An aged man have been caught and shamed before residents of a community for having a carnal knowledge and destroying a minor’s private part after he allegedly lured the little girl with biscuits.

A social media user, Chioma Umeh shared the story and photos on Facebook. The identity of the r*pist and the city where the incident occured, was not ascertained as at the time of filing this report.

See the girl’s very graphic photo after the r*pe below (viewer’s discretion is advised);

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Kudos to this very talented lady, Swapna Augustine. She was bornwithout arms but she paints very well by using her toes. See some of her works

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Policein Kisumu on Tuesday arrested a man accused of making fake money at the Nubian estate after his son set him up.The man, Edwin Dimba, was arrested by the quick response team of the administration police wing.Police also confiscated a machine believed to be used to print the money.The son had accused the suspect of neglecting his family despite making “alotof money” from the business.He was frog-marched in the presence of his family, friends and neighbours during the Tuesday evening raid.According to the son,MrDimba who has been in the business for close to 10 years, has been arrested on several occasions but is always released by “close business associates”.The son said he was forced to join the boda boda business after completing his secondary school education last year tosupport his family.Administration Police officers frog march Mr Edwin Dimba (center) who was arrested on suspicion of printing fake money at his house in Nubian Estate, Kisumu County. PHOTO | TONNY OMONDIHis mother lost her job at Milimani Hospital, he added.“My father has continued to con his unsuspecting clients who come calling at our house in Nubian Estate that he can manufacture money,” the son said.“I have a sister in Form Threeand another sibling in nursery whom am forced to cater for their school fee despite my meager pay. I use someone’s motorbike which I hire for Sh300daily,” he added.. …boda boda business in east Africa mean bike business ….culled -Nairobi News.
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When you look at these paintings of Enam Bosokah, they seem to be made with the camera. The skills of this artist are amazing!



He was born in Ghana and has 6 siblings. His father and one of the younger brothers also love painting. But his art is unmatchable. After finishing his course on arts in university, he wanted to draw but had no money to get the supplies.

All he had was paper and pen. Why not use them? All his paintings are done in that fashion. The artist himself says:





“There is no name for the style of drawing I do. There are a lot of lines and minute squares. I have not named my style as I will always change it, I didn’t want to keep to one confinement. It’s a freestyle.”



Every painting he creates takes up to 4 days to finish. You can see the pen strokes and lines in every painting, but at the same time you get the feeling – it’s an amazing quality photo!





Even at the start if his career, the paintings get virally spread on the Internet, and the prices for portraits are high. One may cost up to 500 US dollars. His talent is amazing hopefully the young man would gain worldwide fame and acknowledgment for what he does.

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For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators. But for the next decade or two, our biggest concern is more likely to be that robots will take away our jobs or bump into us on the highway.

Now five of the world’s largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of A.I. to humans, researchers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have been meeting to discuss more tangible issues, such as the impact of A.I. on jobs, transportation and even warfare.

Tech companies have long overpromised what artificially intelligent machines can do. In recent years, however, the A.I. field has made rapid advances in a range of areas, from self-driving cars and machines that understand speech, like Amazon’s Echo device, to a new generation of weapons systems that threaten to automate combat.

The specifics of what the industry group will do or say — even its name — have yet to be hashed out. But the basic intention is clear: to ensure that A.I. research is focused on benefiting people, not hurting them, according to four people involved in the creation of the industry partnership who are not authorized to speak about it publicly.

The importance of the industry effort is underscored in a report issued on Thursday by a Stanford University group funded by Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft researcher who is one of the executives in the industry discussions. The Stanford project, called the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, lays out a plan to produce a detailed report on the impact of A.I. on society every five years for the next century.

One main concern for people in the tech industry would be if regulators jumped in to create rules around their A.I. work. So they are trying to create a framework for a self-policing organization, though it is not clear yet how that will function.

“We’re not saying that there should be no regulation,” said Peter Stone, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the authors of the Stanford report. “We’re saying that there is a right way and a wrong way.”

