| hoodiadietproducts.com – Hoodia Slimming, an Over-the-counter Natural Appetite Suppressant - Nov 28, 2004 14:29 IST |
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For centuries Hoodia Gordonii has been used as a natural appetite suppressant by native African tribesman. The plant was used to stave off hunger during long hunting expeditions whilst providing much needed fluid replenishment.
More recently a large drug company attempted to patent the active ingredient in Hoodia (P57) to develop a treatment for Obesity. There has been much criticism in the worldwide press over the rights of large drug companies to patent a natural extract - that in fact was discovered long ago by native Africans.
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| Cogent Medical Systems Becomes RamSoft USA - Nov 28, 2004 14:28 IST |
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Cogent Medical Systems, Inc (Mt Laurel, NJ) will become RamSoft USA, Inc, the United States affiliate of RamSoft, the Toronto based PACS and teleradiology software provider. RamSoft USA’s product and service offerings will expand upon those previously offered as the National Sales Agent for RamSoft since July 1, 2004.
Paul J. Vilary, with over ten years experience in this market, will head RamSoft USA’s operation as the National Sales Director. Prior to founding Cogent Medical Systems, Paul was the Vice President of Sales for a Systems Integrator and National Distributor of RadWorks Software in the US market. ”RamSoft has developed an extremely comprehensive product offering.
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| The Worlds First Palm Sized Container of Natural Hangover Prevention Tablets! - Nov 28, 2004 14:13 IST |
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With Christmas parties and New Years festivities now approaching most of us are well aware of the misery that can be suffered by a hangover or a drink too many. Now, a U.K. based company has developed a completely natural hangover preventative that can drastically reduce or even prevent these horrendous symptoms. Taken with (or before) your first two alcoholic drinks, could these tablets be the answer you have been looking for?
According to the U.K. Government, over 17 million working days lost each year in Britain through hangovers or drink related illnesses (according to the government), hangovers are not just a personal debilitation but also an economic sufferance for British businesses.
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| KwikMed Wins U.S. Approval as Only Online Pharmacy - Nov 28, 2004 13:56 IST |
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KwikMed has been working very hard to win some respect for its business model and it seems to be finally paying off.
Despite their many critics and detracters, KwikMed has been working with professionalism and integrity to prove that their business, an online pharmacy, has a legitimate place on the Internet.
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| Athena Smart Card Solutions Introduces ASECard Unified Badge - Nov 28, 2004 13:43 IST |
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Athena Smartcard Solutions, a developer and manufacturer of enterprise security solutions based on smart card technology, unveiled an integrated enterprise security solution that combines protection for physical premises and logical data access.
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| Disease kills 22 Orissa villagers in 10 months - Nov 28, 2004 13:39 IST |
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At least 22 people, including 15 children, have died in a tribal village in Orissa during the last 10 months.
Several others are facing health disorders.
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| Unfaithful partner? Blame his genes - Nov 28, 2004 12:46 IST |
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If your partner is cheating on you, blame it on his or her genes, says new research in Britain.
The study, billed as Britain’s biggest survey of sexual and other behaviours carried out by St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, also holds genes in a person responsible for his/her spirituality, sleeping disorders and even snoring.
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| Patient makes hospital her home - Nov 28, 2004 12:27 IST |
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A hospital in Orissa is facing a bizarre problem: a woman in her 80s admitted almost two years ago refuses to go home even though her broken leg was mended a long time ago.
According to hospital officials, Jangyaseni Sa, 75, was admitted in the 164-bed Bolangir government hospital in January 2003 after she fractured her right leg in an accident.
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| ’Mini Stroke’ Carries Significant Health Risk - Nov 28, 2004 12:10 IST |
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Transient ischemic attacks (TIA), short episodes of decreased blood flow to the brain, carry a not so benign prognosis, according to a new report in the journal Stroke.
TIAs are not the benign variant of stroke, but carry a rather high short-term risk for subsequent health impairment, Dr. Michael Daffertshofer from University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany told Reuters Health.
