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Some birth control pills may increase risk of breast cancer: Study

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<span style="background-color: white;">To help us prepare for the safe, sexy summer (and beyond), Dr. Natashia Grell, a Toronto-based physician and contraception expert, has offered to share some important birth control tips that every woman should follow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> pill is your only option? Think again. As Dr. Grell explains, "There are many birth control options out there for women, like recently approved Jaydess, a new, long-term, reversible contraceptive option that offers a more convenient alternative to commonly used daily options like the birth control pill."<br />"Make sure to choose the one that is right for your lifestyle. If forgetting your pill is a problem for you, a long acting form of contraception like the intrauterine system or IUS could be a good option. This is also a great option if you are worried about or want to stay away from estrogen," she explains. </span></div>
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</b><br />Anyone who has spent more than 5 seconds researching birth control knows that there are a lot of options - perhaps too many, to the point where it can be pretty confusing. That’s why Dr. Grell suggests discussing all your options with your healthcare provider. We’ve all encountered that person who just can’t stop talking about how much they love the birth control option they’ve chosen, however keep in mind that what works for your best friend, sister or over-sharing co-worker, might not be the right option for you.<br />“Every woman is different so make sure to do your own research to find out what works best for you,” Grell says</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Recent use of high-dose estrogen birth control pills could significantly increase a young woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, a new American study has found.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., found recent oral contraceptive use increased breast cancer risk by 50%.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Our results suggest that use of contemporary oral contraceptives in the past year is associated with an increased breast cancer risk relative to never or former oral contraceptive use, and that this risk may vary by oral contraceptive formulation,” researcher Elisabeth Beaber said in a press release.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">She warned the results need to be confirmed with more research and the study “should be interpreted cautiously.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen increased breast cancer risk 2.7-fold, and those containing moderate-dose estrogen increased the risk 1.6-fold, the study found. Birth control pills containing low-dose estrogen didn’t increase the risk of breast cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The study was published in the journal Cancer Research</span></div>
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Some birth control pills may increase risk of breast cancer: Study

3 things every woman should know about birth control To help us prepare for the safe, sexy summer (and beyond), Dr. Natashia Grell, a Toronto-based physician and contraception expert, has offered to …

01 Aug 2014

More than 700 people have died in West Africa in the latest outbreak of Ebola

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The head of the World Health Organisation has said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control it.</div>
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Margaret Chan said governments may need to impose restrictions on population movements and public gatherings, and use police to guarantee the security of Ebola response teams.</div>
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The disease has killed 729 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, with the number of cases exceeding 1,330.</div>
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Ms Chan said the virus can be contained, but said the demands created by Ebola in West Africa outstrip the affected countries' capacity to respond.</div>
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She said: "If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries."</div>
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Ms Chan described the outbreak as "by far the largest ever in the nearly four-decade history of this disease".</div>
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"It is taking place in areas with fluid population movements over porous borders, and it has demonstrated its ability to spread via air travel, contrary to what has been seen in past outbreaks.</div>
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"Cases are occurring in rural areas which are difficult to access, but also in densely populated capital cities."</div>
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The WHO has convened an emergency committee on 6-7 August to decide if Ebola constitutes a public health emergency of international concern and to recommend measures to tackle it.</div>
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Meanwhile, the leader of Guinea's Ebola task force has said that moves by Liberia and Sierra Leone to contain the disease may have the opposite effect.</div>
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Liberia has put in place several measures, including closing all schools and some government departments, as well as possibly quarantining affected communities.</div>
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Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency and called in troops to isolate Ebola victims.</div>
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"Currently, some measures taken by our neighbours could make the fight against Ebola even harder," said Aboubacar Sidiki Diakit before a meeting of heads of state from the three West African nations to coordinate a regional response.</div>
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"When children are not supervised, they can go anywhere and make the problem worse. It is part of what we will be talking about."</div>
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The outbreak of the virus, for which there is no known cure, began in the forests of eastern Guinea in February, but Sierra Leone now has the highest number of cases.</div>
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The haemorrhagic virus can kill up to 90% of those infected, though the fatality rate in this epidemic is about 60%.</div>
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In the final stages, its symptoms include external bleeding, internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea - at which point Ebola becomes highly contagious.</div>
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The WHO said yesterday it would launch a €75m response plan.</div>
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The United States said it was providing material and technical support to the three countries and further assistance will be discussed next week.</div>
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The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also announced plans to send an extra 50 health experts to help efforts to control the epidemic.</div>