While the tech industry is known for being competitive, there have been instances when companies have worked together when it was in their best interests. In the 1990s, for example, tech companies agreed on a standard method for encrypting e-commerce transactions, laying the groundwork for two decades of growth in internet business.

The authors of the Stanford report, which is titled “Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030,” argue that it will be impossible to regulate A.I. “The study panel’s consensus is that attempts to regulate A.I. in general would be misguided, since there is no clear definition of A.I. (it isn’t any one thing), and the risks and considerations are very different in different domains,” the report says.
One recommendation in the report is to raise the awareness of and expertise about artificial intelligence at all levels of government, Dr. Stone said. It also calls for increased public and private spending on A.I.

“There is a role for government and we respect that,” said David Kenny, general manager for IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence division. The challenge, he said, is “a lot of times policies lag the technologies.”

A memorandum is being circulated among the five companies with a tentative plan to announce the new organization in the middle of September. One of the unresolved issues is that Google DeepMind, an Alphabet subsidiary, has asked to participate separately, according to a person involved in the negotiations.

The A.I. industry group is modeled on a similar human rights effort known as the Global Network Initiative, in which corporations and nongovernmental organizations are focused on freedom of expression and privacy rights, according to someone briefed by the industry organizers but not authorized to speak about it publicly.

Separately, Reid Hoffman, a founder of LinkedIn who has a background in artificial intelligence, is in discussions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab to fund a project exploring the social and economic effects of artificial intelligence.

Both the M.I.T. effort and the industry partnership are trying to link technology advances more closely to social and economic policy issues. The M.I.T. group has been discussing the idea of designing new A.I. and robotic systems with “society in the loop.”

The phrase is a reference to the long-running debate about designing computer and robotic systems that still require interaction with humans. For example, the Pentagon has recently begun articulating a military strategy that calls for using A.I. in which humans continue to control killing decisions, rather than delegating that responsibility to machines.
“The key thing that I would point out is computer scientists have not been good at interacting with the social scientists and the philosophers,” said Joichi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab and a member of the board of directors of The New York Times. “What we want to do is support and reinforce the social scientists who are doing research which will play a role in setting policies.”

The Stanford report attempts to define the issues that citizens of a typical North American city will face in computers and robotic systems that mimic human capabilities. The authors explore eight aspects of modern life, including health care, education, entertainment and employment, but specifically do not look at the issue of warfare. They said that military A.I. applications were outside their current scope and expertise, but they did not rule out focusing on weapons in the future.

The report also does not consider the belief of some computer specialists about the possibility of a “singularity” that might lead to machines that are more intelligent and possibly threaten humans.

“It was a conscious decision not to give credence to this in the report,” Dr. Stone said.

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Remember that nasty iPhone security flaw we warned you about last week? Apple just released patches fixing similar problems with the software powering Mac desktops and laptops, as well as the company’s Safari web browser.

Left unfixed, the problems could allow hackers to remotely take over your iMac or MacBook. That is, obviously, a Very Bad Thing. So you should update your Mac computer right away.

In many cases, your Apple computer will automatically let you know there’s an update available. This is not the time to ignore that message. Otherwise, you can manually update your machine by opening the App Store on your computer, then clicking “updates” on the top bar. If you’re behind on your updates, you may have to download more than just today’s fix to get fully secured.

These new flaws were uncovered by security firms Citizen Lab and Lookout, the same folks who discovered the earlier iPhone issues.

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A ring of sunshine will blaze above parts of Africa on Thursday as the moon glides between the sun and Earth. The solar spectacle is called an annular eclipse, and sometimes referred to as a “ring of fire” eclipse.

Unlike its better-known relative the total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse occurs when the moon does not completely blot out the sun. For viewers on the ground, instead of witnessing a white halo they will see red slivers of sunlight shining around the moon’s dark silhouette.

“If they look up with protective eyewear they are going to see this strange ring in the sky, more spectacularly they will see these circular shadows,” said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist from NASA. “It’s a cool event, the shadows are kind of eerie.”

