Popular birth control pills promotes blood clot risk

Among the most popular contraceptive pills available in the Canada - Yaz and Yasmin - carry a higher risk of serious blood clots than some other oral contraceptives, two new studies say.

Studies - both published Thursday in the British Medical Journal Online Edition - show that pills containing a new type of hormone called progestin drospirenone carry up to triple the risk of serious blood clots (known as venous thromboembolisms) on an old generation of pills containing a hormone called levonorgestrel.

Drospirenone is the key ingredient of Yasmin and Yaz, manufactured by Bayer and widely prescribed in the Canada. /

Focused on the drospirenone pills Yaz and Yasmin had global sales of 2 billion dollars in 2009, reports indicated.

Program market from the CBC raised health concerns regarding Yaz and Yasmin in January. Co-Chair Erica Johnson spoke to a number of young women who took the two brands of pills and health problems serious experienced.

More than 4,000 women have taken legal action against Bayer and more than 800 in the Canada joined a class action.

The findings provide evidence that the ancient oral contraceptives "appear to be a safer choice in thromboembolism than preparations containing drospirenone,", explains Dr. Susan Jick, school of medicine, Boston University, who led the research team.

In the first study, the researchers found the risk of a blood clot non-fatal in women using pills drospirenone of was double the risk for women using levonorgestrel containing oral contraceptives.

The study stresses that the overall risk of serious blood clots remains low – even in women taking the pill on the drospirenoane. Incidence rates were 30.8 per 100 000 years of women among the users of drospirenone versus 12.5 by 100 000 years of woman among users of levonorgestrel pills.

The researchers investigated existing U.S. medical claims data to reach their conclusions.

In the second study, researchers have discovered the first non-fatal blood clot risk among women with drospirenone containing oral contraceptives to women who have used the pill levonorgestrel-based almost tripled.

"Prescribe preparations of levonorgestrel risk lower than the choice of first line for women wishing to take an oral contraceptive appear prudent," say the authors.

In a statement, Bayer said Canada "the way the authors applied the methodology of the study reported in these two publications of defects on important show" and maintained that previous studies have shown that Yaz and Yasmin are as safe as other birth control pills.

"In view of the scientific body already large and robust evidence, notice of Bayer, these studies do not change the overall evaluation of the safety of oral contraceptives Bayer," the company said.

Erica Johnson return records the CBC links to accessibility

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Baseball takes control of the Los Angeles Dodgers

But two people with knowledge of the location bad said, that he also strongly in his team consider forcing the sale draws by calling "fit interests of baseball" forces has managed the team of Frank McCourt, since 2004, snatch, he believes owners who enrich the franchise while.

Blessed said in a statement that he taught McCourt was made of his decision, he said, "The best interests of the Club, his big fans and all of the major league baseball protect."

Blessed added that his Office "his thorough examination the operation and finances of the Dodgers of Mr. McCourt still would property at the time."

McCourt has charged the once renowned franchise with more than $400 million in debt, and was involved in an ugly and long legal battle with his wife on the conditions of their divorce.

Earlier this month, San Francisco Giants fan was severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium in an incident, the McCourt a lack of adequate security admitted at once venerable ballpark exposed.

When Selig, his calls extraordinary powers, he would seek the support of three quarters of sports 30 owners, and then sell the Dodgers in McCourt's name.

The two people with knowledge of Selig's would think not identified because they had not authorized, publicly talk about possible action plan of the Commissioner.

You said, blessed is the view that McCourt is heavily damaged, has the value, and the reputation which the Dodgers while only with his own profits concern and benefits.

Buy McCourt, a Boston real estate developer, who previously tried the Red Sox, did not try, sell the Dodgers despite its financial difficulties and very public dispute with his wife, Jamie.

William Nicholas Selig had a stand against McCourt earlier in this year when he refused McCourt's request available$ 200 million by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Entertainment Group, which previously owned the team.

Rejected McCourt Selig the 433 million US dollars, which he already owes to add more debt.? Blessed has approval rights over all the team credits. But earlier this month McCourt a personal loan of $ 30 million of Fox got, which is not in Selig the jurisdiction to deny the Los Angeles Times reported.

