Food safety officials say that apricot kernels marketed in New Zealand as a health food can make people sick and in high doses can be fatal. Bitter apricot kernels are thought to contain high levels of Vitamin B17, known as laetrile,…
Mason City men donate hair to Locks of Love (Pekin Times) MASON CITY - Over the past three years, friends and neighbors noticed that Terry Foster and Jim Hernan’s hairlines were getting longer instead of receding.
Health products company Comvita said year-to-date sales were well ahead of the same period last year, although foreign exchange contracts would prevent it from taking advantage of a recent fall in the New Zealand dollar. Speaking…
A law change to enforce anyone’s wish to become an organ donor after they die will be debated by MPs this week - but doctors intend to fight the “unenforceable” bill. National MP Jackie Blue’s controversial private member’s bill,…
Patients could battle to get free scans and other diagnostic tests as public health services are forced to prioritise even more to stay within budget, Otago’s chief medical officer says. Richard Bunton says it is “crunch time” across…
Auckland-based Living Cell Technologies is to get $2.73 million of state funding to boost the development of xenotransplantation treatments - transplants from animals to humans - for Huntington’s and diabetes. David Collinson, chief…
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Plants thought to help treat or cure cancer, Aids and malaria have been found in the rainforests of Borneo, says a report from the Swiss-based global conservation group WWF. But the rapid destruction of trees - much of it by illegal…
Is this some sort of joke? Can they really be serious? Apparently, the latest term to describe the agonising dilemma facing the 20-something throngs of layabouts incurring gi-normous debts and living with their parents is - wait for…
The “Good Debt” Trap No One Talks About Baltimore Chronicle - In America today, it would be hard to find even a borderline member of the human species who had not slapped up hard against the phenomenon of home-as-honey-pot. I n our last little chat, I talked about the addiction that drives consumers to spend […]