The reason every eclipse isn’t a total solar eclipse has to do with the moon’s elliptical orbit. At some points along its journey it is closer to Earth and at some points it is farther away.

“It’s that sweet spot when it’s just right in between the two that you get the total eclipse,” said Dr. Young. “This is not exactly the sweet spot, it’s a little too far away.”

An annular eclipse happens about once every 18 months. Thursday’s event will be visible from Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. The peak will begin around 9 or 10 a.m. local time, depending on location, and the “ring” will last for about three minutes. Nearby countries outside of the 100-mile wide path will still see partial eclipses.

Dr. Young said that although 95 percent of the sun will be blocked out, anyone who is in a position to watch the event should get some special solar eclipse glasses so they do not harm their eyes.


For the rest of the world, you’ll still be able to watch via livestream from Slooh Community Observatory, a network of telescopes pointed to the sky. Their broadcast will begin around 2:45 a.m. Eastern time.

Jay Pasachoff, an eclipse chaser and astronomer at Williams College in Massachusetts, will have a front-row seat to the celestial show.

He and some of his colleagues have traveled to Réunion, a remote island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, in order to see it and photograph the peak. Dr. Pasachoff studies the effects that solar eclipses have on temperature and air pressure.

Annular eclipses don’t provide researchers with as much interesting science as total eclipses, so he plans to use the event as a practice-run for the total solar eclipse that will cross the United States in August next year. Still, Dr. Pasachoff said he is excited to bask in the strange light of the annular eclipse.

“The sky looked perfectly ordinary when I arrived, but tomorrow at the same time the moon will be blocking out most of the sun from the same location,” he said. “It’s intellectually rewarding to see the clockwork of the universe.”

The next annular eclipse will be in February over Chile.

Source: The New York Times

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Indonesian officials have revealed the picture of the world’s oldest man, Mbah Gotho who is believed to be 145-years-old and claims he is ready to die.


According to his documentation, Gotho was born on December 31, 1870 and has outlived all 10 of his siblings as well as his four wives, the last of who died in 1988. He was further reported that, he has outlived all his children but survives under the care if his grandchildren.

UK Mirror in an interview with the super-senior citizen from Sragen, Central Java said that he has been through it all and would not mind passing on saying: “What I want is to die. My grandchildren are all independent.” Also when asked what his secret to long life was, he said: “The recipe is just patience.”

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Here's the Max Amount of Sugar Kids Should Really Have In a Day
The new recommendations are about a third of what the typical American child typically consumes.

Kids should have 6 teaspoons or less of added sugar a day, the American Heart Association said Monday—about one third of what the typical American child currently eats and drinks. This is the same recommendation the organization previously made for adult women, and applies to all children between ages 2 and 18.

Those 6 teaspoons are equal to about 100 calories, or 25 grams, and include any sugars (like table sugar, fructose, and honey) that are used in the preparing or processing of foods or beverages. They do not, however, include naturally occurring sugars in foods such as dairy products and whole fruits.

The scientific statement, published in the journal Circulation, also recommended that added sugars be completely omitted from the diets of children under 2. This age group needs fewer calories than older kids, the authors of the statement say, and there is little room for extra foods that don’t provide good nutrition. Limiting sugars at this age may also help children develop a life-long love for healthy food, since taste preferences are often formed early in life.

Keeping track of these added sugars will be a lot easier starting in 2018, when food manufacturers will be required to list them, in grams, on their labels.

The new recommendations are about a third of what the typical American child typically consumes.

Kids should have 6 teaspoons or less of added sugar a day, the American Heart Association said Monday—about one third of what the typical American child currently eats and drinks. This is the same recommendation the organization previously made for adult women, and applies to all children between ages 2 and 18.

Those 6 teaspoons are equal to about 100 calories, or 25 grams, and include any sugars (like table sugar, fructose, and honey) that are used in the preparing or processing of foods or beverages. They do not, however, include naturally occurring sugars in foods such as dairy products and whole fruits.

