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Mental Health of Dads-to-Be May Influence Toddler's Behavior ...

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) ? Plenty of research has linked a mother?s mental health during and after pregnancy with her child?s well-being. Now, a new study suggests that an expectant father?s psychological distress might influence his toddler?s emotional and behavioral development.

?The results of this study point to the fact that the father?s mental health represents a risk factor for child development, whereas the traditional view has been that this risk in large is represented by the mother,? said study lead author Anne Lise Kvalevaag. ?The father?s mental health should therefore be addressed both in research and clinical practice.?

For the study, published online Jan. 7 in the journal Pediatrics, the researchers looked at more than 31,000 children born in Norway and their parents.

Fathers were asked questions about their mental health, such as whether they felt blue or fearful, when the mothers were four to five months? pregnant.

Mothers provided information about their own mental health and about their children?s social, emotional and behavioral development at age 3 years.

The researchers did not look at specific diagnoses in children, but instead gathered information on whether the youngsters got into a lot of fights, were anxious or if their mood shifted from day to day, said Kvalevaag, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Three percent of the fathers reported high levels of psychological distress. In the end, the researchers identified an association between the father?s mental health and a child?s development. Children of the most distressed men struggled the most emotionally at age 3. However, the research was not able to establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship.

Any number of potential mechanisms may explain the association, stated the authors.

For instance, there may be a genetically transmitted risk to the child, said Kvalevaag.

Another expert said that depression in fathers could also affect the mental health of the mother-to-be and thus, indirectly, the developing fetus.

?If a father is highly distressed, that could affect the mom?s secretion of hormones during pregnancy, it could affect her sleep, her own mental status,? said Daniel Armstrong, professor of pediatrics and director of the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Kvalevaag added that ?the prenatal mental state of the father is likely to predict the postnatal mental health of the father and this may also account for some of the associations found.?

Although this was reportedly the largest prospective study to look at this issue, it did have some limitations.

For instance, information on mental health was obtained only from self-reports, which can be unreliable.

Previous research has shown that depressed mothers perceived their infants to be problematic more often than more objective observers did, said Michael Rice, associate clinical director of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

A solution may be relatively straightforward, said Armstrong.

?When mom comes in for appointments, we should at least be raising the question of how dad?s doing,? he said. ?That?s probably a question that?s never asked.?

Rice welcomed the research. ?This study gives a more complete picture,? he said. ?When we talk about preventative mental health and preventing these things in the kids, we really need resources there at the prenatal stage for both the mother and the father.?

More information

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America has more on these disorders.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/01/07/mental-health-of-dads-to-be-may-influence-toddlers-behavior/

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Indian court to rule on generic drug industry

FILE - In this March 13, 2012 file photo, Indian scientists work inside a laboratory of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the fate of millions of people awaits a ruling by India's highest court that could determine whether the country's drug companies can continue to provide cheap versions of many life-saving medicines. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

FILE - In this March 13, 2012 file photo, Indian scientists work inside a laboratory of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the fate of millions of people awaits a ruling by India's highest court that could determine whether the country's drug companies can continue to provide cheap versions of many life-saving medicines. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

FILE ? In this Jan. 29, 2007 file photo, Indian police officers block demonstrators protesting against Swiss drug maker Novartis AG's case against Indian government on drug patents in New Delhi, India. The case - involving Novartis AG's cancer drug Glivec - pits aid groups that argue India plays a vital role as the pharmacy to the poor against drug companies that insist they need strong patents to make drug development profitable. A ruling by India?s Supreme Court is expected in early 2013. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo, an Indian activist from health groups holding placards as they participate in a protest against Swiss drug maker Novartis AG outside their office in Mumbai, India. The case - involving Novartis AG's cancer drug Glivec - pits aid groups that argue India plays a vital role as the pharmacy to the poor against drug companies that insist they need strong patents to make drug development profitable. A ruling by India?s Supreme Court is expected in early 2013. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

NEW DELHI (AP) ? From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging in the balance ahead of a legal ruling that will determine whether India's drug companies can continue to provide cheap versions of many life-saving medicines.

The case ? involving Swiss drug maker Novartis AG's cancer drug Glivec ? pits aid groups that argue India plays a vital role as the pharmacy to the poor against drug companies that insist they need strong patents to make drug development profitable. A ruling by India's Supreme Court is expected in early 2013.

"The implications of this case reach far beyond India, and far beyond this particular cancer drug," said Leena Menghaney, from the aid group Doctors Without Borders. "Across the world, there is a heavy dependence on India to supply affordable versions of expensive patented medicines."

With no costs for developing new drugs or conducting expensive trials, India's $26 billion generics industry is able to sell medicine for as little as one-tenth the price of the companies that developed them, making India the second-largest source of medicines distributed by UNICEF in its global programs.