More than 700 people have died in West Africa in the latest outbreak of Ebola

The head of the World Health Organisation has said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control it. Margaret Chan said governments may need to impose restrictions on pop…

01 Aug 2014

Sultanat running successfully across Pakistan

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<span style="background-color: white;">KARACHI: Lollywood’s recent production, media partnered by ARY Digital Network “Sultanat” is running successfully in cinema houses across Pakistan with movie-goers waiting in lines for hours to buy tickets, ARY News reported.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The flick has been shot in Pakistan, Malaysia and Dubai.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Long queues were witnessed outside cinema houses. People had to wait for several hours to buy <span style="color: #0077cc;"><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; transition: 0.2s;"><b><u>tickets</u></b></span></span> to watch the film. Several stars of <span style="color: #0077cc;"><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; transition: 0.2s;"><b><u>Lollywood</u></b></span></span> industry also attended the shows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Syed Faisal Bukhari said that ARY presented such a movie which is a ‘hit’ with the audiences.</span></div>
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Food for IDPs: Germany announces 1m Euro aid

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01 Aug 2014

Imam of China's biggest mosque killed in Xinjiang

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Jume Tahir, the government-appointed imam of the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque in the city of Kashgar, was killed Wednesday by “three thugs influenced by religious extremist ideology”, the Xinjiang government web portal Tianshan said.</div>
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Police launched an all-out investigation and shot dead two of the alleged assailants while capturing the other at about noon on Wednesday as they violently resisted with “knives and hatchets,” Tianshan said.</div>
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Tianshan said Tahir’s killing was “premeditated” and that the suspects intended to commit a “ruthless murder”.</div>
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It also said they wanted to “increase their influence through ‘doing something big’”.</div>
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Tianshan identified the suspects by their names in phonetic Chinese. The official <i>Xinhua</i> news agency in an English-language report gave their names as Turghun Tursun, Memetjan Remutillan and Nurmemet Abidilimit.</div>
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Neither Tianshan nor <i>Xinhua</i> initially identified who among them was shot dead and who was apprehended.</div>
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Tahir was found dead in a pool of blood outside the mosque’s prayer house, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier on its website.</div>
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Xinjiang, home to China’s mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has seen escalating violence which in the past year has spilled over into other parts of China.</div>
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RFA cited what it described as “witnesses and other officials”, including the director of a neighbourhood stability committee in Kashgar, who described the killing as an assassination.</div>
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Imams and other religious leaders in China are appointed by the government and subject to strict control on the content of their preaching.</div>
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US-based RFA said that Tahir had been critical of violence carried out by Uighurs, and China’s official <i>Xinhua</i> news agency in early July quoted him as condemning terrorist violence carried out in the name of ethnicity and religion.</div>
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Tahir, 74, “enjoyed a high reputation among Muslims nationwide”, <i>Xinhua</i> said in its dispatch Thursday.</div>
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Dilxat Raxit, spokesperson for the exiled World Uyghur Congress (WUC), did not condemn the killing.</div>
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“Chinese policies in the area have caused things to happen which should not happen,” he told AFP in an email.</div>
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“According to local Uighurs, Jume Tahir consistently cooperated with the government, aided the monitoring of religious activities, and used his position in the mosque to promote Chinese policies which are unacceptable to Uighurs,” he said.</div>
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“Local Uighurs suspected he had a special relationship with the Chinese ministry of security.”</div>
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The Id Kah mosque is said to have a capacity of up to 20,000 people.</div>
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Kashgar, where the mosque is located, is an old oasis city that was part of the Silk Road trade route that ran from Europe to Asia.</div>
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The killing of Tahir came two days after dozens of people died in violence between Uighurs and security authorities in the Kashgar region.</div>
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Nearly 100 people were left dead or wounded, the WUC said, while authorities put the toll in the “several tens” in what they called a “terror attack” on a police station and township in Shache county, known as Yarkand in the Uighur language.</div>
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Beijing commonly blames separatists from Xinjiang for carrying out terror attacks which have grown in scale over the past year and spread outside the restive and resource-rich region.</div>
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A market attack in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital city, in May left 39 people dead, while a deadly rampage by knife-wielding assailants at a train station in Kunming in China’s southwest in March killed 29 people.</div>
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They came after a fiery vehicle crash at Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s symbolic heart, in October last year.</div>
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The violence has led China to carry out a broad crackdown on terrorism. President Xi Jinping on a visit to Xinjiang in late April called for a “strike first” strategy to fight terrorism and said the Kashgar area is China’s “front line in anti-terrorist efforts”.</div>
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Chinese prosecutors on Wednesday brought charges of separatism — which can carry the death penalty — against prominent Uighur academic Ilham Tohti, detained earlier this year.</div>
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Rights groups and analysts accuse China’s government of cultural and religious repression which they say fuels unrest in Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia.</div>
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The government, however, argues it has boosted economic development in the area and that it upholds minority rights in a country with 56 recognised ethnic groups.</div>

