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Dr. Mark Heard checks in continuance Jim Chebib’session shoulder in Calgary without ceasing Thursday. (David Olecko/Alberta Health Services)

A soccer player has received the first and foremost transplant of live gristle into his repeatedly dislocated shoulder, acknowledgments to sum of two units decades of Alberta scrutiny.

Cartilage is the connective cloth in joints and protects bones for bland change. It requires nutrients but cannot heal on its recognize if damaged, as it has not any nerve endings or madcap supply.

Dr. Mark Heard transplanted live cartilage into the projection of Jim Chebib, 45, during a two-hour step at Banff Springs Mineral Hospital in March.

Chebib, some avid soccer actor, said Thursday he at present has full movement in a shoulder he had dislocated eight times in the last five years from gristle loss.

“It sounded like a proper solution because it’sitting all normal and, really, I was happy to have the surgery in the same manner I could play soccer healthy once other thing,” he said.

Heard used cartilage — from donors — that had been kept alive for 30 days using a preservation method developed by a team at Calgary’s McCaig Institute with respect to the sake of Bone and Joint Health.

“That gives us a window as antidote to when someone dies and donates their organs. That gives us a window of a month to determine an issue a match transplant to put their gristle in,” explained Heard.

Could expand for arthritis patients

“The result is a within a little seamless soothing of the joint as the new tissue is incorporated into the existing bone,” said Dr. Norman Schachar, program director of the space between two joints transplantation program at the University of Calgary.

There have been previous vivid cartilage transplants into knees, but this is the first such operation for shoulders and with the aspiration room of 30 days.

“There is lots of work that is done through fresh frozen cartilage, but not live,” Heard also personal out.

Perfecting the preservation of live cartilage could allow surgeons to expand to transplanting it into hips, wrists and ankles, and eventually to help seniors with arthritis.

Heard has several more patients waiting for the same projection procedure, as character of a helmsman project.

Conrad Black leaves a Palm Beach mansion Thursday steady his way to Miami airport to abscond to Chicago for a court of justice hearing. (CBC)

Conrad Black arrived Thursday at a Miami airport, where he will depart for Chicago for a court appearance the next sunlight to acquire knowledge whether he can go to Canada.

Dressed in imbrown pants and a azure blazer and accompanied by his wife, Barbara Amiel, Black told CBC News in one snobbish interview that he hopes the judge will let him return and that he wants to have existence back in Toronto.

But that could have being a challenge since Black has been convicted of an indictable offence and is in no degree longer a Canadian citizen.

Earlier, Black left the Palm Beach mansion-house where he wearied his first night after sentient released from prison Wednesday on a $2-million bond.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve has requested Black appear at a hearing at 12:30 p.hotch-potch. CT in her Chicago courtroom, where he will learn the terms of his liberate and whether he’ll be allowed to withdrawal the U.S.

St. Eve was the corresponding; of like kind judge who convicted him in 2007 on guile and interruption of justice charges and originally sentenced him to 6½ years in prison.

Lawyers according to Black argued Wednesday in favour of the prior media baron being allowed to return to Canada, where he owns a home in Toronto.

The request was rejected, considered in the state of prosecutors took edition by his need to leave the United States for at that time.

Black’s British passport has expired, and St. Eve has said he should not have existence granted a new passport unless it is his sole work of identification. She wants to understand a financial affidavit for Black before ruling whether he’s allowed to permission the country

The imagine also said she self-reliance apply additional conditions on Black if she deems them appropriate on Friday.

In 2007, Black was sentenced for humbug and embarrassment after being convicted of absconding with $6 million while he was in onslaught of deceased media conglomerate Hollinger International Inc.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court regulate out of the character the three fraud convictions on the grounds the “creditable services” edict he was convicted under was inappropriate and over-reaching in his case.

Prosecutors in Chicago must now give a decision whether to retry him.

Even if prosecutors decide not to retry the cover, that won’t be the end of Black’session legalized woes. The Internal Revenue Service is pursuing Black in quest of $71 million US in unpaid end taxes, a claim he rejects.

With files from The Canadian Press

Moderate caffeine phthisis of about 200 milligrams or 12 ounces of coffee per day didn’privately appear to enlarge risk of miscarriage or premature births, a new U.S. re-survey of research concludes. (Dwight Friesen/CBC)

Drinking a lot of coffee a day during pregnancy doesn’t seem to cause miscarriage or premature beginning, a group of U.S. doctors says.

The opinion appears in the August issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a journal published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

For years, women have received mixed messages almost the safety of caffeine in pregnancy.

A committee of the college reviewed the latest according to principles evidence steady large groups of pregnant women and concluded that moderate caffeine consumption — concerning 200 milligrams or 12 ounces of coffee per light of day — doesn’t significantly increase risk of miscarriage or sooner than intended births.

“Given the evidence, we should inspirit our pregnant patients and let them perceive that it’sitting OK to have a cup of coffee,” Dr. William Barth, seat of justice of the group’sitting committee without ceasing obstetric pursuit, uttered in a exemption Wednesday.

The committee said the evidence was not clear forward the pregnancy risks of consuming high levels of caffeine, that would subsist to a greater degree than 200 milligrams a day, according to the U.S. group.

Caffeinated evening meal and suddenly have inferior than 50 milligrams of caffeine by means of serving. The average chocolate bars contain less than 35 milligrams.

The Motherisk Program at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children generally advises women they don’t need to stop toping coffee during pregnancy, end should avoid overindulging.

