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The Hills Family Dentistry is the "Best Dentist" in San Marcos, California

The Hills Family Dentistry Was Just Formally Given The Name Of "Best Dentist" In San Marcos. Final results of a new opinion poll during which respondents were asked to determine "Best Dentist" produced what some may well say was a extremely foreseeable conclusion, The Hills Family Dentistry was chosen above all other dentists in San Marcos.

The ballot and ultimately, the designation of "Best Dentist" was introduced right after an debate started about just which dentist in San Marcos would be able to claim that title. In an effort to keep the opinion poll impartial, the poll was performed locally in San Marcos and the winner was picked by local residents.


After launching the survey, there seemed to be a fierce contest for the distinction of "Best Dentist", but after the results were counted, there was a very clear and undisputed recipient of the popular title. Just after the opinion poll ended, The Hills Family Dentistry was announced as the undisputed "Best Dentist" for San Marcos, California.


The Hills Family Dentistry was most likely identified as "Best Dentist" by residents in large part credited to the quality dental work The Hills Family Dentistry has performed for neighborhood residents. As a well recognized dental practice that specializes in usging the latest technology and prides iteslf high quality dental care in a friendly, gentle, relaxed, and pressure free environment, making claim of the official title was not a surprise to the majority of those individuals who took part.


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Healthy Thanksgiving options with Andria Barrett, Culinary Nutritionist on Rogers TV Mississauga

You can eat healthfully for Thanksgiving without having to give up all the foods you love.  Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, pecan, stuffing and dessert can be enjoyed...in moderation and combined with a proper exercise plan.

Tips for good Nutrition during Thanksgiving
•   Start the day off with a freshly pressed juice.  Include seasonal fruits and vegetables including cranberries, beets, celery and spinach for a nutrient rich green juice.


•   Drink your calories.  Enjoy a soup as an appetizer.  Opt for a broth based soup rather than a cream based soup.


•   Skip the stuffing and load up on vegetable side dishes.  Lightly steamed or roasted vegetables with a little olive or coconut oil is delicious and nutritious.


•   If you’re having dessert, opt for one that has natural sugars and is high in fibre e.g. sweet potato energy bites or try a pumpkin smoothie with nutmeg and cinnamon.


About Andria Barrett
Andria Barrett is a Culinary Nutritionist, former Toronto Argonauts Cheerleader and is dedicated to teaching people about foods that are nutritious and delicious. She is a graduate of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition & a Living on Live Food Instructor certified by Alissa Cohen.  She helps her clients, enjoy their lives by showing them the benefits of healthy nutrition.


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Well: Uncertainty Is Hard for Doctors

My patient came to me for advice. His cardiologist was recommending that he get an I.C.D., a type of defibrillator, implanted in his heart. My patient hadn’t suffered any abnormal heart rhythms, but his heart was enlarged and he was at risk. If malignant heart rhythms arose, he could die if there wasn’t immediate defibrillation available. An I.C.D. could shock his heart back into a normal rhythm. However, putting in an I.C.D. is an invasive procedure with definite risks.


My patient wanted me, his internist, to tell him whether getting an I.C.D. was worthwhile. I remember the feeling distinctly: a dense cloud of agita settling over me, a needling sensation of entering a gray zone of medical decision-making. This was not a straightforward situation — we’d have to weigh the risks and benefits, and we’d have to probe carefully into what he valued in life. Was he a risk taker, who would gamely try any medical intervention that might offer benefit? Or was he risk-averse, believing it better not to fix what ain’t broke?


As a group, doctors dislike ambiguity. We pride ourselves in the scientific girders of modern medicine. We are most comfortable when we are dispensing medical care to our patients that comes from a double-blind clinical trial, that fits into a validated clinical-prediction rule, that derives from an accepted algorithm and has “Level 1” evidence behind it.


But very little of medicine falls into that absolute category. Many of our treatments haven’t been rigorously studied, and even if they have, large swaths of the population are woefully underrepresented in clinical trials — the very old, the very sick, women, members of racial and ethnic minorities, children, pregnant women and those low on the socioeconomic scale.


Much of the time, therefore, we function in an ambiguous zone, without clear-cut answers. My patient didn’t fit perfectly into the “high-risk” category, and he was from an ethnic minority that wasn’t well represented in the I.C.D. trials.


Tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty is a profoundly frustrating experience for most people, but especially for doctors. Living with uncertainty is like being on a slow-moving carousel, with that vague unsettling sensation permeating your body. And then, in that state, doctors are asked to make serious and profound decisions, ones that may gravely affect the life of a human being.


Some doctors try to fight off that horrid feeling of unknowing with solid verdicts of certainty. From experience, I’ve learned to be wary of answers that sound too good to be true. The cardiologist told my patient in no uncertain terms that he needed the I.C.D., A.S.A.P. The certainty of that recommendation unsettled me. I knew the cardiologist was recommending what he thought was best for the patient’s heart, but I wasn’t sure he was considering the rest of the patient.


The patient and I discussed the risks and benefits, which was in itself a complicated discussion since the risks of the procedure would be more immediate while the benefits might not be felt for some time. In fact, if he were destined never to have a life-threatening rhythm disturbance, then he would never experience the benefits at all.


In the end, we decided to go forward with the I.C.D. If there was a chance to prevent sudden death, we decided it was worth it, since he still had many good years ahead of him. The procedure, though invasive, was relatively simple and low-risk. Low-risk, however, isn’t the same as no-risk, and my patient had the bad luck to fall into that small group with bad outcomes.


