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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
 ...ug Administration reported yesterday such strange behavior as eating or driving while asleep.
These reports have provoked the F.D.E. to order the drug makers to make certain fliers for such sleeping drugs, where patients could read detailed instructions on how to use them.
The investigation of such side effects was caused by, but limited to numerous reports from the users of Ambien (the most prescribed sleeping drug). T... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...Researchers at the University of Washington have probably found a way to defeat the bacteria, which become more and more resistant to drugs. A new method of fighting such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice.
One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the c... |
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Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy |
 ...A new drug list was revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy.
Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol.
A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situatio... |
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France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models |
 ...of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It primarily affects young adolescent girls in the Western world and has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric condition, with approximately 10% of people diagnosed with the condition eventually dying d... |
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Cloned Dogs Will Serve for the South Korean Customs |
 ...The customs service of South Korea has unveiled seven cloned Labrador retrievers, bred to serve at the customs and sniff out explosive materials and drugs at ports and airports.
The institution responsible for cloning of the Labrador retrievers was Seoul National University, whose scientists cloned the first dog in 2005. The leader of the scientific team is a former aide of Hwang Woo-suk, Lee Byeong-chun. Doctor Hwang ma... |
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Algerian woman gave birth to septuplets |
| ...uplets and none of the children survived.
The world record was set in Italy, July 22 1971, when woman was pregnant with quindecaplets( 15 children): 10 girls and 5 boys and again due to fertility drugs. Although, all fetuses had to be extracted from mother's womb for health concerns.
The highest number of children conceived naturally without fertility drugs were 12 fetuses but in this case Argentinian woman lost t... |
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Woman saved her baby with the ring |
 ...A pregnant woman survived in the shoot-out during the robbery in the center of Rio de Janeiro thanks to her wedding ring, media said.
The robbery took place at the drugstore in Monte Alegre were a woman, 32, was working, as a man break into and aimed point blank at her with the gun. In order to protect herself somehow, a woman raised her hand to avert the shot and a bullet hit her wedding ring to bounce later on.
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Fake Products – a Trifle or Economic Crunch? |
 ... goods business is linked to bad working conditions, organized crime, child labor and terrorism.
Fake goods business is a serious problem to be resolved by all industries, from wallets and DVDs to drugs. To buy a replica watch or another counterfeit item, you do not have to shop at street corners or other shady places – fake goods are available through major chain stores and even some pharmacies.
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Chinese Products - to Buy or not to Buy? |
 ...orter of consumer products in the world, with its products sold in every corner of the globe. Meanwhile, millions of fake and substandard goods, from replica watches and luxury handbags to liquor and drugs, are annually produced in China. Back in 2004 the world was terified to find out that in the eastern province of Anhui 13 babies had died after being fed fake baby milk.
Nancy Nord, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ... |
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Woman's kidneys become a super-prise in TV show |
 ...t like the TV show but the idea is spreading quickly with the appearance of the new shows like Spuiten en Slikken (Shooting and Swallowing) were the participants will present various experiments with drugs and sexual exploits.
In 2005 Dutch TV also started a sperm donor show where a woman had to choose a father donor for her future child, but it was highly condemned by public.
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And now, it's banana flavored too |
| ...sted with three pounds of fruit flavored powder. The police reported strawberry and coconut as most popular flavors.
Roy Giorgi, commander of Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team, said the new sweetened drugs' price has jumped up to 40% higher than the old prices.
Mr. Giorgi said that the users felt a sort of medicine taste in the back of their throats when the drug was snored, yet now, they have strawberries in their thr... |
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8.2% Social Workers Took Drugs Last Month, Study Says |
| ...Study says every twelfth American employee took drugs at least once during last month.
The results are based on surveys conducted in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007. Each survey featured answers of 42,000 social, education and constructions' workers. Every employee was paid $30 for answering the researcher's questions.
According to the study, the most drug affected were restaurant workers (17.4%) and construction workers (1... |
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A New Tech to Trace Your Habits From a Drop of Sweat |
 ... the residue left on the print tells if the person is a man or a woman with men having higher levels of urea.
Scientists claim that fingerprint residue may even have some clues to the presence of drugs, gunpowder and other weapons. All this information used in forensic science play an important part and can considerably ease the investigation process.
Scientists say that laboratory equipment to make such analysis ... |
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Levitation Possible in Real World |
| ...e of major importance for example in tiny mechanical devices triggering an airbag to inflate it in the car. They are also necessary for providing power to very small 'lab on chip' devices applied in drugs testing and chemical analysis.
If the scientists learn how to manipulate the Casimir force, micro or nano-machines will run smoother and possibly with no friction at all. To reverse the Casimir effect, the researcher... |
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Your Health is fine, Mr. Bush! |
 ...per week and rides a bicycle.
The President takes absolutely no alcohol, smokes a cigar from time to time and takes multivitamins. The medical report also said that Bush didn't take any prescriptive drugs and that he preferred low-calorie diet drinks.
Examination showed that Bush lost about 4,5 pounds during last year and that his current weight was about 192 pounds. The Presidential blood pressure was 117/71 at the mom... |
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