�Two starring cancer centers have carried out groundbreaking radiosurgery treatments for multiple brain metastases using unexampled RapidArc irradiation technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR). The MIMA Cancer Center in Melbourne, Florida and VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands were each able to treat brain metastases more speedily and expeditiously than would have previously been possible.
Stereotactic radiosurgery is used to quick eradicate tumors by targeting them with high doses of radiation using precisely-shaped, image-guided, X-ray beams in just one to basketball team treatment roger Huntington Sessions. Varian's RapidArc, which targets treatment beams at tumors while rotating continuously around the patient, makes it possible to complete stereotactic radiosurgery sessions many times faster than conventional techniques that use stationary beams.
At VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, doctors used a RapidArc-equipped linear accelerator from Varian to treat
Monday 8 September 2008
Friday 29 August 2008
What the Kiwi gossip mags say
A dramatic survival narration involving a dead pig, two distressed dogs and a 50-metre cliff plunk isn't typical gossip mag fodder, just plucky jockey Michael Walker's death-defying narration is this week's best read.
The 24-year-old champion chouse is convalescent at home with his pregnant fianc�e Candace Smith and two year old son Kase after embarking on a pig hunt trip in May that he should not feature returned from.
Perhaps God was smiling that day because he really likes bacon.
"We'd been hunt for a long time and during the day I got one pig, which weighed about 50kg, and I had that on my back," Walker tells NI.
"I was on a ridge and I could view that my dogs were struggling with another pig. The ridge was about two metres across and I jumped ... I just made it across but slipped and fell down pat the cliff.
"The last thing I commend is falling at speed with the weight of the pig, and hitting the rock headfirst."
Rocks usually win when they take on human heads only, miraculously, Walker is active to assure the story, recuperating at home in Taranaki patch waiting to see if his injuries will put a staunch to his riding career.
Whatever the resultant, his squealer hunting days must sure be over. Doesn't miserly you give to give up roger Bacon, though.�
Walker isn't the alone sports lead hitting the headlines, as former international cricketer Stephen Fleming admits he and his married woman have been struggling to cope with the newest addition to their family.
With a uncollectible case of colic, the first 12 weeks of little Cooper's life haven't been ideal, but Stephen and his wife Kelly ar now able to front back and laugh about their son's birth.
Fleming had rush-returned from a stint playing cricket in India, and was pleased to find a familiar facial expression in his wife's�birthing unit.
"We had an Indian specialist on our birth team so, regrettably for Kelly, a caboodle of the talk was about cricket - in between the pushes," Stephen tells Woman's Weekly.
Perhaps a few throw downs in the hallway could have filled in those boring�bits.
Elsewhere, Australian conference player Nathan Fien is enjoying biography in Auckland with his wife Belinda and their family of four children, Woman's Day reports.
But�the Warriors star admits the couple are suckers for punishmeant and trying for a fifth�child. Their large family�is the resultant role of a drunken marriage proposal on a night out.
"It was a whirlwind romance," Fien tells WD. "I wanted to lock her up early."
Do you have a trunk cock-a-hoop enough?
Other stars who hit the headlines this week:
* This week's biggest wedding comes courtesy of Hollywood's most famous lesbians, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.�Unfortunately, no one's stumped up the cash for the official photos so readers have to make sense of a series of grainy snaps, the worst of which is in NI. That's weird�- it doesn't normally snow in California in August.
* Britney Spears' sister and mother-of-one Jamie Lynn Spears is struggling to come to terms with rumours that her groom-to-be Casey Aldridge cheated on her while she was six months pregnant. WD reports Casey had an affair with older woman�Kellie Dawson, something Casey has denied.�Perhaps Kevin Federline could help kind this mess hall out.
* Has Paris Hilton had a tit job? Her representative says no only WD has pics of the socialite showing "trey times as much chest flesh" as usual. And she's non the merely one - WW has snaps of Isla Fisher and her 'chest flesh' on holiday in Hawaii, while Eva Longoria showed off an impressive range of outfits at the Alma Awards, getting changed 11 separate times. Perhaps she had diarrhea.
Finally, the quote of the week comes from Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman, wHO once well-tried on Madonna's used G-srings: "I was like, 'This is Madonna's underwear.' So I tried it on and, of track, it didn't fit me."
Firstly, yuck. And secondly, what if Madonna's sweaty gruts had fitted you, Felicity?
Free underwear is never what it seems.
* What do you intend of this week's scuttlebutt? Post your comments beneath.
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Tiziano Ferro
Artist: Tiziano Ferro
Genre(s):
Pop
New Age
Rock
Discography:
Stop! Dimentica
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Nessuno E Solo
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Rojo Relativo
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
111: Centoundici
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Rosso Relativo
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Italian pop singer/songwriter Tiziano Ferro became tortuous in music patch attention a local indoor garden, pickings guitar and piano classes in plus to up his vocal skills. At the years of 16, he joined a gospel tattle refrain, husking his love for Afro-American music. In 1998, Tiziano Ferro began working along with producers Alberto Salerno and Mara Majonchi, composition his telephone number one songs. Three older age later, EMI Italy released his debut album, called Rosso Relativo, featuring the blip single "Xdono."
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Marya Hornbacher recalls bipolar struggle in her new book 'Madness'
MINNEAPOLIS - Marya Hornbacher remembers her "endless nights" as a child as young as four, when she says she first began to show symptoms of bipolar disorder.
