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PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

...iss out on medical progress. Animals are not furry little humans and their bodies cannot reliably predict results for human conditions," Alistair Currie, Senior Research and Campaigns Co-ordinator of PETA, said. "Thankfully, there are plenty of charities that go for the triple win: they don't cause animal...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

... team of Cochrane Researchers could find that very little attention has been given to this alternative of cu...n at helping them to stop smoking completely. But, little thought has been given to the idea of helping them reduce their use. This is partly for the fear of ...

Mens Sexual Prowess Not Affected by Prostate Cancer Drug

.... The study suggests that finasteride will cause little or no sexual dysfunction for most men who decide to take it, conclude the authors....

Clubbers Stunned by Mick Jaggers Boozy Bash

...ck Jagger left clubbers dumbfounded when he went a little wild at a club. The Rolling Stones singer was with his entourage at the Celia bar in Bucharest, Romania after a gig and spent a whopping amount on booze. It looks like the rocker was missing girls in his party so he reportedly asked where the wo...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...at's harder to bear, however, is the fact that her little sister plays with the son of her abuser and often visit their house. She believes the breakdown she suffered that led to her finally seeking help was triggered by her sister turning eight -- the same age her own abuse started -- and a feeling that ...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

... doctors like general practitioners, who often had little training in treating serious pain or in recognizing signs of drug abuse. But experienced drug abusers and novices, including teenagers, soon discovered that chewing an OxyContin tablet or crushing one and then snorting the powder, or injecting it ...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

... NSSI engaged in by teens in the community because little is known about self-harming behaviour in this part... psychiatric and other institutionalized settings, little research has looked at NSSI in community samples, said Lloyd-Richardson. A total of 633 high scho...

Around the World in 86 Days ... on Motorbike With Double-hand Transplant

...aging to unbutton his shirt sleeves, albeit with a little difficulty, to show off the scars on his forearms....ion" and can be resolved around a table and with a little time," he said. In any case, this survivor bares no grudge towards his attacker, who ironically bl...

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...drug costs," Cohen said. "And patients would get a little vitamin C to boot." "The rapidly escalating price of medications (especially for cancer and other life-threatening diseases) has provided incentives to explore pharmacological approaches to lower the costs of drugs," Ratain and Cohen conclude. "A...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

...alth impact of neo-natal circumcision has received little study, while the consequences of circumcision on sexual function in the adult male have received even less attention. But now, a recent study, by M. Sorrels and colleagues from the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Center a...

Angelina Jolie Wants No Fewer Than 14 Kids!

...star replied that she wanted to have as many as 14 little ones. "Hmm, it fluctuates between seven and 13 or 14," the Us Magazine.com quoted Jolie, as saying, tewart then praised her by saying, "Wow, I'll tell you this: I admire that, because two is kicking my ass." To this Jolie replied that four kids a...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

... called the macula and can lead to blindness in as little as three months. The two drugs are known as anti-VEGF drugs and they work by targeting VEGF (Vascular endothelial growth factor), a protein that helps the formation of new blood vessels. In the case of AMD these new blood vessels are unstable a...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

...e university, said that the results showed that as little as a 2-minute delay could not only halve the risk of anaemia by half, but also increase low iron levels in the blood by a third. "The results of our study clearly show this reduces the incidence of anaemia and improves iron stores in newborns. And,...

Four Organ Transplants Dont Help, Canadian Teenager Dies

...ts at Toronto General Hospital. Doctors held out little hope that he would survive the operation, and when...nd then as you keep pushing, you're able to walk a little bit, eat a little bit, and you realize that you made it through it ," he said in a TV interview at t...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...o through too many layers of command. "There seems little point in providing high technology in-hospital care when our patients still take several hours to travel a few miles to us. "We use support or anti-tank helicopters that are re-roled on an ad hoc basis for the critical care and transport of our sicke...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...come forth to 'cleanse' the country, there is very little chance that these laws will seep through to the grass root level to benefit the common man!...

Nanoparticle in the Treatment of Glaucoma

...ave shown not only high penetration rates but also little patient discomfort. The miniscule size of the nanoparticles makes them less abrasive than some of the complex polymers now used in most eye drops. Seal and his team created a specialized cerium oxide nanoparticle and bound it with a compound that h...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...time for the International Space Station to grow a little more," Williams told ground control before the astronauts floated into space shuttle Atlantis that would take them home. Undocking at 10.42 a.m. (8.12 pm IST) Tuesday, Atlantis is scheduled to touchdown at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida at 1.54 p.m....

Some Common Human Injuries Also Common in Dogs

...p in the air, come down and land on one leg with a little twist and a pop. That would be similar to the way a football player or a basketball player would get a cruciate rupture," Roush said. There are certain factors that may contribute to a cruciate ligament tear. These factors also mirror risk factors ...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...d with the Texas medical board. However, they made little effort to refute Unigenetics' findings. It seemed clear, however, that that job would be left to some of the 12 respondent witnesses who are scheduled to testify next week. The defendant (called the respondent in vaccine court) in this case is the ...

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