The scientific statement, published in the journal Circulation, also recommended that added sugars be completely omitted from the diets of children under 2. This age group needs fewer calories than older kids, the authors of the statement say, and there is little room for extra foods that don’t provide good nutrition. Limiting sugars at this age may also help children develop a life-long love for healthy food, since taste preferences are often formed early in life.

Keeping track of these added sugars will be a lot easier starting in 2018, when food manufacturers will be required to list them, in grams, on their labels.


"Until then, the best way to avoid added sugars in your child's diet is to serve mostly foods that are high in nutrition, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, lean meat, poultry and fish, and to limit foods with little nutritional value," Miriam Vos, M.D., nutrition scientist and associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and lead author of the statement, said in a press release.

Those “foods with little nutritional value” include sugar-sweetened beverages, such as soda, fruit-flavored and sports drinks, sweetened teas, and energy drinks. Kids should not drink more than 8 ounces of these drinks per week, Dr. Vos said—yet they are currently drinking the equivalent of their age in weekly servings.

Sweet processed foods, such as cereal and cereal bars, cookies, cakes and many foods marketed specifically to children, should also be avoided or limited to occasional treats.

Estimated calorie needs for children range from 1,000 a day for a sedentary 2-year-old to 3,200 for an active 16- to 18-year-old boy. But Dr. Vos said the AHA chose to make just one recommendation for all kids over age 2 in order to keep things simple for parents and public health advocates. For most children, she said, limiting sugar to less than 6 teaspoons a day is a healthy and achievable target.

"If your child is eating the right amount of calories to achieve or maintain a healthy body weight, there isn't much room in their food ‘budget’ for low-value junk foods, which is where most added sugars are found,” she added.
Children, like adults, are more likely to develop risk factors for heart disease (such as obesity and high blood pressure) and Type 2 diabetes (such as insulin resistance) when they eat a lot of daily sweets or other forms of added sugar. Plus, said Dr. Vos, “children who eat foods loaded with added sugars tend to eat fewer healthy foods—such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products—that are good for their heart health.”

The authors did not make a recommendation for or against the use of no-calorie sweeteners, such as aspartame and sucralose, and were unsure whether the high sugar content in 100-percent fruit juice should be considered in the same category as sodas and sports drinks.

The new guideline will hopefully clear up some of the confusion and uncertainty that’s surrounded sugar recommendations for children, the authors wrote. They also noted that their statement aligns with current advice from the World Health Organization, the FDA, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, all of which recommend that added sugars make up less than 10 percent of daily calories.

The American Heart Association says that limiting added sugars should be a goal for the whole family, as well. Like children, women are advised to have no more than six teaspoons a day. Men, whose overall calorie requirements tend to be a bit higher, should aim for no more than nine teaspoons or 150 calories.
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The images tell a heartbreaking story: Zika’s calamitous attack on the brains of babies — as seen from the inside.

With a macabre catalog of brain scans and ultrasound pictures, a new study details the devastation done to 45 Brazilian babies whose mothers were infected with Zika during pregnancy. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Radiology, is the most comprehensive collection of such images so far, and it reveals a virus that can launch assaults beyond microcephaly, the condition of unusually small heads that has become the sinister signature of Zika.

Most of the babies in the study were born with microcephaly, but many of them also suffered other impairments, including damage to important parts of the brain: the corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain; the cerebellum, which plays a significant role in movement, balance and speech; the basal ganglia, which are involved in thinking and emotion.

“It’s not just the small brain, it’s that there’s a lot more damage,” said Dr. Deborah Levine, an author of the study and a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “The abnormalities that we see in the brain suggest a very early disruption of the brain development process.”

