Man to serve 2-5 years for trying to lure teen
The Drumore Township man told the judge that he just wanted to offer the 14-year-old girl a ride.”I didn’t realize the severity of the situation,” John Stephen Merrill told Lancaster County Judge Dennis Reinaker on Tuesday.”I obviously scared the girl,” he added, apologizing.But Reinaker said th…
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Reducing the health risks of obesity without serious side effects
( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) The drug rimonabant was developed as a treatment for the myriad of severe health consequences of obesity, but it was never approved for use in the US because of serious neurological side effects including depression and anxiety. Now, researchers have developed a drug that has the same positive effects as rimonabant in mice on the consequences of obesity that …
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More Than Half Of Irish Women Would Split Their Maternity Leave With Their Partner If They Could, According To New …
Three in five younger women (61%) would be happy to split their maternity leave with their partner if the option was available, according to a new nationwide survey of 1000 women commissioned by QUINN-healthcare. 49% of mothers over 35 years would also like this opportunity. Mothers in Dublin were among the least willing to split their maternity leave (49%) but more than half of mothers in …
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