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Apr 30, 2007 at 07:07 AM |
A DRUG that boosts female sex drive while helping women lose weight is being developed by one of Scotland's leading experts on human reproduction.
Professor Robert Millar has been working on a hormone that can be used to treat loss of libido, a problem that affects millions of women each year.
The hormone-releasing pill has so far only been given to female monkeys and shrews who displayed more mating behaviour and ate less.
The team from the Medical Research Council's Human Reproduction Unit in Edinburgh believe a human version could be available within a decade.
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Apr 26, 2007 at 08:50 AM |
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for a moratorium by Russia of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), an agreement that removed a massive Red Army presence from Soviet and satellite states in 1990.
'I think it's reasonable to declare a moratorium on the fulfilling by Russia of this agreement. In any case, until all NATO countries without exception ratify it,' Putin said in his annual address to Russia's legislature, televised across the country.
The CFE limited NATO and the Soviet Union each to 20,000 tanks, 20,000 artillery pieces, 30,000 armoured combat vehicles, 6,800 combat aircraft and 2,000 attack helicopters between the Atlantic Ocean and the Ural Mountains.
Guy Roberts, NATO's deputy secretary general, told Interfax he hoped Putin's remarks were a suggestion, rather than an already-made decision. |
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Apr 24, 2007 at 07:45 AM |
The drugs used to execute prisoners in the United States sometimes fail to work as planned, causing slow and painful deaths that probably violate constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment, a new medical review of dozens of executions concludes.
Even when administered properly, the three-drug lethal injection method appears to have caused some inmates to suffocate while they were conscious and unable to move, instead of having their hearts stopped while they were sedated, scientists said in a report published Monday by the online journal PLoS Medicine.
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