The Olympic flame has landed in the UK ready for the London 2012 torch relay after being flown from Athens, Greece.

David Beckham used it to light a cauldron after the plane, also carrying Princess Anne and Locog chair Lord Coe, arrived at a Cornish air base. Flight BA2012, a gold-coloured A319 named The Firefly, was greeted at RNAS Culdrose by cheering crowds. After Friday's welcoming ceremony, the flame flies on Saturday to Land's End for the start of an 8,000 mile relay. The Princess Royal carried the transportation lantern containing the flame from the aircraft and on to the tarmac.  It was transferred to a London 2012 torch and David Beckham lit a cauldron, to mark the flame's arrival on UK soil. He said: "It's a very proud moment for everybody. "Seb (Coe) and the team have done an incredible job. I'm very proud to be part of this team...

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Free Anonymous VPN Proxy

SumRando is a company devoted to cybersecurity. The idea pulsing it to life is that people need to educate themselves about how things have changed since the internet became a part of who we are as a civilization. It was conceived for the people who never took a class on internet safety and social media who still just want their cookies to be chocolate chip. That said, it is also for people people who watch Star Trek and can probably code the Enterprise into existence. I have always been into technology and remember sitting around my family PC when I was eight, reading bulletin board posts on Prodigy for hints on a computer game called Monkey Island. My father presented me with a veritable tome of websites out there that I might ever want...

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Patients leaving hospital against advice fare worse

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospital patients who leave against medical advice may have an increased risk of being readmitted or dying within a month, a study at one New York medical center finds.In the U.S., about 500,000 hospital patients a year sign themselves out against medical advice.Studies have suggested that decision can be unwise: patients hospitalized for asthma, HIV or a heart attack, for example, have been found to have an increased risk of readmission when they leave contrary to doctors' recommendations.But the new study, reported in the American Journal of Medicine, suggests patients are also at increased risk of dying within 30 days of leaving against medical advice.Researchers found that of 84,000 patients treated at their medical center, those who left against doctors' advice...

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U.S. charges more than 100 for Medicare fraud schemes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare healthcare program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million, the biggest Medicare fraud sweep to date, the Obama administration said on Wednesday.At least 91 people were arrested in Miami; Houston; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and four other cities on a variety of charges: from submitting false billing for home healthcare, mental health services, HIV infusions and physical therapy to money laundering and receiving kickbacks.Justice Department and Health and Human Services Department officials were unable to say how much Medicare actually paid out, but a review of 34 complaints and indictments found that authorities were seeking to recover at least...

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Pfizer's Lyrica falls short in two pain studies

One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That's a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers said.View the original article h...

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Study: Gene Therapy for HIV Safe, But Effectiveness Still Unclear

WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that gene therapy can have long-lasting effects on the immune cells of HIV patients -- a promising sign -- even though the specific treatment being studied did not eradicate the virus.This approach is one of several gene therapy strategies that are being investigated by scientists as possible ways to keep the AIDS virus from spreading in the blood. In this case, "people were treated by gene therapy and nothing bad happened. It was safe," said study co-author Frederic Bushman, a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he said, the treated immune cells managed to remain around for about a decade. "The general picture that emerges about genetic alterations to human immune cells is that they can persist...

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IUD Use Tied to Modest Weight Loss

TUESDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- Women who use an intrauterine device (IUD) as birth control may not have to worry about gaining weight after the device is implanted, new research suggests.Researchers compared the medical records of 223 women aged 15 to 44 who were using two different types of IUDs, following them for up to two years later.About half of the women had a non-hormonal IUD containing copper while others used a hormonal IUD that released low levels of a progestin hormone called levonorgestrel (LNG) every day.Women in both groups appeared to lose about 1 percent of their body weight in the first and second years of having an IUD.The study was scheduled to be presented Monday at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting in San Diego."We really expected...

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US urges circumcision for soldiers to fight HIV in Africa

Male circumcision is the best way to prevent new HIV infections in the military, the head of US anti-AIDS efforts told a gathering of top army brass from Africa, Eastern Europe and central Asia."We believe male circumcision is a highly significant, lifetime intervention. It is a gift that keeps on giving. It makes a lot of sense to put extraordinary resources into it," US global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby told the 400 delegates.The meeting on AIDS and the military gathered officials from 80 countries, including most of Africa but also countries from Surinam to Georgia and Estonia.Studies show that circumcision can dramatically reduce HIV infections. One study in South Africa last year found new infections fell by 76 percent after a circumcision programme was launched in a township.In 2006,...

