Ohio will be first to use pentobarbital alone
Submitted by Kamilah Qasimi on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:24
A surgical sedative that is used for suicides that are assisted will be now used by Ohio to execute condemned inmates and Ohio will be the first state to do so.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced that a single dose of pentobarbital will be used and this will be a powerful one and this will start in March.
Free man hours worth $700,000 put in by Red Cross
Submitted by Suresh Lalwani on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:21
A study that was released stated that last year free man hours worth $700,000 were put in by Red Cross volunteers in Singapore. The study was released by the humanitarian organization.
There are about 7,000 volunteers that are working here and they all contributed about $100 and this would have been worth something if they got money for their work.
Over 10,000 people walk for finding cure for diabetes
Submitted by Kanika Mehta on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:18
More than $1.9 million was raised by over 10,000 people who took part in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, JDRF, Georgia Chapter's Walk which was meant for curing diabetes.
This money will be directed towards a research that will be done for figuring out a cure for Type 1 diabetes and its consequences.
World’s largest collaborative study will be celebrated
Submitted by Latika Sharma on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:08
World’s largest collaborative study that was undertaken with children will be celebrated in New Zealand and for this; experts of international repute on asthma and allergy research will later this month arrive in New Zealand.
With University of Auckland researchers at the helm, in 1991, the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, ISAAC, had come into being.
Statins have no benefit for people who have no risk of heart attacks
Submitted by Kamilah Qasimi on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:03
Experts have suggested that while trying to keep down the risk of heart attacks, pills of the popular drug called statins that lowers cholesterol should not be had by those who already are at relatively low risk of heart disease.
Obese women will go to S. Korea for life-saving surgery
Submitted by Suresh Lalwani on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 12:59
Two women who are very obese want to get a potentially life-saving surgery after being told that the surgery can be dangerous. They will go to South Korea for doing so.
Lynda Sim weighs about 160 kg and is from Wellington and she also suffers from Type 2 diabetes, and another woman Jasmin Sciascia weighs about 200 kg and is from Whanganui.
Unborn baby undergoes surgery, survives
Submitted by Kanika Mehta on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 12:55
A baby that doctors though will not survive an infection and will die while in womb was born and has survived too.
At 21 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus was hit with a killer virus.
Once the situation was detected, professor Kypros Nicolaides, who is well-known in his field, did an operation on baby Freddie Marvel’s heart before he was born.
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