A shopping frenzy followed the release of the first FDA approved over-the-counter diet drug. “I have never in my life experienced anything like this,” store manager Roe Love, a pharmacist for 20 years, said as she eyed the empty space next to the last box of 90 capsules selling for $59.99. According to Love, the buyers were overwhelmingly women,
“And they’re not fat,”
she said.
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A man who spent five years in jail for exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman to the virus.
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A study concluded that prehistoric man had sex for fun, engaging in practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys.
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A group of Nigerian families has sued the drugs giant Pfizer following the deaths of 11 children and injury to others who are said to have taken part in tests of a drug to treat meningitis.
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The G8 committed to spend sixty billion dollars over five years on funding programs for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. But several groups say the pledge falls short of required needs and exists mostly of funds that have already been announced.
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A polish man awoke from a 19 year coma. “I could not talk or do anything, now it’s much better,” he said. “I wake up at 7 a.m. and I watch TV.”
[stoked]
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Dr. Kevorkian promised not to kill anymore people.
[watch out]
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The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
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President Bush called Wednesday for Congress to spend $30 billion to fight global AIDS over the next five years, a near doubling of financing that is part of a White House effort to burnish Mr. Bush’s humanitarian credentials before he meets leaders of the Group of 8 industrialized nations next week.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday offered a plan to provide health care to millions of Americans and more affordable medical insurance, financed by tax increases on the wealthy.
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A woman who died of lung disease five months after the September 11, 2001 attacks has been added to the medical examiner’s list of attack victims.
The groundbreaking move on Wednesday marked the first time the city of New York has officially declared that exposure to World Trade Center toxins following the 9/11 attacks contributed to a person’s death.
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According to Dr. Phillip Leveque who has studied marijuana for fifty years and had more than 4000 patients, marijuana is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso.
[dangerous]
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A new international study has ranked the United States health care system last among major rich countries even though the U.S. spends double what the average industrialized country spends on health care.
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Scientists made a treadmill with a computer on it for fat people to use at work.
[slimming]
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University linked throat cancer to oral sex.
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The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
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Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.”Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat,” Dr. Jimmy Bell said.
[fat on the inside]
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The US Treasury Department asked Michael Moore to explain himself.
[get ready]
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The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday to misleading the public about the drug’s risk of addiction, a federal prosecutor and the company said.
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The Senate passed a bill giving the FDA greater power to police drug safety.
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