Race-Based Medications, Supplements 'Misleading,' Opinion Piece Says

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The "development of race-based products such as vitamins and drugs" by pharmaceutical manufacturers is "misleading the public to believe that races ar biologically distinct, requiring race-specific products, simply the basis for their wares flies in the face of science," Susanne Haga, an assistant inquiry professor at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences Policy and Public Policy, writes in a Durham Herald Sun opinion man. According to Haga, "While there are some differences in disease prevalence among races, thither are no diseases or conditions -- and sure no nutritionary requirements -- that are exclusive to just one group." She adds, "If we've knowledgeable anything from the last decade of genetics enquiry, it's that our DNA is mostly colorblind."

Nubian Health Products and GenSpec offer vitamins and/or dietary supplements specifically for blacks, and NitroMed developed the heart disease treatment BiDil, the first FDA-approved raced-based drug, she notes. "As a genetic science researcher and someone of mixed heritage myself, these companies reflect a troubling trend," Haga writes.

She continues, "Given the wide variation within groups, the growing of a 'genetically specific' formula would be challenging, to aver the least," adding, "The recent increase in the numbers of people world Health Organization identify with more than one race would appear to pose a kinda large trouble to the companies marketing race-based products."

Haga writes, "Although genetics is tortuous in most if not all aspects of our health, the environment plays at least an be role," adding, "Even if we knew which genes played a part in our dietary needs, it's unlikely those differences would follow perceived racial divides." The industriousness needs to "look beyond skin colour" in the development of personalized music, Haga writes (Haga, Durham Herald Sun, 8/22).


A "Today's Topics in Health Disparities" webcast on "Race and Genetics: The Future of Personalized Medicine" is available on-line.


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Movie tough guy VINNIE JONES saw his life flash before his eyes when he thought a wild contain was charging towards him during a fishing trip in distant Canada.

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Anjelica Huston - Huston To Be Honoured At Locarno

Hollywood star ANJELICA HUSTON will be honoured at this year's (08) Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

The 56-year-old will pick up the Excellence Award at the August (08) event, where she will also premiere her new movie Choke.

Past winners of the prize include Willem Defoe, John Malkovich and Susan Sarandon.

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Kaiser Chiefs Leeds United homecoming kicks off

Kaiser Chiefs' homecoming show at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium has got underway this afternoon (May 24).

Friendly Fires got proceedings underway at 4.20pm (BST) playing the first set of the day.

"Hello we're Friendly Fires from St Albans, we're the first band on," frontman Ed Macfarlan told the crowd as they opened with 'Photobooth'. "I know it's the afternoon but I'd like to see some dancing if that's possible."

The four-piece then tore though a dancey post punk mix of spikey guitars, bleeps and synths, as the crowd on the pitch and in Elland Road's stands began to grow.

"That's the biggest crowd we've ever played in front of but after the first song we got into the swing of it, so we were quite comfortable up there," Macfarlan told NME.COM after coming off stage. "It was amusing every time I said 'Kaiser Chiefs there would be this massive football chant. I guess it's the closest I'm ever going to get to feeling like a footballer!"

Friendly Fires played:

'Photobooth'
'Your Love'
'Skeleton Boy'
'On Board'
'In The Hospital'
'Paris'
'Ex Lover'

The Young Knives are set to play next, with Kate Nash and The Enemy set to follow ahead of Kaiser Chiefs peformance at around 9pm.

To get the latest news from the stadium, stay tuned to NME.COM all day.

Meanwhile if you're going to the gig, send your reviews, stories, pictures and videos to news@nme.com with Kaiser in the subject line and we will publish the best.




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Ledger�s legacy

Teaming up with the Hollywood-based organization Australians in Film, Heath Ledger�s relatives, friends and ex-fianc�e Michelle Williams recently unveiled the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund, which will provide financial aid for Australian ex-pats struggling to break into Hollywood.

The scholarship will help cover the costs of acting classes and rent.

The amount of the award has yet to be finalized, but it will be doled out annually beginning in 2009 in memory of the 28-year-old Brokeback Mountain star, who died in January from an accidental prescription overdose.

Australians in Film was established seven years ago, and its emissaries include Oscar-owning Australians such as Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson.

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Amy Winehouse - Winehouses Mother Amys Wedding Was A Joke

AMY WINEHOUSE's mother was far from upset when the troubled star eloped to wed last year (07) - because she believes her daughter's nuptials to BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL were a "joke".

The Rehab hitmaker wed the music industry assistant, 25, in an unannounced ceremony in Miami, Florida last May (07) - less than a month after he proposed to her.

And although the 24-year-old's father, Mitch, begged the star not to tie the knot until she returned to her native England, her mother Janis insists she wasn't upset about the rushed affair.

She tells Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, "He's been in prison for almost as long as they've been together. It's a joke. But then so was the wedding, really.

"I wasn't upset by it because it meant nothing; nothing whatsoever... I know Mitch, Amy's father, was upset (but) I think they were in Miami and got caught up in the moment, and that was it. It was more like a picnic in the park than a wedding."

Fielder-Civil is currently being held on remand at London's Pentonville Prison, where he will remain until at least 9 June (08), on charges of perverting the course of justice, relating to a previous charge of grievous bodily harm.

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