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When Charles Andrews, 55, of Mason, was diagnosed in April 2011 with localized prostate cancer, trusted advice gained by word of mouth brought him to the office of UC Health urologist and surgeon Nilesh Patil, MD.?

Andrews had localized prostate cancer and he knew he had options for treatment, but felt a bit daunted by the choice. He began asking his family, friends and co-workers for recommendations. It was his coworker?s sister?who also happened to be an old friend of Andrews and nurse in West Chester?who connected him with Patil.

"I felt extremely comfortable with Dr. Patil from the beginning. He gave me his cell phone number, was quick to answer my questions and very specific about what to expect before, during and after the surgery,? recalls Andrews. "He encouraged me to interview multiple surgeons before I chose him. I did, but Dr. Patil was the right surgeon for me.?

The Catheter-Less?Prostatectomy?Approach?

Through Patil, UC Health is one of two health care systems in the United States and the first in Ohio to offer robot-assisted prostate cancer surgery (prostatectomy) without the need for a penile catheter post-op. Studies have shown that almost 80 percent of patients are severely bothered by the presence of a catheter after surgery.?

The no catheter technique involves draining urine directly from the bladder through a small incision above the pubic bone via a small tube after surgery. This spares the patient of the irritation of a penile catheter during recovery and allows for early bladder training. In traditional prostate cancer surgery, patients have a penile catheter for up to seven to10 days to drain urine while the surgical site heals.

"Patients experience less pain with this technique and the outcomes are no different when the surgery is performed at experienced medical centers like UC Health,? adds Patil, who also serves as an associate professor of surgery at the UC College of Medicine and director of robotic services (urology).?

Andrews, who is a middle school history teacher and sports coach, says this catheter-less approach addressed his chief fear about prostate cancer surgery: post-surgery bladder control.

"I coach high school baseball; wearing bladder protection wasn?t an option for me. Dr. Patil assured me regaining bladder control wouldn?t be much of a problem, and he was right,? says Andrews. "Two weeks after surgery, I had complete control back. It was a huge relief.??

Andrews underwent the robot-assisted catheter-less prostatectomy at UC Health University Hospital on June 2, 2011. A year later, he remains cancer free and says he has a great quality of life.?

More Information?

For more information on the UC Health multidisciplinary prostate cancer team, visit cancer.uc.edu.

For appointments with urology, call 513-475-8787.?

For appointments with hematology oncology, call 513-584-8500.?

For appointments with radiation oncology, call 513-584-4775.

Source: http://healthnews.uc.edu/news/?/20603/

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Ideas For An Online Home Based Business | Make Money On The ...

It is often a dream for many to be their own bosses. Whether the goal is to earn enough money to supplement a full-time income or to replace a full-time income altogether, side-businesses are viable options. An online home based business can be operated with very little overhead and can be quite fulfilling and profitable.

Creating a store on an online auction site is still a profitable business to run from home. However, research should be done to determine which types of products are highly sought after. For instance, a storage unit full of high value antiques will sell better to an antiques dealer, but brand new products obtained via a wholesale re-seller will sell well on an auction site if listing prices undercut larger retailers. If auction sites do not appeal but a sales-oriented business does, a combination of blogging and affiliate marketing may be a better option.

Find books, music, toys, clothing, software, services and other marketable items online that have affiliate programs attached to them and sign up for the program. Start a blog or use an existing one and begin to write reviews of products and services and include the related affiliate link in the post somewhere so readers can go buy if they are inclined to do so. Readers can often tell when a so-called review has been written by someone who hasn?t used the product or service being featured. Greater success with affiliate sales will happen when the writer has clearly tried the product and is measuring it against certain criteria.

Freelancing is another profitable option for a viable online home based business, and it isn?t just for writers anymore. Any skill can be marketable. For instance, people who can program cell phone apps and games are in high demand right now. People that are good at painting portraits from pictures of people and animals can make quite a bit of money selling that service online. Graphic artists and photo editors can sell those services, as well. Accountants, bookkeepers, web designers, payroll experts and any other profession that requires nothing more than a computer and a skill to work is doable at home.

While it is true that any of these skills and business ideas can be used to supplement or replace income, it is necessary to be realistic about the transition from working for someone else. Putting up a website selling a service is one of the essential steps, but another important step that cannot be skipped is marketing. Optimize sales pages for search engines, list the business in directories and post services and products via social media. Success with a home based business online may not be immediate but it is possible.

