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  Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture, in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Obari, Libya, in this November 19, 2011 picture. REUTERS/Ammar El-Darwish/Files

ZINTAN/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam needs surgery to remove gangrenous flesh from a severed thumb and finger which if not treated could make him seriously ill, a doctor who examined him told Reuters on Thursday.

Saif al-Islam has been nursing injuries to his right hand which he says were sustained during a NATO airstrike weeks ago. No further details have been available on the state of his heavily bandaged thumb, index and middle fingers.

“This wound is not in good condition and requires amputation,” Andrei Murakhovsky, a Ukraine-born doctor working in Zintan, the town where Saif al-Islam is being held, and who treated him three days ago told Reuters.

“The wound is covered with gangrenous tissue and necrotic tissue,” Murakhovsky added.

Fighters from Libya’s Western Mountains captured Saif al-Islam in the southern desert on Saturday and flew him to their stronghold town of Zintan, where he is being held pending a handover to the country’s provisional government.

Saif al-Islam’s middle finger did not require surgery but the two other bandaged digits had been severed and were weeping pus, said Murakhovsky, who was interviewed by Reuters television in English and later by telephone in Russian.

“His index finger has been ripped off at the level of the middle phalange (finger bone), the bones are all shattered … It’s the same thing with the thumb of that hand,” he said.

When a picture of Saif al-Islam’s bandaged hand was aired, many Libyans thought his captors had cut off his fingers in retribution for televised remarks in which he threatened anti-Gaddafi rebels, pointing and making other hand gestures.

Murakhovsky, however, said the injuries were consistent with “some kind of explosion.”

SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

The surgical intervention required was relatively simple and could be performed in Zintan under local anaesthetic, Murakhovsky said, but the town’s militiamen were worried someone would try to kill Saif al-Islam if they took him to hospital.

“I would have done it the day before yesterday. It’s not so urgent. It’s already been like that for a month. But it’s preferable that it should be done soon,” he said.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib has said Saif al-Islam is receiving the best possible treatment, but for now he is not in the hands of the provisional central government.

Zintan’s fighters have said they will hand him over to the provisional government once it is formed. The cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, with the defence minister’s post going to the head of Zintan’s military council.

Murakhovsky said only a small part of Saif al-Islam’s thumb and index finger needed to be removed, and while he did not need to be operated on urgently, if there were no intervention there could be serious consequences.

If left untreated, the gangrenous infection could spread into the bloodstream and lead to osteomyolitis, which Murakhovsky said was “an infection of the bone marrow, which could have an impact on his general condition.”

The International Criminal Court has indicted Saif al-Islam for crimes against humanity and issued a warrant for his arrest. Libya, however, says it will not hand him over to the Hague, and the ICC’s prosecutor says Tripoli can try him if it wants to.

Saif al-Islam has not been charged in Libya, but ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said his Libyan counterpart has launched investigations into the same events as the ICC, in which protesters were killed during this year’s revolution.

If Libya were to charge him with similar crimes as the ICC, Saif al-Islam would face the death penalty. The maximum sentence the ICC can pass is life in prison.

Libya is also investigating five counts of alleged corruption by Saif al-Islam, Moreno-Ocampo said on Thursday.

(Writing by Francois Murphy; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Investigation pointed out that the 80% of women in the world are wearing a bra that does not fit every day. Fabric, the Cup on the heart, shoulder straps, chest tightness, wires, adjust loop sth Every woman in every day use a bra every day, covered with said those who walked to disregard all the small parts.

Do not wear a bra more comfortable at home, but for the beautiful, cannot fail to wear – after some cold knife, wearing a bra is not. Clinical findings: women who wear a bra more than 8 hours a day suffering from disease of the breast twice times the chance of someone else ‘s. Incomplete statistics for hospital Breast Clinic found that females aged 25-45, there is one in every four persons suffer from varying degrees of breast disease, was on colour changes of breast cancer incidence was rising.

Among them, BRA registrant fucheng shirk, especially investigation found that 80% of a woman wearing a bra that does not fit without realizing it.

How conservation of breast tissue of women in everyday life?

