Hair Loss Treatment and its Ties to Erectile Function | Mexico Health ...

All medications have possible side effects which may affect a small percentage of people who use the drug. The hair loss drug Propecia is no different. But there is a particular side effect that men may be unwilling to risk experiencing. The drug can cause erectile function problems including loss of libido and ejaculation disorders.

Why Men All Over Are Turning to Hair Loss Remedies

Losing your hair is no fun. It can cause depression or social anxiety. Every man wants to be able to easily impress a woman. Appearance is tied to many life successes including marriage and promotions at work. This drug helps stop hair loss in most men who take it. It inhibits the production of a particular sex hormone that is known to cause male-pattern baldness. Many men who take the drug have reported having their hair grow back. Please understand that this does not happen for all users and it can take years for full hair restoration to occur.

What the Drug Will Do

Men who use this medication report what they believe is increased hair loss during the first few months of treatment. In reality, this loss of hair is an intended outcome of using the drug. One way the medication works to prevent further thinning of the hair is by getting rid of old hair. This cleanup process allows there to be plenty of room for new hair follicle growth. Hair will be thicker than the original strands. It can take up to six months for the treatment to work as determined by counting hair strands. A year is needed for noticeable results. This means you can visibly see that hair loss has stopped or hair has grown back.

What Should You Do If Erectile Function Problems Arise?

Side effects associated with this drug range from mood changes to more serious sexual function disorders. A small percentage of users may experience impotency, testicular pain, or abnormal ejaculation. If you develop any type of erectile function disorder while using this drug, you should notify your physician. One should understand that there are many reasons that sexual function disorders can occur, and thus it should not immediately be blamed on Propecia. Even anxiety and depression can occur while using this medication. In addition, users should be aware that symptoms tied to other issues may occur.

Let your doctor perform some tests and review your medical history to determine the cause of your problems. There may be a medical reason you are experiencing higher than normal anxiety or erectile dysfunction. Once all medical causes are ruled out, only then should you consider stopping the use of Propecia. Your doctor will be able to recommend an appropriate course of action.

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Calif. ruling throws hope to fracking foes

By Rory Carroll and Braden Reddall

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A court ruling that the U.S. government must consider the environmental impact of "fracking" on federal lands leased to oil companies offers opponents of the technique a useful weapon in the fierce public debate in California and other parts of the country.

In a regulatory setback for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a federal magistrate judge in San Jose, California, on Monday ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to analyze its impact on 2,500 acres in Monterey County.

While energy lawyers were skeptical about the ruling's long-term impact, it was hailed as a victory for environmentalists trying to stop fracking in the state due to concerns about its groundwater impact and the potential for increased fossil fuels output contributing to climate change.

The ruling could even inspire environmental groups to sue the BLM in other states as oil companies accelerate their leasing of federal lands for fracking, said Brendan Cummings, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity.

"While the ruling has most direct impact on public lands in California, it also sets an important legal and policy precedent that federal and state agencies around the country would be wise to heed," said Cummings, whose group brought the suit with the Sierra Club.

Celia Boddington, a spokeswoman for the BLM, said: "We are evaluating the ruling."

Monterey county captures just part of the vast Monterey shale formation, estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration to hold 15 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, or four times that of the Bakken formation centered on North Dakota.

Most of that oil is not economically retrievable except by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a production-boosting technique in which large amounts of water, sand and chemicals are injected into shale formations to force hydrocarbon fuels to the surface.

Cummings believed the San Jose ruling would likely have implications for a more recent and much larger lease sale of 18,000 acres for oil and gas development in the same general region.

Judge Paul Grewal did not hand down a remedy, instead asking the BLM and the environmental groups to confer and submit an agreed upon path forward by next week.

Jack Luellen, a Denver-based managing partner at energy law firm Burleson LLP, said the potential for a time-consuming BLM environmental impact statement would put the burden on the BLM to "prove a negative," or that fracking would not cause damage.

"If you're anti-fracking, delaying is almost as good as barring it," Luellen said.

But James Pardo, a partner at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, believed a full separate study of the Monterey shale was unlikely to be necessary even though the geology is different from other U.S. shale plays. But a "harder look" at the issue would be necessary.

"The court's telling them to square those corners," he said. "Note this judge did not void the leases ... This judge is looking at a reasonable solution."

Bill Allayaud, California director of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, said the court decision could cause the BLM to rethink how it leases land.

Oil and gas drilling on BLM lands has shot up in recent years as advances in horizontal drilling and fracking have made hard-to-reach deposits recoverable.

