| Can this shiny lip gloss slim your hips?
Always on the lips … never on the hips," promise ads for the new "Fuze Slenderize Guilt free" lip gloss. Marketed by Too Faced Cosmetics, the flavored lip gloss claims it can suppress your appetite with the same mix of minerals and ingredients found in Coca-Cola's Fuze energy fruit drinks. As Americans continue to struggle with weight loss, marketers are getting more outlandish with their quick-fix diet claims. At least with Fuze, a blend of the minerals chromium and L-carnitine, along a hydroxycitric acide extract called Super Citrimax, the calorie conscious had to drink a full bottle of the beverage to get the promised hunger-easing metabolism boost. Now all that's required is to slather it on your mouth, according to the company. .
Bob Jane's wife will stand trial
THE tyre magnate Bob Jane was 58 when he arranged for a teenage beauty queen he fancied to hitch a ride in a Lear jet with the Beatle George Harrison to meet him at the Adelaide Formula One Grand Prix in the mid-1980s. It was life in the fast lane for an 18-year-old from Bathurst but, after 20 years of marriage and three children, the souring of relations between the couple was yesterday played out in court. Laree Madonna Jane, 40, was committed to stand trial on four charges of assaulting her husband, including with a 30-centimetre carving knife, during an argument at her South Yarra apartment in December 2006. In a statement to police tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court, Bob Jane said the incident occurred when the couple had been separated for a month and he was invited to visit their eldest daughter Courtney, 18, who was recovering from surgery.
Permanent makeup lures some women
MILLBRAE No one said looking good is supposed to be painless. That maxim rang especially true as Julie Wallace leaned over to tattoo the outline of Nancy Wallace's lips with ink the color of Jamaican rum. For the most part, it was quiet inside A Perfect Line Academy of Permanent Cosmetics, except for the soft hum of Wallace's permanent makeup pen. Wallace, 29, used one gloved hand to steady the lip, while the other lowered the tool's needle to blend the color in. Then she pulled back. "You've got color!" Wallace said to the patient who happened to be her mother. Cathy Klemz peered in for a closer look. "It doesn't look clowny at all," said Klemz, a permanent makeup technician and trainer. "It looks nice and very natural." The process of getting one's lips outlined typically takes as long as two hours and plenty of topical cream to numb the pain.
Decline in generic drugs draws EU scrutiny and raids
Antitrust regulators have raided big European drugmakers as part of an investigation into whether patents and lawsuit settlements are being manipulated to keep generic products off the market. Inspectors from the European Commission seized information about intellectual property rights, litigation and settlements in patent disputes in a series of surprise visits to pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday. The commission would not identify the companies involved, but Glaxo, AstraZeneca, Wyeth, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer said later that they had been contacted. In a statement the commission, the administrative arm of the European Union, said the investigation was in response to indications that competition in the European market "may not be working well." "Fewer new pharmaceuticals are being brought to the market, and the entry of generic pharmaceuticals sometimes seems to be delayed," the statement added.
Brain Injury May Not Erase Long-Term Memory
TUESDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) A new interviewing technique has drawn out extensive details hidden in the long-term memories of people with memory impairment, U.S. researchers say. There's ongoing debate about whether long-term memory is always dependent on a brain region called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the memory-processing center called the hippocampus. .
Health officials keeping eye on drug-resistant flu strain
In other news, the CDC reported Friday that this season, the flu has killed 10 U.S. children. Bresee said the deaths are "not totally unexpected," given the rate of 44 to 73 child flu deaths the last few years; the agency continues to monitor the fatality rate.
Four of the young flu victims also had been infected with staph bacteria. Experts said patients who are weakened by flu often are more vulnerable to staph and other secondary infections.
Illinois officials said they have seen more flu cases occur in recent weeks, which is normal for this time of year. Although it's too soon to judge whether this flu season is worse than normal, several factors could increase the toll.
For one thing, this season's flu vaccine is not a perfect match with the viruses that are infecting people.
GLOBAL: Countries respond to food price crisis
International wheat prices in January 2008 were 83 percent higher than a year earlier. "Wheat prices are up because it is being used as [animal] feed instead of maize, stocks of which are running low partly as a result of the increase in demand for making biofuel," said Liliana Balbi, senior economist at the FAO's Commodities and Trade Division. "In fact, maize, wheat and broken rice prices are all around the same level, which is unprecedented."
Realising the urgency of the situation, the three food agencies of the UN - the FAO, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agriculture development (IFAD) - are organising a High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy from 3 to 5 June 2008 in Rome. Alexander Müller, Assistant Director-General of the FAO, announced that his organisation would host the event.
School Notes
Students at Council Rock High School North in Newtown raised more than $12,000 during a 16-hour "rock-a-thon" to benefit an autism and special-needs education and support organization based in Richboro. The school's "Rock-a-thon One" included dancing, games and food, and students stayed on their feet for nearly 16 hours, getting a 15-minute break every hour. The event was held Feb. 8 and 9 in the school gym. Proceeds benefited NeighborHeart, which serves people with autism and other special needs and their families. For more about NeighborHeart, call 267-352-4765 or visit www.neighborheart.org. Bernadette Ventresca of Doylestown has won the Peggy Lee Memorial Scholarship competition at the Community Conservatory in Doylestown. Ventresca won a singing contest for the award, which honors the singer known for such hits as "Fever," and for voicing four characters in the animated movie The Lady and the Tramp.
Brian Kagoro transcript for BTH
Guma: Ok, but a lot of people are suspicious Mr Kagoro mainly from the fact that Mr Makoni had a private meeting with Mr Mugabe two weeks ago in fact and no-one is privy to what was discussed during that meeting and a lot of people are throwing accusations that Makoni is a spoiler and is there to take away the urban vote. Kagoro: There is a huge assumption that that urban vote would go to somewhere. The reality with this election, those of us who are trying to monitor it scientifically, is that many urban voters are not happy with the ruling party, they are unhappy with the opposition, if you just look at the e-mail trail of the responses to the failure by the two factions of the MDC to unite…there was no guarantee that that urban vote will go to the MDC. So this approach to the elections in a very unscientific and speculative way is worrisome.
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