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If you're planning to refinish your kitchen cabinets, you might want to check the long-range weather forecasts, and plan the job for a time when you can leave the windows open.

You'll need to leave the windows open for three months at a time, if you're planning to use a conversion varnish. They look good, and they're water and stain resistant -- but they do have their drawbacks. According to the Journal of the Air Waste Management Association, conversion varnishes release significant levels of formaldehyde, which can be harmful for 115 days after they've been applied. And don't let the label on the can fool you. Because these varnishes cure by chemical reaction, the amount of formaldehyde released is greater than the amount in the original formula.

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The cardiac pacemaker is a device that enables people's hearts, which have lost the ability to maintain rhythm on their own, to keep a steady beat. According to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 26,425 new or replacement pacemakers were inserted in 1997. The report said that "Your chances of needing a pacemaker depend on your age:" But there is a way around that if proper precautions are taken.

*For every 100,000 people between the ages of 65 and 74 years, 227 will need a pacemaker this year.
*586 of every 100,000 people between 75-84 years of age will need a pacemaker.
*Between 75 and 84 years, 875 of every 100,000 people will have a pacemaker installed each year.
*Past age 94, the likelihood of needing a pacemaker drops to 541 per 100,000 people.

AVOID THIS PROBLEM: The older we get the more our body requires proper nutrients yet our foods does not contain them along with the fact that the body isn't able to absorb what it takes in because the metabolism is slowed down. So the body starts to wears and illness and disease take over unless something is done to prevent that! My experience helping people in alternatives shows me that when people balance their mineral intake daily the heart rhythm will return to normal and the body's natural pacemaker will work just the way it is suppose to eliminating the need for an artificial one!

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Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought

Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.

Among the 400,000 cases of MS diagnosed in the United States, 10,000 are pediatric cases, although neurologists think that there are probably many other cases being missed. “There may be up to 20,000 children with MS,” says UCSF researcher Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD.

Even after diagnosis, children with MS and their parents are confronted by issues not faced by adult patients, Waubant says. After an MS diagnosis, children may be seen by adult neurologists who specialize in MS, but have little experience with children, or by pediatric neurologists who have little experience with the disorder, she says. The epidemiology and course of the disease are also different in children than in adults, and there may be a lack of information about the pediatric safety and efficacy of drugs used to treat adult MS. Such concerns have led to the creation of the newly opened UCSF Regional Pediatric MS Center (see accompanying story) [link to the Pedatric MS Center piece included below].

How Multiple Sclerosis Manifests in Children Multiple sclerosis in children manifests itself differently than MS in adults, researchers say. In children, MS may begin after a first bout of neurological symptoms (called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM), which is felt to be temporary. “Most children with ADEM make a nice recovery and never have other symptoms, but a certain proportion continue to have symptoms and new symptoms occur later, thereby meeting the criteria of MS,” Waubant says.

The disease is thought to progress more slowly in children, but that is debatable when looking at an ethnically mixed population, Waubant says. The epidemiology of the disease also presents a different picture in adults and children. In adults, women get MS more often than men, but until puberty, MS afflicts boys and girls equally. And while the adult disease predominates among whites, in pediatric patients the pattern is the reverse, says Waubant, with far higher incidence and possible severity among minority children.

The cognitive consequences of MS are likely to be greater in children than in adults, possibly because children are still developing those skills and do not have sufficient cognitive capacity to fall back upon. “If children with MS are away from school for long periods, that only adds to the impact MS might have on their cognitive development,” Waubant says.

Pediatric MS Might Teach Us Much About MS in General The study of pediatric MS offers the possibility of learning much more about the mysterious etiology of MS in general, researchers say. Multiple sclerosis has long been thought to have both genetic and environmental causes, but no specific environmental factor has been identified. In part, this is because the disease may strike long after exposure to such a factor. “Studying MS in children is offering a new window into studying environmental factors because the onset has to be much closer to the environmental exposure,” Waubant says.

Physicians treating children with MS face other complications. Because drugs for MS are tested in adults, physicians have often been hesitant to administer them without knowing that they are safe and efficacious in children. “This was also important because families’ health insurance plans would deny coverage for these drugs,” Waubant says.

Waubant led the first study of the safety of using interferon to treat MS in children. Since then, others have collected retrospective or prospective data to show that adult MS drugs are safe in children. Because of the nature of these studies, it will remain unclear how efficacious the drugs are in children.

University of California San Francisco on 7/31/2006

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Europeans Fighting Back Against the GM Crop Blight

In late July, protesters in southwest France entered two testing fields growing genetically modified commercial maize, and destroyed 6 to 10 hectares of the plants.

In another field in the same region, Greenpeace activists cut a giant version of the universal danger sign for "contamination" through the maize.

After French courts ordered the removal of a Web site listing the locations of GM maize fields across the country, protesters have begun marking the fields themselves.

They have threatened to continue doing so unless an official register of GM fields is made publicly available. Destroying crops in this manner could result in a five-year prison sentence or a fine of 75,000 euros ($96,000). The demonstrators plan to reimburse farmers for the value of the damaged crops.

Between 1999 and 2003, the European Union banned GM food imports. In 2006, the World Trade Organization ruled this a violation of trade rules. Last year, 500 French hectares were planted with GM crops, a figure that may soar to 10 times that amount by the end of this year.

Science Daily August 2, 2006