Year: 2016

Australian pharmaceutical company Starpharma Holdings Ltd said it is teaming up with world No. 2 condom maker Ansell Ltd to supply Zika virus-proof condoms to the Australian Olympic team ahead of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games. Starpharma said it is giving the Australian athletes Ansell "Dual Protect" condoms lubricated with Starpharma's VivaGel product, which it recently said showed near-total antiviral protection against Zika and other viruses in laboratory studies. "Given sexual transmission of Zika virus is of increasing importance, the potent activity of Starpharma&039;s VivaGel against Zika could prove very significant," said Starpharma Chief Executive Officer Jackie Fairley in a statement.

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FORMER Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley has stunned fans with her dramatic weight loss of 7st, by eating just 400 calories a day at a slimming boot …
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The importance of diet in controlling and avoiding diabetes was among the key topics examined at a conference in Regina Saturday. About 100,000 …
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A controversial Italian gynaecologist famed for helping women in their 60s to have children is under house arrest in Rome on suspicion of removing eggs from a patient's ovaries without her consent. Lawyers for Severino Antinori, who has been nicknamed the "grandmothers&039; obstetrician," dismissed the charges as absurd and claimed Saturday that their client had been the victim of attempted extortion. Antinori, 70, was arrested at Rome&039;s Fiumicino airport on Friday following a complaint filed by a 24-year-old woman who was treated for an ovarian cyst at the clinic, police said.

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"Grapefruit has been hailed as a popular diet food for many years because it is widely believed to boost weight loss," said Rumsey. "While a grapefruit …
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