More evidence links tanning beds to skin cancer: study

(Reuters) - Women who use tanning salons have a somewhat increased risk of skin cancer, according to a study that adds to evidence that baking in a tan bed can be as bad as baking under the sun.

The study, by a team at Harvard Medical School, looked at data from nearly 730,000 nurses followed for 20 years and found that women who used tanning beds in their youth were more likely than others to develop skin cancer -- basal cell carcinoma in particular.

Though many studies have linked tanning beds to a higher skin cancer risk, the link to basal cell carcinoma, by far the most common form of skin cancer, have been inconsistent.

"We ... investigated whether frequency of tanning bed use during high school/college and at ages 25 to 36 years were associated with a risk of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma," wrote Jiali Han and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

"Our data provide evidence for a dose-response relationship between tanning bed use and the risk of skin cancers, especially basal cell carcinoma, and the association is stronger for patients with a younger age at exposure."

Women who used tanning beds at least four times per year between high school and age 35 were 15 percent more likely to develop basal cell carcinoma than non-users.

There were similar risks tied to melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma, a skin cancer that, like basal cell, has a high cure rate. But with melanoma the finding was not statistically significant, which means it could be due to chance.

Of the 730,000 women, just 349 were diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, during the study. That compared with 5,500 diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

"This is a very large, well-done study that supports prior findings that indoor tanning is associated with developing melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma," said June Robinson, a research professor of dermatology at Northwestern University in Chicago, who was not involved in the study.

An important finding was that the risk seemed to climb with just a few trips to the tanning salon each year.

"Many (people) tan 20 or more times per year," she noted.

The findings also suggested that there may be a greater risk the earlier a person starts tanning.

Women who had used tanning beds at least seven times a year during high school and college were 73 percent more likely than non-users to eventually be diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

The findings, Han's team wrote, support the idea of warning the public against future use of tanning beds and boost the argument for restrictions on salons.

A number of countries have banned minors from using tanning beds, the researchers noted. Last year, California became the first U.S. state to ban anyone under 18-years-old from using indoor tanning devices. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/wMt9Z4

(Reporting from New York by Amy Norton at Reuters health; editing by Elaine Lies; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Car leasing is a popular alternative to borrowing to purchase a business car, but it can be a great alternative for individuals too. Whether you want to purchase a car or just rent one for a while, auto leasing could be the answer.

It involves renting a car, similar to leasing an office or house. When leasing a car, the finance company purchases the car of your choice. They then allow you to use the car for the term of the lease in return for a monthly payment.

If the vehicle is used solely for business purposes, the repayments made are completely tax deductible when car leasing. It involves paying the depreciation which becomes your tax deduction. The residual value is the depreciated asset price at the end of the term.

Benefits

Some of the benefits of car leasing are:

Payments can be a tax deduction for business vehicles
It enables you to change your car every few years
Interest and monthly payments are fixed, so costs are known in advance
Payments are often lower than a car loan
The car is used as security against the lease, so interest rates are often lower than car loans
They offer flexible terms from 2 ? 5 years
It can be used for either new or used vehicles.

Types of car leasing

There are three main types of car loans

operating leases,
finance leases and
novated leases.

The main difference between operating and finance leases is at the end of the car leasing term.

With an operating lease, the lender retains ownership of the car, whereas with finance leasing, you are responsible for the residual or balloon payment and you assume ownership. Options at the end of a finance lease are; pay out the balloon payment and keep the car, trade in the vehicle, or refinance the balloon payment with another lease or loan.

A fully maintained car lease is a finance lease that includes running costs of the car such as services, fuel, tyres etc. This type of car leasing is perfect if you need to have fixed costs each month.

Novated leasing works quite differently to operating and finance leasing. If you are an employee interested in leasing a car, you should consider novated leasing if you wish to salary package a car.

Who does car leasing suit?

It suits anyone who wants the latest car or whose business requires a car that is always new. It is possible for personal, business or mixed use cars, but car leasing is particularly useful for financing cars used solely for business purposes. Because payments are often lower than car loan repayments, it is an attractive to anyone struggling to afford a car loan.

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Eyewitness videos reveal secrets of Japan's tsunami

Footage of Japan's devastating inundation is providing vital information that will help engineers prepare for the next big one

THE world looked on in horror a year ago, as news agencies broadcast eyewitness videos of Japan's devastating tsunami. Now researchers have used two of these videos to provide new insight into the raging currents involved. This sort of information is crucial to authorities in tsunami-prone zones worldwide as they reconsider their plans in the wake of a disaster that saw almost 20,000 people swept to their deaths.

The engineers behind the analysis are now calling for video cameras to be routinely deployed for tsunami monitoring. "We have the technology: security cameras," says Costas Synolakis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "All we have to do is point them in the right direction."

Computer simulations have already been developed that describe how the waves behave when out at sea and as they near the coast. Once a tsunami hits land, however, it is very hard to predict where the water will go.

Investigators can record high-water marks left on buildings and other structures after the event. "But you have no idea how fast the water was moving," says Hermann Fritz of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Savannah. That's a big problem when it comes to designing buildings to survive the next onslaught, and planning the best evacuation routes.

After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, Fritz and Synolakis analysed videos taken by survivors in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, estimating the currents at between 2 and 5 metres per second. But these videos were shot more than 3 kilometres inland, after the waves had begun to slow down.

