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Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients By Steve Connor, Science Editor 08 December 2003 A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them. It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs...

<p>Pediatricians are forced to engage in risky "trial-and-error" medicine when they give drugs to children because two-thirds of all drugs they routinely prescribe have never been adequately studied on kids, according to a study by Food and Drug Administration researchers to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.</p>

General Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan Al-Tikriti Secretary General of the Republican Guard IN CUSTODY new chart to follow...

Lameduck President's Continuing Globetrotting Forays Latest Trip Pegged at $50 Million -- Most Expensive Presidential Trip Ever March 30, 2000 There he goes again. Our globe-trotting president was flying high this month, traveling to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Oman, and Switzerland. That brings the total out-of-country days for President Clinton, the Traveler-in-Chief, to 212. He's racked up visits to 66 countries -- some more than once -- and 2 territories not recognized as countries. He is, by any measure, the most traveled U.S. president ever. And just how much is this latest foray estimated to cost the American taxpayer? ABC News,...

Saddam's top WMD Scientist... The woman at Saddam's meetings... In Custody. updating the charts now.

Another one bites the dust! Missle Man Captured - Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi - 6 of Spades! This is the husband of "Dr. Germ" April 28, 2003 Release Number: 03-04-204 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMIR RASHID MUHAMMAD AL-UBAYDI IN COALITION CUSTODY CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar -- Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi surrendered Monday and is currently in Coalition custody. He was a Presidential Advisor and Oil Minister and is No. 47 on the U.S. Central Command ‘Iraqi Top 55’ list.

MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities made a fresh and urgent call for public help on Monday to find a Saudi-born man who could pose what they termed a "very, very serious" threat as part of an al Qaeda plot against the United States. Stepping up their search with an appeal to the U.S. Muslim community for information, the FBI said Adnan El Shukrijumah, who is not charged with a crime but is being sought for questioning, was a friend of a man now serving prison time for plotting to blow up Florida power plants. FBI officials said El Shukrijumah, 27,...

Now accepting nominations for YOUR list of twenty. Nominations will close on 12 am January 1, 2003, and the results will be posted later the same day. Have fun and don't spare the venom!

Teacher reinstated after saying most misbehaving kids are black A teacher in the US has been reinstated despite saying most of the badly behaved students in his school are black. Scott Phelps's statement caused uproar at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, with some critics calling for his dismissal. Mr Phelps was placed on paid leave last week for making the following statement in a letter to his fellow teachers. It read: "Overwhelmingly, the students whose behaviour makes the hallways deafening, who yell out for the teacher and demand immediate attention in class, who cannot seem to stop chatting and...

"Gray Davis doesn't really have friends," says one Davis associate, "His friends are his CONTRIBUTORS." Left to his own devices, Davis doesn't fall anywhere on the political spectrum. He is elsewhere. IT'S LABOR DAY, 1998, AND GRAY DAVIS IS AT Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Padres, to throw out the first pitch of the game. It seemed like a tailor-made campaign stop. After all, he was the captain and shortstop on his high school baseball team, and had been flying high on the campaign trail, drawing roaring crowds of enthusiastic supporters. But he is nervous, worried about what...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) . The wife of ``America's Most Wanted'' host John Walsh has filed for divorce and sought custody of the couple's two children. In a petition filed at the Indian River County Courthouse, Reve Walsh said her 31-year marriage was irretrievably broken. Neither Reve Walsh nor her West Palm Beach attorney, Georgia Newman, immediately returned calls seeking comment. Reve Walsh is seeking alimony, child support, exclusive use of the marital home, medical and other insurance, attorneys fees and costs and equitable distribution of their assets, according to the petition, which was filed earlier this month. John Walsh...

Tests show most people lie A psychologist has found that most people lie. Robert Feldman, of the University of Massachusetts, found 60% of volunteers lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation. Most people lied at least twice or three times. He also found men don't lie any more than women. Women tended to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good while men lied to make themselves look better. Volunteers were asked to point out any inaccuracies as they watched a video of the interview. The results are published in the Journal of Basic and Applied...

50 BILLS BLOCKED!The House has approved 50 substantive bills that have yet to be either approved or rejected by the Senate. The Senate should act on the DASCHLE-50. Senator Daschle pledged to pass a budget by Memorial Day, but no budget has been passed in the Senate. Failure to pass a budget in the Senate would mark a historic first since the Budget Act of 1974 began requiring them. In the midst of a judicial crisis, only 27% of the President's initial federal judicial nominees have been confirmed. Nominees for executive branch positions who are still waiting confirmation include U.S....