Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Shame on you, Costa Rica!
The female turtles cannot cover up their own eggs and the human intruders steals what Nature has given these mothers. The turtle eggs are stolen to be sold.These people have unfortunately, taught their children nothing for the future generations to cherish. These children do not know anything about conservation of Marine Life Protection and look at the disastrous road their parents are taking too!
Wish I could send our own green crusader Jairam Ramesh to Costa Rica so he lets us live in peace at Lavasa!
Wish I could send our own green crusader Jairam Ramesh to Costa Rica so he lets us live in peace at Lavasa!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
IVF Donor Eggs May Lead To Preeclampsia
A new study suggests that women who use donated eggs to get pregnant by in vitro fertilization (IVF) might be more at risk for a potentially dangerous complication than women who use traditional IVF methods.
Women who use IVF -- in which an egg is fertilized outside the body, then implanted into a woman’s uterus -- are already believed to be at an increased risk for preeclampsia -- a condition that occurs when a woman’s blood pressure rises during her second or third trimester and her kidneys fail to continue to retain protein.
Now, the study suggests that using donated eggs could possibly increase that risk even further. But doctors say more research is needed to confirm the findings.
Dr. Peter Klatsky, the lead author of the paper from Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, said results from the study “should not be alarming or frightening.” Rather, the findings could help doctors understand what causes the condition and how to counsel patients who are at risk.
Preeclampsia is not a well-described condition, although being relatively common. About one in 20 pregnant women develop the condition, and the only cure is to give birth.
For those women who carry a baby to full term -- at least 37 weeks -- doctors can induce labor. In those who are in the earlier stages of pregnancy, doctors can only closely monitor the symptoms to make sure they do not progress.
Studies in the past have shown that women who use donor sperm and those who get pregnant with a new sexual partner have higher rates of preeclampsia than in other women. Those studies suggested that the condition could be related to the body’s immune response to cells it doesn’t recognize.
Klatsky and colleagues decided to start their own study to test if that pattern held true for eggs that the body would consider “foreign.”
The team of researchers compared 77 women who had given birth using donated eggs between 1998 and 2005 with 81 similar women who had gotten pregnant using IVF with their own eggs.
The researchers noted how many women in each group were diagnosed with either preeclampsia or pregnancy-related high blood pressure, as well as how many gave birth to their babies prematurely.
Their results show that about 5 percent of women who used their own eggs for IVF developed preeclampsia, compared to nearly 17 percent of women who used donor eggs. Women using donor eggs were also more likely to get high blood pressure without kidney problems and to deliver premature.
Their findings also showed that women who got pregnant using embryos that had been frozen and then thawed were more at risk for preeclampsia than women using fresh embryos. Klatsky said it’s a possible effect that is worth looking into with future studies.
Dr. Sacha Krieg, an obstetrician who studies infertility at the Kansas University Medical Center and was not involved with the study, agreed that doctors should counsel patients at increased risk for preeclampsia and monitor them more closely during pregnancy. But cautioned against trying to draw too much of a conclusion from a small study.
Krieg told Reuters Health she hopes that future studies will start with women who are just getting pregnant and track their health as they go through their pregnancy. While harder to conduct, such studies can often give researchers more accurate information.
However, both she and Klatsky hopes that the current study will give researchers more clues about how preeclampsia develops.
Having more information about the condition could help doctors “develop better treatments and better ways to prevent it, and better ways to counsel patients about their risks,” Klatsky told Reuters.
There are still signs that preeclampsia has something to do with the body’s immune response when it recognizes foreign cells. It would make sense, says Krieg. “We know that the immune response is important for both implantation and development of the fetus.”
Doctors need to learn more about how a fetus implants in the uterus, she added, because this is probably where the early stages of preeclampsia start, even if women do not show symptoms until much later.
Klatsky said the main message of the study is that doctors should be aware of possible risks to their patients, and most importantly that researchers should keep tracking the immune system response in pregnant women.
Results of the study are published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Women who use IVF -- in which an egg is fertilized outside the body, then implanted into a woman’s uterus -- are already believed to be at an increased risk for preeclampsia -- a condition that occurs when a woman’s blood pressure rises during her second or third trimester and her kidneys fail to continue to retain protein.
Now, the study suggests that using donated eggs could possibly increase that risk even further. But doctors say more research is needed to confirm the findings.
Dr. Peter Klatsky, the lead author of the paper from Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, said results from the study “should not be alarming or frightening.” Rather, the findings could help doctors understand what causes the condition and how to counsel patients who are at risk.
Preeclampsia is not a well-described condition, although being relatively common. About one in 20 pregnant women develop the condition, and the only cure is to give birth.
For those women who carry a baby to full term -- at least 37 weeks -- doctors can induce labor. In those who are in the earlier stages of pregnancy, doctors can only closely monitor the symptoms to make sure they do not progress.
Studies in the past have shown that women who use donor sperm and those who get pregnant with a new sexual partner have higher rates of preeclampsia than in other women. Those studies suggested that the condition could be related to the body’s immune response to cells it doesn’t recognize.
Klatsky and colleagues decided to start their own study to test if that pattern held true for eggs that the body would consider “foreign.”
The team of researchers compared 77 women who had given birth using donated eggs between 1998 and 2005 with 81 similar women who had gotten pregnant using IVF with their own eggs.
The researchers noted how many women in each group were diagnosed with either preeclampsia or pregnancy-related high blood pressure, as well as how many gave birth to their babies prematurely.