Avoid strong extrusion. Breasts squeezed by external force easily changing the external shape, so that is on the top collapse under the breasts SAG, breast soft tissues susceptible to injury, caused by hyperplasia. Avoid squeeze firmly advised:

(1) your sleeping position to properly. Women sleeping style supine is preferred, try not to long side in one direction, which not only easy to squeeze the breasts, also easily lead to unbalanced bilateral gynecomastia.

(2) when conjugal intercourse, you should try to avoid the man firmly squeezing breasts. Otherwise it will become internal disorders. Wear the right bra.

(3) the bath to the FA. Cream stimulate breast with cold or hot bath water. Microvascular massed around the breast, hot or cold water bath is negative stimulation, such as selecting a sitz bath or bath, fucheng medium and long-term soaked in hot or cold water bath. Otherwise, make breast tissue relaxation, can also cause dry skin.

(4) avoid nipple, areola position is not clean.

(5) to avoid excessive dieting. Excessive dieting can make breast stunted growth, dry invisible, other conservation measures will not help.

(6) proper do milk. Mild massage makes breast fullness and avoid does not exercise. Does breast exercise is implementing the breast exercises one of the measures actually exercise itself does not make breast grow because no muscles in the breast. Purpose of the exercise is to make the breasts following breast muscle growth, increase will make breasts stand out of the chest muscles, breasts look bigger.

(7) milk hormone drugs for bogey. Such as long-term use or misuse of, or rotate different kinds of Feng cream brings: menstruation, Pigmented; the resulting thinning skin atrophy; disorders of liver enzymes, bile acid synthesis Khan reduced formation of cholesterol gallstone.

　1th embarrassing things–that sexy tight underwear

“Valentine”, Crick received a Ling Jie, a sweet gift, that’s a pretty tight-fitting underwear, strong, fit and body paint charming arc.

Potential problems: the testes to produce sperm problems

Sperm is very effeminate:, usually the local needs than other parts of the body temperature slightly below 1 ° c, long wearing tight underwear will affect the temperature of the scrotum area conditions, lead to temperature regulation obstacles, forming high temperature environment, thereby inhibiting abilities of the testes to produce sperm, further affect male fertility.

Solution: to select a good loose, breathable and material health of underwear.

2nd day of embarrassing things–those casual and elegant bearing

After marriage of Crick is definitely a good husband to loyal, thoughtful, but handsome before getting married, he has also fall in their own, their spend a ridiculous amount of time.

Potential problems: insufficient kidney essence

If excessive sex life, or having too many sexual partners, a series of questions will appear on the physiological and psychological. Excessive throws such as traditional Chinese medicine about lechery “kidney essence loss”, “lack of Shen Qi” and further lead to decrease in sexual function, reproductive dysfunction, also accompanied by loose teeth, hair loss, tinnitus, apt to sth

Solution: happy to moderate, and love sharing harmony single-minded sex.

3rd embarrassing things–that pick and mouth

As a partial eclipse favoured picky “Gourmand”, Crick was very pleased with his wife’s cooking, but this is even more a habit he only wants to eat the bug.

Problems that might be thrown: synthetic sperm not enough raw materials

Only male body in good condition can produce high quality, quantity, energetic enough sperm, so the daily intake of food should include capacity matter (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) and non-production materials (cellulose, trace elements, water and dietary fiber), including zinc and fertility is particularly closely related.

Solution: a balanced diet, eat the mushroom, auricularia, zinc-containing foods with more elements such as beef and mutton.

She calls Feng Ling, women’s apartment keys are likes to call her “wind chimes”. Every time her willingness to participate in collective activities, and cheer for each game come on boys, loud enough sunshine girl said she was meeting people love. But before the Chinese new year, she was diagnosed with end-stage pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the doctor declared she live no more than three months. When death approached, her mother said, “MOM you hold me tight, you hold me tight, we would not be separated. “During chemotherapy, feeling life rapidly goes by her, drag back to school, only to be a basketball cheerleaders, on that day,” the wind chimes, we love you “across the southern playground. Yesterday, doctor Feng ling has survived for 10 months, doctors will be regarded as miracles of life.

