Britain orders Iran's diplomats to leave UK (AP)

LONDON ? Britain ordered Iran on Wednesday to remove all its diplomats from the U.K. within 48 hours following attacks on its embassy and a residential compound in Tehran ? one of the most significant diplomatic retaliations against Iran since the 1979 U.S. embassy crisis.

Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons that Britain had also withdrawn its entire diplomatic staff from Iran after angry mobs hauled down Union Jack flags, torched a vehicle and tossed looted documents through windows.

The rare move to kick out a country's entire diplomatic corps marks a significant souring of ties between Iran and the West, amid deepening suspicions over Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. Tensions were heightened in October when U.S. officials accused agents linked to Iran's Quds Force ? an elite wing of the powerful Revolutionary Guard ? of a role in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

Germany, France and the Netherlands all recalled their ambassadors from Iran late Wednesday for consultations on further action in response. Norway closed its embassy in Tehran as a precaution.

For many, the hours-long assault Tuesday on the British embassy in Tehran was reminiscent of the chaotic seizure of the U.S. embassy there in 1979. Protesters replaced the British flag with a banner in the name of a 7th-century Shiite saint, Imam Hussein, and one looter showed off a picture of Queen Elizabeth II apparently taken off a wall.

"The idea that the Iranian authorities could not have protected our embassy or that this assault could have taken place without some degree of regime consent is fanciful," Hague told lawmakers.

Iran currently has 18 diplomats in Britain, according to Britain's foreign ministry.

Britain previously ordered Iran to remove its diplomats in 1989, when the two nations broke off ties over a fatwa, or religious edict, ordering Muslims to kill British author Salman Rushdie because his novel "The Satanic Verses" allegedly insulted Islam.

The White House strongly condemned the attacks and European Union foreign ministers were meeting Thursday to consider possible new sanctions. Hague also praised Poland, Russia, China and the UAE for offering support and expressing their concern.

The French foreign ministry said it was moved to act "in the face of this flagrant and unacceptable violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and the gravity of the violence."

Italy's foreign minister Giulio Terzi said Rome was also evaluating whether to keep its diplomatic presence in Iran.

Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said Iran was placing itself "outside of the framework of international law," Hague said.

France's budget minister, Valerie Pecresse, said the EU should consider a total embargo on oil exports, or a freeze on Iranian central bank holdings. British officials said the U.K. would likely support new measures against Iran's energy sector.

Hague claimed those involved in Tuesday's attack were members of a student group allied with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary Basij organization, which recruits heavily on university campuses.

"We should be clear from the outset that this is an organization controlled by elements of the Iranian regime," he said.

Hague told Parliament the private quarters of staff and Britain's ambassador were trashed in the attack and that diplomats' personal possessions were stolen.

"This is a breach of international responsibilities of which any nation should be ashamed," he said.

Some were alarmed by Hague's tough tone. David Miliband, Britain's former foreign secretary, said he hoped the robust words would not become "part of the very unwelcome drumbeat of war."

About 24 British embassy staff and dependents were based in Tehran. They are all adults because Britain will not post diplomats with small children to Iran for security reasons.

Iran's government has expressed regret about the "unacceptable behavior" of protesters, whose attacks began after anti-British demonstrations apparently authorized by authorities.

But Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the "wrath of (students) resulted from several decades of domination-seeking behavior of Britain."

Iran's tensions with Britain date back to the 19th century, when the Persian monarchy gave huge industrial concessions to London, which later included significant control over Iran's oil industry. In 1953, Britain and the U.S. helped organize a coup that overthrew a nationalist prime minister and restored the pro-Western shah to power.

More recently, Iran was angered by Britain's decision to honor Rushdie with a knighthood in 2007, and over its involvement in Western scrutiny of Iran's nuclear program.

In March 2007, Iran detained 15 British sailors and marines for allegedly entering the country's territorial waters in the Gulf ? a claim Britain denies. The 15 were released after nearly two weeks in captivity.

On Sunday, Iran's parliament approved a bill to downgrade relations with Britain, vowing to expel the country's ambassador.

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Associated Press writers Brian Murphy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran, Juergen Baetz in Frankfurt, Germany, Jamey Keaten in Paris and Frances D'Emilio in Rome, contributed to this report.

