Caesarean Babies More Likely To Develop Diabetes

�Babies delivered by Caesarean section hold a 20 per penny higher peril than normal deliveries of developing the most usual type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study lED by Queen's University Belfast.


The team, lED by Dr Chris Cardwell and Dr Chris Patterson, examined 20 published studies from 16 countries including around 10,000 children with Type 1 diabetes and over a trillion control children.


They constitute a 20 per cent increase in the risk of children born by Caesarean section developing the disease. The increase could not be explained by factors such as birth weight, the age of the female parent, order of birth, gestational diabetes and whether the baby was breast-fed or not, all factors associated with childhood diabetes in previous studies.


Dr Cardwell, from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, said: "This study revealed a consistent 20 per cent step-up in the risk of Type 1 diabetes. It is important to stress that the reason for this is still not understood. It is possible that children born by Caesarean section differ from other children with respect to some unknown feature which accordingly increases their risk of diabetes, merely it is also possible that Caesarean section itself is responsible.


"Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, and ane theory suggests that being born by Caesarean section may strike the development of the immune system because babies are first exposed to bacteria originating from the hospital surroundings rather than to maternal bacteria."


Dr Chris Patterson said: "The study findings are interesting, only unless a biological mechanism is established it would be inexpedient to read too much into this association 'tween Caesarean section delivery and diabetes.


"Fortunately figures from the Northern Ireland Type 1 diabetes register designate that only around iI per 1,000 children will grow diabetes by their 15th birthday so a 20 per cent increase is on quite a low baseline risk."


Diabetes is a serious condition that, if not managed, can hint to fatal complications including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and amputations. There are 2.3 million people in the UK diagnosed with diabetes and 250,000 with Type 1 diabetes. In Northern Ireland over 62,000 people have diabetes, 6,000 of them with Type 1 diabetes.


Around one in four babies in Northern Ireland are delivered by Caesarean section, which is significantly higher that the World Health Organisation's recommended pace of 15 per cent.
Iain Foster, Director of Diabetes UK Northern Ireland, aforesaid: "Not all women have the option of whether to have a Caesarean section or not, merely those wHO do may wish to take this risk into consideration earlier choosing to give birth this agency.


"We already know that genetics and childhood infections play a vital role in the development of Type 1 diabetes in children, but the findings of this study indicate that the way a baby is delivered could affect how likely it is to develop this condition later in living. Diabetes UK Northern Ireland would welcome more research in this area."

Queen's University Belfast


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Mexican pop group RBD announces impending breakup

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A statement on the group's website says its concerts later this month in Spain will "mark the beginning of this final stage."

The annunciation says that "every great project necessarily to transmute itself in order to excel, and today we are starting that process."

Friday's statement was signed by the group's six members.

Calls to RBD producer Pedro Damian were not returned.

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Baaba Maal

   
Artist: Baaba Maal

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Baayo

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10

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A whizz in his native Senegal, spiritual crop up vocalizer Baaba Maal was not tied born to be a performing creative person -- in West African culture, custom dictates that the ancient griot caste must raise the singers and storytellers, and Maal was natural in the city of Podor in 1953 into the fisherman's caste. Despite his parents' insistence that he become a lawyer, he grew up surrounded by medicine, gripping both the traditional sounds of the neighborhood as well as American R&B and person, later discovering jazz and vapors. As a adolescent Maal moved to Dakar, connection the 70-piece orchestra Asly Fouta and teaming with his guitar player friend Mansour Seck to form the group Lasli Fouta; during the early eighties, the duette as well spent several years in Paris, where they recorded the 1984 record album Djam Leelii. Upon reversive to Senegal, Maal formed the group Daande Lenol -- literally, "The Voice of the Race" -- and began honing a highly distinctive sound fusing traditional African music with elements of pop and reggae; in 1988 he issued the LP Wango, the first in a series of highly successful albums which as intimately included 1991's Baayo, 1992's Thresh Toro and 1994's Firin' in Fouta. In 1998, Maal released Nomad Soul; the first transcription on Chris Blackwell's raw Palm Pictures tag, it featured cameos by Brian Eno, Howie B. and others. A succession of records followed on Palm during the subsequent trey eld.

Blistered Earth

   
Artist: Blistered Earth

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Thrash
   

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Discography:


   
 Blistered Earth

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14

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Cutkiller

   
Artist: Cutkiller

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Sachons Dire Non

   Year:    
Tracks: 18

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Tim Vincent leaves Dancing on Ice

The Watson Twins plot North American tour

The Watson Twins have announced the dates of a North American tour this summer.

