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August 30, 2008
upn-taipei news-01 微軟公司執行長鮑默爾說: <2008--2018年>十年內所有媒體將被網路化
微軟公司執行長鮑默爾說: <2008--2018年>十年內所有媒體將被網路化
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August 29, 2008
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August 27, 2008
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-11-medical news-高血脂長年治療不見其效 竟是肌肉疼痛惹的禍1！
高血脂長年治療不見其效 竟是肌肉疼痛惹的禍1！
降血脂用藥肌肉疼痛比例平均10%，不同的藥物，發生肌肉疼痛的比例竟然相差3-4倍之多， LESCOL疼痛比例最低只有5% 2
根據國外文獻表示，高血脂患者在服用降血脂藥的安全性必須加以重視，使用降血脂藥物更須兼顧患者生活品質的提升，特別是針對老年患者，相關因素的考慮已成為降血脂藥物使用最重要的因素之ㄧ。
心血管疾病的治療原則中，降血脂是相當重要的一環，但在老人醫學的研究中，膽固醇越低並不代表越好，一些流行病學的研究中更發現老年人的膽固醇越低，死亡率越高3，其原因可能在於本身的營養狀況及遇到外在感染時的處理能力。此外，近幾年更有研究開始針對高齡的患者，服用降血脂藥物的安全性進行探討，尤其是降血脂藥物所帶來的「肌肉疼痛」。
老年人的膽固醇 越低越好嗎？
台北榮民總醫院家庭醫學部老人醫學科陳亮恭主任表示，一般高血脂患者都是中高年齡層居多，其中老年人若因服用高血脂用藥而出現肌肉酸痛的副作用，可能會因此造成日常生活能力的下降、自我照顧的能力的退化，進而影響生活品質，還可能因為體力與活動力的下降而足不出戶，甚至可能因而抑鬱失志，而老年人若出現以上的狀況，可能會造成失能與死亡率的上升，因此，在思考降血脂藥物使用的同時，也必須考慮在單純的膽固醇降低之餘所帶來的其他影響。
陳亮恭醫師指出，一直以來患者較少意識到肌肉疼痛與服用高血脂用藥的關係，一方面因為高齡患者原本即較常出現腰酸背痛、關節退化的情況，可能自己另行就醫或服用止痛藥，因此，兩者之間的關聯有時常被忽略。降血脂藥基本上屬於預防性用藥，預防性用藥可分為初級性及次級性預防，初級性的定義是指患者未具有心血管疾病的診斷，僅是單純的膽固醇偏高，此時藥物使用的目的主要在於預防動脈硬化的過程；而次級性是指本身已有動脈硬化或心血管疾病診斷的狀況，用藥主要是避免產生嚴重的心血管疾病併發症。兩種狀況之下的藥物使用狀況與準則雖有所不同，但是若因為肌肉疼痛問題，造成患者自行停藥，便沒有達到藥物治療的效果。
肌肉疼痛指數，LESCOL為最低2
過去有關降血脂藥物在肌肉疼痛的影響研究報告較少，2005年法國的研究報告發現，在所有使用降血脂藥物的患者之中，出現各種肌肉疼痛症狀的比例約為10%，而且，不同的降血脂藥物發生肌肉疼痛的比例也不相同，大約在5-18%之間，使用LESCOL的患者在調查中所發現的肌肉疼痛僅約5%，具有相當顯著的統計差異。
過去探討降血脂藥物與肌肉疼痛之間的關係，最嚴重的就是橫纹肌溶解症，這是可能致命的病況。然而，近期醫學研究指出，LESCOL尚未有任何致死性橫纹肌溶解的個案發生4。此外，由於老年人原本即是可能具有多重疾病與使用多重藥物，因此，還必須注意藥物彼此之間的交互作用，由於所有的降血脂藥物均需透過肝臟裡面的酵素CYP450代謝，大部份降血脂藥物經過CYP3A4代謝，這個途徑與其他藥物（鈣離子阻斷劑、抗凝血劑等等）較容易產生交互作用，而LESCOL在代謝上經由CYP2C9，相較於其他降血脂藥物少了藥物交互作用的風險。
社會老齡化，治療目標才是根本
根據流行病學的研究顯示，膽固醇過高與心血管疾病之間的關聯相當明顯，然而，膽固醇同時也是人體內營養的指標、賀爾蒙的來源、細胞膜的成分，對老年人來說，降低膽固醇也需考慮身體的整體狀況及免疫系統。目前為止，降低膽固醇的效益在高齡民眾身上還有些爭論，學者也建議必須針對患者的個別狀況思考，決定其最佳的治療模式。在藥物選擇上必須先決定個別患者膽固醇所需降低的目標值，考量其年齡、疾病狀況與實證研究上的證據，設定治療目標再選擇合適的藥物，而藥物的選擇並非越強越好，而是必須全面考量其效果、安全性、藥物交互作用與可能的負作用影響。
關於諾華
瑞士製藥集團諾華 (Novartis AG；NYSE:NVS) 是全球醫療保健的領導企業，致力於保健、治療疾病及增進人類福祉。旨在研發並成功行銷創新藥品，滿足患者治療疾病、紓解痛苦、提升生活品質需求。諾華是唯一在專利藥及學名藥上均居領導地位的公司，目前更全力強化公司西藥系列，尤其著重於策略性成長平台，以提供創新處方用藥、優質合理價格的學名藥、預防疫苗及指示用藥領導品牌。2007年集團營收達 381 億美元，淨利為 65 億美元。集團投資在研發支出上的經費約達64 億美元。總部設在瑞士巴塞爾 (Basel)，全球全職員工總數約 98,000 人，在 140 多個國家設有分支機構。如欲進一步了解諾華詳細資料，請瀏覽台灣諾華網站 http://www.novartis.com.tw。
參考資料
1. Stein EA, et al. Am J Cardiol 2008;101:490-496
2. Bruckert E, et al. Cardiovasc Drug and Ther. 2005;19:403-414
3. Okamura T, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2008;56:529-35; Brescianini S, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003;51:991-6.