MOM, I first bring up the streaks

Disaster-sudden, comes to a happy family of four

Yesterday morning, journalists in the second affiliated hospital of Nanjing Medical University radiation therapy in the wards, see doctor Feng Ling. Because the pigmentation of have no appetite for food and now she is dark and thin. Lesion after radiotherapy of pain and continuous sharp discomfort brought about by, are suffering this young girl, aged 24.

In February 1987, doctor Feng Ling was born in Nanjing, jiangpu express to ordinary people, she also had a small own 10-year old brother, his parents opened a small shop, it is tough to drag up the happiness of children.

Read the post at age 13, to enter college, graduate-admission-Feng Ling School accompanied her independent sensible character development all the way, “do the housework at age 7, learning never let alone God, always too expensive to buy her clothes sth” out of the ward, Feng Mu Zhang Yonghui constantly praised his favorite daughter, chain of tears without consciousness.

In January this year, doctor Feng Ling find themselves always belching, come to the hospital but I don’t see why. The winter vacation soon, 23rd day of her first cough with streaks, “MOM, I kind of coughed up blood. “Busy year Zhang Yonghui thought only pharyngolaryngitis,” Dad went to the hospital to see with you tomorrow. ”

Check, transfer, check, and then transfer again sth The end of January, Feng Ling at the provincial people’s hospital diagnosed with cancer.

On February 2, Oncology chief physician told Feng Ling Shu Yongqian’s father Feng Rongxiang, children have reached the end stage of the disease, spread of cancer cells have more than one place, optimistic estimate the remaining three months of life. He gives advice, rather than to take back over a year, and consider carefully before making their decision. The day is new year’s Eve, doctor Feng Ling 24 year old’s birthday. Almost regardless, doctor Feng ling’s parents to her immediately go through the hospital and receiving radiation therapy procedures.

Death, please give me a song of time

She uses song spreading joy and confidence, wants to move to other patients in her ward

6 chemotherapy, radiotherapy of 2 times, countless targeted drug therapy at heel is dependent on Feng Ling of small bodies. Sitting on the bed of her yesterday, to laugh at yourself like a mouse, “he has tasted the herbs. ”

Effect of Shu Yongqian officer do not seem to be optimistic, because the girls young body will soon have an antibody on various approaches to treatment, patient in repeatedly continuing to deteriorate. But in the eyes of Feng Ling parents, daughter every night not fever and more than two hours of sleep every time, is a huge comfort.

Thus, doctor Feng Ling Trojan has nearly $ 700,000 medical bills has never been even one day of arrears, Mr Frederick FUNG all savings are almost exhausted. Yesterday, doctor Feng Ling distance coughed up blood for the first time has passed for 10 months. This for others perhaps a swept past time, but gave Feng family felt as if a few centuries. “Three months later, three months and three months of sth We count on fingers and count the days. ”

Shu Yongqian told reporters yesterday, doctor Feng Ling speed prevailing physical conditions and illnesses, survived for so long is really a miracle. He used to capture the doctor Feng ling’s hand and saying, “you have to have confidence in ourselves, we are confident, you are God sent us the miracle of life here. ”

When not so bad, doctor Feng Ling also in beds or light Yin slower singing in the aisles, used to be PA MAK was always able to call a number in the class of spirited Merry tunes. “Sing really makes me feel good, sometimes sing sing myself laugh. ”

Soon, girls singing and laughter spread through the entire Ward, is intentionally walking the patient went to the doctor Feng ling’s room, brought greetings from away happy. Yesterday in the South of the second affiliated hospital of radiation treatment, the nurse told reporters, since doctor Feng Ling go here several months ago, she never has empty beds in the ward, “people like the girl that loves to sing love smile, an initiative to request moving a free bed. ”

What was the cause of women menstrual? If on time each month to female friends weren’t worried, but there are many female friends find themselves in a month or several months did not come, so that they are very worried about, I do not know why you not come menstruation. Sterile people of hospitals to experts of different causes of abnormal menstruation is different. For women in the reproductive period, if female friends before menstruation is on time, and sexual experiences of life, then if menstruation long-term not to first consider whether pregnant. Recommended female friends in menstrual periods after a delay of 7 days, testing using the test, if positive most likely pregnant, was negative and vice versa. But if you are pregnant or will have some of the other symptoms such as nausea, breast swelling and so on. Final approach course was made b-ultrasonography to the hospital. So, women period, what is?

