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The drug in question is acetaminophen. It's in prescription and all too popular over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol and Excedrin. According to the FDA, taking too much will kill you and the government agency also admits this chemical is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. Acetaminophen is responsible for 56,000 emergency room visits and 456 deaths annually, according to am 8 year study. In spite of this, billions of doses are sold each year.
The FDA rarely admits the damage the drugs they've approved do. In fact, in recent years, the drug approval agency has been in the spotlight for doing precisely the opposite; they've been caught hiding this information from public view.
The harmfulness of the substance is highlighted by the fact that people are dropping dead from inadvertently consuming "too much" and that begs some pretty serious questions.

Questions like, "If taking too much accidentally has a decent chance of killing me, isn't it likely that taking even the recommended amount is doing some damage?" And, "If its doing damage, how am I to know what damage it's actually doing?" And even, "Why are doctors prescribing drugs that are known to be harmful to me?"

The last question might be the most important one, because in allopathic, pharmaceuticl-centered medicine prescribing harmful chemicals in the name of "health" and of a "cure" is done all too often. Then, the consequences of those chemicals are often blamed on the disease, or are seen as another problem that appears down the road. According to your medical provider the harmful chemicals you've been consuming and your health problems are completely unrelated. Besides, they will say, you "need" the drugs. In any case, liver failure isn't a problem to be taken lightly; its often synonymous with death.

In Search of a Youth Elixir...

From Science Daily --
The march of old age may be unstoppable, but two new studies in mice and monkeys suggest we can at least tinker with the aging process – and offer a glimpse at how anti-aging medications could work.

"You want something that's going to give you 10 more years of relatively good health and not 10 more years of frailty," says Matt Kaeberlein, a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, who studies aging, but was not involved in either study.

Scientists probably haven't stumbled on that drug yet, but a drug called rapamycin, already used to suppress the immune systems of organ transplant recipients, comes close. In tests conducted at three research centers, mice that began taking the drug at a relatively old age lived substantially longer than other rodents.

The researchers, led by David Harrison at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, had initially planned to begin feeding the mice rapamycin around middle age. But due to difficulties in manufacturing food that contained adequate amounts of the drug, the hundreds of mice didn't start taking the drug until they were 600 days old – about the equivalent of a 60-year-old human.

Mice on rapamycin, which was first discovered in soil fungus from Easter Island, lived about 10 per cent longer than other mice.

Kaeberlein says that the drug's ability to extend lifespan when taken late in life is "exactly what you'd want from an 'anti-aging drug'".

"It's set a high bar for the field," agrees David Sinclair, a molecular biologist at Harvard University Medical School in Boston. "It's also the first time that a drug has worked so late in life"

Rapamycin is not perfect, however. It makes a good transplant drug because it slows the expansion of immune cells and stops rejection of the implanted tissue. So scientists will need to determine whether lower doses of the drug can offer humans anti-aging effects without compromising their immune systems, Kaeberlein says.

The Turtle and a 747?

from Reuters -
The speed of the world's biggest jets was no match against the slow and steady pace of a group of turtles who delayed flights at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning July 8. A runway that juts out into Jamaica Bay off Queens, New Yrk City was closed for 35 minutes while 78 diamondback terrapin turtles, each weighing 2-3 pounds , were removed, said a spokesman for airport operator The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey."They came up out of the water," the spokesman said. "It happens, but it doesn't happen a lot."

The closure caused delays of 1-1/2 hours at the airport, which caters to about 48 million passengers a year. The turtles were taken away and released back into the wild -- away from the airport.

Roman Catholic Crop Circle?

From SpiritDaily.com --
What's interesting about this news brief is that it was found not on some cosmic new age site, rather on the front page of SpiritDaily.com that appears to be a Roman Catholic website.

A 350 ft crop circle of an ancient Mayan symbol, said to be a sign of an impending apocalypse, has appeared next to Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. The giant pattern - thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress - appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week.

Members of the crop circle community believe the mystic symbol is a signal of the end of the 5,126-year Mayan 'Long Count' calendar on December 21, 2012. Karen Alexander, a crop circle enthusiast, said: "This is one of the most interesting crop circles I have ever seen. It is definitely a Mayan symbol and we are sure it is linked to the Mayan calendar, which ends in 2012.

"It appears to be a warning about the world coming to an end when the calendar does. For the ancient Maya, reaching the end of a cycle was a momentous event, so we are taking this crop circle very seriously as an indicator of a possibly huge event in 2012." Last month a 400-foot crop circle depicting a phoenix rising from the flames appeared in a barley field in Yatesbury near Devizes, Wiltshire.

Crop circle theorists believe the patterns are created by UFOs during nocturnal visits, or caused by natural phenomena such as unusual forms of lightning striking the earth.

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