Source: http://clearstart.biz/make-money-online/ideas-for-an-online-home-based-business/

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Motorola Photon Q bootloader will be unlockable, upcoming devices to follow same path

Rather than waiting for the inevitable question, Motorola has taken to their blog and Twitter to confirm something that always manages to come up when a new device is announced and eventually released. Will the bootloader be unlockable? In the case of the Motorola Photon Q and some other upcoming unnamed devices:

For months now we’ve been working closely with our developers and carrier partners to provide users a way to to unlock the bootloader on their Motorola Mobility device while keeping the networks secure and satisfying carriers’ requirements.  And we’ve finally found a solution.

Starting with the MOTOROLA PHOTON Q, users will be able to unlock the bootloader. Other products will have this option too in the future.

MOTOROLA PHOTON Q will be available on Sprint in August. Specific details on unlocking PHOTON Q’s bootloader will be available then.

Nice to see Motorola opening up a little bit more and coming right out and saying it. Now, about those other products, tell us more.

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Driving sobriety tests likely to miss medical pot

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new, small study suggests medicinal marijuana may impair users' driving skills - but might be missed by typical sobriety tests.

At doses used in AIDS, cancer and pain patients, people weaved side to side more and had a slower reaction time in the hours after using the drug, researchers from the Netherlands found.

For people who hadn't built up a tolerance to marijuana, those effects were similar to driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08, the point at which drivers are considered legally impaired, they said.

"At this time, we know very little about the possible effects that medical marijuana may have on, say, motor vehicle crash rates, injury rates and mortality rates," said Dr. Guohua Li, who has studied marijuana and traffic accidents at Columbia University in New York but wasn't involved in the new research.

"There is a concern medical marijuana may interact with other drugs such as alcohol that may further compromise driving safety," he added.

The new study involved 12 frequent marijuana users and 12 occasional (three times a month at most) smokers. At three different points, researchers led by Wendy Bosker of Maastricht University gave each of the participants either a 20 milligram or 10 mg pill of dronabinol - medical marijuana - or a drug-free placebo pill.

Two to four hours later, participants completed a series of driving tests, including trying to maintain a constant speed and drive in a straight line, or follow at a constant distance behind another car. They also went through a typical highway sobriety test, involving walking and turning and balancing on one leg.

Participants tended to weave a few centimeters side to side when under the influence, but the impairment was smaller in those who were used to doing pot regularly. After using medical marijuana people also took a second or so longer to react when following another car - although that effect could have been due to chance, the researchers reported in the journal Addiction.

The highway sobriety tests, however, didn't pick up any impairment due to marijuana.

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Dronabinol, marketed as Marinol, is intended to have a slower onset than pot used recreationally and can leave people feeling "high" hours after they take it.

"It lasts longer in the oral form, so people are likely to remain impaired for longer periods," said Dr. Barth Wilsey, who studies marijuana for pain relief at the University of California, Davis.

Wilsey, who didn't work on the new study, noted that the doses of dronabinol used in it were the highest allowed, and patients usually are started on lower doses.

"You can go to once a day dosing at bedtime, two and a half milligrams if you're having side effects," he told Reuters Health - and then impairment while driving wouldn't be a concern.

Generic dronabinol costs about $4 for each low-dose pill, or up to $15 per high-dose pill.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in 17 states and Washington, D.C.

Li told Reuters Health most states that have legalized medical marijuana have a provision under the law that people shouldn't drive under the influence.

How well that provision is enforced, and how closely people who use medical marijuana comply with it, is another question, Li said. As the new study shows, "There's no easy way right now to tell if someone is under the influence of marijuana."

Researchers are working on such tools, Li said, but they may be years away from being ready for use in the real world.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/MkUmR0 Addiction, online July 12, 2012.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/driving-sobriety-tests-likely-miss-medical-pot-192102128.html

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Why are cabinet ministers above the law? ? Constitutionally Speaking

News that the drivers of official vehicles of several cabinet ministers have been driving around at high speed, collecting hundreds of thousands of Rand in speeding fines in the process, does not come as a surprise. Neither does it come as a surprise that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development announced yesterday that these fines do not have to be paid as it was perfectly legal for blue light cars of cabinet ministers to disobey the same legal rules which us mere mortals are required to obey.

Section 58 and 60 of the National Road Traffic Act of 1996 were specifically changed in 2008 to allow those who are driven around by VIP Protection Unit Members with blue lights blaring to ignore traffic signs and speed limits. The amended provisions do not require the existence of an emergency situation before the official driver could legally disregard the laws of the road.

