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Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

...oat and cough. In a separate document, MedImmune claimed the vaccine's safety and efficacy were proven in children 24 to 59 months old and "that the risk-benefit profile for children 12 (to) 23 months of age without a history of wheeze or asthma warrants use of FluMist in this population as well." It als...

US Professors Develop Fusion Protein to Fight Cancer

Two Oklahoma university professors have claimed significant success in the continuing fight to develop a drug that could target only cancerous cells. Thomas Pento and Roger HarrisonTwo professors say they have developed a cancer-fighting protein that can stop the spread of certain cancerous cel...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...I was simply ignorant to your official rules," and claimed that the drugs had been prescribed to him for an unspecified medical condition. The website of Australias Sydney Morning Herald carries the full text of Stallones apology. In it he says. I feel terrible that my breach of the rules has set a poor ...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

...man, the policeman would have been drug tested. He claimed "(The bar) is more intent on protecting the 'reput...ar than protecting the public". A senior counsel claimed earlier this week that cocaine use was "rife" at the bar and had almost replaced alcohol as the recr...

Australian Girls Took Instructions to Commit Suicide from Internet Site

...eir daughter's death, Gater and his wife, Jennifer claimed they had not seen any signs that Jodie was unhappy. Three days after their disappearance, Rob Gater had made an emotional media appeal for his daughter and her friend to get in touch. 'Jodie, if you're watching, please make contact with us. We miss...

WHO Announces Deal on Sharing Bird Flu Virus

...us emerged in South East Asia in late 2003, it has claimed more than 180 lives around the world. Indonesia has been hardest hit, with more than 70 deaths. Scientists fear the virus could mutate to a form which could be easily passed from human to human, triggering a pandemic....

Super-oxidised Water Found Effective Against MRSA

Oculus, a Californian firm has claimed to have developed super-oxidised water, which speeds up healing of a wound . The water, which is made by passing it through a salt membrane that generates the oxychlorine ions, kills bacteria, virus and fungi. The company claims that the solution ...

GPS Could Help to Identify High Risk Zones

...d several Latin American geophysical associations, claimed that GPS has been used to reveal the location of a locked zone to the west of Seattle. Locked zones occur where adjacent tectonic plates appear 'locked' together as a result of the friction between them. When the plates eventually overcome the fric...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

...e, but nobody actually came out to speak on this," claimed Swapanpriya, a visitor to the gay fest. "I can go ahead and confess that I am bi-curious, the films are amazing, the films have opened my mind," she added. Officials of UNAIDS say there is no data on the gay population in India as even collecti...

Travolta Maybe Reluctant to Publicaly Discuss About Sons Autism

... pretended that theres nothing wrong with Jett, or claimed that he has Kawasaki syndrome, a disease characterized by high fever, skin rash and swelling of the lymph nodes. Tim Kenny, one of Travoltas neighbours, and the father of an autistic girl, revealed that Scientology is the reason behind Travoltas de...

Sadie Frost Takes a Swing on the Trapeze to Keep in Shape

...aily Express quoted Frost, as saying. Frost also claimed that she is no stranger to adventure sports and is a fan of pole dancing and rock climbing. 'Its so easy to get old if your life feels safe and comfortable. So I make myself go and do things I dont want to do,' she said. Sadie, whos been linked w...

New Studies: Commercials Aren't Making Kids Fat

...ontradicts childhood obesity scaremongers who have claimed time and again that increased television marketing to children has caused them to eat more unhealthy food. From Superman to Shrek, food marketing has existed for decades. CCF points out that the new reports indicate that the number of advertisements ...

Controversy Spikes Over Anti-diabetes Drug Avandia

...t to greater heart attack risk, while a GSK study claimed rosiglitazone is safe. The GlaxoSmithKline study published online Tuesday by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) gave preliminary results of a four-year clinical study of 4,446 patients showing Avandia did not increase the rate of heart atta...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...ub's Environmental Quality Program. The petition claimed the unrestricted manufacture and release of NPEs poses serious threat to the environment and sought more research into its adverse health effects particularly of dry cleaners, launderers and other washer-men. Some large U.S. companies including Pro...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...b blast at the historic Mecca Masjid here that had claimed nine lives. Hyderabad District Collector R.V. Chandravadhan said 24 fish dispensing counters have been opened at the venue. For the first time, advance tokens were issued for the patients. He said over 8,000 advance bookings through tokens were reg...

Cars in UK to Be Fitted With Black Boxes to Reduce Fatalities

...tims sooner. EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has claimed the eCall scheme could save about 2,500 lives every year across Europe. But motoring groups fear the technology could be developed to spy on drivers' movements. Edmund King, of RAC Foundation, said: "If this black box is used purely as an SOS sa...

Mozambique Set to Liberalise Abortion Law

...eeling from a devastating 1976-1992 civil war that claimed up to one million lives. The influential Catholic Church is firmly against decriminalisation, with the Archbishop of Maputo, Francisco Chimoio, even declaring last month that women who terminate pregnancy can expect to "live their lives in fear of ...

Paris' 'medical Condition' is a Sexually Transmitted Infection

...ease had triggered protests from jail inmates, who claimed that Hilton is given special treatment because of her affluent background. "The women inside the jail are seething. They say if you're a rich white girl you get special treatment," the Sun quoted a source, as saying. "There are girls in here with...

New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive

...that in the next decade or so," he said. Winston claimed that scientists including him have identified a protein, which might be used to prolong the life of women's eggs. "Women are much more healthy than they were and the period before the menopause could be extended without risk," he said. Winston, who...

Is Gemstone-therapy an Alternative to Treat Illness?

...have come up in various parts of Varanasi. It is claimed wearing a right stone matching ones horoscope can cure a person of all ailments. Some of these astrology doctors admit that astrological permutations and combinations can only treat the problems indirectly and it is the allopathic doctors that can ...

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