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December 8, 2007
Men’s Health Issues discussed by the Vienna waltz music
Male Health Issues discussed by the Vienna waltz music
In late September, the music capital of Europe, Vienna, went 5-th World Congress on male health issues. As part of the congress company Bayer Schering Pharma has held a number press-meropriyaty where Moscow journalists were able to meet with both international and Russian lights in the field of andrology, urology, endocrinology, and to ask them questions of interest to them.
Emphasis at the congress was placed on male health. Head of the department of clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy MGMSU, Ph.D., Professor A. Vertkin cited figures cause serious reflection on the current situation with a strong health of half of humanity. 40% of hospitalized in therapeutic patient departments in Russia are a combination of hypertension and urologic violations. Today, the frequency of diseases bodies urogenital system exceeded even the frequency of circulatory diseases bodies. While physicians in our country 170000, and urologov-only 4000. Professor Vertkin stressed that there is no sense that the male equivalent to the problem of the problem of deaths from cardiovascular disease, the situation is not corrected.
One poorly identified yet, but quite serious health problems for men is the problem of age-gipogonadizma condition caused by the shortage of male hormones androgenov. This problem has serious implications for the health of men, as the primary male sex hormone, testosterone plays an important role not only in the sexual sphere of men, but also affects the cardiovascular, muscle-skeletal, psihoemotsionalnuyu area. Declining testosterone according to the research leads to a reduction in life expectancy men that has social implications. The deficit androgenov an accepted cause of osteoporosis in men and, consequently, the occurrence of fractures from them and the possible development of disability. The men with testosterone deficiency, complain of depression, increased fatigue, reduce the overall tone.
The specialists of different fields of medicine must finally develop a “recipe” to improve the quality of life of men. As the head of the department of urology and andrology Endokrinologicheskogo Rosmedtehnology Science Center, Doctor of Medicine, Professor S. Kalinchenko, now it is time to preventive medicine quality of life. Modern development in the field of high Andrology allows men to easily restore hormone levels and return masculine force.
The most practical and convenient method of substitution treatment is testosterone. The purpose of testosterone therapy for men with gipogonadizmom is to restore normal physiological levels of serum testosterone and its metabolites (Gynecological and digidrotestosterona - DGT), and to remove gipogonadizma symptoms. This meets the conditions of modern-Nebido drug, injecting testosterone depo-forma prolonged action (producer by Bayer Schering Pharma). Pharmacokinetic studies have shown that by using the drug Nebido Ā® testosterone level is restored within the physiological norm after 3 days after the first injection of the drug. The product Nebido applied in the form of 4 injections per year, which is very convenient for patients.
Another problem is a male health Erectile dysfunction (ED), which is considered a barometer of the health of the male. Specialists note that the ED in men is a very important sign, and very often is the first symptom of widespread diseases such as arterial hypertension, stenocardia, dislipidemiya, diabetes. Physicians should carefully treat patients with ED and actively identify this symptom for the timely provision of medical care. Moreover, there are now vysokoeffektvnye drugs for the treatment of ED is a class of inhibitors fosfodiesterazy 5 type. One drug, Levitra, highly efficient, very quick drug, the class is widely known in the world and in Russia. It is designed and manufactured by Bayer Schering Pharma
The conference pointed out that men are not accustomed to thinking about their health, they are much less likely than women turn to doctors. This situation must change. Men, as well as women, have a right to a long and healthy life, including sexual.
June 11, 2007
FreeBSD as a Desktop
FreeBSD is widely known as a server operating system. FreeBSD was one of the two original projects founded during the AT&T vs. California Berkeley suit in the early 1990??s. BSD is a direct descendant of AT&T??s System V Release 6 UNIX timesharing operating system. Sun Microsystems?? SunOS platform was based on the original release of BSD back in 1982. Yahoo! Incorporated, EarthLink, and over six dozen other big companies, including banks and embedded router vendors use code derived from BSD. (more…)
April 27, 2006
End of the McNealy Rein
Scott McNealy, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems in 1982 has been CEO since 1986. Due to financial woes within the last quarter, Scott decided to give his power up to Jonathan Schwartz, but remain the chairman. An estimated 200+ million dollars of revenue was lost in the last quarter, mostly due to acquisitng, R&D, and subsidizing costs spent to reshape the massively employeed 48,000 person company. Sun also started the Try and Buy program with their 8,000-15,000 dollar CoolThreads T2000 and T100 SPARCv9 models, which probably cost them a lot as well. (more…)
February 3, 2006
The snow is melting today
The snow is melting today, causing quite a mess on the streets and sidewalks. Most New Yorkers are happy to forgive Nature the slush in exchange for the warmer temperatures. However, the slush made the morning subway ride a slippery affair. Clutching a handrail to keep from sliding ?? and watching my feet to remind them of how much I was counting on them ?? I had the opportunity to take a look at the unnoticed world of the subway car floor. (more…)
November 22, 2005
A review on Practical UNIX and Internet Security
The book “Practical UNIX and Internet Security” written by Gene Spafford and Simson Garfinkel , is one of the most effective and comprehensive books on information security ever, and maybe one of the most famous too, this review is based on the 2nd edition which was published in 1996 but is nevertheless still valid and impressive, the book is currently in the 3rd edition, but as apparent from the table of contents published at O’reilly’s web site, it’s hasn’t evolved much.