Right away, the I.C.D. didn’t function well, shocking his heart at all the wrong times and making my patient feel as if he were being struck by lightning, over and over. His heart rate skyrocketed, and the cardiologist had to pile on medication after medication to slow it down. One medication caused constipation; another caused swollen legs; another caused fatigue, depression and impotence.


The low-risk overnight elective procedure turned into a week of misery that aged my patient by a decade. Finally, he insisted the cardiologist turn off the I.C.D. So in the end, he received none of the benefit and all of the risk.


It was a horrible experience for everyone involved. It took my patient almost a year to recover. For me, it took even longer. Besides the human tragedy, it was an object lesson that every decision has risks and consequences, and that nothing can be taken for granted, even “low-risk” procedures. It also gave me enhanced respect for ambiguous situations, and increased wariness of simple answers.


When faced with ambiguous situations, most of us — quite humanly — want to run for the tantalizing veneer of the certain. No doctor wants to give a murky answer and sound stupid. We want to give the sure and absolute pronouncement about what is the right thing to do.


Medicine strives to be a rigorous science. But it is more often, as Dr. Sherwin Nuland called it, “an uncertain art.” We have piles of data at our disposal, but how to use this information is not always clear-cut. Owning up to this uncertainty — to ourselves and to our patients — is not easy, but it is the more honest approach. The only thing certain about ambiguity is that it is a fixed part of medicine.


Dr. Danielle Ofri’s newest book is “What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine.” She is an associate professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine and editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review.


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Think Like a Doctor: A Cough Solved


On Thursday, we challenged Well readers to unravel the mystery of a 75-year-old woman with a cough that lasted for months. In addition, we asked you to tell us what kind of test you would order to clinch the diagnosis.


The correct diagnosis is…



Lady Windermere syndrome


And the necessary test is…



A culture of the patient’s sputum


More than 300 readers posted a response, and nearly one in 10 readers came up with the correct answer. Dr. Andrea Glassberg, a pulmonologist in Oakland, Calif., was the first to provide the correct answer as well as the appropriate test to confirm the diagnosis. One look at the chest X-ray, which she thought was not normal, suggested a problem in the lower half of the right lung, and that made her think of Lady Windermere syndrome, which is most commonly found in that part of the lung.


The Diagnosis:



Lady Windermere syndrome is an infection of the lung caused by mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, a bacterium related to the bug that causes tuberculosis. This bug is ubiquitous and commonly found in dust and dirt, in households and farmyards. It rarely causes disease in those who have a working immune system.


In 1992, two researchers published a report of six older women who developed a persistent cough along with night sweats, weight loss and shortness of breath. The women were all healthy and thin and had no history of smoking. All grew out mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, or MAI, from their lung secretions.


The authors named it Lady Windermere syndrome, after a fastidious character in the Oscar Wilde play “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” They postulated that the women who developed this infection were too “proper” to cough when they got this bronchitis and so ended up with a persistent infection in the lungs. (In the play, Lady Windermere is in her early 20s and in robust health, though she was a Victorian lady and so possibly too proper to cough, although Wilde doesn’t actually go there.)


Since then, hundreds of cases of this disorder have been described. Although current thinking is that the anatomy of the part of the lung where this infection is most commonly seen — the middle part of either lung — may play a more important role than cough suppression in how the infection gets a toehold, the name has stuck.


Unlike its first cousin, tuberculosis, MAI is not contagious, but when it does cause disease, it can be serious and, rarely, life-threatening. No one has figured out why thin elderly women seem to be at greatest risk for infection from this normally pretty feeble bacterium.


How the Diagnosis Was Made:



A couple of days after I saw the patient, I was out running and I found myself thinking about an old friend, a tall, willowy woman in her late 60s. Knowing how I loved weird cases, she had, a couple of years earlier, written to me the story of her own illness. And suddenly it clicked. Like my patient, my friend was an older woman who developed a persistent cough. It took her doctor weeks, but he finally figured it out: Lady Windermere syndrome.


Was this what my patient had? I called the patient right away and told her what I was thinking. Then I ordered the CT scan of her chest. Reading up on the disease, I knew what to look for. One of the characteristic findings of this infection on a CT scan is an abnormality called tree-in-bud: tiny nodules at the end of long bronchial ‘‘branches’’ in the lung.


The Right Answer, the Wrong Test:



The CT report came back within days. It showed, as I mentioned in the last post, lots of scarring, lots of bronchiectasis, but none of the characteristic tree-in-bud formation I’d been looking for. Was I wrong here?


A common aphorism of medicine rang in my ears: An unusual presentation of a common disease is far more likely than even a classic presentation of a rare one. And yet, this diagnosis seemed like such a perfect fit. Before I gave up on it, I wanted to get a better look at the CT scan.


I sought out my favorite radiologist, Dr. Eric Hyson, and together we looked at the scan. Was there tree-in-bud? He examined the images slowly and carefully. Yes! He pointed to an area at the lower right edge of the lung. I had ordered the wrong type of scan, so it was hard to see, but it was there. The buds are in the area of magnification.


Treatment Success; Treatment Failure?



I called the patient. I needed to look for traces of the bacterium in the purulent stuff she was coughing up. But because MAI isn’t very aggressive it would take weeks for a culture to grow and confirm the diagnosis.


