Archive for September, 2008

Killing is the only way to measure weight loss

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

We must warn all the women who wants to lose weight. The Japanese have just published a scientific report in Polar Biology - another of those must-read journals. So if you’re holidaying in the polar regions this Fall and see a Japanese researcher coming towards you with one of those big samurai swords, you may decide that you don’t want to be a part of the research. Except that he’s talking about Antarctic minke whales. OK, so when did you last see a minke whale on your bathroom weighing scales? He’s got a point. Where would you get pinchers big enough? Seems hard to have to kill them to find out whether their diets are working. How would you like it in a clinical trial? Take these Acomplia tablets for six months and then we’ll kill you to find out how much adipose fat you’ve lost.

Can’t they just guess? Actually, when it comes to human clinical trials, they use advanced science like tape measures for waists. Acomplia has done well. Participants lose an average 10% of their body weight and an average 3 inches (8 cm) from their waists. Perhaps the minke whales are buying Acomplia online. Let’s not kill them to find out.

Cat almost kills her owner

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Headlines are the blood and milk of newspapers. Ever since the story about man who bited the dog, we’ve had every kind of animal story. Now this is the ultimate cat story because the headline misses out the vital reference to squirrels. Yes this was the double strike. The cat and the killer squirrels would have been more accurate. But we don’t do sensationalism for its own sake here. We kept it as simple as we could. So you have to travel over to Smith Valley in Nevada. Richie Simmons’ cat was sick a little. She had visited with the local veterinarian to get drugs. One day, Richie cut her finger but thought nothing of it as she tended to the cat. Five days later she was in terribly fever. It took a month for the lab to identify the problem. She had tularemia. One thing - it was highly contagious between humans and animals. How did the cat come to be infected? It’s going to remain a mystery. Did the cat travel back in time or just visit with some squirrel cousins in California? It died before we could ask. The good news Doxy was an almost instant cure. Once you know which bacteria or virus are making you sick, you get the right antibiotic or vaccine and get better fast.

The ways of obtaining the proper sleep

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Long years all-around-the-world-folks are suffering from different types of anxiety and depressions. Much of it has been thought to be something that an individual can just “get over”. The reality is that sleep disorders are terribly difficult to get over on your own, once you’ve tried everything else. Well now that there is Ambien, those who suffer from the countless nights of no sleep can finally find relief. After you’ve experienced trying everything else, Ambien is the best bet.

Ambien is a sleep medication that can only be prescribed by your healthcare provider. Talking to your doctor may be the best way to determine the disease. Whether you are trying to regain your sleep pattern after extended traveling or you simply cannot get the sleep you know your body needs, having the right sleep aide will allow you to get yourself back on track.

You should know that you should have at least 8 hours of sleep to give to your medication as this will give you the solid sleep you want. Also, you may feel groggy during the day after the first few times you use it. For those who believe that they can regain their sleep pattern all on their own, they may be fighting an uphill battle. For the most part, having a sleep aide like Ambien and the guidelines that your physician provides you when using Ambien is the best way to get your sleep. Now is the time to take control of your life and you can do so with the help of Ambien. Start sleeping today!

What’s with the spam filter these days?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

My mailbox is daily worried by thousands of spam messages. Gone are the days when I could just tweak the filter to include the latest permutation on Viagra. Now these clever spammers are into jpgs and all kinds of other tricks to get through the mail servers. Images are hard to filter out. It’s not that I mind being reminded every now and then what the wonderful little blue pill can do. Why this post? In the end every day I have a strong feeling of dejavu. When I was just starting out in IT back in the 70s, one of the standard tools was ASCII - a code for characters, numbers, symbols, etc. And what did we clever people do when we got bored? We made pictures out of all those characters. After all, there was that time a year or so back when I had a bad patch and found out how good Viagra is. But to have something every few minutes is just egregiously bad. So it made me sit up and take notice - just like taking Viagra really. Those clever spammers have found a new way to beat the filters.

What do you know about the hot spots?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Your spots have already made you the professional in hot spots all around the world. That acne is just crowding out all your good features and leaving a red, spotty mess. You’re lining up to take the Accutane - signing up for the iPledge is a real pain but it will all be worth it when the acne’s gone. Foreigners are really weird. But you are the best exprert in hot spots, just like all these men in UN. Indonesia is just so way out there. Actually, you probably don’t know where Indonesia is, but, hey, it’s weird that anyone should talk about spots like that. So you stop and then smile. It is not very similar to what you think. You’ve just got acne on your mind. It seems those Indonesians burn their forests and our great network of spy satellites can see the hot spots where the fires are burning most fiercely. That’s why you’ve signed the iPledge and your parents are going to buy Accutane online. With a little luck, it will all be gone in six months time.

Pesky ticks on the march

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

That means we have to get interested in Lyme disease all over again. So let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The number of cases has been increasing drastically and the infections are getting more virulent. Because more people are building their houses out in the countryside where there are deer and other animals that carry the ticks. Now add in climate change. It’s influencing tick feeding behavior. The result is a surge in the number of serious cases of infection. The good news is that Doxy continues to be a steady performer. You pop the pills for two to four weeks, and the infection clears up. So this year, more people are getting the chance to see this antibiotic at work. But over the next two years, there likely to be a change. The Center for Disease Control has begun development of a slow release version of Doxycycline-like drug. This may be by injection or by patch for those who are needle-shy. Final aim is to replace therapy by the single procedure. Until this comes out of the lab, you’ll just have to pop the tablets, but life may soon improve.

Have gun, will travel

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Back in the 1950s, Richard Boone starred as Paladin in one of the best TV Westerns ever made about a freelancer. It was called, Have Gun - Will Travel. Today, our kids turn to other applications to get rid of the thing they hate the most: acne - the bane of the teenager’s life. So, they are all in the market to buy Accutane, the surest way to kill acne stone dead. But you can’t have everything. But who cares so long as it works. So how much would teenagers pay to be free of acne forever? According to a survey published in this month’s Archives of Dermatology (a real cool publication is ever there was one), the national average is $275. Obviously, the kids they asked in High School gave higher amounts if their acne was bad. Curiously, their parents averaged around $250 - just to get a little peace around the house. Well, the good news is that $275 buys you a truck load of Accutane drug - more than enough to see off that acne, so buy some online today!