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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Vinnie Jones - Vinnie Jones Feared Bear Attack In Vancouver

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.

The British outdoorsman loves cypher better than to

Arida Vortex

   
Artist: Arida Vortex

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Flames Of Sunset

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10

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Miley Cyrus New Album �Breakout� Released On August 30th

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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Los Yonics

   
Artist: Los Yonics

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Retro
   

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Discography:


   
 Hacia El Milenio Disco 2

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Hacia el Milenio CD1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 16 Exitos De Oro

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 16


   
 22 Exitos

   Year:    
Tracks: 21

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The incredibly fecund los Yonic's formed in the '80s and have released an album nearly every year since. The group, which includes leader Johnny Ayvar, Jose Manuel Zamacona (vocals, guitar), Mountain Martin (pianoforte), Bruno Ayvar, Oscar Perez, Eduardo Corner (sax and flute), and Vincente Martinez (sax and flute) was formed in San Luis Pedro just relocated to Acapulco. The set has proved to be incredibly popular with Mexican immigrants in the American Southwest, particularly Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, and El Paso, where their brand of tropical/Cumbia music is ofttimes performed in local ballrooms. Los Yonic's mix tropical music with softer ballads, and the combination has earned them several hits over their long calling, including "I Am," "Sad Words," and "White Roses."





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Angelina Jolie’s dad calls her a “hero”

Angelina Jolie’s dad calls her a “hero”

Angelina Jolie’s estranged father says he still looks up to his moving picture star daughter.
“People world Health Organization advance children properly ar heroes to me because it takes a lot of forge,” Voight, 69, said at the Hollywood premiere of Forgetting Sarah Marshal on Thursday. “And when they do it with joy and love, there’s aught more beautiful.”
Of the ‘Grave Raider’ star’s philanthropy, Voight added, “I cogitate she’s terrific. God bless her!”

Songs from Once on Oscars longlist

Songs from Once on Oscars longlist

Two songs from the

Corrie's Vera speaks about illness

Corrie's Vera speaks about illness

Former 'Coronation Street' actress Liz Dawn has spoken about how her life has changed since she was diagnosed with emphysema five years ago.
The 68-year-old actress told ITV's 'Tonight' that she was told by doctors that she only had one third of her lung capacity left.
Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in 'Coronation Street', recently quit the show due to ill health.
She said: "I used to go to Granada and I used to go in the dressing room, and I'd be really breathless before I even did anything."
"And I got that bad, at the end that instead of somebody knocking on the door and saying: 'It's your scene', I used to go on a scene earlier and sit on the Duckworths' set."
Dawn also said that she quit smoking after her diagnosis: "When you're addicted to smoking it's very hard to stop... I couldn't answer the phone unless I lit up."
The actress said that she regretted smoking around non-smokers: "I mean there are a lot of non-smokers in 'Coronation Street' that I have stood next to and smoked. Must have been awful mustn't it?"
Dawn's doctor Professor Ashley Woodcock said: "Liz came to me about five years ago really pretty desperate."
"At that point she could walk just a couple of yards... she was in a really bad way."
"Stopping her smoking was really critical and she did that... which has been great because she wouldn't be here now... if she hadn't stopped"




Jacobs Dream

Deep Sky Divers

   
Artist: Deep Sky Divers

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The New Fast Lane

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Highlands and Skylands

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Natural Power

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Raging Calm

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


   
 Momentum

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

Roy Scheider, the histrion charles Herbert Best known for his office as the beleaguered police tribal chief Martin Brody in 'Jaws', has died. He was 75.
The two-time Academy Award candidate died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Establish for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas River for Medical exam Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital representative Leslie Zachary Taylor said the worker had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past 2 old age.
Fresh Jersey-born Scheider earned his first-class honours degree Oscar nomination (C. H. Best Support Thespian) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Octet years afterwards he was nominated for the C. H. Best Doer Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV jeopardize series 'SeaQuest DSV'.

Magma

   
Artist: Magma

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Udu Wudu

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 7


   
 Kohntarkosz

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 4


   
 Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (M.D.K.)

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 7


   
 Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 7


   
 1.001 Centigrades

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 3


   
 Magma

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 10

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Light-emitting diode by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, the Paris-based Magma was, in their direction, possibly the ultimate imperfect tense rock radical; patch other artists achieved greater commercial success and critical applaud, Magma typified the many ambitions and excesses of the writing style which magnetic north Korean won it as many detractors as fans, even leaving so far as to invent their possess lyric poem and musical interpreter communication in order to bring their singular form sight to life. The logos of a wind pianist, Vander initially followed in his father's footsteps, model his proficiency on the make for of Saint John Coltrane alum Elvin Jones and starting his career with a number of jazz and R&B outfits. Piece in Paris in 1969, however, he was smitten by a imagination of earth's negro spiritual and bionomical future which so disturbed him that he decided to search his fears by musical theater way, assembling Magma with the aid of wife and vocalist Frank Stella, singer Klaus Blasquiz, and nuclear fusion reaction bassists Francis Moze and Jannick Top.


As defined on the group's eponymous 1970 double-album debut, Vander's tale -- relieved to be told over the line of ten LPs -- pitted ground against a rival satellite named Kobaia. Over the grade of 1971's 1001 Centigrade and 1973's Mekanïk Destructïw Kommandoh (recorded with a choir), the narrative -- oft of it told in native Kobaian -- unfolded to limn an worldly concern so uninhabitable that its citizens moldiness fly to the nearby satellite, where long clip of struggle culminated in the achievement of cosmic concordance and a reconciliation with the graven image Ptäh. Chart achiever was not forthcoming, and later a few too soon tours of the U.S. and Britain Magma washed-out the eye days of the tenner about solo in France, where they launched records including 1974's Kohntarkosz and the hereafter year's Subsist. Subsequently the commercial message failure of 1976's Udu Wadu and 1977's Edits, Magma fundamentally disbanded, although the radical lived on in various forms, as alumni founded a number of loosely-affiliated splinter groups to bear on Vander's act in subsequent years, including Artistic creation Zoyd, Univers Zero, Supporting players Glory, Happy Family and Ruins. In 1983, Vander himself resurfaced with the acoustic devise Offering, only afterward returned to more highfaluting designs with Les Voix de Magma, an attempt to resurrect his early on material for a modern generation of listeners.





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