Normally, treatment of MAI requires three different antibiotics over the course of one to two years. Anything less and there is an increased risk of the infection, only partly treated, coming back. I didn’t want to subject the patient to that kind of chemotherapy until I was certain she had MAI, but I also didn’t want to wait months before treating her. I decided to start her on a 10-day course of one of the recommended antibiotics and crossed my fingers.


It took a while — and a second round of antibiotics — but she got better. The coughing stopped. So did the chest pain. She regained her lost pounds and was able to sleep in her own bed. Indeed, she was so much better that when the culture finally grew out MAI, confirming the diagnosis, she refused any further treatment.


She told me that from her perspective, the cure I was proposing — month after month of three different antibiotics — was worse than the disease, or at least the risk of a recurrence of the disease. She felt fine, she told me, so she’d just take her chances. That was a year ago.


The patient called me recently. She’s had a little cough for the past few weeks, she told me anxiously, though she doesn’t have any of the other symptoms and coughs only a few times a day. Still, she’s a little worried. I suspect her infection is trying to make a comeback; she’s not so sure. I guess we’ll both find out soon enough.


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'Not Fighting For Just Sarah': Rating Transplant Priorities

Sarah Murnaghan's spirit can be summed up by her personalized Monopoly character: a three-legged silver pig that can stand on its own. "Everybody sort of expects her to decline here, and she does, but she fights back every time," says her mother, Janet. Sarah, who has cystic fibrosis, has a reason to keep fighting: She's another step closer to getting a lung transplant. Sarah has been waiting for a year and a half, and doctors say she could die soon without a transplant.


The current system puts children at the bottom of the list for adult lungs. While they are eligible for child donor lungs, those are harder to come by. Wednesday, Judge Michael Baylson ruled that Sarah could be moved up on the adult list, and considered for a new set of adults lungs based on her need, not her age. Sarah's family has new hope. Janet Murnaghan says Sarah's heart is under a lot of strain, but she's still a good transplant candidate. Now they're waiting for a match. The case has triggered a swell of emotions, along with a wave of arguments criticizing and defending the current organ allocation system.


Setting Priorities


Janet Murnaghan says her family's legal fight for Sarah is one path toward revising the transplant selection process. "We're not fighting for just Sarah," she tells Tess Vigeland, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. "There is a system here that is letting children die. The system needs to be fairer." Murnaghan says adults are favored over children, even if that wasn't the original intention. She believes there shouldn't be an age cutoff at all — that organs should be given based on doctors' recommendations.


So how are those decisions made? The first thing to note is that there just aren't enough organs available. More than 100,000 people are on the list for a new organ, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a nonprofit contracted by the federal government to regulate transplants in the U.S. And 18 die each day while still waiting.


Given the constraints, selecting an organ recipient comes down to priorities. Bioethicist Art Caplan says there are a number of factors that determine where you land on the waitlist, including: blood type, immune system, who's the sickest and who has the greatest need. "Among that group, the system then starts to say, 'Who's going to do best? Who will survive with the greatest chance of living and living long? And then beyond that, you're starting to look at things like geography [to find out how far the organ needs to travel]," he says. The under-12 rule evolved, Caplan says, from the medical complications that come with putting an adult organ in a child.


The Financial Factor


Caplan says, generally, the system "does a good job in trying to let medical factors and objective factors drive the distribution of organs. "What isn't a good situation is admission to the transplant centers. One of the first tests that everybody does is a very thorough wallet biopsy," he says. "So the ability to pay counts. ... It's a major driver in access to transplants."


Dr. John Roberts, chairman of the transplant network's executive committee, disagrees with Caplan's assessment. "I think there are people who have a harder time getting referred for a transplant, but I don't think it's necessarily an insurance, 'wallet biopsy' approach," he says. He says Medicaid will cover transplantation for low-income patients, but not in every state. Transplants easily run hundreds of thousands of dollars, some even hitting seven figures. Roberts says it's the post-surgery costs that can create the biggest financial hurdle for patients. "The medications are lifelong, and they are expensive," he says.


'No Great Solution'


As a result of the judge's decision, the allocation system is under review. Roberts says that doesn't mean change is inevitable, but he certainly has received a lot of feedback. "I received I think almost 50,000 emails now from people that are concerned about whether or not we are giving children high enough priority for all organs," he says. "And that's sort of a societal decision. There's no great solution here."


What Roberts is concerned about is having transplant allocation decided by political or judicial systems working on behalf of specific children who have access to lawyers or the media. "On some level, we can't make a decision child by child," he says. So far, the federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled in favor of two children, putting both on the older-than-12 waitlist for lung transplants.


"I surely understand the judge," Roberts says. "He doesn't want to make a decision that the [organ transplant network] has to make of: this child is in a situation with a lot of other children, and how that is going to affect the other children. He's making a decision for the child that's in front of him."


'Just A Chance'


Now, Janet Murnaghan is looking at the child in front of her. She's not sure "optimistic" is the right word to describe how her family's feeling. "I don't know what's going to happen in 10 days, and we still have a kid who's really seriously ill. And we have a kid who may not make it 10 days. I don't know," she says. "I would just say, for the first time in a little while here, we have hope that she has a chance. Just a chance."


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Maternity Coverage Sought For Young Women On Parent's Plan

Young women covered by a parent's health insurance don't necessarily get maternity coverage. The National Women's Law Center thinks it may have found a way to get them benefits. The group has filed sex discrimination complaints against five large publicly funded employers, using a little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act that bars discrimination in health benefits on the basis of gender.