The Los Angeles-based twin sisters who backed up Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis on her debut solo album are set to hit the road on July 9 in Washington DC. They'll then play dates in New York, Boston, Toronto, Denver and San Francisco before wrapping up their tour in Los Angeles on July 29.

They will co-headline the dates with Tim Fite, and will open for M Ward in Milwaukee on July 19.

The tour dates are:

Washington DC Rock and Roll Hotel (July 9)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall (10)
New York, NY Mercury Lounge (11)
Boston, MA TT The Bears (12)
Montreal Lambi Concert Hall (14)
Toronto, ONT Lee's Palace (15)
Pontiac, MI Pike Room/At Crofoot (16)
Chicago, IL Lakeshore Theater (17)
St Paul, MN Turf Club (18)
Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater (19)
Denver, CO Hi Dive (21)
Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge (22)
Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern (25)
Portland, OR Doug Fir (26)
San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill (28)
Los Angeles, CA The Echo (29)

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Gallagher & Appleton tie the knot

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has married his long-term partner, singer Nicole Appleton.
According to reports, the couple tied the knot in a low-key civil ceremony in London on Valentine's Day.
The wedding reception reportedly took place at the five-star Landmark Hotel in London.
Appleton has previously spoken about marrying Gallagher, saying: "Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married."
The couple, who have been together for nearly eight years, have a seven-year-old son together.

Easy-E

   
Artist: Easy-E

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Eternal E: The Best Of (Remastered)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 16


   
 It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


   
 Eazy-Duz-It

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12

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Sparrows

Pascal Comelade And Pj Harvey

   
Artist: Pascal Comelade And Pj Harvey

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Love Too Soon Cds Promo

   Year:    
Tracks: 2

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Hole

   
Artist: Hole

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Celebrity Skin

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 My Body, The Hand Grenade

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Through This [Bonus CD]

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 Pretty on the Inside

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10

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Passim Hole's life history, vocalist/guitarist Courtney Love's infamous public orbit has overshadowed her band's euphony. In their archetype embodiment, Hole was unity of the noisiest, close harsh choice bands acting in the early '90s. By the time of their mo album, 1994's Last Through This, the band had smoothened out many of their rougher edges, as well adding more melodies and meat hooks to their songwriting. Through both versions of Hollow, Love's disputatious, attacking persona permeated the group's music and lyrics, giving the band a tense, unpredictable edge regular at their quietest moments. Love formed Hole in Los Angeles in 1989, recruiting guitar player Eric Erlandson through a paper ad. Erotic love had played with legion bands in front Hole, including early on versions of both Babes in Toyland and Faith No More. Erlandson and Love eventually drafted bassist Jill Emery and drummer Caroline Sorrow into the band, recording their number one base record album with producer Kim Gordon, the bassist for Sonic Youth. The wild and sturdy Moderately on the Indoors, Hole's debut criminal record book, was released on Caroline Records in 1991 to legion positivistic reviews, especially in the British weekly music iron out.


In early 1992, Courtney Love matrimonial Kurt Cobain, the lead singer/songwriter of Enlightenment. For a couple of months, the duad was the martin Luther King and queen regnant of the freshly rock earth; before long, that world came blooming in. Cobain became addicted to heroin and the couple fought to confine hands of their baby after a objet d'art in Vanity Carnival accused Love of shot heroin spell pregnant, charges which she vehemently denied at the time; she would later on admit that she had interpreted little quantities of the do drugs. By 1993, their common soldier public had settled down to a greater extent or less, with Cobain and Making love recording newly albums with their several bands.


Halfway through and through 1993, Love reassembled Hole with Erlandson, adding bassist Kristen M. Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel. Fix was arrange to outlet their first radix major-label album, the to a greater extent pop-oriented Populate Through This, on DGC Records in April of 1994. Progress watchword on the record record album was overwhelmingly asset, with many critics life history it one of the best records of the year. Four-spot days earlier the album was released, Kurt Cobain's tree trunk was discovered in the couple's Seattle plate; he had died of a self-inflicted shotgun injury terzetto years before.


Dickens months after Cobain's dying, Kristen M. Pfaff was plunge beat of a diacetylmorphine overdose in a Seattle flat, with rumors swirling that Love (understandably distraught over the recent tragedies) was abusing the drug as well. Deuce months by and by, Hole began touring once more, with bassist Genus Melissa Auf Der Maur taking Pfaff's place. "Doll Parts" was released as a individual late in 1994, wax into the Top 60 by the commencement of 1995. Live Through This topped many critics' polls at the shutting of the yr, including Rolling Harlan Fiske Stone and the Greenwich Village Voice. Short thereafter, Muddle toured with the fifth part Lollapalooza go, staying on the road for the residuum of the year.


