four campuses in the University of Colorado system. To learn more about the medical school's care, education, research and community engagement, please visit its web site. For additional news and information, please visit the University of Colorado Denver newsroom.
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I have finally plucked up enough courage to broadcast myself. I really did not know which section of the Forum to put this in as it seems that my problems are all over the place. I am putting it in 'Sexual Addictions' and 'NPD'.
I left work in April 2010 after having a mental breakdown due to my worsening OCD and other mental problems. I have received psychiatric treatment for the past three years and I have been told that I have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder (an Unprincipled Narcissist) which has made my OCD worse and caused me to be very depressed. I also feel that I have a form of sexual addiction.
I have had CBT therapy and Psychiatric therapy under a psychiatric unit. This has now finished as I only had a fixed number of sessions. I was told that the NHS could not offer any help for my sexual problems. This has made me very angry as I do not feel that it has helped. It has just been an NHS box-ticking exercise and I now feel totally abandoned. I have been told that the NHS is no longer able to help me but help may be available privately. I cannot afford to go privately as I have not worked since my breakdown. I see my GP on a monthly basis but feel that she is only performing another box-ticking exercise.
I have been on medication since April 2010; 250mg/day Chlomipramine with 7mg/day Risperidone, then Olanzapine and I am on now on Sertraline 100mg/day. I have had unpleasant side affects with some of these.
I have anger management issues as I find my day to day coping with my NPD and OCD a struggle which I cannot deal with. My OCD means that I cannot touch things without washing my hands afterward repeatedly. I have morbid and obscene thoughts all the time which means I cannot walk about, switch lights, doors, stairs, anything at all until I have the right thoughts, which are very hard to find. If I try to ignore them, my stress and anger level increases and I have a tightening sensation in my chest and I feel sick. At times like these I lose interest in what I am doing (if I even start it) and give up.
Whenever I meet people I just feel hostile and am ready for any attack they make. If somebody looks at me in the wrong way or says something, I cannot stop myself from snapping back at them and being rude and aggressive. I sometimes push things in shops or slam doors open or closed. I feel very aggressive and want to break things and I try to suppress this by talking to myself when I walk around. I swear at things loudly and people under my breath in a way that means I can just be heard, but people cannot be sure that I am talking to them. I feel very anxious when meeting people as if they know what my problems are so I attack them to warn them away. I know that if I hit somebody I will be in trouble so I have to walk away. It is better to avoid people in the first place. They are always against me and I cannot allow them to beat me. They will be nasty to me sooner or later so I have to protect myself. My thoughts wander all over the place and I sometimes have bad thoughts about what I would like to do to people who are my enemy.
Sometimes I am so depressed that I have to try very hard not to hurt myself. When I have the bad thoughts, I have to punish myself by hitting myself and cutting myself. I have also burnt myself with an iron. When I cut myself I like to see the blood because I know that the badness is running out of me for a while. I find it impossible to get motivated and get more and more depressed. This makes my OCD worse and my anger increases. My anger started as a coping strategy but is sometimes out of control. When I told my Psychiatrist that I hoped that somebody would break into my home so that I could use my shotgun, they carried out a Police check on me. I am scared that I will be put into a situation that makes me so angry that I will not be able to control myself.
My NPD and OCD includes sexual obsessions which upset me and yet I often find it very hard to behave in an appropriate manner. My sexual obsessions mean that I look at women in a sexually intimidating manner. I look at their breasts or between their legs not caring if they see me looking or are offended because I have no thought or regard for them. It gives me a feeling of power and control. I have to avoid women because my anger sometimes feels sexual. I have sexual urges which I find difficult to control. I would never physically hurt anybody but cannot stop myself from intimidating them. I have sexual thoughts about my loved ones so I have to punish myself.
I have several sexualised websites on which I post photos of me nude or having sex with women I have photographed. I cannot stop looking at pornography and feel the need to masturbate often. My psychiatrist says that these issues are deep within myself and feels that they may have contributed to my NPD and OCD. She thinks that I channel the disturbing sexual thoughts which go along with my OCD into ones that I can control ie. exhibitionism and pornography etc. It seems that when I am sexually charged I am more confident for a while but when they go I am left feeling more desperately depressed than ever. I have visited sex clubs and taken part in 'greedy girl' events. I love my wife and have never been inside another woman although I like to have them perform oral sex on me. I like to ejaculate over them and this does not feel as if I am being unfaithful to my wife because they are doing it to me, not me to them. I have recently masturbated a man at a sex club and that does not feel like being unfaithful as I know that it is not really me. I do not find the male body attractive at all but I like to look at penises, usually in relation to hetero pornography. When I masturbated that man, I put myself into the mind of a porn actress and enjoyed the control I had over him. I am hostile toward men and so I enjoy having the power. It is my way of exercising control. Some kind of controlled aggression. I sometimes park my car in a quiet place and masturbate whilst reading pornography. If a man makes an advance to me, I attack them verbally and can hardly control my hate. It seems that most of the time I think that I either want to hurt people or have sex with them.
I regret not making more of of my CBT session with my first counsellor. I found her attractiveness to be too much of a distraction and I would be sitting in front of her not really taking in what she was saying but imagining ejaculating over her legs and face.
