…eir mothers The article also provoked responses from religious and Pro-Life groups. Rev. Joanna Jepson came to public attention when she spoke out against a late abortion that had been carried out in 2001. Doctors are permitted to carry out abortions beyond the 24-week legal limit if they believe a baby’s disability is serious enough, but Rev. Joanna Jepson argued that a cleft palate was a…
Cricket tycoon Allen Stanford has been found guilty by a court in Houston, Texas, of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Allen Stanford, 61, was convicted on 13 of the 14 charges. He had pleaded not guilty to defrauding some 30,000 investors with bogus investments through his Stanford International Bank in Antigua to fund a lavish lifestyle. Allen Stanford faces a sentence of up to 20 years in pri…
…a records what is happening before a patient’s eyes and fires beams of near infrared light on to the retinal chip. The creates an electrical signal which is passed on to nerves. Natural light is 1,000 times too weak to power the implant. The researchers said: “Because the photovoltaic implant is thin and wireless, the surgical procedure is much simpler than in other retinal prosthetic…
d Caribbean. But after the collapse of his agreement to stage Twenty20 cricket in England, his financial empire began to crumble amid investigations by US regulators. Forbes Magazine listed him as the 605th richest man in the world in 2006. Allen Stanford has been sentenced to 110 years in jail for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $7 billion However, since his arrest…
…ntional medicine. “Given the circumstances, it seems sound to assume that Mr Jobs’ choice for alternative medicine has eventually led to an unnecessarily early death.” Steve Jobs died on October 5 at 56 due to respiratory arrest caused by pancreatic cancer. Dr Ramzi Amri claimed that Steve Jobs died from pancreatic cancer more quickly because of his apparent refusal to embrace “conventional…
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday. Federal Medical Center Devens spokesman John Collauti described the conditions under which 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being held in the Ayer facility after being moved there from a hospital Friday….
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…k his life, few people knew that the well-known automotive entrepreneur wrestled with bipolar disorder. “Currently the best treatments for bipolar disorder are only effective for 30 percent to 50 percent of patients,” said Melvin McInnis, M.D., the Thomas B and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression at the University of Michigan Medical School and associate dir…
…20;transcription factors”. The researchers used a virus to infect skin cells with three transcription factors known to be at high levels in neural precursor cells. After three weeks about one in 10 of the cells became neural precursor cells. Lead researcher Prof. Marius Wernig said: “We are thrilled about the prospects for potential medical use of these cells. “We’ve shown…
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level. Serge Haroche and David Wineland will share the prize, worth 8 million Swedish krona ($1.2 million). Their “quantum optics” work deals with single photons and ions, the basic units of light and matter. It could lead to…
“Bicholim Conflict” was voted a “good article” – a Wikipedia badge of honor – and sat happily on the online encyclopedia for more than half a decade. But editors have lately discovered a small issue with the site’s meticulously written 4,500 word article detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was entirely made up. After five years of featuring the piece, which tells th…
ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
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Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, has landed in Rabat, Morocco, after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat, 19 hours after taking off from Madrid. The plane – the size of a jumbo jet – was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors. The 2,500 km-trip (1,550 miles), begun i…
Medical marijuana dispensaries in California have been ordered to close from Saturday, as a federal crackdown looms. Distributors and their landlords were told in late September to shut down in 45 days or face prosecution. Some marijuana distributors filed for a temporary restraining order earlier this month. California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, but use of the drug remains illegal unde…
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prosecutors say. Willie Robinson, 8, died of Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2008 after begging his parents to get him medical care, according to prosecutors Monica Hussing, 37 and William Robinson, 40, have been free on $150,000 bail each in Cleveland, since their son died. On Monday, the parents pleaded guilty to attempted involuntary manslaughter and face up to eight years in prison. Monica H…
…is not slowing down. Quite to the contrary, it is accelerating,” the Nobel committee said. Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Adam Riess, who was still in his 20s when the research was published, joked to a colleague that he had been quick to react to a pre-dawn call from Stockholm: “When I picked up the phone early this morning and I heard Swedish voices,…
Gregg Jacobs. “It’s not a coincidence that, in modern life, the number of people who report anxiety, stress, depression, alcoholism and drug abuse has gone up.” Stages of sleep Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep • Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping – breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops • Stage 2 i…
hers to build a tool capable of capturing “key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases”. It needs to be light enough for would-be Dr. McCoys to carry – a maximum weight of 5lb (2.2kg). According to the official Star Trek technical manual, a tricorder is a portable “sensing, computing and data communications device”. The kit captured the imagination of the s…
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected one of the rarest particle decays seen in Nature. The finding deals a significant blow to the theory of physics known as supersymmetry. Many researchers had hoped the LHC would have confirmed this by now. Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some of the inconsistencies in the traditional theory of subatomic…
…me photos, he is reading Friday’s copy of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Fidel Castro led Cuba after the revolution in 1959, first as prime minister (1959-1976) and later as president. In 2006, surgery took Fidel Castro out of public view. His brother Raul became acting president. In February 2008, Fidel Castro officially handed over power to Raul who has been leading the country sinc…
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Whitney Houston’s premature death at 48 in Beverly Hilton Hotel triggered a slew of media speculation and rumors about her alleged drug use and troubled personal relationships. Now, a Vanity Fair article has shed new light on Whitney Houston’s personal life and last days in Los Angeles, three months after she was found drowned in a hotel bathtub. One of the more bizarre anecdotes is recount…
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killer Demerol, which he had been receiving from his dermatologist. Demonstrators for and against Dr Conrad Murray In his opening statement, prosecutor David Walgren told the jury that between 6 April, 2009, and the day of Michael Jackson’s death on June 25, Dr. Murray ordered enough propofol to give Jackson 1,937 milligrams a day. Defense lawyers claimed Dr. Conrad Murray had been trying…
…millions of people at a time. The research has caused a storm of controversy and divided scientists, with some saying it should never have been carried out. The current strain of H5N1 has only killed 500 people and is not contagious enough to cause a global pandemic. But they are fear the modified virus is so dangerous it could be used for bio-warfare, if it falls into the wrong hands. Virologist…
New reports are claiming that Whitney Houston visited a doctor three times in the eight day period before she was found dead in a bath tub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. According to Star magazine and Radar claim that Whitney Houston, who passed away aged 48, saw a Beverly Hills doctor on February 2, 7 and 8. This was a day before Whitney Houston was photographed in public for the last time, lookin…
…evidence of the alleged crime is considered overwhelming. The judge has 10 days to decide whether to permit an “immediate trial”. Silvio Berlusconi is accused of paying a left-wing senator 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to defect to his right-wing People of Freedom party (PDL) in 2006. It weakened the government of Romano Prodi, which collapsed in 2008, and triggered elections that ret…
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who is now the UN’s Special Envoy for Global Education, said he was launching a petition in Malala Yousafzai’s name “in support of what Malala fought for”. “Today, sadly, 32 million girls are not going to school and it is time to fight harder for Malala’s dream to come true,” he said….
