Dispensary Corner 02 Mar 12
March 2, 2012
HOW about this for some
amazing family planning.
A woman from the US state of
Utah gave birth on Wed this week
- to her third baby born on the
once-in-a-leap year 29th Feb.
Louise Estes’ daughter Jade was
born in the early hours of Wed
morning - exactly four years after
her son Remington was born on
29 Feb 2008, and eight years after
her firstborn Xavier came into the
world on 29 Feb 2004.
The only other known case of
triple Leap Day babies was the
Henriksen family in Norway,
which had babies born on 29 Feb
in 1960, 1964 and 1968.
The new monther quipped that
“we’re gonna try to get our oldest
a car on his fourth birthday”.
A 43-YEAR-OLD man in North
Carolina died this week after
drinking petrol and then lighting a
cigarette.
The tragedy was described as
“just a freak incident” by local
police in Havelock, who said that
Gary Banning accidentally drank
from a salsa jar containing
gasoline at a friend’s apartment.
He spat out the fuel and got it
on his clothes, and then later lit a
cigarette which set them on fire
leading to fatal burns.
COULD there be a market for
vegetarian drugs?
According to a report in the
Postgraduate Medical Journal,
about 25% of people who choose
not to eat animal products are
unaware that many common
medicines contain them.
The survey of 500 inner-city
patients in Manchester found
about 40% who preferred not to
consume animal products, either
for cultural or religious reasons or
because they were vegetarian.
A significant number of those on
a medication regimen were not
aware that their drugs contained
gelatin derived from animals, with
the report’s authors urging
doctors to be aware of more than
just the active ingredient.
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