As a share of overall U.S. production, oil from federal onshore land accounted for about 5 percent of the total last year, and 12 percent for natural gas, according to federal data.

About 98 percent of the land under BLM control is in the western United States, including Alaska. California accounts for 6 percent of the 247 million acres under BLM control, according to the most recent statistics available on the agency's website.

California regulators are in the process of devising rules for fracking.

It is already the subject of a state-level court battle. That lawsuit, brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks, Environmental Working Group and Sierra Club, accuses the state regulator with failing to evaluate the risks.

The state case is Center for Biological Diversity et al v California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, Case no. RG12652054, in Alameda County Superior Court, Oakland, CA.

The federal case is Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club v Bureau of Land Management, Case no. 11-06174 PSG in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, CA.

(Additional reporting by Tim Gardner in Washington; Editing by Grant McCool)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/california-court-ruling-gives-hope-foes-fracking-001850988--finance.html

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FDA approves return of drug for morning sickness

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness.

That long-ago safety scare, prompted by hundreds of lawsuits claiming birth defects, proved to be a false alarm.

Monday's FDA decision means a new version of the pill once called Bendectin is set to return to U.S. pharmacies under a different name ? Diclegis ? as a safe and effective treatment for this pregnancy rite of passage.

In the intervening decades, the treatment is widely believed to have undergone more scrutiny for safety than any other drug used during pregnancy.

"There's been a lot of buzz about this. Nothing better has come along" to treat morning sickness in those 30 years, said Dr. Edward McCabe, medical director for the March of Dimes, who welcomed the step.

"We know safety-wise, there's zero question," said Dr. Gary Hankins of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who headed one of the company-financed studies of Diclegis that led to its approval.

U.S. sales of Diclegis are expected to begin in early June, according to Canada-based manufacturer Duchesnay Inc. The company has long sold a generic version of the pill in Canada under yet another name, Diclectin.

For all the names, the main ingredients are the same: Vitamin B6 plus the over-the-counter antihistamine doxylamine, found in the sleep aid Unisom. U.S. obstetricians have long told nauseated pregnant women how to mix up the right dose themselves.

In fact, in 2004 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued guidelines calling the combination a first-line therapy.

The difference that prescription-only Diclegis would offer: Combining both ingredients with a delayed-release coating designed to help women take a daily dose before their nausea sets in.

The return of an FDA-cleared treatment is needed, said ACOG spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn't involved in the study of Diclegis.

"It's not magic," Ecker cautioned, saying few women see their symptoms completely disappear with the medication. "But for some it allows them to be much more functional."

In Hankins' study, about 260 U.S. women with morning sickness were given either Diclegis or a dummy pill for two weeks. The Diclegis users missed on average 1 1/2 fewer days of work than their counterparts.

Duchesnay wouldn't reveal a U.S. price.

About three-quarters of women experience at least some nausea and vomiting with the hormonal surges of early pregnancy. Although it often occurs upon waking, some women have trouble all day. It usually ends by the second trimester.

About 1 percent of women undergo dangerously severe vomiting called hyperemesis gravidarum, the condition that made headlines last December when in Britain, Prince William's wife Kate was briefly hospitalized.

An initial version of Bendectin began selling in 1956, and 33 million women around the world were estimated to have taken it before the lawsuits began. At the time, the FDA continued to call the drug safe; appeals courts ruled in favor of Bendectin maker Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals; and eventually a U.S. Supreme Court decision would render continuing suits unlikely. But Merrell Dow declared the litigation cost too high, and quit making Bendectin in 1983.

What happened? The government estimates 1 in 33 babies are born with birth defects regardless of medication use during pregnancy, and studies eventually concluded that Bendectin didn't increase that baseline risk. McCabe of the March of Dimes says it's important to recognize that when a drug is widely used in pregnancy, some babies will be born with birth defects that are a coincidence.

Doctors advise trying some other steps before turning to medication for morning sickness: Eat protein snacks before bed. Nibble crackers or sip ginger ale before getting out of bed. Eat frequent small meals. Avoid nausea-triggering odors.

When that doesn't work, Ecker says vitamin B6 alone helps some women. His next step is the B6-and-antihistamine combination that will form Diclegis. A next-step option includes the drug Zofran, normally used to treat nausea from cancer therapy.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fda-approves-return-drug-morning-sickness-234415245--politics.html

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Zerply Adds Work Images And Promoted Opportunities To Help Job Candidates Focus On The Big Picture

Professional networking and profile startup Zerply is introducing two new features today to help its members better advertise their skills and to help employers better source candidates for open positions. Work Images allows users to attach an 800x600 pixel graphic or picture to specific activities and things they're working on, a feature designed to reflect the "pics or it didn't happen" mentality of Reddit and other sharing sites.