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| Stomach Cancer May Start in Bone Marrow - Nov 28, 2004 12:9 IST |
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Stomach cancer may originate from bone marrow cells rather than stomach cells, as was previously believed.
A new study in mice found that stomach cancer cells began as bone marrow cells that had migrated to the stomach. The bone marrow cells traveled to the stomach in response to inflammation caused by an infection with the bacterium that causes ulcers, Helicobacter pylori.
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| New Laser Therapy Can Easily Remove Acne Scars - Nov 28, 2004 11:57 IST |
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A few sessions of a new type of laser treatment appears to smooth out acne scarring with a relatively short recovery time, according to the results of a new study.
Improvement is long-lasting, and (patients) may continue to improve for up to a year following the last treatment, lead author Dr. Paul M. Friedman of the DermSurgery Laser Center in Houston told Reuters Health.
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| Calif. Drug Offenders Lapse Despite Rehab -Study - Nov 28, 2004 11:43 IST |
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A groundbreaking California program designed to get drug abusers the medical help they need and alleviate strain on the state’s prison system faced challenges in its first six months, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles looked at how drug abusers fared since the state’s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act took effect in July 2001. In 2000, voters backed a plan to send nonviolent drug offenders to rehab instead of prison. Supporters said it would be more effective and less expensive than incarceration.
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| Chest Pain Not from Heart? Check Again, Docs Urged - Nov 28, 2004 11:28 IST |
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People who go to the emergency room with chest pain and are told that it is not caused by a heart attack or angina might want to get a second opinion. Findings from a new study indicate that on rare occasions heart-related chest pain is incorrectly chalked up to something else.
In the study, nearly 3 percent of patients who were sent home with a diagnosis of non-heart chest pain went on to have a heart attack or related problem in the next 30 days, Dr. Chadwick Miller of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and colleagues report.
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| Flu Pandemic Inevitable, Plans Needed Urgently -WHO - Nov 28, 2004 11:14 IST |
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Every country in the world must come up urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
I believe we are closer now to a pandemic than at any time in recent years, said Shigeru Omi, regional director for the Western Region of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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| Banta Diet to Resume Individual Weekly Planning and Greater - Nov 28, 2004 10:43 IST |
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Answering The Overflowing Request, Bantadiet.Com To Resume Individual Weekly Planning, More Dieting Options And Greater Than Before Individual Support.
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| Cord blood offers leukaemia hope - Nov 28, 2004 10:31 IST |
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Cord-blood transplants have tended to be used only on children as it was not thought to contain enough stem cells to rebuild the blood system in adults.
But the study showed the survival rate for cord-blood transplants was the same as for slight mismatched bone marrow - the second best alternative treatment.
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| UK children top cannabis league - Nov 28, 2004 10:26 IST |
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About one in 10 of this age group have smoked pot at least 40 times in the last year, says the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
The UK also has the joint highest number of young cocaine users, alongside Spain.
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| Tablet Kiosk Now Shipping i-Series of Tablet PC’s - Nov 27, 2004 22:30 IST |
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TabletKiosk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sand Dune Ventures, Inc today announced that they are now shipping the Sahara i-Series of Tablet PCs. These units are based on the Intel Celeron 900 MHz and Intel Centrino 1.3GHz Processors, featuring either a Resistive touch-screen running Microsoft XP Professional or Active Digitizer screen running Microsoft XP Tablet Edition.
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| Hoodia Diet Products - Nov 27, 2004 22:24 IST |
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Hoodiadietproducts.com, providing Hoodia, the new fast acting, quality and affordable answer to your weight loss problems in the UK, Hoodiadietproducts.com is proud to launch in the United Kingdom.
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| It’s Never Too Early to Teach Kids the Activity Habit - Nov 27, 2004 7:41 IST |
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Jane Clark calls this the age of containerized kids.
As infants, children are plopped from car-safety seats to high chairs to baby seats to watch TV, said Clark, a movement specialist at the University of Maryland.
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