Gynaecology expert pointed out that, uterine fibroids, endometrial polyps, hyperplasia of endometrium, endometrial ectopic disorder, among other common gynecological diseases can cause irregular menstrual periods. Local inflammation of the reproductive organs, endocrine disorders such as thyroid, which also causes an abnormal menstruation occurs, and these symptoms are likely to result in infertility. Need to check in preparation for pregnancy after treatment.

Women period, what is?

1, tuberculous endometritis leading to abnormal menstruation

This is due to tuberculosis bacteria invade the endometrium, endometrial inflammation, and are subject to varying degrees of damage, last seen scar tissue, which results in amenorrhea. Therefore, tuberculous endometritis, should receive treatment, fucheng delays.

Site 2, drug probation lead to abnormal menstruation

Endocrine disorders after long-term use of the contraceptive pill, can also cause menstrual extension. And reflecting also found in doctor according to patients, a new generation of gastric motility drugs motilium domperidone may also cause. As motilium easily through the blood-brain barrier, it is considered its on Central dopamine receptors does not inhibit the probation. Central dopamine receptors are inhibitory, causing hypothalamic release factor into the anterior pituitary reduces the amount of, anterior pituitary secretion of gonadotropins and CORTICOTROPIN reduced, leading to menopause and delay ovulation.

　　Introduction : mouse hand is extremely prone to wrist symptoms of modern people, in particular often need to white collar people who work with computers. Use the mouse for a long time, especially by illegal position when used, are injuries that result in the wrist, creating mouse hand. Something needs to prevent the mouse hand correctly displaying the location of the mouse.

Modern mouse hand a new type of wrist symptoms, this symptom is common among those who frequently use computer work. When many people are using your computer experience shengteng wrists, shoulders tingling, finger joints have become inflexible, these are all symptoms of mouse hand.

Surgical experts said that the mouse is actually larger than the opponent caused damage to the keyboard, and symptoms of the disease among women to be more. Mouse hand early when symptoms are tired numb fingers and wrist joint, sometimes active joints can also hear slight noises. Mouse hand of constrictive Tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome is similar, but mouse hand more than tenosynovitis hurting joints. How to prevent the mouse hand, which is reasonable with the placement of the mouse location has a great relationship.

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Daily stress can trigger “sleep message”

The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon – sleep texting.

People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family – completely unaware that they are doing it.

Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported incidents of sleep texting – and he has advised people to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom.

He said: “Sleeping text is one of those things that happens, but it is very rare, and certainly not a common trend.”

Dr Cunnington described sleep texting as the result of people having too much to do during waking life.

He explained: “People are doing so much during a normal day that it can mean that they feel like they’re ‘on call’ even at night.”

“Because it’s so easy to receive emails constantly, and get notifications from smartphones, it becomes more difficult for us to separate our waking and sleeping lives.”

Dr Cunnington said people struggling to get a quality night’s sleep should keep their phones out of the bedroom.

According to United Kingdom the daily mail reported on November 23, pressure has sparked a new phenomena of everyday life–sleep messages.

The phenomenon refers to the people of the poor quality of sleep in sleep when editing incoherent text messages sent to their friends and family, and on its own this behavior without awareness.

In Australia Melbourne sleep disorder sleep expert Dr David-Cannington Centre said that give detailed account in his sleep have been sent a text message. He suggested that when they slept outside the cell phone in the bedroom itself.

He said: “sleep SMS event does occur, but are rare, and must not become a trend. ”

Cannington described Dr sleep message is the result of too much work when people are awake.

He explains: “people to do too many things in one day means they feel even at night ‘ on call ‘”.

“Because of frequent acceptance of e-mail and text messaging is easy, which makes it more difficult to distinguish between awake and sleep. ”

Dr Cannington alleges that a person to get quality sleep at night should carry a cell phone outside the bedroom.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government delivered a blow to some desperate patients Friday as it ruled the blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used to treat advanced breast cancer.