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Fiat says Americas, Asia to support 2013 targets

TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - Italian carmaker Fiat does not expect to revise its 2013 targets, although it may become more reliant on growth in the Americas and Asia amid weak European markets, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

"I don't think we'll need to change our targets over all," Sergio Marchionne said at a shareholders' meeting.

"The geographical distribution could change, given the performance of Europe," he added.

Marchionne said markets in North America, Latin America and Asia were growing.

Europe's car market, in contrast, is set to remain weak in 2013 after 5 years of sales falls as governments drive through austerity measures to rein in their debts.

Euro zone unemployment in February was at a record high of 12 percent. Italian car sales fell 19.8 percent in 2012, and are set to fall more in 2013.

Marchionne said he would update investors on Fiat's full-year 2013 targets when the world's seventh-largest automaker releases first-quarter results on April 29.

Fiat's U.S. unit Chrysler posted earnings before interest and tax of 2.7 billion euros last year, offsetting a loss for Fiat's mass-market brands of 738 million euros in Europe.

Fiat sees sales at 88 billion-92 billion euros this year, with more than half from North America, and expects to sell 4.3 million-4.5 million cars.

Credit Suisse analyst David Arnold thinks the carmaker is likely to have to cut its goals when it is forced to retreat from its forecast of a European market fall of just 2 percent.

Arnold said the bank's own prediction of a 5 percent contraction "will probably still be too optimistic".

"Earnings forecasts at Fiat are going down and will continue to do so," the London-based analyst said in a note to investors. Credit Suisse sees Fiat's European losses widening to 750 million euros this year, before interest and tax.

Fiat shares were up 1.4 percent at 4.028 euros at 0755 am EDT.

(The story corrects paragraph 9 to say Fiat expects to sell 4.3-4.5 million, not billion, cars in 2013)

(Reporting by Jennifer Clark and Laurence Frost; Editing by Silvia Aloisi and Mark Potter)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fiat-2013-targets-first-quarter-results-ceo-111056048--sector.html

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Ancient whales surprise scientists

9 April 2013 Last updated at 16:00 By Michelle Warwicker BBC Nature

Ancient DNA shows that bowhead whales bucked the trend to survive the last Ice Age, say scientists.

The demise of cold-adapted land mammals such as mammoths has been linked to rising temperatures around 11,000 years ago.

But researchers were surprised to find a contrasting population boom for whales living off the coast of Britain.

Their study is also the first to discover that the ocean giants lived in the southern North Sea.

Dr Andy Foote from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, based at the University of Copenhagen co-authored the paper published in the journal Nature Communications.

"Based on all previous studies using ancient DNA to estimate the population size... it seems the trend was for cold-adapted species either [to] go extinct or decline in numbers at the end of the Ice Age as the temperature increased," said Dr Foote.

But while the fate of now-extinct land-based Ice Age animals is well documented, little has been known about how marine animals were affected by the rapid temperature warming.

Bowhead whales today are found in Arctic seas and rely on sea ice where they feed on tiny crustaceans.

The research team wanted to find out how the whales fared during the rapid climate change of the Pleistocene-Holocene epoch transition when the essential sea ice retreated from their North Sea habitat.

Scientists analysed ancient DNA of partly-fossilised whale remains found in waters between Britain and Holland and around Denmark and Sweden.

They were able to use the data to create a habitat prediction model and build a picture of the whales' past movements and probability of survival.

On the move

The study showed that bowhead whales shifted their range, moving northwards to more suitable Arctic waters.

"The retreat of the ice in that particular case actually opened up very large areas where you all of a sudden had these ideal habitat conditions for these Arctic species," said Dr Kristin Kaschner, research affiliate at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Explaining why these marine animals may have thrived at the end of the last Ice Age while many land mammals populations declined, she added: "Most marine mammals are used to migrating very long distances anyway... I think that's one of the things that worked in [the whales'] favour, that they were able to track their habitat."

"And then that combined with the fact that the retreat of ice actually opened up habitat was really favourable for them."

According to the model, the area of suitable habitat for bowhead whales tripled during the transitional period and the species saw a significant population increase at the same time.

The results show that Ice Age bowhead whales can be genetically identified as belonging to the same population found in the Arctic today, with lineages surviving from the late Pleistocene through to the current Holocene period.

Bowhead whales are thought to be the longest-living mammal in the world, with some individuals possibly even reaching up to 200 years of age.

But the north-eastern Atlantic bowhead whale population is now under threat from intense whaling, according to the researchers.

