Skin Cancer May Signal Cancers to Come

Researchers who followed skin cancer survivors for 16 geezerhood have over that they are doubly as potential as citizenry without skin cancer to develop some other form of cancer later on.

However, the findings of higher cancer rates were most salient among the youngest cutis cancer patients in the study, wHO were 'tween the ages of 25 and 44, so they are unlikely to have much carriage, if whatever, on the nation's to the highest degree famous peel cancer subsister, who turns 72 Friday.

Although the findings are considered preliminary, piece of the reason for this, the researchers speculate, is that the findings indicate that people's DNA have different repair abilities, which make some less able to repair wrong from environmental irritants and more likely to develop cancer.

But in McCain's grammatical case, the origins of his skin crab are likely from exposure to sun in his environment.

"I believe if mortal -- like John McCain, for model -- has very bonnie skin, light eyes and a chronicle of living in a place like Arizona, that is a darn good explanation for his cutis cancers, and he is healthy differently � so the chances of his non-melanoma skin cancers being a marker for early DNA resort problems is slim in my notion," said Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, a regular contributor to ABC News, who reviewed McCain's health records on behalf of ABC when they were released in May.

But for others, the new research could provide intriguing hints to the origin of their skin cancers -- and perhaps one solar day an early warning of future risk.

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Clement questions MDs who favour safe injection sites

Federal Health Minister Tony Clement says ethical concerns raised by supervised shot sites for drug addicts are "deeply disturbing," and he questions doctors wHO support the practice.

"Is it ethical for health-care professionals to support the giving medication of drugs that ar of unknown substance, or purity or potency � drugs that cannot differently be legally prescribed?" Clement said Monday in a speech at the Canadian Medical Association's annual meeting in Montreal.

In any other medical place setting, supervised overdoses would be considered "highly unprofessional," he said.

"In this way, supervised injection sites undercut the ethics of medical praxis, and set a debilitating example for all physicians and nurses, both gift and future in Canada, who mightiness begin to question whether it's OK to have someone o.d. in their care."

Vancouver's Insite safe-injection center has not noticeably decreased drug o.d. deaths, because narcotics habit in "game alleys and seedy motels" is still high, he said.

Clement likewise questioned the validity of calling supervised injection sites palliative care for addiction, a construct put forward by the B.C. medical association in the late 1990s.

"Imagine for a here and now a doctor that has a patient with a serious merely treatable case of cancer. Would it be honorable for that doctor to automatically pass that woman morphine and otherwise make her prosperous until she died of her disease, rather than offering the patient an attempt at treatment, and a probability at recovery?

"Why do we limit ourselves to alleviator care?" he continued. "There is a better alternative for injection drug users, and that is discourse. Even if they fail treatment the first time, we privy help them to let up and try again."

CMA president Brian Day has said near 80 per cent of association members support hurt reduction through supervised injection sites.

The sites � which allow addicts to interpose their own narcotics under the supervising of medical staff � have successfully curbed illegal drug use.

"The minister was off base in vocation into query the ethical motive of physicians involved in harm reducing," Day told reporters.

"It's exculpate that this was being used as a political issue."

Robert Ouellet, a radiotherapist in Montreal, said safe injection sites are an important point of entryway for addicts into the health precaution system. He said the goal is harm diminution � by lowering the risk of disease transmission through lousy needles � as well as by providing education about dose addiction.

"We doctors think that we indigence to take care of patients and this is quite different. He's doing politics, we're doing health care," he said.

Insite has operated in Vancouver since 2003, under an exemption from federal drug laws.

The federal government is likable a B.C. Supreme Court decision that struck down sections of Canada's dose laws as unconstitutional, because they forbid Insite from operating.

With files from the Canadian Press



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Batman won't catch "Titanic"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Will "Titanic" ever lose its built in bed as the biggest flick of all time? "The Dark Knight" is racing up the ranks, simply the Batman sequel will stall at No. 2 with about $510 gazillion to $520 million, Warner Bros. Pictures predicts.

That's far from the $601 1000000 haul of "Titanic," which set sweep in December 1997. (Adjusted for ostentation, both movies are dwarfed by the $1.4 billion draw for 1939's "Gone with the Wind").

The buoyancy of "Titanic" is traceable to teenaged girls from Toledo to Tokyo to Timbuktu. They lined up over and over once more to spill tears for Leonardo DiCaprio's heroic part, and helped writer/director James Cameron's maritime epic wee-wee $1.8 billion cosmopolitan.

Fast-forward 10-plus years, and "The Dark Knight" has soared to an incredible $441.6 zillion domestically and $263.5 million internationally through just its first gear four weekends. In quelling a throng of swiftness records, the superhero saga has stoked speculation that the "Titanic" record testament finally run into an iceberg.

Yet the theatrical ethel Waters have changed dramatically during the past tense decade thanks to the rise of the megaplex -- allowing double- and triple-screen showings of films in single venues -- and the onset of supersaturation cathartic in 4,000 or more theaters.

"Dark Knight" and other major releases now ring up mind-bending sums over their first duet weekends, with "Dark Knight" grossing a record $313.8 million domestically through its first-class honours degree 10 days. That makes it something of an apples-and-oranges comparison in trying to project whether the appetite for a contemporary release will match the historic performance of an older film deep into a theatrical run.

In whatever event, such an depth psychology soon could be rendered moot. For there's 1 simple rationality the box office party likely testament end sooner rather than later for "Dark Knight," and it's spelled D-V-D.

Warners has yet to slot the Batman sequel's home video release, simply well-placed sources said a December discharge is highly likely to tap into the moneymaking holiday gift-giving season. So even if "Dark Knight" topliner Christian Bale, his late co-star Heath Ledger, director Christopher Nolan or the photographic film itself attract awards computer hardware in the winter, any related theatrical promos would be of limited value at the box role.�

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Ulrich Schnauss and Extremist

   
Artist: Ulrich Schnauss and Extremist

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 Ascent From The Circle

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Foreign Beggars

It's a 'Repeat' for Universal

Company nabs comedy pitch from Dave H. Johnson

Universal has picked up "Repeat After Me," a comedy pitch from Dave H. Johnson, for Scott Stuber to produce.


"Repeat" revolves around a couple who realize that they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again and start to question getting married in the first place.


The project was picked up preemptively, and the deal was in the mid-six against seven figures.


Richard Solomon and Alexa Faigen brought the project into Stuber Prods.


Johnson, a writer on "Jake 2.0," previously sold "Man Wedding" to New Regency; Principato-Young Entertainment is producing. He also has "Big Man on Campus" at Fox and "Sweet Child of Mine" at Paramount.


Johnson, who is a teacher at UCLA's Film School, is repped by ICM and Principato-Young.


Scott Bernstein oversees for Universal.

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J-Five

   
Artist: J-Five

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Other
   

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 Modern Times (feat. Charlie Chaplin)

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Tracks: 3

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Everlast returns with new album

Everlast has announced the release of a new album, 'Love, War and The Ghost Of Whitey Ford'.

The American singer's first release since 2004's 'White Trash Beautiful' will be released on September 24.

Everlast is best know for his 1998 breakthrough record, 'Whitey Ford Sings The Blues', which sold more than three million copies.

Everlast said of the new album in a statement: "The sound is totally different than anything I've ever done before."