Why Dogs Eat Poop, As Explained by Dr. Mustache

Dr. Mustache (Matt Johnson) of The Pet Collective explains the science behind why dogs eat poop in “Why do dogs dine on dung?”

Coprophagia is common in 50% of dogs. But why? Well it has something to do with biology, behavior and evolution.

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Parents of Newtown survive requires 566 million

A six-year-old girl who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, must have $ 100 million in damages, according to her parents

It will cost the State Connecticut $ 100 million  that it failed to protect children at Sandy Hook Elementary School from shooting massacre.

That, at least the parents of a six-year-old girl who was among the survivors of the terrible tragedy that took place on 14 December.

Therefore, they sued the State for ’emotional and psychological trauma and damage’, said family lawyer, Irvin Pinsky.

He added that his client’s actions are not financially motivated, but simply an expression of a desire to ensure the children in the American schools.

– My primary goal is to prevent this from happening again. We are trying to upgrade school safety in Connecticut and at the national level, says Pinsky to television station ABC.

– As far as I know, there is no rule of thumb for the amount you have to call, but if I need to achieve my goal, I need to require a significant amount, he added.

The family does not want to come forward with their names.

20 pupils aged six or seven years have been killed, and six of the school’s staff were killed in school massacre. Offender, the 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also shot himself.

Besides the claim to the Land of accusing parents also local authorities for not having a proper plan for emergencies like the one in Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Dogs can “diagnosis” bacteria

The bacterium ‘Clostridium difficile’ is notorious for produce severe diarrhea. Now it turns out that dogs can learn to sniff out the source.

Diarrhea, stomach pain and fever.

Infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile frames each year many Danes, and so do you use a lot of energy to fight them. Now, doctors and patients have a new effective weapon: a cute little hound with big wet eyes and an equally wet nose.

A new experiment, whose results have just been published in the quaint little Christmas issue of the renowned scientific journal British Medical Journal, suggests that dogs can sniff their way to the bacteria in stool samples and air samples from the area around the patient.

Found suggest that one can use dogs to screen large hospital areas in an attempt to prevent the bacteria from spreading.

See video of a dog that sniffs through to dangerous sources of infection, the Videnskab.dk

Bacterial infections of this nature usually occurs in elderly people has recently been treated with antibiotics in the hospital. But outbreaks have also been reported in schools and other institutions, where many people are gathered.

Healthy people usually get only a mild diarrhea of ​​the bacterium, while people who are already suffering from a disease likely to have a life-threatening intestinal infection.

Since the bacteria so can be a killer, is early detection something hospitals are very focused, but the tests have so far been used, which collects bacteria samples and send them to the laboratory for further investigation, is both expensive and slow. During the week, awaiting answers, many people manage to get infected.

– Diarrhoea, which is provoked by this bacterium has a characteristic odor, and it was just what prompted us to investigate whether it was possible to train dogs to their good sense of smell to sniff out the source, writes Professor Christina MJE Vandenbroucke-Grauls from the department of medical mikorbiologi and infection control at the research institution ‘VUmc’ in Amsterdam.

A two year old hunting dog by nature Beagle was trained in order to recognize the smell of the bacterium Clostridium difficile in stool samples, as well as in patients known to be infected with the bacterium.

The dog was trained to lie down every time he identified the bacterium during a test. Since it was established to UG after two months the dog invited to sniff at 50 stool samples that were infected with the bacterium and 50 samples that were not. The dog identified all infected samples correctly and 47 out of the 50 negative samples.

The dog was then released on hospital wards for yourself to hunt for patients who were affected by the bacteria. Here, it was able to identify 28 cases out of a total of 30 infected patients, and 265 of 270 patients who were not affected.

– The trained dogs were able to detect the bacterium with great success. It gives hope that such dogs can be used to trace the source of infection, so as to combat the bacteria before endanger human lives at risk, the researchers conclude in their article.

The tour took considerably less time than a regular ward rounds: less than 10 minutes.

Is it harmful to delay menstruation with birth control pills?

Young girls and women munch birth control pills to delay menstruation. But the health consequences for women and their abdomen.

Menstruation. One word for it, women have about five hundred times in the course of life.

But some ladies sneaking around.

A reader wonders whether it is harmful to delay menstruation, and have posted this question to us.