The provision, Section 1557, prohibits discrimination "in any health program or activity" that receives any sort of federal funding or "financial assistance." The complaints, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, attempt to address a recently noticed glitch in coverage policy: While employers are generally required to provide maternity benefits to spouses of their employees, they are not generally required to extend those same benefits to dependents.


That has not been a big issue before, but it has become more of one since the Affordable Care Act allowed young adults up to age 26 to remain covered on their parents' health plans. Under the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, employer-provided health insurance generally must cover maternity benefits for spouses. But that law has never been interpreted to cover dependents.


It wasn't hard to figure out why lack of coverage for dependents wouldn't have been considered discriminatory, says Sharon Levin, director of federal women's reproductive health policy for the NWLC.


In the case of spouses, "it was assumed that [male] spouses of female employees would be getting all their needs covered, but [female] spouses of the male employees would not be getting their needs covered" if maternity benefits were excluded, said Levin. Thus, not offering maternity care was deemed discriminatory. (Abortion services were mostly excluded under the law, owing to political controversy.)


But for dependents, says Levin, "male and female employees are getting the same coverage because their children, all of their daughters, are not getting pregnancy coverage. So there's no difference in how the male and female employee is being treated."


In fact, lack of pregnancy coverage for dependents is widespread. One estimate is that 70 percent of firms that "self-insure" for health benefits don't provide it. Yet the need is not insignificant. Nearly 3 million teenagers and young women got pregnant in 2008, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


But the nondiscrimination language in the health law provides a potential remedy, at least for companies that receive some federal funding, Levin said. "We were always aware that [section] 1557 would apply to this situation, but we wanted to make sure that we had all our ducks in a row to file the complaints before we started talking about it."


Levin said the group chose the targets of its complaints to reflect regional representation and different industries "and to make it clear that it's a systemic issue" rather than just a few problem employers.


The subjects of the complaints are Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus Ohio; Beacon Health System in South Bend, Ind.; Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.; Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.; and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, in Harrisburg, Pa.


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NIH Chief Rejects Ethics Critique Of Preemie Study

At issue is a controversial study of more than 1,300 severely premature infants. This spring, the federal Office for Human Research Protections criticized the scientists who ran the study for failing to tell parents about the risks their newborn children might face. "We respectfully disagree," NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and two colleagues say, in an unusual public disagreement within the government over research ethics.


At the same time, the Office for Human Research Protections or OHRP told the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of the study sites, that it was suspending disciplinary action on the matter until ethics guidelines on such studies are clarified. The watchdog office also says it won't proceed against sponsors of similar studies for now. But it held open the possibility that the Alabama medical center and 22 other trial sites could still face sanctions. The OHRP is an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH's parent agency.


In a commentary published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Collins and company write that "this controversy has alarmed some of the parents of infants who were in the study, confused the biomedical research community, and befuddled IRBs," the Institutional Review Boards that oversee human research at every clinical center.


Collins' coauthors are Kathy Hudson, NIH's deputy director for science, outreach and policy, and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The three say they have "a fundamental difference in interpretations" over what doctors knew about how to treat preemies at the time the multicenter study was launched, back in 2004.


The government's research watchdogs say the study's authors should have warned patients that children receiving lower doses of oxygen might be at higher risk of nerve damage and death. But Collins and other defenders of the study, called SUPPORT, say data available back in 2004 gave "no reason to foresee that infants in one study group would have a higher risk of death that would those in the other group."


The commentary is accompanied by a letter roundly supporting the disputed study that is signed by 46 ethicists and pediatricians. The ruling of the OHRP is "unfair to the investigators and institutions involved in SUPPORT," the letter says. Allowing it to stand "would...set a precedent that would impede ongoing and future...outcomes studies."


While the letter's signatories say the OHRP "overreaches" in concluding that the study violated federal ethics guidelines, they "acknowledge that the permission forms could have been improved" and "the consent process for clinical research can no doubt be improved."


They did not specify how the SUPPORT study's consent process fell short. Collins and his colleagues also say the controversy serves as an occasion for "a substantive national dialogue" about "how best to respect and protect participants in research studies conducted within the standard of care and how to define 'reasonably foreseeable risks' in this setting."


The phrase "standard of care" is at the heart of the matter. Basically, the NIH leaders say the SUPPORT controversy raises issues that apply to any research that aims to test and improve accepted medical practice. Thus, the case could turn out to have far-reaching effects on future clinical research. To underscore that, HHS announced Wednesday that it plans to hold a public meeting to discuss how federal regulations designed to protect human research subjects should be applied to studies that probe "standard of care treatment."


The upcoming meeting, whose date has not been set, will address how Institutional Review Boards should assess the risks of studies looking at current clinical practice and what "reasonably foreseeable risks" should be disclosed to study volunteers. OHRP's six-page letter sent Tuesday to Alabama researchers suggests how complicated and subtle an issue this is. The letter acknowledges that some doctors treating a premature infant might avoid giving oxygen at levels at either end of the range used in the SUPPORT study. But by enrolling their infants in the study, parents were waiving their children's right to such individualized treatment.


"Ultimately, the issues in this case come down to a fundamental difference between the obligations of clinicians and researchers," the OHRP's Lisa Buchanan writes. "Doctors are required, even in the face of uncertainty, to do what they view as being best for their individual patients. Researchers do not have the same obligation." As a "crucial trade-off" in doing clinical research, Buchanan writes, "society requires that researchers tell subjects how participating in the study might alter the risks to which they are exposed."


