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Tuesday April 25th, 2017 night edition

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Tablets made only with dried leaves of Artemisia annua.

All were then treated with intravenously administered artesunate, the frontline medication for severe malaria, but again they showed no improvement.

As a last resort, doctors turned to dried-leaf Artemisia (DLA), a therapy developed and extensively studied by Weathers and her team at WPI.

“So to see 100 percent recover, even the child who had lapsed into a coma, was just amazing.

ACT, the current recommended therapy, is expensive to produce and is in short supply in areas hit hardest by the disease.

In effect, the dried leaves constitute a robust natural combination therapy, one whose benefits far surpass those of ACT and other combination drugs.

This supply chain helped produce the tablets used to treat the 18 patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo. »

India’s democracy reaches out to lone voter in Gujarat’s Gir forest

Authored by timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"We are only following the EC guidelines, which has said that no voter should have to travel more than 2km to vote," Junagadh collector Alok Kumar Pandey told IANS on phone.

"Around four-five polling officials will travel to Banej on the night of April 29 carrying with them the polling material, including the Electronic Voting Machine.

"A couple of forest guards always accompany the polling team. »

Nordstrom offering pre-dirtied jeans for $425

Authored by nbc4i.com
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For $425 Nordstrom will help you make people think you do all the dirty work for a living.

The jeans, labeled Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans, are described on Nordstrom’s site as “Americana workwear that’s seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you’re not afraid to get down and dirty.”.

Oh, and FYI, if you are wanting to preserve the “heavily distressed” jeans, they are machine wash cold, line dry only. »

Man takes drone out for a sunset flight, drone gets shot down

Authored by arstechnica.com
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Jones became the fourth reported drone shooting incident that Ars has been made aware of in nearly two years.

Lively also told the responding sheriff's deputy that he did not shoot down Jones' drone.

“But when the drone was shot down he stated that he was standing at his vehicle in front of his residence and heard gun shots and seen the drone fall.”. »

Police video shows officer press gun to unarmed man's head, thre - | WBTV Charlotte

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Several minutes into the chase, the video shows the first officer chasing Yarborough fall down in pain, apparently injured somehow during the foot chase.

Once the gun is pressed to Yarborough’s head, an officer is heard saying “I will kill you, you understand?

The reports identify Officer Jon Dunham as the officer who pressed his pistol to Yarborough’s head and threatened to kill him. »