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The ability of two German shepherds to identify the most common form of cancer in British men has sparked hopes of finding a practical application James Meikle Saturday 11 April 2015 00.00 BST Hopes that man’s best friend can help medics detect prostate cancer have been boosted by research suggesting that trained German shepherd dogs can sniff out the chemicals linked to the disease from urine samples with remarkable accuracy. The reliability rate reported by an Italy-based team in the Journal of Urology comes from the latest of several studies stretching back decades and raises the prospect of canines’ sense of smell helping doctors identify a number of human cancers and infectious diseases. The two female dogs sniffed urine samples from 900 men, 360 with prostate cancer and 540 without. Both animals were right in well over 90% of cases. The paper’s authors, from the Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre in Milan and other institutes, admitted further work is needed to determine just how valuable the dogs’ skill might be in identifying, in daily practice, the signs of prostate cancer. Cancer of the prostate is the most common type of the disease in British men, with 40,000 new cases reported every year. Unanswered questions included what it was the dogs actually smelled and whether this was a single odour or those from a mixture of chemicals. At present, prostate cancer is detected by a blood test known as the PSA test, by physical examination and by biopsy. The PSA test is not routinely offered because it is not considered reliable enough for screening. The Italian results were welcomed by the Buckinghamshire-based charity Medical Detection Dogs, whose co-founder Claire Guest said its research indicated a 93% reliability rate for dogs. She said the results from the new study were “spectacular”. She added: “They offer us further proof that dogs have the ability to detect human cancer. It is particularly exciting that we have such a high success rate in the detection of prostate cancer, for which the existing tests are woefully inadequate. “Over the years, millions of pounds of NHS funding has been poured into the traditional test methods, and yet there has been little improvement in their reliability.” This had caused “a huge waste of resources”, Guest said, not to mention distress to individuals. “The detection dogs provide an alternative solution that yields consistently accurate results. If our detection dogs were a machine, there would be huge demand for them.” Claire Guest, co-founder of UK charity Medical Detection Dogs, said its own research had found a 93% reliability rate when detecting bladder and prostate cancer. Photograph: Emma Jeffery/Medical Detection Dogs/PA http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/11/dogs-trained-detect-prostate-cancer-accuracy

It comes as no surprise that Nordic countries top the WJP Open Government Index but the UK's position as having the eighth most open government out of more than a 100 countries is welcome news. Click to find out each country's score By Raziye Akkoc 6:00AM BST 11 Apr 2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11527782/Mapped-The-worlds-most-open-governments.html

Looks like an ISIS celebration with all those pics........

It'd be nice to have that (thanks button) reinstated.. And eliminate the ruby button altogether....jmvho

That word ( anticipation) always brings Carly Simon back to mind

Quote Luigi says come out with a sucker rate at say .10 to .30 cents End Quote 100 to 300 fold our Capital would be a sucker rate? And how you call a 1:1 rate with a LOP then? After 12 xxxxing years?

Warm Shift Open Secret ( Paris)

From " Maarifa Street ( Magic Realism 2)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hassell Album lineup: Jon Hassell (trumpet, keyboards); Rick Cox (guitar); Paolo Fresu (trumpet); John Beasley (keyboards); Abdou M'Boup (drums); Peter Freeman (percussion, programming) Dhafer Youssef (vocals) Maarifa Street

Non E' Francesca ( It's not Francesca) Translation you're wrong, who you saw is not is not Francesca she's always at home waiting for me it's not Francesca if there was a man, then no, it can't be her Francesca never asked for more who's wrong, I'm sure, it's you Francesca never asked for more 'cause she lives for me like the other one, she's blond but it's not Francesca she was dressed in red, I know it's not Francesca if she was hugging(him) then no, it can't be her Francesca never asked for more who's wrong, I'm sure, it's you Francesca never asked for more 'cause she lives for me she lives for me she lives for me Le 3 Verita' ( The 3 Truths) Translation It's her fault! It's her fault! Believe me! You weren't there... you weren't there to defend me! And her determination was stronger than my will. And the innocent one... and the innocent one will pay. I know you won't believe... you won't believe me, but it's her fault! It's her fault! I don't care if you are going to drink false tears. I can tell you they're salty, I already drank them, by now. Anyway, everything she says is not real. Her sweetness has been even stronger than my honesty. And now, you're gonna believe her... you're gonna believe her. Poor my fall friend, I know: you're gonna believe her. I don't know... I don't know who I'd believe to. I just know that... I just know that, one of... just one of the three of you is gonna die! She was mine... she isn't anymore. Now, none knows who she belongs to... Go away! Go away! Move!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Battisti Translation Loving a bit is like drinking it’s easier to breath it’s enough to look at each other and then come closer a bit and not letting go ever to be afraid, no no! Loving a bit is like blooming a bit it helps you know, not to die whitout hiding showing it is possible to escape loneliness But, but, liking each other no to take part into this is difficult almost like flying how many obstacles and how much suffering and also discouragements and tears in order to become ourselves really ourselves united indivisible close together but unattainable But, but, liking each other no to take part into this is difficult almost like flying in order to become ourselves really ourselves united indivisible close together but unattainable

I recall watching this vid on MTV a few years back.... Shukran ( Grazie in Arabic)

Shukran / Tack

MIT....I'm really happy to learn you still have your beloved parents... That's such a great gift.

In what sense...if I may ask?????????

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Sweden has about 1.3M immigrants on a pop. of about 8M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden

Once Swedish women were a myth in Southern Europe as most of them were blond ( to those who like blond) and ultra-progressive for the time ( 60's and 70's) unlike S.European countries of that period... There were practically "expeditions" of folks going up there for a few years.....

Wow... It's the 1st time I hear Sweden is getting involved in such an operation ( at least in recent years) Shukran k98nights ( or I'd better say "Tack")

That's perfectly understandable, WHN... ... What you say makes a lot of sense of course. Your husband must be a great Human Being ( and you too, obviously) Still I'd do everything in my power to have my parents back alive no matter how impaired physically... I miss them so much to this day ( Father passed away in 1991 and Mother in 2003... I am / was their only child)

I guess that's true for the most part.... My Granma ( God bless her) once told me ( I was like 18 yo) " Man is a Hunter"... Then with time hunting areas shrinked more and more.. Hunting is practically forbidden everywhere......With a few exceptions, I know Shukran moose ( getting tired with "Grazie")

Tashakkur ( Thanks in Afghan)

Ran out of pluses myself... Owe you for this great post ( one of many) of yours. Grazie.

Hopefully so, my dear Sister...... The Creator Has A Master Paln

Some with sports, some with booze, some with drugs, some with sex.......Some with music......Some with all of that....and more....