New drug for smoking cessation is under investigation

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 A recent study published in the latest issue of the scientific medical journal, Archives of Internal Medicine reports on the potential use of a new drug varenicline to help smokers quit the habit. Varenicline received FDA approval for sale earlier this year. Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease […]

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Fox News viewership drops by half in 6 months

Sunday, May 22, 2005 Since the United States presidential election in November of 2004, viewership in the 25-54 age bracket of Fox News has fallen from over 1,000,000 in October to under 450,000 in April, according to the Daily Kos, a liberal weblog. Ratings for cable news stations have fallen globally since the election, but […]

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Russian police to ‘check’ officer allegedly involved in large theft and murder

Sunday, July 4, 2010 Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Department for Own Safety says it will begin a “check” on Russian Militsiya lieutenant colonel Artem Kuznetsov, who is publicly accused by a group of American lawyers of illegitimately imprisoning and then torturing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to death. Later, head of Investigating Committee of the Prosecution […]

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