4. Staffa JA, et al. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:539-540
【案例故事Patient Story】
患者： 甘伯伯
發病年齡：65歲
婚姻：已婚，育有二子一女
「我當兵時是海軍陸戰隊員，又愛打羽毛球，沒想到檢驗出有高血脂。」甘伯伯愛運動、體能好，還當過北一女羽球校隊教練，本身年輕時又經營過藥廠，因此相當有身體保健的觀念，沒想到七年前檢查出有高血脂，因此甘伯伯開始吃降血脂藥，可是在治療的過程中，卻出現了肌肉痠痛的情形。
「當初就是胸部肌肉會痛，感覺不太對勁，醫生幫我把藥量減少才改善！」原本甘伯伯以為胸部和腿部出現疼痛的現象，是打羽毛球時拉傷，後來都沒有改善才覺得不對勁，跟醫師反應之後，把藥量減少才紓緩疼痛的現象，由於甘伯伯本身體能狀況好、耐受力佳，但對於服藥後出現的肌肉疼痛都會感到不適，更何況一般中高年齡層患者若遇到同樣問題，可能會因無法忍受而自行停藥，造成血脂再度升高。
現在甘伯伯每天配合醫師的叮嚀吃藥，控制飲食均衡，穩定身體狀況，但甘伯伯呼籲患有高血脂的民眾，若是發生肌肉疼痛的問題，應該要趕快和醫師反應，請醫師協助確認是不是需要換藥來解決問題，千萬不要因此自行停藥，以免造成危險。
附表一、國外高血脂副作用肌肉疼痛程度比例
比例
持續疼痛 25%
必須吃止痛劑 39%
無法執行一般日常活動 38%
必須臥床而無法工作 4%
資料來源：Bruckert E. JACC 2005;45(Supp lA): 831-5
附表二、高血脂用藥所產生的肌肉疼痛比較圖
資料來源：Bruckert E, et al. Cardiovasc Drug and Ther. 2005;19:403-414
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-10-百位餓死鬼上身 馬蓓婕14天爆肥20kg？
百位餓死鬼上身 馬蓓婕14天爆肥20kg？
知名外景主持人馬蓓婕主持靈異節目外景，開拔到萬人塚，結果疑似被134個餓死鬼纏身，整天吃個不停，無論鹹的、甜的來者不拒，短短兩個禮拜就像吹氣球似的爆肥20公斤，原本玲瓏有緻的身材，變成身帶3層游泳圈。事後，她用盡各種減肥方法，甚至斷食，只喝水及無糖綠茶，不但沒瘦下來，一個禮拜後就因營養不良脫水昏倒送醫，人看起來比之前還要腫。後來因緣際會下，接觸到基因減肥法，在依循醫師診治後，短期就減了13公斤，讓前凸後翹的身材回來，整個人也變得比以前更亮麗。
馬蓓婕說，當時她整個人就像吹氣球一樣，瞬間膨脹20公斤，連棚內主持人都認不出來，直呼不可思議，還質疑她根本不是馬蓓婕本人。她每天醒來就是一直吃，似乎人生只為了「吃」，即使已經吃飽了還是無法克制想吃東西的慾望，後來只好請媽媽24小時在旁盯睄，阻止她吃東西，但還是沒有用，導致她差點精神崩潰，整個人也變得很憂鬱。
馬蓓婕表示，她嘗試過各種減肥方法，包括節食、針灸、吃減肥藥等，都沒有效，體重仍舊徘迴在58kg到65kg，就算瘦了一些，沒多久一定又會復胖，就這樣一下瘦、一下胖，讓她越來越沒信心，認為自己死定了，沒救了，甚至覺得人生整個完蛋了，從此陷入黑暗中，這時聽朋友說基因減重很有效，抱著姑且一試的心態試試，沒想到效果讓她大吃一驚。她強調，「用基因減重，我不需要像一般減肥者一樣，限制這個不能吃、那個不能吃，照樣可以瘦，且瘦得不知不覺、莫名奇妙。」
比佛利美容整形診所執行長鍾易成說，當時檢查出馬蓓婕的基因是屬於頑固型脂肪，屬於很難瘦的體質，但用基因減肥法，是針對體質的特性而對症下藥，所以無須吃一大堆藥，相對地對身體自然不會造成傷害。在瘦下來後，馬蓓婕說，在瘦下來之後，她恢復了自信，也敢再穿上短裙及小可愛，展現曼妙身材，經過這次的減肥經驗，她體會到減肥不能胡亂嘗試，也提醒民眾，應該要選擇正確的減肥方法，才能瘦的健康又漂亮。
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-09-驚艷米勒─田園之美畫展」典藏暨財信傳媒貴賓之夜
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-08-brand news-世界級彩大手筆回饋消費者 打造雅詩蘭黛名媛之夜
世界級彩大手筆回饋消費者 打造雅詩蘭黛名媛之夜
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-07-medical news-指甲「壁癌」上身 變色剝落渾然不知?!指甲『壁癌』找上你 灰指甲保健新對策記者會
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upn-world news-06-u.s.a. news-US Funding Aims to Boost Renewable Energy
US Funding Aims to Boost Renewable Energy
By Brian Wagner
Miami
15 August 2008
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The United States plans to spend $600 million in coming years to propel development of renewable fuels and other new energy solutions. The funding goes along with millions that private investors are spending to find ways to cut the nation's dependence on oil. VOA's Brian Wagner recently met with business and research leaders striving to find the best new energy solutions.
