On Monday, the White House took one step more in its effort of combating rape on university and college campuses across the country when it released a new report.

The report consisted of 20 pages. A special task force was step up to produce the report and included Arne Duncan the Secretary of Education and Eric Holder the Attorney General.

The group spent three months compiling recommendations from talking with many people.

The task force is interested in finding out more about the scale and scope of the problem. Statistics were cited in the report from the National Institute of Justice, which said that 1 in 5 women experienced attempted rape or rape during college.

This year the group is pushing institutions of higher learning to use its 2015 tool kit to survey their own campuses. Before 2016, the task force will start making reports. It is planning to explore administrative or legislative options requiring school to carry out the survey.

In 2011, schools were first alerted by the administration about the responsibilities they had to sexual violence survivors. The administration announced that schools under Title IX must address the sexual violence issue to provide an equal access to all for education.

However, schools struggled with that. Over the last three years, many of the schools have been cited publicly for not living up to the standards.

The most recent is when the U.S. Department of Education announced that Tufts University had failed to comply in the way it handles issues related to sexual assaults.

The university wrote it was disappointed and surprised with the government’s finding and added it had a deep commitment to the well-being and safety of its students.

Now the White House has decided to get more specific. It has now emphasized the importance of using confidential advocates. This clarifies what was confusing for many that not all on college campuses have a duty to report.

Recently campus officials have said that all their employees needed to report every detail of what happened to officials. However, the report said that could mean control is quickly lost by the survivor over what takes place next.

Many advocates insist the survivors should never lose control over what takes place next.

The White House report calls for more training for those dealing with sexual violence issues on campuses across the country.

A study that was led by scientists from the John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center has revealed that men that have chronic inflammation of the prostate tissue might have close to fifty percent more risk of developing prostate cancer in comparison to men who do not suffer from the inflammation.

Scientists were able to found a link that was even stronger between men that have persistent inflammation and prostate cancers that are quick growing and more aggressive.

The difference this study has with previous ones is the team of scientists examined the prostate tissues of men who had not previously undergone a biopsy due to elevated antigen levels in the prostate.

One of the authors of the study said that most men who have a biopsy do so because of having elevated levels of PSA. The problem with using these men for a study of this type is that the inflammation can cause injury to the prostate and elevate the levels of PSA independently from whether or not person has cancer.

Members of the study analyzed the Prostate Cancer Trial that was seven years in length and large scale and wanted to determine if finasteride, the hair growth medication could help reduce prostate cancer occurrence.

The group from John Hopkins examined tissue that was benign from 191 biopsies of men that had prostate cancer as well as from 209 men that did not have cancer.

The group discovered that over 86% of the men who had prostate cancer had a minimum of one sample of tissue that showed signs of inflammation. That was compared to only 78% of men who were cancer free.

By then reviewing the final outcomes health wise of the selected participants from the trial, the researchers were able to determine that men who had at least one sample of tissue showing chronic inflammation signs had a 1.78 times higher risk of developing a form of prostate cancer than men who did not experience inflammation, and risk 2.24 higher of developing the aggressive form of prostate cancer.

The link of inflammation remained even in men with low levels of PSA when the biopsies were taken.

Police Arrest Suspect in IRA Leader’s KillingA man has been held for questioning by police in Northern Ireland over the shooting death of Tommy Crossan the leading dissident republican in Belfast.

Police said a man, who is 26, was arrested. Crossan was the former lead figure in CIRA, the Continuity IRA. He was gunned down at an industrial complex near a fuel depot on Friday in view of many surrounding homes.

The police said the man arrested was in west Belfast at the Antrim office being questioned.

Three gunmen are suspected of carrying out the killing and detectives are examining a possibility that rival dissidents had been involved in Crossan’s murder.

Crossan was at one time the leader of CIRA’s Belfast unit, but is believed to have had a death threat and was expelled from the same group after there was a falling out a number of years ago.

It was alleged that at one time he was extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars in the name of the organization and then keeping the proceeds.

Suggestions have circulated that Crossan had been an agent with security services from Britain and was killed out of revenge for informing on former comrades in paramilitary, though those claims are used frequently to provide for the justification for carrying out a hit.