– To continue with a new batch of pills has long been a method that young girls have used to avoid menstruation on important days. But now it seems to be very little to expose mens’en, just a small party or a trip to the gym. Is the health ok to do this often? And how often and long may mens’en exposed outside, it has a health impact?

Zero Stress
– There is nothing to suggest that it is harmful to delay menstruation, says Ole-Erik Iversen.

He is a professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen (UIB), and works by female clinic at Haukeland University Hospital.

In 2006, he told VG (Verdens Gang, Norway’s second largest newspaper, ed.) That girls may well drop your period during the holidays, but that one is not sure of the long-term effects of exposing menstruation.

There has not been published more research on long-term effects since this.

Ole-Erik Iversen think, however, that it is hard to imagine that it is to postpone menstruation can have a detrimental effect:

– Evidence-based medicine, that is the part of medicine that is based on research, only 50 percent of what we do. The rest of today’s medicine is based on that something appears to be good after long experience.

And based on medical experience are the professor, then, that menstrual exposure is not dangerous, partly because the pill is much weaker today than when they first came on the market for more than 50 years ago.

Less hormones now than before
in Norway bought the highest number combination play, which contains both estrogen and progestin. Read more about how the pill works in fact boxes here in the article.

Ole-Erik Iversen says that the first pill that came, had an estrogen content of 150 micrograms.

Hormone figure has been gradually downward, and from the mid-60s until the 90s were the most common birth control pills an estrogen content of 50 micrograms.

Today we are down to 20 micrograms.

This is the main reason why Professor Ole-Erik Iversen believes that exposure is ok:

– Women do not get a higher daily dose of estrogen, although they expose your period by taking pills every day without delay, and the annual estrogen dose will still be lower than the annual dose pill users had in the past, he says.

Given that the pills have been used in such high doses for many years, says the researcher, that there would be surfaced injury reports up if there were any special problems with taking these pills for a long time:

– But we have not seen, says Ole-Erik Iversen.

Horror stories give more abortions
Ole-Erik Iversen seems that mortality due to birth control pills sometimes exaggerated in the media.

Each year about a thousand women an abortion at the women’s clinic where he works.

Ole-Erik Iversen says that number increases in the periods in which the media have been scare stories about the pill:

– Approximately one in three women will have an abortion several times, many because they are afraid of contraceptives.

He will put the pill danger in perspective by subtracting numbers up to some of the other things that make Norwegian women’s lives:

• Of 100,000 women who smoke in this country, to smoking 167 women’s lives each year

• Twelve women lose their lives in road accidents every year

• Approximately four per 100,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth in Norway each year, according to an article in the magazine of the Norwegian play association.

– There is always some 200,000 Norwegian women taking the pill. Only one in 100,000 deaths each year because of the pill, says Ole-Erik Iversen.

Thrombosis is one of the things that can lead to death for pill users, but it is not as dangerous as it sounds to be in the media, he said.

Increased risk of thrombosis during pregnancy
Ole-Erik Iversen says that the majority of those who receive clot of birth control pills, are women who have bleeding disorders, meaning that their blood coagulation (ie clotting) easier and thus may cause a blood clot.

If someone in your family has had an unexplained blood clot at a young age, you can check with your doctor before you start on the pill.

Ole-Erik Iversen adds that pregnancy is an even greater stroke risk for these women.

– I think that some doctors say it is so scary with blood clots, it is better not to take the pill, says the professor.

He is then not agree with them.

– I believe in a total accounting will combination pill for most to be the best as long as you are not in the group with increased thrombosis risk.

– P syringe and p-rod are examples of contraceptives without estrogen, and thus also without the increased risk of thrombosis, but they also do not have the advantageous effects.

Less cancer
This begins to sound like an advertisement for the pill, but it is actually proven that the little pill is good for your health in a few areas.

P-users including a reduced risk of ovarian cancer and uterine lining, and the pills reduces the risk of pelvic infection and other infections that can cause sterility.

– And the pill protects against birth and pregnancy, which is one of the most dangerous women expose themselves to, adds Ole-Erik Iversen.

In the 80s popped up a study that said that the pill gives an increased risk of breast cancer. It turned out, however, that this study was flawed, and the World Health Organization conducted as a joint study of breast cancer and oral contraceptive use.