The future of alternative energy appears to be rich, whether it is the potential of new biofuels, citrus peel or farm waste products to supply new energy sources.
At a recent conference in Florida, green entrepreneurs met with researchers and farmers to plot the industry's future. Scores of research firms are developing conversion methods to process a variety of raw materials into ethanol. Farmers are finding ways to turn long overlooked products, like livestock manure and non-food crops, into fuel supplies.
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told delegates that green energy is creating great new opportunities for the U.S. economy, especially in the farming sector.
"There is no turning back from a future in which more of our energy resources are grown and harvested in a sensible way," he said. "That means agriculture is going to be right in the middle of the game."
Schafer said, under a newly approved farm bill, officials plan to spend $600 million over the next five years to develop and implement new energy technologies, including biofuel crops. That comes in addition to $35 million already being spent.
Green entrepreneurs say federal support is crucial to propel development of advanced technologies that are needed for new energy solutions. Federal loans also are an important tool to give nascent projects the chance to develop into successful businesses.
Some business leaders say government spending still is not enough to offset oil expenditures in the United States, which consumes about 20 million barrels of oil each day. Agriculture Secretary Schafer faced some tough questions from green business leaders at the recent conference.
"Investing 30 million, 50 million even 100 million seems very small in comparison with the opportunities and the size of the problem," said one attendee.
Schafer said he agrees that more money should be spent, and that is why officials are trying to encourage more private investment.
"It is not just a government effort, it is private sector, too," he says. "But we are not spending enough money. We are just saying let that oil come in from overseas and we are not doing enough about it."
In Florida, officials are trying to capitalize on the boom in green technology. Governor Charlie Crist has sought to expand energy research programs at state universities and ordered energy companies to begin offering more electricity from renewable sources. He says his goal is to draw green businesses to the state.
"I believe that Florida can be the green technology hub of America, and clearly the equivalent of the Silicon Valley of green," he says. "Florida can be known as energy and green industry leaders throughout the world."
Alan Hodges, an agricultural economist at the University of Florida, has been following the renewable energy field for more than 20 years. He says federal and state initiatives have created a unique climate for growth now.
"There is tremendous interest right now," he says. "I don't think there has ever been more interest than there is now, and it is all because of high oil prices."
Government and private sector interest in new energy has come and gone before.
Joseph Weissman of Aurora Biofuels has been researching the potential of growing algae as a potential source of fuel oil since the oil crisis of the late 1970s. As certain algae grow, they produce oils that can be harvested and converted into fuel. He said government funds helped advance his work until gasoline prices dropped a few years later, and public funding disappeared.
He says the involvement of more private money will help ensure the development of new energy technologies into the future.
"That was lacking in the past, it was all government money," Weissman says. "Plus government money isn't driven by the same forces. When someone [private investor] has invested money in something they will see it through one way or another. The government may change its mind overnight."
Researchers say it is difficult to determine whether algae or another technology is the most promising for the future, and when the general public can expect to see the benefits. But they agree that energy costs will continue to remain high, driving further interest in new energy sources in the future.
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upn-world news-05-middle east news-Iraqi President Undergoes Heart Surgery in US
Iraqi President Undergoes Heart Surgery in US
By VOA News
14 August 2008
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (file photo)
Iraqi officials say President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery and is recovering in a U.S. hospital.
Officials of Mr. Talabani's political party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said Thursday the operation took place on August 6 at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They said the surgery was a success and that Mr. Talabani will soon be released.
An official who declined to be named said the Iraqi president will travel to Washington later this week before returning to Iraq.
Mr. Talabani left Iraq for the United States on August 2. His office said he would undergo medical tests and treatment for his knee.
The Mayo Clinic confirmed that Mr. Talabani was a patient but gave no further information.
Mr. Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, has been president of Iraq since 2005.
The Iraqi leader was in the United States in June and met with U.S. President George Bush. Reports at that time also said he underwent medical treatment.
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upn-world news-04-europe news-Russia's President Says Breakaway Regions Not Likely to Ret
Russia's President Says Breakaway Regions Not Likely to Return to Georgia
By Emma Stickgold
Washington
15 August 2008
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday it is unlikely that the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will rejoin Georgia after a week of violent clashes. He offered the prediction just before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he had signed a truce agreement with Russia. Emma Stickgold has this report for VOA from Moscow.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 15 Aug 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met in the Black Sea coast city Sochi not far from Georgia and its breakaway provinces to discuss the unfolding events of the last week.
Mr. Medvedev said Georgia was not likely to bring Abkhazia and South Ossetia back into the fold. He said that after what happened the past seven days, it is unlikely Ossetians and Abkhazians will ever be able to live together with Georgia in one state.
All week, Russian troops have been driving Georgian forces out of the regions, and Mr. Medvedev said Russia will leave it up to the separatists to decide their future status.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel echoed the words of U.S. President George Bush. She said Russia's response to Georgia's attack on South Ossetia was "disproportionate," and said that Russian troops staying in the area is "not sensible."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met for five hours with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tblisi Friday to bring what a U.S. Department of State official called "clarifying explanations" regarding the French-brokered truce. The Georgian president said he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia.
