�The estimated rate of anaphylaxis in young women after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was significantly higher - 5 to 20 fold - than that identified in comparable school-based vaccination programs, according to a study published in CMAJ hypertext transfer protocol://www.cmaj.ca/press/179_6_525.pdf. However, the overall rates of anaphylaxis were broken with no associated good lasting effects.
In a subject field of 114,000 women, a squad of Australian researchers found 12 suspected of anaphylaxis, and confirmed 8 of these, in a 2007 vaccination programme in New South Wales, Australia. Symptoms included difficulty breathing, sickness and rashes.
Dr. Julia Brotherton and colleagues postulate that reasons for an increased rate of anaphylaxis crataegus oxycantha include possible allergic reaction to the vaccine components, enhanced adverse event surveillance, higher rates of anaphylaxis in women from midadolescence compared with men, and an ostensible increase in incidence of anaphylaxis in Australia.
The estimated rate of anaphylaxis following HPV vaccination was 2.6 per 100,000 doses administered compared with a pace 0.1 per 100 000 doses administered in a 2003 school-based meningococcal C inoculation program.
HPV vaccination programs will begin this fall in the United Kingdom and other European countries as well as in parts of Canada and the United States.
Dr. Brotherton stresses "the importance of good training for staff administering vaccines in school or other settings in the recognition and management of suspected anaphylaxis and its reporting." They conclude that anaphylaxis following the HPV vaccine is rare and vaccine programs should continue.
Anaphylaxis is a rare but serious contrary event and highlights the importance of vaccine safety studies later vaccine licensing and careful management of reactions in immunization clinics, says Dr. Neal Halsey, Institute of Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a related commentary hTTP://www.cmaj.ca/press/179_6_509.pdf. He states "before concluding that the HPV vaccine is associated with higher rates of anaphylaxis than other vaccines everywhere, cases in other populations should be reviewed�.As of July 21, 2008, 11 cases have been reported [in the US] in 2008. Over 13 million doses of this vaccine get been distributed as of the end of 2007."
A CMAJ editorial http://www.cmaj.ca/press/179_6_503.pdf states that this study indicates the HPV vaccine is "remarkably safe." The field of study provides an excellent opportunity for Canada's public wellness community "to restart world discussions around the rubber of the HPV vaccine, the precautions taken to mitigate risks if anaphylaxis occurs, and the precaution taken in surveillance for adverse events following vaccination," write Drs. Noni MacDonald, Matthew Stanbrook and Paul Hebert.
Source: Kim Barnhardt
Canadian Medical Association Journal
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Wednesday 27 August 2008
Mp3 music: Jens Lekman
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Sunday 17 August 2008
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Thursday 7 August 2008
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Contradictory times for documentaries
Silverdocs attendees grapple with how to get films shown
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Midway through a panel at the documentary festival Silverdocs, producer Julie Goldman offered a succinct thought.
"There are a lot of good movies being made," she said Friday. "And a lot of them aren't going to get a chance to play in theaters."
It was a sound bite so telling it could have been featured in one of the many top-notch docus screening here. As events over the past few days at this AFI/Discovery Channel festival -- which serves as a kind of ground zero for the documentary zeitgeist -- point up, these are strange and contradictory times for the form.
Creatively, the documentary is exploding, with new voices and approaches emerging almost every week. Yet it was hard not to feel a sense of foreboding at and around the host AFI theater during the weekend as docus continue on what is now nearly a two-year commercial dry spell.
Silverdocs, in its sixth year and with an expanded eight-day schedule that wraps Monday, allows for a certain kind of purist enthusiasm; it's where fans even flock to see sober films like the inner-city education meditation "Hard Times at Douglass High" and debate the virtues of vintage Maysles and Wiseman films.
With a concurrent docu confab, it's also where industry heavyweights quietly brainstorm -- where Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney strides the halls planning a distribution or legal strategy, where filmmakers like Spike Lee are feted with retrospectives and where players like former Miramax powerbroker Matthew Hiltzik tout their producing projects screening in the festival.
Delicately mixing premieres and selections from the current fest circuit, Silverdocs' two savvy toppers -- the polished fest director Patricia Finneran and the excitedly passionate programming director Sky Sitney -- seek a balance between the appeal of the proven and the buzz of the new.
That creative ferment was evident everywhere this weekend on this revamped patch of suburban downtown just outside Washington.
Daring subjects were tackled in films like Phie Ambo's "Mechanical Love," a creepy look at a Japanese lab that creates androids and robotic pets, which owes as much to "Blade Runner" as to D.A. Pennebaker. Striking storytelling turned the mundane sublime in Scott Hamilton Kennedy's "The Garden," a surprisingly suspenseful look at a South Central Los Angeles community garden.
Old forms were broken down and recombined into something original in Brett Rapkin and Eric Kesten's "Holy Land Hardball," about a grandiose effort to form a pro baseball league in the Middle East, which blended a rigorous investigation into organizational ineptitude with the aspirational charm of "Hoop Dreams."