The findings also raised worrisome concerns about whether babies born without such obvious impairments could develop brain damage as they grow. For example, almost all the babies in the study had problems in the cortex, including clumps of calcium and neurons that did not reach the right location in the brain. Because the cortex keeps developing after birth, Dr. Levine said, “we’re concerned that there might be mild cases that we haven’t seen yet, and we should keep monitoring the babies after birth to see if they have cortical abnormalities.”

The images studied came from 17 babies whose mothers had a confirmed Zika infection during pregnancy and from 28 without laboratory proof but with all indications of Zika. Dr. Levine worked with colleagues in Brazil, which has had more than 1,800 cases of Zika-related microcephaly, to analyze images from the Instituto de Pesquisa in Paraiba in the northeastern part of the country. Three of the babies died in the first three days of life, and researchers studied their autopsy reports.

The images include scans of twin girls, who both developed microcephaly. The pictures show folds of overlapping skin and a sloping forehead, indications not only that the brain is smaller, but also that the forebrain has not developed normally, Dr. Levine said.
The researchers said they are making many of the images public so doctors around the world will have a better idea of what to look for in the brains of fetuses and newborns afflicted with the virus.

The study suggests that Zika is a formidable enemy, able to strike in many ways. Dr. Levine, who is also director of obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, described its three-pronged attack.

The virus causes dysgenesis, in which parts of the brain do not form normally. It causes obstruction, primarily because it keeps the ventricles or cavities of the brain so full of fluid that they “blow up like a balloon,” she said. And it destroys parts of the brain after they form.

“The brain that should be there,” Dr. Levine said, “is not there.”

The baby below was one of three in the study whose head size was not small enough to meet the medical definition of microcephaly. But that, said Dr. Levine, is likely because his ventricles are filled with cerebrospinal fluid that has been unable to drain.
“The ventricles have blown up, and they’ve kept the skull even bigger,” she said.

In the brain scans, taken at 36 weeks into pregnancy and one day after birth, fluid is so prominent, “it looks like the skull, and very little brain tissue inside it,” she said. On the top of the baby’s head are folds indicating that the head was once bigger or that the skin continued to grow as the head stopped.

“There’s too much skin for the size of the head,” Dr. Levine said.

What will happen as this baby develops is unclear. Ventricles, she said, “like a balloon, can pop.” And if they do, “the brain will collapse on itself.”

An accompanying video shows a series of scans of the brain of the same baby taken one day after birth. It essentially provides a tour of the brain from bottom to top, Dr. Levine said. At about 3 seconds into the video, the images reveal a head so filled with fluid-enlarged ventricles that it is difficult to see signs of other brain matter.



The baby girl below was born with microcephaly. In the brain scan, the arrows point to calcium deposits in the basal ganglia, a very deep part of the brain, Dr. Levine said. The L-shaped white area above and to the left of the arrows shows calcification at the intersection of the brain’s gray matter and white matter, a juncture that the study found was commonly damaged, for reasons unclear.

The baby’s contracted hands and arms show another common symptom, Dr. Levine said. Zika seems to damage the nerves in a developing fetus so that sometimes “muscles aren’t developing normally because they don’t have the nerve impulses to move normally,” she said. “And then when they’re born, they’re stuck in this contracted position.” This baby, she said, “probably can’t move her hands.”


The twins included in the study both developed microcephaly. While in some cases, one twin will develop microcephaly and the other will not, in this case, the twins sustained a similar degree of brain damage, suggesting that in their mother’s womb, “they both got infected at the same time,” Dr. Levine said.

The brain scans of the twin girls show that the babies have little or no corpus callosum to help one side of the brain communicate with the other.


“The corpus callosum is very important,” Dr. Levine said. “It is the largest structure that connects the two sides of the brain.”

Abnormalities in the corpus callosum were found in 38 babies. “In some of them I’m sure it wasn’t there,” she said. “That either means it never formed or it was destroyed.”
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Every morning, British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra stirs one tablespoon of butter and one tablespoon of coconut oil into his coffee.

While it may not sound appetizing, the concoction — also known as “bulletproof coffee” — is popular among people who follow high-fat diets and modeled after yak-butter drinks consumed in Tibet for centuries. The combination, says Dr. Malhotra, gives him energy and “keeps me pretty full.”

