Ethiopian Black Jews Denounce Racist Israeli minister
04/08/2007
Israel’s interior minister faces accusations of racism after he suggested suspending the policy of allowing Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry to move to the country.read more
Pfizer faces criminal charges over drug test fiasco
THE Federal Government yesterday filed fresh charges against Pfizer International Incorporated (PII), accusing seven of the company’s top officials of fraud and criminal breach of trust of its controversial drug test, popularly known as Trovan Clinical Trials, it carried out on Nigerian citizens in Kano in 1996, which had fatal results.read more
Nigerian President Canvasses Nuclear Power for Electricity
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, has said Nigeria needs to develop capacity for the generation of electricity through nuclear power, which he said might end up being the only source of energy.read more
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests
Ann Gibbons
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA–At the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March, a new report on the evolution of a gene for skin color suggested that Europeans acquired pale skin quite recently, perhaps only 6000 to 12,000 years ago.read more
ACCRAÂ – Declaring himself a “soldier for Africa”, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on the continent on Saturday to unite under a single government so it could compete in a globalize world.read more
From Times Online
June 6, 2007
Health alert over HIV drug
HIV sufferers who take the antiretroviral drug, Viracept, should contact their doctors immediately, British health officials said tonight, after the medicine was found to contain a substance that can cause cancer.read more
A longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body’s capacity to fight infection is wrong, scientists say.
HIV attacks human immune cells, called T helper cells. Loss of these cells is gradual, often taking many years.read more
Advocates for a suspended Saskatchewan high school student are demanding a probe into the boy’s treatment after his research into the effects of marijuana triggered a storm of controversy and harsh punishment.read more
Ancient African Medicine, Egypt (Khemit) and the World
By Jide Uwechia
It is now official! The western propaganda press and its scholarly co-conspirators in the academia have finally admitted that African Kemit gave the world the gift of medical sciences as opposed to previously peddled lies which identify Greece as the origin of medicine. Imhotep, the Prince of Peace, the Egyptian inventor of medicine and healing was a real historical African genius who received the book of healing from the mysterious forces of ancestral Africa.read more
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