"Bam! At five, six o'clock I'm off, I'm ready to roll. And the world is shutting down around me and I'm getting more and more frantic because nobody wants to talk," Hornbacher recalls with a laugh, "and nobody else wants to go to the moon that afternoon and nobody else wants to go ice skating in the woods, you know, at 4 a.m."
She would spin out of control, racing around the house until her mother discovered that a late-night bath would calm her. Finally, she says, her parents told her she could do anything she wanted at night, "but you cannot come out of your room and talk to us, because we're going to bed."
Hornbacher, now 34, says those early episodes were the start of a lifelong cycle of mania that culminated in repeated hospitalizations, electroshock treatments and eventually daily medication that stabilizes her mood.
After chronicling her battle with eating disorders in her 1998 memoir "Wasted," Hornbacher tackles her alternating bouts of euphoria and depression in a new book, "Madness: A Bipolar Life." Reviews have been positive, with USA Today saying that as Hornbacher "whips around this roller-coaster ride, her unflinching style keeps us seated firmly beside her."
Writing in a straightforward narrative, Hornbacher fills "Madness" with grim details, such as the time in 1994 when, as a 20-year-old, she slashed open her left arm. She recounts spending sprees, failed romances and her haziness after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). But she also writes with humour about stuffing a brocade bedspread into a too-small washer during a cleaning frenzy.
Dressed stylishly with her hair dyed red and cut short, Hornbacher appeared upbeat during an interview at the comfortable house she shares with her second husband, Jeff Miller, two miniature dachshunds (Dante and Milton) and two cats (Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot). Thanks to her medication - she takes around 26 pills a day - and basic daily tasks, Hornbacher is at equilibrium "much of the time."
But her impulses - such as to suddenly travel a great distance or go shopping - can trigger a manic episode.
Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, affects as many as 5.8 million American adults each year, or 2.6 per cent of the U.S. population age 18 and older, with 25 the median age of onset, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Hornbacher writes that she was diagnosed with bipolar in 1997 and is bipolar I, spending more of her time manic before going into an occasional "vicious" depression, than the milder bipolar II.
A recovering alcoholic who has been sober for years, Hornbacher writes that despite her bipolar diagnosis, she would continue to drink, which negated the effects of her medication.
Patients with bipolar have a high rate of substance abuse and may turn to alcohol or drugs for self-medication, according to Dr. Husseini Manji, head of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders program at the NIMH.
"One possibility is that people who are not feeling good - who are depressed or high or irritable - need to do something about it. One of the things in our society you can access are alcohol or some illicit drugs," Manji said.
Hornbacher believes she may have "had the seeds of a mental illness" as a child and that her sleeplessness may have tripped chemical changes in her brain. (An insomniac, she says she only sleeps four or five hours a night now, but tries to make up for it with catnaps during the day.)
"You become manic once, it feeds on itself. The less you sleep, the less you sleep. The only problem is, without a tranquilizer, my parents couldn't have knocked me out. And so they're just trying to contain the situation I'm already in," Hornbacher says of growing up.
Raising Marya (pronounced MAR'-yah) was challenging, but the idea that she was bipolar - a term that wasn't used until 1980 - was "totally alien" to her mother, Judy Hornbacher.
"It wasn't like she was biting people or hitting," Judy Hornbacher says, although she remembers a birthday party where her daughter got so excited she stripped off all her clothes. She said Marya's struggle with bipolar "has not ruined our relationship at all" and that she remains close to her daughter.
"She's my hero, I will tell you that, because of her resilience and will," Judy Hornbacher said.
Marya Hornbacher says she has about four episodes a year and was last hospitalized last summer. She says she occasionally has grandiose delusions - "I did think I was a Supreme Court justice at one time" - and that reminding herself of her accomplishments doesn't help.
"Telling myself what I've done, how well I've done, when I'm manic, and saying, 'Well, it is enough to just be a best-selling author, you don't need to be queen.' It's not that I feel a desire to be queen. It's that one day, I think I'm queen," Hornbacher said.
Hornbacher accepts that she eventually will be hospitalized again and says there is no stigma to it.
"Were I to put myself on . . . one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis," she said. "But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better."
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On the Net: Marya Hornbacher: http://www.maryahornbacher.com
Houghton Mifflin: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders: http://www.narsad.org
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
Winehouse 'could be dead in three months'
Troubled pop star Amy Winehouse could be dead within three months after developing emphysema.
The Rehab singer - who was admitted to hospital after collapsing at her home last week - has been warned she must quit drugs or face using a wheelchair and oxygen supplies to help her breathe as the deadly lung condition worsens.
Amy’s father Mitch said: “To think this could be my beautiful 24-year-old daughter's life is preposterous. But if drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her.
“It’s in its early stage but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.”
Emphysema eats away at lungs leaving sufferers breathless and frail.
Despite doctors’ warnings Amy is still determined to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert in London’s Hyde Park on Friday and the Glastonbury music festival on Saturday.
A special St John’s Ambulance crew will be on permanent standby for the star on Friday.
Concert organisers are also refusing her request for alcohol in her rider, and her backstage area will feature a private hospital suite.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Toshiyuki Watanabe
Artist: Toshiyuki Watanabe
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Paused Wind
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Goya, Francis
Friday 6 June 2008
Dannii Minogue - The Things They Say 8501
"I can't imagine being a mum and having kids and getting up at the crack of the dawn - I'm not the clucky type." Pop star DANNII MINOGUE doesn't see motherhood in her immediate future.
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