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Glaxo 'downplayed' warning on heart-attack risk from Aids drug
The multinational drugs company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) downplayed an early
warning about the rising number of people who have suffered heart attacks
after using one of its drugs, abacavir. An anti-Aids medication, abacavir is
taken by tens of thousands of people worldwide.
Susan Greenfield: The girl with all the brains
What sort of a teenager cuts open a rabbit's head for fun? The Susan Greenfield sort. Clever, solitary and bored, she once bought a dead animal from the butcher and carried it home, for an operation on the kitchen table. "I wanted to see the brain," she says. "I'd never seen one before." I imagine the scene in the bleached-out colours of a horror film. A girl. A knife. An open skull. A little boy mouthing something strange: "Alpha. Beta. Gamma. Delta ..."
Circumcision 'is the best weapon in fight against Aids' The billions of dollars spent on Aids prevention programmes based on HIV vaccines, wide-scale testing and the promotion of condoms or sexual abstinence have turned out to be less effective than a simple surgical operation to remove the foreskin.
After 200-year quest, scientists finally unravel the bizarre origins of the duck-billed platypus
When the first skin of a duck-billed platypus arrived in England in 1799, the keeper of natural history at the British Museum thought it must be an elaborate hoax; how else to explain an animal with the fur of a mammal and the beak of a bird?
Tomorrow's sports stars: Is talent all in the genes? Some people are born to play football. So says David Beckham's official website. After attending the Bobby Charlton Soccer School at 11, Beckham was selected to be a trainee for Manchester United at just 16 years old. The rest, as we know, is history, tattoos and Gillette razor blades. But what if footballers really are born and not made? A test to determine whether a child will turn into an élite soccer player is the stuff of football managers' dreams.
Insects 'will be climate change's first victims'
Tropical insects rather than polar bears could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming, a study has found.
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