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Zipeg version 2.4 is out
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Дары Яндекса - директива Crawl-delay и поддержка GZIP
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В 2006 году особенно остро эта тема обсуждалась в связи с ныне почившей поисковой системой Вебальта, которая в стремлении быстро проиндексировать максимум ...
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Abundances in M12
CI Johnson, CA Pilachowski - The Astronomical Journal, 2006 - iop.org
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U-Band Dropouts in HUDF Parallels
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Modeling instruction placement on a spatial architecture
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Underage Alcohol Poisoning Increases In UK

Article Date: 19 Nov 2006 - 19:00pm (PST)
During the last five years the number of under-eighteens admitted to hospital for alcohol poisoning has gone up by 20%, according to a BBC Panorama programme, called "Booze: What Teenagers Need to Know".

Apparently, 20 children are diagnosed each day in the UK with alcohol poisoning. Hospital admissions went up from 6,288 in 2000 to 7,500 in 2005.

Panorama quoted an Ambulance operative saying that it is not uncommon to come across children who have downed a whole litre of vodka. Many in the National Health Service (NHS) say resources which should be used for treating other patients are being eaten up dealing with drunken children.

Opinion by Editor of Medical News Today

I moved from the UK to Cancun, Mexico, a couple of years ago. I fly to the UK about four times a year. It is disconcerting to see British town centres full of drunken teenagers on Friday and Saturday nights. From what I can see, very few older adults go into the centre of towns on those nights any more. Groups of young teenagers stagger along the pavement (sidewalk), some of them vomiting while the others look on as if nothing has happened. There are police everywhere, like playground supervisors.

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It baffles me how underage children can get hold of alcoholic drinks so easily in the UK. Send 100 underage people to liquor stores in the USA, and another 100 to off-licences in the UK, and count how many managed to get hold of booze. I am sure very few will succeed in America, while many will get what they wanted in the UK. When my 19-year-old son was 16 we lived in the UK, he never had any trouble getting alcoholic drinks in pubs, discos and off-licences. He is at university in Cancun, and tells me his college friends here consume a tiny fraction of alcohol, when compared to his 16-year-old friends in England.

(USA - Liquor store. UK - Off licence).

BBC Panorama - More teen drinkers in hospital

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
Editor: Medical News Today
 

Up To 50% Of Medicines Sold Through Rogue Web Sites Are Fake



The World Health Organization (WHO) and more than 20 international partners are today launching a comprehensive package of measures to help national authorities safeguard their populations from the dangers of counterfeit medicines.

At the opening of the first official meeting of IMPACT (the International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) in Bonn, WHO and its partners are unveiling a programme covering legislation, law enforcement, regulation, technology and communication. IMPACT is also issuing a warning against buying medicines from rogue web sites as well as cautioning governments that existing laws against medical counterfeiters are inadequate and do not act as deterrents.

Counterfeit medicines range from products containing no active ingredients to those containing highly toxic substances. They can harm patients by failing to treat serious conditions, can provoke drug resistance and in some cases kill.

The latest estimates jointly elaborated by WHO, the OECD, and the Pharmaceutical Security Institute show that more than 30% of medicines in some areas of Latin America, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are counterfeit. In emerging economies, the proportion is estimated at 10% but in many of the former Soviet republics it can be as high as 20%. In wealthy countries, with strong regulatory mechanisms, counterfeits account for less than 1% of the market value, but 50% of illegal Internet sales are counterfeit.

"The impact on people's lives behind these figures is devastating," said Dr Howard Zucker, WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals. "Whether rich or poor, many patients trustingly taking medicines may end up sicker or die. In addition, precious resources spent on these medicines go to waste."

The legal systems of most countries do not consider the counterfeiting of medicines a more serious crime than counterfeiting luxury items such as handbags or watches. Their laws are designed mainly to protect trademarks than people's health. In some industrialized countries, counterfeiting t-shirts receives a harsher punishment than counterfeiting medicines.

WHO and its IMPACT partners will present guiding principles for model legislation to help countries adapt their laws to the gravity of the crime. "A major objective is for countries to agree that counterfeiting is a crime against human security and incorporate that principle into their laws," added Dr Zucker.

Legislation, regulation and enforcement also provide the basis for dealing with the sale of counterfeit medicines on the Internet, which is already rife in industrialized countries and is growing in a number of emerging economies in Latin America and Asia.

Some Internet pharmacies are completely legal operations, set up to offer clients convenience and savings. They require patient prescriptions and deliver medications from government licensed facilities. Other Internet pharmacies operate illegally, selling medications without prescriptions and using unapproved or counterfeit products. These rogue Internet pharmacies are operated internationally, they have no registered business address and sell products that have an unknown or unclear origin.

"This area needs more work," said Dr Valerio Reggi, WHO Coordinator of IMPACT. "But the message for now is: do not take the risk of buying your medicines from unknown sources, such as the Internet. If you must buy from the Internet, ensure that the website is that of a pharmacy you know and trust."

In the technology area, WHO has launched a challenge to technology providers to come up with new technologies or adapt existing ones to prevent counterfeiting and detect and track counterfeits on markets and on web sites.

WHO is currently looking at proposals from three mobile telephone companies to apply their technologies to check the authenticity of medical products. DNA-based technologies, nanotechnology and other approaches will be assessed by IMPACT in the first quarter of 2007.

To improve communication, a small group has been created to continuously update global data on medical counterfeiting and share the information with IMPACT partners. In addition, advocacy campaigns including public service announcements, short descriptive films and other awareness raising materials have begun targeting different professional sectors likely to come across the problem of counterfeits. Organizations representing health professionals and consumers are supporting these initiatives.

Three countries with a high proportion of counterfeits have already started tackling the problem with IMPACT's support. Indonesia and Mali have begun wide communication campaigns to educate the general public on the dangers of counterfeits and to dissuade people seeking treatment from buying on the black market. Vietnam is establishing mechanisms to coordinate more effectively between regulatory, police, customs and provincial authorities in order to improve detection of counterfeit medicines and counterfeiters.

"It is clear that action in a single sphere, like legislation or technology is not enough to deal effectively with the problem," said Dr Reggi. "This is why we need to act on five axes - legal, enforcement, regulatory, technology and communication. It's also why we need to coordinate action at a global level. But the fact that individual countries are already taking this on bodes well for the future."

By the end of 2007 IMPACT aims to have all 193 WHO Member States formally collaborating to stem global and national counterfeiting of medical products.

-- Fact sheet: counterfeit medicines

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