Crossan’s killing comes at a time when tensions continue to increase amongst dissident groups of republicans, with fighting continuing to bring problems to the ranks.

Last week a former gunman with CIRA was buried after being shot down outside a daycare center in Dublin in March.

The gunman was blamed for murdering two republican dissidents, Joseph Jones and Eddie Burns, in a dispute involving control of one of the factions.

Crossan spent six years in prison for conspiracy to murder law enforcement officers, after a gun attack in West Belfast at a police station in 1998.

The CIRA split in 1986 from the Provisional IRA and has long been opposed to the peace process. The process largely ended over three decades of brutal violence and helped transform Northern Ireland.

Crossan was gunned down on the day the Good Friday Agreement was signed 16 years ago, which established the sharing of political power between unionists and nationalists at Stormont.

Preeclampsia affects between 3% and 5% of pregnant women. It is a common cause of births that are premature. It can also cause swelling in the hands and feet, seizures, kidney failure and even death.

Preeclampsia is tied to an increase in homocysteine an amino acid, which is influenced strongly by genetic factors and diet. Preeclampsia symptoms include swelling in the legs, high blood pressure and others types of symptoms.

The complication affects up to 1 in 10 of first pregnancies. If the condition is left untreated it can advance and become eclampsia, a condition that is life threatening in which a woman suffers convulsive seizures late in the pregnancy or in the first week following delivery.

The U.S. Preventive Services task Force has released new guidelines and recommends that women who are pregnant and are high risk for preeclampsia receive a regular low dosage of aspirin as a means of prevention starting 12 weeks into their pregnancy.

Low-dose aspirin between 50 to 160 mgs per day, reduced preeclampsia risk by 24% during clinical trials said the task force statement.

In the task force statement, one doctor said that preeclampsia could cause serious health problems in both pregnant women and their babies. However, the good news, said the doctor, is pregnant women at high risk of developing the condition can receive a low aspirin dosage each day to help prevent preeclampsia from developing.

This could result in better outcomes health wise for both the expectant mother and her baby.

Aspirin in a low dosage daily also lowers the risk for premature birth by over 14% and cuts the risk by as much as 20% of a complication that can delay the growth of the baby said the task force’s statement.

The latest reported was written after the task force studied 23 studies that were published from 1986 to 2014.

The recent information from a recent medical journal says that close to 4% of all U.S. pregnancies are affected by the condition.

Statins, the cholesterol lowering medications that are hugely popular might help males who suffer from erectile dysfunction. At the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers, scientists led a first ever meta-analysis of studies done previously over the link between statins and erectile dysfunction.

The team, with Dr. John Kostis in the lead, analyzed 11 previous trials in order to find an effect that was significant of statins on ED in males who had both erectile dysfunction and high cholesterol. The results, said researchers showed the scores for erectile dysfunction increased.

It already is known that statins might work in a similar what to Viagra by helping the blood vessels to dilate properly which improves vascular blood flow into the penis, which in males with ED is restricted.

Dr. Kostis said that increase in the scores for ED with statins was about a third to, as much as one-half of what was reported with Viagra, Levitra and Cialis.

The doctor added that the effect of the statins was greater than that of lifestyle medication or testosterone.

Doctors and researchers said that statins were not a recommended primary treatment for males with erectile dysfunction in males that have healthy levels of cholesterol.

ED affects between 18 million and 30 million males across the globe. It occurs more frequently in males age 40 and above. Common causes of ED included high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, depression, stress and tobacco use.

A study on ED carried out by the University of Adelaide shows that effects of ED could be reversed through changes in lifestyle.

Lowering alcohol consumption, increasing daily physical activity, sleeping for longer periods and eating healthier were factors that helped erectile function in the study that included 810 men.

The led author of that study, Professor Gary Wittert said the biggest risk factors for ED typically were for physical conditions rather than ones that were psychological.

The results from the study showed that a large proportion of males were overcoming issues of erectile dysfunction naturally, with a remission level of as high as 29%, showing many of the things that cause ED are modifiable.