McCourt bought the team seven years ago for $430 million of Fox, a subsidiary of News Corporation. There were a few other bidders, including Malcolm Glazer, the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Alan Casden, a real estate developer; and, to a lesser extent, Dave Checketts, former President of the Madison Square Garden, the now the sale of its stake in the St. Louis Blues.

But contain his deals, the a 145 million US-dollar loan from Fox, McCourt as the winner despite the financial structure, which was like to unload the Dodgers. Although the entire transaction considered was heavily used, it also meets baseball's debt rules and mitigated Fox wearing baseball at national level and the Dodgers locally on his Fox Sports Network sports West regional.

The divorce trial and the advertising around's McCourt divorce have Selig displeased. The McCourts took $ 108 million in personal distributions from the team between 2004 and 2009, nearly half for personal mortgages and real estate, according to court records cited by the Los Angeles Times.

And concerns, beating the Giants fan outside Dodger stadium that McCourt had not enough on the aging ballpark security attention or put into service of its upkeep enough money.

Although McCourt not blessed the inner circle, such as Fred Wilpon, belonging to main owner of the Mets, one other troubled franchise, it simply out even an unpopular owner force may not.

"It would be messy and might set a precedent, the other owners might not want," said Marc Ganis, a sports industry consultant. He said it could better failure to its debt and then step waiting for McCourt to pay in run and to sell the team. Blessed Hicks by Thomas O., who had preferred Selig, in default for its loans to a group helped orchestrated last year's sale of the Texas Rangers under the leadership of Nolan Ryan.

Selig pushed out by suspensions and strong conviction and other officials baseball Marge SCHOTT as lead owner of the Cincinnati Reds in 1999, largely for its insensitive remarks about ethnic groups.

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Somalia, shaky on the ground, looking for control of the airspace

But Somali politicians are confident they can at least one border of the external forces to wrest control: the sky.

For almost 15 years has Somalia airspace from a small office in Nairobi, Kenya, where an employee of the air traffic controllers sit quietly on computers to ensure that the United Nations that the scores of commercial jets, which Somalia every day cross controlled - usually to somewhere different of the way to - crash not.

The fee of this is far more than a question of pride. Tens of millions of dollars in airline flyover fees gave in the United Nations as order began the janitor, but Somali officials who complain very little gone in Somalia itself.

So much money is spent, the generous salaries of United Nations pay employees, they claim, little is left to train Somali aviation officials or of the country altersschwach airports to repair. At the airport of Mogadishu have rats chewed through the wires break the x ray machines, and pieces of concrete routinely loosely from ceiling and frustrating crash, Somali officials to no end.

"In any case, we this authority will reclaim", said Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of Somalia. "It is very easy." The airspace is one of the Somali people. We are a sovereign country. "This is not just about the money."

Officials United Nations say they agree in principle with so that Somalia play a major role in the management of their own airspace, but they are concerned about the handing over of the keys to a complex and potentially dangerous operation to a Government which is constantly fluctuating alive.

Also in the small area of Mogadishu, by which it loose, fights the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia to show that it can pay its own salaries and you take the trash, let alone juggling several dozen jetliner rest through the air at 600 miles per hour.

"It is basically a question of security," said Denis Chagnon, spokesman for the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN agency, which in 1996 took over Somalia airspace. Mr. Chagnon said that although the Agency in disaster zones for of, for example, temporarily manage the skies over Kosovo and Haiti, had strengthened "nothing really to Somalia compares."

"If you pass at installations in Somalia, the control, you must ensure that these facilities are up to par, that the persons involved are well trained," he said.

Talks have already between the two sides for months, but some Western diplomats are interested in the airspace fees suspicious the Somali Government. Transparency International before recently Somalia who most corrupt country in the world, and rank a Western diplomat claims that it "one einziehenraserei" now because it is unclear how much longer mandate to apply the Transitional Government.

In view of the uncertainty about what then happens, said some Somali officials are "for any small bag of money, they can find," the diplomat, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

But the Somali officials counter that it is has United Nations, which was stolen from them.

"The United Nations has been using our money for luxury cars and mansions," said Captain Mohamoud Sheikh Ali, who until recently was the general manager of commercial aviation in Somalia. "they are plundering our property."

And that is another problem. Captain Mohamoud, a former Somali air force pilot, once a Russian made MIG on the beach of Somali, crash landing after he ran out of fuel, was abruptly in one of the frequent, endlessly zankende large ?nderung-Outs of Ministers and top officials in the Somali Government released.