Traditional approaches, meanwhile, continue to be deployed effectively. New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs offered a poignant aging-survivor story in "Four Seasons Lodge." Megumi Sasaki gave festgoers a quirky art-collection docu in "Herb and Dorothy." And docus' classic problem of a moving target -- in this case, a subject who died during shooting -- made Kurt Kuenne's resoundingly well-received "Dear Zachary" that much more powerful.
(It's worth noting that the trend toward first-person documentaries in the Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock vein seems to have faded, at least for now.)
The films chosen from the recent fest circuit also underscored docus' many new directions. Nanette Burstein's slick and funny high school exploration "American Teen" -- a sort of thinking person's "Laguna Beach" -- played strongly, and the re-enactment methods pioneered decades ago are on the way back if James Marsh's study of quixotic whimsy "Man on Wire" is any indication.
"What's interesting to me is how many more influences there now are in documentaries," Sitney said. "Stylistically, it's completely opening up."
Yet for all the creative energy, the air at the fest at times hung heavy with commercial questions.
Docu-friendly distributors like ThinkFilm are struggling, screens are crowded and audience appetite is low. There's a general feeling of anxiety over whether it's possible to ever get back to the period a few years when movies like "Super Size Me" and "March of the Penguins" proved docus could yield not just solid storytelling but also big business.
There's hope that the digital media will provide some salvation. But that hope is tempered with the awareness that the problem is complicated.
"There's a lot of doom and gloom, and right now no one knows the exact answer," Finneran said. "I happen to think it will be solved, and I don't think there will be only one answer."
In offering tips on how to market effectively, documentarian Sandi Dubowski, whose "Trembling Before God" was a surprise hit five years ago, had his own pithy take. "You have to be lucky the distributor you sign with is going to be around in a few years," he said.
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Kevin Spacey to teach at Oxford
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has accepted a year-long position as a theater professor at Oxford University, the institution said in a posting on its Web site on Friday.
Spacey, 48, who won Academy Awards for supporting actor in "The Usual Suspects" and lead actor in "American Beauty, is following in the footsteps of fellow performers such as Patrick Stewart, star of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
Others who have occupied the post of Oxford's Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theater at St. Catherine's College include composer Stephen Sondheim, playwright Alan Ayckbourn, actress Diana Rigg and lyricist Sir Tim Rice.
"It really is an honor for me to have been invited to follow such illustrious names and take up this role at Oxford," Spacey said in a statement. "The university is steeped in tradition and has a great heritage in the arts, and I look forward to working with the students and staff."
The college's master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, called Spacey "a truly international star" who "will bring an enormous wealth of talent and experience in both film and theater to bear on the role."
Spacey has been the artistic director of The Old Vic Theater Company in London since 2003.
He recently was seen in the HBO television movie "Recount," about the race for the U.S. presidency in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush. He also recently starred in movie thriller "21," playing an MIT professor with a team of card-counting poker players who make millions in Las Vegas casinos.
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Spacey, 48, who won Academy Awards for supporting actor in "The Usual Suspects" and lead actor in "American Beauty, is following in the footsteps of fellow performers such as Patrick Stewart, star of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
Others who have occupied the post of Oxford's Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theater at St. Catherine's College include composer Stephen Sondheim, playwright Alan Ayckbourn, actress Diana Rigg and lyricist Sir Tim Rice.
"It really is an honor for me to have been invited to follow such illustrious names and take up this role at Oxford," Spacey said in a statement. "The university is steeped in tradition and has a great heritage in the arts, and I look forward to working with the students and staff."
The college's master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, called Spacey "a truly international star" who "will bring an enormous wealth of talent and experience in both film and theater to bear on the role."
Spacey has been the artistic director of The Old Vic Theater Company in London since 2003.
He recently was seen in the HBO television movie "Recount," about the race for the U.S. presidency in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush. He also recently starred in movie thriller "21," playing an MIT professor with a team of card-counting poker players who make millions in Las Vegas casinos.
Reuters/Nielsen
Thursday 12 June 2008
Cleveland Orchestra extends contract of music director Welser-Moest
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Orchestra has extended the contract of music director Franz Welser-Moest through the 2017-2018 season.
Board chairman Richard Bogomolny announced the extension Friday.
Welser-Moest, 47, was named the orchestra's seventh music director in 2002. In 2003 his initial five-year contract was extended to 2012.
"Cleveland is my symphonic home and I look forward to at least another decade of working with this wonderful orchestra and serving this extraordinary community," the Austrian conductor said in a statement.
"It is with heartfelt gratitude that I thank the trustees and supporters of this institution for your commitment to excellence and devotion to the art of orchestral music."
In September 2010, Welser-Moest will become general music director of the Vienna State Opera with an initial five-year term.
The orchestra also said it received a $5 million anonymous gift to expand its education programs, including a plan by the city's school district to bring every fifth grader to Severance Hall.
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