Their study also suggests that climate change today could present an "additional threat" to the whales. The team estimates that the Arctic animals' "core suitable habitat" could almost be halved by the end of the century, potentially influencing future populations.

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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22027533

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Eric Church takes early lead at ACM Awards

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Eric Church's nickname is "Chief," and early on at the Academy of Country Music Awards that title was spot-on.

This year's top nominee won album of the year for his breakthrough "Chief" on Sunday night, giving him two trophies and a tie for the early lead with Little Big Town. He also performed, singing his somber but powerful song "Like Jesus Does" with only an acoustic guitar and a backup singer.

"I can't believe I just met John Fogerty," Church said as he accepted the award from the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and Miranda Lambert. "We should hang out later."

Little Big Town had two wins for vocal group and video of the year, Florida Georgia Line won for new artist and husband and wife Shawna and Keifer Thompson continued their feel-good story as Thompson Square won its second straight vocal duo of the year award.

Shawna Thompson gave a shoutout to her mother from stage.

Tears came to her eyes backstage as she explained that her father had recently passed away and she wanted to acknowledge her mother during her acceptance speech to support her.

"She's just having a really hard time," she said.

Blake Shelton kicked the show off with his new single "Boys 'Round Here," a hip-hop-flavored ode to redneck swag. He was joined by Bryan, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow and Pistol Annies, a trio that includes his wife Miranda Lambert.

George Strait made his first appearance of the night, singing "Give It All We Got Tonight." Lady Antebellum debuted new song "Downtown" and Charles Kelley finished off the song by rubbing pregnant trio-mate Hillary Scott's belly. Carrie Underwood stepped out of a black Cadillac parked on stage as she started her song, "Two Black Cadillacs."

Co-hosts Shelton and Bryan ? who have given themselves the celebrity couple name "Bluke" ? immediately took it off-color as they insulted each other during their monologue.

"How about a shout out to the Sherwin-Williams company for spray-painting Luke's jeans on," Shelton joked as the camera zoomed in on Bryan's, ahem, mid-section.

Bryan took his turn: "Blake's jeans are like buying something on credit ? nothing up front. I mean, what size are those, extra empty?"

The focus of this year's ACM Awards is on the men of country, and it's not just Shelton and Bryan taking the spotlight.

Church started the night with an award before he even hit the red carpet, winning vocal event of the year for his collaboration with Bryan and Jason Aldean on "The Only Way I Know."

"It's still kinda strange to me," Church said on the red carpet. "It's been a long journey, a long path. I can't control what I'm nominated for. I really have nothing to do with win or lose. We could win all seven, lose all seven. I promise you it won't affect anything. We're going to make the same kind of music, the same kind of show. Whatever happens happens."

The night was a showcase for country's men of the moment ? and for its two dominant male stars of the last two decades, the marquee meeting of Brooks and Strait. They are two of music's top-selling artists regardless of genre, but have never performed together.

They will help honor the show's longtime producer Dick Clark, who passed away last year. The academy is naming its artist of the decade award for Clark, whose tenure with the show began in 1979.

The moment will be special ? and not just for the millions watching at home. It has country's biggest stars abuzz as well.

"Having George and Garth on stage together at one time on an awards show will become one of the most important pieces of tape in country music history," Dierks Bentley said.

Shelton, Bryan and Aldean are up for the fan-voted entertainer of the year award ? though they're facing off against academy favorite Miranda Lambert, who is Shelton's wife, and two-time winner Swift, a heavy favorite to three-peat given her relationship with fans.

Kelley of Lady Antebellum said the best of country would be on display during the show, and urged country newbies to tune in.

"It'll give you a broad spectrum of what country music is all about. There are so many styles that kind of fall under the same umbrella, so it's a good representation of the genre," he said.

Shelton is arguably country's most visible male today. "The Voice" coach has a weekly presence on national television, was the recent winner of the rival Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award and has risen to platinum status again after a mid-career lull that's a distant memory.

Aldean is country's best-selling male artist at the moment and Church and Bryan have recently joined him as acts who can fill arenas and reach multiplatinum sales.

They're so prevalent at this year's awards, they've elbowed out traditional nominees like Brad Paisley, who was shut out of the nominations for the first time since 1999, and Kenny Chesney, a perennial entertainer of the year nominee who was left out of the category despite putting on 2012's most talked about event ? his stadium tour with Tim McGraw.

Hayes will be joined by another performer who got his start as a precocious teen ? Stevie Wonder, making his first appearance on the show.

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AP Writer Hannah Dreier contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eric-church-takes-early-lead-acm-awards-012303497.html

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