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BMC resident receives American Society for Clinical Pathology awards

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(Boston) Stephen Hammond, MD, a fourth-year resident in clinical and anatomic pathology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), recently received the highly coveted Resident Leadership Representative Award from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) for demonstrating leadership and promoting ASCP membership and resident activities. In addition, Hammond collaborating with the laboratory team led by Dr. Martin Kroll, won the best poster by a resident at the recent ASCP meeting for his presentation "Reducing Patient Waiting Times for Phlebotomy."

Born and educated in the United Kingdom, Hammond came to the United States in 2008 for his residency to study both clinical and anatomic pathology, which have to be studied separately in his native country. He discovered an innate talent for dermatopathology and has accepted a Fellowship in the specialty at the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York under the mentorship of Dirk Elston MD- President-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Hammond's involvement with ASCP began in 2009 after his research of pathology organizations revealed the Society had a singularly global view of pathology within health care. "I really wanted to dive in the deep end of pathology," he said. "I persuaded other pathology residents to subscribe to fantastic ASCP resources such as Daily Diagnosis, to apply for ASCP subspecialty grants, and to join the ASCP residency program."

Through his years as an ASCP Resident Representative, Hammond has learned how important it is to belong to the larger pathology community and "not have a myopic vision." He enjoys networking for new ideas, not just to meet new people, to become a better pathologist. Hammond has a passion for how digital pathology can transform diagnoses in developing countries. In the future he hopes to perform secondary consultations overseas.

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Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, 508-bed, academic medical center that is the primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine. Committed to providing high-quality health care to all, the hospital offers a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services including primary and family medicine and advanced specialty care with an emphasis on community-based care. Boston Medical Center offers specialized care for complex health problems and is a leading research institution. Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine are partners in the Boston HealthNet15 community health centers focused on providing exceptional health care to residents of Boston. For more information, please visit www.bmc.org

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is the world's largest professional membership organization for pathologists and laboratory professionals. Their mission is to provide excellence in education, certification and advocacy on behalf of patients, pathologists and laboratory professionals across the globe. With more than 100,000 members, the society's influence has guided the application and evolution of the pathology and laboratory medicine specialty since 1922. For more information, please visit www.ascp.org


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617-638-8480
Boston University Medical Center

(Boston) Stephen Hammond, MD, a fourth-year resident in clinical and anatomic pathology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), recently received the highly coveted Resident Leadership Representative Award from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) for demonstrating leadership and promoting ASCP membership and resident activities. In addition, Hammond collaborating with the laboratory team led by Dr. Martin Kroll, won the best poster by a resident at the recent ASCP meeting for his presentation "Reducing Patient Waiting Times for Phlebotomy."

Born and educated in the United Kingdom, Hammond came to the United States in 2008 for his residency to study both clinical and anatomic pathology, which have to be studied separately in his native country. He discovered an innate talent for dermatopathology and has accepted a Fellowship in the specialty at the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York under the mentorship of Dirk Elston MD- President-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Hammond's involvement with ASCP began in 2009 after his research of pathology organizations revealed the Society had a singularly global view of pathology within health care. "I really wanted to dive in the deep end of pathology," he said. "I persuaded other pathology residents to subscribe to fantastic ASCP resources such as Daily Diagnosis, to apply for ASCP subspecialty grants, and to join the ASCP residency program."

Through his years as an ASCP Resident Representative, Hammond has learned how important it is to belong to the larger pathology community and "not have a myopic vision." He enjoys networking for new ideas, not just to meet new people, to become a better pathologist. Hammond has a passion for how digital pathology can transform diagnoses in developing countries. In the future he hopes to perform secondary consultations overseas.

