| Women struggle with heart disease, too
In the United States, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, claiming the lives of more females than males. More women die from heart disease than breast cancer. In fact, heart attack and stroke claim more lives than the next seven leading causes of death. If you're like most women, you may not identify yourself as a candidate for heart disease. You're busy worrying about the health needs of your husband, children and, in some cases, elderly parents. It's easy to minimize the signs that something is wrong with your health. It's also easy to mistake the symptoms of a heart attack because, for women, they're often different from what we've heard about. Women are more likely to experience fatigue, indigestion, abdominal pain, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.
Bill for Milkshake, Fries, Meatwad: $1 Million?
The "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" promotional boxes that prompted a bomb scare in Boston will prove much more expensive for Turner Broadcasting than for fans of the show, who are trying to snap up the suspicious objects on eBay. Fans of Turner's off-color Adult Swim show are cruising the auction site for mementos of the fiasco, and late Friday the bidding for the boxes, which look like the old Lite Brite kids' toys, was running at $250. Turner's bill to compensate the city for emergency response costs? About $1 million, reportedly. Late Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said officials were close to reaching an agreement on restitution and other costs connected to the promotion nightmare, and that an announcement would be made today. The boxes were attached by magnets to public spaces in 10 cities a few weeks ago.
Esophagectomy safe for obese patients
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A special type of surgery to remove the esophagus in patients with esophageal cancer is safe for people who are obese, say U.S. scientists. Since the obesity epidemic of the last 20 years has increased the incidence of reflux disease, which has produced a 350-percent increase in the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma, the researchers think this information is good news for thoracic surgeons and oncologists. John Alexander and his colleagues at the University of Michigan Health system studied 133 profoundly obese patients with a body mass index of 35 or more who underwent transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) at the University of Michigan Health System between 1977 and 2006. The study group was compared to a control group of matched lean patients undergoing the procedure, and the team found that both populations had similar morbidity and mortality statistics, despite the difference in weight.
The reasons why proposed IMF gold sales won’t happen
There are a number of reasons this won't happen, but should it still come to pass, it will give the market yet another bullish signal on prices.
First, the U.S. Congress would have to approve the move by the IMF because the United States has ultimate veto power over IMF decisions. The IMF needs an 85% consensus on a move like selling gold reserves.
Since the United States holds 17% of the voting power at the IMF, if Congress isn't on board, it's a non-starter. Currently, Congress can't seem to agree on anything, and might be as partisan a group of lawmakers that has existed in the United States in the past 150 years. Therefore, don't expect anything to happen anytime soon from this group.
Also keep in mind that every time a budget gap needs to be filled, education programs need cash, health care initiatives need funding, heavily indebted countries need relief, and the IMF gold sale idea is trotted out to the public.
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