FDA unveils safety measures for opioid painkillers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Drugmakers that market powerful painkiller medications will be required to fund training programs to help U.S. doctors and other health professionals safely prescribe the drugs, which are blamed for thousands of fatal overdoses each year.

The safety plan released by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday is designed to reduce misuse and abuse of long-acting opioid pain relievers, which include forms of morphine, methadone and oxycodone. The agency's plan mainly involves educating doctors and patients about appropriate use of the drugs.

The FDA has issued a number of warnings on prescription pain relievers in recent years but with little effect. Inappropriate use of the drugs caused nearly 425,000 emergency department visits in 2009, according to government figures. The drugs were blamed for 15,600 deaths that year, up from 14,800 in 2008.

The FDA said companies that sell the drugs must offer two to three hours of training to prescribers, either for free or for a small fee. The courses will be designed by companies that provide continuing medical education for health professionals, not by the drugmakers themselves.

The agency wants companies to provide training to least 60 percent of the 320,000 U.S. prescribers of the drugs within three years of launching the programs. The programs, which will be vetted by FDA regulators, must be available by March 2013.

"Responsible physicians will welcome the education benefits provided by this program," said Dr. Lynn Webster of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.

In addition to training, drugmakers will be required to distribute safety brochures to patients explaining the risks of the drugs and instructions to seek emergency care in event of an overdose.

The FDA spent more than three years developing the so-called risk management plans for the drugs, with input from industry and health care professionals.

Some health care experts stressed that training should be required for all prescribers. But FDA officials said the programs will be optional for now because making them mandatory would require a new law by Congress.

The new FDA plan covers about 30 opioid drugs, including Purdue Pharma's OxyContin, Johnson & Johnson's Duragesic patch and Pfizer's Embeda. Opioids are drugs that simulate the effects of natural narcotics, such as the opium poppy. They are typically prescribed for people already taking pain medications, including cancer patients, to treat severe pain flare-ups.

The products targeted by the FDA feature extended-release formulations designed to give long-lasting effects. But that potency carries serious risks when doctors prescribe them inappropriately, and when patients abuse them as stimulants.

The FDA reports that many physicians prescribe the painkillers for patients with migraine headaches, an unapproved use. Patients will also sometimes chew extended-release pills that are designed to be swallowed, causing an overdose.

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Google Maps soaks in some culture with indoor guides to museums

Google Maps soaks in some culture with indoor guides to museums

Google Maps for Android was recently updated their indoor location database with over twenty popular museums across the U.S, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and 17 Smithsonian museums. 

Indoor maps originally launched in November, allowing users to set routes within buildings, navigate by floor, and sort through points of interest. It's an awesome feature, and a sensible extension of Google's current walking directions. Who knows, maybe indoor maps will expand to include audio guides that are sensitive to where you are within a building. 

A full list of indoor Google Maps is available here, and if you're really into art, be sure to check out the Google Art Project. If you have the latest version of Google Maps for Android, you should be ready to start planning your next museum trip. Do you go often? Which buildings would you like to see with full indoor maps? 

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Project:?Landmark Tower -?Yongsan International Business District
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After reshaping London's skyline with The Shard,?Renzo Piano practice is to build the appropriately named Landmark Tower as part of the?Yongsan International Business District in Seoul.?For more visit our architecture page.


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Obama seeks to shift election toward tax debate

President Barack Obama lays out his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, during an announcement from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Barack Obama lays out his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, during an announcement from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE - In this June 28, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Washington. When Romney broke fundraising records by bringing in more than $106 million last month, his campaign praised small-dollar donors it said made this possible. But it was actually a small and often wealthy number of donors who were responsible, giving an average of about $2,400 each, according to an Associated Press analysis of the figures. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

President Barack Obama greets event participants after announcing his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE - In this June 19, 2012, file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Holland, Mich. Romney privately raised millions of dollars from New York's elite on Sunday, July 8, 2012, as Democrats launched coordinated attacks against the likely Republican presidential contender, intensifying calls for him to explain offshore bank accounts and release several years of tax returns. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

President Barack Obama lays out his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, during an announcement from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(AP) ? Facing sagging jobs numbers, President Barack Obama sought to recast the November election as a fight over tax fairness on Monday, urging tax cut extensions for all families earning less than $250,000 but denying them to households making more than that.

The president's pitch was aimed at painting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a protector of the rich at a time of economic unease, as Democrats intensify efforts to raise questions about the Romney's own wealth and offshore bank accounts.

