Nasty Scirocco Crash caught on video

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You know how it is, you are just going for a nice drive in your Scirocco when all of a sudden........

OUCH!

New hope in treatment of childhood leukaemia

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Zurich researchers have found a new treatment approach which they hope will help young leukaemia patients who don’t respond to conventional therapies.

Leukaemia is a malignant disease of the blood and bone marrow, which accounts for a third of childhood cancers.

Despite great progress in leukaemia treatment, recurrence of the disease is common. Treatment in these cases is often challenging because of the resistance of the cancer cells to the drugs currently available. Modern treatment processes are still very long and hard for the affected youngsters.

The Zurich University Children’s Hospital team, led by Jean-Pierre Bourquin, conducted their research around acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most frequently occurring form, of which there are up to 70 cases a year in Switzerland and up to 1,000 cases in Europe.

“By learning in international cooperative studies how to combine available chemotherapeutic agents, we have made incredible progress with the treatment of childhood leukaemia in the last 30-40 years, so that we can now cure more than 80 per cent of cases of ALL,” Bourquin told swissinfo.ch.

“But we still have a sub-group of patients that are resistant to whatever we do for them and we urgently need new kinds of treatments.”

These can be first timers or relapsed patients, he added.

Bourquin and his group investigated a substance called obatoclax mesylate and found a positive result: it actually lowered resistance when used in conjunction with chemotherapy.

To Read more click HERE to view the swissinfo.ch website.

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Millionaire picks up record £182,000 fine for racing Ferrari....What a Prat !

Maybe we should introduce this sort of fines system to the UK.You are ordered to pay a fine which is based upon your income/wealth.It would slow down a few footballers in sportscars thats for sure...well maybe!

Here is the story as reported in the Daily Mirror.....

"A millionaire motorist clocked up a record fine of £182,000 after Swiss police caught him racing through a village at 60mph in his red Ferrari Testarossa. Prior to breaking the 30mph limit he had been caught speeding at 85mph on country roads, where the limit is 50."

Read more by clicking HERE.

Just shows you that brain capacity and intelligence are not guaged by a persons bank balance :-)