Intel to map Plans for $ 200 million, or 10 000 elderly health study

Intel Corp. will help the Fund to work on a proposal for a study of $ 200 million of the technology used to provide care at home for the elderly, and Eric Dishman, an Intel fellow and Director of health innovationsaid in an interview.

The study will focus on the use of technology by 10 000 elderly people, said Dishman. Intel is looking for partners who can put funding for the proposal and the study and end a proposal describing the study of this year, he said.

In an effort of 5 to 10 years, researchers predict use sensors, computers connected to the Internet and other devices to capture data on daily activities of older persons, such that when they take the medicine and the speed with which they move on the House. The goal is to prove that the technology can follow physical and cognitive decline and understand how technology can help improve care providers for older persons in the settings of the home, hospitals and other facilities where care costs have skyrocketed in recent years. The so-called technology of aging on the spot market is expected to surge. Income comprehensive monitoring in patients with diseases such as diabetes and heart arrhythmia should increase to 16.6 billion in 2015, $ 11 billion last year, according to the Swedish consultant Berg Insight.

"There are likely to be more seniors which need you assistance at home," Andre Malm, senior analyst at the Berg, said in an interview. "It is a way to improve the quality of life for patients who want to live at home." What is needed, it is good, independent research "to prove that technologies to home work." The number of Americans aged 65 years or more will be increased to 72.1 million by 2030, 39.6 million in 2009, according to the Administration on aging.

One goal is to prove that technologies at home can be useful for early detection of diseases, and alert as grave emergency care providers, said Dishman. "I am certain that we will find ways to increase the prevention of falls and reduce depression," he said. Computers could remind consumers with Alzheimer's disease, for example, what they discussed in a previous conversation. A door can notify a caregiver that a person who has not gone outside for four days.

"You can solve a problem earlier, before becoming a clinical," Paul Crawford, Research Director of health for Intel Labs product, said in an interview. "Intel tries to make a living in the digital age." It's analog age now. "Crawford and Jeff Kaye, Professor at the University of Oregon Health & Science, are leading the work on the proposal. The study should be administered by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

The study can begin as early as 2012, if additional funds are secure, Dishman said. His study SILvR (Senior independent living research) Initiative could cost 200 million dollars over 10 years and eventually followed some 10,000 households with seniors, he said. The exact cost of the study will be determined this year.

Potential donors of the work of proposal include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Science Foundation, said Dishman. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which provides funding for public health projects, is "intrigued by the idea", Paul Tarini, senior officer of the Foundation programme, said in an interview. The Organization spoke with Intel on the study and is currently awaiting a funding proposal.

Intel makes chips and software used in home care. The company and GE Corp. formed a joint venture focused on technologies for independent living and telehealth in August.

Intel invested in technologies for 12 years senior health care, funding more than 100 University Grants, said Dishman.

Once the proposal is completed by the end of the year, Intel will push us and the European Union authorities to fund the study, said Dishman. Intel also spoke with representatives of the White House, including federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and shoot the study becoming an issue in the presidential election in 2012, he said.

"It is too expensive even for Intel alone produce clinical and financial evidence that these technologies detect diseases and reduce costs," said Dishman. "Even competitors need to meet and co-invest."

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NHL players losing more time on concussions: study

Players in the NHL lost an average of 10 days of game time in one-third of the cases of concussion from 1997 to 2004, a new study finds.

The study of the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows Monday injuries for seven regular seasons of NHL was capped. It also made the clinical signs and symptoms that predicts the players being the ice for more time.

Researchers at the University of Calgary analyze the most recent data of the NHL.

In the study published, predictors of off-ice time included:

Headache.low energy or fatigue.Loss of memory.Abnormal neurological examination.

"Our results indicate that there was a trend towards a progressive increase in the loss of afflicted time during the study period," said author principal Dr. Brian Benson, a researcher and a doctor at the Centre of sports medicine in the Faculty of the University of Calgary of Kinesiology.