Romney supports extending the federal tax cuts, first signed by George W. Bush, for all income earners.

Obama said if Congress passes a one-year extension for those making less than $250,000, voters can use the November election to decide the fate of the cuts for higher income earners.

"My opponent will fight to keep them in place. I will fight to end them," said Obama, flanked by a dozen people the White House said would benefit from the tax cut extension.

The president has long supported ending the Bush-era tax cuts for those making more than $250,000. The White House and the president's re-election team are reviving his arguments now as a way to suggest that the push by Romney and congressional Republicans for an across-the-board extension of the tax cuts could put America's middle class at risk.

"Let's not hold the vast majority of Americans and our economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy," Obama said at the White House.

The president's sudden focus on the tax fairness debate was also an attempt to change the election subject after yet another lackluster jobs report. New numbers released Friday showed the nation's unemployment rate stuck at 8.2 percent, giving Romney fresh grounds to attack Obama as unfit to steer the U.S. economy.

Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said the president was responding to the bad economic news by calling for a "massive tax increase."

"It just proves again that the president doesn't have a clue how to get America working again and help the middle class," Saul said.

Obama said his proposal was aimed at staving off an end-of-the year stalemate with Congress. But it appeared to have the opposite effect.

Congressional Republicans immediately balked, saying it would be a mistake to raise taxes on anyone while the economy was still struggling to recover. The House GOP plans to make its own push this summer for a full extension of the tax cuts.

Obama said later Monday that he would veto such a bill if it landed on his desk.

Ahead of Obama's remarks on Monday, White House officials consulted with congressional Democrats to shore up support within the party. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of his party's Senate leadership, had both previously advocated extending the cuts to those who make up to $1 million annually, but on Monday they stood in solidarity with the president.

Obama angered many fellow Democrats in 2010 when he signed off on a full extension of the Bush tax cuts, in part to win concessions from Republicans on other legislation.

Extending the tax cuts only for households making below $250,000 would save the government about $800 billion over 10 years compared with extending them for everyone. The full cuts cost the government about $4.5 trillion over a decade.

Economists worry that across-the-board tax increases, along with automatic spending cuts also scheduled to take hold at year's end, could be a blow to the shaky U.S. economy.

About 2.5 million U.S. households had incomes of $250,000 annually or more, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. The median household income in 2010 was $49,445.

Romney, whose personal wealth could exceed $250 million, would be among the nation's richest presidents if elected, and the Obama campaign has sought to portray him as disconnected from middle class voters.

Democrats ramped up their calls over the weekend for Romney to release more of his tax returns, which would outline the investments he has lived off of for more than a decade.

"I think what's important if you're running for president is that the American people know who you are, what you've done and that you're an open book," Obama said Monday in an interview with New Hampshire television station WMUR. "And that's been true of every presidential candidate dating back to Mr. Romney's father."

Romney has so far refused to release more than two years of tax returns, breaking from a precedent set by his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, who released 12 years of returns when he sought the presidency a generation ago. An Associated Press report recently raised questions about a previously undisclosed Bermuda-based company included in Romney's portfolio until the day before he became Massachusetts governor.

Romney's campaign dismisses the Obama campaign's tactics as an attack on success. And Romney hasn't shown any indications of trying to deny his wealth. He spent Sunday in the Hamptons, the wealthy enclave on Long Island, holding three fundraisers at wealthy donors' homes as protesters stood outside. At the day's third event, at the Southampton estate of billionaire industrialist David Koch, donors were asked to give $50,000 per person or $75,000 per couple.

On Monday, Romney raised money in Aspen, Colo., the resort town where Michelle Obama has vacationed. And he spent the previous week jet skiing and boating on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, where he has a lakeside estate worth millions.

While hardly in Romney's league, Obama also is well-off and acknowledges it. At one point Monday, he said that "it's time to let the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, folks like myself, to expire.

The president, too, was mingling with the wealthy on Monday. Hours after calling for increased taxes on higher income earners, he attended two campaign fundraisers in Washington that cost donors $40,000 per person.

The Romney campaign announced Monday that, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, it raised $106 million in June. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised $71 million.

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Kasie Hunt reported from Aspen, Colo. Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed from Washington.

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Scotland: Symbolic gay wedding marks ?final push? for marriage equality

A symbolic same-sex wedding was held outside the Scottish Parliament on the morning after the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland ?declared war? on equal marriage.

