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Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...ogether the chain of secondary neuro-symptoms that meant the Holocaust became the focus of Hitler's psychotic behaviour. "This disease can send you mad and it could be a horrible explanation for the obsession that led to the Holocaust. It's very hard to say with certainty. There's ample circumstantial evi...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...rew caps were an eco-friendly option, because cork meant felling trees. Also up for discussion at Vinexpo was the problem of brand identification, with 30-year-old Guillaume Halley, for instance, taking a revolutionary sales step for a French producer by declassifying one of his chateaux in order to create...

Ranbaxy Launches Pravastatin Sodium Tablets in US

...had launched in the US pravastatin sodium tablets, meant for heart diseases . Being the first-to-file, the company will enjoy a 180-day exclusivity for the pravastatin 80mg and benefit from the commercial gains during the period, it informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The annual sales for the tab...

Drug Firms Sue British Regulator Over Alzheimer's Drugs

...dge Linda Dobbs that the change in NICE's guidance meant that 96,600 people per year with mild Alzheimer's would not now receive the drugs. The Alzheimer's Society, which represents people with dementia, claimed ahead of the hearing that NICE had acknowledged the drugs worked but, at a cost of 2.50 pound...

Brits Experiencing Moth Trouble With Their Cashmeres

...s cheaper and more readily available than ever has meant more and more people are experiencing trouble with moths . Pest control company Rentokil was quoted by Scotsman as saying that the number of calls received to deal with moths has risen by 25 per cent over the last year. "We're currently receivin...

Naps in the Afternoon may Harm Your Kids

...les successfully. Sleeping in the afternoon also meant that these kids were going to be later in the night. Such kids performed worse on the puzzles. In another study, Dr John Harsh and colleagues from the University of Southern Mississippi found that kids who took long daytime naps fell asleep at nig...

It Takes 750 Pounds a Year to Keep Your Loved One Happy

...oneyExpert.com also revealed that the extravaganza meant remembering to gift something on special days, and saying a sorry or thank you. 62 pounds a month that amounts to 744 pounds a year may sound really open-handed, but the study of 2300 males has found that it comes to 3 percent of average annual inc...

Helpline Launched for Hearing Impaired

...en with hearing disabilities. "This is basically meant to facilitate the treatment of early hearing disabilities in children," Srijith Sreedharan, managing trustee of the Social Service Foundation said at the launch of the new facility. "All those who need this service just need to call a number and th...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

...ng long trips to help them stay active. It is also meant for those who engage in high energy activities like adventure sports, hunting and fishing. The company states that the caffeine content is equivalent to that of a typical soda drink. Incidentally, sunflower seeds gained popularity in the baseball c...

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

...e to unexpected quarters. The WHOs 9 solution is meant to improve patient safety around the world and lessen the number of health care related accidents that affect millions. Patient safety is a primary concern in both developed and developing countries. The nine key points listed by the World Health O...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...harm, expressiveness, good grooming or whatever is meant by beauty. Gray or white hair looks better on us as we move into our middle years and beyond. (Dye-jobs often clash with our skin tones)."...

WHO's Guidelines Lack Evidence, Lancet Says

...nvent itself as the technical agency it was always meant to be....

Resident Bacteria May Help Clean Phosphorous From Lakes

...y originated in an era when 'wastewater treatment' meant dumping largely untreated sewage back into the lakes, says Katherine McMahon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. 'Phosphorus is something that, once it gets into the lakes, it's very hard to ...

Treatment of Premature Babies, Opossums Could Help

...re actually on par.' Dr Belov said the discovery meant opossums would make good models for the study of human disease. Opossums are born without an immune system, which develops as they hang off their mother's teats. Not only does that make it easier for scientists to study them but a good understand...

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

...ound that embarrassment over unsightly sunburn has meant that one in three Brits could not wear the clothes they wanted on holiday; and half of those surveyed admitted that lying on their backs was too painful as a result of sunburn. Yet British holiday-makers are still being careless in the sun - only one...

'Metro' - a Witty Look at Insensitivities of City Life

...ing on a rooftop to scream their lungs out. It's meant to be therapeutic and we'll take Anurag Basu's word for it. "Metro" falters only in parts. Some of the narrative's punctuation marks are overemphasized. And the spiral of human relationships often seems to replicate Mike Nichols' "Closer". And yes,...

Scientists Recommend New Guidelines For Cholesterol Testing In Children

...glyceride fat levels. This new reference data is meant to improve upon current guidelines, published by the U.S. National Cholesterol Education Program, which incidentally, do not account for age-related fluctuations. Still, notes Janssen, these guidelines have not yet been routinely adapted into clini...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...period of time for sustained effect. The drug is meant to be swallowed whole and digested over 12 hours. It was later found that the pills can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the number of deaths linked to t...

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

...pression, or whether she was in a situation which meant she couldn't keep the child," he said. Mr Kennett launched a scathing attack on The Daily Telegraph's editor David Penberthy, whom he blamed for allowing the headline to be published. "This man in an absolutely irresponsible, uncaring, unprofessi...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...f about 13 percent between 2000 and 2006. This has meant that more and more people are pushing into rural areas. In dry weather conditions, such regions can be rife with dry, crackling brush ideal kindling for a wildfire sparked by a bolt of lightning, discarded cigarette butt, or another trigger. In y...

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