I find myself thinking about how I would kill myself. I can be sitting watching TV and when I have to keep rewinding the programme because something is said or shown on the TV which my OCD will not let me get past, I get so depressed that I wonder if certain things around the house would take my weight if I tied a rope to them. The only thing that stops me from doing something like this is the thought of my family. I then feel so depressed and empty that it is usually then that I have to go and look at some pornography and masturbate.
I really cannot see anything in my life that is good for me except my wife, daughter and my parents. I love them so much and would never hurt them but they find it difficult to understand me, although they try. Without them I think I would do something to hurt myself badly or worse.
It seems that my NPD and OCD are controlling my whole life and I do not know what I can do about it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in U.S. suburbs surpassed the number of poor in cities over the past decade, driven by strong growth in overall suburban populations, according to an analysis released on Monday.
The change is posing a challenge to some traditional U.S. approaches to fighting poverty, which were aimed primarily at poverty in urban settings, the Brookings Institution study found.
The number of poor people living in suburbs rose 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, reaching 16.4 million, it showed. The number of poor people living in urban areas increased 29 percent to 13.4 million.
"Despite the fact that 'poverty in America' still conjures images of inner-city slums, the suburbanization of poverty has redrawn the contemporary American landscape," authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube wrote in "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America."
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the background. Visit Vesti.ru to watch a Russian-language video, or click on the embedded video below.
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MOSCOW ??A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.
Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies reported, quoting Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher.
Sychov said this was to be expected. The surviving mice were sufficient to complete the study, which was designed to show the effects of weightlessness and other factors of spaceflight on cell structure, he said. All 15 of the lizards reportedly survived. The capsule also carried small crayfish and fish.
The capsule's orbit reached 575 kilometers (345 miles) above Earth, according to the news agencies. That's higher than the orbit of the International Space Station, which is currently at a maximum altitude of about 421 kilometers (262 miles).
Russian state television showed the round Bion-M capsule and some of the surviving mice after it landed slightly off course but safely in a planted field near Orenburg, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) southeast of Moscow.
"This is the first time that animals have flown in space for so long on their own," Sychov said in the television broadcast from the landing site. The last research craft to carry animals into space spent 12 days in orbit in 2007.
The mice and other animals were to be flown back to Moscow to undergo a series of tests at Sychov's institute, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Watch Vesti Russia24's Russian-language coverage of the "space ark" that returned to Earth.
Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that's far from the case?and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications.
Having teamed up with security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars sent fresh web links across Skype, and found that half of them were accessed by a machine with an IP address belonging to Microsoft as they traversed the internet. That means that Skype messages are sent across the web in such a way that allows Microsoft to study plaintext within them, and clearly its a technique it uses regularly. Matt Green, a professor specializing in encryption at Johns Hopkins University, told Ars:
"The problem right now is that there's a mismatch between the privacy people expect and what Microsoft is actually delivering. Even if Microsoft is only scanning links for 'good' purposes, say detecting malicious URLs, this indicates that they can intercept some of your text messages. And that means they could potentially intercept a lot more of them."
It's not clear how the text is scrutinized by Microsoft: whole messages could be being scanned on Microsoft servers, end-user Skype installs could send snippets to be checked, or something else entirely could be happening. What is clear, though, is that the ability to extract content is very, very real.
Perhaps it shouldn't come as a massive surprise that Microsoft wants to keep tabs on what's being sent using its Skype service?it has a duty to make sure its services aren't being abused, after all. But it's important for end users to be aware that their communications aren't as private as they perhaps thought. Now you do. [Ars Technica]
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STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block.
Around 50 youths were involved in the riots in the suburb of Husby, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said.
The youths set light to a parking garage, compelling police to evacuate residents from an adjacent apartment block, Bystrom said. Residents were allowed to return home after a couple of hours.
Around 80 percent of the roughly 11,000 people living in Husby ? a drab, low-income neighborhood of apartment blocks west of Stockholm ? are first or second generation immigrants.
Bystrom said police responded to calls of burning cars and were met by masked youths hurling rocks at them.
One policeman was attacked by youths kicking him and two others were injured by rocks, local police officerJorgen Karlsson said. He added around 10 cars were set ablaze, and windows were smashed at two schools and several local businesses.
Karlsson said the dead man was "European," but couldn't specify his nationality.
Residents said they had gathered to protest against the shooting death and that police responded by sending in SWAT teams that cordoned off the area.
"I understand that people react like this," said Rami Al-Khamisi from the organization Megafonen, which represents citizens in Stockholm's suburbs.
The organization said police had used excessive violence against the youths and also attacked passers-by with batons and dogs.
Police have launched an internal probe to investigate the shooting death on May 13 of a 69-year-old man in Husby. They say they shot the man in self-defense because he had attacked police with a knife when they broke down the door to an apartment, where he had locked himself up with a woman.
However, Megafonen has criticized police for initially releasing a faulty report saying the man was taken to a hospital. The group said residents had seen his dead body being transported from the scene hours after the shooting in a hearse, which police later admitted was correct.
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