"A trend that we have seen that, although the number of concussions were leveled during the study period, the amount of the loss of time seems to gradually increase over the years, which may be an indication of the greater severity or greater caution in the treatment" he added in a press release.""

The study raised concussion repeat as a problem, noting loss of typical time in days increased 2.25 times the period of study for each recurring concussion.

Specifically, the study focused on the 559 concussions suffered by players of the NHL in regular season games, based on reports from doctors of each team in the League.

Among those who lost of time, 31% of concussions led to players more missing for 10 days of competition.

In 11 per cent of these cases of loss of time, players had continued to play and then later said the symptoms to the medical staff after the match. The symptoms of the players of degree of the NHL among those who regularly plays of the time because of a concussion. CMAJ

There was a 1.8 concussions estimated 1,000 hours of game time, the researcher found.

"Our results also suggest that measures more conservatives or precaution should be taken in the immediate period of affliction, particularly when an athlete reports or experiments afflicted headache, low energy or fatigue, amnesia, concussion recurrent or many different symptoms afflicted.", or when the athlete has an abnormal neurological examination, "the authors of the study has concluded."

During the study period, concussion rate has decreased from a peak of 7.7 concussions by 100 players in the season 2000-2001 to 4.9 by 100 players in 2003-2004.

Researchers said they hope that the findings will provide specific practical information for physicians of the team on concussion signs and symptoms that could point to the potentially more serious concussions.

Since program concussion by the League and its players Union have evolved over the seven years of the study period, only the signs, symptoms and physical examination results which matched a season to another were included.

The League has faced calls to more severe penalties, most recently following the Zdeno Chara on Max Pacioretty hit last month that caused a severe concussion and fractured neck, and concussion of Sidney Crosby in January.

In March, the NHL announced new rules of concussion, as requiring trainers perform a quick test with players in a quiet area.

NHL decision Monday not to suspend the Vancouver Canucks before Raffi Torres after his success on the Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Brent Seabrook shows a related debate among the audience on what is considered to be a head shot has not been settledsaid Hockey Night in Canada Scott Morrison.

The professional way play hockey is imitated in junior hockey, according to the authors of a second study appearing in the same issue that calls for body failure eliminated except for hockey aged 16 years and already elite players.

"The fact is that the vast majority of concussions and injuries of hockey on the whole, at all levels of play, is caused by the legal body failed implementation," wrote Dr. Syd Johnson of Dalhousie University in Halifax.

"It is time to break this cycle and teach young people to play in a way that focuses on the skills and protects their brains, so they will be prepared to do the same when they grow up," concluded Johnson.

Up to 25 per cent of all players of junior hockey in a single season has suffered concussions, a recent study suggests.

Approximately 500,000 young people in the Canada play hockey in organized leagues. Hockey players only one of 4 000 young people makes it to the Professional League, according to Hockey Canada, central organ of the country for youth hockey.

In view of these ratings, Johnson argues that it is not useful to submit as many young players to high risk of injury.

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Arctic eroding up to 8 metres a year: study

Arctic coastline is retirement, particularly at the Canada, and their disappearance has a significant impact on the ecosystem and the social and economic life of the North, according to a group of international researchers.

The changes are particularly dramatic in the Beaufort Sea along the coast of the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska and in the seas of Siberia's East, Laptev and along the North coast of the Russia. Some sections have seen erosion rates reach more than eight metres a year as protective sea ice disappears along the coast.

"Each element of the North will be affected, from the side to the Inuit way engineering interact with their environment."-Wayne Pollard, McGill

The study found that on average, the Arctic Coast is back by a half metre per year.

"Each element of the North will be affected, right side engineering how the Inuit to interact with their environment," Wayne Pollard, a Geomorphologist from McGill University who have contributed to the study, told the Canadian Press.

