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Obese people are blamed of causing global warming. High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to 1bn extra tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year, compared with countries with leaner populations. What is...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Alaska Governor and former Republican 2008 vice-president nominee Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her governorship.
The resignation will come at the end of the...
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A Philadelphia man’s accused of using Tarot cards and mysticism to lure three teenage girls into having sex with him.
“He was reading my cards and told me...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
made popular Jul 3 2009
While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Amidst the fireworks, the beer and the cookouts associated with the celebration of the 4th of July Independence holiday, it is common to forget why the founders of the...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
made popular Jul 3 2009
Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
made popular Jul 3 2009
The King of Pop still had it.
In defiance of all the critics who called him Wacko Jacko and a has-been, Michael Jackson still put on a show that eluded most artists....
made popular Jul 3 2009
California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
made popular Jul 3 2009
President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...
made popular Jul 3 2009
With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist’s son, he married money,...
made popular Jul 2 2009
It has long been known that Michael Jackson had an inconsiderate stage-dad. Joe Jackson reportedly pushed his son excessively as a young star.
Jackson has long stated...
made popular Jul 2 2009
For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Dreaming of a house that is remarkably awesome? Designed by Touzet studio, the amazing North Bay Road Residence located in Miami Beach, Florida is one such example. The...
made popular Jul 1 2009
As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
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Visit to a country of paradoxes—Health Front
Let us take you on an imaginary visit to a large and interesting country. While visiting this country, we are especially...
made popular Jan 12 2009
AP, Brussels
The European Commission proposed uniform rules Wednesday on what information pharmaceutical companies can provide the public about their drugs.
made popular Dec 10 2008
AP, Washington
When drug makers made a surprise announcement this week that they no longer recommend cough and cold remedies for youngsters under 4, they didn’t let on that it...
made popular Oct 10 2008
AP, Washington
Drug companies say children under 4 should not be given cough and cold medicines.
made popular Oct 7 2008
AP, Washington
Parents wondering whether to give cold and cough medicines to their kids may not get help from the government anytime soon.
made popular Oct 2 2008
AP, Washington
With a new cold season coming, the government is trying once more to decide what to do about over-the-counter medicines for kids’ coughs and sniffles. Doctors...
made popular Oct 2 2008
Stroke may occur at any time and most of the time it goes undetected around the time within which something could have been done. The patients who suffered a stroke...
made popular Sep 10 2008
Medicines and treatment are becoming very expensive. Nobel prize winning scientist Sir John Sulston condemns profits made at the expense of patients...
made popular Jul 7 2008
Can our mind heal itself? Can we prevent and protect ourselves from depression?
What is depression? Is it just a biochemical process which can even cripple some...
made popular Jun 29 2008
AP, Washington
Vioxx, Bextra, Rezulin, Baycol. Looking at drugs yanked off the market, Harvard researchers found a disturbing pattern: Medicines approved right on deadline by the Food...
made popular Mar 26 2008
Doctors suffer from the God-complex. Michael Foucault, the twentieth century iconoclast had shown in his famous book Discipline and Punish how and why medicos think...
made popular Nov 15 2007
AP, Washington
Cold and cough medicines recently pulled from sale for infants and toddlers aren’t safe or effective in slightly older children either, say doctors lined up to...
made popular Oct 18 2007
AP, Washington
Very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines, federal health officials say in recommending that the “consult your...
made popular Sep 28 2007
The government of India is likely to limit trade margins paid by companies to retailer at 50%. This would result in the price fall of almost 200 commonly used medicines...
made popular Apr 7 2007
Well-known series of drugs called, statins that are used worldwide for lowering LDL - the so-called bad cholesterol, which in turn prevents progression of dangerous...
made popular Jan 30 2007
It seems rural cooperative medical care system is moving ahead quite successfully in many parts of China as reports exhibits that about 140 million people have been...
made popular Jan 9 2007
Doses of antibiotics to cure acute bronchitis may not help you, according to a new finding. Experiments done during the course of this study found no evidence that...
made popular Nov 16 2006
Pregnant women who take anti- inflammatory drugs during pregnancy are more susceptible to have babies with birth defects.
Anick Berard, Ph.D. of St. Justine Hospital...
made popular Aug 25 2006
According to a new research, people may live healthier lives if they take regular pills. E ven taking dummy pills may reduce the risk of dying than those who do not...
made popular Jul 1 2006
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Dalecia Apple and Laume Osei Bonsu simulate the spread of a disease at Banneker Science Center today. They were among 70 Newark high school students participating in a program about the pharmaceutical research and development process. Students from Arts,.