Secretary Rice emphasized that all Russian troops must return to the positions they held before the conflict began.
An emotional Saakashvili said he will "never, ever surrender" in the showdown with much-larger Russia.
The recent violence was the worst to break out since South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia in 1992.
Separatists in Abkhazia took control of most of the province from Georgia in 1993.
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upn-taipei news-03-asia news-Nepal Selects Maoist Leader as Prime Minister
Nepal Selects Maoist Leader as Prime Minister
By Steve Herman
New Delhi
15 August 2008
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Legislators in the Himalayan nation of Nepal on Friday selected, by a wide margin, a former guerilla leader to be the country's new prime minister. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman, in our South Asia bureau in New Delhi, reports on the ascent of the Maoist, known as Prachanda, who spent a quarter century in hiding and then led a ten-year civil war against Nepal's monarchy and the army.
Prachanda gestures as he returns after filing his nomination papers in Katmandu, Nepal, 14 Aug 2008
A charismatic 53-year-old Maoist, who led the armed struggle against Nepal's government, has been selected as the new republic's first prime minister. The chairman of the special legislative assembly, Subash Nemwang, announced the results.
The chairman declares the former rebel chief, known as Prachanda, the new prime minister, receiving 464 votes. His opponent, the Nepali Congress party candidate, Sher Bahadur Deuba, received 113 votes. Deuba is a former prime minister whose rejection of the Maoist's demands in the mid-1990's led the communists to take up arms.
Prachanda, whose real name is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, will lead a Maoist-led coalition government. The Maoists scored a surprise upset victory in April's national elections. But they fell short of the majority needed in the interim parliament to elect their own leader as the head of government without allies. Another communist party (Unified Marxist Leninist) and several smaller groups allied with the Maoists in the voting Friday evening against the Nepali Congress party.
The selection by the nearly 600-member interim parliament of the new prime minister ends a four-month period of political instability under which 84-year-old Girija Prasad Koirala, who has been prime minister four times, clung to power.
Nepal became a republic at the end of May when the unpopular Hindu monarchy was abolished, bringing down the curtain on 240 years of rule under the Peacock Throne of the Shah dynasty.
The Maoists agreed to a peace deal in 2006 after then-King Gyanendra was compelled by massive public protest to end a period of authoritarian rule.
The former rebels will inherit a barely functioning government facing serious challenges. The Himalayan country is one of Asia's poorest, with surging crime and food prices, a chronic shortage of fuel and an estimated 200,000 refugees displaced by the war.
In the southern Terai plains, the ethnic Madheshi group, long excluded from the political mainstream, is agitating for autonomy. And there are concerns about the often violent wing of the Maoists, known as the Young Communist League. How they and the former guerillas, whose weapons are secured under United Nations supervision, integrate into the new democratic society, is seen as the crucial factor for Nepal achieving long-term peace and stability.
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upn-world news-02-americas news-Ex-Bishop Becomes New President of Paraguay
Ex-Bishop Becomes New President of Paraguay
By VOA News
15 August 2008
Fernando Lugo, left, takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony in Asuncion, 15 Aug 2008
Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo has been inaugurated as Paraguay's new president.
Thousands of Paraguayans attended the inauguration Friday morning. Mr. Lugo was wearing sandals and a simple white shirt as he was sworn in as president in front of Paraguay's Congress. He addressed the crowd in both Spanish and the Guarani indigenous language.
In attendance were several regional presidents, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and Evo Morales of Bolivia.
The new Paraguayan president has pledged to do away with the misery and corruption that has defined the poor, land-locked nation. He says he will fight poverty and deliver land to impoverished citizens nationwide during his five-year term.
Mr. Lugo was elected in April, ending the 61-year rule of the country's Colorado Party. He heads the center-left Patriotic Alliance for Change - a coalition that includes the main opposition party, trade unions, farm groups and Indians.
Once called the bishop of the poor, Mr. Lugo was ordained into the priesthood in 1977, but two years ago, he said he wanted to run for political office.
Late last month, the Vatican allowed the 57-year-old to resign as bishop and changed his status to layman so he could take office without violating Church rules.
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upn-world news-01-africa news-Former Chadian President Sentenced to Death
Former Chadian President Sentenced to Death
By VOA News
15 August 2008
Hissene Habre
A Chadian court has issued a death sentence for exiled former President Hissene Habre.
Court officials in the capital, N'djamena, say 11 Chadian rebel leaders also were sentenced to death in absentia Friday. The defendants were accused of crimes against state security and trying to overturn the constitutional order.
Thirty-one other rebels were convicted in absentia and sentenced to life with hard labor.
Habre's lawyer, El Hadji Diouf, reacted angrily to news of the death sentence, saying he had heard nothing of a trial in Chad.
Habre has been living in Senegal since fleeing Chad in 1990, when his government was overthrown by current President Idriss Deby.
Senegal has moved closer to putting Habre on trial for human rights abuses. He is accused of killing tens of thousands of political opponents and torturing hundreds of thousands of others during his rule. He has denied the accusations.
Last month, Senegal's parliament passed legislation that set the legal framework to put the former president on trial. The measure abolished the statute of limitations on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Among those sentenced to death is Mahamat Nouri of the rebel National Alliance. Chad has accused Nouri of taking part in a failed coup attempt in February that left 700 people dead.