They found no correlation.

– WHO’s interpretation is that there is no more breast cancer among pill users, but more women in this group investigated. So that the slightly higher incidence thus unrelated to the COC to do, says Ole-Erik Iversen.

Fake blood
Professor Ole-Erik Iversen is thus quite positive about the long-term use of oral contraceptives. But he also believes that it is ok if women postpone menstruation completely until they might want to be pregnant?

And what about menstruation in itself, it is not a function that the body will miss?

– Probably it is both safe and appropriate for many not having menstrual periods, corresponding Ole-Erik Iversen.

Plain menstrual blood comes because the uterine lining grows into the fall, and it starts to bleed from the wound surface.

Women are constantly in a hormone cycle and hormone levels fall after ovulation when you are not pregnant. But when you take the pill, you get no ovulation.

– The menstrual-like bleeding, you get the pill break is not a natural or normal menstruation. Endometrial lining grows because of the hormones, not because of the body even set it once, says Ole-Erik Iversen.

– This blood loss is not really appropriate, he adds.

He believes that just as well could have failed to put a menstrual period in when they first came pills.

– The reason why they did it, is that you thought that this would be the most natural, but there is nothing natural about the pill, so why try to make the unnatural natural? he asks rhetorically.

Illegal research
is lacking as written research on long-term effects of menstrual exposure, and it is perhaps not surprising.

When scientists researching the drugs they usually compare the study group with other groups.

– And whom do we compare with? asks Ole-Erik Iversen, adding that it is not possible to compare, for example, spiral users with COC users.

In studies without two directly comparable groups, researchers may resort to cheating medicine to check the effect.

– When it came to test the pill in the 50s they gave the control group placebo, and women did not therefore whether they were protected or not.

– The result of this research was that the pill worked very well as contraception, says the professor.

This was before we got ethical framework for such research, and it is therefore illegal today.

Agree female researchers
Ole-Erik Iversen has noticed the same thing as forskning.no reader that came with reading the question, it seems as if it has been more common to postpone menstruation:

– I think that it is more common both to postpone, shorten periods and to choose not to have menstruation for long periods, such as. a year, he said.

Videnskab.dk have contacted several researchers in women’s health to this article.

All agreed with Ole-Erik Iversen in that there is nothing to suggest that it may be harmful for the body to postpone menstruation with birth control pills.

However, it is not easy to know what you do not know.

– Hormones have many effects that we often do not have full overview of.

30 corps avec têtes coupées trouvés près de Damas

Organisations syriennes disent qu’au moins 30 corps mutilés ont été retrouvés dans une banlieue de Damas

30 égale torturé avec des têtes coupées ont été trouvés dans la banlieue nord de Damas, lesdits groupes syriens d’opposition.

– 30 corps ont été retrouvés dans le quartier de Barzeh. Ils ont montré des signes de torture et n’a pas encore été identifié, a déclaré l’organisation L’Observatoire syrien pour les droits de l’homme, qui tire son information des médecins et des militants locaux.

Barzeh a déjà été le théâtre de combats entre les forces gouvernementales syriennes et l’armée rebelle.

Un autre groupe d’opposition, qui se fait appeler la Révolution syrienne général de la Commission, estime qu’il est d’environ 50 cadavres.

Selon l’organisation a été la mort trouvé avec «leurs têtes coupées et maltraité dans tellement grave qu’il n’était plus possible de les identifier.”

Les morts ont été retrouvés dimanche, qui fut l’un des jours les plus sanglants du conflit une fois 22 mois de temps.

Selon l’Observatoire syrien pour les droits de l’homme a perdu 160 soldats et les civils en avant-dernier jour de cette année.

Marries her twin sister’s killer

A 22-year-old Argentinean woman has aroused resurrection, after she announced that she intends to marry her twin sister’s killer

It is not always a wedding to inspire enthusiasm among all family members. In Argentina accuses a mother even his 22-year-old daughter of treason because of the marriage, she probably included on Friday.

The 22-year-old Edith Casas has namely announced that she intends to marry the man who has been convicted for the murder of her twin sister.

Johana Casas, who was a model, was shot and killed in 2010 – just days before his 20-th birthday. Her ex-boyfriend Victor Cingolani was convicted of murder and sent 13 years behind bars.

