Great news for all of you living in Norway and Sweden, as you'll soon be able to purchase the RAZR MAXX (see our review here). Motorola Mobility is making an effort to bring the same high-end phone to a variety of markets.
Here are some of the specs if you need a refresher:
4.3-inch Super-AMOLED Advanced display
1GB RAM
1.2GHZ dual-core processor
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
While it does come with Android 2.3, Motorola Mobility said that the 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update will come in Q2. The RAZR MAXX will be available to purchase in mid-May.
Children with juvenile arthritis have higher rates of bacterial infection Public release date: 1-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dawn Peters healthnews@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley-Blackwell
High-dose steroids found to significantly increase infection risk
Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have higher rates of hospitalized bacterial infection than children without JIA according to an observational study appearing in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). The findings show that the risk of infection among JIA patients was significantly increased with use of high-dose glucocorticoids (steroids). Methotrexate (MTX) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) inhibitors were not found to increase infection risk in this pediatric population.
Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that causes pain, swelling, stiffness and can lead to disability. JIA refers to chronic arthritis diseases that attack young patients and the ACR estimates close to 300,000 children in the U.S are affected. While immunosuppressant therapies such as steroids, MTX, and TNF inhibitors are used to treat JIA, it is unclear how they impact infection risk.
To compare bacterial infection incidence in children with and without JIA, a research team led by Dr. Timothy Beukelman from the University of Alabama at Birmingham used U.S. Medicaid data from 2000 to 2005. The team identified 8,479 JIA patients with 13,003 person-years of follow-up and a group of 360,489 children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for comparison. Pharmacy claims were used to determine exposure to MTX, TNF inhibitors, and oral steroid medications. Infections were identified using hospital discharge diagnoses.
Researchers determined that 42% of JIA patients used MTX and 17% used TNF inhibitors to manage their disease. JIA patients without current exposure to MTX or TNF inhibitors had an increased rate of bacterial infection compared to patients with ADHD, even after adjusting for steroid use. "Patients with JIA who were not currently treated with MTX or TNF inhibitors had a 2-fold increase in hospitalized bacterial infection rates compared to children without arthritis," explains Dr. Beukelman, "This finding suggests the inflammatory or autoimmune process may predispose children to infection regardless of therapy."
Among children with JIA, the rate of infection associated with MTX or TNF inhibitor use was similar. After adjusting for MTX and TNF inhibitor use among children with JIA, high-dose steroid use10 mg or more of prednisone dailymore than doubled the rate of subsequent infection compared to patients not taking steroids. Dr. Beukelman concludes, "A steroid-sparing treatment strategy may reduce the risk of serious infection in children with JIA."
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This research was supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
This study is published in Arthritis & Rheumatism. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact healthnews@wiley.com.
Full citation: "Rates of Hospitalized Bacterial Infection Associated with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Its Treatment." Timothy Beukelman, Fenglong Xie, Lang Chen, John W Baddley, Elizabeth Delzell, Carlos G Grijalva, James D Lewis, Rita Ouellet-Hellstrom, Nivedita M Patkar, Kenneth G Saag, Kevin L Winthrop and Jeffrey R Curtis on behalf of the Safety Assessment of Biological ThERapeutics (SABER) Collaboration. Arthritis & Rheumatism; Published Online: May 1, 2012 (DOI: 10.1002/art.34458).
URL upon publication: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/art.34458.
Author Contacts: To arrange an interview with Dr. Beukelman, please contact Bob Shepard with the University of Alabama at Birmingham at bshep@uab.edu.
About the Journal:
Arthritis & Rheumatism is an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP), a division of the College, and covers all aspects of inflammatory disease. The American College of Rheumatology (http://www.rheumatology.org) is the professional organization who share a dedication to healing, preventing disability, and curing the more than 100 types of arthritis and related disabling and sometimes fatal disorders of the joints, muscles, and bones. Members include practicing physicians, research scientists, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the ACR. For more information, please visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1529-0131.
About Wiley-Blackwell:
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world's leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit http://www.wileyblackwell.com or our new online platform, Wiley Online Library (http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com), one of the world's most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
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Children with juvenile arthritis have higher rates of bacterial infection Public release date: 1-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dawn Peters healthnews@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley-Blackwell
High-dose steroids found to significantly increase infection risk
Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have higher rates of hospitalized bacterial infection than children without JIA according to an observational study appearing in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). The findings show that the risk of infection among JIA patients was significantly increased with use of high-dose glucocorticoids (steroids). Methotrexate (MTX) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) inhibitors were not found to increase infection risk in this pediatric population.
Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that causes pain, swelling, stiffness and can lead to disability. JIA refers to chronic arthritis diseases that attack young patients and the ACR estimates close to 300,000 children in the U.S are affected. While immunosuppressant therapies such as steroids, MTX, and TNF inhibitors are used to treat JIA, it is unclear how they impact infection risk.
To compare bacterial infection incidence in children with and without JIA, a research team led by Dr. Timothy Beukelman from the University of Alabama at Birmingham used U.S. Medicaid data from 2000 to 2005. The team identified 8,479 JIA patients with 13,003 person-years of follow-up and a group of 360,489 children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for comparison. Pharmacy claims were used to determine exposure to MTX, TNF inhibitors, and oral steroid medications. Infections were identified using hospital discharge diagnoses.
Researchers determined that 42% of JIA patients used MTX and 17% used TNF inhibitors to manage their disease. JIA patients without current exposure to MTX or TNF inhibitors had an increased rate of bacterial infection compared to patients with ADHD, even after adjusting for steroid use. "Patients with JIA who were not currently treated with MTX or TNF inhibitors had a 2-fold increase in hospitalized bacterial infection rates compared to children without arthritis," explains Dr. Beukelman, "This finding suggests the inflammatory or autoimmune process may predispose children to infection regardless of therapy."