The study of 2010 by a consortium of over 30 researchers from 10 countries, was published Sunday in the journal estuaries and coasts. The consortium includes researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, based in Germany for polar research and Marine.

The project examined more than 100 000 kilometres of coastline, or a quarter of all coasts of the Arctic. This is the first to compare the different rates of erosion as well as to take into account its impact on the people of the North.

While they cannot prove that they have limited the data of the year to work with, scientists suspect that gradual wash-away, and thousands of kilometres of shoreline North is accelerating.

Researchers say rising temperatures in the North because of climate change are originally coastal to disappearing sea ice, leaving the coast without protection against the erosion force waves. The problem is particularly acute in the Arctic because approximately two-thirds of its coast consists of permafrost, which is much softer and therefore more susceptible to erosion than the rock.

Researchers say that since about a third of the coasts of the world are in the permafrost in the Arctic, coastal erosion may affect huge areas in the future.

This is a concern for deltas of Arctic River along the coast, who have high biodiversity and are extremely productive in other parts of the Arctic. Concern for researchers, these productive sectors may vary the coast erodes.

Pollard, who works many among the Inuvialuit of the territories of Northwestern Delta of Mackenzie region, said that the changes affect already traditional practices such as hunting seals, polar bears and beluga whales. People therefore adapted to their local environment they can navigate in fog by currents affecting their boats can no longer rely on old assumptions, he said.

"It is going to be there shoals where it was not before shoals, there will be storms coming from different directions," he said. "" "". "It really is beginning to disrupt traditional knowledge".

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Canada can support several NHL teams, study says

As the puck drops on another season of hockey in the playoffs, the author of an economic study of the National Hockey League said Canadian fans have sold short.

Tony Keller, a researcher at the Centre for Innovation policy at the University of Toronto, co-écrit Mowat a report which concludes the Canada could support up to 12 franchises NHL - double the current six - including the two additional teams to join the Toronto Maple Leafs in southern Ontario.

In its report, Keller argues that, while the major part of the financial support of hockey comes from the Canada, the NHL continued to push a political failure of expansion in the South of the United States ambivalent markets play, as Phoenix, Nashville and Florida.

"It's a very strange situation where the NHL generates approximately one-third of its turnover to the Canada, but only about a fifth of its teams, to the Canada" Keller told CBC News Tuesday.

His report, says the best place to find a new team would be the Golden Horseshoe, an area that rings Toronto and account approximately nine million people. But other cities could also support the NHL teams, the report finds, including Hamilton and the other London and Kitchener, Ontario. Winnipeg and Quebec may also support teams, according to the report of.

Tony Keller has co-authored a report that examines the finances of the NHL and concludes that the Canada could support a total of 12 NHL franchises. (CBC)

"Here, the application of fan, the fan interest is so high and yet the number of teams, the provision of hockey is so restricted, said Keller." There is no question all six cities, we studied have higher incomes than any team in the U.S. sunbelt. ?

The NHL has resisted recent attempts to move the U.S. teams to cities, something that Keller suggests may violate the law on competition of the Canada.

"Under the strict legal definition, the NHL is a cartel," he said. "It is a group of companies that cooperate for the purpose of the reduction of competition." This is what they do.

But the report Mowat was not well received by the Director General of one of the teams he suggested should accept a new franchise as a neighbour: the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Brian Burke has stated that he did not read the study but is familiar with similar proposals that called for the addition of a new team to the West of Toronto.

"I think that there is a golden horse pile something else," said Burke. "It is not a question of sustainability, it is a second or third team being here without prejudice in Toronto, Buffalo and Detroit.

Jon Desouza, a hockey fan, would like a new franchise located in the greater Toronto area.

"Hamilton, they fill you stadiums larger than Carolina would never be right?" Empty small towns of Carolina in the Canada stage would fill stadiums at the time of the great city of United States, "says.

The NHL responded to a request of CBC News to discuss the content of the report.

