Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.

Allergan, the maker of Botox, will pay $600 million in fines and civil settlements after pleading guilty to marketing their product for uses for which it hasn't been FDA approved. The Justice Department accused Allergan of encouraging doctors to use the powerful neurotoxin through kickbacks and by teaching them how to forge drug reports. "The [...]

THERE is a plant believed to be a cure or a great help to prevent the fatal effects of dengue. What a weird and funny name for a mere weed that can possibly offer to the world a cure against this dreaded disease. It’s called Tawa-Tawa or Gatas Gatas. No laughing matter, this.

Topricin Pain Relief and Healing Cream – a leading natural therapeutic topical biomedicine – has been awarded a patent as a treatment of pain associated with fibromyalgia.

Forty-two percent of fibromyalgia patients in a new survey cited chronic pain as their worst symptom, describing the pain in words like “horrible”, “constant”, “unbearable” and “jabbing.” Other complaints included 19 percent with chronic fatigue, 9 percent with headaches and migraines, and another 7 percent with "fibro fog," According to the Neurologic Relief Centers, which has developed a new ...