There are not many cardiologists who embrace butter and coconut oil as health foods. But Dr. Malhotra rejects the decades-old mantra that eating foods rich in saturated fat causes heart disease, and he has been leading a campaign to change public opinion about fats, sugar and what constitutes a healthy diet.

“As part of a heart-healthy diet, I advise my cardiac patients to enjoy full-fat cheese, along with olive oil and vegetables,” says Dr. Malhotra, who regularly indulges in grass-fed meat and three-egg omelets, yolks included. “You should see the look on their faces when I tell them.”

Dr. Malhotra, who works with Britain’s National Health Service, is among a small but increasingly vocal group of doctors in the United States and Britain who are challenging the medical and nutritional orthodoxy around fat, carbohydrates and calories. He has been a fixture on social media and on television programs in Britain, thanks in part to a series of controversial papers he published in medical journals arguing that saturated fat, especially from dairy, can be protective against heart disease, that sugar is “public health enemy No. 1” in the Western diet, and that the dangers of high cholesterol are overstated.

In May, as a member of the National Obesity Forum, a nonprofit group, he helped write a widely publicized report that criticized the British government’s dietary advice to avoid saturated fat and eat low-fat foods. And in a country known for its sweet tooth, Dr. Malhotra is outspoken about the harms of excess sugar.

His critics – of which there are many – have pushed back. Public Health England, the agency that issues the country’s dietary guidelines, said the obesity forum report that Dr. Malhotra helped author was “irresponsible and misleads the public.”

Dr. Neil Poulter, a professor of preventive cardiovascular medicine at Imperial College in London, accused Dr. Malhotra of “cherry picking” data and misinterpreting research. And he said he was wrong to encourage people to consume saturated fat because it increases LDL cholesterol, which correlates with heart disease.

“Decades of studies are consistent in showing that LDL is pivotal and that by reducing LDL you reduce cardiovascular events,” Dr. Poulter said.
But Dr. Malhotra points to research like a major study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2014 that found no link between saturated fat consumption and coronary heart disease. In January, a leading American cardiovascular expert, Dr. Steven E. Nissen, published an editorial criticizing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for urging people to reduce their saturated fat and cholesterol intake without enough evidence from rigorous clinical trials.

While it is true that some established physicians and scientists are calling for more research on the effect of saturated fat, that doesn’t mean they endorse Dr. Malhotra’s promotion of high fat diets either.

“I do not think he has an established track record in the science of nutrition and heart disease,” said Dr. Nissen, who does not know Dr. Malhotra. “But I do wish we had more rigorous evidence to confirm or refute the claim that saturated fat and cholesterol are associated with heart disease, because I don’t think it’s clear.”

With a knack for controversy, Dr. Malhotra has pushed on. In the past year he has also taken aim at statins, the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, arguing in academic papers and on some of Britain’s leading news programs that the cholesterol-lowering medications are overused.

While the drugs can be lifesaving in people who have established heart disease, Dr. Malhotra says, people at low risk would be better off adopting a Mediterranean diet since the vast majority of cardiovascular disease is attributable to lifestyle factors like smoking and poor diet.

“I tell my heart patients that adopting a Mediterranean diet after suffering a heart attack is actually more powerful than aspirin, statins and even heart stents,” he says. “I’m not saying these treatments aren’t beneficial – they are. But the lifestyle changes are even more powerful, and without the side effects.”
As evidence, he often refers to a landmark clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, which found that heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease plummeted in high risk patients assigned to follow a Mediterranean diet with large amounts of fat from nuts and olive oil.

To help spread his food-is-medicine message – a notion Hippocrates, the “father of western medicine,” first promoted centuries ago – Dr. Malhotra held a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a documentary called “The Big Fat Fix,” which follows him as he visits the Campania region of Italy to explore the Mediterranean diet’s well-documented health benefits. He said he crowd-sourced the funding of the film to avoid conflicts of interest, and he and his co-star produced the film themselves and released it online.

