Year: 2014

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio man convicted of the 1989 rape and murder of a pregnant woman is set to be executed on Thursday using a new two-drug lethal injection method the state adopted last year. Dennis McGuire, 53, is scheduled to be put to death at a state prison in Ohio on Thursday morning using a combination of the sedative midazolam and pain killer hydromorphone, according to the state corrections department. Ohio added the two-drug combination for lethal injections as a substitute after it had difficulty obtaining pentobarbital, a drug whose manufacturer has objected to its use in executions. A federal judge on Monday rejected McGuire’s appeal that the drug combination never tried in the United States would put him at a substantial risk of severe pain.

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While you can now determine the sex of your baby before he or she is born, figuring out what it costs to give birth remains a mystery. That’s the conclusion of a University of California at San Francisco study that looked at more than 75,000 births in California.        

Men who consume more than two alcoholic drinks per day while in middle age may speed up their memory loss in later life by up to six years, said a study Wednesday. However, there were no differences in memory or mental function between non-drinkers and those who drank less than two drinks, or 20 grams per day, said the findings in the journal Neurology. "Our study focused on middle-aged participants and suggests that heavy drinking is associated with faster decline in all areas of cognitive function in men," said study author Severine Sabia of the University College London. The mental abilities of heavy drinkers declined between one-and-a-half to six years faster than those who had fewer drinks per day.