Originally married in South Africa, Jaye and Ruth, a Christian couple now living in Glasgow, were blessed by the Rev Jane Clarke of the Metropolitan Community Church ? one of several faith groups in Scotland that backs a change in the law to allow same-sex marriage.

After the ceremony, Jaye said: ?When we get on the plane in Cape Town, we?re a married couple with a marriage certificate, but when we get off the plane in Glasgow we?re not married ? and we feel that needs to change. We?re a couple with faith. We believe in God. We believe in freedom of religion. Religions should not be forced to conduct same sex marriage, but neither should they dictate to the other faiths and religions that want to conduct same sex marriage ? freedom of religion cuts both ways.?

Among the ?wedding guests? were several Members of the Scottish Parliament. Patrick Harvie MSP, Co-Convenor of the Scottish Green Party, described equal marriage rights as ?a long time coming,? but accepted that the present debate would not be happening without the many months of campaigning by the Equality Network and its allies. He concluded: ?Basically all I need to do is get myself a husband!?

Mary Fee, Scottish Labour MSP for West Scotland and Convenor of the Scottish Parliament?s Equal Opportunities Committee, added: ?I?ve been a supporter of this campaign since its inception. Everybody has worked very hard to get to this point, and hopefully we?re almost now at the end of the road, when the (Scottish) Government ends the discrimination and makes marriage a right for everyone.?

The previous week, the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Jim Eadie, lodged a parliamentary motion recognising the ?fantastic? campaign by those in favour of equal marriage. With the recent published comments by Cardinal Keith O?Brien clearly in mind, he said: ?Our message to the Scottish Government should be this: stand firm, hold your nerve, do not turn back and do what is right for the people of Scotland and for the LGBT community. I want to live in a Scotland that is based on equality, justice and fairness, a country that can be a beacon for progressive politics and progressive society, a country of which we can all be rightly proud.?

Tim Hopkins, Director of the Equality Network, insisted: ?I believe we have the moral high ground already, because we?re simply campaigning for equality and for religious freedom. We?ve said ? right from the start ? that churches and religious bodies that disagree with same sex marriage are completely free not to conduct them. If that requires a small change to equality legislation to put it beyond doubt, then we?re quite happy to see that.

?Nevertheless, if it transpires, that a campaign against same sex marriage is run by the leaders of the Catholic Church, or anybody else, then we are going to need to respond to that and make sure that our elected representatives, and everybody else, hear the voice of?reason.?

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Seasonal firefighters face many dangers without health insurance; union seeks federal coverage

They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.

Many firefighters are now asking to buy into a federal government health plan, largely out of anger over a colleague who was left with a $70,000 hospital bill after his son was born prematurely.

Their request has been bolstered by more than 125,000 signatures gathered in an online petition during this year's historic fire season in the West and the ongoing national debate over health care.

"You pray you don't get sick," said firefighter John Lauer, a member of the Tatanka Hotshots crew based in Custer, S.D., who recently worked the massive High Park Fire in northern Colorado and started the petition.

The fire crews are heroes to those in the path of the flames. Politicians praise their bravery. Grateful residents buy them pizzas and send thank-you cards.

"That's what makes the job great," Lauer said. "But sometimes I wonder to myself. I wonder if people know we're uninsured."

Firefighters do get workers' compensation if they are hurt on the job, but that doesn't cover them in the offseason.

The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, which coordinates firefighting efforts nationwide, says 15,000 wildland firefighters are on the federal payroll this year. Of that number, some 8,000 are classified as temporary seasonal employees, who work on a season-to-season basis with no guarantee of a job the following year and no access to federal benefits.

Some seasonal firefighters say they put in a year's worth of hours in six months.

In two years, the Affordable Care Act, the new federal health care law, will allow seasonal firefighters the same opportunity to buy health insurance as other uninsured Americans. But firefighters want to be able choose among the plans offered by the federal government, like other federal employees, said Cory K. Bythrow, a spokesman for the National Federation of Federal Employees, a labor union.

Mark Davis, president of the Forest Service Council of the union, estimates it would cost the federal government $17.5 million a year to pay its share of premiums for seasonal firefighters working for the Forest Service, which employs about 70 percent of federal firefighters. The rest work for the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other agencies.

The union is in talks with the Office of Personnel Management to try to extend health benefits to seasonal firefighters.

The agency declined to comment. Bythrow said he is optimistic a solution can be found.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who visited Colorado on Monday, said no firefighters had raised the insurance issue with him, but he said he would look into it.