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What killed Lenin? Stress didn't help, poison eyed

BALTIMORE (AP) — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the former Soviet Union leader, a UCLA neurologist said Friday.Dr. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records Friday for an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference that examines the death of famous figures.The conference is held yearly at the school, where researchers in the past have re-examined the diagnoses of figures including King Tut, Christopher Columbus, Simon Bolivar and Abraham Lincoln.The 53-year-old Soviet leader suffered several strokes before dying in 1924 and what caused them isn't clear.An autopsy found blood vessels in his brain were extremely...

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FDA Seems to Back Pill to Help Prevent HIV

WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers will meet Thursday to decide whether to endorse the use of the drug Truvada as a means to help prevent HIV infection in people at high risk.Those individuals might include highly sexually active gay or bisexual men, or the partners of people already infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.A report released by the FDA this week ahead of Thursday's meeting suggests that experts do believe the drug is safe and effective for this use. There are potential drawbacks to using the medication in this way, however. Truvada -- which combines two HIV-fighting drugs, tenofovir (Viread) and emtricitabine (Emtriva) -- is very expensive and may cause side effects. And although doctors can already prescribe it to people...

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US experts urge approval of first AIDS prevention pill

US health advisers urged regulators to approve Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/AIDS instead of just a treatment for infected people.The favorable vote came after clinical trials showed Truvada could lower the risk of HIV in gay men by 44 to 73 percent, and was hailed by some AIDS advocates as a potent new tool against human immunodeficiency virus.However, many concerns were raised during a marathon 11-hour panel meeting in which about three dozen health care providers warned that the pill could boost risky behaviors and possibly lead to a drug-resistant strain of HIV.The Food and Drug Administration is not bound by the recommendations of its expert panel, but usually follows the advice. A final decision by the FDA is expected by June 15.Mitchell...

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HIV Drug Tenofovir Safe During Pregnancy, Study Suggests

THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- The use of the anti-HIV drug tenofovir during pregnancy appears to be safe for infants, new research suggests.In combination with other anti-HIV drugs, tenofovir (Viread) is the first line of treatment for adults with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. These findings should reassure pregnant women who are taking tenofovir, the researchers said.The study was conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health network because previous studies showed that laboratory animals exposed to tenofovir in the womb were smaller at birth than those that were not exposed to the drug.The new study included 2,000 infants born to HIV-positive mothers between 2003 and 2010 in the United States. Infants born to mothers who took tenofovir during pregnancy did not weigh less...

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Automated Filler Content For Web Documents: Fixie.js

Advertise here with BSAWhen working on a new web project, during the HTML coding process, using Lorem Ipsum as filler content is a common approach (yet, there great Lorem Ipsum alternatives). Fixie.js is a simple JavaScript library (with no JS framework dependencies) that automatically analyzes your semantic HTML5 tags and adds the right type of content inside the [...]]]>View the original article h...

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FDA staff: Gilead's Truvada may help reduce HIV risk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc's Truvada tablets appear safe and effective for reducing the risk of HIV infection, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. But they recommended a cautious approach for using the drug in efforts to prevent the virus that causes AIDS.Food and Drug Administration staff said Truvada, which is already being used by patients with the human immunodeficiency virus, is well tolerated overall by uninfected people and may prevent infection in high-risk individuals when used in combination with other strategies.FDA staff also acknowledged a strong correlation between the drug's efficacy at reducing HIV infection and the willingness of those taking it to adhere to the treatment.Their 47-page review document said preventive use of the drug -- a combination of Gilead's...

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More Teen Girls Using Contraceptives: CDC

THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- More teenage girls are using contraceptives, which may explain part of the dramatic drop in the U.S. teen pregnancy rate, federal health officials reported Thursday.The teen birth rate has dropped 44 percent since 1990, to 34 births for every 1,000 females. In 2010, about 368,000 infants were born to teen mothers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."We know there have been declines in teen pregnancy, which is wonderful, and increases in abstinence among teens, which is really wonderful also," said report author Crystal Pirtle Tyler, a CDC health scientist. "There has also been increases in contraceptive use."Tyler noted that there has been a 16 percent decline in teens who say they are sexually active. "The majority of teens...

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Should you use condoms in an exclusive relationship?

