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...seem to bother the Americans who pop pills and snap up supplements touted as brain enhancers. The latter are often a waste of money. Studies examining the cognitive benefits of supplements have either proved inconclusive or shown only modest effects. There's some evidence that the popular herb ginkgo biloba boosts cerebral blood flow and improves mental functioning, particularly when taken with ginseng. But there's also evidence that it doesn...
After searching the room, HUPD confiscated 45 clear plastic bags containing herb-like substances which the report described as marijuana and psilocybin, a blue purse holding “an off-white waxy substance that was in flakes and a solid yellow chunk of an unknown substance,” a pipe, a 200-gram weight and scale, a large black hunting knife, and a small box of rolling papers...
...Boutique Princesse Tam Tam (53, Rue Bonaparte), and look for late-January sales. Sunday-morning ritual? Walk and shop the thriving March Biologique (Boulevard Raspail, between Rue de Rennes and Rue du Cherche-Midi). Here amid the cheese and mushrooms are cashmere shawls, Panama hats and herb-infused bath salts. I never leave without buying the best latke--here it's called a galette--I ever ate: grated potato, onion and cheese all sizzled and crusty...
Joining the Republican bloc were Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both of Wisconsin, as well as Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the committee’s ranking member...
...severe cases, which kill up to 2.7 million people a year. But a study by the medical-research charity Wellcome Trust published in the Lancet last Friday showed that an injectable version of the drug artesunate?one of a range of medicines derived from sweet wormwood, a traditional Chinese herb?can reduce the chances of death from severe malaria by 35% compared to quinine. The results were so striking that the study is likely to alter the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for treatment of severe malaria. "This is quite significant," says Dr. Peter Olumese, a malaria-drug-policy...