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Now, the Sun Prevents Skin Cancer - Right?
Put Away the Sunblock? Scientists Say Moderate Amounts of Sunshine May Prevent Cancer
By Marilynn Marchione
The Associated Press
May 23, 2005 - Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.
Ironically...
(05-25) 07:17 PDT Fountain Valley, Calif. (AP)
A woman who was attacked in a park restroom escaped, in part, because she was slippery with sunscreen, Orange County authorities said.
"She had a large amount of suntan oil on, which made her very slippery and hard to grasp," a spokesman said.
Remember when you were young and heard that nasty little boys who "played with themselves" would grow hair on the palms of their hands and go blind?
Friday May 27, 2:26 PM EDT
Some Viagra Users Report Blindness
By Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators said on Friday they have received more than 40 reports of a type of blindness in men taking impotence drugs, mostly involving Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE) Viagra, but have not determined if the medicines were responsible.
In a ridiculous, but related, tale: As the number of uninsured Americans reaches the 54,000,000 mark. . .
Sex Offenders Get Medicaid-Paid Viagra
Medicaid-Funded Prescriptions for Impotence Drugs Given to Registered Sex Offenders in 14 States
By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON May 29, 2005 – Nearly 800 convicted sex offenders in 14 states got Medicaid-funded prescriptions for Viagra and other impotence drugs, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
The majority of the cases were in New York, Florida and Texas.
So, it's only logical...
Druggists Refuse to Give Out Pill
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey's prescription because she did not believe in birth control.
"I was shocked," says Lacey, 33, who was not able to get her prescription until the next day and missed taking one of her pills. "Their job is not to regulate what people take or do. It’s just to fill the prescription that was ordered by my physician."
Almost ready for release is Spanish designer Pep Torres’ "Your Turn" washing machine, developed to encourage sharing of housework. Household users, such as a husband and wife, initially register their fingerprints, and "Your Turn" will not then operate by the same person's print twice in a row.
The Bush Administration finds a use for the Geneva Convention. . .
New York - A federal judge has told the government it will have to release additional pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, civil rights lawyers said.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein, finding the public has a right to see the pictures, told the government Thursday he will sign an order requiring it to release them to the American Civil Liberties Union, the lawyers said.
Government lawyer Sean Lane argued that releasing pictures, even if faces and other features are obscured, would violate Geneva Convention rules on prisoner treatment by subjecting detainees to additional humiliation or embarrassment. He said the emotional wounds would be reopened because detainees could identify themselves and because the public would learn their identities. [Judge: Public Has Right to See Abuse Photos; By Larry Neumeister; The Associated Press; Thursday 26 May 2005]
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - President George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
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