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August 16, 2008
upn-taipei news-11-medical news-高血脂長年治療不見其效 竟是肌肉疼痛惹的禍1！
高血脂長年治療不見其效 竟是肌肉疼痛惹的禍1！
降血脂用藥肌肉疼痛比例平均10%，不同的藥物，發生肌肉疼痛的比例竟然相差3-4倍之多， LESCOL疼痛比例最低只有5% 2
根據國外文獻表示，高血脂患者在服用降血脂藥的安全性必須加以重視，使用降血脂藥物更須兼顧患者生活品質的提升，特別是針對老年患者，相關因素的考慮已成為降血脂藥物使用最重要的因素之ㄧ。
心血管疾病的治療原則中，降血脂是相當重要的一環，但在老人醫學的研究中，膽固醇越低並不代表越好，一些流行病學的研究中更發現老年人的膽固醇越低，死亡率越高3，其原因可能在於本身的營養狀況及遇到外在感染時的處理能力。此外，近幾年更有研究開始針對高齡的患者，服用降血脂藥物的安全性進行探討，尤其是降血脂藥物所帶來的「肌肉疼痛」。
老年人的膽固醇 越低越好嗎？
台北榮民總醫院家庭醫學部老人醫學科陳亮恭主任表示，一般高血脂患者都是中高年齡層居多，其中老年人若因服用高血脂用藥而出現肌肉酸痛的副作用，可能會因此造成日常生活能力的下降、自我照顧的能力的退化，進而影響生活品質，還可能因為體力與活動力的下降而足不出戶，甚至可能因而抑鬱失志，而老年人若出現以上的狀況，可能會造成失能與死亡率的上升，因此，在思考降血脂藥物使用的同時，也必須考慮在單純的膽固醇降低之餘所帶來的其他影響。
陳亮恭醫師指出，一直以來患者較少意識到肌肉疼痛與服用高血脂用藥的關係，一方面因為高齡患者原本即較常出現腰酸背痛、關節退化的情況，可能自己另行就醫或服用止痛藥，因此，兩者之間的關聯有時常被忽略。降血脂藥基本上屬於預防性用藥，預防性用藥可分為初級性及次級性預防，初級性的定義是指患者未具有心血管疾病的診斷，僅是單純的膽固醇偏高，此時藥物使用的目的主要在於預防動脈硬化的過程；而次級性是指本身已有動脈硬化或心血管疾病診斷的狀況，用藥主要是避免產生嚴重的心血管疾病併發症。兩種狀況之下的藥物使用狀況與準則雖有所不同，但是若因為肌肉疼痛問題，造成患者自行停藥，便沒有達到藥物治療的效果。
肌肉疼痛指數，LESCOL為最低2
過去有關降血脂藥物在肌肉疼痛的影響研究報告較少，2005年法國的研究報告發現，在所有使用降血脂藥物的患者之中，出現各種肌肉疼痛症狀的比例約為10%，而且，不同的降血脂藥物發生肌肉疼痛的比例也不相同，大約在5-18%之間，使用LESCOL的患者在調查中所發現的肌肉疼痛僅約5%，具有相當顯著的統計差異。
過去探討降血脂藥物與肌肉疼痛之間的關係，最嚴重的就是橫纹肌溶解症，這是可能致命的病況。然而，近期醫學研究指出，LESCOL尚未有任何致死性橫纹肌溶解的個案發生4。此外，由於老年人原本即是可能具有多重疾病與使用多重藥物，因此，還必須注意藥物彼此之間的交互作用，由於所有的降血脂藥物均需透過肝臟裡面的酵素CYP450代謝，大部份降血脂藥物經過CYP3A4代謝，這個途徑與其他藥物（鈣離子阻斷劑、抗凝血劑等等）較容易產生交互作用，而LESCOL在代謝上經由CYP2C9，相較於其他降血脂藥物少了藥物交互作用的風險。
社會老齡化，治療目標才是根本
根據流行病學的研究顯示，膽固醇過高與心血管疾病之間的關聯相當明顯，然而，膽固醇同時也是人體內營養的指標、賀爾蒙的來源、細胞膜的成分，對老年人來說，降低膽固醇也需考慮身體的整體狀況及免疫系統。目前為止，降低膽固醇的效益在高齡民眾身上還有些爭論，學者也建議必須針對患者的個別狀況思考，決定其最佳的治療模式。在藥物選擇上必須先決定個別患者膽固醇所需降低的目標值，考量其年齡、疾病狀況與實證研究上的證據，設定治療目標再選擇合適的藥物，而藥物的選擇並非越強越好，而是必須全面考量其效果、安全性、藥物交互作用與可能的負作用影響。
關於諾華
瑞士製藥集團諾華 (Novartis AG；NYSE:NVS) 是全球醫療保健的領導企業，致力於保健、治療疾病及增進人類福祉。旨在研發並成功行銷創新藥品，滿足患者治療疾病、紓解痛苦、提升生活品質需求。諾華是唯一在專利藥及學名藥上均居領導地位的公司，目前更全力強化公司西藥系列，尤其著重於策略性成長平台，以提供創新處方用藥、優質合理價格的學名藥、預防疫苗及指示用藥領導品牌。2007年集團營收達 381 億美元，淨利為 65 億美元。集團投資在研發支出上的經費約達64 億美元。總部設在瑞士巴塞爾 (Basel)，全球全職員工總數約 98,000 人，在 140 多個國家設有分支機構。如欲進一步了解諾華詳細資料，請瀏覽台灣諾華網站 http://www.novartis.com.tw。
參考資料
1. Stein EA, et al. Am J Cardiol 2008;101:490-496
2. Bruckert E, et al. Cardiovasc Drug and Ther. 2005;19:403-414
3. Okamura T, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2008;56:529-35; Brescianini S, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003;51:991-6.