"We tried a transition, find", álvaro Rodríguez, a UN official working in Somalia said. "But with the T.F.G. and all the staff changes, it kind of comes and goes", Mr RODRIGUEZ said, referring to the interim Government.

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Culture and control: China's new Museum, history toes party line

But if their interests on the cultural revolution, which tore the country apart from 1966 to 1976 and resulted in millions of deaths do, need to search a rear corner of the two million square foot museum, the opening is completed this month for a single photograph and three lines of text, which are the only reference to this era.

No less grand - serves China more than a decade and nearly $ 400 million, which remake, a monument to his rising National Museum in a leading showcase of the history and culture, are the world's largest museum under one roof - and sustainable as the Olympic Games in 2008.

But a tradition was set in place: China will confront not his own history. The Museum is less the product of extensive research, discovery, or creativity as the most famous symbol of the Communist Party of China's efforts to control of the narrative of the history and suppress alternative points of view, even those that are present in the ruling elite. It is also an example for such as China, it is difficult to create cultural institutions which prove equal to its economic achievements.

With participants tortured reconstruction describe one interviews, longer than planned, constantly revised in the year with plans to political twists and turns, accommodate pulled decided many personally by top party leaders.

Proposals for a permanent historical exhibition discussed the disasters of the early Communist rule have killed would rejected - in particular the great leap forward, a political campaign and resulting famine, the more than 20 million officials. Some organizers wanted an honest assessment of the cultural revolution, a decade-long attack on the traditional culture and learning, but this effort was squashed.

Instead, the authorities decided that the exhibition should concentrate contemporary China, such as the Museum before its extensive makeover, on the party triumphs.

Another permanent exhibition, presented at China's ancient history, an idealized version of the past. It tells the uplifting story of the Chinese ethnic groups together to draw create "brilliant services."

"The party will determine historical truth," said Yang Jisheng, a historian whose book front famine in China was banned on the big jump to. "It is ensure that if competing versions are allowed, then their legitimacy in question will be put."

Many countries are not their history as to independent historians consider fully credible. American museums were under pressure to allow more fully for slavery. American Indians won a long battle to open her own Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.c.; other museums celebrate the westward expansion of the United States but give short verstell-and killing the Indians.

Nevertheless, only a few countries with China can compete to suppress to shades of gray about her past. One result is that the Chinese public rare access to the Internet to versions of history, that differ from party propaganda and public support for some nationalist causes sometimes even stronger than his own party is attitudes. Many Chinese are confused, such as claims that some Tibetans and Uighurs are dissatisfied with Chinese rule or Japanese and Taiwanese may have different perceptions of China in their territory.

This means that the National Museum, China's long history has granted unlimited access to the treasures and relics, have not succeeded, the political constraints to escape, which for centuries hobbled the study of Chinese history. Then, as today ruler uses history to present, to make a theme that has marked almost every era.

"A public museum in China rarely about the past," said Hung Chang-Tai, Professor at the Hong Kong University of science and technology, who has written about the Museum. "It is about the current image of the party and as the party itself seen to be."

The red line

The National Museum has its roots in the Communist Party of China's wish for a legacy. In his memoirs Wang Yeqiu remembers, the Director of the Museum accession was, entered Beijing in 1949 Communist forces as they and make just used for a prison to a scaffold in 1927, one of the founding members of the party are to secure. The framework was the first element in the collection of the Museum. But its opening in 1959 was marred by a problem that would keep track of it to the present - politics. Prime Minister Zhou Enlai visited which proposed exhibition and it does not emphasize the "red line", said: the line of thought of Mao, the country's top leader.

In the next few decades, the Museum closed spent more time than open. It officially opened 1961, then closed at the beginning of the cultural revolution in 1966, reopening in 1979 and was then through a series of closings and openings as a leader for an interpretation of the past, that they could accept. The exhibition of contemporary history, closed for the good began in 2001 as civil servants, to see the Museum as an anachronism, to promote that no modern image to outside. In the same year Beijing won its bid for the Olympic Games 2008 and officials were concerned that the capital would not be a worthy host. A year earlier, a British Research Institute in Beijing a city rated third level on a par with Warsaw and Bangkok. The report was widely discussed with officials that Beijing had no notable museums or galleries in China.

Zhang Jing contributed research.

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