However, a breakthrough may be near as scientists at Johns Hopkins University are developing an anti-malarial treatment based on artemisinin, a derivative of a Chinese herbal remedy for fever. Artemisinin is effective against malaria in the short term, but quickly breaks down in the human body and loses its potency. The American scientists took the drug's killer instinct as a basis for developing a synthetic version. Prof. Gary Posner, head of the research group, says the new drug is active by oral administration as well as by injection. The researchers now plan to establish whether the drug can be administered in large doses.
Women often think that when it comes to brains, men are a couple of dishes short of a full banquet.
Brain shrinkage, which occurs normally with age, is more pronounced in men than in women, the report says. They found the build-up in men to be especially marked around the frontal lobes, which control thinking, planning and memory. The study was unable to offer any opinion on the intelligence of men and women in the bloom of life. That one will probably have to go the World Court for arbitration. All Rights Reserved.