Dr. Malhotra and his co-star, Donal O’Neill, a filmmaker and former professional athlete, argue in the film that the Mediterranean diet has been widely mischaracterized. While it features an abundance of plants, seafood, olive oil, nuts and red wine, it also includes plenty of red meat, cheese and other sources of saturated fat. Dr. Malhotra contends that the traditional diet is also very low in sugar, a fact that he says is often overlooked. “The locals there eat no processed food,” he said.

In the film, Dr. Malhotra also makes a case that the people of the region owe their remarkable longevity to a Mediterranean lifestyle, which prioritizes social engagement, stress reduction and proper sleep, movement and flexibility.

Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, medical school, said she applauded Dr. Malhotra and his film’s emphasis on prioritizing lifestyle before medicine. She said that too often people rely on pills as an antidote to poor diet and other unhealthy behaviors.

“I think a lot of people feel that they can eat whatever they want and just take a statin and not have to worry about exercise,” she said.

Dr. Malhotra said that although his work challenging the conventional wisdom has been controversial, he intends to do more of it. He repeats a quote from the South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world’s first heart transplant procedure and later became a champion for heart disease prevention through proper nutrition and lifestyle changes.

“If I had first concentrated on heart disease prevention,” Dr. Barnard once said, “rather than saving the lives of 150 people, I could have saved the lives of 150 million.”

You’d think that when parents are told of a vaccine that could prevent future cancers in their children, they’d leap at the chance to protect them. Alas, that is hardly the case for a vaccine that prevents infections with cancer-causing human papillomavirus, or HPV. The vaccine, best given at age 11 to 12, is currently the most underutilized immunization available for children.

HPV is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and nearly every sexually active person becomes infected at some time in life. The virus in one or another of its variants causes more than 90 percent of cervical cancers, as well as most cancers of the vulva, vagina, anus, penis and oropharynx, which includes the back of the throat, base of the tongue and tonsils. It also causes genital warts.

Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, about 14 million Americans become infected with HPV, most of them teenagers or young adults, and a cancer caused by HPV is diagnosed in an estimated 17,600 women and 9,300 men.

Yet, when one of my sons was urged to get the HPV vaccine for his boys, ages 11 and 14, he replied, “Why? They’re not yet sexually active.” I reminded him that not all sex is consensual, and exposure to the virus does not require sexual penetration. However, his response reflects a common misunderstanding among millions of parents, and often their children’s doctors, of the value of the vaccine and the fact that it is most effective if given to preteenagers when the immune response is strongest and before they are exposed to an offending form of the virus.

But as of 2014, only 40 percent of girls and 21 percent of boys ages 13 to 17 had received all three doses of the HPV vaccine, whereas 88 percent of boys and girls had been vaccinated against tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis and 79 percent had gotten the meningococcal vaccine.

There are several explanations for the low rate of HPV immunization among young teens. One is that the vaccine is relatively new — it was first approved in 2006 — and expensive. At about $300 a dose, the three-dose series can approach $1,000 a child, although now, as with other government-recommended vaccines, it is covered by insurance with no co-pay, and the federal Vaccines for Children program provides free vaccination for children who are uninsured or underinsured, according to the American Cancer Society.

The society last month updated its immunization guideline for the HPV vaccine, bringing it in line with the advice issued two years ago by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. While the committee considered evidence primarily from company-sponsored studies, the cancer society looked at additional studies conducted by independent researchers.

The society also more carefully defined the effect of age at the time of immunization, finding decreased effectiveness with age that underscores the importance of early vaccination.

“If the vaccine is to be given to people 22 to 26, doctors should inform patients that it is less effective,” said Debbie Saslow, the director of cancer control intervention for the cancer society. Still, it is not too late to immunize college students who did not get the vaccine when they were younger, she said.