Many have told me that once they have sex with someone they're dating, they consider themselves exclusive and they don't sleep with anyone else; if the other person doesn't agree, they move on. Part of the decision has to do with not using condoms. I can count the times on one hand that I've had sex without using a condom, but many others seem to prefer forgoing condoms entirely once they're in an exclusive relationship. The decision about using condoms isn't so cut and dry. There's a variety of factors to consider and every couple is different. Even when condoms are used correctly there's still a 2% failure rate; when not used correctly the rate jumps to 18%. Does sex feel better without them? Yes, but is it the best decision to skip them? Maybe not. So what should you ask yourself before...

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EU Cookie Law: 2 jQuery Plugins To Not Break It

Advertise here with BSAMany of us probably heard the EU Cookie Law already and thinking about "what to do" and many others should be saying: "cookie what?". What is it? It is a European Union e-Privacy Directive that will become active on 26th May 2012 and "requires website owners to take the permission of the user before placing anything (cookies, [...]]]>View the original article h...

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Clot Risk Higher in Some Contraceptives

Women who use non-oral hormonal contraceptives, like patches and vaginal rings, may be at higher risk of blood clots than those who take oral forms of birth control, according to a new Danish study published in the journal BMJ. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen analyzed national data from more than 1.6 million healthy women ages 15 to 49 who took various forms of birth control. They found that women who took birth control pills were at three times the risk of blood clots than those who did not use any type of hormonal birth control, but those who used other types of non-oral hormonal contraceptives were at higher risk. Women who used skin patches were at eight times an increased risk of blood clots and those who used vaginal rings...

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Terrence Howard Leaves Threatening Voicemail

Note to self: do not call up Terrence Howard‘s wife, Michelle Ghent, because he will leave you a voicemail threatening to kill you. This is exactly what he did to some woman who left a message on his wife’s phone. A source says that the woman got drunk one night and got Terrence’s phone number from another friend so she decided to prank call him and express her love for him. “But apparently the call was made to his wife’s phone, not his. I’m assuming she got the voicemail of my friend gushing about Terrence and questioned him about it,” says a source. This didn’t settle well with the actor because he called the number back and left a lovely voicemail saying “Nigga, you been calling my wife… If you call my wife again I’m going to come to your...

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FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test for HIV

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision.FDA reviewers said Friday the OraQuick In-Home HIV test could play a significant role in slowing the spread of HIV, according to briefing documents posted online. But they also raised concerns about the accuracy of the test, a mouth swab that returns results in about 20 minutes.The review comes one day after an FDA advisory panel endorsed the HIV pill Truvada for preventive use. If FDA follows the group's advice, the daily medication would become the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.Public health experts estimate...

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Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives

CHICAGO (AP) — A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it.Doctors, patients and advocates say that would change if the Food and Drug Administration takes a landmark step and allows the pill, Truvada, to be marketed for prevention. The drug has been used for some time as a treatment for those already infected with the AIDS virus."This is a pretty radical step, but I think it's a necessary step," said Dr. Lisa Sterman of San Francisco, who prescribes the drug for already infected patients and those who are healthy but at risk of getting the virus from their partners or through risky sex."We've come as far as we can with condom use and safe sex strategies," Sterman...

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CSS Browser-Compatibility Search Engine: Browser Support

Advertise here with BSAOk, right now, we can't stop ourselves from using the exciting CSS3 features. But, what about their compatibility? In which browsers they work ok?  Browser Support is a simple search engine to find out which CSS properties are supported in which browsers. With an auto-complete-powered search, it displays you all possible properties while typing and [...]]]>View the original article h...

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Madonna Tells Volunteers Not To Look Her In The Eye

Madonna must definitely be going through lifes changes because fresh up from her being a bitch to a fan after he gave her flowers that she hated she has now told volunteers not to make eye contact with her.Madonna was at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday to promote her new film, W.E., and she was all smiles during a press conference but behind the scenes was a differewnt story.The Globe and Mail report that Madonna had asked eight volunteers who were working at the festival to turn around and face a wall so that they could not look at the Material Girl as she made her way to the press conference.One of the volunteers says they they all “dutifully stood with their backs to her as she passed” after Madonna requested they not...

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FDA Advisers Back Pill to Help Prevent HIV Infection

THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Thursday endorsed the use of the drug Truvada as a means to help prevent HIV infection in healthy people at high risk of contracting the AIDS-causing virus.In a series of votes that could lead to a major new weapon in the fight against AIDS, the FDA advisers recommended approval of the daily pill for healthy, at-risk individuals, including gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples with one HIV-infected person, the Associated Press reported.The FDA is not bound to follow the recommendations of its advisory panels, but it typically does so. A final decision is expected by mid-June.A report released earlier this week by the FDA suggested that scientists believe the drug is safe and effective. It has been available...

