ERIN STRIKES AGAIN

“I don’t have all the answers but I am driven to ask the important questions.”
So said Erin Brockovich, who has spoken to many women over the years about their right to seek the truth about potentially dangerous medicines and medical devices.
One such pharmaceutical is Yaz, also known under the brand name Yasmin, a top-selling oral contraceptive marketed by Bayer HealthCare. Ocella, marketed by Barr Laboratories, Inc. is the generic version of Yaz or Yasmin.
Yaz has come under fire by some researchers and health advocates who say that the drug puts women at higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills, according to an article in the New York Times on September 26, 2009.

'boy king' Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun may well have died of malaria after the disease ravaged a body crippled by a rare bone disorder, experts say.
The findings could lay to rest conspiracy theories of murder.
The scientists spent the last two years scrutinising the mummified remains of the 19-year old pharaoh to extract his blood and DNA.
This revealed traces of the malaria parasite in his blood, the Journal of the American Medical Association says.
Dr Bob Connolly, a senior lecturer in physical anthropology at Liverpool University, has examined Tutankhamun himself.
He said the researchers had been incredibly lucky to be able to extract the DNA for study.
"His is not a beautifully preserved mummy. It's a charred wreck. Hawass and his team have been incredibly clever and lucky to do this."
He said it was possible that the king died from malaria, but he personally doubted it.
"Just because he had the parasite in his blood does not necessarily mean he suffered from malaria or died from it. It may not have caused him any trouble."
"I still think he died from a fall from his chariot. His chest cavity was also caved in and he had broken ribs."

TRIBUTE TO THE ROCK KING

HATERS

The president had his first foray into the byzantine world of U.N. politics last week and walked away cheered on by the anti-America crowd.
He appeased the delegations led by tyrants and petty dictatorships by condemning President Bush and spelling out how his administration is going to be different.
President Obama was applauded by Castro, Chavez, and Gadhafi (no friends of ours) when he said he wanted a "new era of engagement in the world." Are either of those three dictators going to be better world citizens or kinder, gentler leaders as a result of Obama's outreach? Put me in the doubtful column.
No American president has ever stood before the U.N. body and condemned his predecessor or American foreign policy in such a way. President Bush, like every president before him made some mistakes, but he did not deserve this put down. And let's not forget America was attacked on September 11, 2001, and thousands of American lives were lost. President Bush and his team got us through all that and kept us safe for the rest of his terms. And I hope Mr. Obama realizes the "haters" of America are still out there.

Shot himself after swallowing a cyanide pill.

A bone fragment believed to be part of Adolf Hitler's skull has been revealed as being that of an unidentified woman, US scientists have said.

The section of bone - marked with a bullet hole - was used to support the theory that Hitler shot himself.
Russian scientists said the skull piece was found alongside Hitler's jawbone and had put it on display in Moscow.
But US scientists said DNA tests revealed it actually belonged to a woman aged between 20 and 40.

An archaeologist from the University of Connecticut travelled to Moscow, where the fragment has been on show in the city's federal archive since 2000, to take a sample.

'I'm smiling this morning, it is a good morning'

A City banker accused of murdering his wife sent his mistress a text message on the day she died saying he was smiling, a court has heard.

Describing a text message she received from Mr Ellerbeck on 14 November, the day Mrs Ellerbeck died, she said: "The very first text message that morning said, 'I'm smiling this morning, it is a good morning'."

"He thought it would be prudent to put some money aside just in case - something that I think most people would probably do."

MADE IN CHINA

Celebrations have begun to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China.
It was Mao's defeat of Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists that lead to the birth or the People's Republic.
To mark the anniversary a new film on Mao's victory has just been released and it stars some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema, including Jackie Chan.