A second obstacle to wider HPV immunization is the erroneous belief that it would promote teenage promiscuity, an argument more commonly used to counter birth control advice for teenagers. There is no direct connection between the vaccine and sexual activity and no reason to suggest one, said Dr. Saslow, the lead author of the cancer society’s updated guidelines. If asked, a parent or doctor could simply say the vaccine prevents infection by a very common virus that can cause cancer.

Although some early publicity for the vaccine focused on preventing sexually transmitted disease, Dr. Saslow said, “first and foremost, this is a cancer-prevention vaccine. Multiple studies have shown no negative impact on any me
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A 4-year-old girl with deep purple bruises, a black eye, a swollen cheek, a mark on her forehead. healing scars across her back, dried blood in the corner of her mouth and ligature marks on her wrist was asked what her name was by a police officer and she gave a startling response: “Idiot.”
The little girl’s mother’s live-in boyfriend, 47 year old Clarence Reed, regularly called the child “Idiot” instead of using her real name, police said.
He also had at one time, zip-tied the 4-year-old girl to her bed as a form of punishment, according to a police report.

and the child’s mother, Jennifer Denen, 30, both of Hot Springs, Ark., are now charged with domestic battery, permitting abuse of a minor and endangering welfare of a minor.

Police received a call Friday to the Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center, where a staff member told an officer that a malnourished 4-year-old had been abused in her home.

Reed and the child’s 30 year old mother, Jennifer Denen, who were at the center when police arrived, were later arrested.

Denen told police that she had seen her boyfriend strike her daughter with a plastic bat and said she’d heard Reed frequently call her 4 year old daughter, “Idiot.”

She admitted not seeking medical care for her daughter, each time Reed hurt her. But when interviewed, Reed told authorities that he hit the child with a half-inch-thick wooden paddle instead of a plastic bat, like Denen claimed. He also admitted zip-tying the child to punish her for climbing the kitchen cabinets.
He also admitted to calling the child “Idiot,” but that he always meant it as a joke.

Cpl. Kirk Zaner, spokesman for the Hot Springs Police Department, said that a total of six children lived in the house, all of whom are Denen’s.

The Police said the youngest child in the house, an 11-month-old baby, is her only child with Reed..

Zaner said the 4-year-old girl and the 11-month-old are now in the custody of the Department of Human Services, while the four older siblings have been placed with their biological father.
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– Doctor Santosh Pol has been dubbed “doctor-of-death” by local media in India

– Pol reportedly killed 6 people with lethal overdose of injection

– The “doctor-of-death” has confessed to his crime

Doctor Santosh Pol has been arrested by police in western India for allegedly injecting 6 people with a lethal overdose and burying most of the bodies at his farmhouse.

File photo: Dr Pol is said to have killed six people in India, using a lethal overdose of injection.
An officer said on Tuesday, Augusy 16 that Santosh Pol, dubbed “doctor- of-death” by local media, was arrested in a town in Maharashtra state last week during a police investigation into the disappearance of one of his victims.

“Pol has confessed to killing around six people including five women and one man. We have recovered four bodies from his farmhouse and one from (outside) his (town) residence,” police inspector Padmakar Ghanvat told AFP.
“He has been constantly changing his statements during interrogations, which makes it difficult for us to understand his motives,” Ghanvat said.

All of the alleged victims went missing in the picturesque town of Wai, 230 kilometres (143 miles) south of Mumbai, in recent years. But little is known of their connection to the doctor.

Television footage showed police leading Pol around his farm, while other officers operated mechanical diggers as curious villagers watched.

Police have also taken Pol’s nurse into custody on suspicion of helping him carry out some of the killings, officers have been quoted by local media as saying.

Pol allegedly killed his latest victim with a lethal overdose of an unknown drug after she threatened to expose his previous murders, according to the reports.

Last year police arrested an Indian doctor accused of trying to set a patient’s body on fire after he died during treatment.

Earlier this month Indian police arrested the head of an upmarket hospital in Mumbai and four doctors on suspicion of organ trafficking.