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【案例故事Patient Story】
患者： 甘伯伯
發病年齡：65歲
婚姻：已婚，育有二子一女
「我當兵時是海軍陸戰隊員，又愛打羽毛球，沒想到檢驗出有高血脂。」甘伯伯愛運動、體能好，還當過北一女羽球校隊教練，本身年輕時又經營過藥廠，因此相當有身體保健的觀念，沒想到七年前檢查出有高血脂，因此甘伯伯開始吃降血脂藥，可是在治療的過程中，卻出現了肌肉痠痛的情形。
「當初就是胸部肌肉會痛，感覺不太對勁，醫生幫我把藥量減少才改善！」原本甘伯伯以為胸部和腿部出現疼痛的現象，是打羽毛球時拉傷，後來都沒有改善才覺得不對勁，跟醫師反應之後，把藥量減少才紓緩疼痛的現象，由於甘伯伯本身體能狀況好、耐受力佳，但對於服藥後出現的肌肉疼痛都會感到不適，更何況一般中高年齡層患者若遇到同樣問題，可能會因無法忍受而自行停藥，造成血脂再度升高。
現在甘伯伯每天配合醫師的叮嚀吃藥，控制飲食均衡，穩定身體狀況，但甘伯伯呼籲患有高血脂的民眾，若是發生肌肉疼痛的問題，應該要趕快和醫師反應，請醫師協助確認是不是需要換藥來解決問題，千萬不要因此自行停藥，以免造成危險。
附表一、國外高血脂副作用肌肉疼痛程度比例
比例
持續疼痛 25%
必須吃止痛劑 39%
無法執行一般日常活動 38%
必須臥床而無法工作 4%
資料來源：Bruckert E. JACC 2005;45(Supp lA): 831-5
附表二、高血脂用藥所產生的肌肉疼痛比較圖
資料來源：Bruckert E, et al. Cardiovasc Drug and Ther. 2005;19:403-414
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百位餓死鬼上身 馬蓓婕14天爆肥20kg？
知名外景主持人馬蓓婕主持靈異節目外景，開拔到萬人塚，結果疑似被134個餓死鬼纏身，整天吃個不停，無論鹹的、甜的來者不拒，短短兩個禮拜就像吹氣球似的爆肥20公斤，原本玲瓏有緻的身材，變成身帶3層游泳圈。事後，她用盡各種減肥方法，甚至斷食，只喝水及無糖綠茶，不但沒瘦下來，一個禮拜後就因營養不良脫水昏倒送醫，人看起來比之前還要腫。後來因緣際會下，接觸到基因減肥法，在依循醫師診治後，短期就減了13公斤，讓前凸後翹的身材回來，整個人也變得比以前更亮麗。
馬蓓婕說，當時她整個人就像吹氣球一樣，瞬間膨脹20公斤，連棚內主持人都認不出來，直呼不可思議，還質疑她根本不是馬蓓婕本人。她每天醒來就是一直吃，似乎人生只為了「吃」，即使已經吃飽了還是無法克制想吃東西的慾望，後來只好請媽媽24小時在旁盯睄，阻止她吃東西，但還是沒有用，導致她差點精神崩潰，整個人也變得很憂鬱。
馬蓓婕表示，她嘗試過各種減肥方法，包括節食、針灸、吃減肥藥等，都沒有效，體重仍舊徘迴在58kg到65kg，就算瘦了一些，沒多久一定又會復胖，就這樣一下瘦、一下胖，讓她越來越沒信心，認為自己死定了，沒救了，甚至覺得人生整個完蛋了，從此陷入黑暗中，這時聽朋友說基因減重很有效，抱著姑且一試的心態試試，沒想到效果讓她大吃一驚。她強調，「用基因減重，我不需要像一般減肥者一樣，限制這個不能吃、那個不能吃，照樣可以瘦，且瘦得不知不覺、莫名奇妙。」
比佛利美容整形診所執行長鍾易成說，當時檢查出馬蓓婕的基因是屬於頑固型脂肪，屬於很難瘦的體質，但用基因減肥法，是針對體質的特性而對症下藥，所以無須吃一大堆藥，相對地對身體自然不會造成傷害。在瘦下來後，馬蓓婕說，在瘦下來之後，她恢復了自信，也敢再穿上短裙及小可愛，展現曼妙身材，經過這次的減肥經驗，她體會到減肥不能胡亂嘗試，也提醒民眾，應該要選擇正確的減肥方法，才能瘦的健康又漂亮。
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世界級彩大手筆回饋消費者 打造雅詩蘭黛名媛之夜
比照鴻海夫人歸寧夜2倍規格 人人都能麻雀變鳳凰
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雅詩蘭黛舉辦的My Cover活動風光邁入十周年，這次為了擴大慶祝並回饋消費者，特地舉辦了My Cover-雅詩蘭黛名媛之夜，邀請了全省報名參加My Cover活動的消費者一同出席。此外還邀請了雅詩蘭黛美麗大使蔡淑臻及伊林名模王麗雅、王亭又、李培禎搭配時尚F4中的高以翔、丁春誠一同走秀，名設計師 潘怡良也將特地為這次的活動專門設計四款符合名媛妝容的時裝。
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不僅如此，雅詩蘭黛更重金打造整場晚宴，特別選在與鴻海夫人歸寧夜相同場地並比照當晚2倍規格，讓消費者不用花錢置身眾明星之間體驗名媛生活，享受飛上枝頭變鳳凰的一夜。
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US Funding Aims to Boost Renewable Energy
By Brian Wagner
Miami
15 August 2008
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The United States plans to spend $600 million in coming years to propel development of renewable fuels and other new energy solutions. The funding goes along with millions that private investors are spending to find ways to cut the nation's dependence on oil. VOA's Brian Wagner recently met with business and research leaders striving to find the best new energy solutions.