Among children with JIA, the rate of infection associated with MTX or TNF inhibitor use was similar. After adjusting for MTX and TNF inhibitor use among children with JIA, high-dose steroid use10 mg or more of prednisone dailymore than doubled the rate of subsequent infection compared to patients not taking steroids. Dr. Beukelman concludes, "A steroid-sparing treatment strategy may reduce the risk of serious infection in children with JIA."
###
This research was supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
This study is published in Arthritis & Rheumatism. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact healthnews@wiley.com.
Full citation: "Rates of Hospitalized Bacterial Infection Associated with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Its Treatment." Timothy Beukelman, Fenglong Xie, Lang Chen, John W Baddley, Elizabeth Delzell, Carlos G Grijalva, James D Lewis, Rita Ouellet-Hellstrom, Nivedita M Patkar, Kenneth G Saag, Kevin L Winthrop and Jeffrey R Curtis on behalf of the Safety Assessment of Biological ThERapeutics (SABER) Collaboration. Arthritis & Rheumatism; Published Online: May 1, 2012 (DOI: 10.1002/art.34458).
URL upon publication: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/art.34458.
Author Contacts: To arrange an interview with Dr. Beukelman, please contact Bob Shepard with the University of Alabama at Birmingham at bshep@uab.edu.
About the Journal:
Arthritis & Rheumatism is an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP), a division of the College, and covers all aspects of inflammatory disease. The American College of Rheumatology (http://www.rheumatology.org) is the professional organization who share a dedication to healing, preventing disability, and curing the more than 100 types of arthritis and related disabling and sometimes fatal disorders of the joints, muscles, and bones. Members include practicing physicians, research scientists, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the ACR. For more information, please visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1529-0131.
About Wiley-Blackwell:
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world's leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit http://www.wileyblackwell.com or our new online platform, Wiley Online Library (http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com), one of the world's most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
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Lisa Vanderpump has been granted her own spin-off, some nonsense title "Sur" that will focus on a new restaurant she owns in Los Angeles.
And, as a result, the reality star totally sucks now, her co-stars reportedly claim.
"There are a lot of bad feelings because Lisa got her own show and Taylor for one thinks that Lisa has been acting like a diva during filming [of season three]," a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills source tells Radar Online. "Taylor and Lisa had gotten close after Russell's suicide last year, but Taylor now feels like that was all done for the cameras."
Which would mark the first time in Real Housewives history that cameras played a role in a series relationship.
This same insider reports that all cast members are "jealous" of the attention being paid these days to Lisa, with the exception of Brandi Glanville, likely because she just wants to appear on Sur.
In even more traumatic Real Housewives of Beverly Hills news, did you hear who will be making appearances on season three after all?
Large-scale, international events like the Olympics are often considered as targets for terrorist attacks. The UK's Ministry of Defence is taking that extremely seriously: it's placing surface-to-air missiles on a residential apartment building during the summer's sporting event. More »
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For fans of HD and / or nature documentaries, the BBC Planet Earth series is the unquestioned champion, and to provide a proper followup the Brits are improving it the only way they know how: doing it live. What the broadcaster calls its "most ambitions global wildlife series ever" will air simultaneously in 140 countries (more on that bit later) starting Sunday May 6th, then every Thursday and Sunday for three weeks. The plan is to track animals in seven different locations around the world in real time as they struggle for survival and broadcast it all in HD. One segment features Top Gear's Richard Hammond following a pride of lions across southern Kenya, while another will track black bears in Minnesota. The bad news? If you're in the US or Canada you're not on that 140 country list and won't be seeing any of this live. We're not sure if there's time to make this a campaign issue in the 2012 presidential election but we figure that, or at least bugging BBC America (while we're on the subject -- where's our global iPlayer?) is worth a try. Check after the break for a press release with all the details on where and when it is airing, as well as a trailer.
Without effort, the operator can now enjoy audio presentations of their iPod into their vehicles or by just listening to Sirius Satellite Radio. These innovations are made by Ford for the automotive industry in its latest vehicle lineup. Said the major changes are expected to gain from the sale of Ford cars in years to double.
Mark Fields, Ford?s President of North and South America found. ?We at Ford are committed to listening to our customers more, and that there never seems to know how their personal audio devices while driving, we see the upward trend in the audio market and we are quick to respond to our cars. ?
In addition, Doug Vanda Gens, director of product from Ford and business development for electronics said, ?The iPod was a huge hit, and we at Ford wanted a way for people to operate the equipment in their Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicle without having to develops with the unit while driving excitement. What we have achieved is the integration with the iPod in our cars is only part of a much larger effort to Ford Motor Company to respond to customer trends more quickly. ?
In 2007 Ford lineup, which is embedded extra audio inputs provided. The relationships can come to your iPod or MP3 player integration with impeccable audio output in the vehicle. Said lineup includes Ford Edge, Mustang, Fusion, Explorer, Expedition, Sport Trac, Ranger, F-150 and more.
Early next year, Ford will also Tunes for Advanced Audio System. This is an iPod integration, which provides quality sound even while charging. Trip Tunes Advanced allows the driver to keep the iPod in the glove compartment, or control and select music via the radio controls or steering wheel.
Another upcoming offer by Ford is the integration of Sirius radio. Field also noted, ?In 2005, less than half of our cars come with a navigation system, satellite radio or extra audio inputs. For 2007 we have doubled the models with a navigation system and quadrupling the number with Sirius Satellite Radio.?
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