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Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...rystal, and when a voltage pulse is applied to the crystal it moves forward and pushes the piston. This, in turn, pushes the drug in the form of a small jet which penetrates into the skin." The pulsed micro-jets are expelled at over 100 metres per second at volumes of just 2-15 nanolitres per pulse. The nu...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

...e have used the drugs, which include speed, ice or crystal meth, in the past twelve months. Methamphetamine is a very addictive stimulant drug that activates certain systems in the brain. It is chemically related to amphetamine but, at comparable doses, the effects of methamphetamine are much more potent,...

Child Abuse - When God’s Gifts Land in Devils’ Clutchs

...n unless it is rape. Legal implications need to be crystal clear - laws pertaining to child abuse need to be drafted appropriately. Finally, empowering children with knowledge, and offering invaluable security and support both at home and outside would gradually obliterate the scourge. Source-Medindi SAV...

Large Fluid Intake Won’t Help to Keep Cool for Marathon Runner

...ensors, which contain temperature-sensitive quartz crystal oscillators that vibrate at a frequency relative to its surrounding temperature and communicate the temperature by radio wave to a recording device worn by the runner. For previous studies, body temperatures have been taken after races, but this was ...

Canadian Court Rules Grocery Shops can Sell Cold Medications Containing Pseudoephedrine

...containing pseudoephedrine were being used to make crystal meth. Methamphetamine (methylamphetamine or des...ssault are all fuelled by the adrenaline rush from crystal meth....

Actress Sally Field Vows to Fight Against Osteoporosis

...treatment immediately. The danger she faced became crystal clear a short time later while playing with her grandchildren. 'I had a five-year old on my back and a seven-year old in a wagon, pulling them up my steep driveway,' Field said. I realized, Im at risk. I may not make it up this steep driveway. Fi...

Number of Syphilis Cases Rising Among MSM in U.S.

...ntion messages," Ghanem said. He added that use of crystal methamphetamine is associated with unsafe sexual practices linked to syphilis....

Fergie Used to Talk to a Basket When She was Hooked on Meth

...r Fergie was so fazed-out when she was addicted to crystal methamphetamine addiction eight years ago, that she used to talk to a basket . The Black Eyed Peas' singer revealed that she talked to the basket thinking someone was sitting inside it, and would come and catch her. "I remember thinking somebody w...

Modified Drug Therapy for Alzheimers Disease

... its activity, a beta-secretase inhibitor. X-ray crystal structureDownload photo caption belowThese molecules fit together like puzzle pieces," Ghosh said. "We created a molecule that fits with a key piece of the Alzheimer's disease puzzle. When the treatment molecule binds to the enzyme, it changes the sh...

Human Membranes Crystal Structure may Help Tailor Asthma Drugs

Scientists have managed to reveal the crystal structure of a human membrane protein, LTC4 synthase, which has a major influence on the development of asthma . LTC4 synthase is tremendously difficult to analyse, and previously only low-resolution information has been available on two membrane...

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

...lion young adults reported use in the past year of crystal meth in 2001- 2002, according to a new nationally ...gs, published in the journal "Addiction," indicate crystal methamphetamine users were more likely to be male, poor, living in the West, and not employed or in ...

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