The future of alternative energy appears to be rich, whether it is the potential of new biofuels, citrus peel or farm waste products to supply new energy sources.
At a recent conference in Florida, green entrepreneurs met with researchers and farmers to plot the industry's future. Scores of research firms are developing conversion methods to process a variety of raw materials into ethanol. Farmers are finding ways to turn long overlooked products, like livestock manure and non-food crops, into fuel supplies.
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told delegates that green energy is creating great new opportunities for the U.S. economy, especially in the farming sector.
"There is no turning back from a future in which more of our energy resources are grown and harvested in a sensible way," he said. "That means agriculture is going to be right in the middle of the game."
Schafer said, under a newly approved farm bill, officials plan to spend $600 million over the next five years to develop and implement new energy technologies, including biofuel crops. That comes in addition to $35 million already being spent.
Green entrepreneurs say federal support is crucial to propel development of advanced technologies that are needed for new energy solutions. Federal loans also are an important tool to give nascent projects the chance to develop into successful businesses.
Some business leaders say government spending still is not enough to offset oil expenditures in the United States, which consumes about 20 million barrels of oil each day. Agriculture Secretary Schafer faced some tough questions from green business leaders at the recent conference.
"Investing 30 million, 50 million even 100 million seems very small in comparison with the opportunities and the size of the problem," said one attendee.
Schafer said he agrees that more money should be spent, and that is why officials are trying to encourage more private investment.
"It is not just a government effort, it is private sector, too," he says. "But we are not spending enough money. We are just saying let that oil come in from overseas and we are not doing enough about it."
In Florida, officials are trying to capitalize on the boom in green technology. Governor Charlie Crist has sought to expand energy research programs at state universities and ordered energy companies to begin offering more electricity from renewable sources. He says his goal is to draw green businesses to the state.
"I believe that Florida can be the green technology hub of America, and clearly the equivalent of the Silicon Valley of green," he says. "Florida can be known as energy and green industry leaders throughout the world."
Alan Hodges, an agricultural economist at the University of Florida, has been following the renewable energy field for more than 20 years. He says federal and state initiatives have created a unique climate for growth now.
"There is tremendous interest right now," he says. "I don't think there has ever been more interest than there is now, and it is all because of high oil prices."
Government and private sector interest in new energy has come and gone before.
Joseph Weissman of Aurora Biofuels has been researching the potential of growing algae as a potential source of fuel oil since the oil crisis of the late 1970s. As certain algae grow, they produce oils that can be harvested and converted into fuel. He said government funds helped advance his work until gasoline prices dropped a few years later, and public funding disappeared.
He says the involvement of more private money will help ensure the development of new energy technologies into the future.
"That was lacking in the past, it was all government money," Weissman says. "Plus government money isn't driven by the same forces. When someone [private investor] has invested money in something they will see it through one way or another. The government may change its mind overnight."
Researchers say it is difficult to determine whether algae or another technology is the most promising for the future, and when the general public can expect to see the benefits. But they agree that energy costs will continue to remain high, driving further interest in new energy sources in the future.
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upn-world news-05-middle east news-Iraqi President Undergoes Heart Surgery in US
Iraqi President Undergoes Heart Surgery in US
By VOA News
14 August 2008
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (file photo)
Iraqi officials say President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery and is recovering in a U.S. hospital.
Officials of Mr. Talabani's political party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said Thursday the operation took place on August 6 at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They said the surgery was a success and that Mr. Talabani will soon be released.
An official who declined to be named said the Iraqi president will travel to Washington later this week before returning to Iraq.
Mr. Talabani left Iraq for the United States on August 2. His office said he would undergo medical tests and treatment for his knee.
The Mayo Clinic confirmed that Mr. Talabani was a patient but gave no further information.
Mr. Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, has been president of Iraq since 2005.
The Iraqi leader was in the United States in June and met with U.S. President George Bush. Reports at that time also said he underwent medical treatment.
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Russia's President Says Breakaway Regions Not Likely to Return to Georgia
By Emma Stickgold
Washington
15 August 2008
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday it is unlikely that the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will rejoin Georgia after a week of violent clashes. He offered the prediction just before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he had signed a truce agreement with Russia. Emma Stickgold has this report for VOA from Moscow.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 15 Aug 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met in the Black Sea coast city Sochi not far from Georgia and its breakaway provinces to discuss the unfolding events of the last week.
Mr. Medvedev said Georgia was not likely to bring Abkhazia and South Ossetia back into the fold. He said that after what happened the past seven days, it is unlikely Ossetians and Abkhazians will ever be able to live together with Georgia in one state.
