The aim of each stick fighter was to deliver a blow that would hit the opponent
on the body – any part above the waist – hard enough to fell him to the ground.
Blows were usually aimed at the head and damage to the skull was a very common
occurrence in stick fighting. …
The skirmish over document disclosure in Orlando is part of a hornet’s nest of
litigation against AstraZeneca, a British company with U.S. headquarters in
Wilmington, Del. More than 15,000 patients have filed over 9,000 personal injury
lawsuits. About 40 percent of these claims have been consolidated for pretrial
motions in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. …
Apparently, Medicare’s reasoning is not understood in England. A week
ago,
researchers at Oxford discovered the long-sort genetic link
vitamin D has
with multiple …
an astounding 125,000 Indian famers—all duped into borrowing money to plant
Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bt cotton seeds and associated chemical
sprays—were so desperately in debt when their harvests failed to perform that
they took their own lives. …
It makes a clear case that GMOs are unsafe, particularly for children. Please
pass the link onto as many parents and school personnel as you can …
The children died after taking a medicine called My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture,
a syrup for teething pain, according to Nigeria’s Health Ministry. Health
officials said that a batch of the medicine that went on sale in November
contained diethylene glycol, an industrial solvent and an ingredient in
antifreeze and brake fluid. …
This marks the first time the agency has given the okay to a transgenic
therapy–a drug developed in genetically engineered animals–and the first
recombinant antithrombin approved in the U.S. …
It is not entirely clear what causes MS but other research has suggested vitamin
D, produced in the body through exposure to sunlight, plays a part. …
methylphenidate (Ritalin), which is commonly prescribed to treat
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can cause physical changes in
neurons in reward regions of mouse brains-in some cases, these effects
overlapped with those of cocaine. …
A practicing Buddhist monk knows more about the nature of reality than a
conventional subatomic physicist, and he didn’t have to spend ten billion
dollars in order to catch a glimpse of enlightenment. …