| Crossfit Workout Challenge Raises Over $500,000 in Four Hours for ...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, September 29, over 850 people in 60 cities across the country participated in one of the most grueling workouts ever devised, the Crossfit Fight Gone Bad Challenge to raise money for Athletes for a Cure, an initiative of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Over 4,000 donors supported the cause by contributing more than $273,000 in pledges and thanks to a matching funds grant from Safeway, the event raised over $546,000 in just four hours. The Crossfit Fight Gone Bad workout consists of five exercises, each completed for one minute with a one minute rest in between sets. The exercises include a medicine ball throw, a deadlift, a box jump, a military press and a rowing machine. The full-body workout is designed to be completed until exhaustion and many professional athletes from the NFL, the NBA and boxing have failed to complete even one set.
Rudy Giuliani uses the NHS as ‘political football’ to give Hilary ...
Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican nomination, was accused last night of smearing the NHS to attack Democratic plans for universal healthcare in America. Mr Giuliani launched a radio advertising campaign saying that the proposals from Democrats such as Hillary Clinton smacked of European-style socialism that would lower standards in the US. "I had prostate cancer five, six years ago," the former New York mayor said. "My chance of surviving prostate cancer – and, thank God, I was cured of it – in the United States? 82 per cent. My chance of surviving prostate cancer in England? Only 44 per cent under socialised medicine." His advert prompted Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, to make a rare intervention into US politics as he pleaded with Mr Giuliani to stop kicking the NHS.
Cuban scientists develop cancer drug from scorpion venom
Cuban scientists have developed a drug from scorpion venom, which they say could go a long way in fighting cancer, Spanish news agency Prensa Latina reported on Thursday. "The researchers have been studying the breeding, handling and use of scorpion venom in their Cienfuegos breeding centre, which has 400 scorpions at present but would increase to 5,000 next year," team leader Fabio Linares of the Pharmaceutical Biological Laboratories in Havana said Wednesday. The drug can be used to treat brain tumours, pancreas and prostate cancer. Linares said the idea of researching the possibility of scorpion venom as cure for cancer and other diseases gained in strength after it was realised that local doctors had been using it for centuries. A container from the colonial era preserving scorpion venom in Havana's French Pharmacy indicates that it was used in country since the 18th Century, the scientist said.
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