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- We know many of our youth are having sex and will have sex in the future... click link for more info. |
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- What's a person stuck living in chronic pain to do? All the best anti-inflammatory drugs including some found over the counter, have now also been found to cause heart attacks and possibly strokes... click link for more info. |
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- State Rep Don Walko, D-North Side, said Pennsylvania should join a prescription drug importation program despite a negative report that the Bush administration issued Wednesday... click link for more info. |
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- Access Pharmaceuticals, INC (Amex: AKC) announced today that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the Food and Drug Administration for AP5346, the Company's lead DACH polymer platinate compound... click link for more info. |
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- Akzo Nobel and the ICCO (the Dutch Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation) have officially signed a cooperation agreement to jointly support two HIV/AIDS projects in the Johannesburg area of South Africa... click link for more info. |
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- "The American Public Health Association is very disappointed in the findings released today by the Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Drug Importation that oppose importing drugs from other countries to reduce health care costs and improve access to therapies... click link for more info. |
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- HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership with the Council of State Governments, today released Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action and its companion workbook, both of which are designed to help States assess the quality of diabetes care and develop quality improvement strategies... click link for more info. |
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- Increasing number of deaths occurring during holiday season - Christmas is the deadliest day of the year, say researchers who examined records of 53 million deaths from natural causes over a 26-year period (1973-2001)... click link for more info. |
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- The UK could not effectively tackle foot and mouth disease using emergency vaccination if there was an outbreak tomorrow, according to a report published by the Royal Society today (Tuesday 21 December 2004)... click link for more info. |
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- Costs of ensuring safety of imported drugs would likely outweigh savings; APhA applauds analysis - In the newly released Report on Prescription Drug Importation, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Task Force on Importation expressed concerns over the viability of maintaining the high standards of safety and effectiveness of the U... click link for more info. |
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- A new set of standards has been compiled by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, an incorporated foundation that objectively assesses the safety and quality of hospitals and certifies them... click link for more info. |
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- The Boston Globe on Tuesday examined the recent "retooling" of clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies to help "make it faster and cheaper" to obtain regulatory approval for experimental medications... click link for more info. |
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- Many of us think that the terminally ill can postpone their deaths so that they can see a relative, experience their last birthday or enjoy a special holiday - sadly, this is a myth, according to a new study... click link for more info. |
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- A new study shows the eating disorder anorexia nervosa causes great harm to the health of adolescent girls and affects many of the body's most important systems... click link for more info. |
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- People suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, may also be at higher risk for developing osteoporosis, report researchers who studied 81 patients with the lung disease and 38 healthy people who served as controls... click link for more info. |
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winter rain (Dec 23 2004 16:40 GMT) - The window in our living room is leaking. Raining in December? What the hell?... |
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- Unbekannte haben am Morgen einen Brandanschlag auf eine Moschee im hessischen Usingen verübt. Nach Angaben der Polizei brachen die Täter offenbar in das Gebäude ein und legten im Gebetsraum Feuer. Der Raum wurde fast vollständig zerstört. |
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- Neues Euro-Hoch: Kurz vor Weihnachten hat die europäische Gemeinschaftswährung die psychologisch wichtige Marke von 1,35 Dollar überschritten. Grund: Die durchwachsenen US-Konjunkturaussichten. |
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- Das Landgericht Frankfurt hat einer Agentur aus Lünen verboten, Tickets für den Confederations Cup über das Internet zu verkaufen. Sie hatte vermeintliche "VIP-Pakete" zu überhöhten Preisen angeboten. Die Fifa will außerdem den WM-Kartenverkauf beim Internet-Auktionär "Ebay" verhindern. |
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- In a Dec. 22 story about the defrocking of a priest for sexual abuse, The Associated Press erroneously reported the chronology of the case involving Maurice Blackwell. He was not returned to his parish after acknowledging a relationship with a teenager. |
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- Again, this curmudgeonly old Scrooge sounds the warning. Whether you take heed is up to you. The latest strain of the Zafi worm is spreading rapidly in emailed Christmas greetings. Get your shields up, set your phasers to stun, and don't open email attachments unless you can absolutely guarantee they're safe! Info here. |
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- A driver from Yorkshire has a lucky escape after a tree smashes his car, missing him by inches. |
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hjt log (Dec 23 2004 16:39 GMT) - Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 17:39:14, on 23-12-2004 Platform: |
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- "Firefox, Opera and other alternative browsers got a boost in October when the U.S. security body CERT recommended moving away from Explorer to improve security. Although Firefox can have problems with sites making heavy use of proprietary Microsoft technology, such as Active X controls, it generally receives favorable reviews. |
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- "Avalon, an Apache project to build a framework for object-oriented, component-based programming, has been shut down, forking off into several separate open source efforts, an official of the Apache Software Foundation (Profile, Products, Articles) confirmed on Wednesday. |
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- "Unpatched Linux systems are surviving longer on the Internet before being compromised, according to a report from the Honeynet Project released this week. |
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- "Opinion: Internet Explorer is insecure junk, and it's time for Windows users to move to Firefox if they want to protect their systems. |
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- "The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title. |
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- "US software giant Microsoft Corp scored a victory against open source software in India after the Indian state of Karnataka chose its software to power a major e-governance initiative. |
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- "Modernization is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. |
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- "Linux seller Red Hat reported on Wednesday that its third-quarter net income jumped 155 percent year-over-year to $10.8 million as its software business matured. |
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- "Open Source Software (OSS) development has emerged in the last decades as one of the most important phenomenon of computer science and engineering. It has been instrumental for education and research in the Academia, providing free access to essential tools, such as compilers, word processors, spreadsheets, etc, it has changed the way people perceive the software business, and it has often kept the software market away from monopolies. As such, a deep understanding of OSS requires the understanding of a wide spectrum of issues. |
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- "There are several word processors in GNU/Linux, each with different goals and features. Some are free software, some are based on free software, some are proprietary. What do you, as an amateur or professional writer, need to consider in such programs when moving to GNU/Linux? If you're not entirely satisfied with your current word processor or if you're wondering what's available on the GNU/Linux platform in terms of word processors, this article's for you. |
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- Modification de SitesUtilisantWikini --- par ACD38BB8.ipt.aol.com le 2004 12 23 - 15:45 |
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- Userbase is designed to make it easier to manage your software business by helping you to do the labor intensive processes quicker so you can spend more of your time coding! Track Software Sales,Supports Armadillo & Custom Key generators, Auto Email Merge, Bug/Enhancement Request Tracking, Send emails/newsletters to users based on product and/or version #, Track registration fees & taxes, Track Fraud & registration id's, Reports and more |
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- In keeping with the popularity of my tips for successful living and the one percent principle, here's my receipe for having the perfect Christmas. Enjoy! 1. Resolve to stay at home alone. Who doesn't appreciate a night on the sofa sometimes with a glass of red? |
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- Personally I read the first Harry Potter, then started the second one and said: enough, I am too old for this. Nor are Harry Potter movies the kind of movies I now like and I have seen none of them. So, I am a Muggle and proud of it. But for all that, I am very impressed by this: |
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- And here (just in case you missed the comments on the previous posting) is yet another circumstance where an armed populace would have really helped: One man has died and five other people are in a critical condition after being attacked by a man with a knife. Scotland Yard said a man drove around the areas between Enfield and Haringey in north London in a red Hyundai stabbing people on Thursday morning. Officers are investigating... |
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