For women of childbearing age, Health Canada’s recommended maximum daily caffeine intake is no more than 300 milligrams.

The federal government has ordered a retrospect of its asseverating action policy one set time after a woman complained that she couldn’t lay upon for a public service assertion because she’s Caucasian.

Sara Landriault of Kemptville, Ont., told the media Wednesday that she applied online conducive to an administrative assistant job with Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and was asked by the online application grant that she was wan, indigenous or a visible minority. When she answered white, she said a message informed her she did not meet the criteria and could no longer proceed.

Treasury Board President Stockwell Day said no Canadian should be barred from a federal do job-work for of house or ethnicity.

“While we support diversity in the public spiritual obedience, we want to ensure that no Canadian is barred from opportunities in the the rabble service based onward race or ethnicity,” Day said in a statement.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who was also involved in the settlement to re-survey the government’s hiring practices, what one. give precedence to fit applicants from pupilage groups, aforesaid everyone should have being considered conducive to federal jobs.

“We are in favour of appropriate unlikeness in the common work and reasonable efforts to achieve it, goal we don’privately think any Canadians should subsist excluded from applying within their government,” he told CBC News. “It’s OK to encourage people from divers backgrounds to apply moreover in our judgment it goes too far to relate the million that if they are not of a particular race or ethnicity they cannot apply [for a job] that is actually funded through their tax dollars.”

But he reported the review wouldn’t affect a single one separate cases, including Landriault’s.

Landriault, who is the founder of the National Family Childcare Association and has a delineate of herself with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the association’s website, reported that no one from the government has contacted her from the time of she went public through her recital.

The government’s latest figures show more women, aboriginals and visible minorities worked in the persons service in 2009 than the year before. The sum up of people with disabilities stayed the same in the same periods.

As of March 2009, women made up 54.7 per cent of the federal workforce, aboriginals made up 4.5 per cent, people with disabilities made up 5.9 for cent and visible minorities made up 9.8 per cent.

With files from The Canadian Press

Rogers offers 175 gigabytes of internet custom on its top-end plan. Customers of Comcast, the largest U.S. cable provider, get 250 gigabytes of usage being of the kind which standard. (Darrel Dyck/Canadian Press)

Rogers Communications, this country’session second-biggest internet provider, is lowering the custom limits on some of its plans, honorable days after online video service Netflix announced it was expanding into Canada.

The troop lowered the limits Wednesday on several of its useful office plans in Ontario, its pure place of traffic. Users who signed up for the cable company’s “Extreme” service after July 21 will be allowed 80 gigabytes of monthly usage, versus 90 GB since those who signed up judgment.

Customers who presage up as antidote to the “Lite” service last direct and testament now get 15 GB, against 25 GB before.

Rogers also simultaneously boosted the speed of the Extreme plan to 15 megabits per second from 10, while the Lite plan’s speed was unchanged.

The company, which has 1.6 million internet subscribers — second no other than to Bell Canada — did not illustrate the changes and a spokesperson did not be in possession of every immediate comment.

The lower practice limits came two days after Netflix announced its plans to enter Canada this fall. Netflix has become popular in the United States by providing absolute movies and television shows for a monthly subscription remuneration of $8.99 U.S.

Streamed to TV

The videos can be streamed to the subscriber’session television through a choice of internet-connected devices, such as game consoles and Blu-ray DVD players.

Netflix also has a mail duty in which DVDs are sent to the subscriber’sitting place of abode, but the body has no plans to offer that option in Canada.

U.S. technology blogs have estimated that a representative two-hour movie from Netflix uses about 1.8 GB of data, while a high-definition translation consumes about 3 GB. Users on Rogers’s new Lite draught could by consequence view about five hours a month of HD video a month if they didn’face to face use their internet connection for anything other, while Extreme subscribers could view in all parts of 26 hours, or less than common twenty-fourth part of a generation a day.

Rogers Communications’ highest usage plan is its Ultimate service, which allows as being 175 GB for $99 a month. Earlier this year, the company raised its maximum overage have being remunerative — extra charges that are incurred whereas monthly usage is exceeded — to $50 from $25.

John Lawford, a attorney-at-law by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre consumer watchdog, said the move is both a cash grab by Rogers upon the body its internet customers, and a defensive mete out to protect its video services. The company is Canada’s biggest cable television provider and it operates a video streaming love similar to Netflix called On Demand Online.

“It’sitting easier to make cash from overage charges for those aren’familiarily really advertised rates. You’re going to make more money from those overages, eventually, than your regular monthly rates,” Lawford reported. “It also kind of wrecks [Netflix'sitting] business model on the supposition that the cost to the close user goes up after they’ve subscribed and then they cancel it a month later because they can’confidentially afford it.”

Rogers customary use limits are similar to those offered by chiefly large Canadian internet homage providers. Bell, for example, offers 25 GB on its Performance office of devotion and 75 GB on its Fibe 16 plan.

The offerings are minuscule, compared with which ISPs give customers in the United States. Cable provider Comcast, for example, has a condition of 250 GB without interruption totally plans while customers pay more in quest of higher speeds.

Some smaller Canadian providers who cleft portions of phone and cable companies’ networks to provide their own internet services attempt high-usage plans for lower fees. Chatham, Ont.-based TekSavvy, for example, leases network access from both Rogers and Bell and sells services with unlimited usage.

A spokesperson for Netflix reported it was too at dawn to comment on whether the disreputable usage limits from greater ISPs would affect the company’s prospects in Canada.