Avastin is hailed for treating colon cancer and certain other malignancies. But the Food and Drug Administration said it appeared to be a false hope for breast cancer: Studies haven’t found that it helps those patients live longer or brings enough other benefit to outweigh its dangerous side effects.

“I did not come to this decision lightly,” said the FDA’s commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg. But she said, “Sometimes despite the hopes of investigators, patients, industry and even the FDA itself, the results of rigorous testing can be disappointing.”

Avastin remains on the market to treat certain colon, lung, kidney and brain cancers. Doctors are free to prescribe any marketed drug as they see fit. So even though the FDA formally revoked Avastin’s approval as a breast cancer treatment, women could still receive it — but their insurers may not pay for it. Some insurers already have quit in anticipation of FDA’s long-expected ruling.

However, “Medicare will continue to cover Avastin,” said Brian Cook, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency “will monitor the issue and evaluate coverage options as a result of action by the FDA but has no immediate plans to change coverage policies.”

Including infusion fees, a year’s treatment with Avastin can reach $100,000.

The ruling disappointed patients who believe Avastin is helping to curb their incurable cancer.

“It’s saved my life,” said a tearful Sue Boyce, 54, of Chicago. She’s taken Avastin in addition to chemotherapy since joining a research study in 2003. Her breast cancer eventually spread to her lungs, liver and brain, but Boyce says she is stable and faring well.

“So I’m hoping the insurance company will grandfather me in to continue taking it,” she said.

The Avastin saga began in 2008, when an initial study suggested the drug could delay tumor growth for a few months in women whose breast cancer had spread to other parts of the body. Over the objection of its own advisers and to the surprise of cancer groups, FDA gave Avastin conditional approval — it could be sold for such women while manufacturer Genentech tried to prove it really worked.

The problem: Ultimately, the tumor effect was even smaller than first thought. Across repeated studies, Avastin patients didn’t live longer or have a higher quality of life. Yet the drug causes some life-threatening risks, including severe high blood pressure, massive bleeding, heart attack or heart failure and tears in the stomach and intestines, the FDA concluded. In two public hearings — one last year and one this summer — FDA advisers urged the agency to revoke that approval.

“The science is clear: Breast cancer patients are more likely to be harmed than helped by Avastin,” said Diana Zuckerman of the National Research Center for Women and Families in Washington.

Genentech had argued the drug should remain available while it conducted more research to see if certain subsets of breast cancer patients might benefit, and some patients and their doctors had argued passionately for the drug.

“There certainly are patients who benefit tremendously,” said Boyce’s oncologist, Dr. Melody Cobleigh of Rush University Medical Center. “We’ll just be battling with the insurance companies.”

“For those not fortunate enough to be on Medicare or an insurance plan that covers it, it’s a death sentence,” Christi Turnage of Madison, Miss., said of the FDA’s decision. Her breast cancer had moved into her lungs before she began Avastin three years ago and the spreading stopped, but Turnage said her insurer is ending coverage and she will seek financial help from Genentech’s access program.

Hamburg said that she considered those arguments but that scientifically there are no clues yet to identify who those rare Avastin responders would be — putting a lot of people at risk in order for a few to get some as-yet-unknowable benefit. She urged Genentech to do that research, saying the FDA “absolutely” would reconsider if the company could find the right evidence.

Genentech, part of Swiss drugmaker Roche Group, pledged to begin that research.

“We are disappointed with the outcome,” said company chief medical officer Dr. Hal Barron. “We remain committed to the many women with this incurable disease and will continue to provide help through our patient support programs to those who may be facing obstacles to receiving their treatment in the United States.”

The breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure said that it respected the FDA’s decision and that it was time for researchers to concentrate on finding so-called biomarkers that would tell which drug is right for which patient.

“Each type of cancer is very different from another in important ways, and in the end it’s no surprise that Avastin’s effectiveness may not be equivalent against all types of cancer,” said Dr. Neal Meropol of University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, who has long used Avastin for colon cancer.

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Associated Press writer Marley Seaman in New York contributed to this report.

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