Oily fish off the menu for preventing more heart attacks - Boots WebMD

14th June 2013 - People who have had a heart attack may no longer be advised to eat oily fish to help prevent them having another attack.

The change is being made in updated draft guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the hundreds of thousands of adults in England and Wales who have survived a heart attack.

The guidelines were originally written in 2007, but NICE says recent improvements in care and treatment for people who have had heart attacks means that eating oily fish, or taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements, may only have a minimal effect in preventing further attacks or strokes.

Mediterranean diet

Patients would, however, be encouraged to eat a Mediterranean-style diet, including more bread, fruit, vegetables and fish. They should cut down on meat, and replace butter and cheese with products based on plant oils.

The new guidelines, which have been published for consultation, include changes in the treatments given immediately after a heart attack since the original guideline was published, particularly the use of stents rather than drugs as a means of widening blocked or narrowed coronary arteries.

The number of people having heart attacks and strokes has fallen over the past 30 years. Currently, around 103,000 people in the UK have heart attacks each year.

Professor Mark Baker, director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, says in a statement: "Despite the improvements in the number of people surviving a heart attack, heart disease remains the UK?s biggest killer, causing more than 80,000 deaths each year. It also causes on-going health problems for many thousands of others. People who have had a heart attack have a greatly increased risk of another.

"This updated draft guideline takes on board the latest evidence on the best ways to prevent further heart attacks or strokes in people who have already suffered a heart attack. Its aim is to provide the growing number of people who now survive a heart attack with the good quality, systematic care that is essential to improving long term outcomes and quality of life."

Rehabilitation

Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, says in a statement: "It's been six years since the last heart attack guidelines were published and treatment of heart attacks has changed substantially.

"Stents are now the preferred treatment option and all patients should be offered cardiac rehabilitation afterwards. It?s great news that NICE has recognised this and is updating the guidance in the light of new evidence.

"It?s one thing to save a life; it?s another thing giving patients a life worth saving. Only 44% of eligible patients currently receive cardiac rehabilitation, despite the evidence demonstrating it can reduce premature death.

"Interestingly, oily fish is no longer on the menu for those who have had a heart attack, but the benefits of a Mediterranean diet are helpfully emphasised in the guidance."

Dr Knapton adds: "It remains to be seen how quickly the NHS can implement any new guidelines."

Source: http://www.webmd.boots.com/heart-disease/news/20130614/oily-fish-heart-attacks

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Quotations of the day

"There are many actions that the United States can take to increase our humanitarian assistance to refugee populations and opposition groups short of injecting more weapons into the conflict." ? Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., expressing concerns about the Obama administration's plan to arm Syrian rebels in that country's civil war.

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"The bad guys are now changing their methods of operation. His disclosures are ultimately going to lead to us being less safe in America because bad guys will be able to figure out a way around some of the methods we use, and it's likely to cost lives down the road." ? Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., after disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of two secret NSA surveillance programs.

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"I never in my wildest dreams imagined we'd be dealing a year later with a very similar circumstance." ? El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa as the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns for a third day.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/quotations-day-070627283.html

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WWDC 2013 Day 1

I lined up at 2am for the WWDC 2013 keynote. It was early, it was cold. But there were great people in line to talk with and the time passed surprisingly fast. Marc Gurman was there, as was Adam Bell, Grant Paul (chpwn), Marc Edwards, the Nickelfish crew, and many, many others. But that was just the beginning...!

Due to new security procedures -- bag checks -- they let us in earlier than in years before, but that just meant lining up inside after out. There were a couple of additional banners up, but covered in black cloth. Secrets!

We finally got in around 9:30pt, half an hour before the event was scheduled to begin, and I raced to get ready. Seth Clifford was handling the live blogging and I was taking photos. I was shooting with a Canon 5D Mark III and 70-200mm Sigma lens, which I'd accidentally dropped the night before. Luckily only the UV filter shattered and the camera worked fine. Unluckily, I lost my miniUSB cable so I could shoot tethered. That meant I had to shoot a series of pictures, swap cards, start importing in Aperture, export, drag into the Live Blog, and keep shooting with the other card. It was sub-optimal but it worked.

• WWDC 2013 live blog

• WWDC 2013 first impressions

After the keynote the curtains were pulled on the new banners -- OS X Mavericks and the MacBooks, and new Mac Pros were available to be stared at.

I went to the State of the Union. That's the second keynote, and the on that's under NDA which means I can't talk about what was said there. (If you violate NDA's, you're not doing Apple, this business, or yourself any favors.) I can say there was some amazing, and some very candid things shown and discussed there.