Forest Service spokeswoman Julie Anne Overton cited one health care plan that would cost a firefighter $185 a month for individual coverage and $430 month for a family. Permanent year-round federal firefighters are paid from $24,500 to $54,000 before overtime. Seasonal workers make less, Overton said.

The case that prompted Lauer and others to start their petition drive was the 2008 birth of Nathan Ochs' son. Ochs, then a temporary seasonal wildland firefighter, had no insurance.

His wife, Constance Van Kley, said the family couldn't find health insurance at any price ? though the hospital did eventually forgive most of the $70,000 bill.

Ochs subsequently became a permanent seasonal federal firefighter and got government insurance. But the experience galvanized him and others to press the government to make health coverage available to all federal wildland firefighters.

"I feel that it's unfair and that it sends a message that the work isn't valued as it should be," said Ochs, who also worked in Colorado's blazes this year.

No one disputes the dangers of the job: lightning, falling trees, a dangerous landscape, as well as smoke and flames. Since 2003, 157 people have died battling wildfires in the U.S., according to the International Association of Wildland Fire. Injury statistics were unavailable.

Public support for Lauer's petition, posted at change.org, mushroomed during the High Park Fire near Fort Collins and the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs. Together the two blazes damaged or destroyed more than 600 homes, killed three people and charred 162 square miles. Petition signers came from across the country.

"I'm insulted for them, and I'm insulted for our country," said Polly Tarpley, a resident of Poulsbo, Wash. Asked why she signed the petition, she quickly replied: "Oh, my god! That should be a pretty obvious question. These men and women work their tails off in extremely dangerous conditions."

"We should be more than willing to pay them health insurance," said Pam Shinkle, owner of Uncle Sam's Pancake House in Manitou Springs, a quaint mountain town that was briefly evacuated during the Waldo Canyon blaze. Dozens of firefighters helped to sustain business at Uncle Sam's while ash fell from the sky and flames roared just over a nearby hill.

"We love our firemen," Shinkle said. "They did a great job. They had a huge fire, and they got it out within two weeks, when they had been saying months."

Davis, of the federal employees union, argued that the cost to the government would be offset by reduced turnover. The attrition rate for temporary seasonal workers in the Forest Service is four times higher than that for permanent seasonal workers, said Davis, and he believes the lack of health insurance is a factor.

"You would save money in the long run by reduced training costs, reduced safety issues, accidents, that sort of thing," Davis said.

"These people put their lives on the line every day to protect our homes, our businesses, our entire communities," Bythrow said. "We believe that they shouldn't have to rely on luck. They shouldn't have to rely on the generosity of one hospital or one doctor."

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Associated Press writers Ivan Moreno and P. Solomon Banda in Denver and Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyo., contributed to this report.

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Motorola MOTOSMART comes to UK in July: we go hands-on

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Motorola isn't letting the Atrix HD hog all the spotlight today. If you'd like your smartphone a little more to-the-point, the MOTOSMART distills just about everything cellular to its fundamentals. It's as frugal as can be -- the tiny full-touch phone packs a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 display, a 3-megapixel rear camera and the same MotoSwitch-layered Android 2.3 we saw half a year ago with the MOTOLUXE. Then again, that essentialism is really the focus, isn't it? The MOTOSMART will cost just £100 ($155) SIM-free when it hits T-Mobile UK and other parts of Europe by the end of the month, so the barrier to entry is more like a speed bump. Click past the break for the video, some brief impressions, and the source for the hard details in the Italian-only listing that Motorola has so far.

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Online Dating Relationships : safety first | LAS VEGAS WEDDING ...

Online dating can be fun. But don?t neglect safety and common sense when you try to hook up with a mate.? At minimum, take caution in the following areas.

Protect Your Computer
Take care of your equipment and systems before you head out into the Internet realm. You need to have a firewall and anti-virus protection for your email and for when you search websites and interact online. At the bare minimum, you may want these two solutions that are offered at no charge to home computer users :

Free Firewall Download: ZoneAlarm www.zonelabs.com
Free Anti-Virus Download: AVG Anti-Virus www.grisoft.com

Protect Yourself
Take care of yourself, too, by choosing appropriate dating sites. Seek and choose a reputable online dating service.? How? Begin by asking around with friends, neighbors, co-workers and others you may know who have tried online dating, and see which places they recommend. In addition, search ?online dating services? and keep a notebook of their URLs or website links, the fees, rules and regulations, complete contact information of each and any other useful information that spikes your interest. Then compare each place.? Try only those places where you feel safe. Avoid the others.

