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The new breath of the west-coast, Black Wall Street’s Juice, is set to release his much anticipated mix tape, Death Certificate, this November.

Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV.

Less typically, this 16-year-old was plotting to murder his parents by hiring a hitman, while his mother was organising a sting operation involving a police officer posing as a contract killer. Police say that Cory offered the undercover officer his stepfather’s new pickup truck as payment for killing his parents. “Two bullets is all it takes,” he is alleged to have said.

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Why did he spend half the video talking about Jay-Z’s album? He’s too cocky & he’s really nobody in the game but a small cat trying to get record sales.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 6 (UPI) — Teens using marijuana function better than those also using tobacco but have no more psycho-social problems than abstainers, a Swiss study suggested.

The study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found 6 percent of the teens using marijuana alone were more likely to be male, play sports, live with both parents and have good grades.

Dr. J. C. Saris and colleagues at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, analyzed data on 5,263 students aged 16 to 20 years from a 2002 national survey. Of these, 455 smoked marijuana only, 1,703 smoked marijuana and tobacco and 3,105 abstained from both substances..

“The gateway theory hypothesizes that the use of legal drugs — tobacco and alcohol — is the previous step to cannabis consumption,” the study authors said in a statement. “However, recent research also indicates that cannabis use may precede or be simultaneous to tobacco use and that, in fact, its use may reinforce cigarette smoking or lead to nicotine addiction independently of smoking status.”

While teens smoking both marijuana and tobacco may have more psycho-social problems and be worthy targets for preventive intervention, the study authors advised, those who smoke marijuana only should also be monitored and counseled and their situation shouldn’t be trivialized.

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By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: November 6, 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — Pressured by regulators, the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG announced Monday that it had agreed to withdraw the controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study suggested that it increased death rates.

Dr. John K. Jenkins, a leading official of the Food and Drug Administration, said, “F.D.A. could not identify a specific patient population where the benefits of using Trasylol could outweigh the risks.”

Because of concerns that supplies of alternative medicines could run short, the agency has asked for a phased withdrawal of the drug, which is given before heart surgery to reduce the risks of excessive bleeding.

Bayer said in a statement that it still believed Trasylol was beneficial when used as directed. The F.D.A. said it would try to accommodate doctors who still wanted to use the drug by allowing Bayer to provide it as part of a study.

About 200,000 patients around the world received Trasylol last year, 110,000 of them in the United States, Bayer said. The drug, known generically as aprotinin, has had F.D.A. approval since 1993.

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Researchers Say Popular Drinks Boost Blood Pressure, Heart Rate

WebMD) Energy drinks may boost your blood pressure and heart rate, as well as your vitality, researchers say.

In a small study, they found that drinking just two cans of a popular drink increased blood pressure and heart rate within four hours.

While the increases didn’t reach dangerous levels in the healthy volunteers studied, they could be harmful for people with heart disease, or who are taking medication to control blood pressure, says James Kalus, senior manager of patient care services at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

“These people should avoid these drinks,” he tells WebMD.

How about people at high risk of heart disease due to obesity, smoking, family history, or other factors?

“Pending more study, at least talk to your doctor about potential risks,” Kalus says.

The findings were presented at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2007.

Energy Drinks Raise Blood Pressure
In the study, 15 healthy young men and women drank two cans of an energy drink that contained 80 milligrams of caffeine every day for a week. All agreed to abstain from any other forms of caffeine for two days prior to and throughout the study.

Within four hours of consuming the drinks on the first day, systolic blood pressure (the top number) shot up by 9 points; on the seventh day, it rose 10 points. Diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) rose 5 points on both days, Kalus says.

Heart rate increased five beats per minute on the first day; seven days on the last.

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