Another effect of the controversy: HHS plans to set up a process for researchers and institutions to appeal the rulings of the Office of Human Research Protections "in those situations in which reasonable people disagree about the actions taken." Currently, there is no appeal from the Office's rulings. Dr. Michael Carome of Public Citizen, an advocacy group that first complained about the SUPPORT study, says the OHRP letter is "an important step toward addressing a highly unethical trial." But Carome said HHS's decision to allow "current similar trials to continue ... is an abject and unacceptable failure to protect human subjects in clinical trials."


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Yoga May Help Boost Brain Power Better Than Aerobic Exercise, Wayne State University Study

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Subjects who participated in a single yoga session had better speed and accuracy scores on working memory and inhibitory control tests than after they tried an aerobic exercise session of the same length. These tests are indicative of a person's ability to maintain focus, as well as absorb and remember new information, and aerobic exercises had previously been shown to boost scores in those areas. Help employers find you! Check out all the jobs and post your resume.


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Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. to recall the single batch of warfarin after complaints

Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. is voluntarily recalling one lot of warfarin 2 mg tablets, lot # MM5767, June expiration date of 2014 for the retailer. Four tablets of warfarin 2 mg tablets, lot MM5767, were found to be oversized in the complaint of a product.


Eating a larger than intended to dose of warfarin, could lead to a greater pharmacological effect of warfarin. As a result, patients would be more likely to develop bleeding as an adverse reaction and in some patients the bleeding in a critical organ (primarily the central nervous system) can be fatal. The risk of bleeding is increased if the overdose is repeated continuously on a daily basis.


Zydus did not receive reports of adverse events or any additional product complaint related to this very date, but as a precaution, Zydus is recalling Lot distribution MM5767.


The product is used as a prophylaxis and treatment of venous thrombosis and its extension, pulmonary embolism (PE), prophylaxis and treatment of thromboembolic complications associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) and/or heart valve replacement and reduction of the risk of thromboembolic events, such as stroke or systemic embolization after myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction (MI) recurrent and death. The product is packaged in HDPE bottles 1000 count, which may have been dispensed to patients in smaller bottles. Single lot affected warfarin 2 mg tablets being recalled is very MM5767.


The product can be identified by its 6838205310 of # NDC. The product was distributed nationwide in the United States for wholesalers/distributors, retailers and mail order providers, November 2012 to December 2012.


Zydus notified their direct account customers by sending the letter of formal notice of recall by FedEx next day air service and works with clients to arrange for product return.


Someone with an existing inventory in this particular MM5767 lot of 2 mg of warfarin tablets should discontinue use and distribution, quarantine lots recalled immediately and call 1-800 in INMAR-967-5952 between the hours of 07 the 4:0 pm CST, Monday through Friday, to arrange its return. In the case of patients have tablets this batch of product, make sure all the pills are the same size and if not sure, patients should consult their dispensing pharmacy.


If you have any question about the product safety issue, so please call Zydus pharmaceuticals drugs safety/Medical Affairs at 1-877-993-8779, option # 2. Consumers should contact their physician or health care provider if they have experienced problems may be related to taking or using this batch of warfarin 2 mg tablets.


Adverse reactions or quality problems with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch adverse event Reporting program either online, by post or by fax.


Online: http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm1 [1]


Regular mail: use postage-paid pre-addressed FDA form 3500, available at:


http://www.FDA.gov/medwatch/getforms.htm2 [2]. Mail to the address on the pre-addressed form.


Fax: 1-800-FDA-0178


This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the u.s. Food and Drug Administration.


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When Unwanted Wood Rears Its Head – Hints for Hiding the Goods

While guys tend to pride themselves on their ability to get stiff on call, this same issue can become problematic when a woody shows up uninvited at the wrong time. Many a man has been surprised by a spontaneous expansion at an inconvenient moment that has left him twisting, turning, and contorting himself to avoid detection of the unwanted wood.

On the bright side, an eager male organ is generally a healthy male organ (https://www.man1health.com/What_is_M1MO.php), and with a little forethought and a few strategies (literally) at hand, men can either disguise the evidence or get rid of the  unwanted wood, at least until he is free and clear to resolve the matter in a more pleasant fashion.


Think unhappy thoughts. Tumescence often starts in the mind, and a man who is entertained by interesting images or naughty thoughts will often experience a very physical response to his secret visions. The opposite can also be true, so when a spontaneous stiffy shows up, thinking of less pleasant or exciting things can put a damper on the furnace fairly quickly. Picturing an angry boss, a looming deadline, or the wife’s book club meetings can quickly cause the manhood to subside.


Avoid tight clothing. Another trick to dealing with the evidence is just to cover it up. Hipster jeans may look great and do a good job of highlighting the quads, but on the other hand, they leave little to the imagination. Looser trousers or a long shirt – untucked – can do a better job at shielding a perky male organ from view.


Get a grip. While considering roomier wardrobe options, it’s a good idea to choose pants with pockets. Guys often have their hands in their pockets anyway, so it is not likely to be noticeable if he grabs hold of an unruly manhood and holds it against his body to eliminate the pup-tent effect. Of course, this approach should be carried out carefully to avoid further stimulation.


Ice the flames. Tumescence occurs because the pertinent body parts are filled with blood; so it stands to reason that redirecting the blood supply will help to calm things down. Grabbing something really cold and holding it close to the abdomen will trigger a rush of blood to warm the body’s core, easing the stiffness almost right away.


Walk it off. On the same principle as icing, exercise can also redirect blood flow to the limbs and heart in order to keep up with the increased need for oxygen in the large muscle groups. In addition, moving around with purpose signals the brain that it is not, in fact, time for an encounter, and the brain will pass the message along.