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01 Aug 2014

35 bodies recovered after Karachi bathing deaths

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RESCUERS have recovered 14 more bodies in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as the search for a group of bathers who drowned earlier this week resumed Friday, officials said.</div>
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The authorities said the number of corpses taken from the sea had now reached 35.</div>
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Dozens of people were killed off the Arabian Sea shore on Wednesday after defying a ban on swimming during the monsoon season.</div>
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The bathers were among thousands who had taken to the beaches to celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, which began on Tuesday and continues until Friday.</div>
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"We have pulled out more dead bodies from the sea and the total number of the people who died after drowning in the sea has now reached 35," Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Karachi's top administrator, told AFP as the search for more bodies continued.</div>
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"We will continue the search operation as we are still not sure about the number of missing picnickers," Siddiqui said.</div>
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Police said they had discovered three bodies washed up at the upscale Clifton beach on Wednesday evening, prompting a wider search operation that was suspended overnight and then resumed Thursday.</div>
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Navy helicopters and speed boats were leading the search operation, both along the coast and in the open ocean.</div>
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"Our teams are looking for the bodies up to 15 nautical miles (from the shore)," navy spokesman Commander S. M. Kamran told AFP.</div>
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"But beyond that our big boats are also watching out for any stray body," he added.</div>
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Several ambulances were seen on the beach where the relatives of some of the missing anxiously waited for word of their loved ones.</div>
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Faiz Rehman, 32, said he and his younger brother had come to the beach on Wednesday to go for a swim along with two friends who were now missing.</div>
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"As we were swimming in the sea, I noticed the waves getting bigger and more rough, and I got scared and started swimming back," he said.</div>
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"I also called my brother and friends to swim back to the shore. My brother returned but my two friends were still swimming. As the waves got bigger I lost sight of them."</div>
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Thousands of residents regularly throng Karachi's beaches on public holidays, which has few public parks available for picnics.</div>
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But safety standards are very low with the few lifeguards on duty often unable to exert any authority.</div>
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Karachi, a teeming city of 20 million people, is Pakistan's economic hub and is regularly wracked by political and ethnic violence.</div>

35 bodies recovered after Karachi bathing deaths

RESCUERS have recovered 14 more bodies in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as the search for a group of bathers who drowned earlier this week resumed Friday, officials said. The authori…

01 Aug 2014

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