The provisions do place some limits on this otherwise blanket authorisation to break the law.

First, the Act states that a driver of a blue light vehicle who disobey the rules of the road ?shall drive the vehicle concerned with due regard to the safety of other traffic?. Reckless driving, pushing other cars from the road and speeding to such an extent that it endangers the lives of others are not authorised by the Act. Where the drivers of blue light cars drive dangerously, they are exceeding their legal powers and they should be arrested. If blue light bullies fail to have sufficient regard for the safety of other road users they are criminals and the politicians who condone this behaviour are complicit in the commissioning of a crime.

Second, these drivers can only drive faster than the speed limit and disobey traffic signs if they are busy carrying out their official duties. They cannot speed or ignore other traffic rules when they are not actually driving around the VIP, the VVIP, or the VVVIP (I am tempted to keep on adding another ?V? ad infinitum to illustrate the high importance of the esteemed cabinet ministers ? at least in their own eyes). The statement by the Department is therefore not entirely correct as only those speeding fines incurred by drivers while doing their official duties would not be payable.

Apart from these requirements, there are no other limits placed on when the drivers of blue light cars can speed or ignore other traffic rules.

There are two problems with these amended provisions which specifically authorise those officials who drive around cabinet ministers and other Very Important People to disregard the ordinary traffic rules.

First, there is something completely unethical about these provisions. The amended provisions confirm that cabinet ministers and others authorised to make use of blue light cars, believe that they are so important that they should be treated differently from everybody else and that they are, in fact, for all intents and purposes above the law as far as traffic rules are concerned. In a country in which respect for the law is not high and in which corruption thrives, there is something deeply troubling about the message being sent out by these provisions. ?Surely, cabinet ministers more than anyone else, should send a signal that they do not see themselves as above the law and that they are respectful of the same laws that the rest of us are supposed to obey?

Second, I am far from sure that these provisions comply with the constitutional requirements for valid law associated with respect for the Rule of Law. Our courts have found that the Rule of Law is not only a founding value contained in section 1 of the Constitution. It also contains specific aspects against which all legal provisions can be tested to ascertain the constitutionality of those provisions.

Legal provisions have to be rational, amongst other things, in order to comply with the requirements of the Rule of Law This means that the provisions have to be aimed at achieving a legitimate government purpose and that there must be a rational relationship between the provisions and the legitimate purpose sought to be achieved by them.

Can one say that in an constitutional democracy, founded on egalitarian values and based on the notion that no one (not even a VVVVVVVVVIP) should ever be treated as if he or she is above the law, that it could ever be legitimate for a law to allow cabinet ministers to be driven around in vehicles who need not keep to the speed limit and can ignore all other traffic rules? Is it ever a legitimate purpose to exempt cabinet ministers from the law for the sole purpose of exempting them from the law?

As the provisions in the Act do not limit these exemptions to special situations (for example, where it might be necessary to drive above the speed limit to whisk a cabinet minister away from a dangerous situation where his or her life might have become endangered by an angry crowd demanding an end to corruption or demanding a speedy delivery of school textbooks), there can be no other purpose for these provisions than to allow cabinet ministers who are being driven around to be exempt from the ordinary traffic rules aimed at protecting the public at large. I would be surprised if a court would ever agree that it is a legitimate government purpose to treat cabinet ministers as largely being above the law as far as traffic rules are concerned.

But even if one invents a more narrow purpose for the law ? for example, by arguing that the purpose of the law is to protect the safety of cabinet ministers ? then there can be no rational relationship between the almost blanket exemption from the law contained in section 58 and 60 of the Act and the purposes sought to be achieved by these provisions. In fact, I would think it is irrational to argue that in order to protect the safety of cabinet ministers, one must allow their drivers to drive at high speed and to ignore all road traffic rules. Such rules might well expose the relevant minister to considerable risk of being killed in a car accident and cannot be said to be rationally related to their protection. In the absence of further qualifications in the Act which limits the situations where blue light cars can ignore all traffic rules, the law seems irrational.

But this is not really the most important point. The larger point is that in 2008 our government set out to change the law to allow the drivers of cabinet ministers to ignore almost all traffic rules. What does it say about the way in which members of our government view themselves and their relationship to the ordinary legal rules which bind the rest of us? Is it any wonder that so many cabinet ministers are caught up in allegations of corruption, if they seem to think that they should be above the law because they are cabinet ministers?

Source: http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/why-are-cabinet-ministers-above-the-law/

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