Ecstasy Offers Blood Cancer a New Hope

Scientists have claimed, a modified version ecstasy (MDMA) - could help with treatment for blood cancer.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham shows significant success in "redesigning the designer drug" for potential use as a cancer-killing agent in the treatment of leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

"They started to look more lipophilic, that is, they were attracted to the lipids that make up cell walls. This would make them more 'soapy' so they would end up getting into the cancer cells more easily and possibly even start dissolving them.

The new work builds on the scientists' discovery six years ago that more than half of the cancers in white blood cells they looked at responded in the test tube to the growth-suppressing properties of psychotropic drugs.

He added: "This is an exciting next step towards using a modified form of MDMA to help people suffering from blood cancer.

"While we would not wish to give people false hope, the results of this research hold the potential for improvement in treatments in years to come."

Dr David Grant, of the national charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research , which part-funded the research, said: "The prospect of being able to target blood cancer with a drug derived from ecstasy is a genuinely exciting proposition.

"Many types of lymphoma remain hard to treat and non-toxic drugs which are both effective and have few side effects are desperately needed. Further work is required but this research is a significant step forward in developing a potential new cancer drug."

The team now hopes to go on to develop pre-clinical studies.

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Diabetes Needle Disposal

Needle is a little thing that is sharp enough to puncture through our skin.
Diabetes needles refer to syringes used to deliver insulin that gently puncture the skin for blood glucose checks.
According to Diabetes Monitor, more than 1 billion needles are used in the U.S. annually for diabetic-related health care, that's is quite a number if you count it one by one. Proper disposal of these needles or "sharps" is very important to protect yourself and others from potential harm and infection.

Little tips on Needle disposal:

1. Place used insulin needles in a sturdy plastic or metal container.
2. Secure the lid of your container down with duct tape when it's full if you're using a makeshift container like a coffee can to prevents any accidental needle contact for whoever handles your disposed insulin needles..
3. Use the Safe Needle Disposal search engine for disposal centers.
4. When traveling away from home, an alternative to carrying a sharps container is a needle cutter. The needle cutter safely clips the syringe needle near the base and stores it until you can deposit the clipped needles in an appropriate sharps container. These needle cutters can also be purchased at most drug stores.

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Suicide Bombers Hit UK Offices

Suicide bombers have attacked the British Council offices in Kabul on the public holiday marking Afghanistan's independence from Britain.

At least three people were killed in an initial attack.

"Eight people, mostly police, are killed and 10 others injured," Siddiq Siddiqui of Afghanistan's interior ministry said.
"Apache helicopters have been circling around the building and the battle is still ongoing."

It is unclear if any Britons have been killed or injured in the attack.

The Taliban has claimed it launched the attack on the British cultural institution in Kabul to mark the country's independence from Britain in 1919.

 

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Access BBC iplayer

BBC iPlayer (or just iPlayer) is an internet television developed by the BBC to extend its content to include whole TV shows. The streaming version of iPlayer offers replays of programmes broadcast on all BBC TV channels during the last seven days.

From a webmaster point of view, streaming a video means a big load on the server. Considerably, if it was watched by a millions of viewer. To be able to watch it you need a good profesional VPN services. If you are searching for a pro VPN hosting, there's one in mind, VPNMaster.com is the best way to access the BBC iPlayer. They have a reliable service with 30 clients per server. You will get full broadband speed!

If you're in UK, then lucky you. There's uk vpn.

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Photo on Canvas

I have many photos that i've taken with my 10 mega pixel digital camera in my Toshiba netbook. I was always want to print it on a bigger frame and put it in the living room just to showcase it.
Several days ago i have an idea to print the photo on canvas. After a while on Google, i've found that, yes! there are services for printing photos on canvas.
Voilla...
After a few days, they print it on canvas. And now, the photos is in my bedroom wall.
The printing result was good, the print quality quite amaze me.

Hope you can turn your favorite photo into canvas art too, just like me :D

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