Indian pharmaceutical companies such as Cipla, Cadila Laboratories and Lupin have emerged over the past decade as major sources of generic cancer, malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS drugs for poor countries that can't afford to pay Western prices.

The 6-year-old case that just wrapped up in the Supreme Court revolves around a legal provision in India's 2005 patent law that is aimed at preventing companies from getting fresh patents for making only minor changes to existing medicines ? a practice known as "evergreening."

Novartis' argued that a new version of Glivec ? marketed in the U.S. as Gleevec ? was a significant change from the earlier version because it was more easily absorbed by the body.

India's Patent Controller turned down the application, saying the change was an obvious development, and the new medicine was not sufficiently distinct from the earlier version to warrant a patent extension.

Patient advocacy groups hailed the decision as a blow to "evergreening."

But Western companies argued that India's generic manufacturers were cutting the incentive for major drug makers to invest in research and innovation if they were not going to be able to reap the exclusive profits that patents bring.

"This case is about safeguarding incentives for better medicines so that patients' needs will be met in the future," says Eric Althoff, a Novartis spokesman.

International drug companies have accused India of disregarding intellectual property rights, and have pushed for stronger patent protection that would weaken India's generics industry.

Earlier this year, an Indian manufacturer was allowed to produce a far cheaper version of the kidney and liver cancer treatment sorefinib, manufactured by Bayer Corp.

Bayer was selling the drug for about $5,600 a month. Natco, the Indian company, said its generic version would cost $175 a month, less than 1/30th as much. Natco was ordered to pay 6 percent in royalties to Bayer.

Novartis says the outcome of the new case will not affect the availability of generic versions of Glivec because it is covered by a grandfather clause in India's patent law. Only the more easily absorbed drug would be affected, Althoff said, adding that its own generic business, Sandoz, produces cheap versions of its drugs for millions across the globe.

Public health activists say the question goes beyond Glivec to whether drug companies should get special protection for minor tweaks to medicines that others could easily have uncovered.

"We're looking to the Supreme Court to tell Novartis it won't open the floodgates and allow abusive patenting practices," said Eldred Tellis, of the Sankalp Rehabilitation Centre, a private group working with HIV patients.

The court's decision is expected to be a landmark that will influence future drug accessibility and price across the developing world.

"We're already paying very high prices for some of the new drugs that are patented in India," said Petros Isaakidis, an epidemiologist with Doctors Without Borders. "If Novartis' wins, even older medicines could be subject to patenting again, and it will become much more difficult for us in future to provide medicines to our patients being treated for HIV, hepatitis and drug resistant TB."

Associated Press

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Four dead in hostage-taking in Aurora, Colorado: media

(Reuters) - Four people were dead including the gunman following a hostage-taking incident on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theater last July, Denver-area media reported.

Police fired tear gas and entered the home after several hours of failed negotiations with the gunman, who had barricaded himself inside, and shot him dead, KUSA television reported. Inside they found three other people shot dead, media reports said.

The victims were believed to be related to the gunman, the Denver Post reported, citing Aurora police spokeswoman Cassidee Carlson.

Police reached by telephone in Aurora offered no immediate information on the situation.

Police notified neighbors of an emergency around 3 a.m. (1000 GMT) and evacuated several blocks, Carlson told KUSA.

One person inside had escaped and alerted authorities, KUSA said.

The gunman fired on a police vehicle around 8 a.m., leading to an exchange of gunfire, KMGH television said. At that time police saw a lifeless body for the first time.

The Denver suburb of Aurora was rocked by the mass shooting in July that had been the deadliest in the United States of 2012 until the December 14 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 28 including the gunman.

In Aurora, a shooter opened fire during a midnight screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Police identified former neuroscience graduate student James Holmes as the suspect in a crime that renewed debate about the sale of powerful semi-automatic rifles and extended capacity magazines.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Vicki Allen and Will Dunham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/four-dead-hostage-taking-aurora-colorado-tv-165521369.html

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Dead on Facebook: Pranksters kill accounts with fake death reports

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Helen A.S. Popkin

While vacationing with his wife in Cancun, Rusty Foster did something many would find inexplicable?? he?didn?t check his Facebook account. Not once.?

But when the couple returned to their home in Peaks Island, Maine earlier this week, Foster?learned much to his surprise that he was dead???at least as far as Facebook was concerned.

?Everything seemed OK, but?I didn?t try to post anything until Thursday,? Foster told NBC News. Foster says he attempted to log on to his Facebook account, and got the ?pink box? instead???the one that reads:

This account is in a special memorial state. If you have any questions or concerns, please visit the Help Center for further information.