Then it was time for the iMore + Debug + Iterate party. We wanted to podcast right after the event so we could bring you all our thoughts and feelings while they were still fresh. We also wanted to thank all the incredible guests we'd had on the shows for the past two years, and honor both our 2012 and 2013 iMore Hall of Fame winners, so we decided to throw a small party. Jessie Char from Pacific Helm was kind enough to handle all the heavy lifting for us. We had some great guests on as well, and we'll post both the video and audio soon.

After that I spent some time with some very, very smart people deconstruction all the events of the day, and pouring over iOS 7 by the pixel and bit. So much has changed, and so much seems unfinished, that I'm still working on collecting my thoughts.

But I'll have a full iOS 7 first impressions article for everyone very soon.

Thanks for reading all our coverage so far, and if there's anything else you'd like to see - or just see more of -- let me know right now!

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/bjWRIEs4Kzg/story01.htm

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No positive step has been taken to eradicate this ... - Kaieteur News

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Dear Editor,
I read with great interest the article that appeared in your newspaper on June 2, 2013 and I totally agree with the comments made by the author Gabriel Lall, and he should be commended for his excellent work. I have been making the same observation time and time again, but nothing significantly is being done by the government and to a lesser extent by the opposition forces to deal with the racial issue which is the root of most of the problems in the country.
Instead of the government putting machinery in place with competent and unbias personnel to tackle the problem in race relation, they seem to focus on placing incompetent party supporters in their positions. I agree with the comments made by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphal Trotman that ?our colonial predecessors effectively manipulated and used the issue of race and competition and rivalry to divide the Government. However, while we are not guilty of starting this rivalry, we are certainly to be condemned for continuing it?
So true, the PNC during its 28 years in administration has failed to address the burning problem and the PPPC in its 22 years is not doing better ? maybe totally ignoring the issue.
Perhaps from time to time comments have been made by leaders on both sides of the political divide about the conflict, but no positive step has been taken to eradicate this cancer in our society.
The country has recently celebrated its 47th anniversary of independence from colonial rule, but it seems as if we are still unable to solve our problems. What a shame.
The government should take the lead in this regard; inviting the opposition, the Council of Churches, all other religious organizations, the Chamber of Commerce, the trade unions, and other organizations to address the burning issue.
It might surprise some readers, the problem has spilled over in other Caribbean countries where a large number of?Guyanese live. I was asked a few years ago in one of the islands to intervene in a racial rivalry. It was very embarrassing, but it was solved to a certain extent.
Oscar Ramjeet

Source: http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/06/03/no-positive-step-has-been-taken-to-eradicate-this-cancer-in-our-society/

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McCain pictured with Syrian rebel kidnapper

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain was photographed during a trip to Syria with a man implicated in the kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims a year ago, a Lebanese newspaper said on Thursday.

McCain, a Republican, has been an outspoken advocate for U.S. military aid to the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and made a short, highly publicised trip to meet rebel commanders in Syria three days ago.

He has insisted that the United States could locate the "right people" to help among rebel ranks infiltrated with radicalised Islamists.

However, he may have crossed paths with men linked to a group notorious in the region for kidnapping the pilgrims, the Daily Star said.

The paper said that as well as McCain's photographs with rebel commanders, one image showed the face of Mohammad Nour - identified by two freed hostages as the chief spokesman and photographer for the Northern Storm brigade that kidnapped them.

The image demonstrates the difficulty of identifying who the West might want to deal with and could possibly further inflame the delicate sectarian balance in a conflict that is spilling over Lebanon's borders.

A spokesman for McCain said none of the people he met identified themselves as Nour and it had not been his intention to meet anyone of that name.

"A number of the Syrians who greeted Senator McCain upon his arrival in Syria asked to take pictures with him, and as always, the senator complied. If the individual photographed with Senator McCain is in fact Mohammad Nour, that is regrettable," spokesman Brian Rogers said.

"But it would be ludicrous to suggest that the senator in any way condones the kidnapping of Lebanese Shia pilgrims or has any communication with those responsible. Senator McCain condemns such heinous actions in the strongest possible terms."

The hostages were seized in northern Syria as they returned from a pilgrimage in Iran. Lebanese officials flew to Turkey on Thursday in the latest effort to secure the release of the remaining nine hostages.

McCain has denounced Democratic President Barack Obama for shying away from deeper involvement in the conflict. The uprising-turned-civil war has become increasingly bloody and has claimed more than 80,000 in over two years of conflict.

"The senator believes his visit to Syria was critical to supporting the many brave Syrians who are fighting for their lives and the freedom of their country against a brutal regime and its foreign allies that are massacring Syrian citizens on Syrian territory," the spokesman said.

(Reporting by Erika Solomon; Additional reporting by Alistair Bell; Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-senator-mccain-pictured-syrian-rebel-kidnapper-paper-172141362.html

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