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Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, 508-bed, academic medical center that is the primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine. Committed to providing high-quality health care to all, the hospital offers a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services including primary and family medicine and advanced specialty care with an emphasis on community-based care. Boston Medical Center offers specialized care for complex health problems and is a leading research institution. Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine are partners in the Boston HealthNet15 community health centers focused on providing exceptional health care to residents of Boston. For more information, please visit www.bmc.org

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is the world's largest professional membership organization for pathologists and laboratory professionals. Their mission is to provide excellence in education, certification and advocacy on behalf of patients, pathologists and laboratory professionals across the globe. With more than 100,000 members, the society's influence has guided the application and evolution of the pathology and laboratory medicine specialty since 1922. For more information, please visit www.ascp.org


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App Tethers iPhone to Computer, No Jailbreak Required

From the department of “get it while it’s hot” comes iTether, an app which lets you share your iPhone’s data connection with your Mac or PC. While some carriers enable this feature natively, most iPhone users will have to jailbreak their devices to tether them or pay extra for the service. The app comes in two [...]

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Camera lost at sea returned with the help of social networking (Yahoo! News)

Photos from the waterlogged memory card helped identify owner

Just how tough is your average?DSLR memory card? Apparently tough enough to survive a year at the bottom of the ocean. Naturalist and aspiring photographer?Markus Thompson was scuba diving in Deep Bay near Vancouver, British Columbia, when he found a?Canon EOS 1000D. Curious, he brought it to the surface and took out the SD card, and was actually able to recover about 50 photos.

With a bounty of pictures and a desire to find the camera's owner, Thompson took to social networking for help. He posted his find to Google+, including pictures of the camera itself as well as the photos he was able to recover from the SD card. "Approximately 50 pictures on the card from a family vacation. If you know a fire fighter from British Columbia whose team won the Pacific Regional Firefit competition, has a lovely wife and (now) 2 year old daughter ? let me know. I would love to get them their vacation photos," he posted.

The social network's hive mind then went to work. Details on just who the camera belonged to were slim at first, but after social network sleuths began scouring the photos, more information began to surface. The camera contained images that were shot at a region firefighting competition, and appeared to suggest that the camera's owner was on the winning team. After comparing faces to those on various websites that covered the event, the possibilities were narrowed down.

The owner, a firefighter from British Columbia, was finally identified. His station was then contacted, bringing an end to the pricey camera's unlikely journey. The waterlogged Canon ? which can cost upwards of $500 in new condition ? made its splash in August of 2010, and had been soaking ever since. Unfortunately, not further details are available on just how the device managed to find a home on the ocean floor, but we imagine a bump off the side of a leisure boat is a likely explanation.

We've seen the power of social media to spread information about?important events and?natural disasters, and it's nice to see it work on a much smaller and more personal scale. And while obviously the camera is a total loss, the family was able to secure their vacation photos, not to mention a story they'll be able to share for a lifetime.

This is what a camera looks like after a year in the ocean

The camera is a total loss, but the memory card fired right up

[Image credit:?Markus Thompson]

Markus Thompson via?Canon Rumors

This article was written by Katherine Gray and originally appeared on Tecca

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Nanotechnology, Animal Models, and Medicine

Antibiotic resistance has been a problem almost as long as antibacterial agents have been available. Antibiotic actually means using a chemical from one microbe that kills another microbe, although it is commonly used to mean antibacterial?a chemical that kills or inhibits bacteria. I will use the word antibiotic in order to be consistent with the DARPA article that follows.

One possible solution to antibiotic resistance is the use of nanotechnology in the form of nanomachines to chew up the bacteria in order to kill bacteria, as presumably the bacteria would not adapt to resist the technology. Katie Drummond writing in Wired reports on the efforts of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accomplish this in a slightly different fashion. DARPA is trying to develop nanomachines that combat, not just bacteria, but all tiny pathogens including viruses and other potential biological weapons. Drummond writes: ?Darpa would like to see nanoparticles loaded with ?small interfering RNA (siRNA)? ? a class of molecules that can target and shut down specific genes. If siRNA could be reprogrammed ?on-the-fly? and applied to different pathogens, then the nanoparticles could be loaded up with the right siRNA molecules and sent directly to cells responsible for the infection.? (We discussed nanotechnology for bacterial resistance in our book: What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century.)

