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By ROB SHARP POP FOALS Hoxton Hall, London *** Yannis Philippakis, lead singer of Foals, has got languid, "I don't care" insouciance down to a fine art, all at the grand old age of 22. There is the asymmetrical fringe, there is the Robert Smith yelp of a singing voice, there is the apparent disregard for holding it together during interviews, and onstage. The raucous conclusion to this "secret gig" in association with Levi's seemed to demonstrate just this. As the evening reached its...
Chinese alcoholic beverage firms have said that in contrary to certain internet reports their products do not contain sodium nitrite, a cancer-causing material. According to Xinhua Finance News, certain market reports maintained that China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) recently found sodium nitrite in the products of four alcoholic beverage producers: Kweichow Moutai, Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine, Tsingtao Brewery and COFCO Huaxia Greatwall...
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 11, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- GenTek Inc. (Nasdaq:GETI) today announced that the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted unanimously that imports of sodium nitrite were causing material injury to the lone U.S. producer of sodium nitrite, General Chemical LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of GenTek. The affirmative vote, sustaining General Chemical's claim, means that German imports will be subject to an antidumping duty order, which requires that...
By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treatment with galantamine, a drug used to treat Alzheimer's disease, in combination with atropine, protects guinea pigs from lethal doses of the nerve agents sarin and soman and the insecticide parathion, new research shows. The toxic effect of these "organophosphorus" compounds derives from irreversible blockage of an enzyme critical to nerve function. The end result can be seizures and cardiac arrest. At present, atropine and...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Alzheimer's pill that helps slow the brain damage caused by the disease may also protect against the effects of nerve gases and pesticides, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They said the drug, marketed under the name Reminyl and Razadyne, completely protected guinea pigs against the nerve agents soman and sarin, as well as toxic amounts of pesticides. They gave the animals high doses of the poisons and treated...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Alzheimer's pill that helps slow the brain damage caused by the disease may also protect against the effects of nerve gases and pesticides, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They said the drug, marketed under the name Reminyl and Razadyne, completely protected guinea pigs against the nerve agents soman and sarin, as well as toxic amounts of pesticides. They gave the animals high doses of the poisons and treated...
By Martha KerrNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Silibinin, a drug derived from milk thistle, destroys lung cancer in mice, investigators at the University of Colorado, Denver report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Lead investigator Dr. Rana P. Singh told Reuters Health, "We have been studying milk thistle components, silymarin and silibinin, to examine their efficacy and mechanisms against different...cancers for over a decade."In the current study, Singh's team injected...
