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Archive for March, 2008

News - Stress at work makes men ill

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

British men are suffering high rates of stress and depression due to overwork, a survey suggests. More than one in three men turn to alcohol to try and switch off from work and 17% have been to see a doctor about their stress levels. Experts said men were making themselves ill by ...

News - Drug firms attacked on marketing

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Top European pharmaceutical firms are using unscrupulous marketing practices to promote their products, a consumer report says. The Consumers International lobby group accused drugmakers of using the methods to get doctors to prescribe products and persuade consumers they need them. It said there was a "shocking" lack of publicity about where the ...

News - Belgian police find girls’ bodies

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The bodies of two young stepsisters who disappeared in the eastern city of Liege three weeks ago have been found, Belgian police have confirmed. Chief prosecutor Cedric Visart de Bocarme said Stacy Lemmens, seven, and Nathalie Mahy, 10, were murdered. The girls disappeared during a street party. Their bodies were found 400 ...

News - Uruguay’s neighbour problems

Monday, March 17th, 2008

On clear summer days, when the sun burns fiercely, what seems like half of Montevideo's population migrates to the Ramblas, the waterside promenades that edge the peninsula city. Matrons walking their dogs politely make way for joggers both young and old. Children hurtle by on roller skates and bicycles. And courting couples sit ...

News - Picture smoking warnings ‘best’

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets are more likely to encourage smokers to quit, a Canadian study says. The University of Waterloo-led research also found large and regularly updated text warnings were more likely to be noticed then smaller ones. Researchers looked at different approaches taken in four countries - Canada, the ...

News - Over-the-counter Viagra piloted

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

The anti-impotence drug Viagra will be available on the High Street without a impotence org from 14 February. Boots the chemist is introducing a trial scheme at three of its branches in Manchester. Men aged between 30 and 65 will be able to buy four pills for 50 after a consultation with ...

News - The dilemma for US car workers

Friday, March 14th, 2008

The headquarters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local Branch 600 stands in the shadow of the giant River Rouge plant, once the largest industrial complex in the world. Located on a mile-long tributary of the Detroit river, the Rouge once employed 100,000 men who built every Ford manufactured in the ...

News - Pressure grows against khat trade

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

For decades, khat, or miraa as it is popularly known across East Africa, has been the lifeline for farmers in eastern Kenya, but pressure to convince them to abandon the trade is now mounting. The growing numbers of young adults chewing the mild stimulant has become a major concern among anti-drugs ...

News - On the hustings

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Mr Leslie said that by challenging the Conservative Party to promise to change the structures of the Assembly if they win the next general election, the DUP's Peter Robinson was actually acknowledging the political impotence of local unionist parties. In making this plea he is acknowledging that, when all is said ...

News - Blood and batons spur Pakistan row

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Eye-witnesses said the minister, Mohammed Ali Durrani, arrived just after the police and tried to intervene - but they wouldn't listen to him. Later in the evening Mr Durrani faced the cameras, accepting his impotence and said that all he could do was to offer an apology. This was followed by more ...