Since the murder took place, was Edith Casas and Victor Cingolani been lovers. But Edith Casas remains committed in that it is not her future husband, who is behind the murder.

– He’s a guy who would not hurt a fly, to Edith Casas according to the BBC as saying on Cingolani.

Also another of the slain ex-girlfriends are suspected in the case. He is soon to judge, writes Daily Mail .

Still think the mother is still that it is Cingolani, who is behind the murder.
– There is in words that can describe the Edith do. She is guilty of a terrible betrayal, she told the Daily Mail.

The controversial wedding takes place according to the Daily Mail place in Edith Casas hometown with just two friends as witnesses. However, several officers be present to chaperone the convicted from prison.

2012 was a bloody year for journalists

The old year go down in history as one of the deadliest year for journalists. 121 lost their lives on the job

Many journalists in 2012 lost their lives in war zones in Syria and Somalia, and that means that 2012 was one of the bloodiest year for international journalist condition.

Organization The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) based in Brussels says that 121 journalists in 2012 has been killed while carrying out their work.

In 2011 the figure was 107th

IFJ said in a statement that the large number of journalists killed as a result of the UN and various governments do not fulfill their international obligations to protect and ensure journalists’ fundamental “right to life”.

According to IFJ conflict in Syria this year killed 35 journalists life.

Bloodshed has been going on for 21 months, and Syrian activist groups say that 45,000 people have lost their lives during the conflict.

In Somalia, 18 journalists have been killed this year. Here are African peacekeepers in the war with al-Qaeda.

In Mexico, organized crime a major problem, while Islamic insurgents makes journalist dangerous life in Pakistan, also for journalists.

In both countries, 10 journalists were killed in 2012.

Medina New Year gift: Enjoy me in a bikini

The sexy singer posing in bikini while on holiday in Miami

While winter still held in Denmark’s Medina fled to Miami, where the Danish singer can enjoy a somewhat different climate in the company of her boyfriend, Christopher.

The many who follow the singer on social media like Twitter and Facebook are however a little insight into how the celebrity couple passes time on New Year holiday.

 

Sunday uploaded Medina above bikini picture with the following text ‘Adore this bikini from Agent Provocateur # agentprovocateur # medina # medinamusic # bikini swimwear # miami.

Before the pop star had put another picture with the text ‘Miami chillin …’on its social platforms.

Nine countries will have top post in WTO

Nine countries are paying ticket effort to deliver the next head of the WTO, Pascal Lamy stops.

Some will be disappointed when the World Trade Organization (WTO) must find a new CEO after Pascal Lamy.

Deadline to sign up as a candidate was Monday, and nine countries have signed up with every candidate.

The latest is Roberto Azevedo, the Brazilian envoy to the WTO.

The other candidates are from Mexico, Costa Rica, South Korea, New Zealand, Jordan, Indonesia, Ghana and Kenya.

Countries candidates are typically their trade ministers, another minister or former minister.

The WTO has 158 members, and they must now find the name of the new chief. It should be clarified by 31 May

Pascal Lamy is a Frenchman, and he has had top post since 2005. When he got the job, there were also three other candidates, from Uruguay, Brazil and Mauritius.

When he was re-elected in 2009, was unopposed.

WTO’s next chief executive, whose title is Director General will be responsible for completing the Doha round of free trade agreements.

This round was started back in 2001, but there have been major problems, especially in relation to China, the EU, India and the United States.

Double Oscar-winner died in a dramatic accident

Soundman from ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘King Kong’ killed in rafting

Hollywood sound engineer Mike Hopkins (53), among others, won the Oscar for ‘Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’, died in a rafting accident on the weekend.

The accident occurred Sunday in New Zealand, where Hopkins was born, but first Monday released the police the name of the slain.

Mike Hopkins has worked closely with Peter Jackson in both ‘Rings Herre’ trilogy and the’ King Kong ‘, where he received his Oscar in 2006.

According to the police was Hopkins and two others thrown out of an inflatable boat near Tararua Rangers.

It is still unclear what happened next with sound engineer, but police believe that the 53-year-old had problems in the strong current.

-All three had life jackets and wetsuits and helmets, according to the New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ.

Police would like to thank everyone who helped in the search for Hopkins and the rescue efforts in relation to the other two distressed. One of them was also a woman.