Gene Spafford is one of the most respectable information security authors ever, no one can forget his analysis of the internet worm, or his other books*.
This book takes the responsibility to clarify security concepts and advise best security practices especially related to the UNIX platform and the Internet.
The book is pretty huge, containing exactly 1004 pages split in 7 Parts, the first being an introduction to Computer Security, ,and the last being a collection of nice appendixes.
Part 2 contains some clarifications of widely used concepts like cryptography concepts, filesystem concepts and the concepts of users and groups in the UNIX platforms.
Part II: User Responsibilities
Chapter 3: Users and Passwords
Chapter 4: Users, Groups, and the Superuser
Chapter 5: The UNIX Filesystem
Chapter 6: Cryptography
Part 3, being the definitive system security guide for system administrators, guiding them to managing systems’ security from defining accounts to saving backups, to auditing and logging practices, to managing system integrity, defining various kinds of programmed threats and ways to protect against them, and at last, defining best practices for personal and physical security, the thing that is usually overlooked or forgotten.
Part 4 is the interesting part for most of us, the part about “Network and Internet Security”, here we must say, that this part is somewhat outdated in the second edition, maybe it’s better to get the third edition for that, or to read it carefully and then go read other new stuff elsewhere, it is however very interesting and very well written.
Chapter 14 handles the security of telephone networks. (the third edition contains some wireless stuff it seems)
Chapter 15 talks about UUCP which I think is not useful anymore. (please correct me if I’m wrong)
Chapter 16 is a great overview over TCP/IP networks in general (only IPv4 is covered)
Chapter 17 in a comprehensive discussion about various TCP/IP network services and servers, ranging from mail to news to even the most overlooked services like NEXTSTEP Window server and RIP service security, remember here that we are UNIX oriented, all the services and security implications discussed is UNIX related. The discussion is very comprehensive along with a lot of advices on how to make those services more secure.
Chapter 18 is about WWW security, very outdated, there are a lot of better resources for web security. Hope this was handled in the third edition.
Chapters 19 and 20 are a really great resource about RPC, NIS, ,NFS and Kerberos security, I really loved those chapters, although I didn’t get all the Kerberos stuff, I had to read about Kerberos elsewhere to understand it (but hey, Kerberos is truly sophisticated) both chapers remain my favorite reference for PRC, NIS/NIS+, NFS, and Kerberos security.
Part 5 handles some advanced topics, actually firewalls, wrappers and proxies, and secure programming. Chapter 21 contains a very good overview on firewalls in general and their anatomy. Chapter 22 discusses comprehensively custom wrappers like tcpwrappers and proxy servers like SOCKS.
Chapter 23 is my personal favorite. It discusses in great details the general guidelines and practices for secure programming, building secure network servers, secure SUID/SGID programs etc. , of course further information can be found in more specialized writings like:
- Building Secure Software by John Viega and Gary McGraw
- Practical UNIX and Internet Security 2nd Ed. from O’Reilly
- Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire
- The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike
- Programming Windows Security by Keith Brown
- Code Complete by Steve McConnel
- Writing Secure Code by Howard and LeBlanc
But this chapter remains one of the best fast references for the topic, with a very compact and insightful checklist.
Part 6 is about handling incidents, and guess what, … I didn’t read it ;o) , guess I’ll read it when an incident happens.
That’s it, … my overall rating for the book is GREAT, a must read, very well written and can be used as a definitive guide for a lot of topics.
by Ahmed EL Deeb
November 17, 2005
Child Of The 80’s
A lot of people had fun with the “Child Of The 80’s” deal, so I thought I’d do one for the slightly older crowd
1. You not only remember black and white television, but actually had one in your house.
2. You remember when there were only three networks.
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October 17, 2005
What the hell is wrong with you people?
I spend a little bit each day looking through different blogs at weblogs.com. It’s an interesting way to see what other people are blogging about.
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July 22, 2005
Rocco Dispirito??s cookbook
As I mentioned in my last post, I bought Rocco Dispirito??s cookbook Flavor. I picked it up offhandedly this afternoon, looking for something mindless to flip through. I didn??t put it down for hours. This is the best cookbook I have ever seen ?? fascinating, well-conceived, well-written, and brilliantly designed. Its marriage of clarity, compelling ideas, attractiveness, and general usability is amazing. (more…)
May 8, 2005
Rough day
I keep getting e-mails asking what news system we use, and where we got the code from and stuff like that. As I posted a while ago everything is made from scratch. We dont use any “systems” or anything…I am programmed this page from the ground up and thats how it will stay. This site is a way for me to expand my PHP knowlage. Please stop with the e-mails. Thanks :). Not trying to be mean or anything, just a little fed up and it has been a rough day.
February 3, 2005
What’s your chronotype?
chronotype (krawn.uh.typ, krohn.uh.typ) n. The set of circadian factors that determine whether someone is a morning person or an evening person. (more…)
