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Sales in over-the-counter remedies are mushrooming. But would we be better off buying fruit, asks Joanna MoorheadAre you overweight, worried about your cholesterol levels, or fighting a losing battle with insomnia? In the past you would have visited your doctor: now, chances are you will hot-foot it to the high Street.The latest Mintel consumer spending statistics showed that the market in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals has grown enormously, with sales expected to swell by a further 18% in the next five years. Last year we spent a whopping £3bn - an average of £59 per person - on everything from cough and cold remedies through vitamins and alternative treatments to painkillers and self-diagnostic kits. It's a huge trend, underlined by the recent arrival on the pharmacists' counter of the slimming drug Alli - but is it a good one? Yes, unsurprisingly, say the chemists, because it means that we are becoming more aware of what might go wrong before it does and taking preven

The latest Between The Numbers novel features the return of Diesel as he and Stephanie chase down the latest super powered criminal to hit town.Source: james buffingtonPublished: Jun 01, 2009

Houston's Pro Bowl receiver has lofty goals for the coming year, despite the Texans having never had a winning season

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guruevi writes with news that a process using an ultra-powerful laser can crank up the efficiency of everyday incandescent light bulbs. Using the same laser process covered several years ago, the tungsten filament has an array of nano- and micro-scale structures formed on the surface making the resulting light as bright as a 100-watt bulb while consuming less electricity than a 60-watt bulb and remaining much cheaper to produce. 'The key to creating the super-filament is an ultra-brief, ultra-intense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse. The laser burst lasts only a few quadrillionths of a second. To get a grasp of that kind of speed, consider that a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America onto a spot the size of a needle point. That intense blast forces the surface of the metal to form nanostructures and microstructures that dramatically alter how ef

(University of Central Florida) A mineral found at health food stores could be the key to developing a new line of antibiotics for bacteria that commonly cause diarrhea, tooth decay and, in some severe cases, death. Selenium is found in a number of proteins. University of Central Florida Associate Professor William Self's research shows that interrupting the way selenoproteins are made can halt the growth of the super bug Clostridium difficile and Treponema denticola, a major contributor to gum disease.