DARPA states that they actually accomplished this in primates infected with Ebola. While I do not have a lot of confidence that what happens in primates in general will also happen in humans, I do think that what happens in a specific species of monkey will probably also happen in that same species in another location. So, the technology appears to be worth pursuing at least for Ebola and primates. But this leads to another interesting point regarding the use of animals in research. The problem with using animal models to predict human response to drugs and disease is the fact that animals and humans are examples of evolved complex systems. Extrapolating from one complex system to another can be successfully accomplished but only if the perturbation to the system can be described in terms of simple systems. Two examples.

A frog falling out of a plane can be treated as a simple system and described by classic Newtonian physics?a point with a trajectory undergoing acceleration. Everything else about the frog can be ignored. It does not matter if the frog is susceptible to Ebola or HIV or if it is susceptible to Alzheimer?s disease. The same can be said about a human falling out of the same plane. Point, acceleration, trajectory and so forth. The problem arises when one wishes to use a frog to study Alzheimer?s disease in humans. At that level of examination or at that level of organization of complex systems, extrapolation breaks down. Complex systems vary because of initial condition like genetic make-up, respond differently to the same perturbations, and since the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, reductionism can only take us so far in understanding the system. All these things work against using animals to study disease and drug response.

On the other hand, a lot of neat stuff takes place at the level of organization where complex systems can be described in terms of simple systems. The problem DARPA is trying to remedy by using nanomachines, how to kill bacteria, is a good example. Antibiotics kill microbes like bacteria (or inhibit them) because an antibiotic is a chemical, discovered in nature or modified based on a chemical from nature, that kills bacteria. These chemicals are going to do the same thing regardless of what system they find themselves in. So if a chemical kills Staphylococcus aureus in a mouse it will probably kill Staphylococcus aureus in a human. This is not because animals are so similar to humans that they can predict human response to drugs, it is secondary to the fact that the chemical is acting at a level of organization that can be described as a simple system. I would expect the same to be true of nanomachines that kill bacteria mechanically. I am not sure the same will be true of nanomachines that use siRNAs.

Where animal models fail, even with antibiotics, is predicting the effects after exposure to the metabolism by the liver, which varies considerably among species, and predicting side effects. Both of these involve the complex system at a level that cannot be described as a simple system. This is why penicillin, for example, can kill guinea pigs but is largely safe for humans. Of course, the outcome of exposing a bacteria to an antibiotic can also be predicted by using a petri dish colonized by the bacteria and containing an antibiotic disc. An intact living system is not needed. I suspect the Ebola experiment or experiments similar to the Ebola study could have been accomplished in a similar way. (I have addressed the intact systems argument here.)

Nanotechnology is still in its infancy. The potential far outweighs what is actually being accomplished at this point. But the potential is huge. Nanotechnology could be used for drug delivery, treating cancer and heart disease, cleaning up cells, tissue repair, paralysis and stroke, and more. It is not hyperbole to say that it could be revolutionary. It will be interesting to see how DARPA?s concept develops.

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MOF's Nakao: Japan prepared to help Europe if needed (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japan wants Europe to make efforts to stabilize markets unsettled by the continued euro zone debt crisis and Tokyo is prepared to offer help if needed, Japanese currency tsar Takehiko Nakao said on Monday.

Nakao, the vice finance minister for international affairs also told a financial forum that a unilateral currency intervention could not be ruled out in a speculative market.

Tokyo has intervened to weaken its yen three times this year - once with the help of Group of Seven nations in March and then on its own in August and October when the yen scaled new highs against the dollar.

(Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

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Michael Lohan Undergoing Heart Surgery (omg!)

Michael Lohan is undergoing heart surgery Friday after being hospitalized with chest pains and high blood pressure, Reuters reports.

Lohan, who was rushed to Florida's Gulf Coast Hospital Thursday night, is having a stent inserted and a blood clot removed from his lungs, his rep, Gina Rodriguez, said. He is expected to recover in a week.

Michael Lohan jumps off third-floor balcony to escape arrest

According to Rodriguez, Lohan, 51, had not received his blood pressure or heart medicine in a week at the court-ordered treatment center where he's staying.

Lohan, whose heart problems were documented on Celebrity Rehab last season, was arrested last month on suspicion of domestic violence on his ex-girlfriend Kate Major. He was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to spend the first four months at a treatment center in Fort Myers, Fla.

Lohan had surgery in February to clear a blockage in an artery in his heart.

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