CRIMINAL gangs using hijacked computers are behind a surge in unwanted email peddling sex, drugs and stock tips in Britain.
The number of spam messages has tripled since June and now accounts for as many as nine out of 10 emails sent worldwide, according to US email security company Postini.
As Christmas approaches, the daily trawl through […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A University of Iowa researcher is investigating the benefits of hormone replacement in older men.
Moshe Wald recently published a review of testosterone replacement studies in the Journal of Andrology, which publishes research findings on male reproductive tracts. Wald believes that testosterone replacement therapy might improve bone mineral density, libido, erectile function, […]
LINCOLN, Neb. — David Spittler doesn’t remember the fraternity house fire that sent him to a hospital on Nov. 17.
“So many things came together that were unlikely that made it possible that I’m alive today. I mean, I was in that fire for 20 minutes longer than anybody else,” Spittler said.
Spittler has pieced together a […]
Medtronic ITB Therapy Improved Patients’ Muscle Tone, Functional Independence
and Quality of Life
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — November 22, 2006 — A new study of stroke survivors shows that treatment delivered with an implantable drug pump from Medtronic, Inc. significantly improved patients’ muscle tone, functional independence and quality of life.
Study participants had a condition called spasticity, a common […]
The southern Taiwan branch of the Bureau of National Health Insurance yesterday requested the God’s Heart Hospital in the southern county of Chiayi to immediately recall fake norvasc tablets, a popular medicine against hypertension, and asked patients to take the initiative to exchange fake tablets for real ones.
The BNHI made the request as part of […]
ROCK HILL - A drug informant used cocaine with suspended York County coroner Doug McKown and also bought drugs from the coroner’s girlfriend while McKown watched, according to an arrest warrant.
The warrant relies heavily on information from four drug informants and said police also have a video and audio recording of McKown’s girlfriend Erin Jenkins […]
QUEENS—Nine employees of the Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home in Queens have been arrested after a hidden camera revealed evidence of widespread patient neglect and falsification of patient records. Among those arrested was a physician who served as the medical director of the nursing home, two licensed practical nurses and six nurse aides.
According to the […]
BRASILIA, Brazil — The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners.
“Since we started the free distribution of sexual stimulants, our elderly population changed. They’re much happier,” said Joao de Souza Luz, the mayor of Novo Santo Antonio, […]
It is not always possible to avoid stress and it is easy to feel trapped and unable to cope. A recent survey on the causes and effects of stress was conducted among males and females in the UAE with 57 percent of the survey respondents being male and 43 percent female. The survey showed that […]
An attorney for Chaz Higgs is questioning whether authorities did the proper forensic testing to support their allegation that Higgs killed his wife, state Controller Kathy Augustine, by injecting her in the buttock with a rare drug.
Reno defense attorney Dave Houston said that typically during a homicide investigation in which succinylcholine poisoning is suspected, tissue […]