All week, Russian troops have been driving Georgian forces out of the regions, and Mr. Medvedev said Russia will leave it up to the separatists to decide their future status.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel echoed the words of U.S. President George Bush. She said Russia's response to Georgia's attack on South Ossetia was "disproportionate," and said that Russian troops staying in the area is "not sensible."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met for five hours with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tblisi Friday to bring what a U.S. Department of State official called "clarifying explanations" regarding the French-brokered truce. The Georgian president said he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia.
Secretary Rice emphasized that all Russian troops must return to the positions they held before the conflict began.
An emotional Saakashvili said he will "never, ever surrender" in the showdown with much-larger Russia.
The recent violence was the worst to break out since South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia in 1992.
Separatists in Abkhazia took control of most of the province from Georgia in 1993.
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Nepal Selects Maoist Leader as Prime Minister
By Steve Herman
New Delhi
15 August 2008
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Legislators in the Himalayan nation of Nepal on Friday selected, by a wide margin, a former guerilla leader to be the country's new prime minister. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman, in our South Asia bureau in New Delhi, reports on the ascent of the Maoist, known as Prachanda, who spent a quarter century in hiding and then led a ten-year civil war against Nepal's monarchy and the army.
Prachanda gestures as he returns after filing his nomination papers in Katmandu, Nepal, 14 Aug 2008
A charismatic 53-year-old Maoist, who led the armed struggle against Nepal's government, has been selected as the new republic's first prime minister. The chairman of the special legislative assembly, Subash Nemwang, announced the results.
The chairman declares the former rebel chief, known as Prachanda, the new prime minister, receiving 464 votes. His opponent, the Nepali Congress party candidate, Sher Bahadur Deuba, received 113 votes. Deuba is a former prime minister whose rejection of the Maoist's demands in the mid-1990's led the communists to take up arms.
Prachanda, whose real name is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, will lead a Maoist-led coalition government. The Maoists scored a surprise upset victory in April's national elections. But they fell short of the majority needed in the interim parliament to elect their own leader as the head of government without allies. Another communist party (Unified Marxist Leninist) and several smaller groups allied with the Maoists in the voting Friday evening against the Nepali Congress party.
The selection by the nearly 600-member interim parliament of the new prime minister ends a four-month period of political instability under which 84-year-old Girija Prasad Koirala, who has been prime minister four times, clung to power.
Nepal became a republic at the end of May when the unpopular Hindu monarchy was abolished, bringing down the curtain on 240 years of rule under the Peacock Throne of the Shah dynasty.
The Maoists agreed to a peace deal in 2006 after then-King Gyanendra was compelled by massive public protest to end a period of authoritarian rule.
The former rebels will inherit a barely functioning government facing serious challenges. The Himalayan country is one of Asia's poorest, with surging crime and food prices, a chronic shortage of fuel and an estimated 200,000 refugees displaced by the war.
In the southern Terai plains, the ethnic Madheshi group, long excluded from the political mainstream, is agitating for autonomy. And there are concerns about the often violent wing of the Maoists, known as the Young Communist League. How they and the former guerillas, whose weapons are secured under United Nations supervision, integrate into the new democratic society, is seen as the crucial factor for Nepal achieving long-term peace and stability.
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August 16, 2008
upn-world news-02-americas news-Ex-Bishop Becomes New President of Paraguay
Ex-Bishop Becomes New President of Paraguay
By VOA News
15 August 2008
Fernando Lugo, left, takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony in Asuncion, 15 Aug 2008
Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo has been inaugurated as Paraguay's new president.
Thousands of Paraguayans attended the inauguration Friday morning. Mr. Lugo was wearing sandals and a simple white shirt as he was sworn in as president in front of Paraguay's Congress. He addressed the crowd in both Spanish and the Guarani indigenous language.
In attendance were several regional presidents, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and Evo Morales of Bolivia.
The new Paraguayan president has pledged to do away with the misery and corruption that has defined the poor, land-locked nation. He says he will fight poverty and deliver land to impoverished citizens nationwide during his five-year term.
Mr. Lugo was elected in April, ending the 61-year rule of the country's Colorado Party. He heads the center-left Patriotic Alliance for Change - a coalition that includes the main opposition party, trade unions, farm groups and Indians.
Once called the bishop of the poor, Mr. Lugo was ordained into the priesthood in 1977, but two years ago, he said he wanted to run for political office.
Late last month, the Vatican allowed the 57-year-old to resign as bishop and changed his status to layman so he could take office without violating Church rules.
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upn-world news-01-africa news-Former Chadian President Sentenced to Death
Former Chadian President Sentenced to Death
By VOA News
15 August 2008
Hissene Habre
A Chadian court has issued a death sentence for exiled former President Hissene Habre.
Court officials in the capital, N'djamena, say 11 Chadian rebel leaders also were sentenced to death in absentia Friday. The defendants were accused of crimes against state security and trying to overturn the constitutional order.
Thirty-one other rebels were convicted in absentia and sentenced to life with hard labor.
Habre's lawyer, El Hadji Diouf, reacted angrily to news of the death sentence, saying he had heard nothing of a trial in Chad.
Habre has been living in Senegal since fleeing Chad in 1990, when his government was overthrown by current President Idriss Deby.
Senegal has moved closer to putting Habre on trial for human rights abuses. He is accused of killing tens of thousands of political opponents and torturing hundreds of thousands of others during his rule. He has denied the accusations.
Last month, Senegal's parliament passed legislation that set the legal framework to put the former president on trial. The measure abolished the statute of limitations on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Among those sentenced to death is Mahamat Nouri of the rebel National Alliance. Chad has accused Nouri of taking part in a failed coup attempt in February that left 700 people dead.
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