By contrast, the Japanese fishing port of Kesennuma was on the front line on 11 March 2011, when a tsunami triggered by the magnitude 9.0 megaquake at Tohoku breached Japan's coastal defences. Eyewitnesses who had fled to the rooftops of two tall buildings - belonging to the Japanese coast guard and the Miyagi Prefecture government (both pictured) - documented the devastation with handheld camcorders.

Fritz, Synolakis and their colleagues used the shaky videos to painstakingly reconstruct the event, recording water heights and flow rates as Kesennuma was engulfed. The researchers used laser rangefinding to match the cameras' fields of view to their real-world coordinates, and were able to correct for the motion of the cameras to calculate rates of flow.

The waves rose to a height of 9 metres in the city, and currents reached a peak of 11 metres per second - almost 40 kilometres per hour - as the water rushed back out to sea (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050686).

Synolakis suggests that an automated tsunami-monitoring system could be built using existing cameras deployed in harbours for security.

"It's a really interesting idea," says Althea Rizzo, who is responsible for seismic hazard planning with Oregon Emergency Management in Salem. "This information would be absolutely invaluable."

In California, researchers are currently analysing videos taken by harbour cameras of the waves that travelled all the way across the Pacific Ocean after Japan's megaquake. Boats and docks suffered damage totalling millions of dollars, and state officials want to minimise such losses in future. "We have hundreds of videos that we plan to go through," says Rick Wilson of the California Geological Survey in Sacramento.

Precious minutes

Automated camera systems watching for tsunamis could warn areas further down the coast that something truly monstrous is on the way.

Today's warning systems can predict when a tsunami will strike land, but aren't good at estimating how big the waves will be when they arrive. Japan has an additional system of buoys that record vertical deflections as tsunami waves enter waters near the coast. Nevertheless, the true magnitude of the 11 March tsunami only became apparent as the waves came ashore.

It would not help the first places to be hit, but video data could trigger specific warnings of a major wave to cities further down the coast, giving vital minutes for people to escape.

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'Parent Training' May Help Kids With Autism Behave Better - Health ...


By Jenifer Goodwin
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) ? Children with autism often display challenging behaviors, but new research suggests that parents can learn to better handle tantrums and aggression, which may improve their child?s overall functioning.

?Parent training is one of the best, evidence-supported treatment interventions in child psychiatry for other conditions, such as for children with ADHD or children with oppositional defiant disorder,? said senior study author Lawrence Scahill, a professor at Yale University School of Nursing and Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn. ?But strangely enough, it had never really been tried with children with autism or with developmental disabilities, so we had to make our own manual.?

The study involved 124 children aged 4 to 13 with an autism spectrum disorder and serious behavioral issues, including daily, prolonged tantrums, aggression or self-injurious behavior. The children were prescribed risperidone (Risperdal), an antipsychotic drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating severe behavioral problems in children with autism.

Half the children and their parents were also assigned to a six-month, structured ?parent training? program. Parents were asked to identify the most difficult, disruptive behaviors and to think about what preceded the incidents and why the child might do it. They then worked with counselors to devise strategies to avoid the triggers and help the child respond better to the everyday stressors.

Parents who underwent training reported a greater decrease in problem behaviors than the parents of children on medication alone, researchers found. By the end of the study, the average dose of risperidone
was lower for kids in the parent-training group.

?On the tantrums, the aggression and the self-injury, the combination of medications and parent training was better,? said Scahill. ?How much better? Not a huge amount, but it was an incremental improvement over an already effective improvement.?

Parents who received training also reported improvements on a test known as the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale, which measures how well a child does everyday activities, such as communicating, socializing, dressing, eating at the table and going to school.

By diminishing serious problem behaviors, such as tantrums and aggression, children?s skills in other areas improved, but the difference was not statistically significant.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, restricted interests and behaviors, repetitive behaviors and sometimes intellectual disability.

The study is published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Researchers plan to share the manual with the public. The training involves in-person sessions with a parent-training therapist, phone sessions and home visits that take place over several months.

Dr. Joseph Horrigan, assistant vice president and head of medical research for Autism Speaks, said studies like this provide more evidence that parent training can help kids and their families cope with autism-related behavioral problems.

The approach is ?pragmatic and practical,? he added. ?We?re all doing our best as parents, but we can all use a second set of eyes and an expert opinion to better our game, and this is shedding that light on the technique.?

It also makes the point that medication isn?t the only way to help kids with autism, he added.

In any case, not all children with autism should or would be prescribed risperidone, experts said. The drug, also used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is for children with very serious behavioral issues that affect their ability to function in daily life in an extreme way, Scahill said.

Parents shouldn?t take the term ?parent training? to mean they are doing something wrong, Scahill said. Rather, with an expert?s help they may learn tricks that make their life ? and their child?s life ? a little easier.

?One of the first things I tell parents, we are not blaming the parents,? he said. ?Children with an autism spectrum disorder present unique challenges to parents. Children with autism spectrum disorder who also have disruptive behaviors present even more challenges.?

?If a parent had a child with a serious medical condition like diabetes or asthma, there are all kinds of things that parent would have to learn that average parents don?t, and so it is with children with autism spectrum disorder,? he added. ?There is no reason to think a parent would automatically know how to manage these problems.?

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more on autism.

SOURCES: Lawrence Scahill, professor, M.S.N, Ph.D., Yale University School of Nursing and the Child Study Center, New Haven, Conn; Joseph Horrigan, M.D., assistant vice president, head, medical research, Autism Speaks, New York City; February 2012, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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