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While there are times when a physical response is an inconvenience, there are plenty of other occasions where a woody is perfectly welcome. When these encounters occur, it’s best to be ready and waiting with a healthy male organ that looks, feels, and especially smells pleasant and inviting. Washing carefully is the first step to a hygienic and responsive male organ; but this should be carried out as gently as possible to avoid irritation and a raw, unhealthy appearance. Using warm water and the fingertips, and possible a mild, hypoallergenic cleanser, men should wipe away any accumulated grime and bodily secretions, then rinse thoroughly. The male organ skin should be allowed to dry before covering it with clothing to discourage the development of odor-causing bacteria and other micro-organisms.


After the skin is clean and dry, a male organ vitamin formula (http://www.man1health.com/) (health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil) that is enriched with male organ-specific nutrients and natural, plant-based emollients can help to keep the skin soft, supple, and responsive, as well as helping to control odors and reduce the risk of fungal infections.


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Young Women With Breast Cancer Opting For Mastectomy

Most women diagnosed with breast cancer when they're 40 or younger are choosing mastectomy rather than more limited and breast-conserving lumpectomy plus radiation, a study of women in Massachusetts finds. Moreover, most of those choosing mastectomy elect to have the other, noncancerous breast removed, too. These findings will be presented Monday at the American Society Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago.


The research involved 227 Massachusetts women and may not be nationally representative. But study authors say it's in line with other studies suggesting that many of today's breast cancer patients are choosing mastectomy. Sixty-two percent of women 40 and younger in this study opted for mastectomy. One in seven breast cancer patients falls in this age group.


That's in sharp contrast to their mothers' generation, which saw the rise of lumpectomies in reaction to a belief that mastectomies were unnecessarily traumatic and disfiguring — and mounting evidence that lumpectomies resulted in equivalent survival. The new research also documents a growing trend toward prophylactic mastectomy — removal of a noncancerous breast after discovering breast cancer in the other one.


In 1998, fewer than 2 percent of women with breast cancer chose this option. In the new study, 37 percent chose prophylactic mastectomy in the non-cancerous breast. And, considering just women who chose mastectomy at all, more than 60 percent had prophylactic removal of the noncancerous breast. All the women in the study had been diagnosed with stage I, II and II breast cancer. The study did not look at women with a so-called stage-zero condition called DCIS, short for ductal carcinoma in situ. The study also didn't include women breast cancer affected both breasts or had metastasized to other organs.


"There's no difference in survival" between mastectomy and lumpectomy among women with stage I, II or III breast cancer," study author Shoshana Rosenberg tells Shots. "These are women who had a choice, and 62 percent chose mastectomy." She and her colleagues at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and other institutions are trying to understand why. Some of the reasons they uncovered are clear and supported by data. Others are less so.


For instance, women who have a mutation in one of the genes called BRCA were much more likely to choose mastectomy or double mastectomy. That fits with evidence that they have a very high lifetime risk of cancer recurrence. But women who had a mother or sister with breast cancer were no more likely to choose mastectomy. Rosenbergsays the study didn't find younger women choosing lumpectomy because of concerns about body image. "You would expect that to bias them toward breast-conserving surgery," she says. But clearly, among women in this study, that's not the case.


"From our perspective, the most interesting finding is that role that anxiety plays in the decision,"Rosenberg says. Women who scored high on a standard test for anxiety were more likely to choose mastectomy. This makes her worry that women anxious about the best choice "are not necessarily contextualizing their true risk – not understanding or not knowing – because there's no difference in survival, so it really shouldn't make a difference which surgery to choose."


Another clue to whether women are aware of the survival data: Those who say they made the decision themselves, rather than sharing the decision with their doctor, were more likely to choose mastectomy. "If they're making this decision on their own, it's hard to really know if they know all the facts and interpreting the risks accurately,"Rosenberg says. "We've done some other research indicating that women overestimate their risks" of cancer recurrence or death.


The study also finds that women were more likely to choose mastectomy if they had a tumor that's Her2-positive, if their cancer had spread to nearby lymph nodes, if they had two or more children, and if they were leaner. That last factor probably reflects the fact that some heavier women aren't good candidates for breast reconstruction surgery, so they're more likely to choose lumpectomy. But the study doesn't answer other questions about mastectomy-vs.-lumpectomy that may factor into many women's decisions.


For instance, some women may be concerned that they'll get a poorer cosmetic result from lumpectomy and radiation than from mastectomy followed by reconstruction. The study doesn't address that, or concern about the side-effects or burden of weeks-long radiation treatments that usually follow lumpectomy. The study also doesn't address economic issues — such as the cost of one procedure versus another, or whether it makes a difference if women have insurance coverage.


Rosenberg says the point isn't to question whether many younger women who choose mastectomy are misguided. "It's a high rate of mastectomy, but we're not trying to say women who choose mastectomy are making a bad decision," she says. "We just want to make sure it's an informed decision. You want to make sure the patient understands the benefits and harms of each option."


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With Their New Book for Kids, A Couple Sows Seeds of Health, Gardening, and Poetry

With childhood obesity rates on the rise and consumers becoming more disconnected from where their food originates from, the outlook is bleak for a healthy and self-sustaining next generation. A ray of hope shines through with a charming new book teaching children that gardening, eating healthy, and spending quality time with family are not only good for you, but also enjoyable!