Their results show that about 5 percent of women who used their own eggs for IVF developed preeclampsia, compared to nearly 17 percent of women who used donor eggs. Women using donor eggs were also more likely to get high blood pressure without kidney problems and to deliver premature.
Their findings also showed that women who got pregnant using embryos that had been frozen and then thawed were more at risk for preeclampsia than women using fresh embryos. Klatsky said it’s a possible effect that is worth looking into with future studies.
Dr. Sacha Krieg, an obstetrician who studies infertility at the Kansas University Medical Center and was not involved with the study, agreed that doctors should counsel patients at increased risk for preeclampsia and monitor them more closely during pregnancy. But cautioned against trying to draw too much of a conclusion from a small study.
Krieg told Reuters Health she hopes that future studies will start with women who are just getting pregnant and track their health as they go through their pregnancy. While harder to conduct, such studies can often give researchers more accurate information.
However, both she and Klatsky hopes that the current study will give researchers more clues about how preeclampsia develops.
Having more information about the condition could help doctors “develop better treatments and better ways to prevent it, and better ways to counsel patients about their risks,” Klatsky told Reuters.
There are still signs that preeclampsia has something to do with the body’s immune response when it recognizes foreign cells. It would make sense, says Krieg. “We know that the immune response is important for both implantation and development of the fetus.”
Doctors need to learn more about how a fetus implants in the uterus, she added, because this is probably where the early stages of preeclampsia start, even if women do not show symptoms until much later.
Klatsky said the main message of the study is that doctors should be aware of possible risks to their patients, and most importantly that researchers should keep tracking the immune system response in pregnant women.
Results of the study are published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Mukesh Ambani's Antilla
Mukeshbhai gets up from his bed room on 15th floor, takes a swim in the swimming pool on 17th floor, has breakfast on the 19th floor, dresses up for office on 14th floor, collects his files and office bag from his personal office on 21st floor, wishes Bye to Nitabhabhi on 16th floor, says 'See You' to his children on 13th floor, and goes down on 3rd floor to self drive his 2.5 Crore Mercedes to office, but than he finds out that he has forgotten the car keys upstairs. But on which floor? 15th, 17th,19th,14th,21st,16th or 13th ?
He phones to all his servants, cooks,maids, secretaries, pool attendants, gym trainers, etc. on all the floors. There is a hectic search and lot of running about on all the floors, but the key is not traceable. Fed up, after half an hour, Mukeshbhai leaves in a chauffeur driven ordinary Ikon car.
At 3.30 P.M. late in the afternoon it is discovered that 4 days back, a temporary replacement maid had washed Mukeshbhai's pant and hung it to dry on a string in the balcony of 16th floor, with car keys in the pant pocket. The had blown away somewhere in the high winds at 16th floor level and was never found. This was found out because of Nitabhabhi's habit of checking clothes given for ironing personally.
After 3 days Nitabhabhi complained to Mukeshbhai that where was he roaming till 3 A.M. last night ? Mukeshbhai said the he was at home all night. Then why did the helicopter land in the terrace at 3 A.M. I was so much worried. I could not sleep whole night, said Nitabhabhi. Oh that helicopter? That helicopter came from Germany, sent by Mercedes people to deliver the duplicate car key.
-Anon
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Hot Plates | Israel’s Creative Cooking
The creative streak coursing through many a Tel Aviv kitchen has spilled over to Jaffa, its ancient and often aesthetically unruly sister. Fittingly for a place that has served as a port since the Bronze Age, one of the new entrants sits in a retrofitted relic by the water: Container (Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port; 011-972-3-683-6321; entrees about $20 to $27) makes its home inside a hangar that dates from the 1920s, when Jaffa was part of the British Mandate of Palestine. The space fuses Red Hook grit with Levantine glam, incorporating a sweeping, 45-seat horseshoe-shaped bar under a warehouse-high ceiling that affords nice views of both the oversize wood oven in the open kitchen and the rotating exhibits on the walls. Adding to the mix is a three-times-a-week D.J. set.
About that oven: what goes in and out of it is largely overseen by Vince Muster, the chef who’s also behind Charcuterie, a hip restaurant in Jaffa’s flea market area known for its homemade sausages. From Muster’s uncomplicated menu at Container, you can chase a snappy salad of, say, Israeli zebra tomatoes and smoked tomatoes with entrées like drum fish with olives and parsley or salmon with horseradish, white wine and cream. It all goes down well with a frozen arak-grapefruit cocktail. Or two.
Shakuf (Magen Avraham 2; 011-972-3-758-6888; prix fixe $50) needs no infusion of alcohol to keep its motor running, so concentrated is its concept of precisely prepared, systematically sourced food. Its name is Hebrew for “transparent,” and you’ll see why as soon as you find the place, tucked into a narrow side street off of busy Jerusalem Boulevard, Jaffa’s main thoroughfare leading into Tel Aviv proper. Past the video projections of nature images in the dark narrow entrance is a brightly lit inner sanctum where a gleaming, elongated bar that seats 40 wraps in L-formation around an open kitchen run by the rising chef Eldad Shem-Tov. He’s cooked at Alain Ducasse and Per Se in New York, and been schooled in culinary alchemy at Wylie Dufresne’s Lower East Side molecular-cuisine mainstay WD-50.
If Container is more about fun, Shakuf courts fashion — in this case, one-upping the trend of emphasizing organic, locally sourced ingredients by downright insisting on it. Which results in some pretty improbable pairings, like root vegetable soup with parsley and rosemary ice cream, and spring lamb with veggies and curried beer sauce. Your senses have to be on high alert to truly plug into the menu, which changes daily. But no one’s complaining. They’re reserving.
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