Turns out, while Foster was away, his prankster pal had him declared dead on Facebook, where it?s surprisingly easy to falsely memorialize an account. Since Facebook has no realtime customer service hotline,?getting one?s profile resurrected in this case?required outside intervention ... from BuzzFeed.?When Foster couldn't get Facebook's immediate attention, he wrote a note to the social news site asking for help.

How did BuzzFeed's intrepid reporter?Katie Notopoulos?help out? By turning around and Facebook murdering her colleague John Herrman, of course.

Being dead???at least on the Internet???is ?a little bit anticlimactic,? says Herrman. "I?ve been worrying about it?my whole my life and it turned out to just be a Facebook status update."?

Unbeknownst to him, Notopoulos had reported him dead for the purposes of investigating Foster's claims, not to mention the possibility of an awesomely annoying (and some might say, dark)?prank made possible by Facebook's service for the grieving.

When NBC News turned to Facebook to make sense of this apparently?slipshod policy, a spokesperson emailed the following statement:

We have designed the memorialization process to be effective for grieving families and friends, while still providing precautions to protect against either erroneous or malicious efforts to memorialize the account of someone who is not deceased.?We also provide an appeals process for the rare instances in which accounts are mistakenly reported or inadvertently memorialized.

Prior to 2009, Facebook users who sloughed off this mortal coil had the unfortunate habit of haunting the living???their pictures popping up on the profiles of their former friends, along with the friendly suggestion from Facebook that y?all should ?reconnect.? Four years into the network's existence, and with more than 300 million active users at the time, Facebook realized it had had its fair share of user fatalities, and the pile of creeped-out user?complaints that came with it.?

So the??Memorializing? function came into being, allowing loved ones to alert Facebook to their friends? passing and?preventing the social network from making potentially upsetting, wildly inappropriate suggestions. Any profile that has been?memorialized?is locked down: Only friends previously?approved by the deceased can even?view it, and personal information such as phone numbers are removed.?

Before contacting BuzzFeed, Foster had?attempted to?resuscitate?his profile by following?Facebook?s appeal process? ??filling out the online form titled ?My Personal Account is in a Special Memorialized State.? But he?wasn't?keen on killing time in social-media purgatory, and the automated reply Foster first received?didn't?inspire his confidence.??We are very sorry to hear about your loss,? it read, along with some reassurance that his report would be reviewed in according the site?s policies.

?Since I?couldn't?get on Facebook, I had a lot of time to kill on the Internet,? Foster said. ?So I Googled.? Foster says he?found more than a few search results about similarly pranked users who had difficulty getting the memorial status removed from their accounts, dating back to 2009. Finally, he sent his note to BuzzFeed.

Like Foster?s puckish friend, Notopoulos filled out a?memorialization?form for Herrman, and included ?proof of death? in the form of an online obit. For Rusty Foster, 36, who lives in Maine, his pal sent a link to the obit for a Russell Foster, 80, of Mississippi. Sure, the names more or less match, but the ages and places of residence do not.

For?BuzzFeed?s Herrman of New York, Notopoulous sent in an obit for John Herrmann of Nebraska, who, as Notopoulous noted ?is way older? than her coworker. In addition to the?age and geographic discrepancies, there's a small matter of the last names being spelled differently.

Like Foster, Herrman didn't know he was "dead" until he tried to access his account.?Herrman told NBC News that he attempted to log on, got that pink box telling him he was dead, filled out the form to get things fixed and received the same?perplexing ?sorry for your loss? automated response.

Yet less than an hour after Notopoulous? story ?How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out)? went live on BuzzFeed, Herrman?s account rose from the grave. Herrman also received another response that may very well be from a real human, which read:

It looks like your account was suspended by mistake. I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. You should now be able to log in. If you have any issues getting back into your account, please let me know.

Foster, meanwhile, says he finds it interesting that Hermann, who was Facebook-dead days less than himself, got the Lazarus treatment before Foster. His own profile did get reinstated eventually?on Friday ? but without a cheerfully apologetic note.

The spookiest part of the social media ghost story, at least for Foster, wasn?t getting declared dead. It?s what he says happened after he created a second account in order to troubleshoot his problem.?He friended just one person, and almost immediately Facebook started suggesting he friend people who were linked to his ?dead? account. The thing is, these people are not Facebook friends with the new account's only?acquaintance; Facebook was digging deeper into its data?to reconnect Foster with his people.

?It?s weird how Facebook is so good about knowing things about you, but you find this one little hole where they pretend they don?t know you at all.?

There's no word itself?from Facebook?on precautions regarding pranks, but then again, it?s not like there are a lot of jerks on the Internet.

Helen A.S. Popkin?goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook.?Also,?Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/dead-facebook-pranksters-kill-accounts-fake-death-reports-1B7833218

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Jessica Simpson Weight Watchers Magazine Cover: Her "New" Life!

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