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In his closing argument Wednesday, Truehope lawyer Shawn Buckley said some of the people who use EMPowerplus might be at risk of suicide, assaulting someone or being put in hospital or jail.

Buckley said when Truehope was charged, most of the natural health industry did not have DINs because their products did not contain drugs and did not qualify.

But Kent Brown, the federal Crown prosecutor, said Truehope never took the proper steps to have the supplement licensed by Health Canada.

He added the argument of imminent peril did not apply because there was no immediate or unavoidable danger.

He said Truehope could have waited a year to apply for a Natural Product Number, which is how natural supplements are now licensed by Health Canada. HEALTH CANADA: Natural Health Product Regulations The judge is not expected to rule on the case for several months.

If found guilty, Truehope would face a maximum fine of $500.

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One study of brains of 15 former British boxing champions helped establish the link between the sport and specific brain damage, leading to better headgear for amateurs and reduction from 15 rounds to 12.

If you're a serious researcher, you can even have wafer-thin slices of relevant brains mailed to you- that's probably not you, Igor, however.

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What vitamin deficiency has played a bigger role in the history of the world than any other?

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Probably scurvy, or lack of dietary vitamin C (ascorbic acid), characterized by exhaustion and weakness, swelling of the arms and legs, loss of teeth, hemorrhaging from the nose and mouth, say Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson in Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed History.

Though the condition has been known about since ancient times, averting it with fresh fruits and vegetables on long sea voyages was another matter, with preventives and remedies often ignored or disbelieved.

For example, when the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama sailed around the tip of Africa in 1497, 100 of his 160-member crew died of scurvy.

"Reports exist of the discovery of ships adrift at sea with entire crews dead from the disease." Some 90 percent of the crew of Magellan's 1519-1522 circumnavigation of the globe perished, largely due to scurvy.

Had the value of ascorbic acid been recognized earlier, the world today might be a different place, say Le Couteur and Burreson.

With a healthy crew, Magell...

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volume trends for Zyprexa, Strattera, Evista, and Humulin/Humalog," he said.Boris said Lilly has an attractive opportunity with the combination treatment of Arxxant and Prasugrel as a treatment of diabetic retinopathy and expects it to compete with blood-thinning drug Plavix, marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people )."We believe Lilly's attractive pipeline, especially Arxxant/Prasugrel, is overshadowed by ongoing global pressure on Zyprexa, which accounts for close to 30% of sales and approximately 50% of its profits in 2006," said Boris.

"In the U.S., we are looking for two forces to stabilize the brand: a $700 million charge to eliminate 75% of the 8,000 Zyprexa related lawsuits and the results from CATIE."The results of the huge government-sponsored study CATIE, or Clinical Antipsychotic Trials in Intervention Effectiveness, were released last September.Eli Lilly's Zyprexa was the most effective drug in the trial, but its victory was dulled by the medicine's side effects.More On This Topic Companies: LLY | BMY !

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