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Anyone who really believes in claims as ludicrous as these, some might say, deserve to be fooled. But the FDA points out that in the case of a public-health emergency like H1N1, we all have an interest in making sure that quack products are exposed, lest they allow the virus to spread more easily. "That's why the FDA has put out an aggressive strategy," says Saben. "These products pose a significant threat to public health." The products might be fake - but the H1N1 virus is very real...
...though, in the name of a relaxing summer, I allow the confines of my world to stretch from Brick Lane to Hampstead. It’s broad enough...
...show North Korean technicians milling around guest houses in the capital. Others published by the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma, an anti-government television channel, detail the extent of some of these complexes, which have independent power supplies, built-in ventilation systems, and are reportedly large enough to allow large vehicles to drive through them. The projects have been nicknamed "tortoise shells" by the government - the often brutally repressive regime intends to use North Korea's subterranean savvy to man a network of underground command centers, linked with fiber-optic cable, that can rule Burma in times of emergency...
...Supreme Court renders the first verdict void, and so sidesteps the issue of double jeopardy which states a person can't be tried for the same crime twice.) Politkovskaya's family and lawyers oppose a retrial, saying a guilty verdict for the alleged accomplices could end the investigation and allow those directly responsible for the murder to remain free. Meanwhile, journalists and human rights advocates can't help but note that the announcement comes little more than a week before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit Russia. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...
BOLD would allow doctors to study patients electing to have surgery from the outset, giving researchers the opportunity to measure and analyze any factors that could affect health at all points before and after bariatric procedures. "The database collection is powered to address both the short- and long-term issues related to bariatric surgery, including things such as weight loss, improvement in health parameters like diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and cholesterol problems," says DeMaria. With the ranks of overweight and obese people growing each year, that would certainly be welcome information for anyone contemplating surgery as part of a weight...