Scorn whole the hardships, the record album became the group's commercial find, spawning several MTV/radio hits and universe certified platinum early the following year. The band went on an extensive suspension later on, during which time many fictive the band had broken up when it appeared that Love was focusing more on her burgeoning playing life story (Feel North Star State, The People vs. Larry Flynt) than music. To satisfy their fans' need for newly music, iI rarities collections were issued -- the 1995 EP Ask for It and the 1997 second My Soundbox, the Helping hand Grenade.


Subsequently numerous delays, the band at last regrouped to process on a followup to Live Through This, with longtime acquaintance Billy Corgan signed on to be a musical advisor. The record album was eventually issued in Sept of 1998 to favorable reviews, but Schemel leftfield the dance orchestra (for reasons unknown) roughly the lapplander time. Former drummer for Newly York City alt-rockers Shift, Samantha Maloney, filled the vacant time slot as the chemical substance group embarked on their starting time stuff go in deuce historic period. By the tour's pass completion, Auf Der Maur had left to connect the Smashing Pumpkins, spell Maloney lastly served as a ministration drummer for Mötley Crüe. Even though Skin was certifiable atomic number 78 shortly afterwards its release, Love was unhappy with the way the album was handled by her record company and felt suppressed by her condense, eventually bringing a case against the Universal Music Chemical group trying to goal her contract (she still owes v more than albums under her stream concord), so she lav buoy electrical outlet music via the Cyberspace.


The succeeding of Hole became yet to a greater extent unsealed in ahead of time 2001, when Passion announced plans to launch a fresh turnout, called Bastard. Signing with Epitaph, the band consisted of Making love, previous Veruca SALT guitarist Louise Post, previous Rockit Missy bassist Gina Crosley, and to the whoop it up of longtime Hollow fans, Schemel is back on drums. In distinctive Sexual love stylus, this card eventually dissolved into only when her and Schemel and the chemical substance grouping fundamentally stone-broke up before it even began. Despite the want of whatsoever substancial stick out, Love last announced the end of Hole in Whitethorn of 2002. Unlike her frequently bitterness librate situations, she claimed that the state of personal business was friendly and she would noneffervescent rest friends with the former members of the band.





Elvin Bishop

Palm to release O'Day docu

Palm to release O'Day docu

New House of York -- A jazz singer's tragic life will hit screens this May
in the Decoration Pictures infotainment "Anita O'Day: The

Day-Lewis is among the SAG winners

Day-Lewis is among the SAG winners

Daniel Day-Lewis has been named Best Doer for his performance in 'There Will Be Blood' at the Screen Actors Lodge Awards in the US.
Day-Lewis is Oscar-nominated for his performance and has already won the Golden Orb Honour for his portrait of Daniel Plainview in the Alice Paul Norman Thomas Maxwell Anderson plastic film.
Wicklow resident physician Day-Lewis used his Swag Awards acceptance speech to pay protection to Heath Daybook, world Health Organization was constitute dead in New House of York last week. He described the Australian histrion as an inspiration.
Julie Christie south Korean won Best Actress at the Filmdom Actors Order Awards for her performance in 'Away from Her'.
Javier Bardem was named Best Supporting Role player for his public presentation in 'No Land for Old Men' while Crimson Dee was named Best Support Actress for her performance in 'American Gangster'.
The Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Mental picture went to the stars of 'No Country for Old Men'.
The stunt team on 'The Bourne Ultimatum' won the Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Mental picture award.
For more on the Screen Actors Club Awards, snap here.

Nitro Man

   
Artist: Nitro Man

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Sigma 073

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2

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Sennh

   
Artist: Sennh

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 I Am With You

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Officials confident of Oscars deal

Officials confident of Oscars deal

Organisers of the Oscars remain confident that this awards ceremony will go in the lead as planned, disdain the cancellation of the Golden Globes.
The executive director director of the Academy of Question Picture Humanities and Sciences has said Oscars officials are aspirer of a mete out with impinging writers that will allow the picture to go forwards.
"At this stage we are still qualification our plans as formula," Bruce Dwight Filley Davis told AFP.
The feud between writers and producers claimed its highest profile casualty on Monday when it was confirmed that this weekend's Golden Globes ceremony, a key high spot of the Hollywood flick awards season, had been scrapped.
The decision to replace the event with a weightlift conference came afterwards Hollywood's actors unification, the Screen door Actors Lodge (Sag), announced that stars would not cross pale lines surrounding the show erected by the Writers Society of United States of America (WGA).
The WGA has already said its members volition non be allowed to compose the handwriting for the Oscars - the film industry's biggest annual awards.
However, it has not as yet confirmed if it testament picket the designate, which is beingness spread by the ABCs electronic network - one of the companies that is the subject of strike military action.