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'Internet doomsday' impact minimal, service providers say

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Hours after "Internet doomsday" kicked in, major service providers say almost all customers have avoided the shut-off of their Internet service, although there are some who will not be able to read this story online, unless it's on their smartphones.

"Less than 1 percent of Cox customers are infected with the virus," Todd C.?Smith, Cox Communications director of media relations told msnbc.com.

"Since midnight last night, when the FBI (via the Internet Services Coalition) disconnected the servers associated with this botnet, we've only received a miniscule number of calls, but our customer care and security assurance teams are standing by and are ready to help,"?Charlie Douglas, Comcast senior director of corporate communications,?told msnbc.com.?

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast.)

"The number of calls we're seeing today is miniscule," Douglas said. "Going into this, we had estimated that far less than even 1/10th of 1 percent of our customers would be affected."

Verizon said it is not seeing "anything significant thus far."

"Keep in mind we have a very small relative number of customers impacted," Bob Elek of Verizon Communications told msnbc.com. "But we anticipate beginning the process of correcting affected customers as we go forward during July. To do so, we have extended support throughout the month and we are offering customers step-by-step, do-it-yourself remedial steps or access to a third-party for the same if they prefer."

For AT&T customers, there has been "very little impact," Mark Siegel, AT&T executive director, media relations, told msnbc.com. "For the very small number of customers whose computers may have the virus, we are redirecting their traffic to servers we have set up that will enable them to continue use their computers.??This will be in place through the end of the year so these people will have even more time to remove the virus from their computers, which is an easy process.??We have been communicating with these customers for months to let them know how to remove the virus."

At least one security researcher says it's still too early to really know DNS Changer's impact.

"ISPs?are not necessarily in a rush to reveal the number of their customers affected," wrote David Harley,?ESET security senior research fellow, on that company's blog. "Bad news for the customer is bad news for the ISP, even if it's not a problem of the ISP's making."

Internet service providers, he wrote, "may already be redirecting requests to a valid server. Well, that's what I'd be trying to do if I was in that sector.?Helpdesks may be a little too occupied with panicky phone calls to be too concerned right now about publicly releasing figures. In some cases, they may even be able to fix the problem without being fully aware of the cause."

Cox, like other Internet service providers, "worked closely with the FBI on this case in the fall and immediately established a redirect for infected customers to Cox DNS servers," Smith told msnbc.com. "Therefore, no Cox customers are impacted by the FBI transition and we plan to keep the redirect up until we have contacted every customer individually."

Those who are having problems getting online Monday should call their Internet service provider for further instructions on what to do.

At 12:01?a.m. ET, the FBI shut down?Internet servers that had been set up as a temporary safety net to keep infected computers online for the past eight months. The court order the agency obtained to keep the servers running expired, and it was not renewed.

Last fall, the FBI arrested six Estonian nationals who were charged with using malware and rogue DNS servers to hijack millions of computers worldwide.?At that time, it was described as?the "biggest cybercriminal takedown in history."?

Because the malware, known as "DNSChanger"?is so nasty?? it's strong enough to wipe out a computer's anti-virus software ? the FBI?set up a safety net?using government computers to prevent any?Internet disruptions for users whose computers may be infected.

That safety net was set to go away in February, but the date was extended to July 9 because the agency was?concerned that not enough users are aware of the problem.

Security company F-Secure said Monday on its blog?that DNSChanger was still present on about 47,000 U.S. computers, down from what was estimated to be between 250,000 and 300,000 computers in recent months. Worldwide, about 250,000 computers remained infected as of this past weekend, the Associated Press said.

"According to reports, many major Internet Service Providers have configured their own substitute DNS servers and are continuing to work the problem," F-Secure said on the blog.?"The FBI is out ? and ISPs are in. All in all, things are working out as they probably should in a case such as this. The infection count continues to decrease without a major crisis in support calls. (We've only received a couple from our own customers.)"

Comcast's?Douglas said that?for months, "we have been emailing, mailing letters, sending in-browser notifications and calling customers who we thought might be impacted and we urged them to take action by visiting a dedicated website www.xfinity.com/dnsbot where they had two choices.?They could either download a free security update we provided ...?or, if they're not comfortable doing that, then they can call Xfinity Signature Support and, for a fee, have a professional help them remove the malware."

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