From the beginning of time, parents have passed down knowledge to children about how to prepare, plant, pick, preserve, and cook their own food. Healthy homegrown produce, outside activities, and knowledge about tending to plants are among the benefits of teaching kids to garden. Come Out to the Garden is an entertaining learning tool introducing children to the joys, rewards, and responsibilities of gardening and spending time with loved ones. Author Rick January created the story in a rhyme that playfully weaves the reader through the lessons of hard work and rewards of growing your own food, and Stella January brought the tale to life with cheerful illustrations. One reviewer called Come Out to the Garden “a treasure for anyone who would like to introduce the concept of gardening to his or her children.”


The Januarys make an ideal team for the book. Rick loves to write, and Stella loves drawing and arts and crafts. Together, they have a lifelong love of gardening, which nurtured their inspiration and collaboration for this book.  They are currently traveling around the Atlanta area doing book signings at local garden centers, farmer’s markets, and bookstores. Stella creates quite the “spread” at their signing table by decorating it with real garden accessories including harvested veggies and dirt and worms made of oreo crumbs and gummy worms.


Their next signing will be on July 7 at Books For Less in Alpharetta. The public is invited to come meet Rick and Stella from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 995 North Point Drive, Alpharetta, GA. To secure Rick and Stella for a book reading or signing, email Julie@bqbpublishing.com.


Come Out to the Garden is available in both paperback and hardcover through BQB’s online store, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your favorite bookstore, and the ebook version can be purchased through Kobo and iTunes. http://www.shop.boutiqueofqualitybooks.com/Come-Out-to-th...


About Come out to the Garden
Granny and Mary Louise spend time together harvesting the vegetables they have planted and enjoy eating them together. Discover the reason why Granny and Mary are dozing in the sun and purring like the cat. Visit the book website here: http://www.comeouttothegardenbook.com/


About the Authors
Rick and Stella January have a home near Atlanta, Georgia, where family, pets, and gardening are a genuine and vital part of their lives. After more than forty years of marriage and raising two children, they have combined their talents in writing and art to create a story in rhyme inspired by their love of gardening.


About BQB Publishing
Founded in August of 2010, BQB was created to be “the writer’s publisher,” focusing on quality writing from new authors. An independent hybrid publisher, BQB combines the quality processes of traditional publishing with hands-on author involvement to bring today’s new writers and tomorrow’s best sellers into the hands of booksellers and the reading public. To learn more about BQB, visit http://www.bqbpublishing.com/.


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Zumba Fitness Exhilarate Body Shaping System DVD (Multi, Small)

Shed the Pounds. Feel the Thrill. Are you ready to party yourself into shape. Move it, shake it and rock it out with red hot dance steps and pulsating Latin and world rhythms. With the four disc Exhilarate Body Shaping System, you won’t want to stop. Crank up the music, torch the calories and turn your at home workout into a rockin’ dance fitness party Now you can own the Exhilarate Body Shaping System as a 4 DVD set You’ll get five exhilarating workouts with varying levels of intensity: “Step by Step,” a basic guide to break down the steps; “Activate,” a 45 minute, easy to follow class to get you started; “Ripped: Zumba Toning,” the body sculpting workout using our exclusive maraca like Zumba Toning Sticks; “Mix,” a rhythmic journey around the world; and “Exhilarate ,” the original full length fitness party experience. Plus, you’ll get a bonus 5th DVD: “Rush,” a 20 minute workout to amp you up The set also includes one pair of 1lb. Zumba Toning Sticks to help you shake, rattle and rock your way to sexy, leaner muscles, as well as the Exhilarate Program Guide featuring a 10 day weight loss plan and more.the 4th DVD has two (2) workouts "Mix" and "Ripped-Toning". "Ripped-Toning" only consists of a workout with Toning Sticks. 

Contents of the DVD Set

Total DVD Run Time 2:06:42

Exhilarate 5 (4+1) DVD Run Times Step-By-Step (Total Run Time 60:21)
Step By Step 59:45
How to use this DVD 0:36

Activate (Total Run Time 47:33)
Activate – 41:00 How to Use this video – 0:26
Tips and Techniques – 2:56
Get to know your instructors – 3:11

Exhilarate (Total Run Time 1:03:49)
Exhilarate – 59:30
How to use this video – 0:26
How to find a Zumba Class – 2:16
Get to know your instructors – 1:37

Ripped/Mixed (Total Run Time 2:06:42)
Ripped-Toning – 31:28
Get To know your instructors – 1:34
Zumba Mix – 54:27
Zumba Mix (w/ breakdowns) – 1:31:51
Breaking down the moves – 37:33
Meet Beto Perez – 1:49

Rush (Total Run Time 36:33)
Rush – 23:09
How to use this video 0:26
Zumba Wear Ripping and Cutting – 9:56
Get to know your instructors – 1:49
Outtakes – 1:18

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Free Acupuncture Day at Many Rivers

Many Rivers Community Acupuncture, an affordable acupuncture clinic with a sliding scale of $15 - $35 per treatment, will host a Free Acupuncture Day on Thursday, May 16, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm.  Free acupuncture treatments will be provided for all new patients.  Call (860) 683-0011 to schedule your free treatment.  

If you suffer from seasonal allergies, now is the time to try acupuncture.  Acupuncture is helpful in the spring to reduce sinusitis, itchy eyes, and rhinitis.  Plus, acupuncture is incredibly relaxing and a great help in reducing stress.  In fact, most people fall asleep during their acupuncture treatments at Many Rivers and awake feeling refreshed and invigorated.