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Coloured cigarette packages mislead smokers: study

Cigarette manufacturers are replacing words such as "light" and "soft" with colors, such as gold, silver, blue and orange. Altria Group/Associated Press

Smokers in Western countries continue to falsely believe that some brands cigarettes may be less harmful despite the prohibitions on the words "light" and "mild" on the packaging, a study concludes.

For the study in question.

One-fifth of smokers incorrectly believed that "some brands of cigarettes may be less harmful' than the other, David Hammond International Tobacco Control and his co-authors found.

False beliefs were higher in the United States and the United Kingdom

In more than 50 countries, cigarette manufacturers are are not allowed to use such labels as "light" and "mild". In some cases, they were passed to marks "Silver" and "gold".

Research suggests that smokers base their perceptions of risk on the staining of package.

"These beliefs are associated with descriptive words and elements of dressing that have not yet banned, there included the names of colors and cigarettes long, thin," the study concluded.

Smokers in the study showed that they also believed erroneously that:

Slim cigarettes are less harmful.Cigarettes with hard taste are more risky than smoking cigarettes smooth-tasting.Filters to reduce the risk.Nicotine is responsible for much of the cancer caused by smoking.

"The findings highlight the deceptive potential of brands of cigarettes"slim"primarily targeted young women," Hammond said in a statement.

"The findings also support the potential benefits of the regulations of a packaging which will soon enter into force in Australia, whereby all cigarettes will be sold in packages with the same ordinary color without graphics or logos."

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Many cancers preventable with less drinking: study

Drinking too much alcohol is blamed for a "considerable proportion" of cases of cancer, suggests a large new European study.

The study in question this week in the medical journal BMJ said current or former alcohol could be blamed for as much as 10% of cases of cancer among men and three per cent among women.

The findings are based on more than 100 000 men and women then 250 000 37 to 70 years in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Netherlands and Denmark from 1992 to 2005.

"A significant proportion of the most common and most fatal cancers is due to former and current alcohol consumption," wrote the principal author of the Institute of Nutrition human Potsdam-Rehbruecke of Manuela Bergmann Nuthetal, Germany.

"This underscores the need to continue and intensify its efforts to reduce alcohol consumption in Europe, both on the individual and the population level strongly."

Too much alcohol was also blamed for seven per cent of cancers of the breast in women German and 28 percent of colorectal cancer in Spanish men, results show.

"The effect is higher for some cancers which we already know there is a causal link between …like liver, mouth, throat, esophagus and cancer," said Dr. Karl Kabasele, medical commentator for the CBC.

The Canada has a national strategy on alcohol which covers alcohol prices and availability. But labelling of bottles of alcohol better with specific warnings about cancer risk would reduce its harmful effects on health, said Prof. Tim Stockwell, of the University of Victoria Centre for Addictions Research.

"It is a question where a citizen", Stockwell said in an interview. "I think it is scandalous that interest groups to persuade Governments that it is not necessary to inform consumers about the risks of such things as cancer of this product as the major part of the use and love.".

People are warned about the risks of tanning booths for example, but the risks of alcohol does are not clearly outlined, Stockwell.

The Canadian Cancer Society has recognized that the risk of cancer of the consumption of alcohol have received little attention.

"I think that there is much misunderstanding about the safety of alcohol," said Gillian Bromfield, policy analyst with the Canadian society of Cancer in Toronto. "Many people really don't understand the risk of cancer of the consumption of alcohol. ?

The labels of alcohol could also carry more useful information on how many standard drinks are in a bottle of wine or spirits, suggested Stockwell. In this way, it would be easier for people to translate the upcoming national recommendations on the amount and frequency of alcohol consumption are considered at low risk for their personal behavior.

In the study, researchers used a mathematical model of factors such as smoking, diet and exercise into account in the calculation of the number of cancers attributed to drinking more than recommended.

The research was funded by several European health authorities.

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