Archives for يونيو 2012

Smelling The Breezes 50 Years On

Hiking along the Lebanon Mountain Trail in the Beqaa Valley below a snow-capped Mt. Hermon rising up in the distance. (Photo Norbert Schiller / MintPress) (LEBANON) – In the summer of 1957, Ralph Izzard, a journalist working for the London Daily Mail in Beirut, found out that he was about to be recalled to England […]

بواسطة Norbert Schiller
Hiking along the Lebanon Mountain Trail in the Beqaa Valley below a snow-capped Mt. Hermon rising up in the distance. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

(LEBANON) - In the summer of 1957, Ralph Izzard, a journalist working for the London Daily Mail in Beirut, found out that he was about to be recalled to England after spending three years in Lebanon. Instead of spending his remaining months idle, he and his wife Molly decided to make the best of their limited time and take their four young

FDA Clears Weight-Loss Drug After Previously Deeming It Unsafe

This photo provided by Food and Drug Administration shows Arena Pharmaceutical’s anti-obesity pill Belviq. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Belviq, the first new prescription drug for long-term weight loss to enter the U.S. market in over a decade. (AP Photo/Food and Drug Administration) The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arena Pharmaceutical’s anti-obesity […]

بواسطة Associated Press
This photo provided by Food and Drug Administration shows Arena Pharmaceutical's anti-obesity pill Belviq. (AP Photo/Food and Drug Administration)

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arena Pharmaceutical's anti-obesity pill Belviq, the first new prescription drug for long-term weight loss to enter the U.S. market in over a decade. Despite only achieving modest weight loss in clinical studies, the drug appeared safe enough to win the FDA's endorsement, amid calls from doctors for