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Jennifer Lopez & Bradley Cooper Went On A Date

It looks like Jennifer Lopez has moved on from her ex-husband Marc Anthony because she has reportedly gone on a date with Hollywood’s latest womanizer, Bradley Cooper.Lopez was spotted out having dinner with the ‘Hangover’ star in Per Se, a restaurant in New York City, over the weekend and sources tell TMZ that it was a “romantic” dinner with just the two of them.A staff member who works in the restaurant, where it cost’s $295-per-person for a price fixe menu, tells Us Weekly that the pair were there “for a while.”Cooper has recently been spotted out on dates with both Olivia Wilde and Charlize Theron so it’s not known if this is anything serious or just a dinner date. If sources who talk to People are to believed then this dinner was nothing...

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FDA panel recommends Gilead's Quad for HIV

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts on Friday recommended the use of Gilead Sciences Inc's Quad pill for untreated HIV patients.The FDA advisory committee voted 13-1 to endorse the four-drugs-in-one treatment, but members said there should be effective monitoring for potential kidney problems among patients and urged further research to determine the drug's safety profile for women, who have been under-represented in clinical research.The panel's recommendation will now be taken into account by agency regulators, who are expected to decide on final approval for Quad by August 27.An overwhelming number of the experts said they were satisfied with Gilead's demonstration of safety and efficacy.But Dr. Michelle Estrella of Johns Hopkins University...

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Social Sharing Buttons Under Control: Socialite.js

Advertise here with BSASocialite.js is a JavaScript library for having more control over social sharing buttons. The library is lightweight (2kb minified-gzipped), standalone and helps the social widgets to load when you want them or only when needed/requested to speed up web pages. It has support for the major players: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Spotify. There is [...]]]>View the original article h...

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AIDS fight enters new phase with prevention pill

CHICAGO (AP) — Condoms and other safe-sex practices have accomplished only so much. Now the 30-year battle against AIDS is on the verge of a radical new phase, with the government expected to endorse a once-a-day pill to prevent infection with the virus.Some doctors are already giving patients the drug, Truvada, to ward off infection. But Food and Drug Administration approval would expand that practice and could make the highly expensive medicine more affordable. Truvada costs around $11,000 to $14,000 a year.Approval seems likely after an FDA advisory panel Thursday endorsed the use of Truvada for prevention.In the generation-long fight against AIDS, "it's the first time we have talked about a medication for prevention of HIV," said Dr. Lisa Sterman of Francisco, who treats HIV-positive...

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Michaele Salahi Has Been Kidnapped

“Real Housewives of D.C.” star Tareq Salahi believes his wife Michaele Salahi was abducted in Virginia yesterday, but he’s afraid the cops aren’t taking the situation seriously, TMZ has learned.TMZ just spoke with Tareq, who tells us he last saw Michaele at their home around 11 a.m. EST yesterday, right before he left to go to their winery. Tareq says Michaele told him she was going to get her hair done, but she never went to the appointment. She’s been missing ever since.Tareq claims he got a phone call from Michaele late last night from an unfamiliar Oregon cell phone number and she told him she was going to her mother’s house, located minutes away from the Salahi home. Tareq says he was suspicious,so he called Michaele’s mother, who told...

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Tennessee governor signs controversial "gateway sexual activity" bill

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Tennessee teachers can no longer condone so-called "gateway sexual activity" such as touching genitals under a new law that critics say is too vague and could hamper discussion about safe sexual behavior.Governor Bill Haslam's office Friday confirmed that he had signed the bill, which stirred up controversy nationwide and even was lampooned by comedian Stephen Colbert."Kissing and hugging are the last stop before reaching Groin Central Station, so it's important to ban all the things that lead to the things that lead to sex," he said on the "Colbert Report" television show.But proponents say the new law helps define the existing abstinence-only sex-education policy.Under the law, Tennessee teachers could be disciplined and speakers from outside groups like Planned...

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Create Desktop Apps With HTML-CSS-JS: AppJS

Advertise here with BSADesktop apps definitely have their own advantages over web apps like speed, ability to reach the filesystem, working in the background, notifications, etc. However, for us (the web developers), it is a challenge to create one as they need  to be coded in a non-web programming language (yes, there are exceptions). AppJS is an exciting resource [...]]]>View the original article h...

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