Many Rivers’ highly trained acupuncturists also treat all kinds of pain, including back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, knee pain, and heel pain.  In addition, they treat digestive problems, gynecological disorders and many other conditions.  


Many Rivers is open from 8:30 am – 1:00 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and from 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  You can rest as long as you want with the needles – there are no time limits – but most people find 30 minutes to 1 hour to be the perfect amount of treatment time.  If your life is busy and stressed, you can’t beat a relaxing nap at Many Rivers.


The clinic is located at 44 Bloomfield Avenue in Windsor, CT.  For more information, call (860) 683-0011 or go to http://www.manyriversacupuncture.com.


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Zumba Fitness Exhilarate Body Shaping System DVD (Multi, Small)

Shed the Pounds. Feel the Thrill. Are you ready to party yourself into shape. Move it, shake it and rock it out with red hot dance steps and pulsating Latin and world rhythms. With the four disc Exhilarate Body Shaping System, you won’t want to stop. Crank up the music, torch the calories and turn your at home workout into a rockin’ dance fitness party Now you can own the Exhilarate Body Shaping System as a 4 DVD set You’ll get five exhilarating workouts with varying levels of intensity: “Step by Step,” a basic guide to break down the steps; “Activate,” a 45 minute, easy to follow class to get you started; “Ripped: Zumba Toning,” the body sculpting workout using our exclusive maraca like Zumba Toning Sticks; “Mix,” a rhythmic journey around the world; and “Exhilarate ,” the original full length fitness party experience. Plus, you’ll get a bonus 5th DVD: “Rush,” a 20 minute workout to amp you up The set also includes one pair of 1lb. Zumba Toning Sticks to help you shake, rattle and rock your way to sexy, leaner muscles, as well as the Exhilarate Program Guide featuring a 10 day weight loss plan and more.the 4th DVD has two (2) workouts "Mix" and "Ripped-Toning". "Ripped-Toning" only consists of a workout with Toning Sticks. 

Contents of the DVD Set

Total DVD Run Time 2:06:42

Exhilarate 5 (4+1) DVD Run Times Step-By-Step (Total Run Time 60:21)
Step By Step 59:45
How to use this DVD 0:36

Activate (Total Run Time 47:33)
Activate – 41:00 How to Use this video – 0:26
Tips and Techniques – 2:56
Get to know your instructors – 3:11

Exhilarate (Total Run Time 1:03:49)
Exhilarate – 59:30
How to use this video – 0:26
How to find a Zumba Class – 2:16
Get to know your instructors – 1:37

Ripped/Mixed (Total Run Time 2:06:42)
Ripped-Toning – 31:28
Get To know your instructors – 1:34
Zumba Mix – 54:27
Zumba Mix (w/ breakdowns) – 1:31:51
Breaking down the moves – 37:33
Meet Beto Perez – 1:49

Rush (Total Run Time 36:33)
Rush – 23:09
How to use this video 0:26
Zumba Wear Ripping and Cutting – 9:56
Get to know your instructors – 1:49
Outtakes – 1:18

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Official Beverage Sponsors of The Nationwide 2012 Scream Tour Next Generation: Part 2

WAT-AAH!, a brand of functional water for kids and teens, is proud to announce its sponsorship of the 2012 installment of the SCREAM Tour Next Generation: Part 2. The SCREAM Tour is the most successful youth concert series ever created. The SCREAM Tour continues to define and personify what is popular, current and cutting edge when it comes to the youth music scene. It's centered directly at the pulse of what's happening in today's young musical culture. This year's tour brings together the best of the best in the worlds of rap and R&B and will be hitting major cities across the nation, including New York, Atlanta, and Miami from late August to early September. Expected to be the biggest teen dance party ever, the SCREAM Tour brand has brought together over 1 million teen music lovers and fans over its 11 year run.

The SCREAM Tour is recognized for giving new artists a chance for mainstream exposure and this year will continue to live up to that legacy. Previous artists include music icons such as Chris Brown, Nick Cannon, T.I., Trey Songz, Ne-Yo, Bow Wow and many others. This year the SCREAM Tour Next Generation: Pt. 2 is starring Diggy Simmons and featuring the OMG Girlz, Jawan Harris and TK-n-Ca$h. It also will introduce Young Money Cash Money Billionaires' newest sensation Torion and dance troupe Jungle Boogie from America's Best Dance Crew. The tour features a live concert and is also hosting the community-centered Scream and Dance 411 Competition, presented by WAT-AAH!. Dance groups and competition teams across the U.S., are given the chance to compete on stage to win prizes including a grand prize of $10,000 and an exclusive contract with Bloc South Talent Agency for the winning crew.


As the official beverage sponsor, WAT-AAH! will be at all 12 cities to hydrate the artists, VIPs, and concert goers, and also be giving out backpacks, tattoos, and other swag to all the concert VIP guests. WAT-AAH! will also be hosting a viral contest to see what fan can give their best WAT-AAH! scream. By posting their event photos on Twitter #wataah, #screamtour fans have the chance to win cash prizes throughout the run of the tour.


Founded by Rose Cameron in 2008, WAT-AAH!'s mission is to reverse kids' dependency on sodas and sugary drinks and to make water their #1 choice by making it contemporary and relevant to kids. The brand has been successfully marketing this premise through advertising, events, and sponsorship programs, including a major partnership with Beyonce Knowles for Michelle Obama's nationwide Let's Move! Flash Workout Event in 2011 and 2012. WAT-AAH! is available in over 10,000 retail outlets and schools nationwide.


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